Road Legislation Dominates Iowa General Assembly Preview
Des Moines reports the Forty-first Iowa General Assembly will convene with plans for many bills including a proposed 85 million road bond issue to pave primary roads. Governors Kendall and Hammill reportedly favor letting voters decide the bond. Other items range from land title reforms to workmen compensation and inheritance tax changes, plus adoption of Torrens title and possible “Varrensem” reforms.
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Bill Would Make Elevators Safer Statewide Rules
Des Moines reports a new elevator code will require experienced operators for passenger and freight lifts. Inexperienced workers must train at least a week for passengers and two days for freight, with strict age, health, and sobriety standards and safety procedures to prevent rides during unsafe loads or high-speed descents.
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Des Moines
Carroll Co family grows with twentieth child born
In Shenandoah Iowa a Carroll county couple Mr and Mrs John Peters welcomed their twentieth child a daughter. There are now nine girls and eleven boys with seventeen at home and the rest married. The eldest daughter is 26 years old. The father is 50 and the mother 45. Webster City Paper Quits. Webster City News suspended publication yesterday with refunds promised to all subscribers. The News was published by Fred Hahne Printing Co. Implement Men Meet. The Iowa Implement Dealers Association holds its twenty ninth annual convention in Des Moines beginning today with speakers C H Chase of Sioux City and E T Meredith of Des Moines.
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John Peters
Carroll County
Webster City
Webster City -News
Fred Hahne Printing Company
Aberdeen Angus Journal
Des Moines
Iowa Implement Dealers' Association
C. H. Chase
Sioux City
E. T. Meredith
Heaa
Man of 29 Years is Chief Maid and Cook
Herman Klemme, aged 89, has handled all housework and baking after his wife’s death for himself and two sons. Born in 1837, he came to the United States at 20, worked in New York, Sheboygan, and Chicago before moving to a farm east of Waukon, Iowa, in 1868. He and Louise Krumme married that year. nine of their twelve children survive.
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Iowa
Louise Krumme
Gifts to Penn College From Oskaloosa Woman
Mrs. Alice Swearingen of Oskaloosa announced a gift to Penn college including a 40 acre farm near Oskaloosa and two residence properties valued at about 12000 dollars. The land is part of the Nelson place once owned by descendants of Admiral Nelson of England.
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Alice Swearingen
Oskaloosa
Nelson Place
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England
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