Iowa Election Laws and Precinct Provisions Overview
Summary of general election rules including election places precincts polling locations ballot boxes and booth standards. Sets designations for township and city precincts election boards and voting procedures with emphasis on safety and accessibility. Includes nomination certification timelines and special election ballot form references.
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Board of Supervisors
Council
County Board of Supervisors
Ainsworth to Have Paper the Ainsworthian
The town of Ainsworth will launch a weekly newspaper named the Ainsworthian on October 29 with Rev. C E Rid dington as publisher and J M Brown of Letts as partner. Printing will take place in Letts and the venture is buoyant about success.
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Ainsworth
C. EE. Riddington
J. M. Brown
Letts
Ainsworthian
Bancroft firm excels in printing and local progress
Des Moines reports Bancroft Iowa in Kossuth county hosts Hutton & Jenks printers of high quality who secured state work after a bidding plan. The piece notes tax impacts of consolidated schools, land deals in New York, Spencer fair insurance, and Iowa veterans insurance statistics with national comparisons.
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Des Moines
Bancroft
Kossuth County
Hutton & Jenks
Bancroft Register
United States
Man Earns Reward for Rattle Snake Catch near New Hampton
L A Hildebrand of Chickasaw county reported a den of forty rattlers near New Hampton. He used a pitchfork to dispatch them and delivered the snakes to the county auditor, receiving a fifty cent bounty per snake, totaling twenty dollars.
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L. A
Shortage of teachers prompts provisional certificates
State officials plan to issue provisional certificates due to a teacher shortage. P. E. McClenahan of the state department of public instruction says about twelve hundred positions are vacant statewide. The state bureau sends out about twenty-five certificates daily.
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P. E. McClenahan
State Department of Public Instruction
State Bureau
Iowa Tests Adopt National Road Numbering System
The state highway commission prints a primary road guide designating all main routes by numbers. Ninety seven of Iowa's 99 counties are labeling poles with numbers, aiming to replace tourist trail names on major routes. The guide lists all road numbers to help travelers pick routes by number. Also noted is a regional telecom breakdown: 4 635 telephone firms include 1 301 rural and 3 334 commercial companies.
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Iowa
State Highway Commission
Iowa Schools Win Silver Cup for Health Crusade Efforts
Iowa leads the nation in tuberculosis fight per T. J. Edmonds of the Iowa Tuberculosis Association. State school children receive a silver loving cup from the National Tuberculosis Association, donated by a “friend of children.” Ten banners were available for top health efforts, with six Iowa schools listed among the first prizes: Greenwood Des Moines Council Bluffs High School Council Bluffs Parochial Waterloo Pocahontas Oskaloosa.
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Iowa
T. J. Edmonds
Iowa Tuberculosis Association
National Tuberculosis Association
National Organization
Greenwood
Des Moines
Council Bluffs
Council Juffs
Pocahontas
Waterloo
Oskaloosa
Thayer church arson probe linked to earlier war-era case
Blood hounds traced an arson attempt at the Thayer Christian church to a residence of two brothers once charged during the war. Evidence included a kerosene smeared table a pasteboard box packed with excelsior and coal oil a pile of kindling and a lit candle used to start the fire. Also reported is the death of 95 year old Lydia Kimball a longtime Town City resident and Red Cross worker.
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Thayer
Union County
Christian Church
Methodist Church
Creston
Lydia Kimball
Town City
Kimball
Red Cross
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad Lures Cure Claims
An historic advertisement offers $100 for any case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. The remedy is taken internally and claimed to act through the blood on mucous surfaces. Sold by a longtime firm, F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio, with testimonials offered free.
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Clay County
Spencer
Fair Association
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Naturalization efforts reveal strict scrutiny at Davenport
After extensive government review 40 applicants at Davenport yielded only eight naturalizations. Edward W. Tobin of St. Louis supervised examinations. Several candidates failed for legal technicalities or unfamiliarity with U.S. law. Alfred Carl Mueller, read citizenship, faced a bootlegging conviction with a $200 fine for transporting liquor between states. The process exposed past legal troubles on record.
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Davenport
Edward W. Tobin
St. Louis
United States
Alfred Carl Mueller
Tobin
Diamond in Chicken Gizzard Crashes Davenport Market
H L Walbourne owner of a Davenport meat market sought a $600 diamond after striking his ring on a coop. He found the stone missing and suspected a chicken swallowed it. A mass slaughter of fifty chickens revealed the diamond inside the gizzard of the fiftieth bird.
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H. L. Walbourne
Davenport
Walbourne
Town's War Contribution Submitting Records to Des Moines
Town reports its role in the world war has been submitted to the bureau of war risk insurance in Des Moines. The state furnished 119,792 men to the conflict and to the national war effort.
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Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Des Moines
Gas discovery in Guthrie county near Bagley prompts interest
Guthrie county near Bagley is identified as Iowa s only natural gas district with a long running gas leak at Krueger farm. F H Jenkins and Wm Krueger plan to pipe gas from Krueger s well to Bagley while a Nichols Muscatine county oil gas venture is organized. Geologists note the gas is distant and the permanent flow draws attention to the unusual natural phenomenon.
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Des Moines
Guthrie County
Bagley
Iowa
Nichols
Muscatine
F. H. Jenkins
Wm. Krueger
Krueger
Krueger Farm
Picnic at Washington County Home Draws Keota Crowd
Keota residents attended a Washington County Home picnic organized by Mr and Mrs Frank Beatty and the Washington County Farm Bureau. About 2 000 people were present at noon as music talks and a farm tour entertained attendees. The event highlighted the county farm’s clean, pretty and well managed operations.
Car Crash Highlights Hidden Culvert Dangers
The report describes a collision where a Ford driven by Mr. Elliot was involved as it headed toward Harper. Mrs. Luers sustained a crushed hand while others escaped injury. Helpers include Elmer Lyle Ollie Rowe and J D Palmer. The culvert, five feet deep and obscured by weeds, is a known hazard on the road.
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Herman D. Luers
Lyers
Angle Bridge
Lyle School House
Scotland
Herman
Mr. Elliot
Ford
Harper
Elmer Lyle
Ollie Rowe
J. D. Palmer
Luers
Teacher shortage widens across United States
The National Education Association releases preliminary reports showing public schools face a persistent teacher shortage. Even where salaries rose over 100 percent, shortages ease only in a few areas, while 50 percent or less increases leave shortages worse than last year, with rural districts most affected.
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National Education Association
United States
Education reform plans amid rural school crisis
The text notes one third of rural schools cannot open due to teacher shortages and inadequate training. It calls for federal relief, urging renewed congressional action and passage of the Smith-Towner Bill to create a Department of Education with a cabinet secretary and $100,000,000 in federal aid.
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Congress
Department of Education
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