Iowa Lawmakers Target Liquor Trade and Draymen
Iowa senators push temperance reforms including a ban on for hire liquor transport within the state railroads and express companies would cease liquor hauling. Aimed at ending drayman deliveries and private Consumption records, with new permit and public disclosure steps.
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Hampton Tests Electric Siren Fire Alarm
Hampton on January 2 reports testing a new electric siren fire alarm atop the courthouse. The device uses rotation to draw air, producing shrieks that grow louder with speed and is claimed audible for four to five miles, replacing the unreliable steam whistle.
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Investors Seek Court to Declare Orchard Land Their Own
In Des Moines investors from Iowa and beyond seek a court ruling to declare 2300 acres of Twin Falls De Creek Orchard land theirs and to deem a $150,000 lien by bondholders inferior to stockholder claims. The 1907 project collapsed after $200,000 was raised and operations suspended last July, with plans to appoint a receiver and continue development if land is awarded.
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State Legislators Face Speakership Clash at Capital
Iowa lawmakers converge on Des Moines as candidates Pitt Elwood Shortess and Neff seek votes for speaker. Highway officials say they will push work with the new legislature and plan inauguration speeches next Thursday. A gas engine accident in Vinton injures Orvie Nabholz. Sioux City barber shop prices rise for fixtures and certain services.
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Negro's Prison Term Cut to 50 Years
Governor Clarke approves the parole board’s recommendation to commute the life sentence of Without WH. Torns to 50 years with long-time off. Torns has already served 37 years The change places him on parole eligibility. The case connects with Charles Field and Jones, tied to a 1899 murder in Twenty County.
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Olive Tablets touted as liver bowel 'wonder-workers'
Dr F M Edwards marketed Dr wards Olive Tablets for 17 years claiming to cleanse liver and bowels with a vegetable mix and olive oil. Advertising urges use for pale faces dull eyes pimples coated tongue and general malaise with a nightly tablet. Priced 10c to 20c per box.
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Capt E A Murphy to Wed Texas Girl in Brownsville
Capt Edward A Murphy of Vinton will marry Miss Lucile Champion of Brownsville on January 20 at the Champion home in Brownsville. The couple met at a Brownsville National Guard ramp last summer while Murphy served as regimental adjutant of the First Iowa Infantry. Murphy will return to Vinton to work with his father in publishing the Vinton Eagle after the ceremony.
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Iowans Invent a Submarine Lifeboat
E W Appleman of Clermont and Willard Daubenberger of Postville claim a submarine lifeboat is practical. The craft fits in an outer hull cavity and releases via a trap door to float to the surface, providing crew escape in disaster. Patents pending in the U S and abroad. Hampton to vote on city manager plan January 17.
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New Officials in Charge at Vinton
George Bush elected chairman of the board of supervisors as new county officers were inducted. J St Clair becomes county clerk, W Harper continues as deputy, and A St Clair, W A Kuster, and W K Gehrjet begin new terms in roles. Knapp becomes county attorney and Rul whe deputy sheriff named. Board reorganizes with St Clair and Harper among survivors. Veteran soldier E Doates suffers a broken arm after a fall. C H Reynolds dies in Ubis city after moving from Cedar townships years earlier.
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Heynolds Remarried and Heads Local Credit Agency
A former resident who moved to Minneapolis and later started a credit guide business was remarried on January 10, 1919, to Miss Helen Doyle of Cedar Falls. He is survived by his widow and three children. funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church yesterday morning. For the past year he ran a collection and credit agency locally. Rev. W M Rogers to Leave in February for Waterloo where he will lead a newly organized church. he helped supervise the construction of the city’s modern church building.
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Death after icy fall claims 72 year old Cuthbertson
Mr. David Cuthbertson, 72, died Monday night at Carroll hospital from paralysis brought on by injuries after a fall on an icy sidewalk last Tuesday. He was born in Scotland, lived in Finland in youth, and came to the county in 1876 owning a 400 acre farm later owned by Judge B. J. Salinger.
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