State tax reform urged by Des Moines hearings
Des Moines November 16 hearings before the joint legislative tax committee heard advocates for a state tax commission and for replacing township assessors with county assessors. W C Ramsay urged ending the 25 percent levy base and called for public utilities to be taxed by a centralized authority. Secretary Haynes supported expert-driven utility assessments and actual value taxation, while favoring reforms in local assessments.
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Des Moines
State Tax Commission
Joint Legislative Tax Committee
State House
State Bar Association
Farm Organizations
W. C. Ramsay
Glenn C. Haynes
Moses Cohen
Ramisay
State Executive Council
James Peters
Ramsay
Haynes
Executive Council
Fayette County Pair Face Murder Trial
In West Union Iowa on November 16 Mrs Ross Ashbaugh and Arthur Canoe ask for separate trials for the murder of Mrs Ashbaughs husband The prosecution opts to try Mrs Ashbaugh first with trial set for Monday November 28 under the plan agreed by both sides Also an unrelated notice promotes Dr Shallenberger Chicago Specialist to visit Waterloo November 19 at Hotel Russell Lamson seeking health consultations
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West Union
Ross Ashbaugh
Arthur Canoe
Shallenberger
Chicago
Hotel Russell- Lamson
Waterloo
Keep Looking Young Olive Tablets Advertisement
Keep Looking Young its Easy if You Know Dr Edwards Olive Tablets. The ad cites a doctor from Ohio who created a gentle liver and bowel aid as a substitute for calomel. It promises a natural buoyancy by toning the liver and clearing impurities, noting olive color and prices 15¢ and 39¢.
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Edwards
Ohio
Briefest will filed in local court records single paragraph
The shortest will on record, dated March 13 last, transfers all property to daughter Ada Hoffman. Filed by A J Edwards for the estate, the widow seeks a lump sum of 580 dollars still owed after a wage offset of 15 dollars weekly for 66 weeks. Hoffman plans a boarding house from the investment.
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Fred S. Pettit
J. O. Lines
Adaie M. Hoffman
Durand
Hoffman
Oak Park
Waterloo
Wisconsin
Aa. J. Edwards
Cast and schedule for Joe Bren Production film
Tuesday and Wednesday November 21 22 23 set for production. George Stevens directs the Joe Bren Producing company with P cast names including King Cocoa Bola played by John F P Ashe and Boola Boola as chief advisor Forest Shores. Other principals listed and a mass of cast names given. Reserved seats go on sale at Hansen Hansen's drug store Friday at 8 AM. The text also notes military dress rules and a violent ending description.
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George Stevens
Joe Bren
John FP. Ashe
Hansen & Hansen’s
Finishing Touches In Basement Of New First Baptist Church
Rev Clyde J Askins announces last bricks in the foundation halls of the new First Baptist Church will be laid tomorrow. Floors to begin immediately. Basement to be completed this winter and work on the superstructure starts early next spring.
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First Baptist Church
Clyde J. Askins
Elks Show Leads With Former Players in Principal Roles
Mrs. Bessie Gates seeks a lump sum compensation from Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company claiming a June 1920 work accident caused her right eye vision loss. Meanwhile many Elks members will take principal roles in The Jollies of 1922 to be presented at Waterloo High Auditorium Monday under BPO Elks auspices.
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Bessie Gates
Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company
The
Elks Minigreers
the Jollies
Waterloo B. P.O. Biks
Are East High Auditorium
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Fayette County
Wangler Drug Store
Cocoa Bola
Forest Shores
Boola Boola
Misa Alice Brown
Cymbalie
Jefferson
Snow
Ter B. Hull
Jack Wise
Clarence Wildware
Russell L. DeGon
Noodles
Jack Althouse
Prunella Bunchgrass
Elsie Byvank
Ferdinand Foster
Fred Haggie
W. A. Reed
Stary Post
United. I
NEW First Baptist Church
Bayer
W. A. Abbotts
Banta Hopkins
Manchester, Ia
W. A. Abbott
W. A. Abbott Co
Lamont
Iowa
Wangler Bros. Co
Independent Meat & Grocery Company
Schaffner & Marx
Hart, Schaffner’ & Marx
Gevennen
Frank Bros
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