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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1932
Page
5
Iowa's 1931 tax burden exceeded 157.8 million dollars, rising from 136.5 million in 1923 as taxes across state local and federal levels outpaced population growth. Automobile and gasoline taxes led the revenue gain while farm product values and assessed valuations fell, with population near 2.47 million in 1930.
Martha Butler reports in Columbus Junction Iowa that a young peoples Christian Union was organized in the United Presbyterian church with Miss Mary Louise Willmering as president and other officers named. Meetings will be Sundays at 7 p m. The H W Four H girls club of Concord township will meet July 12 with Miss Hilda De Weele. Kittenball games played Tuesday evening saw Letts Ramblers defeat Louisa All.
Henry Dupuis manager of the Keota Telephone Co. died at his home at 12:30 this morning after three weeks illness. Funeral planned for St Marys Keota Saturday with burial there. He leaves a wife Pearl and two sons George and John, plus five brothers and four sisters. He was born November 26 1888 in Washington Iowa and helped run the Keota and Sigourney telephone ventures with his siblings.
Iowa reports 45 drownings this summer as five lives were lost in Osceola where a farmer and two sons drowned at a 30 foot pond while rescuing a boy. another boy, 12, died at Council Bluffs in the Mississippi after misjudging deep water. a Des Moines man fishing along the river drowned with identity unreleased.
Dr W S Weir Mitchell is credited with the rest cure idea. By 1875 he advocated a rest cure for nervous prostration and conditions marked by poor blood and diminished muscular and nervous tone.
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