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The Alden Times is published every Thursday and entered at the post office at Alden Iowa as second class mail matter under the Acts of Congress.
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Newspaper
Alden Times
Location
Alden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1947
Page
1
You Bet Your Life Touches America's Traffic Lottery
A 1946 style PSA recounts 40 million drivers 140 million pedestrians and 3 million miles of highways as a high risk game of life and death. It cites 33,900 killed and 1,300,000 injured, blaming odds taken and risk unassessed. The message urges care to avoid losing life on the road.
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America
U. S
Travelers Insurance Companies
National Hospital Day Observances In Iowa Hospitals
National Hospital Day will be observed Monday May 12 in Iowa and nationwide with open houses at Des Moines and Knoxville VA hospitals. The event honors Florence Nightingale on her 127th birthday and invites public tours of wards rooms dining and therapy departments to see care for about 2200 hospitalized veterans.
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Iowa
Veterans Administration
Des Moines
Knoxville
Florence Nightingale
Veterans Hospitals
Penn
Cen
Tral College
Knoxville Hospital
Des Moines Hospital
Slot tax bill sparks bold editorial in Iowa
The Week Editorial argues against a slot machine tax bill in Iowa, calling it a double talk that would legalize illegal gambling by taxation. It denounces the bill as stupid, urges enforcement to remove slot machines, and criticizes lawmakers for lax statutes and enforcement.
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Snea City Herald
Iowa
Towa
Alden brides in sectional bridal beauty contest at Iowa Falls
Misses Virginia Wheeler and Jean Acuff will represent Alden in today’s sectional bridal beauty contest in Iowa Falls. The winner advances to the state contest at Des Moines during the state fair. Contestants wear old fashioned wedding gowns. Wheeler wears her mother’s gown and Acuff wears a gown from the late Mrs Julia Birdsall. Mrs John Sweers spent the weekend with Rev and Mrs W A Wilkinson in Newell, returning with her sister Irma Wilkinson who will visit briefly. L S Cox drove to Colfax Monday and returned with his wife, who has improved after sanitarium treatments. they stopped briefly at Irma Wilkinson’s home on the way.
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Virginia Wheeler
Jean Acuff
Iowa Falls
Des Moines
Miss Wheeler
Miss Acuff
Julia Birdsall
John Sweers
W. A. Wilkinson
Newell
Irma Wilkinson
L. S. Cox
Colfax
Local residents attend regional church and medical society events
Mr and Mrs Thomas Smiley of Grinnell and Dr W A Johnson joined a Hardin County Medical Society meeting in Iowa Falls last Thursday evening. Mr and Mrs A R Idso traveled to Marshalltown on Sunday for the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Norwegian Lutheran church there.
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Thomas Smiley
Grinnell
W. A. Johnson
Hardin County Medical Society
Iowa Falls
A. R. Idso
Marshalltown
Norwegian Lutheran Church
Pianoforte recital and extended Mother's Day visits unfold in Grinnell region
Mrs M W Ries and daughter Genevieve attended a pianoforte recital by Ardith Ries in Grinnell. Mother's Day guests at the Barhite home marked a twelfth wedding anniversary for Mr and Mrs Burl Barhite with many relatives visiting from Iowa Falls Dows Eldora and Waterloo for a Sunday gathering and family visits.
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M. W. Ries
Genevieve
R. C. Robertson
Dorothy Klein
Grinnell
Ardith Ries
Burl Barhite
Mattie Barhite
Floyd Barhite
Hans Peterson
Ed Fryslie
Floyd
Donald Evans
Bob Hoffman
Martyn Martin
W. A. Squire
Frank Esslinger
Elizabeth
Hampton
Squire
Jud Esslinger
Fred Klein
Iowa Falls
Neva Luttschwager
Dows
Fred Fred Burns
Jas. Heslop
Eldora
George Hanson
Waterloo
Will Hanson
Fire alarm hoax wakes Alden residents and drills loyalty league
Mrs Mary Heslop and family visited Wilbur Winter in Ames when a pretend fire drill lit the night sky across the river. A bonfire near the bridge tricked townsfolk into a loud alarm as autos flocked in from the countryside. The Alden Loyalty and Defense League drill department is now organized with 23 recruits joining Tuesday and more expected Friday.
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The
Alden Loyalty and Defense League
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