Iowa Legislature opens with dozen new bills introduced
Des Moines January reports show the Senate and House introducing a dozen new measures. A banking bill tightens penalties for fraud and caps bank officer liability at five years. A telephone rate bill gives cities and counties power to regulate charters and local rates. A child welfare bill rewrites adoption laws. Other measures address council salaries, narcotics, school audits, weed control, livestock quarantine, and veterinary licensing.
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Preas
State House
Des Moines
Senate
House
Child Welfare Commission
Reese
Fremont County
Railroad Commission
Su Ole
Aia
Board of Control
Horchem
Dubuque
Woodbury County
Porsting
Pritchard
Herrin Seeks Peace After Shooting Orgy Burials
Herrin Illinois resumes quiet post tragedy as burials complete after last Saturday shooting spree. Troops left guard since Sunday, town aims for a new era of calm and peace.
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Herrin
Ben
Antitoxin Flight Authorization Forwarded to Alaska
Special agent Roy Darling of the department of justice is authorized to make an airplane flight carrying diphtheria antitoxin from Fairbanks to Nome. The authorization has been forwarded to Alaska for execution in January.
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Washington
Roy 8. Darling
Department of Justice
Fairbanks
Nome
Alaska
Real work begins as legislative chorus trains in Des Moines
January 31 in Des Moines the state legislature starts real work as Representative Grimwood of Jones County leads a vocal chorus of house members. Daily lunch hour practices draw staff and attaches to hear favorites like Auld Lang Syne and Old Black Joe in the House lobby.
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Des Moins
Grimwood
Jones County
House of Representatives
State House
Thieves Suspected in Barn Fire Near Columbus City
A barn on the Charles and Howard Johnston farm south of Columbus City burned between three and four this morning. Suspected chicken thieves abandoned sacks of chickens near the barn. the hay and some harness burned. One calf died. The barn was insured for 809 dollars. Neighbors struggled to save the dwelling as wind drove flames toward the house.
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Columbus Junction
Charles and Howard Johnston
Clyde Foster
Columbus City
Postal bill faces doubtful fate in House after Senate approval
In Washington the Senate approved a postal pay and salary bill by 76 to 6 and sent it to the House, which shows signs of returning it to the Senate. The House must act on revenue raising provisions amid constitutional objections to Senate initiation of such measures. The House committee staff has examined the bill but full committee action is pending before any floor vote.
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Washington
Senate
House
House Post Office Committee
Students Visit the Court House on Civics Day
A group of high school civics students visited the courthouse yesterday, split into groups to question each office about operations. The sheriff's office tour included a look at stills and materials from moonshine raids, with plans to report back to the full class.
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Court House
Firet Hend
Caaa
Sheriff's Office
Coolidge scales inaugural plans as Washington gears up
Washington prepares for the March 4 inauguration amid Coolidge’s push for simplicity. Officials ban official balls and limit parade units while planning a charity ball at the Mayflower hotel with 4500 attendees. Blue and buff decor nods to Revolutionary heritage amid mixed Democratic mood.
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Washington
Coolidge
Carsare
West Point
Annapo
New England
Continental Army
Forbes and Thompson Found Guilty of a Conspiracy to Defraud U. S. Government
CHICAGO Jan 11 Colonel Charlee R Forbes former director of the United States veterans bureau and John W Thompson St Louis contractor were found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the government in contracts for soldier s hospitals by a federal jury There were requests for new trials and Judge George A Carpenter set Feb 4 for hearing the plea. Sentencing was reserved pending disposal of the motion.
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Chicago
Charlee R. Forbes
United States Veterans Bureau
John W. Thompson
St. Louis
George A. Carpenter
Forbes
Elias H. Mortimer
Mortimer
Thompson
James W. Black
Charles KF. Kramer
Veterans Bureau
Japanese Labor Federation Proposes National Labor Party
In Tokyo on January 2 and 3 the Japanane Labor Federation outlined plans for a new national labor party aided by the Farmers Association Fabian Societies and others. They claim hundreds of thousands of potential votes and expect representation in the lower house next elections. The platform seeks universal suffrage, tax reform, reduced armaments, civilian control of war, state funding of education, and broader social reforms.
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TOKIO
Japanane Tokio
Japanese Federation of
National Labor Party
Farmers Association
Sulheiaha
New Party
House of Peers
Navy
Sleepers for Livestock Trains Proposed in Iowa
Des Moines January 41 Railroad carriers would be required to furnish sleeping compartments for travelers with stock trains on overnight journeys of six hours or more under a bill by Rep. Dewar of Cherokee. Rep. Diltz introduced a bill to add two more judges to the ninth judicial district Des Moines with governor appointing them to serve until the 1926 election.
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Des Moines
Dewar
Cherokee County
Diltz
Ninth Judicial District
Hammill
Ambitious Labor Reforms Include Eight-Hour Day and Wages
The text outlines a broad labor program calling for eight-hour workdays, minimum wage laws, the right to strike, land and housing national ownership, farmers unions, rice industry control, abolition of the peerage, class levelling, state maternity protection, and a workmen's compensation act.
Social notes from Columbus Junction and vicinity
Mrs Adellen and children return to Des Moines after visiting Dr F A Hubbard. John Somerville visits daughter in Maywood Illinois. guests from Delhi Cedar Rapids Davenport and Sigourney visit local families. The Shellbark club is entertained. the Orrs host an oyster supper. a birthday dinner honors Mr Hall. families plan moves to Dutch Ridge and Louisa Center areas.
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Columbus, Junction
M. Adllen
Mary Gloria W and
Francis
Des Moines
F. A. Hubbard
John Somerville
W. B. Davis
Maywood
Ilinois
Fred Smith
Delhi
Ferdinand Spathe
Columbus Junction
Clyde Workman
Fairfield
The
Junction
J. A. Sprague
Orr
Tennessee
Dutch Ridge
Ray Hart
Sigourney
Milo Arthur
Chicago
Willia Kearns
Vinton
B. F. Woodruff
Louisa Center
Oakland Church
Florence Clause
Cedar Rapids
W. L Harnett
Shellbark Club
Walter Marsden
Claud McCoy
Wmn. Harnett Jr
Bert Dunlap
Davenport
Dave McRoberts
Columbus City
R. J. Peters
Corrinne
Peters
S. B. Cline
Pickford
Fred Cuthamp
Wapello
Mildred Anwyl
State University
R. J.reaney
G. B. Stapp
Cotter
Jows Tal Lumbermen’s Association
Burlington
EF. C
Robert
W. C. Davis
Howard Green
G. W. Brock
William
CB. Hanft
Ford Dealers and Mary
Mt. Pleasant
Mae Duncan
Hershey Hospital
Muscatine
Hamlet Hall
Ted Overholt
Merchants of
Er. O. Newell
R. Ellis
Farmers’ Union Exchange
Madison Plow Company
B. R. Lacey
H. H. Gee
Anamosa
Lacey Gee
Ray E. Hoyt
van Ess Laboratories, Inc
van Ess
Norris Drug Company
Snow at Beginning of Week Forecast
The forecast for the week starting Monday calls for snow at the start and again toward the end, with temperatures normal or below for much of the period across the Upper Mississippi and Lower Mississippi Valleys.
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Associated Press
Washington
Upper
Mississippi
Lower
Missouri Valleye
Farm Relief Hearings Open Monday in Congress
The house agricultural committee plans hearings starting Monday to hear from the president’s agricultural commission and various farmers organizations. Lawmakers aim to draft relief legislation, while Senator McNary proposes a $50 million government expert corporation to buy surplus crops during depressions.
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Washington
House Agricultural Committee
President's Agricultural Commission
Jones
Texas
House
Tincher
Proms
Agriculture Committee
McNary
Republican
Oren
Prisoner Peter Vergolini Executed for Murder of Ten-Year-Old Annie Tomicik
Peter Vergolini was electrocuted at the State Prison for the murder of Annie Tomicik, a ten year old Seniian girl. He assaulted and strangled her to death last September at Gari, meeting death with stoical indifference.
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Mic onGanor City
Peter Vergolini
Annie Tomicik
Gari
Vergola
Children Carry Rifles In Mountain Schools Near Wenatchee
In the Wenatchee area mountain district schools parents fear animal attacks after a cougar killed and partly devoured a boy named Jimmy Fehlhaber. Some students, including younger children, now carry rifles for protection as a result of the incident and ongoing threat.
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Childr
Wenatche
Wash
Jimmy Fehlhaber
World's Largest Floating Drydock Towed to Southampton
The world’s largest floating drydock is now at Southampton England after a tow from the Tyne river where it was built. The vast structure measures about 080 feet long and 170 feet wide.
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Southampton
England
Tyne River
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Japanese Labor Federation
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