Iowa News Items of Interest Summarized for Busy Readers
Woodbury county voters will decide on road taxation in July. Des Moines hosts air mail service soon while 22 Shriners attend national convention. Farmers form cooperative in Poweshiek and Tama counties seek road bonds. Notable deaths include G. B. Haddock and Judge J. M. Parker. Major farm sales set price records and insurance questions arise from a Hartley banker’s death.
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Bellie Praise
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Tama High School
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Stone Quarter
J. G. Weisel
Corning Free Press
Edward Waters
Wiota
Cas County
Lloyd Emery
Righlang Center
Dstrict
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Brooks
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R.A. Wilder
Boone County
A. M. Burnside
Farmers’ State Bank
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Brown
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Shelby County
Methodist Centenary Fund
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Tama County
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Floyd Dimmitt
Keokuk
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Automatic Weeder Company
LeMars
G. B. Haddock
Bedford
Rochester
Minn
JM. Parker
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Aberdeen
Lischer & Ryan
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Sterling Alexander
Thomas M. Kealy
George Slyvester Wanton
William Paulson
Thomas J. Griffin
James A. Griffin
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Chester Martin McDonnell
J. G. Gudekunst
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Irving D. Long
Robert
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Iown
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Toledo Toy
Davenport
O. ¢. White
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Grant
Nicott
Roy Westerland
Blery Anderson
L. OH. Pammell
Iowa State Cotlege
World Events in Brief Highlight Global Turmoil
Summary of rapid international items including deaths of James A. Tawney and John G Spooner, military and political moves across Europe and Asia, arrests and forgeries in Chicago, naval actions, labor and wartime policy shifts, and early talk of postwar treaties and reparations. Includes stock of nations and leaders, military movements, and U.S. legislative actions.
Senator Sherman Threatens Move of National Capital to St Louis
The Illinois senator announces he may relocate the U S capital from Washington to St Louis if wartime rent gouging by landlords continues. He argues Washington is not ideal location and vows action to curb rent and food price abuses.
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National Capital
St. Louis
Metropols
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Sig
Washington
Pmca
Dangers of the Uncharted Seas Move Uncle Sam
Postwar push to complete coast and geodetic survey amid losses of life and property from uncharted coastal waters. War duties redirected assets and personnel, now returning to map seas and coasts with renewed effort, the vessel Survey sailing to Alaska and other ships refitted for Pacific work.
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Uncle Sam
Ambmias
Theron
United States
Germany
Survey
Navy
Army
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Alaska
Panama, Canal
Pacific
National Highways Policy Gaining Backing At Convention
At the annual convention leaders push for a nationwide highway system linked to the Townsend bill. David Jameson of the American Automobile Association argues a 150000 mile total with a 10800 mile military corridor would access forests parks and public land while limiting total highway mileage to about a set share of national total.
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Penrose
Senate Finance Committee
Bankhead
Senate Committee On
Townsend
Congress
David Jameson
American Automobile Association
United States
Do You Know Meter And Liter Better Brush Up
A movement backed by scientists and business groups promotes replacing the yard and quart with the metric system. Proponents argue metric is simpler more accurate and now the standard in most civilized nations. U S officials acknowledge metric adoption may come to the United States and abroad.
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Scientiit
United States
Great Britain
H. D. Hubbard
Bureau of Standards
United States Bureau of Standards
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