The Passage of the Juvenile Court Law in Iowa, 1904

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Introduction

Abstract

Document List:

Document 1: “One Way to Organize a Mother’s Club” by Cora Bussey Hillis.  Cora Bussey Hillis Collection, Ms. 72, Box 1, Scrapbooks, State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City.

Document 2: National Congress of Mothers Convention in Des Moines, May 1900.  Cora Bussey Hillis Collection, Ms. 72, Box 1, Scrapbooks, State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City.

Document 3: Letter from Hannah Kent Schoff, January 11, 1902.   Cora Bussey Hillis Collection, Ms. 72, Box 1, State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City.  Letter reprinted from “Securing the Juvenile Court Law in Iowa” by Hazel Hillis.  Annals of Iowa Volume XXIII, 1941-42 3^rd Series, 161-188.

Document 4: Letter from Richard Tuthill, December 1, 1903.  Cora Bussey Hillis Collection, Ms. 72, Box 1, State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City.

Document 5: Letter from Richard Tuthill, January 10, 1904.  Cora Bussey Hillis Collection, Ms. 72, Box 1, State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City.

Document 6: Letter from Hannah Kent Schoff, January 11, 1904.  Cora Bussey Hillis Collection, Ms. 72, Box 1, State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City.

Document 7: Letter from Ben Lindsey, January 11, 1904.  Cora Bussey Hillis Collection, Ms. 72, Box 1, State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City.

Document 8: “Juvenile Court Movement Grows” Des Moines Register and Leader, January 14, 1904. 

Document 9: Letter from Ben Lindsey to Iowa Governor Albert Cummins, February 3, 1904.  Cora Bussey Hillis Collection, Ms. 72, Box 1, State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City.

Document 10: An Act Enlarging the Powers of the District Court, and to Regulate the Treatments and Control of Dependant, Neglected and Delinquent Children.  April 7, 1904.  State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa.

Document 11: Order for a Detention Home.  Cora Bussey Hillis Collection, Ms. 72, Box 1, Scrapbooks, State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City.

Document 12: Minutes of the Board of Managers of the Detention Home.  Cora Bussey Hillis Collection, Ms. 72, Box 1, Scrapbooks, State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City.

Document 13:  “12 Years for a Five-Cent Theft”  Des Moines Register and Leader, September 1, 1904.

Document 14: Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census. Special Reports.  Prisoners and Juvenile Delinquents in Institutions 1904.  GPO, 1907.

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