Cities Seek Right to Rate Fixing Contracts with Utilities
Des Moines August 1 Iowa League of Municipalities session focused on city finance and the right of municipalities to enter rate fixing contracts with public utilities. A five member committee was named to report on urging legislative authorization, while discussions urged standardizing street improvements and multiple paving grades to fit varied city needs. Veteran traveler W Q Webb, a Hampton dry goods salesman, has been hospitalized after a nasal hemorrhage, with family traveling from Detroit Council Bluffs and Clarion to be by his side.
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Iowa League of Municipalities
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Muscatine
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Tomlinson
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Main Street
Podunk
Hampton
W. Q. Webb
Hampton Hospital
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Detroit
R.C
Council Bluffs
J. W. Shafer
Clarion
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Waterloo Western CXLGN Employees Share in Bonus
Six employees of the Waterloo Western Union Telegraph company will share in a $2,000,000 bonus for 18 months of service. Each gets 54 percent of last January earnings. bonuses paid every six months. Next payment February and based on July salary. expects a larger bonus in the next six months. Two daughters undergoing operations at Lutheran hospital for appendicitis. father ill but not yet operated.
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Waterloo
Western Union Telegraph Company
Dautheran Hospital
Appendicitis Attacks Traceable in Louise Kruse Home
Three cases of appendicitis occur within days in the Louise Kruse household near Lawn Ja. A 11 year old girl Sophie la.? the younger sister Ither 4 years old follows with a serious attack within 24 hours and two days later another sister affected.
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Hampton
Louise Kruse
Lawn
Sophie
Ither
Alek
Fatal Highway Mishap Claims College Springs Driver
James Birchard aged 19 died when his car veered off the road in College Springs Ja on August 1. He was the sole occupant and the crash appeared fatal with no immediate witnesses.
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College Springs
James Birchard
Siblings Injured as Car Rollovers Near Birchard
A family car rollover left a younger brother with minor bruises while two other brothers, sons of Mr and Mrs UL Birchard, escaped unharmed. Police investigated the incident at the scene.
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Ul, Birchard
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