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Iowa News Roundup Mayhem and Growth Across Counties
Iowa city councils discuss potato sales and cost price schemes while crop reports show Iowa trailing in potato shipments. Fires destroy ice houses and bakeries, schools expand, and judges take action. Key figures include John Coffman held for arson, Judge on residency changes in Ames, and renewed railway rate debates amid statewide farm progress and education expansions.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Iowa Falls Ice Company
Marshall County
Iowa State Teachers’ Association
Des Moines
John Coffman
Harrison County
Clarinda
BE. B. Evans
Drake Law College
Board of Education
Missouri Valley
Poweshiek County
Geo. C. Rose
Shenandoah
Omaha
Jacob J. Holtz
Iowa City
Holtz
Ames
Algona
Sioux City
I. W. Myers
Hampton
Bickel Baking Company
McGregor
United States
E. J. Ashbaugh
Iowa State University
Grinnell
State Board of Health
Secretary of Agriculture
Asa Thomas
Logan
Richard Shariff
Preston
E. W. Kreischer
Mt. Vernon
State Pharmacy Department
Fort Dodge
Centerville
State Document Department
Waukon
Switzerland
Y. M. C. A. International Committee
Europe
Union
State Highway Commission
Brownsville
Board of Examiners
William Price
Mason City
Salvation Army
Independence
Black Hawk County
Linn
Woodbury
Polk
E. M. Suplee
United States Army
Los Angeles
West Point
Third
United States Cavalry
Tabor
Adj
Guy B. Logan