05 Apr 1923
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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1923
Page
1
In the Iowa Senate Senator Price warned the gasoline tax could evolve into a broad sales tax, potentially taxing autos tires and farm grain. The Sioux City Journal and The Arrow discuss tax philosophies, urging caution over any additional levies while noting the tax’s broader implications for consumers and producers.
An interview discusses funding for soldier bonuses and local improvements, urging matching expenditures. It praises Rolfe’s musical talent, leadership, and youth engagement while urging parents to sustain community programs and reject imported entertainment.
The piece lauds Clarence Saunders for fighting NYSE gamblers amid the Piggly Wiggly controversy and mocks thieves as thieves. It then critiques postal service underfunding and calls for a new Congress to slash pork and fund the postal system, urging accountability and higher pay for workers. It ends by noting financiers push for a large German loan only if they supply their own funds.
Describes William the Conqueror bringing a full Normandy kitchen to England. Menu examples include boars tusked head venison cranes peacocks swans and pheasants with a spectacle peacock in a coffin of paste. Banquets lasted hours with jesters and musicians throughout.
Barratt’s chapel in Murderkill Hundred Kent County Delaware built around 1780 81 is called the cradle of American Methodism. In 1874 Bishop Coke and Bishop Asbury met here and planned nationwide expansion. Richard Owen is noted as the first native American Methodist minister and Joshua Thomas the famed Chesapeake traveler preached to islanders and London army troops.
In District Court Pocahontas County Iowa case No 1344 an instrument dated July 21 1915 declared last will and testament of Elizabeth Byrne is filed opened read and fixed for proof of probate at two o clock in the afternoon at the Pocahontas courthouse all interested persons must appear and show cause why the will should not be probated Dated Pocahontas Iowa April 2 1923 52 31 Seal
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