Iowa News Notes Tangle of Lawsuits and Prohibition Tales
Des Moines reports detail lawsuits over a roller coaster accident at Arnold's Park Lake Okoboji with Henry Hinsdale and Carrie Kraus seeking substantial damages. The piece also covers Red Cross and Iowa Tuberculosis work, prohibition-era liquor seizures, and biographical notes on Maurice Connolly and Hugh L Cooper plus a Keokuk dam project and Louis Wilde's San Diego mayoral reception.
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Des Moines
Arnold's Park
Lake Okoboji
Henry V. Hinsdale
State of Washington
A. J. Peck
Peck
Hinsdale
Carrie Kraus
Sioux City
Construction costs rise in Pocahontas County voters approve
The Pocahontas County electorate shows approval as the community records willingness amid advancing building costs. Officials note higher material and labor prices affecting local projects and future plans.
Public building costs cited for Jefferson court house
The report notes a proposed payment of 400000 dollars for a duplicate Jefferson county court house, Greene county, comparing it with a 140000 dollar cost a few years earlier and stating an advance of 260000 dollars as indicative of public building expenses.
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Ness
Jefferson
Greene County
Iowa towns plan World War memorials and notable pasts
Counties across Iowa plan monuments and memorial buildings for World War soldiers. Marengo prepares a memorial, Winterset awards an $8000 monument contract due October 1, Sigourney also plans a memorial. A note on southern towns leading in south Iowa memory culture and a historic reunion tale of George S Payne and his brother B M Payne after 62 years. George Payne, 83, left Pennsylvania for the West. the brothers have not met since their childhood.
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Marengo
Winterset
Sigourney
Iowa
Centerville
Mount Ayr
Clarinda
Waterloo
Georges. Payne
Chicago
B. M. Payne
George Payne
Pennsylvania
Mr. Payne
Milk program aids underweight Ottumwa children
In Ottumwa a feeding experiment at Douglass school provides ten underweight children aged five to fourteen with one pint of milk daily. The Women’s Bureau backs the home demonstration agent Miss Anna Olsen. A photo shows the class before the program.
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Ottumwa
Douglass
Women’s Bureau of
Anna 8. Olsen
Goose Lake to Vanish as Greene County Drainage Project Advances
The Goose Lake area in Greene County, a hub for central town hunters, nears disappearance as drainage work reaches the lake. Water now flows rapidly into a 30 inch tile, draining an 800 acre lake that sits six to ten feet deep. Potash found there two years ago is valued around one million dollars.
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Goose Lake
Greene County
Towa Hunters
Rural ministers study sociology at Iowa State College
Rural ministers and laymen from thirty denominations will study sociology at Iowa State College over three weeks starting June 14. The program includes rural education and agricultural extension problems with delegates expected from Iowa Illinois Wisconsin and other states.
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Iowa State College
Iowa
Illoinvis
Wis
Local attorney's disbarment bid over excessive draft fees
T G Diamond of Sheldon Iowa O Brien County a local bar member under the selective draft law faced disbarment actions. C A Babcock brought disbursement counts accusing Diamond of using his position to demand exorbitant fees for affidavits for exemption and deferred classification. He was cited to appear in U S district court at Sioux City and later Ft. Dodge on November 12 1918. He repaid several thousand dollars to avoid disbarment and said his conscience hurt him for overcharging.
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T. G. Diamond
Sheldon
O'Brien County
C. A. Babcock
U. S. District Court
Sioux City
Ft. Dodge
Sigourney Postmaster Appointed Houdek Receives Bond
Sigourney May 6 Harl Houdek has been named postmaster in Sigourney after a telegram from the Washington post office department. He was among five exam applicants at Oskaloosa in February and credited for army service helped his selection. Houdek, a young man of good standing, served as deputy under W C Gambell and spent about eighteen months overseas in World War I.
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Maurice Connolly
Dubuque
United States
Curtis Aeroplane and Motor Company
New York
Connolly
Air Service
Chanute Field
Rantoul
Wilbur Wright Field
Dayton
Washington
William L. Kenly
Hazelhurst Field
Long Island
Sigourney
Harl Houdek
Post Office Department
Houdek
Oskaloosa
A. H. Brunt
Mr. Houdek
W. C. Gambell
Smithsonian shines with first rented automobile on display
The first automobile designed and built by America's pioneers is now owned by the United States government and exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution's United States National Museum in Washington D C.
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America
UN States
Smithsonian Institute
United States National Museum
Washington, D. C
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised by Reader
A Binghamton woman reports nervous prostration relief after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The advertisement touts the product as a standard remedy for female ills and invites confidential advice from Lydia E. Pinkham Co. in Lynn.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Lydia Pinkham
Lydia E. Pi
Olive tablets advertised for stomach liver relief in old notice
An advertisement promotes Dr Edwards Olive Tablets claiming to improve yellow skin, coated tongue, poor appetite, and low energy. It asserts the tablets cleanse the liver and bowels, ease bile flow, and relieve constipation with no dangerous side effects, sold by the box for a few cents.
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Edwards
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Red Cross
Iowa Tuberculos- Red Croga
Iowa Tuberculosis Association
St. Joseph
Decatur County
John Barleycorn
State Board of Control
BE. L. Nicholson
Ringgold County
Soldiers’ Orphans
Davenport
Eldora
Mitchellville
Marshalltown
Mississippi River
Keokuk
Hugh L Cooper
Pershing
Cooper
Panama Canal
St. Louis
Quincy
Hamilton
Burlington
Louis Wilde
Prince of Wales
San Diego
Cal
Wilde
le Mars
Pocahontas County
J. F. Duffy
Northwestern University
Consin
Minnesota
Kansas, Nebraska and
Missouri
Sigourney Postmaster
Price Car
U.S
Sition
Him
U. S
Usco
Washington, Baio
Copfee
Western Crocer Company
Property Owners Federation, Inc
Dnauracce
Soleil
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