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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1925
Page
9
Today at the State University of Iowa classrooms and labs pause as students and faculty celebrate the institution’s 78th founding anniversary. Enrolment has surged from 124 to about 6000, and faculty from 9 to over 500, mirroring the era’s higher learning expansion nationwide.
Washington February 25 President Coolidge proposes that the federal government stop taxing inheritances and leave this revenue to the states. Democrats and Republicans split along economic lines as Congressman Green of Iowa defies the Mellon plan and favors keeping incentives for large fortunes in active business. A concrete illustration imagines Henry Ford reinvesting profits to expand the auto business.
Sofia reports a conspiracy involving officers including Generalissimo Zecoros leading to forty arrests. The government imposes the death penalty for political assassinations and purges officials with communist leanings. Martial law declared. border clashes and cannon fire noted near Tsaribrod as Bulgarians flee to Yugoslavia.
Topeka Kansas Feb 25 The Kansas senate passed a bill providing a two cent state tax on gasoline and sent it to a conference on a senate amendment to operate at once The measure already cleared the house Gasoline fixed in farm tractors would not be taxed
Mrs Bird Baldwin head of the child welfare research station died in a hospital here at 10 45 this morning after an operation yesterday for acute intestinal trouble.
Maryland judge magistrate Bowell argues in favor of the whipping post as a cure for wife beating. He calls for medieval punishment and cites brutal cases heard after men abused wives. He says public humiliation and corporal punishment would deter such crimes and enforce respect for the law.
Charles W Brinks, 44, a Beverly Hills stenographer, was sentenced to Patton State Hospital for insanity after invading the Beverly Hills residence of the Marquise de la Falaise. He proclaimed himself king of the league of nations and declared Gloria Swanson his royal mate.
Springfield Feb 23 legislators push a state senate bill requiring wives to pay alimony to divorced husbands. The measure cites many women including actresses with income equal to or greater than their husbands. The text notes most representatives backing the bill will be women.
Maj. Gen. Robert C. Davis of the War Department announced that 7.4 million bonus applications had been filed by veterans in the United States and abroad. Only 27,000 were disallowed, while 500,000 were returned for corrections. Cash bonuses become payable starting March 1.
American film star Gloria Swanson, resting at a clinic after surgery, shows marked improvement. Her fever has declined and her condition is described as greatly improved this morning.
Kansas City votes to adopt a council manager form, with an incomplete tally showing about a four to one approval. The measure’s fate depends on final counts as officials review the preliminary results amid city government reform discussions.
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Des Moines reports Senator Bowman defended his resignation as Black Hawk county secretary of the Iowa Good Roads association. He said he could not support the proposed $85,000,000 highway bond issue after criticism by H. B. Alfree and cited letters showing the association’s bond stance shifted. House action included six bills, notably Brookhart bank assessment, with session adjournment to March 4 and other measures advancing.
A draft measure would permit foreigners to own land in Japan under certain conditions. The bill restricts ownership to nationals from nations where property rights are protected. Sponsors argue the policy targets specific loopholes while opponents warn of unintended consequences.
Feb 25 Gov Len Small declined to say if he would name a successor to the late U S Senator Medill McCormick to fill the remaining days of the session. The death occurred in Washington this morning prompting the question of appointment.
Senator Medill McCormick of Illinois was found dead in his Hamilton Hotel apartment in Washington from myocarditis and acute cardiac dilation. The coroner ruled natural death. he had just lost renomination and sought diplomatic posts. Senate adjourned in respect as Mrs. McCormick prepared to ship the body from Chicago.
Washington reports the House adopted the conference report on the postal pay bill by 370 to 5. The modified bill carries rate increases estimated to raise about 60 million dollars. Senate action pending. Representative Bell of Georgia pushed a one cent parcel post service charge, but his amendment failed 285 to ? 95.
Chicago medical student Larell G. Volek, 38, begins a two year fast at the University of Chicago to learn how much food supports thinking. He will eat only when hungry and weigh every bite while undergoing mental tests in mathematics, puzzles, and typing accuracy. Experts expect findings to help determine an ideal human ration.
J A Wilson Council Bluffs resident dies from injuries after a fall ten weeks earlier. Charles Miller reports Rainbow Legion post commander announces the state convention will be in Council Bluffs with dates set the week before the national convention in Ouinda Muscatine. Widow and sons survive. couple would have marked their fifty eighth anniversary.
Shenandoah Iowa February 25 Mrs Jacobes a correspondence bride from Koh Krey recently committed to an insane asylum following a murderous assault on his wife has filed suit for alimony five dollars monthly alimony two hundred fifty dollars of which she retains three immediately For suit money Krey is said to possess seventy dollars in stocks and mortgages When Krey married a year and a half ago after a nail centership the firestad two hundred dollars and she gave three hundred toward the purchase of a home
Othy Ky February 25. Collins has gone on the stage to earn money for rescuing Floyd, his brother, whose body lies 70 feet below the surface in the cave that trapped him. He plans to work until funds enable a new attempt to recover Floyd despite earlier sealing of cave entrances.
An official bulletin reports that President Ebert underwent appendicitis treatment yesterday. The bulletin notes the operation was successful and that the president’s condition is satisfactory with stable pulse and general health.
United Press report from Cleveland cites a whisky permit scandal tying a former district man and a Washington elite member to a federal probe. Five young women clerks in federal offices testified, with withdrawals at Hayner distillery central to the case. Names like Corney CANETCIS ME Ge o a Shin’s political gang appear in the chaotic testimony. Roy Toynes and others expected to testify before the grand jury.
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