Internal Revenue crackdown on free admissions and deed wording
Iowa notes describe tax enforcement on amusements and public events with no free admissions for girls and require actual financial consideration on deeds. Reports also cover local figures Charles R. Clark Montezuma retirement, T M Rodgers resignation Newton, and Audubon mob incident involving Fred Tennigkent and a $40000 personal damages suit.
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Des Moines
Internal Revenue
Revenue Department
Brethren Missionaries to Leave for Foreign Field
At Waterloo it is announced that 24 missionaries of the Church of the Brethren will depart this fall for overseas service. Twenty go for the first time, four have just returned home for a brief vacation. The Brethren Church in Orange township Black Hawk county now has eight missionaries serving abroad.
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Waterloo
Church of the Brethern
Dunkards
Brethern
Orange Township
Black Hawk County
Notable Early Kiron Settler Nicholas Lindblad Dead at 103
Nicholas Lindblad of Kiron dies at 103 after a life spanning Sweden and the United States. Born November 5, 1816, he served in the Swedish army, earned a corporal’s rank, and later immigrated to Michigan, Illinois, then Kiron in 1873 as an early settler. His long journey ended in his adopted community.
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Nicholas Lindblad
Kiron
Crawford County
Mr. Lindblad
Sweden
United States
Michigan
Illinois
America
Enrollment boom at Iowa State schools expands dorms
Enrollment at the state schools at Iowa City Ames and Cedar Falls is the largest ever known with over 3700 at Ames where a new dormitory is being built for the increased number of girls. At Iowa City 300 men are studying and many disabled soldiers take special government funded work at all schools.
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Iowa City
Ames
Cedar Falls
State Board of Education
Mapes Leads Troops to Crack Anarchist Meeting Sites
Col Mapes, veteran Camp Dodge commander now leading government troops in Gary Indiana, has uncovered secret meeting places of anarchists and I W W followers. He brought with him Camp Dodge regulars forming the Fourth Division being organized locally.
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Col. Mapes
Camp Dodge
Gary
Indiana
Campge
War department rifles for home guard defense proposed
Washington October 24 Senator Harrison of Mississippi introduced a bill authorizing the war department to issue rifles pistols and machine guns to the states for home guard defense as part of a plan to protect communities against violence by radical elements.
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Washington
War Department
Harrison
Dem
Mississippi
Cattlemen Face Treasury Demand for Drought Loans
Washington on October 24 reports the War Financing Corporation calls in drought loans to Southwest cattle growers. Payments are due November 1. The outstanding balance as of October 1 stood at 3,182,915 dollars.
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Washington
Southwest
Wet Financing Corporation
The Stage Mutt and Jeff in New Guise at Graham Theatre
The Laugh Twins present a ninth yearly edition with a new version of the enduring cartoon kickups at the Graham Theatre tomorrow. The production is brisk lively and wholesome with clean humor and welcome, not vulgar, situations.
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Mutt
Jeff
Graham Theatre
Laugh Twins
The Gumps at Graham theatre October opening
The Gumps cartoon based attraction at the Graham theatre arrives Wednesday October 29. Casper Nathan and Isham Jones provide lyrics and music for a radiant farce praised for wit, humor, and strong plot with an impressive cast of comedians and comediennes.
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Sydney Smith
Graham Theatre
Casper Nathan
Isham Jones
Howard McKent Barnes
Comediennes
Campaign Aims to Make Palisades a State Park Site
Mt. Vernon Professor Charles R. Keyes outlined a campaign to secure The Palisades in Linn County as a state park. He cited its vast unspoiled nature along the Cedar River with 800 acres of preserved land and a native forest hosting rare birds. A Mt. Vernon Commercial Club dinner Friday will host delegations from Iowa City Cedar Rapids and nearby towns.
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Iowa City
Charles R. Keyes
Mt. Vernon
Palisades
Linn County
Iowa
Middle West
Cedar River
Commercial Club of
Cedar Rapids
Budget Bill Passes Congress Creates New Budget Bureau
Washington Oct 24 The house voted 284 to 2 to adopt the budget bill with no changes from the committee plan led by Rep Good Iowa. It creates a Budget Bureau under the president and an independent Accounting Department under the Controller General with salaries set for the new officials.
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Washington, D. C
House
Representative Good
Iowa
Appropriations Committee
Taft
Lowden
Mllnois
Moon
Tennessee
Blackmon
Alabama
Accounting Department
Executive Departments
Controller General of
United States
Curzon Becomes Foreign Secretary in Place of Balfour
London reports Lord Curzon has been appointed foreign secretary succeeding Arthur J. Balfour. The official announcement confirms Curzon will assume the role vacated by Balfour.
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Earl of Curzon
London
Eng
Lord Curzon
Arthur J. Balfour
Prevent Spanish Influenza By Anointing Nose
A 1920s style health notice extols Men-Tho-Eze as a preventive nasal ointment to keep membranes moist and fight influenza. It describes preventive use, warns against self treatment, lists symptoms and urges timely physician care, with price in Opal jars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Health
China
Proposals to Consolidate House Appropriations Duties
The report outlines recommendations for consolidating duties of multiple committees into a single enlarged appropriations panel. It notes that the plan aims to streamline operations and would be reviewed via changes in the rules. Opposition is anticipated, with history noting Champ Clark pressing to remove a retirement provision for top audit officials.
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Congress
House of Congress
House
Champ Clark
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Colorado
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New York
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Ft. Dodge, Iowa
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