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Iowa State News Roundup From Fort Madison To Waterloo
Interesting items from Iowa detail Ira Noble’s appointment as industrial agent at Fort Madison after a 14 year life sentence, his marriage to Misa Brockhagen, and career rise. The column notes improved Iowa business, a Lenox family saved by their dog, mail pouch thefts of 70 000 dollars, and forgery crackdowns. It also covers prison reforms, wireless signals from Key West to Iowa State College, hospital leadership changes, river floods, bridge bids, federal building plans, aspirin production, and local crimes and fires across towns like Perry Pocahontas Mt. Pleasant Sigourney and Webster City.
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Ira Noble
Iowa
Ft. Madison
Noble
Misa Byrde Brockhagen
J. C. Sanders
Sanders
K. G. Danealet
State Board of Parole
Lancelot
W. F. Steinkamp
Lenox
Steinkamp
Newton
R. H. Sylvester
State University Psychological Clinic
Psychological Clinic
Iowa City
Huron
Chicago
Iowa Bankers’ Association
Des Moines
Minneapolis
Burlington
Creaton
Joseph Sweeney
Walter Ohlschlager
Carl E. Johnson
Charles Moore
Parnell Savings Bank
Marengo
Parnell
Moore
Parnell Bank
C. J. Jordan
J. W. Blackman
Jordan
Blackman
Perry
Waterloo
Mississippi Valley
Illinois
William Horrabin
Washington
Town University
College of Pharmacy
South
Sigourney
Wolfe
Waugh and Seeley
Pocahontas
Adams Expense Company
Mt. Pleasant
National City Bank of Chicago
Farmers’ Bank
Salem
Secretary of State
Census Department
Byerneas