DeWolf seeks abolition of Iowa state board of education
Des Moines reports Iowa state Senator Sherman W. De Wolf of Reinbeck plans a bill to abolish the present state board of education and replace it with a three member governor appointed board to manage educational institutions. He argues the current board is undemocratic and that local control, with school decisions guided by the senate, would better reflect taxpayer interests and policy. The proposal includes shifting authority from a finance committee led system to direct governor appointment and senate approval.
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Advertising curbs in post offices and public appeal for clocks
In Iowa the campaign to recruit men for the army faces bureaucratic hurdles as post offices restrict advertising within buildings. Local jewelers seek permission to place a public clock, while posters on the west side building glass case urge support for the war effort. A Des Moines report details traffic in white slavery, tracing an umbrella to a scheme involving a cultured woman posing as Miss Cornelia Williams who lures young girls to a love hotel on a Chicago route, with a hostess complicating the encounter.
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Osage Farm Worker Falls From Roof, Dies
John Sehey enberg, 24, fell eight feet from a barn roof while working on a farm in Osage. He sustained a broken neck and died from the accident.
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Umbrella theft leads to hotel pursuit by social circle
A guest recalls a rail way friend kept her umbrella. at a Des Moines hotel, Miss Williams invited the eastern visitor to her room. Three men fled as hotel staff arrived after screams. The social prominence of the hostess led the guest to drop charges. Juvenile court links the man to a suspected Iowa wide gang of ten. White slavery cases emerge from testimony of three young girls misled by promises of luxury.
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Finger print system urged for Iowa prisons
Des Moines reports Warden McCaugherty of Anamosa urged using fingerprints for inmate identification and a scientific bureau of identification for Iowa penitentiaries. Warden Sanders of Fort Madison proposed a two year trial convict labor on the roads to test work capacity.
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