Iowa Items Highlight Agriculture Tax and Public Works
Mount Ayr council requires tuberculosis testing for cows sold for milk. Web ster City moves Fourth of July celebration to July 19 to honor the American drive in France. Braywood Farms sale near Oskaloosa nets total $65,814 with top hog price $10,000. Des Moines considers a new fag price ordinance. Des Moines population nears 127,000 as growth accelerates. Nevada Iowa ships hundreds of stock cars yearly and valores land values rise. Cass county farms average $351 per acre from March to March.
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Mount Ayr
Scory
Webster City
France
Braywood Farms
Oskaloosa
Marshall County
Ernest Meberg
Wil Ridgley
California Junction
Cox
Missouri Valley
Peter Comes
Atlantic
Comes
Keltey
Sust
Des Moines
Federa
Salvation Army Home Service
Guthrie County
Guthrie Center
B. W. Weeks
State Food and Dairy Department
Towa
Iowa Dairy Association
Bing Association
Cambridge
Iowa Prairia
Story County
Iowa
Sellera
Agricultural Engineering Department
Iowa State College
Maces Ag
Plymouth
Commission
Boston
Louisa County
Barmon
Mississippi River Commission
Intest
United States
Iowa State Colere
Ames
Nevada
Sheldon
Mt O'Brien
Cass County
World War Era Headlines and Political Shifts Highlighted
Reading through a wide array of items, the report notes bids for former German liners Leviathan and De Kalb at Washington, census shifts in Birmingham and Bluff, deaths of notable figures like Richard T. Watts and Philip Sidney Post, large liquor seizures in New England, and conventions in San Francisco marking Democratic and Republican moves. It mentions elections, party leadership changes, legal cases, and various accidents and crimes across the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hner
Leviathan
Shipping Board
Washington
Foreign turmoil and military moves reported abroad
A Rome dispatch says four hundred Italians were killed in two days of fighting between anarchists and troops at Ancona and Piombino. Other items note Wrangel’s forces advancing in Crimea, Berdiansk captured on June 26, and Feisal's visit to Aleppo with Arab French and Turkish nationalists.
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Ancona
Piombino
Rome
Sebastopol
Wrangel
Crimea
Berdiansk
Emir Feisal
Syria
Aleppo
South China
Yuen Chow
Tokyo
Nippu Jif
Honolulu
National Public Works Department Proposed in Congress
The National Public Works Department association, representing 135 000 engineers and builders, supports the Jones Reavis bill to replace the Interior with a central public works department. It would consolidate engineering and construction functions, transferring offices from multiple departments to a single agency and provoking departmental fights.
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Ashington
National Public Works Department Association
Congress
Department of Public Works
Department of the Interior
Interior Department
Patent Office
Department of
Supervising Architect
Treasury Department
Corps of Engineers, Tyers and Harbors
War Department
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Department of Commerce
Bureaus of Good Roads
Forest Service
Agricultural Department
Interlos
Platt National Park Status Plays Out in Congress
Congress debated Platt National Park in Oklahoma as an 1902 established site with 40 acres containing springs. Efforts to raise funding failed but the park was slated to become a state transfer or sale, delaying an increased appropriation and leaving the park in legal limbo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pet National Park
Oklahoma
Platt
Harreld
McKeown
Good
Iowa
Appropriations Committee
Mann
Illinois
Holtan
Todtan
Platt National Park
Fields of Honor in France for U S Dead
Secretary Baker announces plans to create three American Fields of Honor in France to receive U S dead from World War I. A war memorials council will advise on care, markers, and beautification with memorial trees and drives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gegretary of
Baker
France
War Memorials Council
Fol
National Fine Arts Commission
American Institute of Architects
American Forestry Association
American Legion
Havy Department
Quartermaster's Corps
War Plans Divisions
General Staff
War Department
America
Romagne, Belteau
Suresnes
Pioty
Recess Appointments by Wilson Amid Senate Delays
President Wilson moves to fill numerous recess appointments before adjournment as many posts remain unconfirmed. Key picks include Henry Jones Yard Mark W Potter and James Duncan to the Interstate Commerce Commission and Marston Taylor Dogert Samuel W McCall to the tariff commission. Some nominations such as Morganthau Skelton Williams and Gillen await action. a seven member merchant marine shipping board is created. Diplomatic posts abroad also remain vacant.
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Wilson
Congress
Departments
Diplomatic Service
Senate
Henry Jones Yard
New Jersey
Mark WW. Potter
New York
James Duncan
Massachusetts
Interstate Commerce Commission
Interstate Commerce
Oles
Lyaconeles
Marston Taylor Dogert
Samuel W. McCall
Musgachu
Tnluisterate
Bulgaria
Finland
Greece
Hondura
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Iowa News
Interstate Commerce Commmsst
Bankers’ Committee
Wll
Charles Webster
Chicago
Iim
Birmingham
Ala
Ed Bluff
Cal
Richard T. Watts
Lincoln
Adrian
Mich
Watts
Philip Sidney Post
International Harvester Company
Winnetka
Federal
Prosifition
New England
Boston Dispatch
San Francisco
Robert Lee Owen
James 4
Gerard
Homer W. Cummings
Gilbert Mfitchenck
Nebraska
A. Mitchell Palmer
Pennsylvania
Edwin D. Meredith
James M. Gox
Ohio
Edward I. Bawards
Alfred A. Smith
William Gibbs
Robinson
George Bass
Johnson
Cleveland
Garding
Calvin Coolage
Will H. Hays
Alice McCulloch
Indiana
National Committee
Wharton
Tex
SC. McCormick
New Jersey State Highway Commission
Edwards
Trented
Trinote
Simon Kellerman, Jr
Edwardsville
Prank Toward
Wiliam Nelson
Frank Albright
Charleston & Western Carolina
Augusta
Parish Island
S. C
P Sccred
Main Street
Buffalo
Fort Worth
New Orleans
Evans A. Powell
Idaho
Alameda County
Beaumont
Acd
Elty
Ec Ac
Armad
Lewis Daiovic
Chicago White Lead
Oz! Company
Anchorage
Alaska
Miss Pearl Williams
Jackson
Wya
Southern Railway
Mantingourg
Inn
P. J. Wallignith
Irvine
Wis
Bi. W. Sibley
En. Winert
Stevens Point
Rufferai
St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie
Hollsvold
Palmer
Georgia
James A. Reed
Pigth
Missouri
Republican Party
Joseph T. Robinson
Arkansas
Gates
Rene Vivion
Cherbourg
Buenos Aitres
Dublin
Belfast
Ireland
London Daily Sketch
Baron Allott
Paris
Albania
Pittsburgh
Southampton
Germany
Panderma
Sea of Marmora
Constantinople
Poland
Fources
Galicia
Prague
Chencelor
Konstantin Fehrenbech
Waa
Berlin
National Department of Public Works
Treasury
Fields of Honor
U. S
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