Iowa Legislature Debates Sufficient Suffrage and School Plans
The Iowa legislature weighs woman suffrage and education reforms with talks on veterans pensions, dairy and beef industry support, a five mile liquor limit, and a state highway commission. Proposals include a suffrage referendum, disabled teachers pensions, a dairy association board, and a permanent roads program.
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Des Moines
State Board of Education
House
Senate
de Wolf
Grundy
Spaulding
Poweshiek
Atkinson
Butler
Committee On State
Brockway
Louisa County
Huntley
Lucas
Townsend
Tama
Iowa
Chase of Hamilton
Hazen
Pottawattamie
State of Iowa Dairy Association
Beef Growers’ Association
Degas Hermit Painter Attracts Fame After Big Sale
Paris report on Degas, aged sixty nine, becoming famous after selling Les Danseuses a la Barre for 86 000 dollars. He is a reclusive artist with failing sight, rarely opens his door to visitors, and values Ingres drawings.
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Paris
Degas
Neuilly
Montmartre
Ingres
Raphael
Fawbourg
Duc d'Orleans
Ancient African Telegraphs Use Drum Horns and Tom Toms
Reports describe indigenous messaging networks in central Africa where horn trumpets ivory, tom tom drums, and gourds create a Morse-like code. Scouts relay alerts from village to village across miles, delivering news of attacks, defeats, or expeditions with rapid sounds carried by the wind.
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Paris
Africa
Sudan
Stanley Falls
Villange
Mysterious Ohio Woman Requests Repair of Paper in Capitol
The Capitol receives an unusual request from an unnamed Ohio woman asking the United States Capitol to repair a piece of paper. The secretary of the senate has declined to reveal her name for reasons of secrecy.
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Washington
United States
Ohio
The
Senate
Secretary Holds Delicate Letter Against Senate Banking Action
A two inch torn note from a dollar bill describes a secretary who has handled many delicate documents but says this one has "his goat." It is suggested the communication be referred to the Senate committee on banking and currency, but the secretary resists and keeps the letter.
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Senate
Dunnegan
Page
Shenandoah
Committee On Schools
Mattes
Sac
Committee On Educational Institutions
Harding
Committee ‘On
Balkema
Ili
Sioux
Roads and Highways Committee
State Board of Education
Ames
State House
Commission
Tax Commission
Iowa
Ways and Means Committee
B. F. Carroll
Special Commission
Board of Review
Executive Council
Board of Supervisors
Gillett
Doran
Boone
House Highway Committees
Senate Committee On Banking and Currency
Bell Stirs a Balky Team in Minneapolis Suburb
In Columbia Heights, a fire protection volunteer group relies on Maude and Dick, the wagon horses owned by Phil Stack. When Stack hauled stone and the wagon dropped into a rut the horses refused to move. A boy rang the fire bell and the pair instantly pulled the wagon to the next block.
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Minneapolis
Columbia Heights
Maude and
Phil Stack
Stack
Maude
Sleuth Louis Mouguin Receives Deputy Badge
New deputy Louis Mouguin of Fulton Street and Sixth Avenue rode a Broadway car after being sworn in by Sheriff Julius Harburger. He boasted bold plans while a dime theft and a wallet loss exposed the dangers of quick trust in lawmen.
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New York
Louis Mouguin
Fulton Street
6Th Avenue
Louis
Julius Harburger
Allons
Canaille
Painter Ader Suicide Stuns Bordeaux Friends
Marcelin Ader a young painter from Bordeaux killed himself with a revolver after inviting friends to a banquet and joking about a personal crisis. His circle mistook the threats as another joke, providing ammunition as the night unfolded.
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Paris
Marcelin Ader
Bordeaux
Ader
Woman rewarded $8,000 for helping peddler four years ago
Margaretta Jane Brown, now Mrs. Ray Mason Knasel, received an $8,000 reward and a note from Valentine R. Cordas mailed from California. Four years earlier she aided an old peddler onto a trolley car in Harrisburg, a kindness that led to the payout. The sender’s identity and motive remain stated in the mailed letters.
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Harrisburg
Pao
Margaretta Jane Brown
Ray Mason Knasel
Valentine R. Cordas
California
Finds 90000 In Rubbish Pile In Winsted
In Winsted Connecticut an old suitcase destined for a rubbish pile held over 90000 in currency. The money was tied to Mrs Emiline C Mills who had died a few days earlier and owned the suitcase containing the bills.
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Winsted, Conn
Emiline C. Mills
Opposed to Women Suffrage From Chicago Novelist
Pittsburg Pa Opie Read a Chicago novelist declares opposition to women suffrage arguing world leaders have been masculine in government arts and letters. He voices a conservative stance amid suffrage debates.
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Opie Read
Pittsburg
Onie Read
Chicago
Iowa Senate Budget Battles Over Runaway Appropriations
Des Moines reports a proposed budget surge with total requests reaching 1.622 million for the 1913-14 period while available funds sit around 1.3 million. The Board of Control seeks 4.62 million, plus 175k for a Pan American exposition building and 265k for a state offices building. Hog cholera defense may gain 25k amid widespread small appropriation bills. Senator Mattes notes insufficient funds to meet mounting demands and promises heavy cuts.
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Des Moines
Senate
Assembly
Board of Control
Bulldine and Purehrging
State Board of Education
Mattes
Sne
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Farmers Desire Short Course in Ames Lures Many
Iowa farmers flock to Iowa State College Ames for short courses and extension programs. The dairy exhibition and instruction train just completed a state tour and is hailed as the extension department's most successful effort bringing scientific dairy instruction to rural communities.
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Ames
Iowa State College
Iowa
Extension Department
Ameg
Bold Man Arrest After Standoff in Mason City
Sheriff’s posse of ten battles Jerry Dearmin who barricaded himself. Dearmin was captured after a chase from his home. His wife fought fiercely and was placed in a straightjacket. Dearmin’s gang had been hidden. he grabbed a shotgun but the posse halted his use of it.
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Mouquin
Corbley
Mason City
Jerry Dearmin
Poppe
Hearmin
Dearmin
Guilty Verdict in Assault Case at Gowrie
In Fort Dodge the jury found Thomas Tobison guilty of assaulting Marshal J B McFarland of Gowrie with intent to commit murder.
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Fort Dodge
Cape of the State
Thomas Tobison
J. B. McFarland
Gowrie
Runaway Team Causes Death of Medora Youth
Osceola reports 17 year old Loy Matthews son of Mr and Mrs John Matthews of Medora died after a runaway horse struck him and he did not regain consciousness.
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Osceola
Loy Matthews
John Matthews
Medora
Ice Cream Men Meet at Davenport Convention
The Iowa Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers holds its annual meeting in Davenport on February 12 and 13 to discuss industry issues and standards.
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Davenport
Tha Jowa Association of
Y M C A Plans Indian Reservation Education Effort
A Y M C A secretary will be stationed on nearby Sioux City Indian reservations to teach. The resident will use his house as a school building and introduce athletic novelties for the education program.
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Sioux City
Tragic Injury After Coaster Collision in Dubuque
George Sparks a 13 year old in Dubuque was knocked down by a runaway animal on a coaster ride. He sustained fatal injuries and doctors say he cannot live.
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Dubuque
George Sparks
Full Pocketbook Found at Davenport
Workmen excavating for a furnace at Princeton found a pocketbook containing 250 in moldy bills and silver. The money appears to have been buried years ago.
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Davenport
Princeton
Earl Conducts Revival in Des Moines Churches
Dr John A Earl president of Des Moines College has led two weeks of revival and union gospel meetings at the Danish Baptist church and the First Baptist church inviting congregations to spiritual renewal and broader fellowship.
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Earl
Harlan
John A. Earl
Des Moines College
First Baptist Church
Rockefeller Jr outlines origin and plans for social hygiene bureau
John D. Rockefeller Jr. explains the origin and aims of the Bureau of Social Hygiene formed after a New York grand jury investigated white slave traffic. The group seeks a temporary, private operation to study vice, with laboratories at Bedford Hills and surveys by Kneeland and Frexner, aiming for humane, scientific reform and broader city and national application.
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New York
Bureau of Social Hygiene
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
New York City
Rockefeller
Bayotha
Ynez
Rocbefeller
Heast
Bureau of Royal Hygiene
Katharine Bement Davis
New York State
Caro
Ito
Bureau
George J. Kneeland
Abraham Tfrexner
Europe
Cashier Confesses to Missing Bank Funds in High Bridge
High Bridge National Bank remains closed after cashier Abram L. Beaver admits taking about $100000 of bank funds. Vice president J Henry Rose says Beaver turned over property valued at $25000 as restitution.
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High Bridge
N. J
High Bridge National Bank
Abram L. Beaver
J. Henry Rose
Beavers
Tennessee Legislature Nominates Shields U S Senator
Nashville Tenn January 25 The Tennessee Legislature elected Chief Justice John K Shields of the state supreme court as United States senator for the term beginning March 4.
Morgan and Aldrich Tour Naples En Route to Egypt
J P Morgan and former Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island arrived in Naples with Morgan's party and visited the ruins of Pompeii before continuing to Egypt.
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Morgan
Aldrich
Naples
J. P. Morgan
Rhode Island
Egypt
Pompell
Murder Jury Fails to Agree in Conley Case
In Minneapolis on January 24 the jury in the John C. Conley murder trial of Mrs. Bertha Anderson, killed January 4, could not reach a verdict after nineteen hours of deliberation and was discharged.
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Minneapolis
John C. Conley
Bertha Anderson
Labor Leader Released on Bond in Dynamite Conspiracy Case
Leavenworth Kansas January 24. Mam C Bernhardt of Cincinnati who had entered the federal prisoners with other leaders convicted in connection with the dynamite conspiracy was released on bond Wednesday.
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Leavenworth
Kan
Mam C. Bernhardt
Cincinnati
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van Buren County
Anna, Edworthy
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Grace Wilbur Trout
Henry Brady
Perry
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Brady
Fair Board
State Fair Board
Blackford
State Agricultural Society
Clarke
Gates Lumber Company
Greene
American Steam Laundry Company
German Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Company
Ireton
Plymouth
Lyon Counties
Malvern Light & Power Company of
Malvern
Wapello Electric Company
Wapello
Ives Hermit's Life
Falieres
Republic
Academy of Sciences
M. Bouree
Prince of Monaco
United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Benjamin R. Stickney
Heart of Sudan
Bell
Painter
Pennsylvania
Dietz
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