Iowa Collects Eighty Millions In Taxes During Last Year
Iowa faces a record 80.495 million dollar tax levy on 1919 assessments for 1920 collections across 99 counties. Eleven district totals show the eleventh district as the top payer, with Polk, Woodbury, and Linn among the million-dollar counties. School bond issues push educational costs toward 60 million, while valuations rise from 70 to 90 dollars per acre ahead of potential 100 million statewide taxes.
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Iowa
Des Moines
State House
As & County
Polk County
Woodbury County
Linn
Black Hawk
Clinton
Scott
Dubuque
Cerro Gordo
Marshall
Jasper
Story
Pottawattamie
Webster
Polk
Woodbury
Toledo Men Victims of New Auto Swindle
A Des Moines auto exchange agent buys Toledo residents’ second hand cars and has them sign a sale contract that becomes an order to pay. The swindler cashes the orders at banks before leaving town. Sheriff Peterman identifies the suspect as a 38 year old man, about 5 feet 9, with a green suit and a diamond ring.
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Toledo
Tama
N. A. Peterman
Auto Exchange Company
Des Moines
Peterman
Nature's Wise Supervision by Weather in Plant Life
The text argues weather regulates plant growth by shaping seed production. If the atmosphere maintained even temperatures globally, early Earth would host fewer plant varieties since fast-reproducing species would dominate and crowd out slower ones.
Canneries Face Shortages of Cans and Cars
Cedar Rapids Aug 3 After a long chamber meeting Iowa Nebraska Canners association members reviewed a growing crisis as shortages of cans are aggravated by scarce rail cars and uneven sugar and coal supplies. President B H Witwer noted canned goods exist but transport remains the choke point threatening fall and winter canning despite ample coal and crops.
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Cedar Rapids
Chamber of Commerce
Iowa-Nebraska Canners Association
Iowa
B. H. Witwer
North Iowa harvests record crop prospects this year
In Franklin, Butler, and Cerro Gordo counties north Iowa forecasts a record farm yield across crops. Corn grew well with adequate moisture, hay and oats good while later oats cut in ideal weather. Early reports from southern Iowa note above average threshing and quality grain, predicting a very good overall yield.
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Hampton
Aus
North
Iowa
Franklin
Butler
Cerro Gordo
President Wilson Telegram Says Accept Not May First
A fragment notes President Wilson's telegram of congratulations to Governor Cox used the phrase Please accept instead of May 1 not, reflecting a cautious diplomatic nuance in the congratulatory message. The line captures a moment of formal communication between national leadership and state officials.
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Wilson
Cox
Farmers Pleased With Harding Says H C Wallace
Des Moines Capital reports H C Wallace notes farmers nationwide applaud Senator Harding's agricultural platform. A Chicago meeting of about two hundred cooperative farm leaders discussed a unified marketing plan, including terminal elevators and brokerage houses, to cut costs and improve farm proceeds.
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Hy Henry
Wallace
Sengpor Harding
Chicago
California
New York
Cooperative Farmer
Livestock Shipping Association
Farm Bureau Federation
Hardine
Roosevelt
Harding
Des Moines Capital
Unlikely Time Measures In Tribal Practices
The piece notes odd time standards among Indian and Indo Malayan tribes. Betel leaf chewing with lime and spices takes about twenty minutes to pulp, used as a time gauge. Malays reportedly measure time by the drying of wet hair on the head.
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India
IndoMalayan Peninsula
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Jefferson
Eliew Pire Wrele
Jackson
Johnson Creeap
H. C. Wallace
War Department
Cr Afty Roller
Senator Harding
Postum Cereal Co., Inc
Battle Creek, Mich
OM “Pany
John Foster
Reo
Mr. Foster
Washington
Edgar Hoyle
Joan Foster
White Way Garage Co
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