Butter output falls as 1936 Iowa production drops
A Dairy and Food Division report from Iowa shows 1936 butter production at 207,826,08 pounds, down 11,000,000 from 1935’s 218,821,673. Northeastern creameries paid 35.29 cents per pound of butterfat while southern counties paid 2.45 cents. total butter value declined from 85,291,451.31 in 1926 to 62,157,034.82 in 1925.
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Iowa
Dairy and Food Division
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Fifty
TODAY'S TAXOGRAM ON FEDERAL SPENDING ILLUSION
The article argues that local taxpayers do not escape cost as most federal expenditures are financed by borrowing or indirect taxes. It notes that nearly nine billion dollars spent last year were largely borrowed or paid through unseen taxes, with less than one eighth raised by direct personal taxes.
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Washington
WATCH LICENSE PLATES ARRESTS BEGIN MAY DAY
The Towa motor vehicle department will arrest all drivers operating cars without a 1937 license plate starting Saturday May 1. Road patrolmen will detain drivers, bring them to officers, and charges will be filed with all costs and license fees due. The only safe option is to garage the car until licensed. Iowa taxpayers fund daily prayers in the House and Senate, though their value remains unclear.
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Towa Motor Vehicle Department
Iowa
House
Senate
Local weddings births and anniversaries noted in Baumgartner home gathering
A Sunday gathering near town celebrated the 58th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson, parents of Mrs. Baumgartner. News records include births at the Hanson home, school board appointments, a Woman's Study Club program, and staff changes at Elgin Lumber Co. plus a 86th birthday for Mrs. H. Kittleson.
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John Baumgartner
John Johnson
Baumgartner
Airs
Larson
S Grove
Walter Fald
Fred Gehring
Ed Hanson
Gladden
Mar
J. H. Williams
Lizzie B. Lyons
Amelia Exter
Anna Baldwin
Woman’s Study Club
F. W. Hughes
Montana
J. J. Hawley
Mr. Bruce
Elgin Lumber Co
Gus Gunderson
H. Kittleson
Gunderson
C. Moser
Amelia
Chris
Ben Weibel
Arlington
Jacob Ratz
Mel Kohler
Small boys wound man with air rifle at street corner
A man standing on the street was shot at by boys playing with an air rifle from some distance away. The pellet struck the corner of his eye, causing a painful bruise and forcing him to wear colored glasses for a day. A daughter reportedly brightened the home of Mr and Mrs Hans Winkler last week.
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Gladden
Hans Winkler
Printers in coal belt protest out of town printing
Union printers in the coal belt oppose out of town printing and urge locals to avoid patronizing businesses that use nonlocal printers. At Marion they erect a bulletin board showing samples of handbills not printed in Marion to draw public attention to the issue.
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Engag Ng
Marion
Sparta
Real Estate Transfers From W J Rogers Abstract Office
Within the week ending April 24 Gustav Hackmann and others transfer property to Louis Olson and wife for 3000 dollars in Clermont. Lawrence Butikofer and others convey land to Louis Butikofer, 1 dollar, in Forbes 2nd Add to Elgin and more. B J Baumgartner guardian transfers to Louis Butikofer guardian for 600 dollars in Forbes 2nd Add to Elgin and other land. Louis Butikofer et al sell to Samuel Butikofer and Rosa Schneider for 1 dollar in west half and east half northeast 28-94-7. Baumgartner guardian to Samuel Butikofer and Rosa Schneider guardian for 1406.25 dollars in undivided interests in same parcel. One rare white robin spotted in Waukon last Thursday with creamy white wings and tail, red breast, larger and loud song.
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W. J. Rogers’ Abstract
Gustav Hackmann
Louis Olson
Clermont
Lawrence Butikofer
Louis Butikofer
Forbes
Elgin
B. J. Baumgartner
Louis ‘Butikofer
Samuel Butikofer
Rosa Schneider
Waukon
Steel Bridge Over Rock Cut Near Fayette Leader
Workmen have prepared for a new six foot wider, longer steel bridge over the railroad rock cut. The CM St P P Railway is building a single girder bridge about 65 feet long with concrete foundations set back from the edge. Completion is expected by late May or early June.
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CM. St. P. & P. Railway Company
Fayette
Five Davenport barbers fined for sanitary violations
Five Davenport barber shop proprietors were fined $25 each after state health department investigators arrested them Thursday for sanitary violations. Inspectors found one shop used the same steam towel on three customers and the others failed to sterilize razors, use sanitary neck bands on barber aprons, kept unclean floors, and used unclean combs.
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Davenport
State Department of Health
State Health Department
New Plan Hopes to Make Quintuplets Toronto Gazette Attraction
Officials in Toronto debated housing the Dionne quintuplets in Casa Loma a 2000 castle to become Canada's top tourist draw. Proponents proposed 50 cent ground admission with aims to pay off the national debt in 20 years, noting the castle owed taxes and was seized by city authorities.
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Casa Loma
Canada
Toronto
Est
Sir Henry Pellatt
Repeal of Pension Tax in 1937 Refund Window
The Old Age Pension Tax was repealed effective January 1, 1937. Any person who paid the 1987 pension tax may request a refund before January 1, 1938, either in writing or in person, and must not be delinquent on any prior year’s tax. Refunds were prepared by about May 1.
Ossian pilots buy Curtiss-Wright airplane
Dr. J. W. Holtey and Oscar Joneasburg of Ossian have purchased a Curtiss-Wright airplane. Both are experienced pilots.
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J. W. Holtey
Oscar Joneasburg
Ossian
Hardware dealers meet in Sumner on May 4
Want ads item notes salesmen and hardware dealers from ten northeast Iowa counties convened in Sumner on Tuesday May 4 to discuss market concerns and collaborative opportunities.
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Tittle
Towa
Sumner
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