Iowa School Changes Put Off By Legislature
Subcommittees of the Senate and House on state educational institutions will meet with the state board of education to draft a compromise. The plan creates a governor appointed commission to study proposed changes and report to the next assembly. until then the changes remain in abeyance and schools continue as is.
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Cedar Falls
Ames
Iowa
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State Board of Education
Clarke
General Assembly
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Grout
Anamosa
Hutchins
State Board of Agriculture
Greene
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Rules Committee
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Yachting Tragedies Shape Goelet Family Rules and Loss
The wealthy Goelet clan in New York shuns yachts after a string of deaths and misfortunes at sea. Mrs Robert Goelet defied last wishes by avoiding travel aboard ships and raising sons who hate yachts. The Nahma vessel figures prominently in a pattern of bereavement across generations.
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Goelet
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Wisie Whelen
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Bobby
Gordon Douglas
Nahma
Paris
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Ogden Goelet
Newport
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Europe
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NO MORE CONVICT STRIPES Salem Oregon
In Salem Oregon the prison stripes are abolished this year as a Christmas gesture to inmates. All parole violators and those who violated prison discipline are moved to convict gray to begin the new year. Governor West issued the Christmas presents to the prisoners with this change.
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Salem
Ore
State Penitentiary
Governor West
Goats Deployed to Battle Mosquito Breeding Grounds
Fort Washington deploys a herd of goats to clear underbrush around the Potomac approach, aiming to reduce mosquito breeding sites. A squad of artillerymen may accompany them to keep goats away from mountain laurel buds and aid the fort’s garrison in malarial defense.
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Washington
D. C
Fort Washington
Potomac River
National
War Department Ofncials
United States Sends About 36 Million in Money Orders to Britain
About 36 million dollars in money orders were sent from the United States to recipients in the United Kingdom, according to statistics gathered locally.
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Britain
London
United States
United Kingdom
List of cholera scourges through centuries noted
London writer cites Titans Bits on plagues from 767 B C to 1905. It lists Rome Athens London Ireland China and Persia outbreaks, the Black Plague 1348 1382 and cholera epidemics in Paris London Bombay and Punjab with tens of thousands to millions killed.
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Asia
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Denmark
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Russia
Lyons
Italy
Leyden
Amsterdam
Persia
Egypt
France
Paris
India
Bombay
Northwest Presidency
Punjab
Burma
Mules Kill Cattle in Sacramento Yard Battle
In Sacramento California ten mules attacked two steers and a bull at Thirty fourth and R streets. One steer and the bull were killed and a second steer was fatally injured and later shot by Officer Brown. The mules fought through the night, overpowering the cattle as bystanders could not determine mule or cattle owners.
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Sacramento
Cal
Brown
Thanksgiving Box Suit Against Express Company
George H. Fetter sues Adams Express for 50 dollars claiming a Thanksgiving dinner box was mistakenly delivered to a hospital not his home. He says the misdelivery caused him to cancel a dinner party and lists the box contents including a chicken bananas oranges apples jellies cakes and other eatables.
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Pittsburg
George H. Fetter
Adams Express Company
Fetter
To Sell Hair to Save Husband in Boston
Mrs. Irvin Dodd offers her raven black hair that trails to the ground for sale to reimburse an express company after her husband allegedly stole 3500, aiming to raise funds in Boston.
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Boston
Express Company
Irvin Dodd
Iowa Senate and House Vote for Immediate Probe of State Fair Funds
Des Moines reports both Iowa chambers unanimously pass a joint resolution for an immediate investigation into receipts and disbursements of the Town State Board of Agriculture and the state fair board. Rep Lund and Sen Chase press that funds appear mismanaged and require swift public accounting.
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House
Des Moines
Iowa
Town State Board of Agriculture
State Fair Board
Chase
Lund
Hoe
Larrabea
Agricultural Society
Aiata
Coffin to Fight Guardianship Case in District Court
L 5. Coffin is 90 and a noted philanthropist who will contest a recent application for permanent guardianship filed by Carrie H. Rutledge. The district court will hear the case. Letters between Coffin and Mirabeth Murray Coffin, whom he adopted as his daughter, were admitted by order of Judge C J Albrook. C V Mindlay has served as temporary guardian for several months.
Cornt Belt Meat Producers to Hold Annual Meeting
Des Moines reports the Cornt Belt Meat Producers' Association will hold its annual meeting in the city on February 18 and 19. The gathering, moved from its usual December date, will discuss planning to develop Iowa meat output and other trade topics.
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Des Moines
Cornt Belt Meat Producers’ Association
Iowa
Young Man Electrocuted on Griswold Idl Hott Line
Prather, 36, an electrician, fell onto a live wire and was killed while working on the Griswold to Idl Hott line. His body showed severe burns and he appears to have hung on the wire for an hour before discovery. He is survived by a wife, three children, a mother and a sister.
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Criswold
Roscoe
Prather
Griswold
Idl Hott
Canada After Ames Men
Ames Canada seeks Iowa State students to manage two large ranches. Edward W Middleton of Young Saskatchewan arrived at the college to hire a manager for a 9,000 acre operation with six tractors and a crew of 25 men.
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Ames
Canada
Iowa
Iowa State College
Edward W. Middleton
Young, Sask
Leon Couple Injured in buggy crash near switch engine
John Eilott and his wife, farmers living south of Leon, were badly injured when a switch engine scared their horse, throwing them from the buggy. Mr. Eilott is 72 years old.
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Leon
John Eilott
Here
Mr. Illfolt
Cleghorn Farmer Dies by Own Hand in Farm Scene
Sioux City report states William Kier a Cleghorn farmer died from a self inflicted gunshot wound to the chest in the presence of Mrs. Bertha Lang. He entered a room and shot himself just over the heart.
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Cleghorn
Sioux City
William Kier
Bertha Lang
Death Reasost of Blowup at Burlington Round House
Charles Kulp, one of the victims of the air compressor explosion at the Burlington round house, died of his injuries at St. Francis Hospital.
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Burlington
Charles Kulp
Burlington Round House
St. Francis Hospital
Light Plant to Be Sold in Eldora Foreclosure
Sheriff Thomas Walsh posts notices that the electric light plant in Yowa Falls will be sold at the sheriff's gate at the court house in Eldora on March 1 under foreclosure of a mortgage.
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Yowa Falls
Thomas Walsh
Sheriff's Gate
Eldora
Fall is Fatal to Aged Woman in Keokuk
Mrs. Mary C. Rockwood aged 69 died after a fall down a flight of stairs about four weeks ago. She never regained consciousness and was well known in southeastern Iowa.
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Keokuk
Mary C. Rockwood
Iowa
Then Jesus in Bethany Before Passover
The sermon centers on Jesus six days before the passover visiting Bethany where Lazarus, raised from the dead, dwelt. It emphasizes Jesus humanity, the forthcoming crucifixion, and Lazarus as evidence of Christ’s divine power, urging personal faith and reflection during Lent.
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Bethany
Lazarus
John
Jerusalem
Judea
Therna
God
Christ
Chicago
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