Foreign born pupils form melting pot at Des Moines school
The Americanization school in Des Moines enrolls 167 pupils from 19 nations including Mexico Denmark Sweden Poland Greece Italy France and Russia with one American literate. Director Prof W O Allen leads a city school system program as a December 4 pageant hosted by the Lions Club highlights immigrant progress and naturalization efforts.
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Rumania
Norway
Philippines
Holland
United States
W. O. Allen
Lions Club of
Government bids for 15 reinforced buildings in Knoxville
Government invites bids for construction of 15 reinforced concrete and brick buildings with water heat and lighting to form the first series for the World War disabled veterans hospital at Knoxville Marion county. Contracts awarded December 12. Specifications on file in Construction quartermasters offices in New York City Belleville Illinois and in the quartermaster supply officers in Chicago and St Louis.
Mussel Ownership Case Reaches Supreme Court
After eight years of litigation the case reaches the United States Supreme Court to decide if the common mussel from Muscatine area streams belongs to landowners through whose non navigable streams it meanders. Justice Holmes notes mussels are not wild birds or fish beyond landowners jurisdiction. The court’s decision affects trespass penalties for fishermen and damages for shell purchasers.
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Muscatine
Holmes
Dispatch
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Dam on Brush Creek Powers Lime Stone Plant
E. R. Todhunter of Arlington Fayette county describes a dam built by Glen Nus on Brush Creek to supply power for a limestone crushing setup. The full dam will yield a twelve foot head for a 40 horse power turbine. Todhunter says this marks the start of commercial water power development in the region, meeting farm demand for crushed limestone.
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Todhunter
Supreme Court to rule on ban on teaching foreign language to minors
A case from Bremer County reaches the United States Supreme Court over a 38th General Assembly law prohibiting teaching a foreign language to children below the eighth grade. The dispute centers on August Bartels, a parochial school teacher near Waverly, who was arrested for teaching German to young pupils.
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Bremer County
August Bartels
Waverly
Bartels
Landmark Iowa language case heads to high court
Long running trial over use of foreign languages in Iowa law wages through district court to Waterloo and now reaches the state supreme court as a test case. Barristers for Barts and the attorney general spar over precedent while the public watches a historic clash over language in the statutes.
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Barts
Bruce J. Flick
Des Moines
Iowa
Dablos 1 in the el clean homes and oak tannin poisoning
A damaged OCR note reports claims that poisoning of livestock from oak leaf tannin is due to tannin levels in some oaks. Dr L H Pam mel from Town State College comments. At a meeting in Jack Town, John C. Bosold was elected President with H Lz Thompson as VP and Ti le Larson as secretary. Township projects include preservative treatment of fence posts and a corn variety yield test.
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