Tillie Carries On War On Rats
Muscatine city health report credits Dr John Tillie with leading rat extermination efforts in November aided by an assistant more than 100 pounds of poison distributed. Milk butterfat standards rose. meat, fish and fruit stores deemed sanitary though two tuberculosis infected fowls noted. Beef consumption up, pork down. livestock slaughter counts listed. multiple milk tests reported with butterfat results for local suppliers.
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John Tillie
Board of Health
Tillie
Bingelli
Coyner
Wiggers
Finley
Freers
Schwab
Stange
Mittman
John Terry
Hoeksema
MacDowell
Foster
Shepard
Crawbaugh
Leu & Son
Rock Island Civic Music Association Concert Planned
A Muscatine visitor will attend the Rock Island Civic Music Association concert at Augustana gymnasium. Contralto Marie Morrissey and violinist Herbert Kirschner will perform. Muscatine and Rock Island groups exchange attendance as the Muscatine course closes January 12.
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Rock Island Civic Music Association
Muscatine
Rock Island
Augustana Gymnasium
Marie Morrissey
Herbert Kirschner
Muscatine Association
Moline
Sweetland Church Orchestra to Play Program Friday
The Sweetland Church Orchestra will perform at 8:00 p.m. Friday at the Sweetland Methodist Episcopal church. The program includes Bugle Boy March, Air with Variations, readings by Donna Fairall and Miss Mercaret Schwab, vocal numbers by Mrs. W. F. Doerfer and Miss Mary Raub, the Lang-Hahn quartet, and the Sweetland string, clarinet, and vocal selections with accompanists Miss Pearl Potter Maude Pace and Rita Day.
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Sweetland
Sweetland Methodist Episcopal Church
Freeman
Maude Pace
Reading
Donna Fairall
Bronte
Rita Day
Bride of 40 Years Ago Seeks Divorce Over Desertion
Mrs. Clara Fifield sues for divorce from Frank Fifield in Shellsburg Iowa alleging desertion in 1921 after 40 years of marriage. Drake and Wilson represent the plaintiff in district court.
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Frank
Clara Fifield
Shellsburg
Drake & Wilson
Jehle
Hanley & Hanley
Frozen Louisa Roads Slow Gravel and Quarry Work
Louisa county roads remain rough and partly passable after a Monday night freeze. A. W. Hinderman reports roads froze hard after Sunday's thaw, delaying maintenance. Gravel hauling near Wapello paused since Friday and the southeast quarry pit is ice covered. quarry work continues with weather permitting and will resume soon.
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Louisa County
A. W. Hinderman
Wapello
Hinderman
Columbus Junction
Diphtheria Immunization Campaign Expands in Iowa
Des Moines reports strong public response to the diphtheria immunization drive. Dr. J Wallace leads the effort with toxin-antitoxin supply shortages occasionally found. Fifty seven cities have completed tests and more are under work as the plan shifts toward county wide coverage.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Board of Health
J. Wallace
State Board
Japanese Emperor in Improved Health Bulletin Issued
Tokyo reports the house department released a bulletin this afternoon on the emperor's condition. The brief note states he is better and resting, with no new complications reported.
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Tokyo
House Department
Richardson in Railway Fight Over Rock Island Spur
B M Richardson of Cedar Rapids, member of the state railway commission, investigated a petition by Rock Island to lay a spur across Burlington Muscatine Northwestern tracks to serve Roach Musser's plant. Arrests in 1925 for contempt of court halted work, later dropped, as commission officials from both lines and Roach Musser met with him in Muscatine.
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B. M. Richardson
Cedar Rapids
State Railway Commission
Muscatine
Rock Island Railway
Burlington, Muscatine & Northwestern Railway
Roach & Musser
Rock Island
Rock Islands
State Commission
Richardson
Mackey V Vogel Case Near End of Trial
Walter L. Mackey suing as trustee in bankruptcy for J. R. Close alleges a $900 payment to Frank Vogel after Close’s insolvency was a fraudulent transfer to hide the bankrupt’s property. All parties reside in West Liberty. Attorneys include Robert Brooke for Mackey and Nichols Tipton & Tipton for Vogel.
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Walter L. Mackey
Frank Vogel
Mackey
J. R. Close
Close
Vogel
West Liberty
Robert Brooke
Nichols, Tipton & Tipton
Corn Producers Attack Jardine in Push for Help
The National Corn Growers association urged replacing Secretary of Agriculture Jardine with a leader who represents the 75 percent of U.S. food production. The group praised the farm relief committee in Washington and asked cotton and tobacco growers to aid in securing favorable legislation. C. H. Richeson of Webster City was reelected president and W. M. Carey of Fonda was named secretary-treasurer.
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Des Moines
Jardine
National Corn Growers Association
Farm Relief Legislative Committee
Washington
South
Department of Agriculture
C.H. Richeson
Webster City
W. M. Carey
Fonda
Emperor Yoshihito Improves Amid Pneumonia Battle
Afternoon dispatch reports Emperor Yoshihito showing improvement though remains critically ill with pneumonia at Hyogo hospital. Ha ayyama appears in original text as Ha yyama, indicating the same location.
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Yoshihito
Hayyama
Bryan urges school vaccination to curb contagious diseases
Dr. A N Bryan city health officer urged vaccination of lower grade and new entrants in schools and preventive treatment when warranted. He cited 39 total contagious cases this period, nine in isolation, no deaths, with most clustered on East Hill and emphasized isolation of new cases and immunization for contacts. The report noted scarlet fever as the sole current contagious fever and outlined vaccine use for contacts and possible public funding for immunization. The month’s data included one measles case, nine chickenpox cases, two pneumonias with one death, and one tuberculosis case.
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A. N. Bryan
Board of Health
Bryan
East Hill
Master Builders Study Lien Draft At Iowa Convention
Waterloo Iowa December 14 AP Consideration of the first tentative draft of a uniform mechanics lien act for the states occupied the second morning session of the Master Builders annual convention. The subject lies in state legislative jurisdiction and criticisms will be studied by a committee for a final draft to be sent to legislatures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Master Builders’ Association
Iowa
Find Remedy for Narcotic Addict Tests Conducted
Tests over seven months at a New York municipal correctional hospital show Narcosan a remedy for narcotic addiction. Discovered by A S Horovitz the treatment reportedly ends cravings and restores pre narcotic condition within three weeks. The American Medical association cautions further controlled testing. Frederick A Wallis confirms satisfactory results. potential use includes morphine heroin cocaine and alcohol cases.
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New York
Municipal Correctional Hospital
New York Medical Journal
A. S. Horovitz
American Medical Association
Frederick A. Wallis
Commissioner of Correction
Erie President Retires at Year End
Frederick D. Underwood will retire as Erie railroad president on December 31 after 26 years in the role. John J. Bennet, then president of Nickel Plate and operations chief for the Van Sweringen brothers, is named as successor.
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New York
Frederick DD. Underwood
Erie Railroad
New York Times
John J. Bennet
Nickel Plate Railroad
van Sweringen Brothers
Patchwork Quilt Links Lamoni to Early New York Tragedy
Lamoni Iowa December 15. A patchwork quilt from 1787, pieced by a great grandmother, descended to Charles Anway. It survived the Indian massacre that ruined a pioneer home and led a family to New York. The quilt came from England before American mills. Anway also preserves a pewter plate, a dresser, a table, a sander, and a clover leaf button from Elisha Scott’s Revolutionary era household.
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Lamoni
New York
Charles Anway
Lamon
Anway
England
America
Elisha Scott
Vermont
Scott
Fire damages plant cuts power in Creston
A morning blaze at the Iowa Southern Utilities power plant caused damage estimated in the thousands. Creston was without light for hours but full service resumed by 7 AM. Officials suspect a transformer burnout as the blaze’s origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Creston
Iowa Southern Utilities
Argues First Letts Case Before State Supreme Justices
Attorney M W Stapleton returned from Des Moines after arguing before the state supreme court in full bench on Charles J Richman’s motion for a rehearing of his contest to Judge F D Letts election as congressman in 1924. The case seeks a ruling on merits to push an appeal to the U S Supreme Court for precedent. The matter is distinct from J P Gallagher’s Polk county suit against Letts.
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M. W. Stapleton
Des Moines
Supreme Court
Charles J. Riechman
F. D. Letts
Richman
District Court
United States Supreme Court
Polk County District Court
J. P. Gallagher
Williamsburg
Letts
Edgewater Officials Indicted in $2 Million Rum Ring
New York December 15 AP Thirty three men including Edgewater New Jersey mayor Henry Wissel and chief of police face indictment after an eight month probe into a $2 million liquor cargo from the Steamship Eker. Also named are a US customs inspector and a New York marine police sergeant. The Eker carried whisky malt and 6000 gallons of alcohol when seized near Yonkers. The case alleges liquor came from Canada.
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New York
Edgewater
N. J
United States Customs
New York City
Eker
New Jersey
Hudson River
Upper Manhattan
Henry Wissel
John J. Lowery
Yonkers
Hugh Wunsche
Marine Police
Canada
Investigation Into Coal Contracts For State Institutions
Des Moines Indiana December 15 AP Budget Director F L Hogue may order a formal inquiry into charges of discrimination or favoritism in granting coal contracts for state penal and charitable institutions. The probe is planned for January with a date to be fixed. Arthur Southworth of Schuler Coal Company was subpoenaed to testify at the hearing before the state board of control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
State Board of Control
F. L. Hogue
State House
Board of Control
Arthur Southworth
Schuler Coal Company
Sleek hair through the ages from ancient Greece to butter fat
In Sioux Falls on December 15 at the National Butter Makers Association convention Prof. W B Combs of the University of Minnesota explained that sleek hair was considered old by Greeks and Romans around 450 B C. He noted ancient comparison with modern uses of butter fat by those civilizations.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
B. C
W. B. Combs
Dairy Division
University of Minnesota
National Butter Makers’ Association
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