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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1930
Page
2
Congressman L. J. Dickinson and wife return from Washington to spend summer at their Algona home. He will not attend the Republican state convention or lecture platform, opting to stay home for rest and recuperation due to ill health.
An editorial in the Masonity Globe Gasette criticizes senators and representatives for using political influence for personal gain across eras. It highlights Brookhart and Dickinson as examples of lecture circuits for pay, questions party stances on pensions and the peace pact, and urges campaigns against Brookhart by Town men by 1932.
A political column laments broken promises and party deceit. It urges West readers to demand action from GOP leaders and judges, criticizing judges who lost races and urging voters to speak out against empty rhetoric. The note references a returning citizen surprised by his unchanged paper and calls for renewed accountability.
The veterans measure spanned Senate and House fights over pension rates. After multiple amendments and a veto, conferees settled on low rates from the administration bill. The law provides World War I veterans with 12 to 40 dollars and 26 percent disabled war casualties.
The list records individuals honored with dates in 1931 and their last known cities including Warren Iowa Masor City Iowa Cudahy Wisconsin Minneapolis Minn St Paul Minn. The fragment ends with a partial name aati.
The measure grants minimum $12 and up to $40 monthly pensions to most veterans with disability and adds $25 for battle wounds. It excludes broad pensioning of all veterans and would cost $30 million to $100 million over three years, influencing about six hundred thousand veterans. A vetoed version promised larger impact and higher costs.
The Briggs family plans a secret party for Father Briggs with twenty five candles on a cake and a lawn supper. Neighbors Tom Jr and five friends help set up porch furniture as Dolly, Billie, and Loganberry drinks await. A hotel campaign promotes Iowa vacations across the Lower Mississippi Valley with brochures and newspaper ads.
Davenport firm announces a broad advertising campaign to attract tourists from the south, expecting benefits for Iowa’s economy and its six hotels. The plan includes constructing a $2 million nine story Bechtel theater hotel complex at Third and Brady, to be leased by a major theatrical group.
A Swea City Herald note urges young men to start farming now as prices near bottom and potential gains in three to four years. It warns against high rent and stresses landlord-tenant cooperation to develop corn land, citing scarce profits on a few sections and risk of abandoned farms.
The American Medical Association speakers stressed that cancer prognosis hinges on growth location and early detection. Breast cancer often curable if found early. X ray and radium after surgery improve outcomes. Public awareness of early discovery remains inadequate.
The article notes Russia becoming accessible to visitors via United States Lines, inviting educators and students to observe a unique political and economic experiment. It highlights architecture, museums, and Lenin's marble mausoleum in Red Square as major drawcards for Western eyes.
Notice urges trimming groves growing near road corners to improve visibility and prevent accidents. Drivers on main highways should be more vigilant and not rely on others to stop. The message emphasizes "Slap, Look and Listen" as essential safer driving behavior.
Myrica Cerifera Davey, a tree under a $100 trust fund in a local bank, resides in a public park in St. Petersburg Florida. The fund was established by James A G Davey vice president of Davey Tree Expert Co Kent Ohio. At age 200 the tree would be worth 78285221 dollars with 4 percent interest compounded semi annually if no withdrawals occurred. The passage ends with a philosophical quote about self deception.
The passage argues ambition springs from a desire for honor and distinction. When its grand trappings are stripped away, it reduces to envy pride and covetousness guiding human actions according to Burton.
The quote argues that people fixate on a distant future and neglect the present, calling today the seed of tomorrow. It cautions that adversity is not what ruins men but how they bear it, with a proverb about thoughts shaping character.
Doan News lists numerous visits and gatherings in and around Algona. Residents including Mrs. Rudolph Larson and Thorwald Larson report crops near Eagle Grove while others attend shows, spray demonstrations, and family dinners. A trip to the Black Hills in South Dakota is described with several site visits and a July return.
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