Iowa Senate weighs eugenics law and public fund rules
Des Moines reports the Iowa legislature debates a eugenics related marriage law with a 10 day clause conflict and a contentious amendment. The senate schedules further discussion next Tuesday on funding deposits and the public funds rule. A standing geological fund appropriation is cut, prompting future biennial considerations to reduce standing appropriations.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Assembly
House
Senate
Gilchrist
Pocahontas County
State Fair
Board of Health
Geological
Geological Survey
Patisha
Two Guthrie County Prisoners Escape
Two prisoners escaped Guthrie County jail in Guthrie Center Iowa on a Thursday morning. They grabbed janitor Mark Moore who was delivering breakfast dishes, forced him aside, shut the door and fled northeast. Moore was locked inside for about 15 minutes before help arrived. The escapees are Ebenet awaiting a wife desertion hearing and C. Dewey Beghtel held for automobile theft.
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Guthrie Center
Guthria County
Moore
C. C. Kennedy
Siness
Moor
Eanet
Dewey Beghtel
Conductor recalls early Waterloo horsedrawn streetcars
Henry G Hellenschmidt recalls driving the first Waterloo horsedrawn streetcars from 1885 to 1887. He describes a vicious bay horse, a lockstep accident injuring his ankle on May 31, 1887, and his years of service from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. with five cent fares. A benefit day on June 12, 1887, raised funds from riders, with Louis Frank as cashier.
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Henry G. Hellenschmidt
Harrison
Jaulo
Miuny
Waterloo
Mullan Avenue
Bluff Street
Fourth
Brides
Washington
Mullan
Hellenschmildt
Hellenschmidt
Burington
Stepulae
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Hollenschmidt
Rding
Salisbury
First Presbyterian Church
Reynolds
Louis Frank
Reed
First Baptist Church
Hoot
Illinois Central
Sumner
W. M. Sindlinger
Ray
Mission Chapel
Waterloo East
Waterloo Streetcar Tales From A Rural Era
A reminiscence recounts early streetcar days in Waterloo with fare hassles and memory tricks to collect nickels. Drivers describe delays from track issues and passengers evading fares, plus Sunday baseball curtailment and Reverend Reed influencing Sabbath enforcement on transit.
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Waterloo
Pee- Me
Driver Hired 12 Years for Stewart then Waterloo Bus
Hellenschmidt drove a hack for J. B. Stewart for 12 years until Aug 23, 1890, and thereafter worked from Aug 23, 1890, to Jan 28, 1919, for the Waterloo Bus line, under an assurance related to fares.
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Hellenschmidt
J. B. Stewart
Waterloo
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Detroit
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Gotch Auto Sup. Co
Mulberry St
William Mulgin
Willard
WTAM
Cleveland
Willard Radio
Standard Battery & Electric Co
W. Sth St
Bartlett & McFarlane— Coal Co
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Fowler Coffee
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