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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1932
Page
4
The Tripoli Leader discusses farm relief amid plummeting prices and farm real estate values. It notes nine billion dollars in U S farm mortgages, ongoing foreclosures, and calls for fair renewals or extensions. Insurance companies both hinder and help farmers, with varied practices across states. The piece urges mortgage holders to grant a square deal to distressed farmers.
A call to business leaders to abandon reliance on politicians and bankers, urging a vigorous nationwide campaign to stimulate demand and push prices upward. The speaker cites past success in mobilizing for Liberty bonds, notes factories and railways await orders, and warns against pessimism while stressing decisive action by business communities.
A Minnesota racket targets financially pressed merchants by promising up to 1500 on their home with no difficulty in return for 25 cash. The signer later discovers the contract only commits the loan company to attempt to obtain funds, not to guarantee the loan.
The most successful business leaders consistently advertise to show they offer the needed services and goods at the right price. They invest weekly through the year, learning that local newspaper ads yield returns far above their cost.
The piece notes that despite warnings and safety drives, drownings and automobile fatalities remain high this summer. It credits press and civic groups for reducing the death toll, implying the campaigns prevented a larger loss of life.
An Iowa editorial questions true patriotism amid tax changes. It notes how individuals and businesses consider schemes to evade or minimize tax payments, argues balanced budgets rely on compliance, and warns against broad evasion, urging personal responsibility instead.
Algona locals report daily street encounters with young men begging for money for food. Many dollars are given publicly, while others seek meals or clothing at homes. One woman recalls a bold caller asking for coffee, another for milk, and a man being told to seek work in the country before the door slammed.
Clarksville Star quotes The Path Finder editor praising small towns for food security and low crime, contrasting with metropolitan corruption. He notes bootleggers in cities and urges America to rely on small towns and farmers to steady the nation amid economic turmoil and a battered elite.
In Parkersburg Eclipse the farmer strike to be held recently is dropped for now. agitators and communists are blamed for the movement but farmers, reading and thinking, prefer to work out their own salvation by tending to their own business.
A Grundy Register commentary compares national bank collapses to cyclones, arguing the crises last briefly yet leave vast damage unseen by insurance. It blames restless depositors for causing bank delinquencies, noting funds must stay invested to earn interest and that panic can wreck many banks beyond the clearly mismanaged ones.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette notes widespread discussion of wealth redistribution mostly as political talk. It argues that the current two year period has seen the greatest wealth redistribution in the nation with no bias, disproportionately impacting the wealthy amid the ongoing economic upheaval.
The itemized breakdown shows 157.62 tax on a 160 acre Floyd county farm. State receives 19.19 split into 7.30 for state education institutions 5.66 for board of control 4.09 for general administration. County portion 88.40 allocates 9.60 to general fund 6.40 for the poor 2.99 for insane 2.35 for county school 8.82 for county bonds 0.64 soldiers relief 2.18 court expense 4.48 tuberculosis eradication and 1.71 county home bonds.
The piece reviews how vice presidential picks shape elections, tracing past holders from Arthur to Roosevelt and Roosevelt era, then focuses on John N Garner as Roosevelts running mate. It notes Garner's claim to power in government, his stance toward Hoover and Roosevelt, and the Democrats’ strategic gamble in Dallas Texas.
Self intended to take care of Al Smith the democratic presidential nominee proved effective on the stump. Mr Curtis like Speaker Garner had been aspirant for the presidential nomination and had landed in second place. Mr Garner may find after all when the campaign is going strong that he will have his hands full just handling the G O P vice presidential candidate who also hails from the wide open spaces of the middle west.
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