Rural Life Conference At Ames Draws Iowans
More than 250 Iowans gathered at Ames for the annual rural life conference at Iowa State College. The event runs two weeks featuring speakers Claire S. Adams B. B. Turner and Dr. Harold H. Foght. Fifty educational farming films will be produced under the direction of the agricultural extension department in cooperation with a Chicago firm.
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Ames
Rural Life
Iowa State College
Claire S. Adams
Home Misssions
Presbyterian Church In
United States
B. B. Turner
Bible Training School
New York City
Harold H. Foght
National Bureau of Education
Agricultural Extension Department
Chicago
Statewide drive to build modern rural schoolhouses Iowa wide
A broad movement across consolidated rural and independent districts aims to construct about fifty new schools costing $35,000 or more each. Plans include model kitchens pantries and dining rooms with cafeterias for hot lunches. Gymnasiums modern lighting heating and ventilation with forced air circulation are emphasized in all new buildings.
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Iowa
Iowa to stage grand review of reorganized troops
Adjutant General Logan announced Iowa may host a grand review at next year’s state fair. If carried out, it would mark the first Civil War era reunion of combined infantry cavalry artillery and auxiliaries in a single parade lasting about an hour.
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Iowa
Logan
Farm Hands May Get Compensation
State Industrial Commissioner Warren C Garst rules farm labor is covered by the workmen's compensation act. An injured man on a farm is entitled to relief the same as workers in other trades. The decision arose from complaints by men hurt while handling horses, and the applications were favorably resolved.
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Warren Cgarst
Anti fly bulletin warns public health threat from houseflies
The Iowa state board of health says the common housefly is a serious menace to public health and causes fevers in summer. The anti-fly rules urge screening doors and windows, covering foodstuffs, and removing refuse and filth from house, yard, and outhouses to prevent fires and breeding flies.
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Iowa State Board of Health
Insurance officials seek action against cut rate rewrites
Des Moines insurance men have urged Insurance Commissioner Emory English to ban agents who cancel existing policies at low rates and rewrite them cheaply before Iowa's new rating law takes effect. English refused, saying the matter should be handled by each company now.
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English
Des Moines
Emory English
Iowa
Commissioner English
Railroad Hearings Set For July 12
The annual hearings of the railroads of the state before the state executive council will begin Monday, July 12. On July 14 the telephone and tele graph companies will appear before the council for their hearings. Matters of adjustment between different counties will also be considered at these meetings.
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State Executive Council
Jupily
Farmer Charles Briggs Dies by Suicide on Wife's Grave
Charles Briggs, an elderly farmer near Rockford, killed himself in a country cemetery while lying on his wife's grave. He fired a revolver through his temple. his wife had died about a year prior, and grief is believed to have driven the act.
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Charles Briggs
Rockford
Governor names three state agents
Governor Clarke announced the appointment of G. A. Brunson of Algona D.9 Rock of Logan and George E. Bidwell of Des Moines as the state agents under the law enacted by the Thirty sixth general assembly.
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West
Clarke
G. A. Brunson
Algona
Rock
Logan
George E. Bidwell
Des Moines
Thirty-sixth General Assembly
Western freight rate briefs received by Iowa commerce counsel
Copies of most briefs and printed arguments in the western freight rates case before the Interstate Commerce Commission have been received at the office of the commerce counsel for Iowa. The aggregate is 2,652 pages.
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Western
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commerce Counsel
Iowa
Des Moines Bus Association Seeks Injunction Over Ordinance
The Des Moines Motor Bus Association asks a court to restrain enforcement of a new ordinance regulating jitney buses. Bond set at $2,000. case to be heard Friday. Public safety department warns prosecutions for defiance if ordinance stands valid.
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Motor Bus Association
Des Moines
Des Moines Motor Bus Association
Public Safety Department
Three Hurt in Johnson County Motor Races Fatality Expected
At the Johnson County fairgrounds track a Ford racer driven by N. Lyons of Algona crashed on lap twenty five. Spectators George Palmer of Iowa City and Hiram Toms were seriously injured, with Palmer fatally struck and pierced by a board, while Lyons and another onlooker sustained minor injuries. The accident followed the tire throw and fence breach during the free-for-all race. Nearby county officers conventions set for July 28 at Clear Lake with sheriffs recorders and clerks of courts to discuss salaries and equalization efforts.
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Johnson County Motor Association
Johnson County Fair Grounds
N. Lyons
Algona
George Palmer
Iowa City
Hiram Toms
Lyons
Palmer
Toms
Clear Lake
Iowa
Recorders
E. J. Grimes
Sigourney
Organization of Sheriffs
Charles Guth
Des Moines
W. F. Harper
Vinton
Organization of Clerks
Nietzel Named Chief Clerk of State Employment Bureau
John C. Nietzel of Muscatine was named chief clerk of the state free employment bureau by A. L. Urick, state labor commissioner. He will assume duties July 5. The bureau, created by the legislature, becomes a department of the labor commissioner’s office to find jobs for job seekers and assist employers in securing clerical or skilled workers.
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John C. Nietzel
Muscatine
State Free Employment Bureau
A. L. Urick
Nietzel
Office
Labor Commissioner
Corn planting lag slows in Des Moines bulletin
Farm work, chiefly corn planting, is two weeks behind last year’s pace per a Des Moines weather bureau crop bulletin. Cool cloudy spell and rain on three days hindered field work. cherry picking began in southern counties with fair yield noted.
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Des Moines Weather Bureau
Iowa's murder sentences rise under parole board rule
W H Berry chair of the state board reports that fifty-two men have been sent to prison for life for murder in Iowa since 1907, with fifty-one still serving and one dying in prison. The average commitment runs nearly seven years, a grave matter for a rural state like Iowa.
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Iowa
State Board of Parole
W. H. Berry
Parole Board
Alleged Holdup Suspects Tracked by Bloodhounds
Bloodhounds traced alleged holdup men from Charles City to Floyd Orchard and Osage where they were arrested. In Beach's barber shop they held seven men and took 35 dollars. The captured men claimed to be George West of Sault Ste Marie Michigan and Qval Snow of Lind Indiana.
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Charles City
Floyd
Orchard
Osage
Beach
George West
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Qval Snow
Lind
Ind
Iowa Bankers Association Reports Good Business Conditions
P. W. Hall as secretary notes Iowa business conditions are good though cool weather dents retail trade. He adds corn prospects are somewhat discouraging to farmers at present.
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P. W. Hall
Towa Bankers’ Association
Iowa
Campaign to Top Disease in State Health Drive
Dr. G. H. Sumner, secretary of the state board of health, issues a letter detailing ongoing sanitary surveys and the campaign to promote work to prevent disease across the state. The initiative highlights assessments and public health efforts to curb illness.
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G. H. Sumner
State Board of Health
Silk From Syria Delicately Woven Across Ages
The Detroit Tribune details how silk, valued from $75 per yard in its finest form, travels from Syria where mulberry leaves feed silkworms and peasant women reel cocoons. Arab weavers, though using primitive methods, craft costliest fabrics as an art rather than mere labor, exporting mosses and books of silk to England and the United States.
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Orient
Occident
Mount
Lebanon
Syria
England
United States
Detroit Tribune
Russia’s Vast Resources Pillar of Global Power
The article notes Russia spans nearly ten degrees short of half the globe, holding one sixth of Earth's land. Its Asiatic domains exceed Japan’s holdings fortyfold since the Russo Japanese War. With immense resources, Russia ranks just behind the United States as a food producer, and leads in mineral wealth and timber.
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Russia
Japan
United States
Ottoman Glory Under Suleiman the Magnificent
The Ottoman Empire peaked under Suleiman I 1520 66 extending from Germany to Persia and dominating Europe and Asia. It included European Turkey Balkan lands Greek Romania Hungary and much of Africa. Its power threatened Vienna. thereafter internal decay eroded strength and prestige, with Janissary influence and sultans deposed until Mahmoud II.
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Suleiman the “Magnificent
Germany
Persia
Turkey
Africa
Europe
Asia
Vienna
England
France
Suleiman
Orkman
Mahmoud II
Russia
American Review of Reviews
Where Slang Originates In English literature cites Elizabethan usage
The piece argues that expressions like I guess not are not truly Americanisms but survivals of English usage from the Elizabethan era. It cites Measure for Measure and Henry VII to show historical roots, noting such phrases appeared as early as Shakespearean times.
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Angelo
Escalus
New York Telegram
Freaks in vegetation and county board notes 1915
Natural curiosities describe double ears of corn double heads of wheat and double grains in rye rice onions carrots and other vegetables. Fragments detail a county supervisors meeting June 1915 with audits refunds drainage district actions and engineer surveys adjournments.
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Baltimore American
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Suleiman the Magnificent
Sedlacek and Elsen
G. W. Henderson
Edward Dunn
B. A. Yoder
Pocahontas
Board of Supervisors
P. C. Murphey
Pocahontas County
F. A. Malcolm
A. H. Lundberg
W. P. Weaver
Auditor’s Office
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