Amendments to Iowa Food Laws Enacted by General Assembly
Des Moines April 26 The thirty eighth general assembly adjourned and enacted food laws to curb dishonest dealers and protect honest food businesses. A standard food law sets state standards for bread sausage molasses and evaporated milk with a focus on substitutes rather than fixed loaf size. Renovated butter labeling becomes mandatory with Renovated Butter placards. The dairy act redefines dairy products sets 3 percent fat and 11 and a half percent solids and bans misuse of dairy terms in advertising oleomargarine. Egg dealer licensing begins May 23 and weights and measures faults are corrected making buyers responsible for scales used in grain and farm produce trades.
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Des Moines
Thirty-Eighth
General Assembly
Assembly
State Food and Dairy Commissioner
Evans
Butler County
Senate
Griffin
Woodbury County
House
Barney
Thompson
Burlington
van Alatine
Beaman
Suits for $75 000 follow bad wreck
Five people were killed and one injured in an auto interurban crash at a private crossing in Cedar Heights on July 28. Relatives of the victims filed suits for damages totaling 75,000 against the Waterloo Cedar Falls and Northern railway, naming Milton Brown and Edith Bartlett among others.
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Cedar Heights
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Stolen Car MisID Ends With Shenandoah Financier
April 26 Shenandoah report says C B Fliesbach, noted financier, took the wrong Buick from in front of a theater after a theater party reported a theft. Police and sheriffs, aided by detectives, chased leads across several counties as Mrs Eva Gudgel’s car remained missing. Fliesbach later learned his vehicle was not his.
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Shenanddoah
C. BE. Fliesbach
Shenandoah
Eva Gudgel
Farragut
C. N. Marvin
The
Sentinel Post
Fliesbach
Broadway
Youth in Uniform Arrested After Wheelie Ride
Cedar Rapids April 26 Henry Raymond a youth of 14 who was in custody weeks ago for wearing a soldier's uniform is again in trouble. He went to a local motorcycle shop asked to ride a machine around the block failed to return and was arrested at Marion. He wore a soldier uniform again when seized and had been warned previously against repeating the offense.
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Cedar Rapids
Henry Raymond
Hammond
Marion
Timber Shortage Warning From Percival Ridsdale
Percival S. Ridsdale secretary of the American Forestry Association warned of a coming timber shortage and acute paper supply in the United States after the war. He cited forest losses in France and warned New England and the South face depleted resources, urging memorial tree planting and wide scale reforestation to avert future shortages.
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Washington
Percival S. Ridsdale
American Forestry Association
United States
Ridsdale
France
New England
Minnesota
Massachusetts
Henry S. Graves
Forester
Paris
Romance Blighted After Five Years Ends in Settlement
Centerville Iowa April 26 The romance began with love at first sight and a rapid engagement then marriage. After five years the couple faced divorce court but reached an unanounced settlement on money issues. Dave Bromberg met his wife in Chicago and the marriage blossomed before troubles surfaced via late night phone calls and rumors of a financial settlement.
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Centerville
Dave Bromberg
Chicago
Bromberg
Mrs. Bromberg
Wife of Rainbow Soldier Dies by Her Own Hand
Ottumwa Iowa April 26 Mrs Elmer Cox 23 Union wife of a Centerville infantryman of Company D 168th surrendered to despondency and killed herself with poison yesterday afternoon after purchasing the drug and riding a taxi through South Ottumwa A five year old daughter survives her husband is due home from France next week
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Ottumwa
Iowa
Elmer Cox
Union
W. A. Selix
168Th Infantry
Centerville
Belle of New York at Fox theatre Monday
Marion Davies stars in The Belle of New York at the Fox Theatre showing Monday afternoon and night. Violet Gray seeks justice after her inventor father is killed by Jack Bronson, learning he is the killer’s son amid romance and Salvation Army scenes.
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Select Pictures
Marion Davies
New York
FOX Theatre
Violet Gray
William Bronson
Jack
Bronson
Gray
Violet
Belle of
Jack Bronson
Mission House
Salvation Army
Iowa Leads Union In Victory Gardens Record Push
Iowa is planting victory bonds in victory gardens and aims to beat last year’s national war garden record. H. D. Hemenway reports from Des Moines and other cities that strong interest, cooperation, and organized committees across schools, YMCAs, chambers, and banks are aiding the campaign.
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Washington, D. C
Iowa
National War Garden Commission
H. D. Hemenway
Des Moines
Waterloo
Marshalltown
Cedar Falls
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Clinton
Chambers of Commerce
Banks
Six Million Die in India From Influenza
A British India government report notes about 4.9 million influenza deaths in India and around 1 million in native states amid a 238 million population. Hospitals overflowed, streets filled with dead and dying as the disaster compared to plague in scale.
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India
London
British India
Justice or War as Rev. Smith Seeks Revival Costs
At Bethel A M E church in Keokuk April 26 Rev Nannie E Smith demanded justice or war over $13.59 in expenses for a Des Moines revival trip. She accused the revival of being misrepresented and said she would sue the trustees and elders, not just the minister, insisting on adding trustees to the suit. Her lawyer agreed to continue to allow time to file against the trustees.
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Nannie Smith
Keokuk
Nannie E. Smith
Bethel A. M. E
Des Moines
Advertising as the Wind Behind Modern Comforts
A passionate defense of advertising praising its role in delivering better food homes clothing and health. It claims advertising unites suppliers and consumers driving down costs and expanding access to luxuries and necessities through a bustling market.
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