Railroads Income and the Case for Rate Increases
An analysis argues that a five per cent interstate rate rise for eastern lines strengthens western demands for higher rates. It explains how railroads face tighter public controls and highlights how 1913-1918 income was allocated to labor, maintenance, taxes, debt, and limited surplus, warning that depreciation and underinvestment threaten service unless rates rise.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
Public Service Commissions
Washington
United States
Wabash
Holiday Visits and Family News From the Emerson Area
Our Emerson column lists numerous holiday travels and family updates. Mrs. Sam Scalan returns from Wilcott with niece Mae. Dr. R. C. Houston and wife visit Omaha. Crawford sisters go to Blockton. Fairfield college students return home for vacation. Edwin Holmes born to Merrill and Mrs Holmes of Evanston. Beardsley show attendance. Clyde Rhoads party in Glenwood. Mrs. Bert Combs hosts visitors from Tapor. Mrs. Thompson mother to Cameron Scott. Mrs. Claude Barnes and Cameron attend Shenandoah funeral. Morning Side death elicits trip. Merrill Dudley guests of L. F. McFadon. Mrs. Wm. Snodgrass and Marjorie visit Shenandoah. McKnight family days with relatives.
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Sam Scalan
Wilcott
Charles Geesman
Mae
R. C. Houston
Omaha
Quarrie
Evangeline Crawford
Blockton
Lawrence Taylor
Ruch
Ada Greiner
Fairfield
Helen
Glenwood
Bert Combs
Tapor
Thompson
Claude Barnes
Cameron Scott
Shenandoah
Milton Honeyman
Morning Side
Iowa
Merrill Dudley
Des Moines
L. F. McFadon
Wm. Snodgrass
Marjorie
Mrs. Orsow Harris
Blanchard
L. W. Triplett
J. G. Goss
Red Oak
George
Seabiobm
Margaret Darnell
Council Bluffs
Elvira Kindig
Hilla
Lament
Robert Kirkpatrick
Harold
C. N. Bigelow
Maxine Harney
Macedonia
B. Farrington
A. O. Harney
Champ. Harover
Lincoln
Nebraska
Bessie Phillips
Joe Edmundson
Missouri
Jacob Coppock
C. M. Workman
Eliott
Sarah Woods
Peart
Margaret Harbor
Santa Claus
Christmas Village Notices and Social Roving
Henderson and Blanchard residents spent holidays with relatives across Iowa. Local families traced Christmas visits, Neighboring towns seen guests from Red Oak, Macedonia, Council Bluffs, and Omaha. A Golden wedding anniversary, school staff travels, and a Christmas program with Santa closed the week.
Hillsdale Christmas Eve program brightens church
East Center reports a Hillsdale Sunday school Christmas tree and program at the church on Christmas Eve. A large local audience attended the Mt Vernon and Silver School house events with successful box suppers and receipts around $60.00. Many community members joined in Christmas dinners and visits, including Clyde Norton and families, John Slaughter, Miss Mary Tolles, and several shoppers heading to Omaha.
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Hillsdale
Clyde Norton
Omaha
Frank Hammond
Brown Miller
John Norton
Mt. Vernon School
Hilder Borene
Everett Purcell
Noah
John Frazier
Frank Howard
Arline
Greetings To Our Foreign Subscribers
The Tribune expresses gratitude to readers outside the county with renewed subscriptions and new names joining the foreign list. The note promises continued news from the home county or the counties of readers' relatives, acknowledging the growing renewal trend and international readership.
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the Tribune
Tribune invites foreign readers to share 1916 cheer
The Tribune asks former residents of Milla county to write with news of successes or sympathies. It expresses desire to hear from foreign readers and wishes them and their families cheer in the new year 1916.
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Ikea Cartain
Tribune
Milla County
Cade Rogers' Weird Experiences Soldiers' Home
Cade Rogers describes his nights at the Soldiers Home in Marshalltown Iowa in December 1914. He recounts deaths nearby and heartrending moans while noting his own contemplation of life and mortality. He mentions meeting Levi Crouch and references Leah Crouch and Lem Mickolis family ties.
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Marshalltown
Captain Hawke
Levi Crouch
Glenwood
Leah Crouch
Lem Mick Olis
Lem
Denver
Cade Rogers
Legal notices and sale advertisements printed in The Tribune
Friends of The Tribune are urged to place probate and district court notices in this paper. For settlements of estates and public sales we can print sale bills and arrange an auctioneer if desired. Direct your attorney or county official to use The Tribune for notices and legal ads.
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Friends of the Tribune
The
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the Tribune
Highway alteration and location notice Mills County Iowa
The commissioner views and locates a sixty six foot highway from Green street Glenwood north center line of section 13 township 72 range 43 west of the fifth principal meridian Iowa. It will run east to the G B and Q railroad and through section 13 and 18 to Fallon Hill road then to branch road 367. Read by F M Jackson county engineer. Objections or claims for damages must be filed in the Auditor's office by noon March 1 1915.
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Green Stotts
State of Town
Sarah Elizabeth McCoy
Matthew Donnelly
J. A. Blair
Green Street
Glenwood
Township 72
Range
Iowa
Fallon Hill
F. M. Jackson
Mills County
A. D
M. Criswell
Probate Notice in Mills County Court
An instrument purporting to be the last will of Jacob F. Bock, deceased of Mills County Iowa, was filed in the Mills County District Court. The time for proving the will was fixed at Glenwood Court House for December 80, 1914 and January 2, 1915, with objections to be heard. Clerk Walter S. Brown, Deputy Hattie M. Brown. Subscribe for the Tribune.
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Mills County
Jacob F. Bock
Iowa
District Court
Said County
Glenwood
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Charles McQuire
Logan
Joe McQuire
Blaine Abel
Peru
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