Iowa ends session with sweeping reforms and budget law
The 1927 special session enacted a general budget law creating a state budget director and a bond and contracts board. It overhauled prison labor into state factory work, tightened prohibition enforcement, revised workmen compensation and child labor laws, expanded the board of health, updated tax and banking statutes, and adjusted highway and game laws. It memorialized Congress on agriculture exports and pure seed, while discarding several measures including an eugenics marriage bill and a Bible reading requirement in schools.
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Iowa
Congress
Board of Health
Iowa Good Roads Association
Fish and Gam Department
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Clark
Linn County
Department of Public Instruction
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Bowman
Black Hawk County
Kendall
Hague
Board of Control
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Des Moines
Junior High Pep Club Names New Editors and Members
Merritt McDaniels and Virginia Macon lead seventh grade teams while Wayne Brown anchors sixth grade as student editor. Raymond Crone and Jeanette Karel serve as editor in chief and athletics assistant editor in a junior high publication.
Eighth Grade Plans Include Class Day Track Meet
Students report teachers arranged an expense free eighth grade program with options such as a track meet called Class Day a singing play and a few other activities. A week before school ends the eighth grade picnic may be held. Home Room 201.
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Llome
Assembly opens with songs and devotional by Rev Wiley
At the Wednesday morning assembly the school sang three songs before Rev. Wiley of the Second U. P. Church led devotions. He spoke on goodness and righteousness noting good deeds by Mr. Young and Mr. Jenkins to the Y M C A and warned that bad lives are forgotten after death while good deeds endure. His talk pleased the students and they hope to hear him again before year end.
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Wiley
U. P
Young
Mr. Jenkins
Seventh Grade Debate Results and Praise
Gail Fisher led Section I against Wilma Moore Carlton Lytle and Margaret Applegate with a 3-0 negative win. In the second debate Section III with Edith Brookhart Arabelle Crone and Cora Alice Hays faced Section I with Esther McCreedy Henry Little and Eva Burham and the negative won 2-0. Teachers commend seventh graders for high quality work and strong material selection.
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Gail Fisher
Wilma Moore
Carlton Lytle
Margaret Applegate
Edith Brookhart
Arabelle Crone
Cora Alice Hays
Esther McCreedy
Henry Little
Eva Burham
Girls High School Glee Club Performs At Assembly
On Monday April 14 at 1 15 pm the Girls High School Glee Club presented a program. They sang Bridal Chorus The Lady of Shallot By the Waters of the Minnetonka and Sparkling Sunlight. The students showcased training and natural ability with thanks to Miss Hay and the club.
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Sivourney
Cowen
Bendal
Léenance
Luczi Arditi
Eighth Graders Join High School For Spring Football
Junior high boys without athletics since basketball have joined high school spring football and show promise. The school board installed showers to enable track practice, which is now finished. Despite chilly weather, many boys practice nightly and vault well. Teachers plan a class day with a track meet between grades.
Seventh grade debates on immigration and prison labor in Iowa
In after school debates the seventh grade discussed restricting Japanese immigration to the United States. Separately a house resolution would cancel current prison labor contracts at Anamosa and Fort Madison and permit interim contracts until the 1927 state use system begins. A senate resolution proposed creating a commission to study prison labor and advising on the new system's implementation.
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Margaret Stewart
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Fort Madison
Hauge
Polk County
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Floyd County
Boys Exhibit Houses Spark Local Interest At High School
The Friday Saturday bird house exhibit in the high school gym drew many Washington residents. About 37 houses were built mostly by seventh grade boys with one out of town entry Charles Libe winning first in his division. Prizes were awarded by Alex Miller.
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Hiaplay
Charles Libe
Alex Miller
McElhinney
Hich School
Merritt McDaniel
Marten
Carlton Lytle
Henry Little
Post
Orval Korf
Everette Chance
Clarence Bain
Homer Moriarity
Clyde Fisher
Charles Long
Warren's
Haunting House Culprits Captured by Local Boys
In silence the boys led a posse to a house of mystery where five criminals used it as a headquarters and loot storage. They alerted police, aided the arrest, and won a reward and townspeople’s thanks. The mansion was later renovated as a clubhouse Home Room 106.
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Pine Grove Mansion
Canada
Jack
Bill
Pete
Mike
Dead Eye Dick
A Chicken Sees an Aeroplane
An eighth grade English assignment recounts hens on a fence reacting to a loud purr they fear is a predator. They notice a man exit a large vehicle, realizing the noise comes from an aeroplane rather than a chicken hawk. The narrator recalls witnessing many planes since.
Sixth Grade English Speaking Clubs Form In Two Sections
The two sections of grade six have formed English Speaking Clubs to practice giving talks and running meetings. Donatt Ben and Wayne Brown were elected president and secretary in section two, while Sam Kellogg and Richard Tracey held those roles in section one. Topics include the fag and flag customs, dramatizations, current events, birds, animals, and short stories. Each meeting names critics to review talks. Home Room 105.
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Donatt Ben
Wayne Brown
Sam Kellogg
Richard Tracey
Secre
School Health Update Amid Absences and Rebounds
Goldin Trout returns after a week away, Hazel Conner rejoins after a similar absence, and Harold Abtrens of the 6th grade remains home due to illness. Almon Dewey is kept at home with the mumps while Charles Crewe is back after two weeks. Dale York and Oral York return to class, and Charles Grayson stays home with mumps.
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Goldin Trout
Hazel Conner
Harold Abtrens
Almon Dewey
Charles Crewe
Dale
Oral York
Charles Grayson
Community notices and club meetings fill local page
A string of announcements lists social events at the A R Strum home and church groups. Women’s societies, a music department meeting, initiation and officer elections, a hospital wrap drive, ladies aid gatherings, a bulbs exchange, a summer home request for a child, and a Bible study at Mrs Frank Wilson’s all appear with dates and host names.
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Morehead
Second United Presbyterian Church
Priscila Club Meeting Notice and Missionary Society Change
The Priscila club will meet Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Peter Berdo. Pleasant Plain missionary society holds an all day meeting Thursday May 1 at the home of Mrs. Yerd Foster. Member, please notice change of the date. 623
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Ladies Aid
Iris Durst
Opal Rickford
Nancy Romine
Durst
Priscila Club
Peter Berdo
Pleasant Plain Missionary Society
Yerd Foster
Many Seek Divorces Under New Equal Rights Act
London reports a surge of divorce suits by wives under the act granting equal grounds for divorce. Nearly six hundred undefended suits appear on court lists as the law term approaches.
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London
Postal employes get flat $300 raise plan
Washington April 26. The house and senate post office sub committee will propose a flat $300 increase for clerks and carriers, disregarding the Postmaster General New's recommendations.
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Washington
House
Senate Post Office
New
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