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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1925
Page
4
More than thirty civil aviators in Southern California have issued a passenger safety code. Each signer pledges not to perform stunt flying with passengers and to limits on ordinary flight and aircraft conditions. The code applies only to passenger safety and ground-area concerns, not aerial stunts.
Sharpsburg Pennsylvania reader reports strong relief from aches and fatigue after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound four bottles. The note cites improved dizziness appetite and energy and urges others to try the product based on letters and a Pittsburgh Press ad. Sold by grugists everywhere.
Oxford income last year exceeded 5 million dollars with Magdalen the richest at over 500 thousand. Leases grant tiny rents for vast estates. Balliol and Worcester spend more on teaching. Donations are small. exam fees and government subsidies dominate revenue. Golf at Princes is discussed with notes on costs and a quote from Ramsay MacDonald.
The 1924 Revenue Act allows a reasonable depreciation deduction for property used in business. It covers capital assets not expensed, excludes home furnishings and clothing, but permits depreciation for theatrical costumes and limited life intangibles like patents and licenses. Land value changes and environmental declines do not alter depreciation rates.
London readers learn that the Prices Golf Club, once highly exclusive in the district, has opened its gates to the public for the first time. The move shifts access from private members to a broader London community, signaling a notable policy change.
Prominent cast members of The Perfect Flapper share views on modern flappers vs earlier generations. Colleen Moore's co star Sydney Chaplin, Frank Mayo, Phyllis Haver, Lydia Knott, and others discuss hair trends hygiene and public perception.
A compiled grid lists Western Union and city stations from WSB Atlanta to WJZ New York with times for orchestras, concerts, lectures, dances, talks, and reviews. Entries mention programs like organ recitals, string quintets, symphonic orchestras, and musical ensembles across cities including Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, Dallas, Hollywood, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Louisville, Minneapolis, New York, and more.
A fragmented radio table lists multiple stations in New York Newark Philadelphia Oakland Pittsburgh Portland Porto Rico San Francisco Seattle Springfield St Louis Washington with times for orchestras concerts talks recitals dances and vocal performances.
About 2000 members of the Order of the Star in the East have built a $60,000 amphitheatre at Balmoral Beach near Sydney to await Christ’s second coming. They expect Him to walk on water from South Head and attend a Greek theatre staged there, with seating financed by member subscriptions.
Middlesboro England January 27 Sir Arthur Dorman a leading steel figure warned that living costs rise over 70 percent since before the war and steel prices rose about 40 percent. He cautioned that without rapid cost reductions British iron and steel exports could fall harming purchasing power abroad and proposed possible export subsidies to restore balance between British and continental life costs.
In San Francisco on January 26, a report confirms the California grizzly bear, long believed extinct, has appeared in Sequoia National Forest after four decades. The species once roamed Sierra Nevada and Coast ranges and served as the state emblem. The animal is larger than the Rocky Mountain grizzly and features a grayish coat and a shoulder hump.
Hawaii paid the U S treasury $5,021,422 in individual income taxes and $775,355 in miscellaneous taxes for the year ending June 30 1924, totaling $5,796,777. The figure exceeded the individual income tax payments of 12 states.
San Francisco reports Chinatown as the city’s hub of aerials with 23 wire sets per block marking a maze of cables across Oriental roofs in the January 27 record.
The piece notes elder Chinese preferring music over radio talks while schoolchildren learn quickly from broadcasts. Gon San-mue, immigration interpreter, cites car traffic in Chinatown on Sundays. William Hattanschwiller, from Burlington, faces auto theft charges and sought $2,000 bond after escape. captured in Burlington after eighteen months on the run.
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