Iowa to collect millions in 1920 tax roll totals
Des Moines reports Iowa counties will pay from 725000 to 990000 in 1920 taxes on the 1919 assessment. The 1919 levy across 99 counties totals about 80,495,235.15, with Polk County leading at 6,210,132.384 and Woodbury, Linn, Des Moines, and others topping the million-dollar mark. Statewide road and school levies push total annual costs toward 60 million for education and over 13 million for highways.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Lowa
Aga
Polk County
Woodbury County
Linn
Black Hawk
Clinton
Scott
Dupugue
Cerro Gorda
Marshall
Jasper
Story
Pottawattame
Webster
Woodbury
Cerro
Gordo
Polk
Pottawattantte
Local tax proposal details and potential county impact
Fragmentary text describes a levy plan with price points and thresholds affecting counties and tax payers. It mentions ranges up to 90 dollars per acre and a possible general levy approaching 100 million dollars, signaling broad fiscal implications for many counties and taxpayers.
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Laws
Pythians Mark 50th Anniversary in Cedar Rapids
Golden anniversary convention of the Knights of Pythias to be held in Cedar Rapids Tuesday through Thursday draws hundreds from Cedar Rapids and towns like Waterloo Davenport Council Bluffs Des Moines Muscatine Sioux City Marshalltown and more. George Cabell supreme representative from Norfolk will speak. The festivities include a reception and records meeting, a gala Tuesday evening at the city auditorium, and a Wednesday parade followed by the all-towa ceremonial of the D O K K K at the C S P S hall.
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Knights For
Pythias
Grand ‘Edge
Waterloo
Watersloo
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Largs Deleatigne
Davenport
Council
City Auditorium
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Chinese Babe Born at Shenandoah Fe
Shenandoah Ja Aug 2 The father is not the only one excited in the arrival of the first Chinese baby. The newborn boy weighs eight and a half pounds and was born to Mr and Mrs Fong Yee at the Hand hospital. Fong Yee married two years ago in San Francisco.
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Shenandoah
Fong Yee
Hand ‘Hospital
Fong
Broken Ny
Yee
San Francisco
Old Auto Trail Moved in High Manchester Aug. 2
A string of towns along the old Ottumwa Cedar Rapids and McGregor route faced signs of vandalism as a sign painter erased posters and rerouted travelers to Pundee Strawberry Point and Rochester. The incident sparked meetings among Edgewood Manchester Cedar Rapids and McGregor residents who pledged to reseal the trail while authorities blamed the painter. The route's re marking is expected, though the painter's fate remains unclear. A separate report notes a six year old Vernon township boy died from lockjaw after a nail injury and blood poisoning, and a new Fiume direct ferry link connected Rome and Constantinople across the Adriatic.
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Manchester
Ottumwa
Cedar Rapids
McGregories
McGregor
Iwest
Pundee
Strawberry Point
Rochester
Minu
Edgewood
Counanvound
Cascade
Ralph
Frank ‘Skahill
Vernon
Mercy Hospital
Noman Harvester Severely Cuts Leg in Sickle Accident
Garner Aug. 2. Mrs. Rasmus, driving a harvester near Marion City, moved to remove a cart stalk from the guard when horses started. Two cuts to the bone and minor injuries were noted. She was taken to Morey Hospital. surgery to close wounds took about 90 minutes. A young former Charles City girl and mother of a 10-year-old boy.
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Garner
Dic
Dmre
Mareyey
Rasmus
Dina
Morey Hospital
Marion City
Mra
Thea Machhio
Bootlegger Vanderpool Arrested Near McPaul For Hootch
Council Bluffs Aug 2 A bootlegger Harry Vanderpool 27 married with two children was arrested after pointing out two stills. He admitted making alcohol to pay a 34000 mortgage on his nine acre farm and said he earned 200 in three weeks selling his product at six dollars a quart to merchants and farmers. Federal Agent Sumner Knox led the raid, seizing 150 gallons of corn and apple sour mash.
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Council Bluffs
Harry Vanderpool
McPaul
Vanderpool
Sumners Knox
Blodgett of Iowa Denied Writ of Habeas Corpus
David Blodgett former Iowa congressional candidate now serving a 20 year term in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary for espionage act violations was denied a writ of habeas corpus in federal court. Judge Sibley ruled the evidence did not support conspiracy claims.
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Atlanta
David Blodgett
Congress
Iowa
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
Sibley
Fragmentary 19th century notes with names and places
A garbled OCR item lists scattered names, places and events, mentioning Belbychiuin Washington and Rochester Minnesota, visits by several individuals, a newborn, and a motion reference. Many names and details are unreadable or inconsistent, offering only faint hints of social and medical inquiries of the period.
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Vale
Weturley
Ernest Brown
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