New Iowa Laws Modernize Taxation and Public Work
The Twenty ninth Iowa legislature enacts tax and public work measures. Key provisions set city park levies of two mills for Burlington and Clinton, rail and interurban funding rules, library grounds condemnation, stream channel improvements in Cedar Rapids Ottumwa, and tariff changes for corporations. New penalties target theft of bridges and criminal misdeeds while salaries for public officials rise including sheriffs judges and the governor.
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Twenty-eighth General Assembly
Burlington
Clinton
Cedar Rapids
Ottumwa
Executive Council
Auditor of State
Secretary of State
Board of County Supervisors
Boards of Library Trustees
State Agricultural College
Ames
State Normal School
Cedar Alls
State
Osceola County
Linley
County Auditor and Board of Supervisors
Orleans
Dickinson County
West Park
Ralston
Greene County
Sumner
Bremer County
Board of Supervisors
Jefferson County
George C. McMurtry
Herbert J. McMurtrie
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Warren
Independent School District
Allerton
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Dallas County
Conway
Taylor County
Schaller
Sac County
Spirit
Fox River Township
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Laurens
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Swan
Marion County
Kinross
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Bondurant
Polk County
Gravity
Iowa
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State Board of Health
Des Moines
Oelwein
Board of Examiners
State Board of Educational Examiners
Farmers’ Institutes
Des Moines City Park
Home For
Memorial University of the Sons of Veterans
Mason City
State Brary Board
Iowa Library Commission
Lee
Linn
Pottawattamle
Woodbury
Dubuque
Scott
Ida-Monona
Clay-Palo Alto
Lyon-Ogeeola
Winnebago-Worth
Hancock-Flamboldt
Dickinson-Emmet
Comprehensive Iowa legislative proposals across education, rails, and governance
A sweeping compilation of state measures covers salary adjustments for penal and educational institutions, juvenile age limits, and feeble minded care. It includes railroad assessment timing, interurban definitions, constitutional amendments on biennial elections, compulsory education reforms, mine inspector qualifications, and various miscellaneous fiscal and legal provisions.
Iowa Legislative Acts Listed In Dense Statute Overview
A long scanned list details proposed and enacted laws affecting counties and cities. Topics include dam condemnation rights, waterworks funding, cemetery and school authorities, veterinary licensing, tax limitations, library gifts, pest houses, levee repairs, public notices, and state education examinations.
Impure Baking Powder Seized in New York Drive
Health officials in New York seized nearly two tons of alum baking powder mixtures deemed dangerous and dumped them into the river. Additional powder was found in a Sixth Avenue department store. Analysts called it an alum powder containing alum and pulverized rock.
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New York
Health Department
Sixth Ave
Wealth Department
England
Missouri
Machine to blur words offered to fix careless spalling
A salesman explains a machine that will blur any word with a single key press to help a wealthier man who has become careless with spalling. The exchange appears in a Chicago Daily News item.
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Chicago Daily Newa
St Jacobs Oil Endorsed By Leading Leeds Dealers
An article chronicles local trials of St Jacobs Oil, noting cures for lumbago, sprains, toothache and neuralgia. It reports at Taylor and Co Briggate Store Leeds that three outlets sell over a thousand bottles weekly and claim many permanent cures.
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St. Jacobs Oil
Lumbago
Jong
St. Jacobs
Travelers Praise New Lackawanna Chicago to New York Service
Travelers to New York applaud Lackawanna Railroad for three daily through trains from Chicago. The service offers solid comfort and scenic Eastward travel. Inquiries may be directed to George A. Cullen, General Western Passenger Agent, Chicago.
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New York
Lackawanna Railroad
Chicago
Geo. A. Cullen
Western
Adama Bt
Summer plans discussed in hushed social notes
A young woman and a matron converse about summer arrangements and the caution needed when sharing society notes. The matron mentions family plans to visit an uncle in northern New York while the speaker contemplates a trip to Europe, highlighting anxieties about publishing personal details.
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New York
Europe
Brooklyn
Colonist Excursions Offer Low Rates to California Coast
March and April special round trip rates to the Coast and inland points advertised by W. G. Neimyer general agent for the Union Pacific Southern Pacific Rys. Promotions promise trips at less than one cent per mile one way with return at intervals through summer. Readers urged to mail a postal for full details and potential educational and business value.
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Leas
Great West
W. G. Neimyer
California
Descriptive booklet on Spirit and Okoboji Lakes in Iowa
Free descriptive booklet described for Spirit and Okoboji Lakes in northwestern Iowa along the Burlington Cedar Rapids & Northern line. It notes game laws of Minnesota and Iowa and lists boarding houses hotels and cottages around the lakes with various names and locations.
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AML
Okobodi Lakes
Towa
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern
B’y
Base Lakes
Renk
Dno
Mariner
Kentucky Reader Seeks All Government Documents
A Kentucky reader asks Senator Deboo for every document since government formation. Deboo replies none are available here as the freight cars are buried around town.
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Kentucky
Deboo
Washington Post
Exclusive Tourist Car Berth Offer From Chicago Line
Chicago and Northwestern Railway advertises 23.00 to California Oregon and Washington with daily service from Chicago in March and April at 6.00 for berth in tourist car. Personal conductors HEALY and others run on Thursdays from Chicago and Wednesdays from New England. A pamphlet is sent on receipt of two cent stamp by Aulchison Manager 212 Clark Street Chicago.
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California
Oregon
Washington
Chicago
Northwestern
HEALY
Newngland
A. Aulchison
Lark Elreat
Chiergo
Might Have Been Worne Cassidy Speech From Delphia Press
In a fragment from the Delphia Press the speaker recalls Cassidy who has lost his arm in an accident. The mood is rueful and sympathetic as the narrator offers support and notes the injury was just beginning to hurt.
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Cancy
Cassidy
Delphia Press
Hay prospects and pricing from Reed Co in Wisconsin
The notice asks if there will be a hay shortage and promotes hay production with quantities like 8 to 8 tons and a price of 60 pounds. It cites John A. Sulzer Reed Co in Tay Orosno Wisconsin and ends with a quotation about grammar from Atehixan Globe.
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John A. Sulzer Reed Co
Tay Orosno
Wis
Fragments of Advertisements and Sayings
Extracted lines show product pitches and aphorisms. References include cough syrups Bumplement Brow Pine's Honey of Horehound and Tar, Pike's Toothache Drops, Laxative Bromo Quin ine, and Putnam Faceless Dyes. Also quotes from public notices and town topics with varied attributions.
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Fale
Pike
Charity Advocate Endorses Vegetable Compound Ad
Ms E. Satler of the Gorman Relief Association in Los Angeles touts Lydianne Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as life changing for a sick person. A Mrs J Lamer praises its aid for a mother and dependents, while the ad claims Mrs Pinkham offers free advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
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J. Lamer
Hill St
Los Angeles
Cal
Tenth Montal
Genuin
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Lmutus: Relieving the State Game and Fish Warden
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