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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1918
Page
3
President Wilson personally urged Congress to stay in session and enact new war tax laws to fund the war, calling for a politics free tax bill. He warned against profiteering, proposed taxes on incomes and war profits, and stressed the need for early, definite action to support military mobilization and the war effort.
A report by James Ford of the public welfare board studies 1500 cripples near Ninth street, finding 70 self supporting and 52 begging. It links liquor to begging, notes 75 percent of those over forty are not self supporting, and urges personal attention over street doles.
A streetcar bound for the railroad depot carries an apparently rural man with a heavy suitcase. Two onlookers shadow him as he buys a ticket and heads toward the Red Cross booth. The suitcase contents reveal magazines linked to wartime reading for soldiers. The crowd tempers the moment as questions arise about the owner’s intent.
A one day old Frank Dowie was named after Dr. Frank Moskowitz delivered him on a hospital transit car in Cincinnati. Mrs Dowie, 31, and her husband rode an express line where passengers and officials watched as the birth occurred and the doctor confirmed the name Frank.
In New York a Sea Beach Transit conductor, a motherly figure in her forties, halted six unruly youths in knickerbockers on a transit car. She collected tickets, disciplined the group, and sent the cap-waving ringleader to the rear as the car reached Fifty Ninth Street.
A Des Moines business leader C Lerring is tapped by a government committee to help prosecute the war. Miss Hihs Winterfield of Radcliffe will teach in Porto Rico under the U S Bureau of Education. Captain James Norman Hall, reported alive after a May 7 crash, was wounded slightly. Wheat requisition at Cedar Rapids takes 250 bushels at 2 20 a bushel. Cornell College to offer mandatory military training next year. Iowa voters in the June 3 primary can vote by mail. Fire at Harper's Ferry destroys coal and railroad property. heavy losses feared. Over 500 Black Hawk County youths join agricultural clubs. Government work suspends carpentry at Sand Prairie range for lack of material. Anti-fighting conscientious objectors at Camp Dodge restructured into a single company under Capt Adam Richmond.
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