Plan For National Supervision of the Building of Roads
The Federal Highway Council in Washington plans nationwide support for Senate bill 1309 to establish a national highway policy and a federal highway commission. The bill aims to build trunk lines in each state and connect them into a national system while shifting major planning to a central commission. It would not alter cooperative state plans but would ensure economical location and development and recommend future federal aid operations after 1921.
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Chicago
Til
Senate
Federal Highway Council
Washington, D. C
Chambers of Commerce
Boards of Trade
Rotary and
Kiwanis Clubs
Townsend
Senate Committee On Post Offices
Federal Highway Commission
United States
New Mill
Commission
Congress
War material at state fair to thrill Des Moines visitors
Five car loads of government war material will headline the Des Moines state fair set to run ten days from August 20. The exhibit includes a 35 ton tank in working order a 75 mm gun and hundreds of firearms. Dozens of airplanes are expected with a new landing field and daily aerial shows. A battlefield recreation of ChaYeau Thierry will involve hundreds of veterans.
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Des Moines
France
Western Front
Cha- Yeau-Thierry
Federal Highway Council Plans Nationwide Education Campaign
Headquarters in Washington announces a campaign to carry its fight to Congress through automobile owners and farmers. An executive committee led by S. M. Williams of Lima CO and business leaders in major cities will conduct a nationwide education drive. Chicago receives first announcement. local lines not yet commented.
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Washington
United States
Federal Highway Council
Congress
S. M. Williams, Lima, CO
Chicago
A Traveling Man's Experience
A Louisville salesman recounts a severe cholera morbus attack in 1888 and credits Chamberlain's Coke and Diarrhoea Remedy for a quick recovery after a double dose. He paid a hotel porter to obtain the remedy and soon resumed travel.
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W. H. Ireland
Louisville
Chamberlain
Twenty Carloads of Spoiled Food Reported in Omaha
In Omaha on August 12 detectives filing with Mayor Smith report twenty carloads of spoiled feed and fruits in railroad yards. Police issued blanket subpoenas to commission men and others with knowledge of alleged waste as the city prepares for a high living cost investigation starting Monday. Mayor Smith inspected army food supplies ahead of the municipal food shop opening.
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Omaha
Smith
Sampion Commission
Plan to Exterminate Elephants in Southern Africa
Washington dispatch reports the Cape Council plans to exterminate elephants seen as a menace to farmers. Sir Harry Johnston recounts African elephant domestication attempts, noting ivory value and challenges of hand rearing young elephants with cow milk, urging capturing elephants about a year old.
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Washington
P. c
American Plains
South African Cape Council
Harry Johnston
National Geographic Society
Society
Uganda
Grand Jury Probing High Prices in Oskaloosa
Iowa officials prepare a grand jury session to investigate price gouging in Oskaloosa and surrounding Mahaska County. The move is supported by a local retail merchants association which contends local costs compare favorably with other cities.
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Moskaloosa
Mahaska County
Grand Jury
Retail Merchants’ Association of
Oskaloosa
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad Claims 100 Dollar Reward
An advertisement promises a one hundred dollar reward for any catarrh case cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. It asserts thirty five years of use and reliability, describes blood purification on mucous surfaces, and urges immediate start with the product. It offers free testimonials and lists E J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio as publishers.
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Hall
Caruso Treated Roughly In Italy Shelter Seizures
August 12 in Florence reports food allotted to Enrico Caruso the opera star of the Metropolitan Opera. His villa near Signa Lastra and his imported limousine were requisitioned by authorities. Caruso says a commission visited in red decorated cars and he'd given two years of war service for Italy.
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Florence
Italy
Enrico Caruso
Metropolitan Opera Company of
New York
Signa- Lastra
Bsipma-Lastra
Associated Press
Iowa City Man Walks On A Made From Body Parts Leg
Gus Lemholm of Des Moines demonstrates a leg made from grafted bone at University hospital after surviving Chateau Thierry injuries. Surgeons took part of a femur to graft an ankle, letting him walk with little crutch use. The hospital also treats about thirty other returned soldiers including Forby Finchum and several from across Iowa.
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Iowa City
Oo. K
Gus Lemholm
York Street
Des Moines
University Hospital
Lemholm
Chateau Thierry
France
Lemholn
Forby Finchum
el Dara
Roland Fletcher
Marshalltown
Orange Morrison
Grundy Center
Janos Stues
Marion
Lee Brown
Bloomfield
Roy J. Meek
Davenport
Henry Bender
Iowa
Leo T. Kilsey
Fairfield
Railway Shopmen Lead All in Pay On Des Moines Line
Des Moines August 12 rail workers demand a 20 percent raise with shopmen now at 68 cents an hour and helpers at 45 cents. On a major Iowa line high pay shown for locomotive engineers 286 dollars monthly and other classes 214 to 277 dollars with overtime and extra trips boosting earnings. average top four July wages list passenger engineers 286, through freight engineers 277, local freight engineers 285, switch engineers 164.
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Des Moines
Raiload
Iowa
Didenaaercticas
Abeetarn
Farmer John Gustafson accused of alienating wife in Iowa suit
John Schaefer, a returned veteran, sues in District court for $10,000 heart balm damages claiming his wife Vera Smith abandoned him after marrying July 1918 and while Schaefer served from July 29, arrangements with Carrie Frakes near Bondurant allegedly led to Mrs. Smith staying with Gustafson during his absence.
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Des Moines
John Gustafson
Bondurant
John Schaefer
Vera Smith
Schaefer
Carrie Frakes
Armed Any Excuse Goes
A reflection on how people justify failures with weak excuses that would embarrass them if offered to others. It notes a habit of breaking promises to oneself and the need for accountability.
Widower Gustafson Seeks Guardianship For Four Children
The petition describes Gustafson as a widower with four children and requests to keep the home nearby to care for his family.
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T Gustafson
J Warren Kerrigan in Perisoners of the Pines at Pox
J Warren Kerrigan appears at the Pox on Wednesday in Perisoners of the Pines a mountain country tale of fighting men and dance halls.
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Perisoners OF the Pines
Bull Ring Saves Farmer From Angry Bull
E. B. Laird of Clearfield county near Elliston was nearly killed crossing his pasture when a bull charged him. He grabbed the bull’s nose ring and held on to force the animal toward a fence and escape. He was bruised and sore but survived the attack.
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Clearfield
E. BE. Laird
Eliston
Walter Philip Leads Forty Second Threshing Season
Walter Philip of Dinsdale likely holds the local record for longest threshing career with forty two seasons. Once he ran up to ninety three days in a single stretch though modern seasons are shorter. He notes many small outfits now mean smaller rings than in earlier days.
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Traeer
Walter Philip
Dinsdale
Philip
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