Registration for City Election Slated Thursday
City officials announce opening of registration books at 21 Waterloo precincts to prepare for the March 31 election. Registrars list booths across wards with locations such as Wright's tinshop, Westminster church, Galloway club, Ackerman drug store, and St Luke's church. Citizens who voted previously and did not move need not re register. new residents or those who moved or turned 21 must register to vote.
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Waterloo
Charles C. MacKay
Wright's
J. W. Ackerman
John Brandon
St Luke’s Church
C. Chesterman
W. S. Brecunier
Deposit Place Dispute Stalls Iowa Measure
In Des Moines on March 19 tensions over a state treasurer deposit bill stalled as the House and Senate fail to agree on allowing funds to be deposited in banks outside Des Moines. Each chamber backs a different Des Moines bank bias, conferences unlikely to finish before adjournment.
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House
Senate
Des Moines
Civilian Rifles to Represent Iowa in National Matches
Adjutant General Louis G. Lasher announced Iowa aims to send a civilian rifle team to the National Rifle Association matches at Camp Perry, Ohio, in September. Funds are expected to be available for the trip after last year’s funding shortfall, with training urged nationwide and unit-based selection, tentative state try-outs at Camp Dodge in June.
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Movnes
Louis G. Lasher
Iowa
National Rifle Association
Camp Perry
O.C
Lasher
Towa
Adjutant General
Camp Dodge
Grinnell Students Represent 24 States and 3 Foreign Lands
Grinnell Iowa March 19 Twenty four states and three foreign countries are represented in the Grinnell student body this year according to registrar figures. Iowa leads.
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Grinnell
Iowa
New Quota Totals By State and Foreign Students Lead
The report outlines quotas by state with 607 students and lists Nebraska, Illinois, Minnesota, and South Dakota in order. It notes Pacific coast states, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New York on the east, Alabama and Texas on the south, Montana and Michigan on the north, plus seven Chinese students leading the foreign group.
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Nebraska
Illinois
Minnesota
South Dakota
Pacific Coast
Pennsylvania
Connecticut
New York
Alabama
Texas
Montana
Michigan
House Two Weeks Ahead in Speeding Up Iowa Legislation
Des Moines March 19. The State Legislature presses to adjournment as the House moves two weeks faster than the Senate in processing bills. Eleven measures remain unconsidered by either chamber, with 23 passed by the House awaiting Senate action. A House rule to report all in house committees by March 21 aims to speed up work, while Senate delay on the budget bill slows lower chamber agendas.
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Des Moines
House
Senate
Houses
West High Plans All School Swim Meet Next Week
Athletic authorities at West High announce an all-school swimming meet for boys in freshman through senior classes. More than 200 boys expected to enter events include races of various lengths, handicap races, diving, and all-around championships. The school lacks a team but will host the event as a gift to aquatic enthusiasts, with events Monday through Sunday after classes.
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West High
Hoya
Rose and Black
Ralph Sarff
Old Rose
Iowa
West
Fisher Leases Des Moines Flying Field for School
Des Moines reports veteran aviator Raymond C. Fisher leases a field three blocks from the Iowa state fairgrounds to serve as a flying field with a school of instruction linked to commercial aviation. Fisher, once with the army air service and forest patrol, previously survived a crash in a De Havilland in Crater Lake Oregon where rescue planes dropped spark plugs via parachute and aided his return to flight.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa State Fair Grounds
Raymond C. Fisher
Fisher
Army
Forest Fire Patrol
Forest Patrol
Big de Haviland
Crater Lake, Ore
Iowa man finally brings family from Poland
Sioux City, March 19. Jacob Kuntz of Sioux City spent five years battling for passports to bring his wife and two children from Poland in a hard fought effort. After the papers were finally issued he celebrated by buying an $8,000 home for his family.
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Sioux City
Jacob Kuntz
Poland
Kuntz
Three Mason City Boys Drown When Willow Creek Ice Capsizes
Howard Ross Arthur Tomby and Herbert Gilbert all eight years old drowned yesterday near Mason City as Willow creek ice broke under them while they played under the Federal avenue bridge. Lycie Rasmussen a girl age 13 was saved by Martin Mortensen who tossed a rope from a bridge. It took 25 minutes to recover the bodies with grappling hooks. A pulmotor was used but life could not be restored. The ice was only half an inch thick in exposed areas and firm only where shaded. The boys' fathers work for the Milwaukee railway or run a lunch counter.
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Mason City
Howard Ross
Arthur Tomby
Herbert Gilbert
Willow Creek
Lycie Rasmussen
Martin Mortensen
Federal Avenue ‘Bridge
Ross
Tomby
Milwaukee Railway
Gilbert
Memory Echoes in Arrest Case at Reinbeck Home
United States Deputy Marshal M. L. Healy arrests John Wilkins of Reinbeck on a liquor manufacture charge. Wilkins claims no recognition yet Healy recalls a 26 year old prior liquor law arrest, prompting a records check.
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John Wilkins
Reinbeck
United States
M. L. Healy
Jon Wilkins
Wilkins
Healy
Unable to parse coherent headline from garbled text
The fragmentary clipping mentions a grand jury bond of 286 dollars for an individual named Wilkins and references coal, water power development, and various unclear entities and places in Canada and Germany. Readable facts are too fragmented to form a reliable summary.
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Wilkins
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