Houston Urges Immediate Revision of U S Tax Laws
Treasury Secretary Houston urges a four year four billion dollar annual levy with a two percent rise on incomes up to five thousand dollars and broad reforms including repeal of excess profits taxes. He proposes new taxes on corporations and consumer goods and a reworked surtax system to raise about two billion three hundred ninety million dollars.
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Washington, Dec. Sr
Houston
Congress
Treasury
Ford Owners Notice Repairman Slim Gilliland
Ford owners are urged to contact Slim Gilliland, a Ford repairman, at the phone number 2273-R for assistance with a vehicle that refuses to operate as expected. He is located in a room described in the notice.
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Slim Gilliland
Ford Repair
Realtors Back Thrift Campaign and National Thrift Week
Muscatine real estate board pledged cooperation with the Y M C A for National Thrift Week opening January 17. A publicity committee was named for Own Your Own Home Day on January 29. Arbitration on commissions was discussed and a local decision was accepted. Dinner featured corn ear decorations and corn cob pipes for guests.
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N. Rosenberger
A. L. Madden
Gold Room
Fair Managers Elect Officers in Iowa Association
Des Moines December 8 officers elected by the Iowa Fair Managers association with W. R. Schoedfield of Eldora named president Carl Huffman of Atlantic as vice president and M. E. Bacon of Davenport as secretary.
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Fair Managers
Des Moines
Iowa Fair Managers’ Association
W. R. Schoedfield
Eldora
Carl Huffman
Atlantic
M. E. Bacon
Davenport
Obituary of Edward M Pinkham of Muscatine County
Edward M Pinkham died Tuesday at the state institution in Woodward Iowa after years of illness. He was born December 22 1862 in Ohio and lived in Muscatine County most of his life. Funeral services will be held at Bloomington Friends church with burial in Bloomington cemetery. He came to Muscatine as a child, survived by an uncle Professor Gilbert L Pinkham of Seattle and a late sister Anna May Pinkham.
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Edward M. Pinkham
Edward M Pinkham
Muscatine County
State Institution
Woodward
Bloomington Friends’ Church
Joseph Sopher
Muscatine
Bloomington
Ohio
Thomas Pinkham
Sweetland Township
Anna May Pinkham
Gilbert L. Pinkham
Seattle
Wash
Former Local Y M C A Secretary James Scofield Dies
James Scofield, longtime secretary of the Muscatine Y M C A and former assistant secretary for the Cedar Rapids and Waterloo associations, died Sunday in Manitou, N M after ptomaine poisoning. Born November 9, 1871 in Indiana, he served two years as local secretary and spent the past five years in Peoria working in Y M C A affairs.
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James Scofield
The
Muscatine Y. M. C. A
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Manitou, Nl
Indiana
Peoria
Muscatine Night School Opens With 51 Enrollments
Fifty one men and women enrolled as Muscatine high school hosts the first night school meeting. Commercial courses draw 37, manual training 14, home economics possible if enough enroll. Organization completes Thursday. classes start then, two evenings weekly from 7:30 to 9.
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Muscatine
S. A Potts
Maccabees Hold Annual Election
Knights of Maccabees held their annual election Tuesday night in their hall on Iowa avenue. Officers elected were Past Commander Harry Sample Commander William Boldt Lieut Commander J M Richards Record Keeper George Eichenauer Chaplain Fred Martin Physician G D Lezotte Sergeant August F Blaesing Master At Arms H M Kindler First Master of Guard J Schroeder Second Master of Guard O S Miller Sentinel W H B Terry Picket George Sechlutz.
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Knights of Maccabees
Iowa Avenue
Harry Sample
William Boldt
J. M. Richards
George Eichenauer
Fred Martin
G. D. Lezotte
August F. Blaesing
H. M. Kindler
J. Schroeder
O. S. Miller
Sentinel
W. H. B. Terry
George Sechlutz
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Father
Ropp
Pullete
Don Sung
Essie B. Ropp
R. R
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Ind
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Columbia Bidg
Indianapolis
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Laurel Building
Sena
C. A. Hahn
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