Sumner Cautions Food and Fuel Hoarding Threats
Des Moines report outlines Iowa Health Department powers to stop profiteering and hoarding affecting public health. Dr. Guilford Sumner says officials can seize control, regulate sale prices, and direct distribution if strikes or shortages jeopardize health, with enforcement backed by court precedent.
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Health rules to prevent hoarding fuel and food
The report notes that sales at fixed fair prices should be enforced to avoid suffering and epidemics. It cites the health department's authority to prevent deprivation and mentions Charles Webster, state fuel administrator, returning home as life office staff wind down on fuel requests and new coal orders reach the state administrator. Upstate towns receive coal directly without appeal.
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Life Office
Coa
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Cattle Freeze Deaths Reported in Lyons Stockyards
Atlantic Dec 18 reports hundreds of cattle froze to death in Lyons Nebraska stockyards during a recent blizzard. Peter Salmonsen veteran rancher from Trathead Lake Montana says he observed the loss while visiting friends north of Atlantic and had brought several carloads to South Omaha for market.
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Trathead Lake
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Omaha
Dubuque Forms Four Million Dollar Securities Company
A 1.9 million dollar corporation titled the Dubuque Securities Company was filed in the Dubuque county recorder’s office. It will engage in securities, mortgages, underwriting, and investment business and is a strictly local Dubuque concern with officers M D Cooney president C J Spahn vice president M J McSullough secretary and C J Schrup treasurer.
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County Recorder
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Dubuque Tho
New Corporation
M. D. Cooney
C. J. Spahn
M. J. Mec Sullough
C. J. Schrup
Widow awarded eight thousand in seduction and breach suit
Virginia Johnson versus A C Robertson ended with a jury verdict for the widow at eight thousand dollars on a seduction and breach of promise claim. The trial spanned four days with attorneys Fred Longley and George E Knapp for the plaintiff and Tobin Tobin and R B Milner for the defendant. The case may be appealed as the term progresses.
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Fred Longley
Waterloo
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Tobin
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Local Boys and Mens Wear Sale Ad Highlights Low Prices
Classified advertisement lists boys suits from 5.98 to 9.85, men's dress trousers in wool and cashmere at 12.00, Hon wool trousers 8.00, work trousers 3.50, caps at 98 cents, and stocking caps 4.98 for boys and girls with assorted sale values.
Local Masons Report Newborns and Appointments
Adontram chapter announces a daughter born to Mr and Mrs Mossman with the family celebrating a second child for H C Eckels, while offices and installations are planned for early January. D ov Mrs Miller and others are noted in the reorganization as a community effort unfolds amid school and church connections.
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Surance
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Mossman
Pour Stary
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Bins
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