Congress in shock as Speaker Burns dies and leadership shifts
By Otha D. Wearin the House mourns Speaker Burns placed in power Bankhead by acclamation after Burns sudden death. Roosevelt Garner and Cabinet attend services as Congress plans adjournment for conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia. Hans Hansen improves after liver trouble at Mercy hospital Council Bluffs.
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Otha D. Wearin
Congress
Burns
House
Bankhead
Joe Burns
Jean Trowbridge
Roosevelt
Garner
Cabinet
Senate
Diplomatic Corps
Nashville
Tennessee
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Hans Hansen
Mercy Hospital
Council Bluffs
Mr. Hansen
Anita Iowa ordinance licensing billiard pool parlors and bowling alleys
Ordinance 78 repeals Ordinance 36 and licenses operators of billiard pool parlors and bowling alleys. It sets license amounts 125 minimum per year, 25 per alley, annual 25 cents per license issued, and outlines regulation, penalties up to 30 days or 100 dollars, with rules on minor access, screens, and hours from noon to 6 am and Sundays.
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Anita
Iowa
Ordinance Provisions and Local News June 1936
The ordinance details fines and jail terms up to thirty days for nonpayment and repeals conflicting ordinances. The notice records passage on June 8 1936 by Clerk Solon A Karns. Local social items report Mrs A Poot visiting Des Moines relatives ill for ten days, Mrs Harvey Denton and Miss Beatrice of Iowa City in Anita, George Fritz purchasing A F Choate property with L D Pearson occupying, and Obedience Lodge 880 A F A M June meeting at Masonic Temple with first and second degree work and a post meeting lunch.
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Harvey Denton
Miss Beatrice
Iowa City
City
Harry C. Faulkner
George Fritz
Extra
A. F. Choate
South Anita
L. D. Pearson
Mr. Fritz
Anita
Obedience Lodge
A. M
Masonic Temple
Central Iowa farms average 2820 dollars income in 1935
The 1935 study of 79 central Iowa farms by L K Macy shows an average net farm income of 2820 dollars with net cash income 2300 dollars. High profit farms outperformed, with 924 acres of crop land and 307 acre size, cattle sales driving the gain and hogs yielding bigger returns per litter.
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Iowa
L. K. Macy
Iowa State College Extension
Macy
Memorial and social notices from Wiota and nearby towns
Harold Champion and wife Anita of Menlo visited Saturday. Cecil McAfee and wife attended the funeral for her uncle George Egan on Friday afternoon. Pythian Sisters held annual memorial services Sunday morning for departed members. Flowers placed on graves in Evergreen cemetery. Earl Knowlton and son Ted called on Friday. Odd Fellows and Rebekah lodges of Wiota held memorial services Sunday at the Methodist church with Rev. EB Anderson of Anita in charge.
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Cecil McAfee
George Egan
Pythian Sisters Lodge
Evergreen Cemetery
Odd Fellows and
Rebek
Wiota
Methodist Church
EB. L. Anderson
Anita
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Clover Farm
Anita Tribune
The
Tribune Publishing Co
F. Budd
Wearin
Capitol
J. C. Jenkins
Solon A. Karns
A. Poot
Des Moines
Chauncey F. Gotfredson
Pasadena
Cal
M. J. Peters
Sunkist
Harold Champion
Menlowert
Earl Knowlton
Ted
Creston
Cora Hunt
Brother
Kunz Grain CO
Bert Ramus
Semmee Neni Wana Od
Ted Conoco
Conoco
Ayo
Wsob
Barnholdt
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