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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1920
Page
5
The Atttorney General seeks a receiver for Associated Packing Co as Des Moines residents face a flood of dubious stock promoters. Editorials accuse local pride and lax oversight of shielding fraud, detailing high earnings for salesmen and broad promotion schemes across Iowa.
The Iowa house will switch to electronic voting after a $18 600 installation. Each representative uses a desk key to register yes no present or paired votes. A front board shows results to the public and a clerk photographically records the outcome for the permanent record.
Benedict brothers Edgar and Sherwood Benedict move eleven bars of stock two cars of horses and nine cattle to their Ida Grove farm. They own the land with roots in Canada and Iowa, intend to expand farming and stock feeding, and sourced cattle bred on their Alberta ranch. The long journey included only three unloads for feed and water.
A compact quotation framing the idea that a man without any standard of excellence beyond himself is finished and metaphorically dead, attributed to Beecher.
A letter from Hardin County resident A. W. A. argues against school district consolidation, describing higher taxes fourfold, extended rural schooling impacts, landlord fears, and questions about textbook costs and local involvement. The writer urges thorough study and local citizen discussion before irreversible changes.
More than 500 Iowa shoe retailers their wives and several hundred traveling salesmen attended the Iowa Retail Shoe Dealers' association banquet at Hotel Fort Des Moines. Delegates spent yesterday afternoon reviewing salesman stocks and placing year ahead purchases. The program included Robert B. Schroffler of Chicago and talks by Iowa retailers. Officers to be elected this afternoon to close the convention.
Rev. Co S Marsell, pastor of North Chicago Presbyterian Church, filed a 100000 damages suit against five church officers after being dismissed for threatening the Sunday School superintendent. Marsell came from Leon Iowa and still claims the right to preach.
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