Iowa Farmers See Mixed News From State Bonds And Industry
Iowa reports include a $125000 school bond passing in Sioux City, a $350000 Perry creek conduit in Sioux City, and a $240000 Cedar Rapids school bond. Other items note a $13 million Linde Air site purchase in Davenport and a $66,000 Woodland cemetery mausoleum contract, with broader data on weather, livestock, and auto growth across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dollar Corn Organization
Sioux City
Monmouth
George Tabor
Iowa
George Washington University
H. C. Churchman
Des Moines
Samuel Hichmoeier
Charles City
Marshall Canning Company
Marshalltown
Roland
Fonda
Corn Growers
F. M. Hubbell
Woodland Cemetery
Charles K. Thomas
Traer
Des
McGrew
Penn College
Fred L. McMillan
Arnold's Park
DN Township
Wright County
Fairfield
Madrid
H. J. Beard
Henry
Washington
Mr. Beard
Orange City
Della Cochenauer
Humboldt County
Iowa Legislature Faces Tuck Law Strain Amid Election Costs
The Iowa legislature considers exempting counties from the Tuck law as sixty counties may lack funds to hold primaries and general elections. Debates cover Bible teaching in schools, child welfare funding, rural credit, and anti trust measures with ongoing fights over enforcement and procedural changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
J. W. Million
Des Moines University
Cooperative Club
Supreme Court
United States
Child Welfare Commission
N. E. Kendall
Iowa Senate
Forty-First General Assembly
Dutcher
Johnson County
Des Moines
Sioux City
Davenport
Executive Department
Judiciary Committee
Bowman
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
House
House Elections Committee
Elections Committee
Wamstan
Mitchell County
Antjes
Grundy
Board of Health
Friends of
Rankin
General Assembly
Diltz
Polk County
Tuck
Price
Standard Oil Company
Executive Council
Lee County
Aliens Swindled by Immigrant Real Estate Schemes Across New York
Deputy Assistant District Attorney James J. Wilson told a legislative committee that underwater lot scams and bogus concessions near the Brooklyn Bridge alone have cost immigrants millions. He cited implausible sales of distant real estate, installment plans that collapse, and brokers using native languages to lure buyers. He urged filing installment contracts with the register to protect buyers and recounted cases from West Thirty-sixth Street to Ellis Island involving bonds and delayed remittances.
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New Yorks
Pennsylvania
James J. Wilson
Legislative Committee On
City Hall
Brooklyn Bridge
Wilson
New York
Wuiaon
Jersey
Long Island
Salvatore A. Cotilio
Office of the Register
West Thirty-sixth Street
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania Station
Gald
Inter
Giuseppe Gudi
Baxter Street
Italy
Fraud and immigration abuses in early 20th century probes
A report details a glamour episode at the Elysees palace and a Washington expense demand for admission, then describes a 1912 fraud by an Italian broker who undercut express and steamship firms, causing massive losses. Misa Marion K Clark notes aliens in labor camps under peonage-like conditions and cites 51,140 investigations and 265,000 dollars recovered since 1911.
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Express
Italy
American Express Company
Steamship Companies
State Industrial Bureau
Bolognest
Misa Marion K. Clark
State Labor Department
Ahe
Mise Clark
Pep Town Springs Up Near Littlefield Texas
West Texas town of Pep forms 16 miles southwest of Littlefield in Hockley County. A pasture turned buzzing community, Pep grows as ranch subdivides into farm plots. County Judge Evans learns of the town while arranging textbooks for a school under construction.
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Littlefeld
Tex
Pep
West Texas
Here
Hockley County
Littlefield Ranch
Evans
Insane Brother Charged With Sister’s Death
In Wisconsin, a man named Stevenson allegedly killed his sister Ida, thirty six, beating her with a poker. He claimed the insane sister would not return, and after three days the body was buried as neighbors alerted authorities.
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Hudson
Wis
George
Stevenson
Hia
Tobina
Ida
Buriadiit
Incandescent Lamp Exports Reported Worldwide
A fragment notes incandescent lamps exported from the United States to countries across the globe. It references large export figures and broad international distribution without specific dates or destinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United
Britain Plans to Wipe Leprosy From the Earth
Britain studies eradicating leprosy with a cure now practical. Government requests about 7 million dollars plus societal add ons to fund thirty years of work across the empire. Hypodermic chaulmoogra oil from Burma India regions used. disease not hereditary. aim to end leprosy for future generations. About 200000 cases known in India.
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London
Burma
Assam
India
Fragmentary Civil War Note Tells of Captain and Sheriff
Fragmentary OCR mentions a captain of the One Twenty-sixth Ohio and a sheriff in a Civil War context. Details are incomplete, with garbled phrases about the field of battle and terms. Further readable context is needed for full summary.
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Jewett
John
Ohio
Wine Thirty Years Old In Abandoned Cellar Found Near Justice's Home
City workers discovered two gallons of wine a blackberry and a grape variety about 80 years old in an abandoned cellar near Justice Gyrus McCurdy's residence. Sheriff Montgomery Solliman notified. Justice Mel Curdy and others commented on the find.
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Troy, O
Gyrus McCurdy
City Water Department
Mel Curdy
Montgomery Solliman
Missionary's Long Hair Cut Sheds Light on Trial
The report notes an itinerant preacher arriving to begin serving a prison sentence for motor vehicle theft. His long black hair, worn as a signature style, drew attention at the court proceedings, though the details of the case remain unclear due to garbled text.
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Walla
Walia
Rey
M. I
Cadter
Farm Cooperatives Grow From Washington Drive
Farmers number over one thousand joining co operative marketing efforts with potential to reach two billion dollars in trade during 1923. California contract plan expands farm product marketing across states. national council aims to move headquarters to Washington. Government bodies back the movement as a shield against universal farm failure.
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Jashington
Interstate Farm
Washington
Coolidge
National
Chicago
Co-Op
Capitol
California
Congress to Study Southern Appalachians for National Park
A five member committee is being organized by Secretary Work to study the Southern Appalachian range for selecting a prime national park area. Invitations went to Rep Henry Temple and other officials to join, with Barrington Moore of the Council of National Parks to name two more. The move reflects growing East Coast interest in expanding national parks amid new bills in the Sixty-eighth Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Appalachian
the Hiter
Henry W. Temple
Pennsylvania
W.A. Welchi
Palisades Interstate Park Commission
New York
Glenn Smith
Geological Survey
National Parks
Forest
Life
Barrington Moore
Immigrant Quota Reaches Limit Across Europe
Public figures report that immigration to the United States will be admitted only from certain regions in Europe as the current fiscal year ends in June. Europe except Scandinavia and France has largely exhausted its quota, with hundreds still scattered, marking a historic cap on new arrivals under Department of Labor data.
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Senate
House
Potts
Lee County
State Fair Board
Brockhart
Washington
Assembly
United “States
Europe
Scandinavia
France
America
Department of Labor
South -America
Fragmentary OCR Note on Names and Envelopes
A garbled OCR passage mentions Mrs Wilson and Mrs Elgapor with incomplete names and a possible McAdoo reference. The text is too fragmentary to determine a clear event or outcome.
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Iowa State News
The
Commonwealth
Department of Agriculture
J. C. Mabray
Secretary of Agriculture
McIntosh
Committee On
United States District Court
American and Foreign Securities Corporation
Joseph P. McDonald
Glass OF Fashion
Andre. de Fougquiere
Elysees Palace
Paris
Seine
J. P. Morgan
West
Texas
Inisane
Britain
Missionary
Federal
Supreme‘ Court
Ment of Agriculture
Federal. Reserve Board
Congress
Ct Ae Oy
Czechoslovakia
Usher
Will Wan
Mini
Margaret
Elgapor
McAdoo Tern
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