Iowa League of Municipalities Against Tax Faces Supreme Court
The Des Moines Register reports the state board of assessment and review ruled municipal utilities in Iowa are taxable under the new income tax. The Town League of Municipalities warns of a potential court fight over millions in revenue affecting 58 cities serving 13 percent of the urban population. City officials anticipate a furor, while private utilities see a clash over tax exemption.
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Des Moines Register
State Board of Assessment
Iowa
Supreme Court
Frank Pierce
Town League of Municipalities
Pierce
Register
Fred van Liew
Legislative Committee of the League
Ierce
Walking Stick Maker Is Dead In Oskaloosa
Henry William Clayworth eighty, a retired farmer and hobbyist who made friendship canes, died Saturday in Oskaloosa Iowa. He left his farm ten years ago and spent idle time shaping hickory sprouts into bent ends, shellacking and polishing them.
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Oskaloosa
Henry William Clayworth
Clayworth
Man’s cane-gift spree ends with fame and fraud rumors
The story recounts a man who distributed nearly 800 canes to limpin friends across the United States, calling them friend ship canes. One recipient, “One-Eye” Conn ly, a noted gate crasher, allegedly asked for a cane on sheriff’s office stationery in Miami Florida, per D.M. Register.
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United States
Coal Man Defender Loses Bid in Bituminous Code Suit
Federal Judge Charles A. Dewey refused to enjoin coal operator Charles A. Riggin. He ruled the bituminous coal code provisions do not affect interstate commerce and noted Riggin’s mine near Harvey, Iowa, pays union wages but defies price provisions. The Des Moines Tribune reports the national gold cases decision remains awaited by the business world.
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Charles A. Riggin
Charles A. Dewey
Iowa
Council Bluffs
N. F. Reed
Des Moines
Dewey
Iate
AAA
Hillcrest Dairy
Riggen
Harvey
Marion County
Towa
Des Moines Tribune
Aged pianist Mme Julie Rive-King charms Grand Rapids crowd
Emma Van Nimwegen passes along clippings about Julie Rive-King the eighty year old pianist born in Chicago a pupil of Liszt and Rubenstein who knew Wagner and von Bülow. Despite age she keeps busy with recitals and teaching having played since age five and maintains three hours of daily practice.
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Emma van Nimwegen
E. BE. Heeren
Vriesland
Mich
Grand Rapids
Mme
Julie Rive-King
Chicago
Franz Liszt
Anton Rubenstein
Richard Wagner
Hans von Bulow
Michigan
Mme. Rive-King
Whimsical and Thrilling Incidents of a 75 Year Career
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Card of Thanks for Emily S Grundman
Family thanks friends and neighbors for sympathy and help during sorrow. Grateful for Mr Forbes Mrs D P Van Zee and children for service. In loving remembrance of Emily S Grundman who passed away February 2 exactly one year ago. Menry Grundman.
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Forbes
D. P. van Zee
Emily S. Grundman
Notice of Will for Julia Grandia de J
Legal notice records a will filing in Iowa for Julia Grandia de J. The instrument claims validity and will be presented before the court on March 5, 1935 at Knoxville Iowa, inviting interested persons to be heard. Clerk DON L. REMY, Knoxville District Court, February 2, 1935.
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I of
Towa
Iowa
Julia Grandia
de J
Knoxville
Don L. Remy
Lost locket and sale notices appear in local ads
A lost yellow gold locket is reported on January 13 with a finder request to Mrs. John Van Genderen. Classifieds offer a Belmont upright piano for sale by Mrs. J. H. Rempe of Leighton. An ad promotes a large wall paper sale with 200 rooms of new 1935 paper at 10 cents a bolt and February installation for $3. Harold Sack advertises paper supply and room hanging near Hoeksema garage. Van Gorp offers machine work and rebuilt washers at Van's Motor Service with various engines and parts.
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John van Genderen
Harold Sack
Hoeksema Garage
Van’s Motor Service
Ind van Gorp
Diploma and 1899 Thornburg class photo discovered
Mrs. Gove Kamerik found two items: a Central College Academy 1895 diploma issued to Prof. W. Charles Farmer and the Thornburg High School graduating class photo from 1899. The diploma notes a Latin replaced by German work. the photo shows nine graduates, six girls and three boys, in period dress with flowers, including Farmer as principal.
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Gove Kamerik
Central College Academy
W. Charles Farmer
Pella
Thornburg
Iowa
Farmer
Kamerik
Second Robbery In Two Months Hits Pleasantsville
The second robbery in as many months struck Pleas antville last Friday night with Shadle's store missing six fleece lined zipper jackets and Bare's drug store reporting about $15 in cigarettes stolen. Earlier, four to five weeks prior, culprits entered Shadle's and Bare's with no loss at Shadle's but about $125 in cigarettes taken from Bare's drug store. The two incidents share similarities in timing and targets as police investigate.
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Pleasantville
Marion County News
0. H. Bare. Drug Store
Shadle’s
Shadles
Bare’s
March of Recovery in Convincing Terms
C. T. Murchison summarized 1934 progress in Pittsburgh noting factory employment up 17 percent first ten months, payrolls 32 percent higher, construction up 51 percent, freight-car loadings rising 8.6 percent, department store sales up 13 percent, chain stores 8 percent, holiday sales up about 80 percent, foreign trade exports up 86 percent and imports 15 percent, nine month national manufacturing firms up 111 percent, yearend bank deposits rising $6 billion, and farm income growing over $1 billion.
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C. T. Murchison
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Pittsburgh
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