Iowa Legislature Considers 3 Million Dollar State Budget
Bills totaling nearly three million dollars are introduced in the Iowa Senate and House. Major requests include 1.6 million for new buildings at the State University and Iowa State College, 450 thousand yearly for a new medical school, and a million for the animal health commission. Increases for three state colleges exceed four million for two years, with expected student increases driving needs. Other requests cover state fair maintenance, Camp Dodge National Guard quarters, and railroad commission support.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Iowa Senate
House
Senate
The
State University
Iowa State College
Iowa City
Rockefeller Foundation
Crisswell
Boone
Anime Health Commission
Commission
State College
State Teachers College
State Board of Education
State Fair Grounds
National Guard
Camp Dodge
Railroad Commission
Ways and Means
J. E. Brindley
Ames
Legislative Tax Committee
Quit Watermelons Will Raise Cotton
About 1,500 carloads of watermelons will be grown in Southeast Missouri this year, roughly one tenth of the former acreage. Heavy losses last year left melons to rot or be fed to hogs, due to poor markets, high freight costs, and freight-car shortages, prompting farmers to shift land to cotton.
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Associated Press
Poplar Bluff
Missouri
Meat Industry Sees Steady Move Toward Normal Conditions
The 1922 annual review of the fresh meat industry notes progress toward normal conditions despite industrial disruptions and lower European purchasing power. It highlights export advances, including a rapid pork shipment from Chicago to Liverpool, and details changes in slaughter, production, and prices across beef, veal, lamb, and hog sectors.
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Associated Press
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Chicago
Liverpool
United States
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Below Zero Grips Iowa As Cold Night Looms
Des Moines reports seven below at eight this morning with Charles City ten below and Sioux City eight below. Jr Reed, Iowa weather man, says tonight will be the coldest night yet, with temperatures expected to fall about twenty eight degrees in northeastern Iowa.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Charles D. Reed
Charles City
Sioux City
Jury Selection Progresses in Herrin Mine Riot Trial
In Williamson county circuit court Marion UK February 14 the jury pool for the second Herrin mine riot trial shows little progress with no jurors accepted by either side over the past two days. Indicted men face killing mine guards last summer as the case moves toward trial.
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Marion
Williamson County
Murder Mystery in Geneva Illinois
Officials in Geneva Illinois investigate a nude male body found in a field five miles northwest of town. Identification was removed including hands and face burned. An automobile entered the woods Monday night and two men are suspected from footprints in the snow.
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Asstociaton Press
Chicago
Geneva
Lear
Mead Meas ure in General Assembly seeks education funds
Senator Mead introduces a measure to provide 450000 dollars yearly for five years to meet 2500000 dollars for the State University of lows medical college from the general education board and Rockefeller foundation. A 2 percent occupational tax on coal would fund a mining camp school fund. Brookhart and Monts propose the coal tax bill. Blake’s school audit bill is to be debated in the lower house with a compromise allowing audits by public accountants for districts spending 40000 to 100000 dollars.
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Aleovianted Press
Des Moines
E.ft
State University of Lows Medical College
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Rockefeller Foundation
Mead
Shelbeck
Town City
Monts of Audubon
Brookhart
Washington
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
General Assembly
Representative Children of
Armour Plant Fire Destroys Omaha Packing Buildings
Fire at Armour and Co packing plant in Omaha destroys three brick buildings of a nine story complex and threatens a third. By ten A.M. the loss is estimated at five hundred thousand dollars as twenty five companies assist, employees numbered about one thousand face temporary unemployment due to the blaze and low temper and high winds hamper efforts.
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Associated Presse
Omaha
Neb
Armour and Co
Turks Stand By Smyrna Demands
Angora telegram says the ports of Smyrna and Ismid will be closed to the Allies and warships must leave the harbor. All Greek merchant vessels have been barred as part of the decision.
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Constantinople
Angora
Exchange
Smyrna
Ismid
No New Trial in Big Damage Case
Cedar Rapids reports Judge Atherton B. Clark over ruled the defense motion for a new trial in the fifty thousand dollar damage case of Henry Mowry former mayor of London against Charles Reinking and twenty four other businessmen. A jury in Anamosa awarded Mowry forty thousand dollars and the defense said the verdict was excessive and wrong in law and facts. The defense announced plans to appeal to the state supreme court.
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Associated Press
Cedar Rapids
Atherton B. Clark
Henry Mowry
London
Charles Reinkin
Anamosa
Mowry
State Supreme Court
Truax Town Destroyed By Fire In Saskatchewan
Truax, located thirty miles south of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, was destroyed by a blaze that swept through the town last night according to reports received here. No further details on casualties or cause were provided.
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Moose Jaw
Saskatchewan
Truax
Ancient playwright John Dennis coins phrase in magazine
Ad playwright John Dennis of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is credited with the line They will not let my play raw, and yet they steal my thunder in the Gentleman's Magazine. The comment reflects early debates over authorship and intellectual property.
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John Dennis
Gentleman's Magazine
Christianity in Korea Population Share Estimated
Church leaders estimate Korea's 15 648 001 population includes one Christian per 56 people, indicating a sizable but specific share of Christians in the nation.
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Korea
Love Exalts Higher Than Art in Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A poetic line asserts that love surpasses art and even heaven, highlighting love as the supreme ideal. The verse from Elizabeth Barrett Browning elevates affection above artistic achievement and spiritual symbol.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Professor claims one can get anything by persistence
A college professor quips that persistence ensures requests succeed but the remark contrasts with a bill collector’s reality, implying that constant asking does not guarantee results in debt collection.
Endurance Test in Europe as France Faces Ruhr Crisis
In London on February 14, Prime Minister Bonar Law and foreign secretary Lord Curzon signaled doubt about France's Ruhr venture. The conflict is described as an endurance test between France and Germany with railroad workers in the occupied region and German employers offered work or departure options. Six policemen arrested at Gelsenkirchen over Monday shooting will face court martial.
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London
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Lord Curzon
Great Britain
Ruhr
France
Gelsenkirchen
Sugar Market Slumps After Early Rise
New York February 14 The raw sugar market opened with gains of 28 to 72 points but then fell one hundred points the day’s minimum fluctuation limit.
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Associated Press
New York
Grinnell Glee Club Takes Third in West Inter Collegiate Contest
Grinnell Glee club, with twenty undergraduates, placed third among twelve entrants in the Western Inter Collegiate Glee Club Association contest, finishing behind Wisconsin and Illinois. The Grinnell group, founded 1897 by Rossiter G. Cole, has had Dudley L. Smith and David E. Peck as directors and has toured the Pacific coast successfully.
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Associated Press
Grinnell
Grinnell Glee Club
Iowa
Western Inter Collegiate Glee Club Association
Michigan
Chicago
Ohio State
Northwestern
Wisconsin
Illinois
Grinnell College
Rossiter G. Cole
Mr. Cole
Dudley L. Smith
David E. Peck
Pacific Coast
Senate Debates British Debt Funding Bill
The Senate moved ahead with debate on the British debt funding measure as the administration shipping bill was sidelined. Senator Smoot, Republican veteran of the Allied debt commission, signaled plans for a potential night session and a likely vote before adjournment.
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Associated Free
Washington, D. C
Senate
Smoot
Allied Debt Commission
France denies Hamburg occupation plan in official statement
Paris says no intention to occupy Hamburg and condemns a German press report as entirely false and invented by sources naming a French admiral in charge of hypothetical operations.
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Paris
France
Hamburg
Foreign Office
Gelsenkirchen Refuses 100 Million Mark Fine
Berlin reports that Gelsenkirchen will not pay the 100 million mark penalty demanded by France after the clash between German police and French gendarmes on Monday. The city cites diplomatic tensions and protests as reasons for the refusal.
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Berlin
Germany
Gelsenkirchen
French circles warn of severe actions over interrupted telegraphs
Reports from Gelsenkirchen dated Feb 14 say stringent measures may be taken in response to actions that disrupted telephone and telegraph service. Strikes are anticipated in two Stein mines tied to the arrest of their directors.
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Gelsenkirchen
Stein
Trains Carry Coal from Ruhr. Arrests Made in Gelsenkirchen
More than a dozen trains with Ruhr coal left yesterday for multiple destinations. Five trainloads of coal and two of coke were sent to France and Belgium, two coal shipments to Italy, and five to Poland. Thirty-two arrests were reported at Gelsenkirchen over the wounding of two French soldiers there Monday.
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Paris
France
Belgium
Italy
Poland
Gelsenkirchen
Valuable Jewels Buried In Ruins of N. Y. Building
Gems gold and silver valued at twelve million dollars lie buried in the smouldering safes of a six story Maiden Lane building. When walls collapsed the safes tumbled into the cellar but experts say the valuables remain intact.
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Associated Press
New York
Maiden Lane
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