Iowa County Supervisors End Annual Session Urging Legal Reforms
The seventeenth annual Iowa county supervisors session closed in Burlington with officers elected and debate on highway improvement. Resolutions urged bidding for bridges and culverts, road width rules, and market value taxation. Addresses by Brindley and Thorne accompanied the officer slate. next meeting set for Council Bluffs. The other state tax and county official conventions adjourned, with river excursion to the Keokuk dam planned. Champlain’s Liniment advertisement follows.
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Burlington
County Supervisors of
Iowa
C. E. Brindley
Des Moines
Clifford Thorne
J. W. Holden
Greene County
O. H. Dunlap
Washington County
I. H. Taggart
Page County
H. H. Snakenburg
Keokuk County
Council Bluffs
Keokuk Dam
F. T. Bentley
Waterloo
J. W. Pepperman
Grundy Center
C. C. Hunter
Poweshiek
W. 5
Wadsworth
Winnebago
A. F. Canfield
Linn County
M. F. Finley
Dallas
Jack Frost
Cerro Gordo
E. L. Marriage
Hardin
County Farms
J. P. McGuire
Mason City
W. J. Sternberg
Orange City
E. 8. Lowenberg
Ottumwa
YRAIN HIT AUTO ONE DEAD TWO HURT INTRAIN COLLISION
Ida Grove Iowa August 16 Gus Lamp a farmer in northern county is at death's door and his 12 year old daughter was killed when their car was struck by a Northwestern train on the Wall Lake and Sioux City line at 1130 am. The car lay in a deep cut with rails on each side hidden from view. The girl's body was found wrapped in a blanket. Lamp is critically injured with a two foot iron fragment through his abdomen and may not survive.
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Ida Grove
Gus. Lamp
Holstein
Northwestern
Wall Lake
Sioux City
Pure Milk Ordinance Proposal Drawn Up by Local Farmer
E T Sadler of Waterloo argues to city council to require milk only from healthy herds, sanitized handling, and clean bottling with a dedicated milk inspector. He proposes prohibiting bulk sales from wagons, mandating pasteurization labeling, and keeping farmer addresses on file for inspections, with possible private funding if needed.
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Waterloo
Case
Young
Chicago
Chicago Journal
E. T. Sadler
Scottish bootblack heir to hundred thousand fortune
Calgary news reports Alexander McLaren a young Scottish bootblack has been advised by Vancouver lawyers that he is heir to a $100,000 fortune and will soon depart to claim the estate.
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Bootblack
Calgary
Alta
Alexander McLaren
Vancouver
Famous Goat Case Decided in North Dakota Court
North Dakota's famed goat case ends as Judge Hydd dismisses the matter after three years. Peter Ramstad faced charges over a goat joke that led to Brendemuhl's false imprisonment suit seeking damages. Case included arrests, warrants, and multiple motions before the dismissal Wednesday.
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Ramstad
Fred Brendemuhl
Brendemuhl
Rudd
Mooreville Social Notes and Local Threshing News
Mrs R Burgess of Waterloo visited her parents Mr and Mrs D McIntyre recently. May Croman and Helen Von Lackum of Dysart vacation at the W H Smith farm. The Mooreville threshing company idle due to unsettled weather. Mrs G A Hartz and children of La Porte visited Pete McIntyre’s over Sunday. Joe Kavalier visited his brother Frank south of Dysart. H J Diller of Boman ND school visited W H Smith family. Master Troy Hayward vacationing in Dows with aunt Elsie Lee. Bruce Center farmers bought a new threshing outfit unloaded in La Porte. The big barn on the W Konecek farm burned Wednesday while threshing straw into the barn.
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Mooreville
Frank
Dysart
H. J. Diller
Boman
N. D
W. H. Smith
Troy Hayward
Dows
Elsie Lee
Bruce Center
la Porte
W. Konecek
The Price of Meat and Packery Policy Debate
The New York Commercial argues that rising meat prices reflect packers dictating policy while domestic supply remains scarce. It notes large export demand to Britain France and Germany and that American meat sells abroad for much less than at home, challenging excuses about dumping and supply constraints.
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New York
Chicago
Packers’ Trust
Thia
Tariffs and Meat Trade Pressure Across Nations
The piece argues that tariff barriers keep meat prices high in the United States while foreign markets absorb supplies at low prices. It criticizes packers for exporting at reduced rates despite domestic shortages and urges removing tariffs on meat to ease the burden. It cites Britain Canada Argentina and Australia as sources and presses Underwood to renew free-trade efforts despite Taft’s veto.
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Great Britain
Canada
Argentina
Australia
South Africa
United States
Underwood
Taft
Parting of the Ways in Iowa Progressive Debate
The Des Moines Tribune discusses whether Iowa’s new movement becomes an independent force or a renovation of the Republican party. It notes supporters may bolt national nominees and urges parents to expose children to Braay War Pictures from the Waterloo Evening Courier, with a weekly coupon on page 38.
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Des Moines Tribune
Iowa
Hve
Waterloo
Cambridge professor and wife die in Alpine fall
In Geneva Switzerland on August 16 Professor H C Jones of Cambridge University and his bride of under a month were killed when they fell over an Alpine precipice during their honeymoon. The couple had married on August 1.
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Geneva
Switzerland
H. C. Jones
Cambridge University
England
United Doctors Claim Success in Waterloo Clinic
Mrs. Mary Walker recounts severe chest pains and fatigue before visiting the United Doctors in the Marsh Place building. She says the doctors rejected surgery, treated her with their United System, and within seven weeks her health improved as she returned to work and gained flesh.
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United Doctors
Marsh Place
Waterloo
Mary Walker
United
Market News Announces End of Wholesaling on Public Markets
Market Master Wood declares no wholesaling on public markets with only retailing allowed after a apples sale to a peddler. New goods include garden huckleberries ten cents a box plums four dollars per half bushel and wild grapes twenty five cents a peck. A twelve foot pop corn stalk and onions yielding six hundred bushels per acre are noted with profits across Waterlon area.
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Master Wood
Mr. Wood
C. Koepke
Charles A. Hoffman
Lawn Hill Addition
Washington Street
Hoffman
Waterlon
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