Iowa Parents Report Flaws in Child Adoptions
Des Moines Sept 20 The Iowa Child Welfare commission called attention to loose methods in adopting children. It cited cases of abuse and incompetent placements, urged licensing and supervision of child placing agencies, and criticized weak adoption laws across Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa Child Welfare Commission
Kendall
Iowa
Lown
Louisiana
Iona
Associated Press
Wtate
Board of Control
Horace 8. Holingsworth
Associated Charities of
Mra F. A. Brown
Sioux City
Pautine Lewelling Levitt
State Board of Education
Towa
Tax swindles drive poles across frontier
War saw dispatch notes that suspicions were raised by unusually small income returns filed by several major concerns. The report hints at a widening inquiry into tax practices across the frontier with authorities examining offshore accounts and corporate structures.
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Warsaw
Special mission probes Upper Silesia firms over double books
Government dispatches a mission to investigate two industrial firms in Upper Silesia for duplicate ledgers. One reports 150 million zlotys taxable income while hidden books show 600 thousand. Potential fines total 6.09 million zlotys. Some arrests made. directors fled to Germany.
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Upper Silesia
Germany
Returned Boxer Indemnity to Be Used for University
In Tsingtao Shantung on August 10 a movement seeks to use the returned Boxer indemnity to fund a university. The city has provided Bismarck Barracks for facilities, and Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, the American minister at Peking, praised the plan as a worthy use for funds.
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Tsingtao
Shantung
China
Bismark
Jacob Gould Schurman
Peking
Abe Martin on the Blessings of a Dry Nation
Abe Martin praises Prohibition noting fewer drinkers and cleaner clothes while railin g against drinkers and bootleggers. He quips that auto smashups, theater smells, and vanished saloons mark changes from pre war days and that prohibition has kept many at home and sober.
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Abe Martin
Ike Lark
Wellman Notes and Visitors From a Busy Iowa County Week
In Wellman on Sept 22 John McCrabb escapes a rough Iowa County ride when a rear wheel hits a rut and the car veers into a ditch. L K Fleming emerges with minor scrapes while McCrabb avoids injury. A crowded social week follows with trips to Cedar Rapids Iowa City and Clinton. Individuals travel for business, family visits and a DeMolay gathering. A new Ford Roadster arrives. several residents attend a county picnic and a barn fire near Richmond is sighted nine miles away.
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Wellman
John McCrab
Maar
Iowa County
L. KE. Flemming
Flemming
Mr. McCrabb
Lows County
Mrs
Wade
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Eli Swartzendruber
Brereton
C. C. Roupe
M. Br. Dixon
Roupe
Albert Roupe
C C. Roupe
Schroder
Clinton
Iowa
Helen
Mt. Clare
Wm. Wade
Park
J. K. Curl
George Berry
Bert Steineer
Wm Wade
Alex Wade
T. PD. Adams
Kalona
Miller
Adams
Richmond
Eardley Bell Jr
Des Moines
Washington
Mody Cannett
California
Mr. Harriss McGugin
L. C. Miller
Sun Set Park
C. C. Gardner
EF. C. Hambright
Keswick
Sigourney
Montezuma
Letha Polton
L. E. Bidwell
Town City
Valier
Montana
J. E. Bidwell
A. J. Sanders
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Huber
George Morrison
Fred Taylor
Kansas City
Florence
John Manney Insurance Company
Everett Curr
R. E. Snavely
Swartzendruber
Nettie
Marie
Morrison and Family
Bardley Bell Jr
Ora Turnipseed
North Liberty
Issabell
Assistance for Women Travelers Grows in London
London reports show the Travellers Aid Society assisted 3 307 women and girls at stations and docks last year 234 were escorted abroad and 677 stray cases helped. The article notes English women fear traveling alone despite the modern Eve ideal and seek escort and care.
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London
Travellers Aid Society
Canadian experts develop grain with great promise
Ottawa report from September 18 states the Central Experimental Farm distributed samples of two new wheat varieties, Reward and Garnet, to 59 large western growers. They mature earlier than Marquis and may combat blight despite not being rust resistant. Early plantings ripened before last season’s end, but commercial profitability depends on yield and grain size.
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Ottawa
Central
Diary of Lenin Smuggling Tracked by Vienna Police
Russian detectives pursue a personal diary of Lenine offered for sale in Vienna. Moscow secret service operators trail the diary but have not located it. Searches in Vienna Berlin Warsaw and Prague of suspected anti Soviet Russians yielded no results.
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Nikolai Lenine
Vienna
Lenine
Russia
Moscow
Berlin
Warsaw
Prague
Public Notice on Electric Franchise Petition in Washington County
Official notice from the Board of Railroad Commissioners Iowa cites Iowa Gas & Electric petitions to erect maintain and operate electric lines across lands highways and streams in Washington County near Brighton and sections 31 36 18 17. The description outlines routes along diagonals highways section lines and mile distances for proposed transmission lines and related fixtures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board OF Railroad Commissioners
State OF
Iowa
Washington County
Iowa Gas & Electric Company
Washington, Iowa
Brighton
Township Seventy-Four
Rubio Towns Streets and Alley's Franchise Hearing Details
The Board of Railroad Commissioners set October 7 1924 at 10 A M in Des Moines for a hearing on a franchise petition covering the Unincorporated Town of Rubio Washington County Iowa including streets and alleys. Objections must be filed in writing with the Board five days prior to the hearing. Dated September 8 1924 at Des Moines Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Railroad Commissioners
Des Moines
Iowa
Board OF Railroad Commissioners OF
State OF Iowa
George L. McCaughan
Tanlac Restores Energy Says Des Moines Woman
Des Moines Iowa resident Mrs L H Darnall describes Tanlac as a household treasure restoring her energy and strength after nerves fatigue and poor appetite. She says she feels back to how she wanted to feel and recommends Tanlac for sale by all druggists with over 40 million bottles sold.
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Mrs. Darnall
L. H. Darnall
South Fast Lacuna Ave
Des Moines
Iowa
Taniac
All Good
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Mable Porter
Fort Dodge
Iowa Children’s Home Society
Henry Robinson
Los Angeles
Europe
Owen D. Young
M. C. Booth
Wm. McConnell
Milo Steinger
North English
Milo
C. W. Taylor
Murrytown
Afterere
John Remine
Chas Blumenstine
Eli Haverstroh
J. N. Gardner
Tanlac
Mes Darnall
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Standard Oil Service
Standard Oil
Michigan Avenue
Chicago
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