Iowa State News items mix crime death and progress
A Des Moines woman nearly dies after mistaking bichloride of mercury for cough medicine but is expected to recover. Des Moines landmarks include Alexander Scott’s legacy to the city. Belle Plaine buys a three horse power fire signaling siren. Ottumwa’s John H. Spry dies at 65. Aerial mail arrives from Oelwein with a student delivering letters. Bond issues stall Graves murder case awaiting grand jury. Iowa railroads seek intrastate rate hikes. University of Iowa enrollment hits 4916 for 1919 20 with majors listed. Page County soil tests highlight seed germination in corn. Iowa Farm Bureau Federation nears final organization. Oskaloosa joins a new Omaha to Davenport auto truck route with daily Des Moines service.
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Nora Morris
Des Moines
Alexander Scott
Belle Plaine
John H. Spry
Wapello County
Ottumwa
Spry Brothers’ Grain Company
T. L. Sellers
Alex R. Graves
Clarence de Vault
Polk County
de Vault
Graves
Iowa
State Board of Railroad Commissioners
State Board
University of Iowa
College of Liberal Arts
Graduate
Applied Science
Page County
Crib
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
County Farm Bureaus
Oskaloosa
Omaha
Davenport
Coods In Transit
Filth Epidemic Fear After Flood Devastates Homer
Typhoid fears rise as debris removal drags, 25 homes need rebuilding and 50 families face destitution. Mayor Allen appeals to Governor McKelvie for funds to clear filth, move homes back, and restore foundations. Red Cross has spent 3300 on food and clothing. meals served thrice daily. Relief trains and trucks bring in supplies from Sioux City. local merchants pay for necessities.
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Tamer
Neb
Amayvor W. Allen
McKelvie
Red Cross
TAO
Homer
Sioux City
Burlington
Biggest Fighting Ship Tennessee Launched in New York
The battleship Tennessee, the largest and most formidable afloat, was launched at the New York navy yard in a ceremony. Built at a cost of 20 million dollars, she spans 625 feet with a 9 foot beam and 32,000 ton displacement, offering yacht like comfort for crew and officers and notably recruiting her entire crew from the state that shares her name.
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New York
Tennessee
New York Navy Yard
Non-Partisans Egged in Topeka Flight From Ellinwonds
Three Non-partisan league officials in Topeka reported egg splattered clothing as they described being driven from Ellinwonds by men in soldier’s uniforms at a farmers’ picnic. Walter Thomas Mills organizer J O Stevie Topeka state organizer and M L Amos Ellsworth editor said they were escorted from the ground and later taunted before local peace officers were involved.
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Topeka
Kan
League
Ellinwonds
Walter Thomas Mills
Naional
J. O. Stevie
M. L. Amos
Ellsworth
Ohe
End of Wheat Control In Washington D C
Wheat control and the wheat director ended June 1 under the war time law. The government guarantee of $2.20 a bushel for wheat ends, and remaining contracts will be settled by the United States Grain Corporation before转turning finances to the treasury department.
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Washington, D. C
Food Administration
Wilson
United States Grain Corporation
Treasury Department
Japan Sugar Exports Planned From Kobe to Seattle and U S Ports
Information received from Kobe via a Seattle shipping firm states Japanese sugar can be laid down in Seattle at about 17 a hundred pounds. The report cites 50,000 to 6,000 tons available for export. Another firm plans 500 tons of Japanese and Javanese sugar shipped direct to New York and around 5,000 tons to San Francisco.
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Seattle
Kobe
Typographical Union Elects New National Leader in Indianapolis
John McParland a member of Journal No 66 New York City was elected president of the International Typographical Union defeating Marsden G Scott who sought reelection.
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New Typographical Union
Indianapolis
John McParland
Joenal No
New York Cty
The
Innational Typographical Union
Marsden G. Scott
Farm Bureau Seeks $40,000 Budget For Farmers' Aims
The executive committee of the American Farm Bureau Federation authorized a program to present farmers' problems to the nation with a budget of $40,090. The action, announced from Chicaro, aims to mobilize rural issues at national level.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicaro
Bureau of Education
American Farm Bureau Federation
Supreme Court rules federal amendments cannot be voted on by state referenda
The Supreme Court held that federal constitution amendments cannot be submitted for ratification via state referendums. The Ohio case prompted rulings affecting pending votes on woman suffrage and prohibition in several states. Nebraska petitions seek referendum, but the federal decision may force the Nebraska court to deny or risk reversal on appeal. The ruling clarifies that ratification by the legislature means the federal legislature, not the people. The validity of the prohibitory amendment itself was not decided.
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Washington
D. C
Federal Supreme Court
Ohio
Ohio Supreme Court
Nebraska
State Supreme Court
John Hy
Hopkins
Omaha
Nebraska Court
Lancaster County District Court
Legislature
Palmer Is Blamed for Fixing Sugar Prices in Louisiana
A sugar investigating committee report to Congress accuses Attorney General Pabner of using his office to fix maximum sugar prices in Louisiana, in violation of law and duty. It notes attempts to reach a fair price arrangement with producers, but cites no prosecutions and claims open market prices ranged 15 to 20 cents as the crop was small with high demand.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Pabner
Louisiana
Tinkhaim
Massachusetts
United States
Mooney
Repor
New Orleans
Reject Wilsons Plea for Armenian Mandate in Senate
In Washington the Senate rejected President Wilsons plea for an American mandate over Armenia by 42 to 23 with 13 Democrats joining Republicans. The resolution declined congressional authority for the mandate, minutes show Democratic leaders urged delay and failed to amend to grant authority.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Armenia
Senate
United Republican
Congress
Sugar purchase plan faces Czech exports boost
Irving Schwartz testified before the joint legislative committee on profiteering arguing the United States should buy all available exportable sugar from Czecho Slovak ia to fund credits for fertilizer and to curb Cuban influence in America. He said such purchases would lower sugar prices in Czecho Slovakia.
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Bohemia
New York
United States
Czecho-Slovakia
America
Irving Schwartz
Joint Legislative Committee
Sucar
Schwartz
American Car Victor Wins Indianapolis 500 in Spectacular Finish
Gaston Chevrolet drives an American designed car to victory in the 500 mile race at Indianapolis before a crowd of 125,000. His time 5:40:16.14 at 88.16 mph. Rene Thomas second in 5:43:02.29. Tommy Milton third. Lathe De Palma faltered with flames near the end, finishing fifth. Boyer led early but crashed. no serious injuries reported.
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Chevrolet
Indianapolis
Ind
Indianapolis Speedway
Gaston Chevrolet
Rene Thomas
Tommy Milton
Jimmy Murphy
Iatph de Palma
Boyer
Ovck
Cole and Grammer Reprieved in Nebraska
Lincoln Nebraska Governor McKelvie has granted a stay of execution for Anson V Cole and Allen Grammer, convicted Howard County murderers. The stay delays the sentence while hearings proceed in the federal circuit courts. The latest date set for execution is Friday July 9.
Montreal advance in news print export prices shown
An advance in the export price of news print paper from 40 4 ton to 410 for the three months beginning July 1 is shown in the schedule of Canadian Export Paper Company Limited. The price will rise one cent a pound July 1 to 54 1/2 cents and on October 1 to 56 1/2 cents per pound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Canadian Export Paper Company, Limited
Amily
Repeal War Legislation Passes Congress
Washington news reports that before adjournment last Saturday both houses of Congress adopted a joint resolution repealing war legislation with the exception of the Lever food control act and the trading with the enemy act.
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Washington
Congress
Flood Toll and Damage From River Lud Overflow in England
Twenty seven bodies recovered with many missing after the River Lud flood in Louth England. Death toll unofficially near fifty. At least fifty houses washed away and 1400 damaged. Over 1000 people homeless. Damage estimated up to 250000 dollars. Waters have subsided.
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England
Louth
Wilson vetoes budget bill in Washington DC
President Wilson vetoed a national budget system bill saying it was unconstitutional for taking from the chief executive the power to remove the comptroller general and assistant comptroller general. He returned the measure with the greatest regret though he supported its aims.
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Wilson
Washington
D. C
Senate
Saaid
Polk Resigns as Under Secretary of State
Frank L. Polk resigns from the post of Under Secretary of State. President Wilson accepts Polk’s tendered resignation, concluding his service in Washington.
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Frank L. Polk
Washingto
Ih. C
Wilson
Ditch saves Nebraska town from historic flood
In Pender Nebraska the May 381 rainfall caused the Logan river, the Pender drainage ditch and Rattlesnake creek to overflow. Low land north and east of town inundated as crops flooded. late planted corn washed and required replanting. The drainage ditch, built two years earlier, saved the town from a repeat of old floods.
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Pender
Logan
Sugar Cars Destroyed in Rail Derailed at Newhall
In Cedar Rapids two Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul freight cars carrying sugar and merchandise valued at about $100000 were wrecked when a freight train was derailed at Newhall. No injuries reported and investigation to determine cause.
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Cedar Rapids
Newhall
Fearful of Bubonic Plague Mexico City Traffic Suspended
Health department in Mexico City orders suspension of all rail and glownship traffic except rail lines to Jalapa due to bubonic plague presence, according to newspaper dispatches.
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Mexico City
Vera Crug
Jalapa
Department of Health
Taft Declines Gaston Running Mate Offer in Chicago
Report of a Chicago banquet where Lucy Page Gaston claimed Taft offered to be her running mate. Taft allegedly cited hereditary and personal abstinence records, while officials denied any vice presidency talk. Gaston noted the exchange amid Taft’s unexpected Chicago visit.
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Lucy Page Gaston
Taft
William Howard Taft
United States
Committee of Fifteen
Chicago
Mr. Taft
Descendant of Pilgrims attends Kansas City KS ceremony
Representative Edward C. Little of Kansas and Lt. Col. Moses Little speak at a tercentenary Pilgrim celebration. The highlight is John Alden Taylor, a high school student and twelfth direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden, with a Russian maternal grandfather who helped settle central Kansas. The remarks link American liberty to diverse roots across generations.
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Edward C. Little
Kansas
Funston
Philippines
Twentieth
Kansas Volunteers
Pilgrim's
John Alden
Johnathan Taylor
Louisburg
Bunker Hill
Col
Moses Little
Bunker III
Little
John
Priscilla
Kansas City
Kans
America
Plymouth
Come Back: Mrs. Sells Tours Jicarilla Apache Visit
Mrs. Cato Sells, wife of the U S Indian commissioner, joins inspection trips to tribes like the Jicarilla Apaches in Colorado and New Mexico. She notes revival through purpose, sheep-raising, sanitation, and personal ownership, saying the tribe is coming back from the gates of death.
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Cato Sells
United States Indian Commissioner
Colorado
New Mexico
Sells
New Head of U S Bureau of Mines Nominee Cottrell
President Wilson sent the senate the nomination of Dr. Frederick G. Cottrell to direct the Bureau of Mines, replacing Dr. Van H. Manning. Cottrell, Oakland born chemist and inventor, developed the Cottrell process for fume and dust removal now widely used and contributing to material recovery.
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Frederick G. Cottrell
Bureau of Mines
Department of the Interior
Senate
Wilson
van H. Manning
Dr. Cottrell
Oakland
Cal
University of California
Cottrell
Research Corporation
Petrolia
Texas
Perkin
New York
Society of Chemical Industry
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Japan
Farm Bureau
Supreme Court
Palmer
HOUSE
Victor
Ditch
U. S. Bureau of Mines
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