Des Moines House Calendar Crowded With Major Measures
Des Moines March 17 the house calendar is packed with 114 bills at adjournment and more slated. Key items include Roberts bill for crippled children hospital in Jones City Grason bill banning secret societies in high schools and Griffin blue law repeal. Additional measures touch insurance rating bureau auto number plates and law enforcement funding.
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Des Moines
House of Representatives
Roberts
Funda
Jows City
Grason
Insurance Rating Bureau
Elwood
Railroad Commission
Iowa
St Jacobs Oil Claims Fast Rheumatism Relief
The ad promotes St Jacobs Oil as a quick cure for rheumatism, sciatica, neuralgia, lumbago, backache, sprains, and swellings. It urges readers to rub the sore area with a small trial bottle and promises instant relief and improved mobility. It claims broad effectiveness and a long track record of cures.
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ST. Jacobs
Change in Vacation tax system passes with one dissent
The House approved a Weaver bill to convert tax assessment to dollar based levies, curbing sudden valuation shifts. It requires tax rates to be stated in dollars and cents, preventing unexpected raises from millage or valuation changes before the next tax collection.
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House
Towa
Honda
Iowa approves tuberculosis bill for cattle health
The Iowa Senate passed a livestock health bill 24 to 4. It bans sale of dairy cow oil from cattle not tuberculin tested after July 1, 1920 and requires testing every two years. Infected cattle become state property, with owner compensation up to 300 dollars for purebreds and 160 for grades. The act allocates 60 thousand dollars and levies funds per head.
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Board of Supervisors
State Animal Tuberculosis Fund
VOTES AS HIS FATHER VOTED IN SEVENTY SIX
Des Moines March 17 Representative W Giltner of Albia helped defeat a bill by Helmer of Carrell that would have abolished jury trials in will contests. The bill passed the senate with Giltner upholding family traditions. his father voted for the bill in 1876 when jury trials first began in will cases.
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Des Moines
W. ©. Giltner
Albia
Helmer
Carrell
Senate
Giltner
House
Labor Federation pushes changes to Iowa laws
J H L Strief president of the Iowa Federation of Labor reports unanimous passage in Des Moines of workman's compensation changes after talks with labor and manufacturers. The reform raises minimum pay from 5 to 6 dollars weekly and maximum from 10 to 15, extends medical service, and cuts petition thresholds for free textbooks. Strief will retire as federation president in June to join the state board of control in July.
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Des Moines
J. MH. Strief
Siouxtty
Iowa Federation of Labor
Waterlow
Strief
Senate
Board of Control
Lowa Foderation of Labor
Town Manufacturers’ Association
Legislatura
Rocapure
Ware
Nana
House
The
Typographical Union
Sioux City
300 Horses Sold in Winter Sale Attracts Buyers Nationwide
More than 409 horses were sold yesterday by William Holland with buyers from Maine to California. Most animals were Iowa and Minnesota draft horses. W. Homeringhaugen of St. Louis bought heavily for a Missouri firm likely shipping to France this month. Many horses will head to Syracuse New York Bangor Maine and Boston Massachusetts amid war driven demand.
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Wiliam Holland
Maine
California
Iowa
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Homringhaugen
St. Louis
Missouri
Trench
Hemringhaugen
France
Syracuse
N. Y
Bangor
Boston
Maia
Waterlooth
Hal
Homestead on Wheels Emigrant Plans Ozark Move
August Swearinger described as an emigrant de luxe travels by a Pullman box car loaded with livestock, household goods, and farm machinery from South Dakota toward Missouri’s Ozarks in search of a new home location. He notes the journey is uncomfortable.
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Swearinger
August Swearinger
Waterloo
Paing
South Dakota
Ozarks
Missouri
Quinine Laxative Ad Claims Head Impact Safe Use
An old advertisement touts Laxative Bromo Quinine as non nervousness inducing with tonic and laxative effects. It notes a single Bromo Quinine brand and features a signature on the box by B. W. Grove. The price listed is 26 cents.
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W. Grove
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Statstica
House Printing Committee
Otto Helming
Bil
State Board of Audit
Columbia
Cal
Lnon Labor and Manufac
Turers
J. H L. Strief
Federation
Yelis
Maxwell
Temrtrar
Suclery
Detroit
Harry Padden Auto Co
Sycamore
Towe
National
Lowa
Mr. Swearinger
Promised Land
Walter Baker & Co. Ltd
Dorchester
Mass
KODAK
Kodak Bank
Poeta CR la Ter
Lara Ltd
CaAuony Heckman
Bridge St. Actual, Sire
Ee Saran
Packard
Pierce- Arrow
Winton
White
Stutz
Mercer
Cadillac
Pierce-Arrow
Locomobile
White, Stutz
Mierce-Arrow
Strts
Chandler
Aes
Chandler Company
F. A. B. Cleveland
Graves. Auto CO
Jefferson Street
Chandler Motor Car Company
Cleveland, Ohio
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