Iowa Motor Vehicle Law For 1919 Set To Bring Big Registration
Secretary of State Walter C. Ramsay told Iowa county treasurers in Muscatine the new automobile registration law takes effect December 1 1919. He predicted about 400000 cars will be registered next year yielding roughly six million dollars for the motor vehicle department. The system mirrors other states and requires county supervision with state legislative fixes possible. extra staff will be needed without state funds, to be supplied by boards of supervisors.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Muscatine
Walter C. Ramsay
Roy Williams
Automobile Department
Towa
Motor Vehicle Department
Kansas
Colorado
Wisconsin
Boards of Supervisors
Motor Vehicle Department of
Six Hurt in Collision Near Red Oak Iowa
Six people were seriously injured when Ebner Ferrin of Carbon collided with Merwin Stockslager near Red Oak Iowa on Monday night. Ferrin, 26, was thought unlikely to live but may recover. Mrs J P Jenson may lose her left ear. Other occupants Miss Ethel Bennington and the Jenson children were badly bruised but expected to recover. Hospitalized also are John Stewart R M Boyer and Herman Lindner.
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Red Oak
Ebmer Ferrin
Merwin Stockslager
Ferrin
J. P. Jenson
Ethel Bennington
Jenson
Stockslager Farm
John Stewart
R. M. Boyer
Herman Lindner
Clever Woman Fleeces Davenport Merchants
Davenport merchants seek Mrs. S J Shaw 612 East Twelfth Street after checks she passed were returned for insufficient funds. She deposited 70 and 90 at the Citizens Trust Savings bank while posing as a businesswoman, with losses totaling about 200 by yesterday afternoon.
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Davenport
S. J. Shaw
East Twelfth Street
Citizens Trust & Savinga Bank
Black Hawk County Receives 13140 From Auto Licenses
Des Moines reports a semi annual apportionment from automobile license receipts. Black Hawk County will get 13140, based on 1656 townships at 730 each, with funds allocated for secondary roads and highway maintenance.
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Des Moines
State Highway Commission
Highway Commission
Black Hawk County
Leav ing $10,000 in Liberty bonds and a check
In Burlington Iowa on August 20 A Stockham a retired farmer killed himself on his nephew Edgar Stockham s farm near Stiles Davis County by drowning in a well He left ten thousand dollars in Liberty bonds and a blank check to be filled for all funds in a Bloomfield bank to be given to his nephew and no other relatives were named The note directed the check and bonds to go to the nephew The details read like a quiet fatal act on the farmer s part leaving a specific bequest for his kin
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Burlington
Liberty
Bloomfield
Edgar Stockham
al Stockham
Stiles
Davis County
Town Couple Remarry After Divorces Roil Omaha Social Scene
In Omaha two Sioux City social favorites, John M. Knott and his former wife Frances McKercher later Mrs Knott, remarry after earlier marriages and multiple elopements. The tale follows a sequence of divorces culminating in a remarriage as the couple's private life becomes public in the city.
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Omaha
Sioux City
John M. Knott
Knott
Frances McKercher
Cecil Mallory
Wife shoots husband in Bluffs. husband gravely wounded
In Council Bluffs Iowa on Monday night Mrs. Arthur Gilliland 21 shot her husband 26 after a quarrel at their home. He was admitted to a local hospital with a through the abdomen wound and may not survive. Gilliland worked as an engineer on the railroad.
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Gilliland
Thanyan Pacific Railroad
Auto Crash Claims One Life Near Alden
A young man named Harry Maury was killed and companions Jens Hansen and Henry Zingke were severely injured in a collision a half mile north of Alden at 8 p m Monday. Hansen, owner of the car, was speeding at about 45 miles per hour when something went wrong with the mechanism.
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Ramsay
Artie
Sonn
U. S
Department of Agriculture
The
Wolf Chemical Co. Department
So. la Salle
Chicago
Wangler Brig Company
Schuneman Drug Company
Eason Bros
Henderson Drug Company
Benner Tes Company
Swinhari
Frank Clute
Jepson
Galloway Brothers & Toomis
E. M. Holt
Hershberger Bros
Wh, Lang
L. L. Dickman & Company
Cre-Sol Chemical CO
Guthrie Center
Berth
H. H. Roeneka
Glen C. Brown
Kinham & Sohner
A. Berger & Son
Coonrod Brothers
EL Stinehart
Modern Grocery
Ackerman
Hansen & Hansen Moore & Moore
Miller, Randgrat & Company
Hawk County
Pathe
Brunswick
Cedar Rapids
Quaker Oats Company
Hubby
Dostum
Grocers
Anual
Manny
Hansen
Zinske
Cuthura
F.E. Gilbow
N. Campbell Ave
Dr. L. D. LeGear Medicine Co
Broadway & Renard S
St. Lenin, Mo
Abera
Cockaore
Moore & Moore
Goodyear
Goodyear Pneumatics
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Goodyear Tires
Moore & Moore, Inc
Waterloo Auto Supply Co
Goodyear Truck Tire
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