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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1928
Page
10
Washington December 12 Interior department appropriation bill carries 282,287,963 dollars, about two million less than recommended by the budget but ten million six hundred thousand more than the current year’s appropriation. The bill was reported to the House by the House Appropriations Committee.
A committee trimmed a national park service appropriation by about 1.0 million dollars and reduced Indian affairs funding by roughly 204 thousand. The revisions leave totals around 40.94 million for parks and 16.27 million for Indian affairs as originally proposed.
The November cow test reports list milking cows and dryness for several herds with butterfat yields and counts for Muller, Palmer, Yoder, and others. Iowa state plots near Clear Lake and Muscatine test feed corn and seed potato yields, noting Cobblers at 170 bushels per acre and 92 tons per acre on upland peat plots.
Iow a City police arrest Norval Matthes after raiding his place seizing 45 gallons of alcohol a new copper still and many empty bottles. He escaped during arrest but was recaptured after a half-mile chase.
Washington reports the House approved a resolution to appoint a congressional committee for the 25th anniversary of the first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk North Carolina on December 1. A New Orleans brief notes Jesse James 36 suffered amputation and injuries from a cycling incident and a later assault while en route to hospital.
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