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Waterloo Evening Courier in Waterloo, Iowa

07 Dec 1916

Page 9

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Waterloo Evening Courier

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Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 07, 1916

Page

9

Auto Mishaps in October Record by Highway Commission

Des Moines reports October traffic totaled 655 automobile accidents in Iowa with 29 fatalities and 642 injuries. Five deaths occurred at railroad crossings and 24 on highways. The warning list details numerous fatal highway crashes from Sept. 30 to Oct. 22 across many towns, plus railroad-crossing incidents and nonfatal injuries from preventive counts. Total accidents reached 555 with 642 injuries.

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Des Moines Towa State Highway Commission Chas. O Otto Boone Jennie Doylen Pomeroy Bert Bowermaster Fairfield Miss Claire Barnes Bloomfield I. L. Warley Onawa Clara McKinstry Gaave Maurice Kilcher Vinton Acy Bla Ransom Sioux Valley W- H. Byerly Marshalltown Wm. M. Fisher Orrumwa Frank Smith Burlington Denison J Johnson Paul Sutherland Davenport Alexander Duw Unm Kingsley Fred Whitney Clarion Albert Pullen Clarinda L.S. Deveny Ottumwa W. M. Johnson Humboldt Marie Gardner New Hampton John Costolecky Montezuma Ray Moore Adair Floyd D. Lowenberg Chas. Brinsmaid Stailford Tony Mitchell Lohrville Alfred van Auken Cedar Rapids M. L. Barrett Missouri Valley Ben Comstock Mildred Moore Ames
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Dubuque Reports November Arrests Rise in Intoxication Cases

Dubuque December 7. Police records show only 107 persons were arrested in November, with 78 charged with intoxication. For over six months the intoxication arrest count has been rising, indicating a persistent social issue in the city.

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Dubuque
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Monthly Charge Rate Increases Each Month

The report shows that with every passing month the percentage for this charge rises. Analysts attribute the uptick to compounding effects and ongoing policy adjustments.

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Hotel Swindler Powells Arrested in Dubuque

C W Powells alias G W Moore, a noted hotel swindler, was arrested by Detective Fury in Dubuque while attempting to fleece clerks. He denied guilt but charged with disorderly conduct and fined 39 dollars plus costs. He pretended to seek change for a 100 dollar bill then moved on to another hotel.

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Dubuque C. W. Powells G. W. Moore Fury Powells
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Baker Urges Reform of Military Academy Admissions

Secretary Baker's annual report urges replacing presidential and congressional selection with government prep schools feeding West Point or Annapolis. It reviews Mexican border tensions, National Guard mobilization, and ongoing recruiting shortfalls due to high wages and labor scarcity, noting a rise in enlistments mid 1916.

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Baker Gen Scott Garrison Columbus N. M National Guard Washington, D. C Congress West Point Annapolis Midshipmen Socretary
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Caminetti Warns Against Yellow Peril

Washington D C July 7 Warn ing against a threatened migration of western Ayla to the United States is in the annual report of Commissioner General Anthony Caminetti of the immigration service. The report says wartime conditions will ease but stops to head off the flow must be taken before transportation interests begin to call the weld for their business. It notes immigration from the far east remains problematic and current systems do not promise improvement and enforcement of the Chinese exclusion law is inadequate.

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Washington, D. C Doe United States Anthony Camberdh Imigration Service
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Immigration and smuggling faced in legislative notes

The report notes that Japanese admission should be amended to freer terms under a pending Burnett immigration bill. It also states that smuggling of Chinese has been vigorously combatted, with amateur smuggling largely stamped out.

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Burnett Anya
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