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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1923
Page
3
The Titonka Topic notes publisher Lee O Wolpe and the paper’s mailing details. It lists subscription rates as 2.00 per year in advance and 2.60 for Canada mail, with foreign advertising handled by The American Press Association.
The Board of Supervisors approved a resolution to require a selected committee to review all courthouse printing contracts before work begins. Currently Auditor Petersen and Supervisor Moore serve on the committee. The aim is to save money, give home printers equal bid access, and allow outside bidders, while preferring county printers whenever possible.
Des Moines papers report the fortieth General Assembly organizing a farm bloc led by Representative Children of Council Bluffs. About sixty five house members signified intent to stand firm on agricultural issues and appropriations during the session, with prior secret meetings in the 39th Assembly attempting similar union.
About thirty-five votes were mustered on agricultural issues in the Fortieth General Assembly. The farm bloc faced a split, with many members not true dirt farmers. If the dirt farmers unite they can push constructive laws for Town’s farmers, but passage in Des Moines faces a Senate mostly composed of nonfarmers and bills often morph on return to the lower house.
The legislature remains inactive as new members begin in-session routine of meetings and hotel lobby mingling. Officials hint Code Revision delays and daily expenses mounting as farms and utility interests seek committee positions. past banquet spending hints at corporate influence costing the state about $3,000 per day, totaling $30,000 in ten days.
Oil executives gathered at the Savory Hotel last Thursday in a convention of about fifty men to oppose a proposed consumer gasoline tax. They aim to organize against the measure despite nineteen states already imposing such a tax and potential revenue for Iowa.
The piece outlines opposition and support for a proposed gasoline tax. Rural members demand tax revenues target township and secondary roads, while others say farm fuel use is limited to on-farm needs. Proponents claim the tax spreads road costs fairly and could reduce license fees if enacted.
The piece contrasts self with neighbor, urging recognition of shared life and pain. It urges awakening to others and learning truth about suffering and joy, defining duty as awareness of universal life. The note adds: MONITOR FAVORS GAS TAX and that a measure will be introduced this session.
The Monitor discusses a 2e cent per gallon gasoline tax to fund road upgrades. Representative George Patterson opposes, citing farmers as the main users. The paper notes tax fairness, tourist gas purchases, and suggests exemptions for tractor and gas engine use.
The piece extols dairy farming as Wisconsin’s main wealth source and Dane county as a dairy power. It argues boosting cattle breeding, cow testing, and dairy breed organizations will raise per-cow value and weekly wealth, urging organized effort to reach new milestones.
Burt items recount return of F D Slaughter from Winthrop for the funeral of a brother in law L G Smith of Titonka visits by Mr and Mrs H A Bewick Mrs Dransfeldt returns from Michigan Elza Woltz recovering after appendectomy Jonathan Hulbert of Glidden visits Burt A W Blanchard as a Burt visitor Harry Dalzell of Fort Dodge visits Mrs Will Kennedy Mrs W B Brable ill daughter Mrs F J Mann of Algona comes to help Jess McDonald leaves for Minneapolis for a lumbermen's convention Henry Smith assists at the lumberyard Sidney John and Fern Olson of Lakota quietly wed.
Community members and families are noted visiting relatives and attending events in nearby towns. Mrs Ina Strissel of Mason City has assisted with a declamatory contest, while friends and neighbors share illness updates and farm bureau convention reports.
A 22 year old Peter E Linsky becomes his own grandfather through a chain of marriages and step relations in a Chicago style family maze. The birth of his son at eighteen months after marriage to a widow creates a tangled line where the younger Linsky is grandfather to his own stepson and great grandfather to a grandson. The Globe Gazett e notes another case a woman reportedly became her own great grandmother at 70.
James Russell a Fort Dodge merchant and Audubon native set out for California in a prairie schooner with his wife and son. A misplaced overcoat led to a rapid express delivery mix up, but the tale shows how modern travel quickens movements versus the days of covered wagons.
Notice to stockholders of the annual meeting to be held in the hall Saturday January 27 for electing officers including secretary treasurer and long director J C Newville secretary is named in the notice.
The township trustees of Buffalo invite bids by 1 p m February 6 1923 for superintending roads and collecting poll taxes for 1998. Each bid must be accompanied by a certified check of 25 00. W A Worsley Township Clerk.
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C J Dr promises veterinary services in Wesley Iowa specializing in hog and poultry diseases and preventive vaccination programs for farm herds.
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