Probing the Brookhart Lovrin Law and Turbulent Times
A clipped column surveys the Brookhart Lovrin public funds protection act amid bank failures and tax losses in Iowa. It notes bankers saving funds, rescues from robberies, and political shifts from prohibition debates to Al Smith and Capone headlines, ending with gangland rumors in Fort Dodge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
Iowa
Fred C. Lovrien
Spencer
al Capone
Capone
Fort Dodge
Federal Court
Our Brother's Keeper in Hard Times
The piece laments a global economic crisis and urges a return to the Golden Rule. It argues wealth has hollowed society, calls for fortitude and charity, and insists civilization rests on brotherhood and mutual aid rather than schemes or legal fixes. It ties current hardship to a timeless moral lesson from a mountain sermon two thousand years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
al Smith
New York Stock Exchange
Los Angeles
Times
Jesus Christ
America
Palestine
Hell Located At Last in Pocahontas County Iowa
A local note cites a Hancock County divorce case with a cross petition and a defendant allegedly told to go to the devil, claiming a double horned individual’s headquarters in Pocahontas County. The writer taunts local political figures and a newspaper, saying hell has been located there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hell
District Court
Hancock County
Iowa
Pocahontas County
Towa
Frank W. Senneff
Britt
Senator Dickinson debated corn shipments to Pacific coast
Chicago grain men rebut Dickinson on a Sioux City statement that no corn shipments went to the Pacific coast due to Argentine competition. Freeman Bradford of the Grain Exchange cites records showing 2159 carloads shipped to the Pacific coast from Sioux City since Jan 1 1930, with declines tied to Colorado and western Nebraska crops. The piece also notes Hoover Laval gold standard talk and Vermont quarry wealth, ending with a law of supply and demand reminder.
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Sioux City
Dickinson
Pacific Coast
Freeman Bradford
The
Grain Exchange
Colorado
Nebraska
Omaha
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J. J. Bruce
J. H. Lighter
Marion Bruce
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Leary
Relfe
Iowa Press
ASSOC
Sam Lockett
Knoxville
Tenn
Charley
Chicago
Charlie
Weekly
Fairmont
Minnesota
Charley S
Anne
Mrs. Lindbergh
Dwight W. Morrow
Bishop Cannon Jr
Mahatma Gandhi
Philip Oden
Little Rock
Herbert Hoover
Wilson
West
Bayer
Hoover
Laval
Vermont
A. A. Firkins
Rolfe, Iowa
State Savings Bank
Robert Bruce
James Bruce
Jos. McEwen
J.B. Kent
Chm
W.S
Ws S Electric Company
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