Pella Booster editorials and temperance progress in Iowa
A Marion county follower cites Editor attacks and a mayor reply as a test of honesty. The piece praises Rep George W. Crozier and Senator John T. Clarkson for moral stances on daylight closing and equal suffrage bills. It condemns the Washington equal suffrage parade mob and urges continued Anti-Saloon League support and a constitutional prohibition amendment push in Des Moines.
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Vanden Berg
Pella
Marion County
Geo. W. Crozier
John T. Clarkson
Congress
Lake Prairie Township
Anti-Saloon League
Iowa
Iowa Anti-Saloon League
General Assembly
Harding
Senate
Des Moines
Special election the temperance issue in Iowa debate
A long critique of a proposed multi petition bill for local option in Iowa. It argues the measure favors liquor interests by easing signatures, prolonging campaigns, and shifting costs to taxpayers, while diminishing temperance gains and risking forgone protections against fraud. It cites reduced saloons and few wet counties as context for the debate.
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Jess
Iowa
House
Prison Reform and Convict Labor at Fort Madison
The Fort Madison penitentiary case highlights prison discipline and convict employment. The contract system pays convicts sixty cents daily for chair factory labor worth more, raising economic injustice. Advocates propose full labor value to convicts or allocations to families, and support a prison farm to rehabilitate and ease reentry, calling for wider public information on prison management and state honor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Madison
Iowa
Temperance movement urges continued ballot reform work
A Des Moines report notes temperance advocates are not seeking an immediate ballot change but praise steady progress and encourage the ongoing reform effort in Des Moines Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Temperance
Des Moines
Iowa
Star Automobile Company Incorporation Notice
Notice of incorporation under Iowa law for Star Automobile Company with principal office in Pella Marion County. Corporate life twenty years from filing, authorized capital ten thousand dollars, one hundred shares at one hundred dollars each. Business includes motor car garage, buying selling and repairing cars. Board of directors two to seven, annual meeting first Monday in January. Witnessed February 8 1913 at Pella Iowa.
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Star Automobile Company
State of
Iowa
The
Pella
Marion County
Board of
Noticss
V.pres
H. P. van Gorp
Sec
Proof of Will Notice in Marion County Iowa
Legal notice states a will purportedly belonging to C De Prenger is on file in the Marion County Iowa District Court clerk’s office Knoxville. The will will be heard in the April 1913 term on April 29 1918, with interested parties allowed to be heard. Meyers Langerak is the Clerk of District Court.
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District Court of
Iowa
Marion County
C. de Prenger
Meyer Langerak
Knoxville
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J. W. Graves
Studebaker
South Bend, Inc
New York
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Dallas
Skansas City
Denver
Minneapolis
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Portland
Ore
Mitchel
Star Automobile Co
Pella, Iowa
Peerless
A. Waechter
Son
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