Confiscation by Taxation Threat to Farm Lands in Wartime Debate
The Graettinger Times discusses rising taxes threatening farming, citing Dr. Ely and Dr. Big on state tax absorption of farm income. It compares 1880–1920 land values with 1913–1921 tax increases, warning taxes could confiscate land within a generation. It calls for tax reform and to halt spending.
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Rot
Ely Cfie
Bureau of Economics
Department of” Agriculture
Ohio
Farm Landa
Kansas
The Two Brothers Tale of Frugality and Fear
Two brothers Tom and Jerry differ greatly in spending. Tom is thrifty and anxious about money, treating coins as sacred and finances as a rainyday burden. His wife’s requests spark tension, a crowbar needed for groceries, and a life shadowed by austerity and sorrow.
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Tom
Jerry
Tie Insurance
The Future of the Post Office Revealed in Odd Tale
A humorous tale contrasts a spendthrift lifestyle with a cautionary moral about saving for the future. It then shifts to bold figures on 1920s postal operations, detailing mail volume, money orders, registered mail, and the scale of stationery and ink use, highlighting the Post Office as a vast enterprise.
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Postal Savings
United States
New York
San Francisc
Lutheran Church Notes Missing Annual Meeting Absence
Church notes list service next Sunday at 10 30 a m in Lost Island in English by Student A Twveit Sunday school and Bible class at 9 30 a m and Luther League with Bible study every Sunday at 8 p m in Graettinger The pastor Rev O Sande will be absent for the annual meeting at Lake Mills from May 20 to June 4
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Lutheran Church
Lost Island
A. Twveit
Luther
Graettinger
Lake Mills
Iowa
Sande
Methodist Church Notes and Postal Service Facts
Sunday schedule for Methodist Church notes includes Sunday School at 10:00, morning worship with a sermon titled In the Spiritual Atmosphere Changing, Epworth League at 11:00, and evening worship with a sermon Christian Patience and special music at 8:00. A Young Men's class led by J L Fidler painted the church, with the Young Ladies' class led by Mrs C J Mekkelson furnishing dinner. project to be completed with a second coat soon. The Postal Service fact sheet reports the U S handles about 23 billion articles yearly, with 12 billion letters, 44,000 rural routes serving over 6.4 million families, and 961,000 employees nationwide.
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Methodist Church
Epworth League
J. 1
Fidler
C. J. Mekkelson
United States Postal Service
Postal Service
United States
Atlas
Uintah
Utah
Post Office “Department
Arctic
Dow
Igen
Alaskan Invention
Nera
Intag
Post Office Dept Figures Reveal Vast Postal Volume
The article lists massive postal supplies and activity including 85 000 quarts of mucilage 1 620 900 lead pencils and nearly 6 000 000 steel pens. It notes 12 000 000 mail sacks used annually and 6 000 000 yards of canvas for new sacks. It also records daily 1 178 478 miles traveled by rural carriers and 60 256 804 miles annually with 15 and a half billion stamps and 1 ¼ postal cards sold yearly.
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Post Office Department
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Graettinger Telephone Co
T. O. Thompson, Msgr
the Graettinger
TIMES
John J. Sullivan
Graettin- Bet, Il
Rock RE
Chicago
Rock Island
Fnglewodd
South Side
Circle
Union
Alls
Dad
Dreas
Abe
C. A. Jensen
General Merchandise
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Burkhead & Co
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