Pride Watermelon Fight Highlights Farm Debt Crisis
In Pride Alabama the Holts and other cotton croppers face eviction and debt under AAA policies. Government subsidies reach farmers via landlords who deduct costs, leaving croppers hungry and homeless as cotton prices rise but debt remains. The piece links New Deal programs to widespread tenant hardships and evictions despite better prices.
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Pride
Alabama
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Seth Holt
Seth
Holts
Cotton
Deep South
Holt
South
AAA
King Cotton
Carter's Liver Pills Promised Cure For Bad Breath 1934
A vintage ad explains foul breath stems from undigested food in the bowels and bile flow. It touts Carter's Vite Liver Pills to start bile secretion and prevent tooth loss from mercury pills, warning against inferior remedies.
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Carter
C.m.co
Leviathan to Dock For Year After Money Losing Trips
The US lines flagship Leviathan sails toward New York for the last time this year amid losses. Franklin of International Mercantile Marine says the liner, once premier, carried under sixty first class passengers on the last voyage. The board requires seven yearly trips. five this year were promised with one year remaining on the agreement. Franklin hopes for better business in 1935.
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New York
United States Lines
Leviathan
P. A. S Franklin
International Mercantile Marine Company
Pride
Havre
Hoboken
Shipping Board
United States
Franklin
Lightweight airplane metal aids TB diagnosis study
Discovery that beryllium, the light weight airplane metal, can help diagnose tuberculosis was announced to the American Chemical Society. Experiments at Olive View sanatorium California by Russell Loomis and Dr Emil Bogen show beryllium with chlorine injected under the skin worsens tuberculosis by about 50 percent, suggesting potential opposite effects elsewhere but no clue yet.
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Gleveland
American Chemical Society
Olive View Sanatorium
Olive View
Calif
Russell. Loomis
Emil Bogen
Loomis
Possible New Hormone Cancer Treatment Hints
Dr Dean De Witt Lewis of Johns Hopkins hinted at hormone therapy as a distant cancer treatment. He spoke at the Linn County Medical Society gathering in Hotel Roosevelt with about 200 physicians and Tri Cities delegates in attendance.
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Dean de Witt Lewis
Baltimore
Maryland
Linn County Medical Society
Hotel Roosevelt
Lewis
Johns Hopkins University
American Medical Association
Towa
Tri-Cities
Jong
Lamb
Davenport
Frank Peterson
Iowa City
William Jepson
Sioux City
H. P. Smith
H. E. Pfeiffer
Cedar Rapids
Omitted 1933 tax paid under protest by Merchants Natl Bank
The Merchants National Bank of Cedar Rapids paid $4 048.37 under protest to Linn County Treasurer Williams after weeks of negotiations over omitted tax on 674 728.96 in moneys and credits. Discrepancies between the bank's comptroller report and the Iowa assessor statement formed the dispute, with valuations differing by about 215 307.04 and a $552 863.76 reserve flagged as surplus.
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Merchants National Bank of
Cedar Rapids
Frank L. Williams
Linn County Court House
Des Moines
Merchants National
United States Comptroller of Currency
Iowa
Iowa Tax Service of
Grinnell
Board of Supervisors
Tax Service
Real estate transfers involving multiple Cedar Rapids parcels
Frank Bukacek and wife transfer 8 acres in gov lot 4 sec 14 82 6 to Howard Hall plus right of casement for 18 ft road across his farm. W A Baldwin sells to Frank B and Gertrude Baldwin lots 1 2 sub div of north end of out lot 7 Cedar Rapids. Josephine T A Egermayer sells to Rudolph J Hurka jr parcels in McClen and Buch's add w Cedar Rapids. Mary F Horak sells to B B Russell lot 4 blk 37 Hull's 4 add Cedar Rapids. Arthur R Chehak transfers to Winfield A and Plumey E Goodwater jointly in Cedar Rapids ward lot 1 blk 4 Youngs 1 add. All for $1 and val con. dates 9-8 to 9-10-34.
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Frank Bukacek
Howard Hall
A Baldwin
Frank B
Gertrude Baldwin Hhusband
Spee
North End
Cedar Rapids
Josephine T A Egermayer
Rudolph J Hurka, Jr
McClen and Buch
Val Con
Mary F Horak
Russell
Hull
Arthur R Chehak
Winfield A
Plumey E Goodwater
Youngs
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Robert 8
Allen
Bill Borah
William S
Hari
Borah
Will Rogers
Roosevelt
North Dakota
Gerald Paye
Munitions Investigating Committee
Chevy Chase
Johns Hopkins At Medical Society
Chicago
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