Complex revenue bill stirs cautious Senate review
The new tax measure, passed by the House last week, faces a wary Senate Finance Committee. Critics note its 237 pages and extreme complexity with rates from 0.28571429 percent to 42.5 percent, aiming to push corporations to pay more in dividends, while raising concerns about the bill’s impact on the business cycle and revenue stability.
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Federal deficit set to top six billion in 1936
Treasury figures show a 1936 deficit around 5.97 billion dollars, the largest peacetime shortfall in history and about 50 dollars for every person. President Roosevelt faced higher estimates after wartime policies and tax rulings, with the national debt reaching new highs.
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Uncle Sam and national debt odds and dollars
A commentator argues that if personal debt equals national debt, average Americans would tighten belts and watch every nickel. The speaker notes the treasury holds vast gold reserves and compares per capita and per family debt to the overall federal liability.
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Grass as Medicine Prompts Food Fad Debate
A London report cites C Goodall of Tutbury Derbyshire discovering a grass derived substance rich in vitamins minerals and sugars. Hospitals test it for exhaustion and neurasthenia with encouraging early results, sparking foreseen shifts toward grass based foods and livestock feed.
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King Lear
London
C. Goodall
Tutbury
Derbyshire
Correct this sentence and punchlines from a 1936 speech
A 1936 copyright speech critiques unemployment, self reliance, and social reform. It cites rural poverty, wage debates, and urge to empower jobless through new livelihoods. It ridicules politics and con artists, ends with a satire on gossip and public virtue.
New York Day by D by O O McInyre at Broadway
A New York diary fragment details breakfast by a street window with notes from Eddie Guest Vingie Roe and Charles M Schwab. The writer visits the docks with his companion pays respects to Purser Villar and sees the Sky Sign at Roadways new building a marine themed gum advertisement.
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Manhattan Nightlife Blooms On West 52nd Street Strip
A lively West 52nd Street district between Fifth and Sixth Avenues fills with restaurants and night clubs as Broadway crowds flock to the area. The block thrives with flaming beacons, drawing comparisons to Montmartre, while no local venue has yet faced bankruptcy and high-profile figures mingle amid the revelry.
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Sky Sign Stops Sidewalk Traffic Across City Street
A stray line in a 1936 column recounts a curious scene where a sky sign halts pedestrians while a man wakes for milk at 2 a.m. The piece weaves with anecdotes about appetite and preferences, including a liking for caviar and milk, and notes whimsical remarks from literary figures and entertainers of the era.
Kidneys Cleanse Acids With Cystex Claim
An advertisement touts Cystex as a guaranteed kidney cleanse for acid buildup and wastes. It promises vitality in 48 hours and up to a week of improved health or money back, urging readers to call their druggist.
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The House of 1000 Candles Opening Noted
An excerpt describes D'Orsay examining his long mustaches and delivering a verbless line in a monosylla billic tale. He murmurs One Thousand Yes Quite A good many What reflecting on the opening scene.
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Mind and emotion questions through science and love
An author notes science informs moral choice in a civilized society. It discusses marriage among the deaf, grief after loss, and crying at plays as indicators of imagination. The dialogue cites Alexander Graham Bell and a psychologist to frame views on rational mate choice and coping with sorrow.
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Reducing diets and weight control debunked by Dr. Brady
Dr. Brady condemns fad diets and fasting as unsafe and unnecessary for weight loss. He argues proper nutrition plus sensible activity achieves healthy reduction, warns against miracle pills and mineral substitutes, and notes water loss is not lasting. He emphasizes balanced intake of carbs, protein, fat, fiber, minerals and vitamins to satisfy appetite.
How To Develop Your Personality by Sadie Myers Shelton
A practical booklet by Dr Sadie Myers Shelton offers readers guidance on developing personality. Send 10 cents for costs and a stamped self addressed envelope to Dr Wisgam care The Cedar Rapids Gazette.
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Cedar Rapids
Oxford High to Hold Commencement May 14 Address by UI Professor
Oxford plans commencement exercises on May 14 with Prof. Forrest Ensign of the University of Iowa College of Education delivering the address. Baccalaureate services will be at the Methodist church with Rev. Giles Wilson delivering the sermon. Seventeen graduates are Elma Honn Dorothy Jones Mary Ward Harriet Lillie Tevilia Oakes Anna Mahoney Eleanor Sponar Dorothy Winter Emory Windrem Harold Edwards Robert James Kenneth Parks Earl Stratton Cletus Sherman Marcellus Marcus Roueke John McDonough.
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Robert James
Kenneth Parks
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Unclear Nutrition Benefit Mentioned in Brief Note
A short excerpt notes improved nourishment reducing cravings without denying meals, suggesting better health. No clear names, dates, or places are provided to anchor specifics. The fragment hints at dietary change improving appetite.
Remedy For Nerve Quieting And Color Vision Woes
A 1936 column discusses a nervousness remedy with quinine and cautions about swallowing fruit pits. It also notes color deficiency affecting a widow trimming job and suggests improving vitamin A intake and quitting tobacco as potential helps.
Miss Dorothy Smith Drowned in River Recovery Near Bridge
The body of Miss Dorothy Smith night superintendent of St. Luke's hospital, drowned April 25, was recovered shortly after 2 p.m. today by J. H. Walsh, Frank Whitmore and Ray Watson near the First avenue bridge. H. H. Jacobs, Rock Island engineer, was injured when steam explosion in his cab showered hot oil into his face.
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St. Luke's Hospital
J. H. Walsh
Frank Whitmore
Ray Watson
First Avenue
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Rock Island
Little Johnnie Jones at Greene's Opera House Opens Two Day Run
Last night at Greene's opera house the act Little Johnnie Jones performed and Alice in Wonderland opened a two day engagement in the city today. W M Finn of Cedar Rapids was elected president of the state dental association at the Des Moines meeting with Cedar Rapids chosen as the next meeting site. Elmer Travis a cereal mill employee suffered a fracture after an entanglement incident described in brief terms.
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Greene's Opera House
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Cedar Rapids
State Dental Association
Des Moines
Elmer Travis
Cereal Mills
First U S secretary of agriculture Jeremiah Rusk
Jeremiah McLain Rusk served as the first U S secretary of agriculture under President Benjamin Harrison from 1889 to 1893 shaping early farm policy and administrative structure.
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Agriculture
Jeremiah McLain Rusk
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