Gasoline taxation bills stir Iowa legislature in 1923
Three gasoline tax proposals face Iowa's 39th general assembly one in each house and a drafting committee plan. Bills range from one to two cents per gallon with revenue targeted to primary and secondary road systems. The Ontjes measure seeks a retail dealer tax to curb consumer price effects. Debate covers county apportionment schemes and broader code revision moves amid sweeping highway and fiscal proposals.
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House
Senate
Thirty-Ninth General Assembly
Iowa
Caldwell
Tax Committee
Assembly
Shaff
Boards of Supervisors
Gallagher
Congress
Blake
Clermont
William S. Kenyon
Kenyon
Kendall
Ways and Means
Tax
Code Commission
Fortieth Assembly
Committee On Code Revision
Hauge
Nervig
State House
Friends of Kenyon
William 8. Kenyon
Iowa News Briefs Reflect Postwar Grain, Law Debates
Discontinued hospital for disabled World War I veterans at Colfax noted. Woodbury County claims largest baby beef club with 123 members and 151 calves. Theaters of Iowa to fund county school coffers $2,000,000 yearly if Senate bill passes. Obituary reports Mrs Jam ie Sturgis Kelley dies in Sturgis Michigan at 76.
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Colfax
Woodbury County
United States
Iowa
Senate
Sturgis
Mich
Jamie Sturgis Kelley
Black Hawk County
Washington County
Farmers’ Co-Operative Exchange
Chariton
A.L. Hager
Audubon Post No. 120
Amercan Legion
J. H. Heaty
Crawford County Breeders' Association
Iowa State College
Ames
Webster City
Des Moines Register and
Tribune
Register and Tribune Company
Eighth and Locust Streets
Hamilton County
Buffington
Mills
Unclaimed Dormant Balances Reach Tens of Millions
A 1917 report shows unclaimed bank balances totaled 27.3 million with 518,873 owners in New York state and 13.0 million tied to New York customers. Experts now estimate totals near 85 million nationwide as investigators seek heirs and relatives, revealing tragic and odd rediscoveries across cases from San Francisco to Brooklyn.
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Washington
Treasury
Congress
John Skelton Williams
United States Treasury
D. R. Crissinger
New York
Edward J. Kelleher
San Francisco
Eddy
Eddy Kelleher
Nelson Hf. Tunnicliff
Chambers Street
Tunnicliff
Kelleher
San Quentin
Nune
Bowery
State Prison
Cat and Policeman Rescue Kitten From Well in Hampshire
A mother cat summons a Hampshire constable to rescue her kitten that fell into a well at Alton. After two failed bucket attempts, the policeman lowered the mother by rope and the exhausted kitten was carried to the surface, still gripped in the mother’s teeth.
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Cat
Kitten
London
Alton
Hampshire
Marquesas island flora informs Polynesian origins theory
Botanist Forrest Brown of the Bishop Museum reports Marquesas flora supports origin in southeastern Asia for Polynesians while suggesting possible contact with Americas via sweet potato and papaya. He notes migration from Asia driven by inland pressure, carrying food plants across the Pacific.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Marquesas Islands
Asia
Islands
Pacific
Forrest Brown
Bishop Museum
Marquesas
Brown
America
Central Amer
Ica
Malay
Java
India
Professor Brown
Repayment of Old Loan Prompts Stranger Payment
An unnamed elderly man from Mansfield Pa repaid Robert Urell one dollar noting it covered a 25 cent loan from his boyhood. He said the extra 75 cents represented interest. The piece also mentions the spectroscope’s extreme sensitivity to detect tiny matter quantities.
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Mansfield
Robert Urell
Tragedy in Galway as Slayings Reveal Family Bond
In Galway a laborer loses $200 to four masked raiders after selling 9 Utter of pigs in Portumna. The raid ends when the laborer's son kills one bandit with an ax, only to discover the slain man is his own brother. The brothers' faces are unveiled as the killer learns the victim was kin. The attackers flee with the loot and fear of the household lingers.
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Lawrence
Mass
Salem
Tunnicliff
South Dakota
Kelleher
Mary McCrea
Brooklyn
James Brickley
Bridget Chandler
Brickley
County Wexford
Ireland
United States
Elizabeth
John Walsh
Catherine
Walsh
John Lurwless
Pacific Coast
Mary
Samuel McCrea
Nelson Tunnicliff
Elizabeth Buckley Lawless
Boerum Place
Harry Allen Hastings
Oneida County
New York
Allen
Hastings
Cornwall-on-the- Hudson
Delmonico's
Beaver Street
Bowery Savings Bank
Cullmann
Frederick Cullmann
Fifth Street
William
Charles
Franz
Cullman
Mr. Liddle
Liddle
Eliza
Metropolitan Savings Bank
Andrew Miller
Eliza Cullmann
Randall’s Island
Elizabeth Coleman
Ward's Island
Hart's Island
Randall's Island
William Cullmann
Randall
Wiliam
I Sland
Yalesville
Conn
Belfast
Galway
Portumna
Mand
Hughes Amid Rumors of Resignation and Isolation Policy
A Republican senate faction seeks to shift Harding away from European policy toward isolation. Rumors of Secretary of State Hughes quitting circulated, which he denies, citing strong ties with the President and Ambassador Harvey. Differences with Harding over Ruhr occupation and League of Nations principles fuel the discord among critics.
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WY Ashington
Senate
Harding
Mr. Hughes
Hughes
Harvey
Ruhr Valley
League of Nations
League
Rhine
Reparations Commission
Allied Supreme Council
Herrick
Allied Council of Ambassadors
Germany
Grip'll Git Ya If Y Don't Watch Out
A wave of grip linked to the 1918 19 influenza epidemic sweeps the nation with severe prostration and fever but not widespread fatalities. Surgeon General Cumming notes grip may be the mild form of influenza and urges bed rest until fever ends. Health officials warn about pneumonia and advise eight hours sleep daily walks deep breathing hydration baths and open windows to stay healthy.
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Public Health Service
General Cumming
United States
Cumming
Herman Bundesen
Chicago
Race Against the Boll Weevil in Cotton Cultivation
Agricultural guidance urges farmers to select land likely to yield at least half a bale per acre and plant an early-maturing seed variety. It recommends single-variety planting, proper row spacing, early cultivation, shallow weeding, and targeted weevil control. Farmers should destroy weevils when cotton begins to square and burn field debris to reduce hibernation sites.
Teapot Dome leak probes fuel political contention
Oil on the troubled waters involves Senator LaVollette seeking disclosures to support claims that the Harding administration favored private interests over public welfare. A Senate inquiry reopening the Teapot Dome leases centers on securities tied to the lease and the Interior Secretary Fall’s role, with President Harding backing Fall and wishing details fully disclosed.
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LaVollette
Taft
Sinclair Oil Company
Teapot Dome
Senate
Wisconsin
Harding
Pall
Interior Department
Fall
Tary Fall
Supreme Court
Farm Bloc and Fed Reserve Criticized at Acceptance Dinner
Paul M. Warburg denounced farm bloc and political intrusion into the Federal Reserve System and warned that appointing new members could erode the boards independence. John St. Howard defended cooperative marketing and proposed government action to finance farming markets or a large farmers' cooperative bank.
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Federal Reserve
Harding
American Acceptance Council
Paul M. Warburg
Federal Reserve Board
John St. Howard
Irgrm Federation
Congress
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Iowa State Highway Commission
Fulton
Jefferson County
Clyde Black
Dallas Center
South
Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers Association
Todent
Iowa Experiment Station
Black
Reid
United States Department of Agriculture
Ku Klux Klan
American Legion
Shaf
Comanche
State Senate
William Wiley
Des Moines
Price of
Monroe
Commercial Club of
Humboldt
A. M. Anderson
State Bankers Association
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Dan
Farmer
Boll Weevil
Farm Bloc
Federal Reserve System
Stuhr
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