State Executive Council Upholds Tax Levy Levels
The State Executive Council finished reviewing Iowa tax plans and confirms no increase in the state levy for 1916. Total levies run about 4.5 mills with $4,216,600 in revenue split between the general fund and the capital extension fund. The general revenue levy stands at 4.033 mills, generating about $4,066,600, plus educational and other institution levies. the Capitol extension fund levy is 0.17 mills yielding roughly $150,000. County auditors will be notified by Secretary A H Davidson.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Board of Education
General Fund
Capitol Extension Fund
A. H. Davison
Executive Council
Rural Carriers Elect Officers in Iowa Convention
Cedar Rapids hosts rural mail carriers convention. Elected officers include President M. E. Gordon North Liberty Vice President J. C. Avenell Storm Lake Secretary A. F. Perkins Atlantic Treasurer M. E. Whitney Waterloo Director three years C. H. Marshall Casey Delegates to national convention William H. James Council Bluffs O H Pierce Shell Rock Rudolph Snyder Dixon Lewis Main Mount Ayr W C Farlow Winterset Council Bluffs wins 1917 convention.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
M. E. Gordon
North Liberty
J. C. Avenell
Storm Lake
A. F. Perkins
Atlantic
M. E. Whitney
Waterloo
C. H. Marshall
Casey
William H. James
Council Bluffs
O. H. Pierce
Shell Rock
Rudolph Snyder
Dixon
Lewis
Main
Mount Ayr
W. C. Farlow
Winterset
Two Rejections Out of Five Thousand Iowa Recruits
Major D F Fair child Iowa brigade chief surgeon notes Iowa health pride in wartime screening. Among five thousand examined for military service only two had tuberculosis and none had cancer. Rejections in the Iowa guard run about five percent, lower than any state. Most causes are hernia heart lesions and flat feet.
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Camp Dodge
D. F. Fairchild
Iowa Brigade
Iowa
America
Iowa Guard
New Federal Buildings for Iowa Cities
Washington approves federal building funds for Iowa towns including Sioux City 355000 Shenandoah 40000 Fairfield 50000 Marengo 30000 Newton 55000 Oelwein 40000 Algona 45000 Corning 35000 Eagle Grove 35000 Harlan 35000 Knoxville 40000 Indianola 35000 Mount Pleasant 7500.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Washington, D. C
Sioux City
Shenandoah
Fairfield
Marengo
Newton
Oelwein
Algona
Corning
Eagle Grove
Harlan
Knoxville
Indianola
Mount Pleasant
Guards Must Serve. Camp Dodge case decision
District Judge Charles A. Dudley ruled that guardsmen who enlisted in the national guard and later took the federal oath cannot be released from service on the grounds of lacking parental consent at enlistment. The Eagan case involved Mr and Mrs Thomas Eagan of Patterson seeking release for their son, a member of Company A Third Regiment.
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Camp Dodge
National Guard
United States
Charles A. Dudley
Eagan
Thomas Eagan
Patterson
Third Regiment
Infantile Plague Reaches Iown Near Dubuque
Mable Tharp age 14 months daughter of Mr and Mrs William Tharp of a Dubuque area farm died after a illness of under a day. Doctors diagnosed spinal meningitis though symptoms resembled infantile paralysis. An investigation will be conducted.
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Dubuque
Mable
William Tharp
Vote For New School at Jesup Bond Issue
Voters in the Jesup consolidated school district authorize an 85000 dollar bond. The board plans a new building on eight acres near Jesup in the largest consolidated district in the state.
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Jesup
Defeat of Ottumwa High School Bond Issue
Ottumwa voters rejected a plan to issue 125000 dollars in bonds for a high school addition by a 337 vote margin. Women contributed heavily to the defeat amid election interest stirred by suffrage controversy involving board of education members.
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Ottumwa
Board of Education
Alta Builds $100,000 Fireproof School
The town of Alta has completed a new 72 by 172 foot four story fireproof schoolhouse valued at $100,000. It will serve about 200 farm and town children with modern conveniences and free transportation to and from homes.
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Alta
Iowa
Town Destroyed by Fire in Newhall Near Cedar Rapids
A gasoline stove explosion in a Newhall store sparked a blaze that spread to both sides of Main Street, wiping out seventeen business houses and causing about 150000 dollars in damage. The bank Milwaukee station livery barn and two garages survived while residents faced food shortages and homes untouched by flames.
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Cedar Rapids
Newhall
Bank
Pioneer Iowan Dr J A McKiveen Dies at 80 in Chariton
Dr J A McKiveen aged eighty years died at his Chariton home after over fifty years in Iowa. He practiced medicine there for nearly five decades, served as railroad surgeon for the C B and Q for twenty four years, led pension exams under Harrison, presided over the Iowa Eclectic Medical Society for three terms, and sat on the Iowa State Board of Health for seven years including periods as president. In 1908 he attended the British congress of tuberculosis in London as a delegate of the state board of health.
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Chariton
J. A. McKiveen
Iowa
C. B. and Q. Railroad
Examining Board For Pensions
Harrison
Iowa State Eclectic Medical Society
Iowa State Board of Health
Man Killed by Bees Near Brayton
Michael Smith a wealthy farmer east of Brayton was stung by a honey bee while visiting a neighbor and died within twenty minutes. He was about sixty years old and had previously survived bee stings on two occasions. The fatal sting occurred directly over the right eye.
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Michael Smith
Brayton
Mr. Smith
Drowning Death Of Charley Hawthorne At Hast Lake
Charley Hawthorne son of a Renwick family and owner of a local moving picture theater drowned at Hast Lake near Kanawha while fishing. He was on a raft when a storm hit and he swam for shore forgetting his fish on the raft. He tried to return but could not reach the raft.
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Jewell
Charley Hawthorne
Renwick
Moving Picture
Hast Lake
Kanawha
Grinnell to Become Iowa Flying Center Again
O. W. Timm takes over the Grinnell aviation work succeeding the late Billy Robinson. He builds a new strong biplane with a 100 horsepower Grinnell type engine. Timm plans exhibition flights and aims to begin an exhibition tour around August 1.
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Grinnell
Iowa
O. W. Timm
Billy Robinson
Timm
Ottumwa Votes for County Oiling of Roads
Wapello county residents respond to a campaign by the local commercial club committee, ensuring oiling of most of the heavily traveled highways in the area. The move fulfills a long felt need for improved road surfaces.
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Ottumwa
Wapello County
Land Brings High Price in Webster County Sale
Highly acres of unimproved Webster County land recently sold for 160 dollars per acre, a strong price for unimproved soil. In the southern part of the state improved land has sold this season for 140 to 150 dollars per acre.
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Duncombe
Webster County
Potato Crop In Danger
Iowa potato crop at Ames and across Iowa faces danger from unusually active potato bugs. Horticultural experts at Iowa State College warn truck growers to begin spraying immediately with arsenate of lead.
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa State College
Vote on New Nevada Schools Sets Bond Decisions
The South Grant consolidated school district approved a $21,000 bond for a new school by a 79 to 23 vote. The North Grant district passed a $20,000 bond for the new consolidated school.
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Nevada
South Grant
North Grant
Gotch Breaks Leg In Exhibition Bout
Humboldt Frank Gotch world wrestling champion, touring with a circus, suffered a left leg fracture above the ankle during an exhibition match. He twisted his leg between gymnasium mats, the bone snapping as he fell. He was hospitalized for treatment and will miss weeks of activity.
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Gotch
Humboldt
Frank Gotch
Children Burned To Death At Farm Home Fire
Two small children ages one and three of Mr and Mrs Archie Scott died in a farmhouse fire three miles south of Woden. Mrs Scott was badly burned rescuing one child and attempting to save the other before being driven back by flames.
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Woden
Archie Scott
General Carson Leads British Drive in Somme Region
General Carson, a Canadian and one of the most active British commanders, presses the large offensive against the Germins in the Somme area as part of the ongoing big drive.
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Carson
Germins
Somme
Growth of the Iroquois League and Erie Presence
The Iroquois evolved from five to six nations the Mohawks Oneidas Onondagas Senecas Cayugas and Tuscaroras plus the Erie Neutral Conestoga Nottoway Meherrin and Cherokee as major tribes. Early European contact with Ohio saw many tribes, but the Erie held lands along Lake Erie's edge as a fixed habitation.
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Erie
Ohio
Lake Erie
Last Chinese Emperor Cited in Dictator Policy Debate
A remark compares the last lightning-change Chinese emperor to a modern dictator, noting the difficulty of making a policy that solidifies power, and suggesting a “fly paper” tactic as a stark metaphor for sticking to control.
Elks Horns and Baltimore Jest In The Kind
In a humorous exchange a parent notes Elks horns are large and the boy replies that while in Baltimore there will be horns of plenty. The playful dialogue captures wit and city flair.
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Baltimore
Folding suitcase invention and global resource notes
A scattered report notes various happenings from around the world. A London gem expert warns opals are nearly exhausted while a woman devises a folding suitcase that lies flat when empty. German coal deposits are said to be rich enough for profitable operation. Other items mention a meat fork lever mechanism, France promoting gardening, UK sheep dogs tax exemption, and Nigeria coal discoveries. Harvey Hoffman of Everett, Massachusetts, paid a $5 auto fine in buffalo nickels, and J Donovan of Concord, New Hampshire, studies law while commuting daily to Boston.
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London
Germany
France
United Kingdom
Nigeria
Harvey Hoffman
Everett
Mass
J. ©. Donovan
Concord
N. H
Boston
Republicans Meet as Iowa Convention Chooses Leaders
B W Garrett served as temporary chairman delivering a keynote praising W L Harding and attacking Wilson policies. N E Kendall of Albia named permanent chairman as the convention chose its officers, adopted a platform with prohibition and road provisions, and raised $293.62 for Camp Dodge soldiers headed to the Mexican border.
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Des Moines
B. W. Garrett
W. L. Harding
N. BE. Kendall
Albin
Harding
Iowa
T. Fred Wenry
George W. Clarke
Charles Biawson
State Central
J. H W. T. Main
Grinnell College
James B. Weaver
Polk County
Charles Rawson
State Central Committee
Garrett
H. M. Hayner
Marongo
Town
Havner
Wilson
John A. Guther
Camp Dodge
W. W. Copeland
Burlington
Con. WH
Murphy
Roy Snell
Mwawarden
Iet
J. M. Marrow
Dows
IL. Richards
Muscatine
M. I
Birdsall
Clarion
Wourth
I. H
Henry
Charles City
B.T. Nichols
Tipton
George Poff
What Cheer
W. H. Fahey
Perry
Leirth
James A. Gill
Garden Grove
T. 3
Grisell
Guthrie Center
John IF
Ford
Fort Dodge
J. W. Wormley
Kingsley
Wife Dies After Troop Movement Stirred by Letter
Mrs Pay Carlson died hours after a brain hemorrhage blamed on worry over her husband’s move to the Mexican border with Company M Third regiment. Carlson, joining Camp Dodge, initially planned to refuse the federal oath but later took it as others did, a fact not told to his wife until Iowa troops were set to depart. The fatal letter likely influenced her condition.
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Red Oak
Pay Carlson
Company M
Carlson
Camp Dodge
Iowa
Mexico
Fort Madison Woman Celebrates 90th Birthday Milestone
In Iowa 81 Years, Fort Madison records Lavina Coyne turning ninety at the Coyne homestead west of the city. She has lived in the area since 1836 after moving from Pennsylvania and remains in good health with a fondness for motoring.
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Iowa
Fort Madison
Iown
Lavina
Coyne
Pennsylvania
Emmetsburg Council Awards Bitulithic Paving Contract
Emmetsburg city council awarded the paving contract for nineteen blocks of bitulithic pavement at a bid of 40 750 dollars. The project funds and contractor details are noted in the official vote and award record.
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Emmetsburg
Gen Plummer to command state troops at Llano Grande
Fort Brown announces Brig. Gen. Edward H. Plummer will command a division of state troops at Llano Grande near Mercedes Oklahoma Iowa and North Dakota troops will be stationed there Maj Gen Tasker H Bliss arrives to inspect national guardsmen
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Plummer
Three Spheres of Believer's Life in God
The article describes three spheres for believers: hidden in Christ in God for safety and vision, in the flesh for constant struggle, and in the world for constant service. It urges total separation from worldly ties, a life in Christ, and victory through Christ while resisting self reliance.
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Christ
God
Jesus Christ
Han
Christia
Christian
Minny
The Greatest Question in Spiritual Power and Courage
Arthur J. Brown asks if we face our problems with courage and faith and dedicate ourselves to serving Christ and making Jesus known. He argues the core issue is spiritual power accessed through devotion and action.
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Christ
God
Jesus Christ
Arthur J. Brown
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