New Features On Chronicle Page Debuts Two Weekly Features
The Chronicle announces two new features starting this issue Irvin 8 Cobb will contribute humorous anecdotes in Laughing Around the World With Irvin 8 Cobb and Rube Goldberg will present Life s Little Jokes as a weekly comic strip. Cobb gained fame after early work in Paducah and New York while Goldberg rose from San Francisco to New York cartooning success. Both creators bring national recognition and humor to readers.
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Iowa State Government Financial Report for 1928 Detailed
The Department of Commerce presents Iowa’s fiscal year ending June 30 1928 statistics. Expenditures total 22 504 088 including 796 087 education apportionments. debt interest 888 502. permanent improvements 17 255 799. Total payments 40 048 389. Revenue 41 183 371 per capita 16.97, with property and special taxes at 27.8 percent of revenue. Earnings from state services 13.8 percent. licenses 44 percent. highways accounted for 18 822 415 with construction 14 418 016 and maintenance 8 008 490.
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Two Dollar Dinner For Six From Pantry Menu
A dated home economy menu outlines a six serving dinner costing about two dollars. It details bouillon, pork chops or pork, potatoes, asparagus fried tips, salad ingredients with beets peppers dressing and lettuce, and peach tarts with marshmallows. It lists unit costs and total item costs, totaling 25 cents for the dessert elements.
Iowa Tax Receipts and Debt Report Highlights 1928
Receipts from business licenses mainly tax insurance and corporations and sales tax on gasoline. Gasoline tax rose sharply, boosting overall license revenues. Total funded debt stood at 20.411 million with net debt about 18.848 million, or 7.77 per capita. Taxable property valued at 1.496 billion with state taxes 9.611 million and per capita levy 3.96.
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Father and shoppers cross era and impact in brief notes
The text links fathers with rural and modern consumer icons, noting horachide pigskin coonskin and shoe skin as relics of past craft. It mentions department stores on ocean liners as an innovation and women’s pull to bargain sales. It references reporters on Hoover's tour facing censorship and hints at Latin arm waving via radio.
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Schubert the Genius Lives On in Music Lovers Hearts
A centennial observance notes Franz Schubert born near Vienna in 1797 who died at thirty one. He composed over four hundred fifty songs and twenty four piano sonatas and helped found German Lied. His melancholy style reflects his life and unattractiveness, but his works endure in music circles worldwide. He is linked with songs like The Wanderer and The Erl King.
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Fragmentary OCR yields quirky dialogue on fashion and fate
A garbled cache of lines mentions stockings and tablecloths, Gulf of Mexico, a graduate reading, a Help Wanted column, a treaty about mutual wishes, and a jewelry credit. It hints at personal finances and an engagement, with quips about ex‑plorers providing material for lectures.
Old Fashioned Eloquence and Pictures Debate
A constituent seeks old fashioned eloquence and Rubens styled pictures. Senator Sorghum notes the desire for classic works and plays by Shakespeare, then questions production. A line ends with Reginald de declaring never to marry.
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Algebraic exchange on unknown quantities in a playful quote
A brief, incomplete dialogue fragment shows Usual. Beerum and Bostm discussing an unknown quantity X. Georgia is mentioned as the one who taught usage of algebraic terms.
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Santa Claus Falls From Chair in Childs Room
A child tells of Santa Claus who fell over a chair in the room on Christmas. The tale is relayed by a mother and child, capturing a Christmas moment with a playful tone.
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Prohibition Case Sparks Debate and Scandal Goads Attention
A stray remark suggests the Bible proves anything in a prohibition case as a red herring. The comment underscores how scandal can distract from the accuser’s own misconduct while the broader legal and moral issues rise in public discussion.
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