Iowa State News Roundup Highlights County Projects and Elections
Bremer county Cow Testing association breaks four state records. Bond vote of 75000 for Murray school on April 28. Marshalltown to pave about 118000 square yards this year. Ringgold County voters decide on 201000 courthouse June 2. Fairfield churches seek Billy Sunday visit.
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Bremer County
Murray
Marshalltown
Palo Alto County
Ringgold Country
Fairfield
Billy Sunday
Cherokee County
Washington
State Teachers’ College
Iowa
Arthur H. Huntington
Iowa Railway & Light Company
Chicago
Rock Island
Des Moines
Boy Scout Organization
Cedar Falls
Woden
State Hospital
Clarinda
Black Hawk County
A. A. Burger
Farm Bureau
Andrew Emmert
Newton
Ames
Iowa State College
State Executive Council
Emma Alden
Wyoming
John Alden
Cedar Rapids
Federal Bureau
Sioux City
Drake University
Germany
N. E. Kendall
University of Iowa
Laura Spellman Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller
American Disabled Veterans of
Auditor of State
Alex Fitzhugh
Greater Des Moines
White Way
Davenport
Knights of Pythias Lodge
Grand Avenue
State House
Iowana
Bulletin
Iowa Legislature Battles Over Budget And Tax Proposals
In a drawn out conference, Iowa lawmakers clash over the budget bill and a proposed gasoline tax. The house and senate trade amendments, with conference reports on education board probes, bank taxation, road bonds, and a marriage law, as lawmakers race to finish before adjournment.
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Lowa
Somites Iself
Senaor Huldvegsl
Kendall
May E. Francis
Iowa
House Judiciary Committee
Venter
Johnson
Held
Plymouth
Gallagher
Bradley
Poweshiek
Healy
Hancock
Iowa House
J. H. Anderson
Winnebago County
Senate
House
Code Commissioners
House of Representatives
Bowman
Campbell
Ida County
Board of Educational Examiners
General Assembly
Asl
Iowa Senate
Anderson
Moon
Lyon
Harrison
Pottawattamie
Hauge
Polk
Quirk
Sac
Smith
Madison
Banta
Delaware
Scott
Marshall
Shaff
Clinton
J. C. Mabry
Thirty
Pools and Trust
Holdoegel
Calhoun County
Black Hawk
Conference Committee
Patterson
Kossuth
State Board of Control
Wealthy Indians Targeted by Guardians in Oklahoma Probe
A Chicago News report cites private investigators who say probate changes since 1908 let county courts and guardians prey on five civilized tribes in Oklahoma. Guardianship fees and graft taint estates for Cherokees Choctaws Chickasaws Creeks and Seminoles amid lax audits and courtroom influence.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Oklahoma
Frederic J. Haskin
Chicago News
Interior Department
Five Civilized Tribes
Gertrude Bonnin
Aq College Sioux
Indian Welfare Committee
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Charles H. Fabens
The
American Indian Defense Association
Matthew K. Sniffen
Indian Rights Association
Creek County
John Doe
Doe
Act Square
Hhis
Oklahoma Bar Association
Indian Bureau
Senate
Dead Girl Revived by Heart Massage in Surgery
Miss Mary Marcollie twenty from Kulpmont was pronounced dead after heart cessation for about half an hour during a goitre operation at Shamokin State Hospital. Dr George W Reese performed chest massage and adrenalin application to restart circulation and respiration.
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Sunbury
Mary Marcollie
Kulpmont
Lkely
Shamokin State Hospital
George W. Reese
Rose
Soldier Returns Home After Believed Dead
Emanuel Birhart, among the first 10 000 American soldiers to reach France, appeared recently at his sister’s home in Arabs and Suburb New Orleans and denied the War Department’s more than five years old report of his death.
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New
Orleans
Emanuel
Birhart
France
Ithan
Air Pressure Unchanged Ten Feet Underground
Michigan State tests by Dr. M. M. McCool and Prof. G. J. Bouyoucos show air pressure ten feet below ground matches surface changes under breezy open areas. Harographs measure subterranean air and confirm ground prevents air from reaching instruments, across sand loam and clay.
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East Lansing
Mich
M. M. McCool
Department of
Soils
G. J. Bouyoucos
Soila
Michigan Agricultural College
University department awards crystals to radio division
A fragmented note indicates that crystals were awarded to a radio division by a university department of metallurgy. The readable text mentions industrial or academic context and a formal transfer of materials within the university setting.
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Njaln
Metallurgy
University of” Conain
Tribe Starving Under Drought and Locusts in Transvaal
A mailye tribe under Chief Lincoe in northwestern Transvaal suffers famine due to drought and locust damage to grass. Tribesmen, numbering several thousand, survive by eating locusts and caterpillars. their 2.0% acres are insufficient to sustain them and they cannot buy more land.
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Johannesburg
Lincoe
Transvaal
Arkansas Farmer Rears Wild Mallard Ducks at Evening Shade
John Loman of Buford Baxter County uses a homemade trough to raise two wild mallards caught during migration. He feeds them regularly and plans to keep them as a larder and source of small cash. The ducks roam near his farm and attract attention from local sportsmen.
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Evening Shade
Ark
John Loman
Buford
Baxter’ County
Amendment to Constitution on Child Labor Favored by Committee
A constitutional amendment to empower Congress to regulate and prohibit child labor under eighteen has been favorably reported by the judiciary committee by 14 to 6. The plan is to place the measure on the calendar after the immigration bill and push for rapid action.
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Ashington
Congress
House
Judiciary Committee
Rules Committee
Snell
Grant
United’ States Supreme Court
Work Urges Colorado Dam Plan as National Asset
Secretary Work told Congress the Colorado River project must have a definite government policy and careful review by engineers. A report by engineers and data from the Bureau of Reclamation and Geological Survey discuss the Boulder dam and all American canal to bring irrigation and power, with a projected $200 million cost and broad objections to Mexico routing.
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Work
Congress
Bureau of Reclamation, Geological Survey
Federal Power Commission
Boulder
Coachella
California
Colorado River
Imperial Valley
Mexico
Congress Likely Probes Northern Pacific Land Grant
Congress faces renewed scrutiny of the Northern Pacific land grant claims under Idaho and Montana through the forest service stance that grants were fully satisfied. President Coolidge urged quick congressional action balancing grantees' rights with public interests and land conservation.
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Congress
Lkely
Northern Pacific. Railway
Congressington
Idaho
Montana
Forest Service
Northern Pacific
Wallace
Northern
Pacific
Umit
India
Lenroot
Coolidge
Agriculture
Girl Scout Little House Dedicated Victors of Change
The Girl Scout Little House was funded by the General Federation of Women's Clubs and presented to the Girl Scouts. Mrs Hoover and Mrs Choate spoke on practical and spiritual aspects while a dozen board members from major cities attended. The center will soon open as an experimental hub for home making activities with Gir Scouts.
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Galvin
Coolidgh
Girl Scouts. of America
Girl“Scouts
Oluba
America
Hoover
Commerce and
National
Girl Scouts
BeVathe
Favatin
District of Columbia
Arthur Choate
New York
Benefita
Girl Scout Little House
Mra
Leo Arnstein
Nicholas Brady
Choate
Lyman. Delano
Frederick “Edey
Everlt
Macy
Llewellyn
Rsons
W. N. Rothschild
Percy, Willams
Giles Whiting
Jane Deter Rippin
New’ ‘York
Julius ‘Rosenwald
Chicago
John Baxter
Minneapolis
Deannold
Arthur Hartt
Boston
Misa
Gwen Martin
Philadelphia
William Phelps
New Haven
Clifford Shinkle
Cinccinnati
Edward’Skae
Detroit
William Hoffman
Barrington
Thornton
Atlanta
Ga.s
HL. ‘Olmstead
Harrisburg
Helen
R. Scudder
Frederick, Brooks
Washington
New survey on married women workers and industry
A census based study notes a shift in female labor, with married women increasingly employed in industry and mechanical trades. It cites numbers from 510,000 to about 2,000,000 in 1920 and highlights rising employment in some fields while noting overall social and industrial impact.
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Maryn Winglow
Tling
Mide
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Congress of Colorado Dam
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