Stormy Week in Iowa Legislature Signals Busy Months Ahead
Des Moines reports a turbulent week as the Iowa General Assembly nears adjournment. The Rathbun pardon probe dominates, with party clashes and possible impeachment talk. Officials including Secretary of State Allen face scrutiny amid automobile department irregularities. Bills on suffrage, road funding, public utilities, and nonpartisan judiciary move through or stall in committees. A code revision bill advances, with talk of a possible winter special session to finish work. adjournment targeted around mid April.
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Des Moines
General Assembly
Rathbun
House Judiciary Committee
J. L. Kennedy
Sioux City
Harding
Havner
Senate Committee On Departmental
Automobile Department
Secretary of State
Allen
Senate
House
James Trewin
Cedar Rapids
C. A. Robbins
Dee Moines
Trewin
Five Prisoners Escape Rock Island Jail Ambush
Five inmates, four paroled burglars and a new offender, escaped Rock Island Jail after overpowering turnkey C. C. Kirsch with Delaney as ringleader. They fled in coats and hats, taking the turnkey’s gun and keys, and were sighted rowing toward the Mississippi. Police warnings issued for Delaney and others as sheriff blames obsolete facilities for the breach.
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Rock Island
Isl
C. C. Kirsch
Turnkey
Ivan Hrodge
Earl Frazier
William Daniels
Earl Morrison
Peter Delaney
State Reformatory
Pontiac
Delaney
Kirsch
Miller
Harry P. Durkin
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Father Durkin
Hennepin Canal
Rock River
Mississippi
Fairport
Hodge
Frazier
Spring Cleaning for Body With Foley Cathartic Tablets
urging spring cleaning for the body after winter, promoting Foley Cathartic Tablets to clean stomach and bowels and tone the liver, marketed by Lewman's Drug Store with brief selling language.
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Lewman's Drug Store
Adyt
Political Truth on Local Power and Government
A cited reflection argues that small groups dominate cities towns and neighborhoods through natural law and government systems, warning of entrenched control shaping civic life in a Topeka capital context.
Friend Endorsed Foley Kidney Pills Ad
J N Tohill clerk Lottie Hotel Evansville Indiana writes that six weeks of constant muscle pains in the thigh vanished after using Foley Kidney Pills. The advertisement claims relief from backache rheumatic pains soreness and stiffness and notes Lemmon's Drug Store carries the product.
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J.N. Tohill
Lottie Hotel
Evansville
Ind
Foley
Lemmon
Advt
Ladies Social of First Presbyterian Met at Mrs Jessie Martin Home
The Ladies Social of the First Presbyterian church met at Mrs Jessie Martin's W Washington street home on Friday afternoon. They discussed saving papers and magazines for a forthcoming church car shipment and elected officers for the year. No president was chosen and a postponed meeting is set for next Friday at 2 30 p m in the church parlors.
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First Presbyterian Church
Jessie Martin
W. Washington Street
C. W. Stewart
Owen Williamson
Wm. Fitzwilliam
C. C. Cunningham
Marguerite MacGugin
Ruth Rouillard
Whch
Notice of Will Probate Hearing for Leon Gentry
An instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of Leon Gentry, deceased, is on file in the office of the clerk of the District Court of Washington County Iowa. The hearing to prove and probate said will is set for Monday March 24 1914 during the March term 1919 at 10 oclock A M.
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Office of the Ark of the Distrit Court
Washington County
Iowa
Leon Gentry
General March reports 1 390 000 in battle and 1 361 528 discharged
Washington March 10 General March announced that 1 390 000 American troops participated in engagements in France broken down into divisional corps and service units with 240 197 battle casualties. Demobilization reports show 1 361 528 discharged to date and 1 613 500 released.
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March
Washington
D. C
France
Pennsyvania
National Guard
National Army
Michigan
Wisconsin
Rainbow
Seventy-seventh
New York
United States
March _ said
Local social and travel notes from Manton to Davenport
Local items report Manton Hebner traveling to Burlington on business and Mrs. Elsie Edwards visiting Brighton. Mrs. M D Erickson left for Davenport for an extended visit. The Misses Bernice and Elsie Richards of Ainsworth visited Washington. Marion Crawford and wife left for Van Buren County to visit relatives. A Rothschild's sale promotes cheap dresses at 5.89. Mr. and Mrs. A B Duncan and children Helen and Lyle returned home to Clio Iowa after visiting H H McGuire. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Benson and children Bobby and Lawrence changed cars en route home to Havre after visiting Ainsworth.
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Marion Crawford
van Buren Co
Mrs
A.B. Duncan
Helen
Lyle
H. H. McGuire
Clio
Iowa
Ross Benson
Bobby
Lawrence
Ainsworth
Havre
Fairfield Dominates Invitation Tourney at Parsons College
Fairfield under Coach George Yount easily won the Parsons College invitation tournament hosted in Fairfield. Nine teams entered including New London Sigourney Stockport Donnelson Muscatine Ottumwa Brighton and Richland. Fairfield defeated Muscatine 17 to 9 in the final after routing Brighton 59 to 7. Mike Mier refereed Ottumwa. Centerville won the Indianola tourney by beating Ames in the final. Eight top high school teams were invited to Ames for a statewide event with Fairfield representing the region.
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Fairfield
Parsons College
George Yount
New London
Sigourney
Stockport
Donnelson
Muscatine
Otumwa
Brighton
Richland
Fairfelld
Muscatin
Ottumwa
Mike Mier
Centerville
Ames
Albion
May Tarry a While at Eldora 15 Year Old Lad Faces Juvenile Court
Etley O Whitacre a 15 year old West Liberty youth who has traveled across the United States for two years may be sent to Eldora state reformatory. He faces Judge Letts in juvenile court tomorrow on incorrigibility charges filed by Sheriff Wiley at his mother's request. The boy left home at 18 and has worked in a Colorado gold mine a New York area powder plant a Des Moines canning factory and a Tipton Iowa hotel. He is jailed pending the hearing.
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America
West Liberty
United States
Colorado
New York City
Des Moines
Tipton
Iowa
Etley O. Whitacre
Eldora
Whitacre
Judge Letts
Wiley
Los Angeles
Oasis
New York
Wheat prices unlikely to drop this year says Hoover
Paris March 10 Herbert C Hoover food administrator says no prospect of lower wheat prices this year if supply demand remains. He notes no large bread price relief even if the government sells wheat to millers below the guaranteed $2.26 a bushel and cites European needs and Australian spoilage.
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Paris
Herbert C. Hoover
United States
Congress
Hoover
Europe
German Army Breakup Reports Discharge of 14th Class
The German military commission informs American Third Army that the war ministry in Berlin has ordered the discharge of the class of 14h. The remaining German forces consist of volunteers and non commissioned officers signing for life service or long terms, with only a few units on the eastern front still active.
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Cobtens
March
WyeeThe
Third Army
War Muinistree
Berlin
Plan to discuss Brussels and D808 liquor pact at Paris talks
Westerville March 10 plan to reaffirm Brussels agreement of T880 and D808 on liquor traffic among African races will be raised at the world peace conference. BE H Cherrington announces American delegates for a prohibition conference opening in Paris April 1. Read the Evening Journal.
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Peace Conference
Westerville
Daily Newspapers Circulate Wide Reach and Ad Rates
Daily newspapers total 25,625,041 copies circulated on weekdays. General advertisers may use space across all dailies at 61.64 dollars per agate line.
Romania’s long arc through wars and autonomy
A National Geographic Society bulletin traces Romania from medieval Turko-Austrian suzerainty to 1861 unification and 1877 independence. It notes royal coups in Bucharest, Russian alliance in 1877, and territorial swaps at San Stefano and Berlin, ending with Romania’s wartime role and a vision of its picturesque villages and peasant life.
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Washington, D. C
Rumania
National Geographic Society
Romania
Moldavia
Wallachia
Austria
Russia
Alexander Cuza
Alexander John I
Bessarabia
Dobrudja
Carol
San Stefano
Personal Savings Account Promoted with Low Start
An advertisement touts thrifty men of all ages to save money with a personal savings account. It claims dependability and directs readers to start with one dollar, then add small sums as convenient. It emphasizes convenience and financial prudence.
Romanian peasant women praised for bright Bel kans dress
The passage extols Romanian peasant women as the fairest in the Bel kans. They wear borately colored costumes with notable individuality, and hats indoors except during meals. The late dowager Queen Car men Sylva wore native dress to promote this distinctive style in the Rumanian uplands.
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Carmen Sylva
Foley's Honey and Tar Ad for Cattle Cough Relief
An advertisement from Mrs. Rlan of Bennett Wisconsin promotes Foley's Honey and Tar for cattle relief. It notes the product is safe and non opiate and provides prompt relief for coughs colds croup and whooping cough. Lemmon's Drug Store carries it.
Magazine subscriptions offered by Nita Belle McKoon
The notice invites readers to subscribe to magazines with savings and provides contact options by phone after 6 30 p m or writing to the Journal care of Nita Belle McKoon authorized representative.
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Nita Belle McKoon
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