Must candidates for goods place limit expenses
Des Moines news examines a Beeman bill setting a campaign spending cap of half the annual salary, $3,750 for a congressman, before July 4. It questions how the Fifth district race, to choose James W. Good's successor on July 19, will be affected and notes previous Democratic spending patterns and publicity gains.
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Des Moines
James W. Good
Kendall
Iowa
Congress
Eewin. T. Meredith
United States
W. L. Harding
Clyde Herring
Meredith
Wilson
Courier
Chicago Tribune
Street Car Wage Row Heads To Arbitration In Des Moines
Des Moines officials and street car workers edge toward a fixed wage of 58 to 59 cents an hour after arbitration. The union cites the high car fare and limited service while the company argues motor bus competition costs up to 400000 dollars annually. Arbitration members include Judge Scott M. Ladd and Dr J Edward Kirby.
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Congress
Des Moines
Amellgat
M. H. MacLane
Chicago
Des Moines Street Car Company
Ben Wiley
Street Car Men's Union
Arbitration Committee
Board of Arbitration
Scott M. Ladd
Iowa Supreme Court
J. Edward Kirbye
Clyde Herring
Plymouth Congregational Church
B. F. Elbert
F.C. Chambers
Child's Faithful Dog Searches for Her When Home Is Afire
Griswold Ta June 20 The little daughter of Cas Wasmer, a farmer near here, has a dog named Walldog who is her inseparable companion. When a recent fire broke out at their home the dog entered the burning house to find the girl. He found her and brought her to safety, calming as soon as the child was located.
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Griswold
Cas Wasmer
Wasmer
Anonymous Coon Rapids Citizen Pays Unclaimed Taxes
In Audubon Iowa on June 20 a county treasurer received an unsigned note asking to place $60 in the county treasury to pay taxes, stating the assessor did not come to the sender. The money arrived with no identifying marks beyond a Coon Rapids origin.
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Audubon
Freeman
Coon Rapids
Mother Leaves Five Small Children in Flight for Clothes
Davenport police traced a farm family drama as Charles Prushing’s wife, 30, left six days ago with a woman who dressed in fine clothes. Arthur Spense, her brother, says she seeks Davenport work to buy pretty clothes, deserting five children aged a few months to eight years and leaving the father to care for them. The missing mother, described as medium height, 30, brown hair, white waist, blue skirt and black sailor hat, was last seen near Moline.
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Davenport
Moline
Arthur Spense
Charles Prushing
Prushing
Two Injured When Car Goes Into River Near Aredale
June 20 in Rockwell Iowa Mullin head of National Bank of Aredale and Dean Golby farmer suffered painful cuts when their car left the road near the Cedar River west fork, plowed along the bank, and tipped into the stream. Mullin was thrown clear while Golby remained seated and was tossed into the water head first.
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Mullin
Colby
Father refuses debts for son sparks bank revolt in Axaca
In Axaca In June 20 stockholders of the Peoples Savings Bank forced Caleb Smith to sell his stock and resign as president after he refused to aid his son Lester who recently used bankruptcy. Smith, founder and owner of 800 acres, is among the community's wealthiest. Lester Smith, a farmer, is deeply indebted to the bank for about 5590. Creditor anger toward the elder Smith fueled weeks of bitterness culminating in the stockholder action.
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Axaca
Peoples’ Savings Bank
Caleb
Smith
Lester
Young Smith
Berens
Two Men and Two Horses Die as Lightning Strikes Southeast Iowa
Burlington Iowa June 20 two men were killed and stock and property ruined by a severe electrical storm over southeastern Iowa and neighboring Illinois. Ansom Lumback of Henry county was found in a lightning shattered shed near Trenton after unhitched from a cultivator and sought shelter in the storm. Abe Limbrick on the Jacob Egli farm near Merrimac was killed while putting away his team for the night in the barn.
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Burlington
Down
Uinois
Altho
Burlaston
Mt. Pleasant
Ansom Lumback
Awell
Henry County
Lumback
Trenton
Towiog Core
Limback
Abe Limbrick
Jacob Egli
Merrimac
Limbrick
Egli
Mr. Egl
Tess
Diamond Dyes Advertisement Imparts Dyeing Promise
An old advertisement urges buyers to use Diamond Dyes for home dyeing and tinting fabrics. It emphasizes easy directions, guarantees rich, fade resistant colors, and warns that using other brands may produce poor results.
Colorado Beauty Spots Not Affected By Flood
Circulating bulletins from the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railway traffic department deny reports of flood damage to Colorado attractions. Colorado Springs, Manitou, Denver, Estes Park remain accessible by rail and road with full accommodations for summer visitors, about 45 miles north of the Arkansas River.
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Pueblo Hood
Colorado
Waterloo Coduy
Chicago, Dock Island & Pacific Railway
Colorado Springs
Manitou
Arkansas River
Denver
Rocky mountain-Estes Park
Ingrown Toenail Treatment Claim Inadvertent Cure
An authority asserts that applying a few drops of Outgro around an ingrown toenail reduces swelling and pain and thickens the skin so the nail grows outward. A product named Onlero is described as harmless for chiropodists, though a small bottle with directions is sold to anyone at drugstores.
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C. H. Wise
Black Hawk Bank
Waterloo
Herpicide
Gtyour
American Radiator Company
Michigan
Chicago, Il
Adelphia
Reading
Harrisburg
Newark
Wilkesberre
Baltimore
Washington
Grand
S.5
S.co
Dep't
Atlanta, Ga
S.S.S
Eesti
Columbia Records
Chantleseacher
Nestle
Onancor
Amelia Hortense
Von-end-Schenal
Ant Stephens
Marash
Dance Records
Amo Bank
Coon-Sanders Nocolig Orehasina
Yerkes Jasariaska
Orchenra
Ee To Tolemanie Orchestra
Yerkes Jesarianba Orchestre
Matigy Tex
Columbia Saxophona
Madiey Fonco
Mediey Walt
Oprsitan Dance Players
Naples
la Nuovi Orchestra
Hamming
Darling
Boip
Tay
Columbia
New
Colombia
al Colombia
Columbia Graphophone Company
New York
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