05 Jun 1930
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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1930
Page
1
Barney Bruce declares as an independent candidate for the office of representative in the 77th District Pocahontas County. He states the decision rests with voters at the November polls and remains unaffiliated with any party.
A long editorial notes the 1930s Iowa primary aftermath and tax ideas, arguing sales tax could reduce property taxes while cautioning against broad capital taxes. It cites figures like Patterson, Hoover, and Mccormick, and questions farm relief, road building gains, and political funding dynamics across counties and state offices.
An editorial extols restless achievement guiding American growth and urges nurturing ambition in youth. It argues moderate dissatisfaction with current living standards fuels diligence and expansion, citing a worker’s rise from a soda fountain job to pursue his ambitions as emblematic of national progress.
The New York state commissioner of motor vehicles reports taxicabs make up two percent of registered vehicles but 24 percent of automobile accidents in 1929. Trucks and commercial cars, fourteen percent of registrations, caused twenty percent of fatal crashes. There were 278 more traffic fatalities than in 1928 and total accidents rose by 11,585. In 1929 deaths reached 2,93( and injuries 114,807. Speed or carelessness blamed for nearly all accidents.
A Minneapolis scientist claims thirty six golf holes consume energy equal to digging a forty foot by three foot by two foot ditch. The comparison wonders what value a golfer might claim for his score card in return.
A garbled late 1920s column aggregates diverse quotes from several papers about Prohibition, patriotism, Hoover era politics, local taxes, and public manners. The excerpt includes jumbled lines from Iowa Falls Citizen Detroit Free Press Cherokee Times Waterloo Tribune Eagle Grove Eagle and others, ending mid-thought with a fragmentary remark about "inti:"
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