Iowa Attorney General Orders County Probes of Road Laws
Des Moines January 25 Attorney General Byers sends letters to all county attorneys seeking cooperation to enforce road laws. He demands a year end report detailing saloons gambling houses druggists selling liquor and actions against trusts, plus steps for stronger enforcement. He cites new supervisory powers and urges unified effort with the state highway commission to apply mandatory provisions.
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General Assembly
Atae Ap
Towa
State Highways Commission
Hlm
Iowa
State Highway Commission
Thirty-third General Assembly
Board of Supervisors
Thirty-second General Assembly
Ilegal
Highway Commission
Ames
H.W. Byers
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets Advertises Cure for Acid Dyspepsia
An 19th century ad explains acid dyspepsia or hyperchlorhydria as excessive stomach acid causing sour taste, rotten teeth, and heartburn. It touts Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets with pepsin, bismuth subcarbonate and calcium carbonate to neutralize acid, urges use after meals, and offers free samples from F A Stuart Company Marshall, Minnesota.
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Stuart
F. A. Stuart Comany
Stuart Did, Marshall
Canadian kills American fisher on Niagara River
John Weyland, 25, of Buffalo, was shot and killed while in a fishing boat on the Niagara River near the Canadian shore. Ontario Game Inspector Thomas Briggs says he fired at a two man launch after they dynamited fish and fired on him. He ordered them ashore, fired more rounds, and reported to Toronto as Captain Hunter was sent to Fort Erie to investigate.
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Buffalo
N. Y
John Weyland
Niagara River
Thomas Briggs
Ontario Fish and Game Protective Department
Toronto
Hunter
Fort Erie
Kentucky House Backs Amendment for National Income Tax
Frankfort Kentucky January 28 The Kentucky house of representatives approved a resolution urging a constitutional amendment to permit an income tax. The vote stood 69 to 7 and the senate has already approved a similar measure.
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Frankfort
Kentucky
House of Representatives
Senate
Society fights waist factories in the Northeast
Mrs. Raymond Robbins of Chicago announced a cooperative shirt waist factory planned in Trenton New Jersey on February 15 to employ about 500 strikers from New York and Philadelphia. More than 1,000 orders have already been received to fill at the new facility.
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Philadelphia
Raymond Robbins
Chicago
Trenton
N. 1
New York
Robbins
Heinoous Deed by Roy Branded Baby With Penny
New York January 28 Jacob Goldberg eleven years old was committed to the juvenile protectory for branding his baby brother on the cheek with a white hot Lincoln penny. The incident was reported from the city and details describe the child’s act and the subsequent custody action.
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New York
Jacob Goldberg
Jowiah
The Farmer and Self Government
Henry Wallace argues farmers can govern themselves through township offices and local control. He urges electing road supervisors, township trustees, and school directors on merit, not party ties, to improve roads, schools, weed control, and county services. The piece ends endorsing town meetings as a model and noting Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.
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Henry Wallace
Wallace
New England
Des Moines
Views of the people on packers and liberty
A reader letter recalls past reforms against meat packers, noting how money swayed politics and how federal actions, under Roosevelt and Pinchot, pursued reform. The writer questions whether public vigilance against packers remains and urges memory of the price of liberty from corruption.
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Roy
Hades
Courier
Congress
D. B. Henderson
Nelson Miles
Miles
Teddy
Roosevelt College
Pinchot
A. Southerland
Waterloo
Waterloo Shoe Co
A. G. McColm
Doty’s
Bob White
the Growers of India Tea
Standard Oil Company (Incorporated
Elieves Peers
Corn Belt Automobile Company
Ford, Overland
Marion Flyers
Baker Electrica
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