Iowa News Briefs Highlight State Finance and Infrastructure
Readouts cover bank mergers in Floyd County and Des Moines bank openings. Reports note road gravel plans east of Humboldt and Cedar Rapids street plan adoption. Dairying and poultry by women farmers are valued at 115 million dollars, with 500000 acres under cultivation.
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Friends of the Iowa Good Roads Association
Iowa Senate Likely to Kill Income Tax Measure
The Iowa Senate faces a narrow split as opposition grows against a state income tax bill. Governors and lawmakers push for broader tax revision, while road and banking legislation move through committees, with federal aid and revenue concerns shaping the session.
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Iowa
Senate
Towa
House Highway Committees
Labor Pushes Iowa State Printing Contracts
Organized labor backs a bill to require all state printing contracts to be awarded to Iowa firms if capable, after protests over a Missouri contract for the Code of 1924. The legislature faces about 417 bills and aims for mid April adjournment. Toledo citizens unanimously oppose the state income measure. Des Moines budget changes needed for city improvements. Sixty four Iowa men and boys aged 18 to 25 join Uncle Sam’s military service in February.
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Missouri
State Printing Board
Iowa
Toledo
Des Moines
Uncle Sam
Best Babies in Miami Beach Parade Winners Named
Left to right Miss Emily Louise Bruns of New York placed second, Lemard Woltz of Coral Gables took third, and Miss Mildred De Long of Coral Gables won first prize at a Miami Beach baby show hosted by an exclusive social colony. Prominent social leaders’ children entered.
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Emily Louise Bruns
New York
Lemard Woltz
Coral Gablex
Mildred de Long
Corn! Gables
Miami Beach
Fla
Girl Without a Country Story Emerges in New York
A fragment reports Hurmet titled the Girl Without a Country with one survivor aboard the Aqul ayila in New York. It notes her father was compelled to renounce U S citizenship to prevent land confiscation in Germany, and that Mies Hurmet was born there.
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Nuuche Hurmet
New York
United State
Germany
Mies Hurmet
Prize Winning Hair Sues in Angeles County
A California case notes a prize winning hair subject in Los Angeles County who was credited with the largest batter in America, nearly eight feet long, and who has won many prizes for her crowning glory.
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America
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Toedale
Enlisted Man Becomes Commander of DC Legion Unit
Frank L. Peckham, department commander of the District of Columbia, is the first enlisted man to hold the post. A former tank corps and motor transport corps member, he served in the United States and France and later earned law degrees. Peckham has been active with the American Legion, leading efforts against political prisoners and German relief funding, and he married Margueritta G. Koudrup in 1924.
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Frank L. Peckham
Department of the
Louis A. Coolidge
Washington
Mr. Coolidge
the Treasury
Presi
Dent Roosevelt
Customs Division
The
Treasury
Peckham
American Legion
Tank Corps
Department of the District of Columbia
Harding
Congress
Marghueritta G.koudrup
American Legion Auxiliary
Tank Corps Post
Auxiliary
Peakham
San Francisco and
St. Paul
Legion
Voltura
Legion's First Gun in Illegal Voting Battle
The Denver American Legion accuses hundreds of disenfranchised voters of voting fraud in Colorado's last general election. Legion commander John Vivian asked District Attorney Joseph Hawley to prosecute eight alleged aliens for unlawfully exercising citizen rights, signaling a broader purge effort across the state.
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Denver American Legion
Legion
John ©. Vivian
Department of Colorado
Joseph W.hawley
Trinidad
Howley
Busy Police Focus Delays Murder Case Leads
Reporters press for clues while police chief admits officers are tied up enforcing parking laws guarding bathhouses and arresting violators. The department says no substantial progress has been made on the murder investigation due to competing duties.
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American Legion Weekly
Lewistown Hero Col Williard Honored After 26 Years
Col. Harry Q. Williard retired adjutant of the American Legion post in Lewistown Montana received a department citation for gallantry in action at Las Quaveras and Santiago during the Spanish American War in Cuba.
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American Legion
Lewistown
Mont
Thar Department
Las Quavimas
Santiago
Cuba
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