Railway Commission Seeks Electrical Engineer for Franchises
The Iowa Railway Commission urges hiring an electrical engineer to oversee transmission line rights and franchise work as 1937 annual report to Governor Clarke highlights growth in power grants. It notes 21 franchises granted in the first year and several dozen applications on file, plus a push for a statistical division and state funding. The report records 45,877 railroad workers earning an average of 24.8 dollars daily, with 7 deaths and 71 injuries from car coupling, and 129 injuries from falls.
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Dex Molies
Town Railroad Commission
Clarke
Tad the
State House
Mie Commission
Iowa
Fine Apples and other state agricultural notes
The Clarinda state orchard under Dr. Max E. Witte displayed fine apples at the State Horticultural Society show. Historic yields are listed from 1909 onward, with Jona han, Ben Davis and Rome Beauty as principal varieties. Also notes licenses from the state board of health issuing sixteen physician certificates and four osteopathic certificates.
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Clarinda
Max E. Witte
State’ Horticultural Society
Jonahan
Ben Davis
Rome Beauty
State Board of Health
H. A. Allgovar
Rock Island
H. Bateman
Keyesport
Po I. Dahl
Canton
R.A. Dovsan
Sioux City
We. Goentia
Davenport
J! T
Witz
Duncombe
H. By Thompson
Dubuque
Iowa probes grape juice to detect alcohol in temperance drinks
Des Moines reports that State Dairy and Food Commissioner Barney is testing grape juice to determine if it can legally be sold as a non alcoholic beverage. Some so called temperance drinks tested contained over 4 percent alcohol, stronger than beer, prompting potential prosecutions for dealers with such products. A conference on extracts rules will include wholesale houses and jobbers to help dealers comply.
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Des Moines
Barney
Datty
Towa
Aya
State Department
Department At Justice
Iowa
Des. Moines
Why-lowa Market It: Iowa Meat Producers' Meeting Summary
The Iowa Meat Producers' Association recently closed a meeting in Des Moines. Cattle raised in Iowa fed at the Savory hotel were shipped to Chicago as feeders then bought back by Iowa farmers for Iowa corn baking. Meat returned to Iowa after Chicago slaughter, signaling an Iowa market strategy.
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Lowa
Corn Belt Meat Producers' Association of Iowa
Iowa
Chicago
Remarkable Jersey Cow Produces Heavy Milk Yield
Enosville Jongh B Flanagan of Pleasantville reports his full blooded registered Jersey cow weighed 825 pounds and yielded 311/2 pounds of milk in November, averaging over 20 pounds daily. Milk tested 5 1/2 percent butter fat and the cow was fed largely on grass with no special feed.
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Enosville
Jongh B. Flanagan
Pleasantville
Bank Officers Sentenced In Dubuque Case
In federal court Judge Reed sentenced former vice president Joseph Harrigan former cashier George Homan and former teller Charles Siege to five years each in Fort Leavenworth penitentiary. They pleaded guilty to false entries on bank books and misappropriation of about $15 000.
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Bank
Dubuque
Joseph Harrigan
George Homan
Charles Siege
Reed
Fort Leavenworth
Kew
Man Shot by Police Over Suspected Highwayman
Sioux City reports J. L. Harrison a railroad fireman shot by officers who mistook him for a holdup man. When approached he allegedly moved as if drawing a weapon, Captain Overmier fired twice, leaving Harrison in critical condition.
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Sioux City
J. L. Harrison
Harrison
Overmier
Farmer killed by hogs near Northwood Iowa
Ole A. Tonga, 73, a prominent farmer near Northwood, was stricken with apoplexy in his hog lot while feeding hogs. He was killed as the hogs charged and his body was found vastly mutilated.
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Marshalltown
Ole A. Tonga
Northwood
Street Railway Owner Bead Cedar Rapids
Fears, owner of the Cedar Rapids street railway lines, is dead. About three years ago he sold his interests to the United Railways and Light company of Grand Rapids Michigan.
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Bead
Cedar Rapids
P. E
Hall
Fears
United Railways and Light Company of
Grand Rapids
Mich
Prisoner Seeks Return After 28 Years In Madison Penitentiary
Davenport police report a disoriented man named Eisenberg, released a year ago after a gubernatorial clemency, asking to be sent back to the Madison penitentiary where he spent 28 years. He says he is old, fears life outside, and pleads that authorities not free him.
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Pen
Davenport
Art Madison Penitentiary
Ug Eisenberg
Clarke
Eisenberg
Passenger Fares to Rise on Iowa Rail Lines
Cedar Rapids reports that passenger fares from all towns to the Potnty ante will be raised to 2.4 cents per mile after railroads file new tariffs with the Interstate Commerce Commission. The increase, approved by the commission, will affect inter state travel and cost Iowa about 4 million dollars annually. Wayne’s statistician notes total U S passenger fares exceed 20 million yearly, with half from interstate travel.
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Gali Tn
Ynoftelal” Nygures
A. A. Swiin
Cencus
Executive Council
Cedar Rapids
Interstate Commerce Commission
Middle Western
Public N Lown
Wayne ‘S
Lowa Raload Commission
Mystery Man Found Dead in Hotel with Four Thousand Four Hundred
An overdressed man found dead at the Roxel hotel had over $4400 in cash bank checks and certificates of deposits sewn inside his overalls. Identification traced to Henry Junge of DeForest Michigan, via his mother Mrs Chefett Junge, who had long believed him dead.
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Chefett Junge
DeForest, Mich
Tim
Itm
Eo Fap
Henry Junge
Former State Officer Dead in Chicago Home
John M. Davis aged 34, once deputy Secretary of State, died at his son’s Chicago home. Davis served from 1854 to 1863 under the Iowa and federal governments, later held posts in state land office matters until 1891. He also worked as a clerk and deputy register of State as the office evolved.
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Des. Moines
John
M. Davis
Chicago
Davis
Washington
Unti
Iowa
Col. Carpenter
Register of State
Department
Secretary of State
Mr. Davis
Mount Pleasant crowd backs Iowa Wesleyan endowment drive
A large Mount Pleasant meeting of citizens voiced strong support to keep Iowa Wesleyan College in town. A motion carried to express willingness to meet conditions for a Hen ry county endowment totaling 105000 to secure the college’s future.
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Mount Pleasant
Iowa -Wesleyan College
Moune Pleasant
Henty County
Dubuque Bank Officials Indicted for Embezzlement
Three officers of the Dubuque National Bank were indicted by a federal grand jury on embezzlement charges. Vice President Haragan, Cashier George Homan, and Teller Charles Siege were named. They were previously arrested by federal examiners and are expected to plead quietly. penalty could reach five years in prison.
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Dubuque
Debuque National Bank
Federal Grand Jury
Harragan
George, Homan
Charles Siege
Former Mayor on Trial in Salon Case in Iowa City
The trial of Charless Wolfe, former mayor of Salon, charged with the attempted murder of Frank Kreger, editor of Salon Economy, has begun in district court in Iowa City. Jury selection delayed by extensive publicity last summer and the challenge of finding unbiased jurors due to public attention.
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Iowa City
Charless Wolfe
Salon
Frank Kreger
Districourt
Radcliffe Banker Dead at Home in Radcliffe
William Weimer, prominent First National Bank of Radcliffe executive, died suddenly at his home. He rose for breakfast, read the morning paper, and was stricken, shocking the Radcliffe community and surrounding counties Story and Hardin.
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Radcliffe
Radclife
Northern
Story
Hardin
William Weimer
First National Bank of
Veteran Traveler Dead in Fort Dodge at 76
Uncle Joe Bliss a lifelong traveling man for thirty five years in northern Iowa died suddenly at his Fort Dodge home. He was 76 and served in the Civil War in the Twenty third New York battery which fired the last cannon shot of the war.
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Fort Dodge
Uncle Joe" Bliss
Iowa
New York
Washington
Paria
Gay
Trousseau
Wilson
United States
Jaferson
Madison
Fullmore
Benjamin Harrison
John Tyler
Theodore Roosevelt
George Weshington
Custis
Thomas Jefferson
John Weargies
Mertha Skelton
Wayles
Stranger Charged in Robbery Leaps From Hotel
A stranger charged with robbery leaped from the Washburn Hotel’s third floor in Waterloo and escaped alive by a miracle. He suffered a broken ankle and minor bruises.
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Waterloo
Washburn Hotel
Tax sale shows scant property in Marshalltown county
In Marshall County the annual tax sale lists less than one thousand dollars in property. The small amount indicates no worry over a short corn crop and suggests prosperity in the community. The listing is described as the smallest property offering at tax sale in many years.
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Marshalltown
Wilson Wedding A Family Affair
President Wilson quietly weds Edith Bolling Galt at her Washington home with only relatives present. The ceremony featured a simple altar and orchid bouquet, and the couple plans a South honeymoon. Relatives include Margaret Wilson and Mrs. Sayre, with other Bolling and Wilson family members in attendance.
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Washington
Wilson
Edith Bolling Galt
Twentieth Street
Secretary of the ‘Treasury
Adoo
Bertha Bolling
Marine
Galt Hotne
White House
Union Station
Congress
Margaret Wilson
Francis Bowes Sayre
Williamstown
Mass
William G. McAdoo
Anne Howe
Philadelphia
Joseph R. Wilson
Baltimore
Helen Woodrow Howes
Norman Galt
Edith Bolling
Virginia
William H. Bolling
Hlh. Maury
Anniston
Ala
John Randolph. Bolling
Richard W. Bolling
Julian B. Bolling
R. B. Bolling
Panama
W. A. Bolling
Louisville
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