Iowa and Tama county news in brief report
State news notes jail term and release controversy at Fort Madison. J Brown of Tama county refused liberty despite a five year sentence for larceny and embezzlement, was forcibly ejected after a two hour stand. Also covered are Miss Bonnie Murray and Miss Juanita Thomas winning Iowa beauty honors, labor condition updates to September 1, and advances in air mail safety gear with automatic light control and 20 day clock timing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BE. J. Brown
Tama County
Fort Madison
Bonnie Murray
Sioux City
Crownal
Iewa
Juanita Thomas
Jessup
Buchanan County
Juanita
Toss Lown
Amendment to Town constitution allows women in legislature
In the general election a proposed amendment would strike out the word male from section four of article three, opening legislative service to women. The item also recalls Henry B. Payne’s gift to Dr. Phelps and a later $5,000 donation to an endowment fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Town
Legislative Department
Henry B. Payne
Wellington
Omaha
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Stephen Phelps
Payne
Phelps
Council Bluffs
Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Potatoes and pork chemists in Grundy scenes
C D Reed disputes hog cholera serum shortage noting a record serum year. James Lowell ships 21 000 feet of lumber to Waverly for egg cases. Grundy Center producer Al Morrison and son Ray report 5 000 bushels from 25 acres at 1 1 2 dollars a bushel, yielding strong profits. Lloyd Thurston tours Washington, probes Muscle Shoals, Rivers and Harbor aids, and notes Lake Cooper near Keokuk as a growing water body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Lowell
Reinbeck
Waverly
Grundy County
Jasper County
Prairie City
C. J.adams
Grundy Center
al Morrison
Ray
Nauvoo harbor of safety project under way by government
Government engineers prepare a harbor of safety on the Illinois side at Nauvoo to shelter boats in storms. The dredge Hecla and gear have been moved to Nauvoo, with rock for the outside wall to be quarried from the sunken cofferdam near Montrose. In Philadelphia, prizes were offered for top musical groups at the American Legion meeting. Iowa claimed three leading groups, with Monahan post 64 of Sioux City and Fort Dodge post winning major honors in brass band and fife drum bugle corps contests, each earning $1,000. Shelby corps took third.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Nauvoo
Montrose
Ance
Philadelphia
Iowa
Tall Corn State
Monahan Post
Sioux City
Fort Dodge Post
Shelby Fife
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State News
J. W. Jamigan
Washington
Des Moines
Dubuque
Davenport
Burlington
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Estherville
Jonathan
Hubbard
McClure
Tabor
Fremont County
Herrick
State Horticultural Society
Drake University
University of Kansas
Drake Stadium
Drake
Ames
Audubon County
Farm Bureau
8Th
9Th District Farm Bureau
Red Oak
Ea Handy
C. D. Reed
Town Weather and Crop Service
Lloyd Thurston
Osceola
Clarke County
Congress
Muscle Shoals
Henry Ford
Thurston
Congressman Thurston
Mississippi River
Keokuk
Cooper
American Legion
Attend
Ives
Thompson & Sweet
Estherville, Towa
Dodge Brothers
The
Asher Motor Supply
Spencer
Device BrRothners Motor Cars
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