Iowa State News Roundup of Local Projects and Events
A variety of Iowa items include a contract worth over 168000, a spelling match in Orange City on March 1, and a 45000 church project begun at Waterloo. Other notes cover bank mergers in Roland, a 205000 school bond in Tipton, Shenandoah radio calls KENF, and Des Moines office fixtures industry growth.
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Iowa
Orange City
St. John's Catholic Church
Waterloo
Farmers Savings and
First National Banks of
Roland
Vernon QC
Reed Post
American Legion
Bloomfield
Tipton
Shenandoah
KENF
Des Moines
Citizens Bank
Letts
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Science Hall
Iowan
Creston
University Club
Sioux City
Keokuk County
Sae
Ann Burns
Mason City
St. Joseph's Parish
Schlesseler
Methodist Hospital
Manchester
Guthrie Center
Harry Lenz
Lansing
Council Bluffs
Buchanan County Holstein Breeders’ Association
Pat Tore Formin
Humboldt
T. B
Iinois
Kansas
Missouri
N. GC. Cooper
Cresco
Charles Marshall
Mr. Marshall
Cooper
California
Mercy Hospital
Fort Dodge
A. B. Curran
Hinkhouse
Hopkinton
Weatherstone
Des Miones
Cascade
First Baptist Church of
Osage
A. S. Cross
Waterloo Tribune
Iowa Senate Notes On Bible Reading Bill And Budget Talks
Legislative notes summarize debates in Des Moines on compulsory Bible readings, a wide open primary proposal, municipal electric plants financing, child labor restrictions, and a draft state budget. Other items include tax changes on gravel, auto lens law revisions, and eugenics bill reconsideration in the house.
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Iowa Senate
EB. H. Reeman
Unitarian Church
Des Moines
Horchem
Harchem
House
Iowa
Senate
Tewa
MecClune
Mahaska County
Ethel
Davis County
Shane
Soldiers’ and Sailors
Clase
State Insurance Department
Charles S. Browne
Jackson County
McIntosh
Elections Committee
Insurance Investigating Committee
Wichman
Dutcher
Johnson County
House of Representatives
Wahida
Town Senate
Civil Service
Civil Service Commissions
Doolittle
Delaware County
Insurance Department
Insurance
Executive Council
Boards of Supervisors
Senate Elections Committee
United States
State Board of Health
Goodwin
Towa House
Nitrogen Supply Is Now Assured by Government Action
Washington reports that five years of federal effort have built a robust nitrogen program. The Muscle Shoals plant proves technically successful and a broader U S goal to secure domestic nitrogen persists through research labs and private plant development. The article emphasizes continued government funding to advance nitrogen fixation and ensure wartime and peacetime supply.
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Washington
America
Harrison E. Howe
The
American Chemical Society
Muscle Shoals
Congress
Doctor Dowe
Chile
Sheffield
Ala
Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
United States
Department of Commerce
Fixed
Preservation Push for Fort Crab Home of Yankee Doodle
Assemblyman Henry Mears and Dr. Alexander C. Frick urge New York to acquire Rensselaer Fort Crab known as the Home of Yankee Doodle. They seek Mrs. Delancey Van Remselaar Strong’s views before introducing a bill for museum use. Fort Crab, built in 142, sheltered General Abercrombie in 1768 and inspired the song Yankee Doodle after British jests.
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Albany
Henry Mears
Rensselaer
Alexander C. Frick
Fort Crab
Mr. Mears
Elephant Stops Train In Delaware Circus Run
An elephant aboard a circus train from Philadelphia to Havre de Grace pulled the emergency brake cord near Newark Delaware, halting the train two miles north. The animal wrapped its trunk around the airbrake lever, surprising train crews who later learned the cause from the keeper.
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Willington, del
Philadelphia
Havre de Grace
Newark
Abandoned House Cats Attack Chickens and More in Hamapohilia
Wild cats, offspring of tame summer cats, roam the Hamapohilia area killing game, chickens, and threatening dogs and people. Larry Dea, a night watchman, encountered one at Palisades Interstate Park. The creature weighed seventeen pounds, length thirty six inches, and tore Dea’s trousers as it leapt. Farmers noted the animal was large, tawny gray, with a pointy face, resembling a wild house cat rather than a lynx or bobcat.
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Suffern
Hamapohilia
Larry Dea
Dam
No 20
Palisades Interstate Park
Tip
Pan Gold on Beaches at Moclips Washington
Scores of men pan for gold from Washington beach sand north of Queets earning more than ordinary wages. Nuggets about the size of wheat kernels are found. Belief centers on Olympic mountains as the source, though some placerr miners suspect a nearby bonanza.
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Washington Beach
Queets
Olympic Mountains
Danish parliament women split seats in lower house
Nine women in the Danish parliament's lower house draw attention as they break past expectations. The scene highlights evolving gender representation in the Danish political system amid ongoing debates and policy work.
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Nery
Vast Unsurveyed Public Land Figures Revealed
Government surveyors have yet to map more than half of the public domain. Interior department finds 876,462,000 acres in Alaska and 151,106,760 acres in western states remain unsurveyed, leaving potential wealth of virgin land unknown for years.
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Washington
Interior Department
Alaska
World's Largest Turbo-Generator Taken Down Safely
The Edison company dismantled a claimed world leading turbo-generator weighing about 180 tons and rated at 83 000 horsepower. Valued near $1,000,000, it was removed from the Harlem River area in Brooklyn and reassembled at the Gate factory site on Hudson Avenue without incident.
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New York
Harlem
Edison Company
New
Hudson Avenue
Brookly
Gate
Uni
Monopoly in Radio Apparatus Charged by FTC
The Federal Trade Commission files a complaint asserting a radio apparatus monopoly built via cross ownership and patent pooling. Respondents include RCA General Electric American Telephone and Telegraph Western Electric Westinghouse International Radio Telegraph United Fruit Wireless Specialty Apparatus. The case alleges combined efforts to restrain competition, control inter state commerce, and deny essential equipment for trans oceanic communications.
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Ashington
Federal Trade Commission
Radio Corporation of America
General Weetria Company
American Telephone & Calegraph Company
Western Electric Company, Inc
West
Inghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company
International Radio Telegraph Company
United Fruit Company
Wireless Specialty Apparatus Company
Wnfch
Trans-Esentité Radio Communications and Broadcasting
Radio Corporation of American
Radio Corporation
Sea Level Panama Canal Proposed by Bunau Varilla Plan
Colonel Philippe Bunau Varilla, long linked with Panama, advocates a sea level canal at Panama 1000 feet wide and 50 feet deep. His scheme deepens the current route in five foot steps until the water level matches sea level, enabling uninterrupted transit for ships of all sizes. He estimates a 20 year cost of about 1 billion pounds, funded by surplus canal earnings and new bonds as traffic grows.
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Rar Department
Panama
Philippe Bunau- Varilla
Brian-Varilla
John Hay
Canada Responds on St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty Plan
Canada states it has considered the US note of November and earlier May 1922 communication on the St. Lawrence waterway. It proposes enlarging the International Joint Commission and Joint Engineering Board to draft a full plan with cost, inviting US suggestions and possible nomination of technical experts. The reply emphasizes caution before any heavy work or treaty.
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Hughes
St. Lawrence River
United States
St. Lawrence
International Joint Commission
Nits
Joint Commission
Internationa ‘Joint -Commission
United
Joint Engineers ’Board
Joint Engineers ’Board, With ‘A View of Having the Board. 50 Ensarged
Ita
Sthey
Antone
Duplicate Bond Controversy Sparks Congressional Action
Fueled by former Justice official Charles Brewer charges about duplication and destruction of government bonds, Representative La Guardia moves toward a congressional inquiry. Treasury Secretary Mellon and officials deny public losses while acknowledging mechanical errors in bond numbering.
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Bu Fenau
Harding
Charles
Brewer
Department . of Justice
Treasury
Mellon
la Guardia
Rép
Coolidge
Dougherty
Melton
Humbera
A. Clique
Treasury De‘partment
J. W. McCarter
Register of the Treasury
Primitive time markers used in Korea and Asia noted
A Washington headquarters bulletin from the National Geographic discusses primitive time markers. It describes hemp or grass rope markers dampened and snotted to reveal time spans and a lighted spark indicating time progression. Some scholars debate early Japanese methods of time reckoning.
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Vive
Washington
National: Geographic
Chosen
Korea
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Qualoosa
Lews State College
Ames
Webster City Freeman-Journal
T. C. Cessna
Poweshiek County
Kendall
Gibson
Cessna
Base
W. R. C. Kendrick
Senate Investigation Committee
Violet Swartley
Norristown
Schuylkih River
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Albion
John W. Laird
Albion College
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Mander
Rt. Shuckbury
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Alwiya
Farine House
Panama Canal
Canada
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