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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1936
Page
2
A notice urges readers to subscribe to the Register-Tribune and the Pathfinder, offering 62 issues of each for 2.35 dollars. It promises weekly local, national, and world news and invites sample copies of the Pathfinder. Subscriptions are handled at the office, with contact by phone or in person.
A homely guide promotes preparing a large, no cook buffet using canned foods to entertain many guests cheaply and efficiently. It details a lobster salad recipe, a pineapple cream sherbet, and a strawberry grapefruitade, each serving about fifty, with simple steps and cooling beverage ideas for hot weather.
Fruit juices offer quick health benefits for busy readers. Prunade and Citric Delight cocktails use canned fruit juices and simple syrups to yield twelve to fifteen punch glasses each, served very cold.
A Des Moines exhibit showed that foreign imports of corn, wheat, oats, flaxseed and other goods in 1935 displaced vast Iowa farm production. It detailed how 1.5 million Iowa acres of corn land were removed by crop curtailment, with 27.5 million bushels of wheat and 10 million bushels of oats imported, reshaping farmland use across the state.
Washington reports four billion eight hundred eighty million dollars is being spent on Roosevelt’s relief program covering a wide range of projects. Arts classes tap dancing theater to canal digging in Florida, duck ponds in North Dakota and more. Notable items include a Placerville pond, a Lisbon poultry house, Texas community gardens, Duluth athletic field, and race track improvements in Dayton. Projects also fund Greek dialect maps, New York real estate surveys, and universal relief through recreation costing over three billion annually.
Officials of the First National bank decided to pay off its depositors and close up. The depositors were paid in full, the sum amounting to $475,000. The owners blamed government restrictions on banks as making banking in small towns unprofitable and objected to carrying large amounts of government securities pushed through banking channels from Washington.
A Chicago newspaper quotes economist B Q C Forbes criticizing taxation. He cites a milk tax overall, plus 53 bread taxes and $6.70 yearly taxes on a telephone, with over 20 cents of each dollar going to federal taxes under the New Deal.
The United States treasury reports $50 million more in taxes collected during the first seven months of the 1936 fiscal year than the same period a year earlier, despite a $250,000 reduction in processing taxes.
Washington reports the national debt rose during February from an all time high at month start. The increase equated to 7000 dollars per minute, 420000 per hour, 5040000 per day and 1.839 billion dollars per year.
Federal census data show the South shifting crop patterns with Alabama cutting cotton acreage from 3,566,498 in 1980 to 2,130,062 in 1935, a drop of 1,436,436 acres, while Southern corn acres rose from 5,206,704 to 7,278,261, up 2,051,557. Georgia's AAA effects increased hog numbers by 57,431 as cotton belt farmers gain corn and hogs despite belt hog declines.
The United States began the new year with a gross debt of 80,557,000,000, about 4 billion more than the wartime peak. Six months earlier the debt stood at 28,700,000,000, far below the latest total of 80,557,000,000. The wartime peak was 26,594,000,000.
Frances Naile twenty one is chosen as the Bluebonnet Girl from three hundred entrants for the Texas Centennial Exposition opening in Dallas on June six. She also wins a national talent contest by Universal Studios Screen Play and Motion Picture Magazines and Hold-Bob bing and will be Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt's hostess on opening day.
Don the 218 pound Great Dane and Blue Bonnet Sue the 2 pound nine ounce Pekingese meet at the Texas Centennial Exposition grounds in Dallas during the June 6 to November 29 World’s Fair run. Don headlines the Midway's Hollywood Animal Stars as a feature attraction.
The steer nicknamed Big Jim weighs 3,100 pounds, the world’s largest. Bred and raised by Rogers from a calf, the animal’s proceeds were donated to the Salvation Army. Current owners are unnamed in the report.
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