Des Moines.Focus on State Taxes Dominates Final Legislature Week
Des Moines March 30 The first general assembly nears end with house focus on road legislation and the appropriation measure. The final state levy will be set when the appropriation bill passes, currently at 11.5 mills and possibly cut to 10. The session has emphasized state taxes, contrasting with local taxation where most funds come from. The gasoline tax is the only tax measure passed.
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Des Moines
Party-first General Assembly
House
Senate
Buser
Boards of Supervisors
Polk
Lovrein-Brookhart
Agricultural College
Ames
State University
Iowa City
Brookhart
Dubuque Judge Reads 15000 in Bequests in Loetscher Will
A. A. Loetscher of Dubuque leaves fifteen thousand dollars to Dubuque institutions. The University of Dubuque, Finley Hospital, Y M C A building funds, Sunny Crest Sanitarium, Dubuque Visiting Nurse Association, Mount Pleasant Home, Hill Crest Deaconess Home, and Wahy Ford receive specified sums or income for charitable purposes. After gifts to relatives, remainder goes to immediate family.
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Dubuque
A. A. Loetsche
Dstrict
University of Dubuque
Finley Hospital
Federal Bank & Trust Co
Sunny Crest
Hill Crest Deaconess
Wahy Ford
25 Years Service as Mayor Ends in Death
Marble Rock Iowa March 20 F Gates mayor of Marble Rock for the last 25 years died of a heart ailment Sunday morning in his home. Neighbors and his wife heard him fall and summoned help. He had been in business in the village coal and implement trades for many years. He was 16 years old. Surviving are his widow and two sons Mrs Katie Sours and Mr A G Meyers.
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Marble Rock
F. Gates
Des Moines Starts Personal Effort to Add Church Members
Des Moines launches a citywide church membership drive led by 16 Methodist and First United Presbyterian churches. Dr A Earl Kernahan of Boston oversees the effort with 250 workers who will visit homes to recruit lapsed or former members as the campaign runs through Friday night after a series of final meetings.
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Des Moines
Methodist
First
United Presbyterian Churches of
First Methodist Church
Earl Kernahan
Boston
Kernahan
Dalton Suffering From Carbuncles At Sanitarium
John F. Dalton Jr, recently at the Solar Sanitarium in Omaha for carbuncles and high blood pressure, is expected to return home today. Doctors believe he will recover with proper rest and care, though he does not feel fully rested yet.
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Manson, Ta
John F. Dalton, Jr
Omaha
Dalton
Dalton Press Publisher Travels Iowa Calendar Giant
The article notes a publisher who ran the Manson Dampocrat until selling it to Fom Long a few years ago, and now operates the Dalton Press. He spends much of his time on the road touring for the Dalton Praag, a major calendar producer in Iowa.
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Tor
Manson Dampocrat
Fom Long
Dalton Press
Iowa
Dalton
Dalton Praag
Trial jury awards Mrs Rudolph $200 in Rowntree suit
The jury returned a sealed verdict for the plaintiff Mrs Bertha Rudolph against Dr I W Rowntree for $200 after a long trial that spanned the week. Deliberations began 11:40 a m and ended 7:20 p m Saturday with motions for new trial to be considered. Rowntree plans to seek appeal to the supreme court if overruled. Rudolph sought $5,000 for burns from x ray treatment in spring 1928.
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E. B. Stiles
Bertha Rudolph
I. W. Rowntree
A. B. Lovejoy
Waterloo
C. al. Dutehar
Lowe City
Supreme Court
Rudolph Oaid
Hanila
Tuthill
Benifamin
Salinger, Carroll
Motor vehicle rise in six counties and phonograph records
The six counties show motor vehicles rising from 17 200 to 26 000 with about 2 000 heavy lorries. There is now one motor for every 68 people, compared with one per 67 in Great Britain. Voices of Florence Nightingale Lord Tennyson Queen Victoria and Gladstone are preserved by phonograph records in the British Museum.
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Tister
Great Britain
Florence Nightingale
Lord Tennyson
Queen-Victoria and
Gladstone
British Museum
Diamond Dyes for Home Dyeing and Tinting
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Jack Dalton
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