State Will Fight Railroad Tax Increase Suit In Federal Court
Iowa executive council led by Attorney General Ben Gibson filed resistance to a permanent injunction blocking the $50 million railroad tax increase. Nine railroads are involved. Judge Wade and two others will hear merits September 12. The state claims railroads are assessed below value and seeks to preserve state governance. The filing also argues proceeds and cross examination rights. The Portland Oregonian notes a New York transcontinental motor stage marks a new era in cross country travel.
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Executive Council of
Iowa
Ben Gibson
Executive Council
Martin J. Wade
United States
Legislative
Executive Department
State
New York
Portland Oregonian
Childless Big Creek district noted in Black Hawk County
La Porte City reports that district number four in Big Creek township has no pupils five to twenty one, no school building, no teacher, no board, and no tax. The district remains a legal entity with minimal population and no children, described as a taxpayer’s paradise.
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Big Creek Township
Blackhawk County
LA Porte City
H. C. Moeller
Black Hawk County
Iowa
E. H. Myers
Schol
Benton County
Births Surpass Deaths in England and Wales in 1920
In 1920 England and Wales saw over 950000 births the highest since records began and a birth rate the highest since 1909. Deaths fell to 466000 the lowest since 1862. The natural increase reached a record high while infant mortality in London dropped from 104 in 1917 to 75 in 1920 per Century Magazine report by William Hart.
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England
Wales
England and
London
William Hart
Century Magazine
Take the Bus for L. A. The arrival in Los Angeles
A fragment reports a transport event in Los Angeles with a focus on a journey by bus. Limited readable details mention arrival and location but no names or dates. Further context is unavailable in the surviving text.
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L. A
Los Angeles
I Stand for the U S A Lemons and Leeches?
Dan McGann and Uncle Sam address a foreign man with a wrench, denouncing Bolshevik and socialist talk. He proclaims loyalty to the United States, the flag, and one God, one nation, rejecting foreign ideologies and urging pride in American creed.
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Dan McGann
Uncle Sam
Bourjoisse
Saif
Candy spending drop masks luxury spree of 1919
The Register-Leader notes that Americans reduced candy purchases by 54 million dollars in the latest year but still spent 408.7 million on candy, while mobile outlays topped 1.67 billion. Despite declines in luxuries like jewelry and instruments, the piece argues spending patterns reflect income changes rather than deprivation.
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Internal Revenue Bureau
Register-Leader
Dowager’s Butchered Exchange Over Loyal Butler
An English exchange recounts a dowager parting with her butler for economy and giving a cordial reference. A prospective employer’s mistress questions whether the man is courteous gentlemanly honest and well mannered. The Dowager replies that if her butler possessed half those virtues she would have worried herself for him.
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Blank
Ancient Villages of Indian Tribes Located in Iowa
Professor Charles McKay reported eight Indian villages identified by pottery fragments bones and shells from four weeks in northwestern Iowa. Sites along Okoboji lakes the Little Sioux river and Clay county ranged from one to twenty acres. Findings will be released by Lakeside Laboratory. Iowa lacks a state archaeology program despite local interest.
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Mount Vernon
Charles Mclay
McGregor
Okoboji
Iowa
Okoboji Lakes
Milford
Little Sioux
Clay County
McKay
R. B. Wiley
Lakeside Laboratory
Keyes
Wisconsin
Iowan Kills Self and Wife in California
Earl Early, a former Traer resident, killed his wife and then shot himself in Sacramento California. He was 38, left Traer about sixteen years ago, lived on a Montana claim, and later moved to California after separating from his wife. His brothers Frank Ernest and Elmer live in Traer area.
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Traer
Earl Early
Sacramento
Cal
Froid, Mont
Montana
Frank
Ernest
Elmer
Davenport Real Estate Block Sold in Davenport
A Davenport real estate deal closing reports over 400000 in value as the R J Walsh Company investment bankers purchase all stock of the Ochs Lane Investment Company and lease the Whitaker building at Third and Brady in Davenport.
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Davenport Business Block
Davenport
R. J. Walsh Company
Davenport Investment Bankers
Ochs Lane Investment Company
Whitaker
Third
Brady
Stock seeks divorce and 85000 dollar alimony
Pres. Dena J. Stock files for divorce from Walter G. Stock in Storm Lake district court alleging cruel and inhuman treatment. She seeks temporary alimony of 2300 per month, costs of suit, permanent alimony of 85000, custody of three children, and court determination of child support.
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Storm Lake
Dena J. Stock
District Court
Walter G. Stock
Progress Themed Quip From New York Telegraph
In a biting column the New York Telegraph mocks modern ways to leave a mark, contrasting old footprints on time with the chance to leave fingerprints on the police blotter. The remark critiques changing social norms and surveillance culture.
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New York Telegraph
Father Takes Over Housework As Mother Works Outside Home
In Des Moines a rising pattern shows fathers washing dishes and caring for babies while mothers bring home wages. Officials say women work in kitchens or hotels while husbands assume domestic duties, aiming to balance family needs amid scarce men’s jobs and continuing employment for women.
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Des Moines
Rose
Graves
Federal Employment Bureau
S. Neufeld
Trial for Cruelty Shocks Cedar Rapids Community
Clifford Hoffman, a farmer, faces seven counts of cruelty to animals in Justice Lightner's court. The case, drawing wide county interest and humane society scrutiny, alleges he slit the tongues and tortured two cows and five calves.
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Cedar Rapids
Clifford Hoffman
Justice Lightner
Humane Society
Hoffman
Victim of Crossing Accident Dies in Boone
Thomas Garvey died yesterday morning at Eleanor Moore County hospital from injuries after being struck by a train at the Harrison Street crossing of the Northwestern line on Tuesday evening. A lifelong county resident, he lived on a farm eleven miles northeast of Boone. He is survived by his widow and eleven children.
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Boone
Thomas Garvey
Eleanor Moore County
Harrison Street
North Western Line
Missing Child Alarm After Coughing Mule Incident
A four year old girl visiting her married brother in the country hopped from a wagon when a mule yelled. She fled to tell her brother that one of the mules had the big coughs, alarming him during a stop at a country store.
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Meles
Alfred
Fort Dodge Woman Inherits A Million
Fort Dodge Sept. 12 Mrs Henry O Hale wife of a gypsum miner became the wealthiest person in the city after inheriting more than 2 000 000 from Wallach Farley the Boong county tycoon who died last Friday The will was filed for probate in Boong yesterday Hale 39 and her husband who works for American Cement Plaster Company have been married just over a year and are living in the gypsum district The husband has been on strike since July 1
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Fort Dodge
Henry O. Hale
Wallach Farley
Boond County
Boong
American Cement Plaster Company
Blinding Lights Cause Near Tragedy In Iowa City
A. Abramsohn is hospitalized with a skull fracture and a badly shattered leg after a Ford driven by J. F. Lewis and a Buick driven by E. T. Horn collided. The crash near Old Man's creek is blamed on the Horn car’s blinding glare and Lewis's attempt to avert the wreck.
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Iowa City
Lee
J. F. Lewis
Riverside
Ocean Salt Volume Estimation by United States Geological Survey
The Salt in the Sea calculates that salt in the world’s oceans could fill a 4,900.000 cubic mile block. Spread over the continental United States excluding Alaska, it would form a crust over a mile and a half deep. One percent of ocean salt would cover all land to 280 feet.
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United States
Alaska
Globe
United States Eeological Survey
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