Broadening Tools Plan of Cosson Campaign
Des Moines, Oct. 25. Friends of Attorney General Cosson announce his reply to Senator Allen expands campaign topics. He favors discussion of rural schools, industrial education, prison system, law enforcement, and good roads. He stresses temperance as key but says other issues deserve full debate and that candidates should declare positions on all important questions to guide voters.
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Cosson
Allen
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Alien
Billy Sunday Receives Secret Love Letter in Omaha
An Omaha woman, identified only as withheld, sent a perfumed note to Billy Sunday confessing intense affection and heartbreak at his looming departure. The letter, written before his sermon, was never delivered as Sunday’s staff filtered it among many other letters.
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Omahe
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Billy” Sunday
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Billy
Bankers to Challenge Moneys and Credits Tax Law
Des Moines October 25 Tama county bankers plan to contest the constitutionality of the moneys and credits tax law. Attorney C Huber asked for an opinion on the meaning of moneyed capital and its taxation. The attorney general says moneyed capital is money used to make money and should be taxed at 20 percent of value. Tama bankers in Phillips vs Mee argue moneyed capital should be taxed like moneys and credits or at four mills, or taxed at 20 percent of value like bank stocks.
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Tama County
State House
C. Huber
Nan
Phillips Vs. Mee
U.S
Knoxville rejects commission form of government
Citizens of Knoxville voted to keep the existing government, defeating the commission form proposal 209 to 49. Supporters warned the change would cost the city about 3,000 dollars more per year under the new system.
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Knoxville
Iowa's Road Bill Biggest in Union
Sanator y John W. Paster of Guthrie Center says Iowa spends more on roads than any other state, with 11,283,000 yearly road and bridge expenditures. He notes state appropriations are minor and urges a businesslike plan for hard roads and permanent bridges, including auto registration fees.
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Savings Bank Organized at Vancleve
Marshalltown Oct 26 Organization of the new Vancleve Savings bank with paid-up capital of 0,000 is completed at Vancleve. W B Preston of Vancleve is elected president and A F Belch of Marshalltown State Bank is vice president. Robert W Stevens, a bookkeeper at Fidelity Savings Bank, is elected cashier.
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Marshalltown State Bank
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Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Backed by Testimony
A Lackawanna resident recalls relief after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for postpartum misery and nervous exhaustion. The ad promotes the remedy for displacements, inflammation, ulcers, irregularities, backache, and other female complaints, urging women to seek confidential advice from the company in Lyon Massachusetts.
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A. F. Kreamer
Electric Avenue
Lackawanna
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lyon
Mass
Suicide of Cedar Rapids Church Janitor Shocks Parish
R K Simms janitor at St Haus church Cedar Rapids killed himself with a butcher knife after a sudden mental decline. He had moved to Cedar Rapids two years earlier and had been regarded as diligent and dependable until days of escalating insanity culminating in a vivid religious vision. He died soon after the act in the church quarters. Dr Brown had been consulted earlier Saturday.
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R. K. Simms
St. Haus’s Af 1
Ehurel
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iMimself
Sima
Ducashy
Dr. Brown
Co-operative packing plant to take over Brittain firm
Marshalltown October 25 From indications the Brittain Co Operation Packing Company will take over the Brittain and Co pork packers business by November 10. The optioned price is 1700000 with 100000 mortgage secured by Brittain interest. John J Bell former vice president and longtime manager will be a director and active in management. A Lanham current secretary will become director and secretary of the new board.
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Marshalltown
Brittain Co- Operation Packing Company
Brittain & Co
Pork Packers
John J. Bell
Track and Train Exchange Land Between City and Rail
William Atwill of Dubuque signs a land exchange with the city of Dubuque near the Illinois Central freight house. Chicago Northwestern reports officers and directors re-elected. President Gardner BayB notes October earnings up 4 percent. Port Dodge appointment at M&StL. St Louis & San Francisco reorganization near completion. Western Maryland Railway shows earnings up and deficits reduced. Chicago Milwaukee St Paul electrifies Puget Sound extension 440 miles main line and 141 miles yard tracks.
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Ilinois Central
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Illants Central
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Puget Sound
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Mont
Wabash railroad reorganization and railcar orders rise
In St. Louis federal judge orders Equitable Trust to hand over rail assets to Wabash creditors aiding a swift receivership termination. Western Maryland Railway orders 2000 freight cars, Central Railway of Georgia 600 cars. Kilborne’s successor dies in Fort Dodge after appendix rupture. Gardner family relocates from Webster City to Fort Dodge.
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Federal District Court
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Western Maryland Railway
Pullman Company
Te Latter Corporation
Central Railway of Georgia
Winter short course at Iowa State College tackles rural electrification and farming tech
Amez October 25 report notes Iowa farm life shifting with cars and electric power. The Iowa State College winter short course January 31 to February 6 will add engineering driven instruction alongside agricultural topics. Courses cover rural sanitation, electrical power and lighting on the farm, rural telephone organization, wiring, gas engines, tractors, cement use, and farm drainage.
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Iowa
Iowa State College
And&k
Chicago Tribune Columnist Praises Chalmers Tour
Famous Chicago paragrapher Bert Leston Taylor, famed for the in-O-Type column, returns from a New England motor tour in a Chalmers car. He reports climbing to 2000 feet with no engine trouble and fuel economy of 14 to 17 mpg. Cartoonist G. A. Briggs, longtime Tribune aide, also praises Chalmers Six ownership and driving since the original model.
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