Senate Condemns War Dept Uniform Order for Iowa Guards
Iowa Senate debates and passes resolutions condemning the national government for forcing Third Iowa National Guard members to pay for state issued uniforms. The measure, introduced by Senator Frailey, argues the order violates army regulations and contracts. Copies will go to the president, secretary of war, and Senators Cummins and Kenyon.
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Judge Advocate General
War Department of the United States
Iowa National Guard
Senate
Joe Frailey
House
Cantaite Tees
Evans
Bremer County
Miller
Boone
Atkins
O’brien
United States
Proudfoot
Warren
Parker
Polk
Thompson
Des Moines
Butington
Johnson
Advocate
Frailey
United States Army
Liegal
Secretary of War
Cummins and
Kenyone
Sunday blue laws threat looms over theaters
Des Moines reports Attorney General Hayner says Sunday closing laws will be enforced if kept on the statute books. He notes no notice is needed for Sunday theatres and other amusements operating on Sundays, asserting all violate the law and cannot evade enforcement.
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Das Moines
Feu
Hayner
State highway commission takes charge of post road work
The town legislature approved the measure and it goes to the senate highways committee. The act places the state highway commission in charge of improving post roads as mandated by federal law.
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Senate Highways Committee
State Highway Commission
22 Women Now on State Reformatory Roll Eight Colored
Anamosa Iowa February 21 Every one of the 22 women at the state reformatory has been married Warden McClaughry declined to discuss crime records of married versus unmarried women The institution houses adults and the minor girls go to Mitchellville The reformatory at Anamosa currently imprisons both sexes and has held as many as 41 women in local quarters White women number 14 and eight are colored Two are serving life for murder three for 10 to 30 years each for second degree murder two for eight years for manslaughter Prostitution keeping a house of ill fame adultery and bigamy account for 10 five year terms Arson and four for larceny or receiving property each five years complete the roll
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Anamosa
State Reformatory
Wuarden C. C. McClaughry
Aminosa Reformatory
Industrial School For
Mitchellville
Rockwell City
McClaughry
Women’s Department
McFarlane Free Textbook Measure Passes House
Des Moines February 21 The house defeats the idea of taxing voting for free school books. A 91 to 9 vote approves a free text election upon petition by 10 percent of last school voters replacing the current 35 to 3 percent threshold. The judiciary committee urged limiting rights to freeholders and another Weaver center bill is noted.
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McFarlane
House
Des Moines
House Judiciary Corriioutes
Shekan
Weaver Social Center
State Agents in Center of Fight in Des Moines
Des Moines February 21 A heated session of the house appropriations committee focused on a bill to authorize a $26 000 appropriation for hiring state agents under governor and attorney general supervision. Representative Otto Starzinger accused state agents of corruption while administration leaders urged favorable reporting. The measure would empower higher officials to call in peace officers from any subdivision to enforce laws, a provision stirring debate over state control and law enforcement powers.
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Iowa
Rateliff
Montgomery County
Senate Committee On
Frank H. Garrett
Council Bluffs
I. T. Jones
Des Moines
Whitmore
Wilson
Appanoose County
Ratcliff
House Appropriations Committee
Otto Starzinger
Starzinger
Committee On the House
Larson
Roberts
MacFerren
Gilmar
Lucas County
Wichman
Horticulturist seeks Pure Bug Poison bill in Iowa
Des Moines report states state horticulturist Wesley Greene is pushing a bill to require pure bug poison. He notes spraying compounds are being adulterated, causing losses for Iowa gardeners and urging legislative action.
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Des Moines
Wesley Greene
Iowa
Sunday on the Iowa frontier in little Dutch colony
A Dutch minister recalling a 1873 visit to Orange City Sioux County Iowa portrays a sparsely settled frontier town. He describes a humble church a shed and a schoolroom as a single building and observes Sunday worship with a patient calm, noting gathered settlers farmers, women nursing children and quiet earnest faces in prayer.
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Iowa
Orange City
Sioux County
Boy 9 Crushed by Freight Train Wheels in Des Moines
Nine year old Allen Cosper left home after school to collect papers near the Bird school and railroad tracks. He waved goodbye to his mother, then was struck by a switch engine freighter at Sixteenth and Des Moines, dying instantly.
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Des Moines
Allen Cosper
Woodland Avenues
Cosper
Bird School
Allen
Iowa's Laziest Man Now Under Arrest
Des Moines reports Federal Marshal Wayne Morse arrested Gottliey Zundt, 60, in Marshalltown on a liquor violation. Zundt allegedly stayed in bed all day and hid whisky bottles in his comforts to sell to patrons. Commissioner Fitzsimmons bound him over to the federal grand jury. Zundt posted $300 bond and returned to bed, Morse says.
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Des Moines
Wayne Morse
Iowa
Morse
Marshalstown
Gottliey Zundt
Zundt
United States
Fitzsimmons
Marshalltown
Subcommittee to amend Warrens land title system
Des Moines reports a house land title board subcommittee will urge the full committee to amend the Warrens system so a pending bill becomes a dead letter if enacted. The proposal would let counties opt in and allow registrants to choose the system. The panel likely will back a bill to clear titles that have been clear for 25 years.
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Des Moines
House Land Title Board
House
Stoux City Boomer Difs in Souttc Datta
Sioux City broadcast notes Garretson, once rated a millionaire and a member of the big four, as part of a developing sports set.
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Stoux City
DATTA
Sioux City
Garretson
Pioneering Sioux City Builder Dies After Illness
Vilas G D, a key figure in Sioux City’s boom era, died of pneumonia after a short illness. He helped lay out the Sioux City and Northern railroad terminals in 1889 90 and, with four partners, founded the Union stockyards in 1887. He also contributed to constructing both Missouri River bridges and numerous local enterprises.
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Cloux City
Vilas
G. D
Sioux City
Reading Sues for Breach of Promise in District Court
Miss Rose K Reading sues Phillip Y Churchill in Council Bluffs Iowa district court seeking 5000 damages for alleged breach of promise to marry. Both are described as prominent figures in the community. The story also notes a cold remedy advertisement and a separate 1916 item about Patrick Harmon completing a backward walk from Seattle to New York City over 239 days.
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Council Bluffs, Ja
Rose K. Reading
Sait
Phillip Y. Churchill
Patrick Harmon
New York City
Seattle
Wash
Butter pioneer Van Deusen earns Iowa dairy fame
Matthew Van Deusen, born 1822 in New York, died in Manchester on Tuesday. He crafted the butter that won first prize at Philadelphia’s centennial exposition in 1816, helping lift western dairy prestige and underpin Iowa's thriving dairy industry. He became a key buttermaker for John Stewart’s Spring Branch creamery, shaping Iowa’s early creamery boom and earning the moniker Dairy City.
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Manchester
Peb
Matthew van Deusen
Caro Sabin
Philadelphia
Iowa
New York
Mr. van Deusen
John Stewart
Spring Branch
van Deusen
Ilinois
St. Louis
Delaware County
Dairy
Stewart
Delaware County Masons Honor Longtime Member
In Delaware county the Mason order recalls long service as Mr Van Deusen aged and ill for months. He had been a Mason for more than 64 years and will receive funeral services Thursday conducted by the Masonic lodge.
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Delaware County
Uutler
Mason
van Deusen
Rheumatism Insidious Beginnings Warn of Early Pains
Early rheumatism signs are slight yet progressive, with external liniments failing to reach the root. Swift’s Specific S S S offers blood cleansing relief, boasting over fifty years of success. write for free medical advice from Swift Laboratory in Atlanta.
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Swift Specific Co
Swift Laboratory
Atlanta
Gaisement
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