Iowa News Items of Interest Summarized for Busy Readers
A digest of Iowa notes includes the first paved intercounty highway across the state the defeat of hard surface vote in Sac county and the appointment of B F Ketchum to the State Board of Education. Also reports on Shriners traveling to Algona births in Atlantic labor issues in Perry and Dubuque boats shipyard strikes resolved training of engineers and various local appointments.
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Iowa
North Iowa
Sac County
W. L. Harding
B. F. Ketchum
Farmington
State Board of Education
Henry J. Elius
Des Moines
Algona
Henry Spieker
Atlantic
Riverside Fair Grounds
Sioux City
Muscatine
Protor
Eamonn de Valera
Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Perry
Dubuque Boat and
State University
Iowa City
Sergt. W. B. Beach
Camp Dodge
Medaille Militaire
DSC
Martin Company
Sac City
William Sebring
Redfield
Raymond C. Hyde
Plumb Jewelry Company
Edna Monecke
Vera Thompson
Davenport
Cedar Rapids
Fred Gilbert
Spirit Lake
Sac
Buena Vista
American Legion
West Gate
Iowa State College
Ames
Clifford F. Phillips
Neola
Pershing
Russia
W. C. Ramsay
Oskaloosa M. & St. Sn
Round House
Division
FE. G. Wylie
Greater
Webster City
Boone coroner verdict threads murder probe and suspicion grows
The Boone coroner's jury ruled Mrs. Fred Moore of Angus died feloniously by fire at her home, while the grand jury was instructed to investigate the murder and identify the guilty party. Suspects linger as authorities tighten watch on Atlantic, Des Moines church leadership shifts surface in Simpson College news, and legal actions unfold across Iowa.
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Boone
Fred Moore
Angus
Atlantic
John W. Conway
Hartley
Charles Jones
Mabel Ellen Hanson
Spencer
Conway
John L. Hillman
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Des Moines
Simpson College
Hillman
Toledo
Ohio
St. Paul's Methodist Church
Waterloo
International Association of Machinists
A. C. Abbey
Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company
Danbury Hatters
Iowa
Cummins
Kenyon
Representative Hull
Louis Lasher
Matt Tinley
One Hundred Sixty-eighth
Newton D. Baker
Washington, D. C
Walnut
Elizabeth
Sarah Swingle
Clara Rossman
Hertha Heyer
Gerald Robinson
Unity
Council Bluffs
J. Henry Elk
United States Naturalization Examiner
Cass County
Ellert C. Innken
Cumberland
Germany
Company K
One Hundred Sixty-eighth Infantry
Cass
Thaken
France
Wesley Greene
State Horticultural Society
H. M. Havner
Lakes
Havner
W. L. Harding
Bat
War Department
College Notes and Faculty Changes at First Reformed Church
Prof Bosch’s farewell sermon drew a large crowd at the First Reformed Church on Sunday. College opens September 8 with piano upgrades in the music department and rentals to out of town students. News includes campus social notes, guest visits from Simpson College, moves of families, and a charity piano pledge by student groups for Cotton Hall.
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Bosch
Mirst Reformed
Advance Literary Society
Jesse French and Son
George Ramsey
Cotton Hall
Mizpath
Moonshiners
Marthas
Ira Pratt
Simpson College
Sunnyside
Pratt
Sadler
Simpson
First Reformed Church
Loyde Hillyer
Hiawatha
Kans
Liggett
Heeren
Chas. Firth
Grand Island College
Nebraska
M. W.van Doorninck
Holland
Anti Enforement Campaign Debates Prohibition Strengths
Opponents of enforcement argue the code is too drastic though many precedents exist in prohibition states. Brewers, led by Untermeyer, claim elimination of the saloon reduces crime and misery, noting brewers control most U S saloons and often own them.
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Congress
Untermeyer
Senate Judiciary Committee
Utermeyer
United States
Prohibition foes vow national political campaign against liquor
The passage argues that liquor interests, led by brewers, will press national prohibition into politics, using intimidation to influence elections. It cites past prosecutions for corrupt practices, warns candidates will be vetted on liquor views, and predicts wets will intensify campaigns in upcoming congressional elections.
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Hiquor
John Barlecorn
Wets
Legal Notice Proof of Will for Gerrit Vande Lune
Notice is hereby given that in Marion County Iowa there is a writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Gerrit Vande Lune deceased. The will will come on for hearing in the September term 1919 of the District Court at Knoxville on September 30 1919. All interested persons may be heard. Harold Clements Clerk of District Court Knoxville Iowa August 7 1919 August 14 21 28 1919.
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District Court of
Iowa
Marion County
Gerrit Vande Lune
Harold Clements
Knoxville
Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription for Women
Dr. Pierce promotes a fifty year old natural remedy for women's ailments. The Favorite Prescription uses vegetable roots including lady's slipper, black cohosh, unicorn, blue cohosh, and Oregon grape. It is claimed to ease backache headaches irregularities and pelvic inflammation without whiskey or morphine.
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Dr. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Pierce
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