Iowa and national leaders reshuffle cabinet and academia
Secretary of the Navy Metcalf resigns for ill health effective December 1. Assistant Secretary Truman Newberry named his successor. William Arnold Shanklin elected Wesleyan University president. Cornell veteran Dean Crane resigns after 41 years. Various state and national political, academic, and industry moves follow, including Roosevelts reception of farmers and a rail settlement in Iowa.
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Victor H. Metcalf
Truman H. Newberry
Metcalf
William Arnold Shanklin
Upper Iowa University
Fayette
Wesleyan University
Middletown
Conn
Thomas Frederick Crane
Cornell University
Gov
Hughes
Secretary of State of
New York
Richard MacLaurin
Columbia University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Emperor William
Reichstag
London Daily Telegraph
William
Count Zeppelin
Castro
Venezuela
Europe
Sholto Douglas
Marquis of Queensbury
Nelson
B. C
Rowland
King Edward
Sandringham
State Capital Gossip Board of Control Files Report
Des Moines reports the Board of Control requests appropriations totaling 476860 for state institutions and land for an epileptic colony 640 acres minimum. It notes rising epileptic and feeble minded patients and urges a new colony. details also cover railroad service changes, bank prosecutions, labor commissioner candidates, plumber licensing, and a Polk County hospital plan.
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Iowa
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Minnesota
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Iowa City
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Eustis
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Centerville
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J. W. Pring
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Pring
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Shaw
Mr. Brigham
Cunminns
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Civil Service
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Drake Medical College
Deg Moin
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