Confiscation By Taxation Warned In Graettinger Editorial
The Graettinger Times editorial warns that rising state taxes threaten farm lands and tenants as tax burdens outpace farm income. It cites Dr. Ely of Wisconsin and figures from Ohio Kansas and Pennsylvania, urging tax overhaul and cautioning that confiscation could erode land ownership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RT. Ely
University of Wisconsin
Bureau“of Economics
Department, of
Agriculture
Ely
Chester County
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Kansas
Moral tale contrasts Tom and Jerry with Post Office facts
A long passage blends a humorous moral about two men named Tom and Jerry with sweeping postal statistics. It notes family fortunes and misfortunes, then shifts to era data on air and rail mail, money orders, insured mail, and vast postal outputs. The piece ends highlighting enormous scale of 1928 postal operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom
Jerry
Church Notes and Local Notices from Lake Mills Area
Church notes outline Lutheran service next Sunday at 10 30 am in Lost Island led by Student A Tosit with Sunday school at 9 30 am and Luther League at 8 pm in Graettinger Absent for annual meeting at Lake Mills from May 30 to June 4 Rev O Sande pastor Methodist church notes list Sunday School 10 am morning worship 11 am Epworth League 7 15 pm and evening service 8 pm with sermons Is the Spiritual Atmosphere Changing and Christian Patience Young Men and Young Ladies classes held painting and cooking for painters Rev C J Mekkelson pastor postal service notes describe immense mail volume with 23 000 000 000 items yearly plus details on rural routes and staffing fostering a sense of national mail logistics and transportation history
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lutheran Church
Lost Island
A. Tosit
Luther League
Graettinger
Lake Mills
Iowa
Sande
Methodist Church
Epworth League
J. L. Fidler
C. J. Mekkelson
United States Postal Service
Postal Service
United States
Atlas
Uintah
Utah
Post Office Department
Arctic
Mometes
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Fraight
Akes
Graettinger Telephone Co
T. O. Thompson, Mgr
the Graettinger Times
John J
Graettinger, Tai
Subscription
Ratea Seremesepescese Ga
Ipaproved
Chicago
Graettin
Chiedgo
Englewood Uth
Tfe Insurance
Arctic Circle
Postal Savings
New York
San Francisco
Union
Alls
Dad
Adc
C. A. Jensen
General Merchandise
Wren
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Burkhead & Co
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