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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1928
Page
4
The item reports large cash rewards for dead bank robbers and critiques state bank guarantees. It contrasts Iowa and Nebraska bank conditions, cautions voters about a state guarantee law, and references remarks by Jacob Gould Schurman calling Germany democratic. It argues against expanding guarantees and outlines banking risks.
Dispatches report Senator Smith W Brookhart plans to introduce a bill guiding Federal Reserve Banks on how to conduct business. Brookhart, an authority on banking, had backed a bank in Washington Iowa that recently closed its doors. The note suggests readers should take notice of the proposal. The piece also mentions local observations from an editor, a border restaurant sign in Texas, and broader comments on lawmaking and party conventions.
High prices for farm products will not help the farmer if he hasn't any products to sell. It is unfortunate that many farmers are compelled to sell when price is not what it ought to be. If possible for him to hold his products a little while, prices and conditions would improve benefiting farmers, merchants, and laborers across the state.
The policy urged is economy and efficiency in government functions. The statesman leading the nation has stated he will not run for president in 1928 and calls for a successor sharing this policy for the good of the country and people.
A call for stringent measures to regulate insanity pleas in capital punishment cases. The speaker urges prompt penalties without legal gimmicks or procedural delays, demanding decisive action.
A mix of political rumors and community updates appears from Atlantic. Possible bid for County Auditor by Mrs. C B Clovis is noted beside existing council and accident reports. Relates to Jennie M Ward’s current county post and icy street conditions causing minor crashes. Nellie Eneix travels from Chicago and is called home due to a family illness in Eagle Grove Iowa.
The pastor greets worshippers after a short vacation despite gloomy weather. Sunday School attendance rises to 88, aiming for 100 on average. The Junior Sunshine Club meets Saturday at 1 30 with a late hour change. The New Year candle service is postponed to next Saturday. Regular services are listed with topics for children and adults.
A Missouri family letter describes extending a paper subscription to 1920, relief from hardship with meals, mud and stalled transport, eight family members reduced to six, daughters at work and school, a visit to Harrison Arkansas, and well wishes for Mrs. Hook's health. It mentions Homer Boatright, Maude, Fred Parkinson, and local ties near Kirksville and Washington DC.
The City Meat Market, owned by F. E. Travis of Stuart, was sold last week to L. A. Weare of Hamburg, Iowa. Weare is now in possession and plans alterations and improvements to resume business and help serve the public market needs.
Gist notes report on local record callers C O Gipple and son Charles Monday. James Byrd visited Omaha on Wednesday. Peter E Voorhees of Des Moines mailed payment for the old home paper.
Dan W Mallory once from Anita now runs business in Muscoda Wisconsin with wife and baby daughter visiting Anita after cousin Marie Mallory Bontrager's death. He served overseas in WWI and reports Wisconsin handling strong with cheese and butter trade, a major industry. Muscoda hosts a large furniture factory employing fifty to eighty year round, with high demand for its products.
Harold Brehmer and Earl Wheatley report a real winter in Watertown South Dakota with heavy snow and ice after spending several weeks there with relatives and friends.
Leon G. Voorhees of Oklahoma City president of First National Bank and H T Vernon Ardmore cashier visited Anita this week to review business and family ties. Voorhees also leads The Anita Bank. Oklahoma business conditions were described as unusually good with bright 1928 prospects.
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