By The Way column from Anita Iowa wit reads and people
A Thursday local column notes neighborhood life in Anita Iowa. It recalls nursery birds, radio programs, service members departing for the Pacific, and community chatter about children, neighbors, and a Marine furlough visit at Sunday School. Judy and Jerl’m Roman are praised for their writing on judging people by averages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim
Anita
Karns
Judy
Jer
Jenoch Day
Omaha
Decoration Day Visits and Cemetery Pilgrimage Noted
Aby and Mrs. Chas Hettinger spent Decoration Day in Dexter visiting old friends and making the annual cemetery rounds. Rev and Mrs 31 D Summerheil and Jack joined Sunday dinner in Dexter where he served as guest minister in one of Rev Klemmetr's charge churches after TNDOTh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aby
Chas. Hettinger
Dexter
Town
D. Summerheil
Jack
Klemmetr
Murder My Sweet at Anita Theatre Sunday
The noir mystery features Dick Powell as private eye Marlowe entangled with Claire Trevor and Annie Shirley. A love triangle, blackmail, and three murders unfold as Marlowe evades an antagonistic police force to prove his innocence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
2RG
Sweet
Anita Theatre
Dick Powell
Clane Trevor
Annie Shirley
Marlowe
Marlow
Exposition Journey Reveals Hardship and Wonder
A narrator recalls farm life strain and a family trip to Omaha Exposition in 1898. Amid damaged windmill, sows, and water pumping, a Poor Farm visit starkly exposes hardship, while the journey to Omaha thrills with sights like General Miles, camels, and Little Egypt shows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethel Ehames
Chicago
Som
Phebe
Omaha
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Paul R. Brown
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Paul Barbour
Tadh
Pacific War Theatre
Morning Glory Avenue
Sunset Boulevard
Illinois
Arkansas
Kentucky Coal
Jewett Grain and Coal
E. C. Dorsey
Tank Wagon Service
O. W. Shaffer & Son
Anita, Iowa
By Homer Croy
Western Newspaper Union
Dement
Gipple Ins
Coats
Mrs. Day
Mr. Day
Exposition Grounds
Cairo
Egypt
Little Egypt
United States
Montgomery Ward
Little
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