Senate Debates Temperance Bills and Prairie Chickens
Des Moines reports the Iowa Senate softened temperance aims by amending Whitmore’s hone dry bill to a misdemeanor with a $100 fine or 30 days in jail and approved Wilson’s search warrant limits. Arch Mel Yarian’s prairie chicken protection bill may pass. Retriment and reform push seeks to abolish three homeopathic chairs and shift funds to a state treasurer led system.
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Des Moines
Senate
Iowa
Newberry
Whitmore
Wilson
Benater Whitmore
Congress
Appanoose County
Keteliff
Montgomery’ Gountly
Thea Wilson
Miller Defeats Thompson In Historic Iowa Special Election
The 1848 contest in Iowa’s First District centered on Mormon votes in Monroe and adjacent counties. Disputed pollbooks, a vanished Kanesville tally, and a special election followed, yielding Daniel W. Miller as the winner by 862 votes over Thompson.
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Steele-Bentt
Sioux City
Iowa
Daniel W. Miller
Willem ‘Thompson
Isaacsville
New Council Blufts
Pottawattamie County
Kanesyilla
Monros County
Monroa County
Investigating Committees Questioned Overreach and Duplication
The text argues that special committees lack real power and have achieved nothing. It condemns the trenchment and reform committee members as merely competent. It asserts administration opposition to overlapping state departments and calls for applying the same logic to investigating committees.
Universal Military Training Debated in Iowa Legislature
Des Moines reports both houses move toward military training in public schools. Representative Sha and Senator Rule announce special committee actions on a training bill and conference with Iowa National Guard leaders to set policy. Gov. Harding's inaugural support noted. experts urge revising state code to align with the national defense act as guard funding and size are debated.
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Sha
Clinton
House Committee On
Rule
Mason City
Senate Military Committee
Iowa National Guard
Ghaff
Tam
Gov
Harding
Adra
Senator
Ard
Thea Town Guard
Logan
Ford forecasts only small rise in paving costs
Mayor Ruth Reid discusses February paving plans with M. Ford in the city council chamber. Ford says cement and labor costs rose slightly but asphalt and brick prices stayed steady, predicting bids for First Avenue paving won't exceed a five cent per yard increase. He cites a six inch concrete base costing about 94 cents per square yard.
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M. Ford
Ruth
Ford
Councr
First Avenue
Adulterated Foods Flood Markets Prompt Inspector Alarm
In Des Moines on February 14, YW Harrison head of the state food and dairy department warned that high food prices are flooding markets with adulterated goods. Reports include gelatin prices rising to 64 cents, two cars of paper ballast shipped from New York to Chicago, and a Waterloo Iowa shipment using soy beans from China instead of navy beans.
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Moines
Iowa
YW. H. Harrison
Waterloo
Wisconsin
China
United States
Hopes to Aid Home Owners in Tax Break Bill
Senator Schrup prepares a bill to exempt half of homestead value up to 1000 dollars from taxation if occupied by owner and family. It targets modest homeowners, arguing hearth and home sustain society, and seeks to prevent tax burdens shifting to wealthier owners.
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Schrup
Bobrup
Iowa Railroads Valuation Aid Seen Unneeded
Des Moines reports the state railroad commission does not oppose Gov. Harding’s request for a 3100,000 appropriation to check up the physical valuation of Iowa railroads, but calls the sum unnecessary and pending clarification of purpose and impact.
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Des Moines
State Railroad Commission
Harding
Iowa
Legislature Notes Des Moines Subcommittee Reports
Des Moines February 14 Representatives Durbin Edgington and Price form a subcommittee to draft motor vehicle license law revisions. The joint retrenchment committee asks the attorney general to help draft a bill abolishing the office of trans- in various institutions and place funds under the state treasurer. Senate appropriations plans a public hearing February 21 with health committee. Action on 50000 for preserving the old capitol at Iowa City deferred. House proposes 65000 to enlarge the soldiers home at Marshalltown. sentiment favors 10000 more wings, backed by Representative Worley who urged a Patrick Henry spirit.
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Contra Fund
Senate
Tin State
Senata
USG
Klinker
Crawford County
House
Rowley
Alread
Des Nomes
Durbin
Edgington
Price
Roberts
House Motor Vehicle A
Secretary of State's Office
Joint Committee On
Attorney General
Transuver
Lowe City
Senate Committee On Appropriations
House Appropriations Committee
Marshalltown
John Worley
Patrick Henry
Insane Man Walked in Circles for Years in Ta Town
Hugh White a 76 year old resident of Town City Ta died at the county home after being committed thirty seven years ago as mentally unbalanced. He reportedly walked in circles up to five hours daily, circling rooms yards stores and other spaces.
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Town City
Hugh White
Johnson County
Tore, devoted to strange Mania walks vast miles
The subject spent six hours daily for 3466 days each year for 37 years, totaling 1030 hours of walking and covering over 163000 miles. The estimate notes he maintained a pace of two miles per hour, with higher activity in recent years.
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Tore
Ored- Hing
Sioux City Boy Hunger Strike Over Army Enlistment
Gerald Tower aged 16, son of Rev. C Tower of the First Congregational church, began a hunger strike after his father refused to let him enlist in the U S Army. The youth, a four year Boy Scout captain, vowed to wait until 18 to enlist with or without his father’s consent. He had been deaf for ten years and reportedly could hear when a telephone receiver was placed by his ear as a joke.
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Fisher
Sioux City
United States Army
Gerald Tower
Tower
First Congregational Church
Young Tower
Gerald
Color Back in Cheeks Claims Health Through Pills
Ad urges using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People to restore color and vitality. Claims rich blood improves beauty and health, notes anemia symptoms, promotes weight gain, appetite boost, and vitamin supplements. Includes free literature from Dr Williams Medicine Co. Schenectady NY and mail orders.
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Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
N.Y
Keep Looking Young by Olive Tablets
A vintage health ad promotes Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a liver and bowel tonic. It claims most sickness stems from inactivity of bowels and liver, touting a vegetable compound in olive oil. The product is marketed as a calomel substitute, sold in 10c and 23c boxes by all druggists.
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Edwards
Ohio
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