Seeing America Last In A Few Months Summer Travel Shifts
A satire on Americans fleeing Europe and touring the United States this summer. It predicts hundreds of thousands will travel domestically, while Europe’s lure fades for travel to worship palaces and millinery. The piece notes Americans will explore their own country, tipping guides and misplacing checks, with America partially benefiting from earnest domestic tourists.
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Incone Tax Club
America
Grand Jury
Europe
Atlantic
Chicago
Amerika
Temperance battles shape Iowa 36th General Assembly
Des Moines reports the thirty sixth general assembly grapples with rules, budget shortfalls, and heavy temperance pressure. Lawmakers debate direct taxes, millage for institutes, and a $950,000 available for state needs, prioritizing farmers, education, and industry while dry and wet factions clash over Prohibition measures and a recall fight looms in the senate. The supreme court also considers blue sky and red light laws, with death penalty abolition on the docket.
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Des Moines
Thirty Sixth
General Assembly
Ames
Cherokee
Anamosa
Marshalltown
Cedar Falls
Davenport
Eldora
Iowa City
Vinton
Councy Bluffs
Thirty-sixth General Assembly
National Guard
State Detective Bureau
Temple of Justice
Patton
Fort Madison
Board of Education
Board of Castro
Senate
State Senate
Francis
Committee On Constitutions
Supreme Court
Street Names and a Challenge to City Street Numbering
A councilman proposes renaming streets before rehabilitation, noting Waterloo’s haphazard growth reflects a pioneer ethos. The piece criticizes the current lack of consistent numbering and direction, citing presidents’ names, trees, and mixed labels, then asks what a new system should achieve before action.
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Belfore
Washington
Adame
Davin
Jefferson
Jackson
Polk
Lincoln
Grant
Cleveland
Harrison
McKinley
Roosevelt
Randolph
Fremont
Clay
Webster
Philadelphia
Cedar River
Waterloo
A Game For Two War Materials Export Policy Debate
The Literary Digest polls 440 press responses on stopping export of war materials. 244 say no, 167 say yes, 29 are noncommittal. The Kaiser’s blockade threaten reveals the state department’s stance and ponders reversing shipments if Germany prevails. The piece notes arguments that harsher warfare could hasten peace and treats port blockades as a mutual contest.
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State Department
Germany
United States
Health, inactivity blamed for 170000 U.S. deaths in 1880s
Dr Elmer E B Rittenhouse of New York links 170000 annual U.S. deaths to heart kidney and vessel diseases caused by physical inactivity from changed living conditions. He foresees municipal gymnasiums by 1950 to curb mortality and urges personal fitness through the YMCA or clubs.
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United States
Elmer EB. Rittenhouse
New York
Life Extension Institute
President Wilson punch line quotes spark reader interest
Stout City Journal highlights President Wilson speech to a Washington chamber of commerce, noting his ability to string together clear thoughts and punchy phrases. The piece argues the president can articulate ideas in relatable language and urges readers to listen to his evolving role as spokesman for himself.
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Enoug
Berm
Wentle
Lyceum Cirtut
Wilson
Chamber of A
Merce
Washington
State printing and binding bid battle rouses interest
The Bee notes growing bid contention over state printing and binding duties. Paul Stilman criticizes the system while Pierce of the Homestead and allies push for a new bidding process to take over the work.
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Svate Printing
Paul . Stilman
Mr. Pierce
Homestead
To the Heart of the Matter PYTHAGORAS AND BEANS
A quirky essay explores attraction to flaws and the eccentricities of Pythagoras and Samuel Johnson. The narrator recalls Pythagoras forbidding beans and dying rather than entering a bean field, contrasting wit with virtue and imperfection. The piece ends with a playful note on Johnson's left foot habit.
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Pythagoras
Gam Johnson
State printing contracts praised for efficiency over bids
The piece argues the current state printing method buys paper in bulk and uses fixed salaries for type setting printing and binding, yielding profits for officials. It warns a contract system would require a printing bureau and salaries, erasing any savings from bidding. The Bee endorses the present system as equal or superior in many respects.
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General Assembly
Commission Ial
A City Planning Lesson From Boston’s Waterfront Drive
A Kansas City Star report on Boston's waterfront plan outlines sweeping blocks between Washington Street and the Atlantic avenue docks to open streets. The move, costing millions, contrasts with a cheaper alternative ignored by a complacent city. planning commissions have formed in several cities as Boston lags in vision.
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Kansas City Star
Boston
Washington Street
Atlantic Avenue
Sin Cing
Louisville
Paducah
Scranton
Omaha
Schenectady
New Haven
Tortland
Lawrences
Mass
Carnei Bluffs Nonpareil Tawa Auto Classification Debate
A puzzled item notes Carnei Bluffs Nonpareil and Tawa with a claim that 17a,000 automobiles powered by guan line fall under a general classification. The fragment suggests a regional discussion on vehicle propulsion and regulatory scope amid unclear specifics.
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Carnei
Tawa
Guan Line
May Exempt New Sees From Child Labor Law
Des Moines reports a Senate bill by Senator Allen likely to omit newsboys from the child labor law, allowing 14 and under to avoid work restrictions and 16 and under to avoid hazardous jobs. Judge Robbing of Cedar Rapids argues newsboys gain responsibility and business basics through selling papers, prompting renewed debate on the measure.
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Des Moines
Senate
Allen
Labor Committee
Robbing
Cedar Rapids
Senator Allen
Iowa Grocery Firms Protest Freight Rates
Western Grocery of Marshalltown Chaney-Royer of Des Moines and Smith-Lichty & Hilltan of Waterloo filed a complaint with the Interstate Commerce Commission protesting freight rates on Virginia origin peanuts from the Mississippi to Des Moines Waterloo and Marshalltown. The Sioux City Commercial Club versus Burlington case on apple rates was heard together with the rate group proposal for apples from southwest Iowa and adjacent Nebraska Kansas and Missouri. Lt Eluo Bateman and wife traveled to Hot Springs S D after telegram announcing his father J W Bateman death caused by hardening of the arteries burial planned in Hot Springs
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Washington, DB. C
Western Grocery Company
Marshalltown
Chaney-Royer Company
Des Moines
Smith-Lichty & Hilltan Company
Waterloo
Fave
Interstate Commerce Commission
Virginia
Mississippi River
Sioux
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Henderson
Bateman
Eluo Bateman
Hot Springs
S. D
J. W. Bateman
Oskaloosa
Papes Diapepsin Promises Quick Stomach Relief
An old advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsin as a quick fix for heartburn indigestion and sour stomach. It claims five minute relief from discomfort, gas, and headaches, and suggests a fifty cent case lasts months for the family at home.
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Pape
Parole Board to Oversee Lifers After Release
The article argues that lifers released after 30 years should remain under parole control. It notes governors grant clemency without strings, while the parole board would enforce strict rules and maintain close monitoring of every lifer freed under its orders.
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Parole Board
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