Committee Proposes Massive Tax Cut Plan for Congress
The Ways and Means Committee unveils a nonpartisan tax reduction bill promising at least 308.4 million dollars in annual savings to federal taxpayers. It trims normal and surtax rates, raises personal exemptions, expands earned income credits, repeals the gift tax, and adjusts brackets for a broad slate of levies with an estimated annual revenue loss of 308,372,709 dollars.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Ways and Means
Congress
Green
WANTS SUPERVISOR FOR IOWA LIBRARIES
Miss Julia Robinson secretary of the Iowa Traveling Library commission suggests appointing a state supervisor for libraries to improve school libraries. She criticizes current law allocating five to fifteen cents per pupil for books as insufficient and proposes an accredited list of desirable children's books to be posted in all schools. Six Iowa school systems currently employ a full time librarian.
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Des Moines
Julia Robinson
Iowa Traveling Library Commission
Robinson
Board of Education
Railroads Seen Essential as Motor Trucks Fall Short
Des Moines Illinois November 10 H F Byram receiver of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railroad told the Des Moines Traffic club that motor vehicles cannot replace railroads. He argued rail lines carry bulk freight cheaply and efficiently, with long hauls needing trains and thousands of tons capacity, making road trucks unable to match general rail business.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Ila
H. FE. Byram
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad
Traffic Club of
Byram
Milwaukee Road
Mtry
Blazer Defense Loses Motion in Colorado Child Murder Case
In Littleton Colorado on November 11 Judge Samuel Johnson overruled defense counsel Lewis Mowery's motion for a directed verdict in the murder case against Dr Harold Blazer charged with killing his four year old daughter Hazel. Mowery argued under English common law the girl was not a human being with a soul. The motion was rejected in chambers.
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Associated Press
Littleton
Colo
Harold Blazer
Hazel
Samuel Johnson
Lewis Mowery
Mowery
Colorado
Henry Ford Leads Revival of Old Dances in Detroit Class
Henry Ford and wife join Bishop Herman Page in promoting old fashioned dances at St. Pauls Cathedral hall in Detroit. Ford hosts and plays host to elderly and young dancers with Mrs Ford, Lovetts, and a small orchestra reviving waltz gavotte schottische and quadrille to nostalgic tunes. Frank Flander of Keota travels on business to Washington.
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Associated Press
Detroit
St. Paul's Cathedral Hall
Methodist Episcopal Church
Henry Ford
Herman Page
Ford
Benjamin B. Lovett
Dearborn
Iowa outlines road building program across eight arterials
Des Moines November conference between the state highway commission and Governor Hammill outlined plans for a three year program to drain grade and surface eight east west arterials and five north south trunk roads using a four million dollar development fund. A three cent gasoline tax proposal is under consideration to replace the current two cent tax. Major routes likely to be surfaced include the North Iowa Pike the Grant highway the Jefferson highway and Lincoln highway related roads.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
State Highway Commission
Hammill
Forty Second General Assembly
Boards of Supervisors
Fred R. White
Burlington
Council Bluffs
A Program for Peace by John R McQuicas
The American Legion National Commander presents a peace program from the first World War era. He urges maintaining adequate national defense, universal military draft, and immediate U S adherence to a permanent international court to honor fallen comrades and promote lasting peace.
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John R. McQuicas
The
American Legion
America
Flanders
Vosges
Flanders Field
United States
Court of International Justice
Big Price Advance for Potatoes Halted But Still Expensive
Chicago news reports from Nov 11 indicate a standstill in the big potato price advance after a rapid rise. United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics notes prices remained three to four times last season's levels despite declines, with about 300 carloads arriving from Canada in the last week and total Canadian imports at 460 cars this season.
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Chicago
Spud
United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics
United States
Canada
Rural prosperity not here says Grange leader
J Taber of Columbus Ohio heads a National Grange program in Sacramento warning that rural prosperity is not imminent. He concedes agriculture is better than in years but urges caution against over production and calls for organization education and a well ordered rural program to stabilize farming long term.
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Sacramento
Calif
Rual Welfare
J Taber
Columbus
Ohio
National Grange
Taber
Armistice Day Observed Amid Winter Forecasts Nationwide
The Associated Press reports from Washington that ocean meteorologist Herbert J. Browne predicts a severe US winter with heavy snow and long cold waves interspersed by brief warm spells. He cites low solar radiation and world crop risks as warning signs for 1926–27 and beyond, supported by researchers like Rutger Sernander.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Herbert J. Browne
Browne
Rutger Sernander
National University of
Upsala
Scandinavia
Europe
Smithsonian Institution
Six Ocean Going Ships Inland to Chicago Port Feats
Six ocean going ships this year steamed inland to Chicago to unload European and South American cargoes. Norwegian and Danish registers dominate, with China clay from Fowey and coal from Cardiff, plus Chilean nitrate bound for Montreal and Detroit to load autos for Norway. The move signals hopes for a vast inland port linked to Welland and a deeper St Lawrence route, with Governor Small promising lake to gulf plans within a week.
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Chicago
Tidewater
Great Mid-West
Fowey
Ene
Cardiff
Wales
Montreal
Quebec
Detroit
Norway
Pwaterway
Welland Conal
St. Lawrence
Small
Ilnois
Chicago River
Lake Michigan
Chicago Drainage Canal
Desphaines
Ilinois River
Mississippi
Dependable seed corn scarce as Iowa reports 1926 crop outlook
Des Moines Iowa November 11 The Iowa Weather and Crop Bureau reports a seed corn shortage for the 1926 crop due to recent zero weather. Seventy five percent of seed corn may be husked with much diverted to ensilage or fodder. Only about twenty percent husking completed. Winter wheat benefited from moisture and snow cover. Late seeding seen as unlikely.
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Associated Press
Des Moines Ln
Lowa Weather and Crop Bureau
Allies Observe Seventh Armistice Day Worldwide
Nations across Washington London and Paris held solemn ceremonies at Unknown Soldier tombs. In Iowa Des Moines offices closed and memorial events marked Armistice Day with parades, addresses, and the unveiling of a tablet for Marion Crandall.
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Washington
London
George
Mary
Baldwin
Paris
New York
Wall Street
Cunard
Berengaria
Teo
Rome
Victor Fremperr
Des Moines
Iowa
Trans- Mississippi Bridge
Marion Crandall
Davenport
France
State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Mary McSkinnon
Brooklin
Mass
National Education Association
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the Treasury
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Stephen Fosters
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Frank Flander
Keota
Conference of Highway Com
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Grange Leader
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Parmer
Chicag
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Prom Furs
Lakes City
Werather
Ottawa
Mexico
Douglas
Aziz
Kellogg
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