Farm Bureau Maps Big Next Year Work Plan
Bremer county farm bureau outlines major 1932 projects including home furnishing soil improvement and marketing with emphasis on strong township organizations. Plans include junior clubs ladies home program 10 soil fertility meetings and cooperative marketing initiatives through Waverly and county institutes.
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Bremer County
Farm Bureau
Waverly
Lulu Tregonning
George Bonzer
Neale S. Knowles
Ames
E. F. Graff
Bremer County Farm Bureau
Town
American Farm Bureau
Oil Company
Cow Testing Association
Irma Garner
Where Your Dollar Goes to Pay Bremer County Taxes
Discussion at Bremer county meeting details tax dollar breakdown for 1930 as Iowa Board of Assessment and Review shows ten point seven cents state tax and various levies. Bremer county farm bureau receives six percent of the general tax and public services for agriculture are outlined with ongoing federation support and wartime mobilization.
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Bremer County
Farm Bureau
Iowa Board of Assessment and Review
Geneva
Iowa State College
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Iowa
Does His Wife Doubt His Word In New Wedding Tale
A newlywed meets a veteran husband and asks if his wife ever doubts him. The older man concedes that she doubts him especially when he is telling the truth, implying a joke about marital trust and perception.
Generations of Hapsburg Jaw and Lip Traits Traced
Dr. F D Woods traces the Hapsburg jaw and hanging lip through eighteen generations to a long chinned patriarch, noting the trait persisted in Austria and Spain. The piece cites royal marriages, Mendelian ideas, and Darwin on paternal transmission of features across dynasties.
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Hapsburg
F. D. Woods
Hapsburg Castle
Hapsburgs
Austria
Spain
Philip the Handsome
Johanna
Ferdinand
Isabella
Alfonso
Darwin
Proceedings of Bremer County Supervisors September 23 1931
The Bremer County Iowa Board of Supervisors met in Waverly in adjourned session at 1 pm with Lang, Schwein and Miller present. They dismissed the tax extension hearing for Southwest quarter Section 16 Township 91 Range 14 West of the 5th P M after agreement on tax payments. Bids opened for excavation on County Trunk L from Frederika North to Primary Road 59. American Contracting Company of New Hampshire, Iowa bid $5409.44 the lowest. Other bids rejected. Construction bids for five maintenance garages: Kebholz & Drape Tripoli Iowa bid $2450.00 accepted as lowest. George W. Beebe appointed to Soldiers Relief Commission. Adjournment set for October 6 1931 at 9 am.
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Board of Supervisors
Bremer County
Iowa
Waverly
Frank Lang
C. G. Schwein
Leonard Miller
Frederika
American Contracting Company of
New Hampton
Towa
Same
Kebholz & Drape
Tripoli
Geo. W. Beebe
Soldiers’ Relief Commission
Printing Plant Powers Small Town Leader
The Leader boasts one of the best equipped printing plants in any small town and is ready to print office forms sale bills or any other needs from type.
Abstr act transfers prepared for week ending September 26 1931
Bremer County abstract company lists transfers including Rose Frisch to Paul P Pease for 500 on Lot 14 auditor's plat NE NE section 25 93 11 Emma Anderson to Theresa Anderson for 1 part lot 1 in subdiv of lot 12 in SE NE 9t? 14 Waverly Lumber to Otto Soldwisch for 3750 Lot 9 Block 63 M N LeValley's addition Anna Bruns Buhman to Arthur L Bruns for 1 parts lots 3 4 Block 9 Denver Carl Schnor to H H Scharnberg for 1 Lot 13 Rowe's addition Sumner Dorothea Hagemann to Emma Hagemann et al for 1 Lots 7 8 except N60 feet in Block 6 John J Smith's addition Sophia Nevermann to F P Hagemann for 1 Lots 1 2 Block 61 Harmon LeValley's addition F P Hagemann to V F Hagemann for 1 N82 ft of Lots 1 2 Block 61 Harmon LeValley's addition Frederick Strumpel to Louis Matthias for 1 SW of section 3 SE NW and NE of SW and S 25 feet of NE of section 4 91 12 Shores Mueller Co to M H Collins for 1 E of SE of section 15 92 12 H Collins 81 NW of SE and part NE of section 15 92 12 Georgiana E Poorman et al to Minnie Eichhorn et al for 1 Wfr NW of section 18 92 14 Homer A Poe to Jim Carter for 1 SE section 7 part W% NW SW section 3 93 14
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Bremer County Abstract Company
Rose Frisch Et al
Paul P. Pease
Auditor's
Emma Anderson
Theresa Anderson
Waverly Lumber Company
Otto Soldwisch
M. N. LeValley
Anna Bruns Buhman
Arthur L. Bruns
Denver
Carl Schnor
H. H. Scharnberg
Rowe
Sumner
Dorothea Hagemann
Emma Hagemann
John J. Smith
Sophia Nevermann
F. P. Hagemann
Harmon & LeValley
V. F. Hagemann
Harmon and LeValley
Frederick Strumpel
Louis Matthias
Shores-Mueller Company
M. H. Collins
Georgiana E. Poorman
Minnie Eichhorn
Homer A. Poe
Jim Carter
Barrel-Organ in Society Praise and vanishing act
A Manchester Guardian writer notes the barrel-organ once graced society as a fashionable feature in Lady Jersey’s Berkeley Square drawing room. By 1877 Augustus Hare records Lord Exeter and guests dancing to it. Even Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie hosted barrel-organ parties at the Tuileries with the emperor among the grinders.
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Manchester
England
Guardian
Jersey
Berkeley Square
Augustus Hare
Lord Exeter
Napoleon III
Eugenie
Tuilleries
Perfect Man as Seen by Clothing Designers
An article outlines a designer standard for a perfect man: height 6 feet 8 inches, weight 140 pounds, waist 30-31 inches, hips 37 inches, arm 18 inches, leg 32 inches. It contrasts with averages in England Ireland and Scotland noting English men at 5'7.5" and 155 pounds, Irish at 5'8" and 153 pounds, and Scots as the tallest at 5'8.5".
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British Isles
Fifth Century Records Reveal Tax Grievances
The National Association of Real Estate Boards cites Fifth Century records to show long standing tax complaints. Pisistratus of Athens in the early fifth century favored farming, offered aid to the poor, yet taxed produce at one tenth, illustrating early balancing acts between policy aims and tax burdens.
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National Association of Real Estate Boards
National Realty Board
Pisistratus
Tax relief sparks tales from early Athenian farming days
Hymettus pathed countryside plots during disputes with Isistratus and Psistratus. A land grant led to a tax exemption, known later as Free Farm, as a worker sought relief for aches and pains and earned support from rulers.
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Sistratus
Isistratus
Chinese Awarded Palm as World's Best Cooks
The Kansas City Times asserts that Chinese cuisine, especially from central China, stands as the finest in the world. It argues Chinese cooking surpasses French methods in delicacy and technique, noting innovations in vegetable preparation and even a claim about sauerkraut origins through Chinese influence.
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China
Middle Empire
Germany
Russia
Kansas City Times
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E. Lafayette
Franklin
Maxfield
Jefferson
LeRoy
Dayton
Fremont
Douglas
Polk
W. Lafayette
Hadh
Hapsburg Jaw and Lip
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Supervisors’ Board
Farmers Savings Bank
Frederika, Iowa
ASB
Goodyear
H. H. Buhr Garage
Cavalier
Consolidated Coal Company
America
Cavalier Coal
Blue Bird
Spahn & Rose Lumber Co
Tripoli, Iowa
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