Universal Military Training Poll Across Iowa Papers
Thirty-two Iowa dailies with about 400 000 circulation favor universal military training in a Des Moines Capital poll. Opposed by Des Moines Register and Des Moines Tribune, others neutral, with varied views on discipline, preparedness, peace, and national defense.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Daily Press
Capital
Ecd
Universal Miliuag
United States
Register
Des Moines Register
Des Moines Tribone
The
Slowegian
Centerville
Gtes
Sioux City Tribune
Sicux City Tribune
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Davenport Times
Scott
the Times
Sioux City Journal
America
Switzerland
Creston Advertiser-Gazette
Guardsman
Washingtos
Keokuk
Atlantic
ews-Telegraph
West City
Freeman T Tribune
der Demokrat
Davenport
Ocelwete Register
Desa
Universal
Atlantic News-Telemarh
Cedar Falls Record
Cadar Rapies Gazette
Cedar Haplda
Republican and Times
Charles City Press
Clinton Advertiser
Council Blu
Creston Plain Dealer
Washington: Journal Davenport Democrat
Devenfar
Roads dominate Iowa legislature focus in early session
Des Moines reports the 37th Iowa General Assembly faces fierce road legislation as the dominant issue. Johnson road crowd pursues limits on highway control while senate moves to smooth the highway law. suffrage heads for action and adjournment hopes fade amid ongoing policy battles.
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Des Moines
Iowa I
Cime
Teacurea
Thirty-seventh
General Assembly
Pitt
Logan
Harrison County
House
Wallace B. Arnery
Marshalltown
Senate
Joahnson
Friends of the Commission Law
Balkema
Highways Commission
Highway Commission
Dean
Osceola County
Board of Supervisors
Sen!tate
Holjdoegel
Rockwell City
Foster
Guthrie Center
Frailey Bill Aims Iowa Workmen Compensation Reforms
Senate bill expands medical coverage to four weeks and adds installments through weeks five to seven. Raises minimum to six and maximum to fifteen dollars weekly. Adds hearing loss, allows appeals to district court, and strengthens insurer reporting and employer penalties. Includes creation of deputy industrial commissioner and updated safety standards oversight.
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Des Moines
Amold Menty
Brailey
Iowa
United States
Griffin
Ffth
Sumto Sim
Casa
Bureau of Labor
Act
Steele Leads in Recount of Iowa District Race
Sioux City January 22. Congressman Tom Steele moved into the lead over Congressman Elect George Scott in the eleventh Iowa district after an unofficial recount of the second Sioux City precinct votes from the November election. The recount reduced Scotts lead and added Steele, with about a hundred votes miscounted for Scott now credited to Steele. Attorneys for both campaigns reported the adjustments may swing the outcome but the final effect on the contest has not been decided.
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Sioux City
Tom Steele
George Scott
Congress
Iowa
Steele
Scott
Fust
Mrs Dave Terry Dies Near Horton After Illness
Horton Jan 22 Mrs Dave Terry died Saturday at her home northwest of town after a month long illness from a paralytic stroke. She survived by her husband five children Marion and four daughters Mrs Griffith Mrs Fuller Josephine and Chloe at home. Two sows preceded her in death. Funeral services were held yesterday at the Baptist church and she was buried in Horton cemetery.
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Horton
Jan
Dave Terry
Mr. Terry
Marion
Griffith
Fuller
Josephine
Chloe
Baptist
Insurance Commissioner Endorses Fire Rating Law
Des Moines January 22 In his annual report State Insurance Commissioner Emory English endorses the fire insurance rating law amid criticism and says repeal or modification would harm property owners by removing protection from excessive or discriminatory rates. The report to Governor Harding discusses the law’s operation and its expected role in the Thirty-seventh General Assembly.
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Des Moines
Emory English
General Assembly
Harding
Revision of Code Will be Approved Special Session
Des Moines reports that Representative Epps pushes a bill for a commission to revise the code with a special session likely to receive the report. The judiciary committee holds the bill, estimates duties for April, report by October 1, and notes past revisions in 1897. Debate centers on appointment of committees and whether a special session is needed.
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Des Moines
Epps
ChiJmman MacFerren
Judiciary Committee
General Assembly
van Alstine
Senate
State Traveling Men's Meeting elects Rex secretary treasurer
Iowa State Travelingmen's association met in Des Moines to endorse the good roads program and approve by law changes. Harry B. Rex won the secretary treasurer post over incumbent L. C. Dietz by 1,067 to 724 as J. W. Hill was reelected president. A tongue sticking incident near Tongue Sticks to Mail Box described in Lewis.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa State Travelingmen's Association
Harry B. Rex
L. C. Dietz
Rex
George E. Hamilton
William H.smith
Dorsey Hannell
R. A. Proudfit
Harve L. Skinner
J. W. Hill
W. E. Tone
Hinshaw urges Iowa state parks along rivers and lakes
B C Hinshaw state fish and game warden asks the Iowa House to consider a bill creating state parks along rivers and lakes, with roads to streams and use of the fish and game fund for land purchases. He says waterways belong to the people and proposes condemning strips of land on riverbanks and lake shores for public access and conservation.
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Les Moines
B. C. Hin- Shaw
Fsh
House Fish and Game Committee
General Assembly
House
Hinshaw
Iowa
Fish and Grante Commission
State Executive Council
Iowa Lakes
Fish and Game Fund
Fish and Game
Fish and Game Commission
Failate
Stata Park
Dynamite Blast Injures Two Linemen in Iowa City Work
Edward Shelton of Tama and H W Stewart of Toledo were badly injured in a premature dynamite blast while setting poles for Iowa Electric in Menlo Iowa. Stewart lost an eye and Shelton was blinded as the charge failed to explode and workers investigated.
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Menlo
Edward Shelton
Tama
H. W. Stewart
Toledo
Iowa Electric Company
Cedar Rapids
Stewart
Shelton
Real Love Tangle Result of War and Some Other Things
In Oelwein James A. Alconey marries Dorothy Welsh in Waterloo a year earlier. Dorothy later wed Harvey E. Latham while claiming to be a widow, leading to bigamy charges. The case was amicably settled with Dorothy remaining with Latham as Jimmy returns from war. A separate note: Earl McCord injured when a crank-back firebacked a gasoline engine near Alden.
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Oelwein
James A. Alconey
Dorothy Edith Welsh
Waterloo
Epring
Jimmy Wen
Rio Grande
Dorothy
Harvey E. Latham
Hazleton
Iowa
Jimmy
Harvey
Cooney
Brown
Cedar Rapids
James
Broken leg and leg bone fractures noted
The text reports a broken leg with both leg bones fractured. It then shifts to an advertisement praising Pape's Diapepsin as a quick relief for indigestion and stomach upset, claiming it digests food gently and costs fifty cents for a large case.
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