New Deal Shifts Rural Isolation and Farm Markets
The piece traces trends from Iowa farms to national policy, noting direct selling by farmers, market price gaps, and the rise of mechanization during and after World War I. It discusses tiling and ditching innovations, the shift from wild hay to prairie chickens, and the expansion of farm machinery as labor scarce. It also reflects on rural isolation and changing consumer roles amid rising productivity.
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Iowa
Open Market Commission
Prairies
Towa
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Buffalo
Indianapolis
Chicago
Illinois
Corn
Livestock Exchange
Stockyards Company
Baltimore
Markets
Union Stockyards
East St. Louis
Cleveland
Muscatine
Davenport
Dubuque
Sinclair
Cedar Rapids
Postville
Knute Espe
Espe
Grange
Farmers' Equity
Farm Union
Equity
Farm Bureaus
Ames Extension Service
Des Moines
Iowa State Shippers
Farm Bureau’ Federation
Farm Board
Four Engines And Snow Plow Near Traer In 1881
A historic photograph shows four engines and a B. C. R. and N. snow plow pushing through deep drifts about a mile east of Traer. Crew includes Frank Norris and fellow engineers Amos Vergil Dick Witherall Charles Russell Buck Floyd Tim Tindall Frank Davis Bill Cary and others.
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Winter
Traer
Frank Norris
Sixth Street
Tru-Art
Amos
Doc) Vergil
Dick Witherall
Charles Russell
Buck Floyd
Tim Tindall
Frank Davis
Bill Cary
Cineca Hardenburg
Pat Quinlan
John C. Fox
Pat Howe
Frank Alspaugh
Mr. Norris
B. Nn R
Economic balance and a new distribution machine ahead
The article argues that inflation policies hurt and that wartime economists urged taxation to curb profiteering. It foresees a shift from a single production focus to building a distribution system, promising optimism as readjustment ends and the economy refocuses on employment and growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
1933 Outlook From Iowa Business Leaders For Revival
Prominent figures such as Frank Wilson and Frank Hanlon express optimism for 1933, urging expanded use of Iowa coal, tax reductions, and improved agricultural prices. They foresee a rebound in manufacturing and mining, with production rising and employment improving as government and industry cooperate.
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Iowa
Frank Wilson
Albia
District 13
United Mine Workers of America
Hraper
Ottumwa
Iowa Coal Institute
Frank J. Hanlon
Mason City
People’s Gas and Electric Company
Mason City Brick and Tile,company
E.S. Selby
Jacob E. Decker and Sons Company
L. R. McKee
Muscatine
McKee Feed and Grain Company
Cornell Professor Attacks Technocracy Containing Outlooks
Professor Rich outlines 1933 economic forecasts touching tariffs, beer law, railroad wages, debt cancellation, banking reform, and budget balance. He predicts new deal momentum, possible currency inflation, farm price rises, and limited farm mortgage relief while noting constitutional limits on state action. He cites Roosevelt teamwork and market effects from removal of Russian wheat and Farm Board surpluses.
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Penser Roosevelt
Rich
Reconstruction Finance
Iowa
Supreme Court
Canada
Prof
Roosevelt
Dr. Rich
Liverpool
Newton minister unable to preach due to pneumonia
For the first time in almost fifty years Rev. W. H. Blancke of the Lutheran church in Newton is absent from the pulpit. The dean of Newton ministers is hospitalized with bronchial pneumonia.
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Newton
W. H. Blancke
Lutheran Church
Two Firemen Hurt In Truck Collision
Ottumwa dispatch reports two firemen were injured when a fire truck responding to an alarm collided with a coal truck at a street intersection. Max Hicks was taken to a hospital with wounds dressed. Captain Sam Russell received treatment for bruises and shock. The coal truck driver also went to a hospital with slight injuries and was released.
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Ottumwa
Max Hicks
Sam Russell
New Force Ready To Take Office In Jones County Seat
Anamosa reports a political shift as Jones County leans Democratic in local races. George Specht becomes county auditor with deputy Rena Hoult. Marvin Levsen is county attorney. Tom McNamara to treasurer with deputies Melvin Ingwersen and Alex Robertson. Bess Sherman becomes recorder. Lee Byerly chosen as clerk. Sheriff W. H. Frazer reelected with deputy Cooley. supervisors replaced include Henry Shimerda and N C Holst with E M Russell and others continuing.
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Spectalto
Carette
Anamosa
Jones County
Recorder
George Specht
Castle Grove
LaVern Rockstad
Rena Hoult
Clyde Barker
Bess Sherman
Francis Whitcomb
Marvin Levsen
Monticello
Warren Rees
W. H. Frazer
R. D. Cooley
Henry Shimerda
Oxford Junction
N. C. Holst
Center Junction
H. P. Barber
Wyoming
F. E. Taylor
Olin
E. M. Russell
Gerd Harms
John Mattihessen
Bill to limit tax increases to valuation growth
A Des Moines report outlines a bill by the legislative committee on reducing governmental expenditures. It would allow tax levies to rise only as assessed property values grow and would trigger automatic tax reductions when values fall. The measure targets all taxing subdivisions and seeks to curb spending despite rising levies.
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Des Moines
INS
Legislative Committee
Iowa
Polk Unemployed Demand Improved Rations And Cash
In Des Moines AP the Polk county board told 300 unemployed petitioners that an answer to their demand for better relief rations and a dollar a week cash allowance would be given next Wednesday or Thursday. Unemployed speakers said current rations offer only 80 percent of sufficient food value for six months. The group argued cash would cover essential supplies not provided by the county.
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DES Moines
Polk County Board of Supervisors
Milo Hilton Seized in Des Moines Bootlegging Arrest
Milo Hilton 34, a former bootlegger known for transporting liquor by air, was arrested by dry raiders in Des Moines. A car he stopped contained whisky beer and ale. He is held for investigation and for county attorney in Marshalltown. Hilton previously faced a 1928 raid and a $1,000 fine in federal court.
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Des Moines
Milo Hilton
Hilton
Marshalltown
Symphony of art and music lecture at Cornell
Dudley Crafts Watson will present a symphony of music and pictures at Cornell College on Friday evening January 6 as part of the Cornell artist and lecture course. The program combines graphic reproductions of masterpieces with select world music and features works by Botticelli Michelangelo Rembrandt Raphael Puvis de Chavanne and composers Mozart Beethoven Schubert and Franck.
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Mount Vernon
Dudley Crafts Watson
Cornell College
Cornell
Watson
Chicago Art Institute
James Nelson Raymond
Children's Lecture Fund of
Chicago
University of Wisconsin
Milwaukee Art Institute
Milwaukee Journal
Sorolla
Spain
Sir Alfred East
England
Lake Geneva
Wis
Botticelli
Inheritance Tax Receipts Rise for Iowa in 1932
Iowa treasurer records show the 1932 state inheritance tax totaled $934,176.61, up $53,258.11 from 1931. The increase is linked to law changes by the last general assembly altering classifications and rates. December receipts reached $129,577.74, with November at $58,297.64.
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Des Moines
Towa
General Assembly
Claussen Leaves Bench Pending Outcome Of Suit
Des Moines AP reports George Claussen withdraws from the Iowa supreme court case pending the legality of Hubert Utterbach’s election. Three new Democratic judges will begin duties next week with Utterback, Donegan in division one Jan 10 and Kitzinger, Anderson in division two Jan 17. Calamus deaths follow. Mrs. Margaret Hayes, 90, dies near Calamus after pneumonia. survivors include four children, twenty seven grandchildren, and twenty one great grandchildren. Funeral Monday at 1 30 p.m. at Kvinherred Lutheran church. Rev. Homer J. Sheldahl to officiate.
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DES Moines
Hubert Utterbach
Iowa Supreme Court
George Claussen
Utterback
Maurice F. Donegan
John .W. Kitzinger
John W. Anderson
Calamus
Margaret Hayes
Henry Anderson
Anna Swanson
Bergen
Norway
America
Olive Township
Clinton County
Jonathan Hayes
Kvinherred Lutheran Church
Kvinherred Ladies Aid Society
Kvinherred Lutheran Cemetery Association
Henry Andersen
John Hayes
Ida Pedersen
Homer J. Sheldahl
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Arthur Huntington
Calvin Coolidge
Rapid City
Gazette
New York
Huntington
Farmers’ Company
Washington
United States
Pikes
Minnesota
Directs
Interstate Commerce Commission
Boston
California
Seaboard
Tama
New York City
P. G. Holden
College At
Ames
Corporation
Globe-Wernicke Agency
Walton A. Keller Co
Second Avenue SE
Island
Independent Hatters & Shoe Repairs
Mike Bellas
Third Street
Polk
Symphony OF Art
Claussen
Miller Health Clinic
S. H. Miller
D. C
St. NE
Dia
Nelson Brothers
Merchants Bank
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