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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1938
Page
1
A disordered fragment surveys 1938 weather patterns and forecasts, noting percentages, deaths, and oddities. It touches on a few named items like the Leader, Garden club column, CCCamp catalogs, Pinky and Tilly, and Hastings school news, while criticizing prophecy speculation and noting printing quirks.
Local items include Mrs.Fld Patrick's broken wrist from a fall at her Malvern home and a doctor’s care restoring the fracture. Malvern firemen plan a home talent show on Feb 6. W. W. Francis estate sale of Placeville property details, with price noted. Village residents discuss weather, storms, and charity efforts with a total of 208 raised for nine families. County board resolutions allocate state and county funds in Glenwood State Bank for public revenue and aid to the needy, listing specific beneficiaries and monthly cash amounts.
The piece praises junior high players for competitive skill and teamwork and forecasts rising county talent. It notes Malvern and Glenwood liquor-store profits rose about 200 dollars in December, while other spending fell, harming groceries and clothing as some households reduce essentials due to liquor consumption.
The text discusses a preference for an educational campaign funded by state profits and a desire to allocate advertising space to it without cost to the State. It notes willingness to contribute time and space if a workable computer solution is found and mentions seeking a better use for the resources.
An analysis notes that federal tax burden falls on lower income groups while higher earners pay less, contradicting New Deal rhetoric. Deficit trends imply taxes will rise, impacting those with the least ability to pay regardless of deficit reduction efforts.
Notice given by Amy Hammers, Superintendent, announcing county examinations to be held at the county superintendent's office in Glenwood on January 26, 27, and 28.
This Leader article from the State Department of Health warns that maternal syphilis causing a syphilitic baby is the worst aspect of the disease. It stresses parental responsibility, outlines potential birth defects such as interstitial keratitis, deafness, Hutchinson teeth, saddle nose, and other malformations, and urges pregnancy testing with Wassermann and full treatment to prevent transmission.
Report notes a strange incident on a country road near Bagle Grove Wrist county as youths heard a sudden noise and observed glass from a windowed pane shattering, with no Trace of assailant found. The piece also mentions aging residents and livestock losses in nearby Pulaski County during 1937.
A garden note urges January resolutions for recreation through gardening. It highlights planting more than one specimen, removing diseased plants promptly, and avoiding garden pests while praising new petunia hybrids and hardy varieties. It notes seed catalogs will showcase hybridizers and cautions on branch care for evergreens and water needs in cold weather.
The next Garden club meeting is Tuesday Jan 20 hosted by Mrs A Mulholland with leader Mrs Stella Mulholland. Roll call New Year’s greetings. In February a copy of the book Katrina by Sally Niffen will be given by Mel IT Hemghtan of Red Oak. Place of meeting to be announced later.
Mills County Iowa opens 1938 with F J Anderson as chairman and assigns salaries for county officials. Deputy Auditor R J McPherron earns 116 dollars monthly, and other staff receive 60 to 125 dollars per month. Dewey Van Orsdel named county farm steward, Orra Kirkham keeper of the poor. Official newspapers named as Opinion-Tribune, Malvern Leader, and Silver City Times. Depository resolutions cover state and county funds with specified banks and limits.
President Roosevelt’s State of the Union message was broadcast nationwide and abroad as Congress entered its third session. The Ludlow Amendment debate split Congress on war entry policy, with Administration opposing limits on executive action. House focus shifted to various appropriation bills.
Tam a member has been meeting regularly both morning and afternoons to discuss proposed tax revisions. Public hearings began today and will continue for some time. Modifications of the 1934 Act will likely be adopted, exempting small corporations with incomes under 23000 annually from the corporation surplus tax, a group that comprises about BS percent of U S corporations.
East Liberty local column records guests visiting near Silver City and Council Bluffs. Families including Maddocks, McCaully, Lonkalil, Mayberry, Wilhelm, Nelson, Han son, DuVal, Henderson, and Lutz share dinners and hospital visits. Notable items: Evelyn Laity contracts scarlet fever but improves, Mere rrill Turnier returns home from hospital, and flu keeps B J Lockabill and Ruth bedridden.
The Bunker Hill monument began in 1827 and was completed in 1842 after a funding gap paused work.
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