Legislators Pass Important Laws in Final Session
The district notes the close of the 75th and 76th Congress sessions with key acts: amended AAA 1938 aims to restore 1909-14 income ratios. tax changes cut profits tax and capital gains. CCC funding kept. Soil Conservation and land bank provisions refined. Civil Aeronautics Act creates Aeronautics Authority. defense and relief bills advance. Also reports local deaths and a farm incident near Anita with related bounty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huey Long
Lincome
CCC
Col
McCarran Civil Air
Aeronautics Authority of Bers
Civil Aeronautical
Naval Expan
Congress
Girl of the Golden West at Rialto Saturday Sunday
California romance on the old frontier is brought to the screen in The Girl of the Golden West with Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. The show includes new songs by Romberg and Kahn and the Mariachie festival, plus an Our Gang short and newsreel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Jeanette MacDonald
Nelson Eddy
Rialto Theatre
Sigmund Romberg
Gus Kahn
David Belasco
Golden West
Jack Rance
Ramerez
Rance
Walter Pidgeon
Leo Carrillo
Buddy Ebsen
Leonard Penn
Our Gang
Arizona
George O'Brien
O'Brien
Daugh ‘Ter
Rita Oehmen
Ray Whitley
Robert Gleckler
Paul Everton
Francis McDonald
Ward Bond
Concise Grocery Ad Fragments With Various Items
A fragmentary grocery notice lists items including orange juice Sunkist lemons energy white laundry soap eight bars and iced tea in a mixed ad format with pricing hints and package notes. The readable lines present product names and vague pricing cues without complete sale details or dates.
Mural by WPA Artists Celebrates Iowa Centennial
A 218 foot mural painting started by WPA artists for the Iowa Territorial Centennial State Fair opening August 26 in Des Moines. The two panels will depict Iowa farming from 1838 to 1988, from pioneer sod busting to modern methods, hung in the agricultural building balcony as a permanent exhibit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
WPA
Des Moines
Towa
Yowa
Telegraph service via Western Union now available in Anita
West Town Telephone Co introduces day and night telegraph service through Western Union. The system offers cheaper messages for business and social use to any US destination. Elmer Halsey of Griswold visited Anita last Friday and may move back to settle here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Town Telephone Co
Western Union Telegraph Company
United States
Anita
West Iowa
Elmer Halsey
Griswold
Mr. Halsey
Army worm infestation eyed for corn fields
Weather has favored army worm growth with reports of many worms in wheat and oats in southern Iowa. When grain ripens and is cut, worms may migrate to corn causing damage. Control via evening poison bran bait. inspect late afternoon by shaking lodged grain to see worms. Worms are greenish with three white side stripes and one down the back, about two inches full grown. Also notices: Marjorie Osler Wright granted divorce from Fred Wright with permanent alimony of $50 for cruel treatment. Etta Bowen Walker, 91, dies. burial at Bowen Cemetery near Anita. survived by son Hugh Walker and nephew Joe Cannon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul W. Knaupp
H. D. Tate
Iowa State College
Tate
Marjorie Osler Wright
Cass County District Court
Fred Wright
Atlantic
Etta Bowen Walker
Joe Walker
Benton Township
Hugh Walker
Afton
Bowen
Anita
Joe Cannon
Wiota
Two Highway Patrolmen Lose Pay in Drunken Driving Case
Cass county authorities report Maurice E. Carpenter of Anita was arrested May 1 near Atlantic for drunken driving. Patrolmen C. G. Cole and B. E. Galloway faced two day pay deductions for aiding in liquor evidence by posing as Carpenter. the sentence for Jack Frank and others included 90 days in jail. The case drew local comment and debate over state authorities’ penalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice E. Carpenter
Anita
Atlantic
Iowa
Cass
C. G. Cole
BE. A. Galloway
Adair
Jack Frank
Ellwyn Bailey
P. P. Edwards
Roscoe S. Jones
Galloway
Carpenter
Cole
Frank
Cass County
Lew Wallace
State Motor Vehicle Department
John Hattery
Robert B.o'brian
Sheep Gadfly Menaces Sheep in Summer Months
County agricultural agent Paul W Knaupp warns that sheep gadflys cause considerable trouble in June through August. Flies deposit larvae in sheep nostrils, causing head tossing and nose rubbing. Prevention via nose tar applications or salt log devices reduces infections as grub stages progress and repeats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul W. Knaupp
Red Oak to Host Republican Congressional Convention
Red Oak will host the Seventh District congressional convention on Tuesday July 12 at 11:00 AM in the Montgomery County courthouse. Judge W G Ratcliff named temporary chairman, with Mrs Clarisse J Hartje as secretary and Floyd Billings as reading clerk. 256 delegates apportioned from 13 counties based on votes for George Wilson in 1936.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Oak
Montgomery County
Congressional Committee
W. G. Ratcliff
Red Qak
Clarigse J. Hartje
Adair
Floyd Billings
George Wilson
Adams
Audubon
Cass
Fremont
Guthrie
Harrison
Mills
Montgomery
Page
Pottawattamie
Shelby
Taylor
James Pearson
Shenandoah
Nebraska
Congress
Pearson
Ben F. Jensen
Extra
Andrew V. Thornell
Sidney
E. P. Harrison
Oakland
JR. W. Cockshoot
Atlantic
John Langstrom
Council’ Bluffs
Council Bluffs
Des Moines
Democratic Party
G. G. Jeck
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Saman
Sams
Sy Otha D. Wearin
Scott
Tom Morgan
Endale
Cal
Ralph
Miz
Mildred MccCullenge
Joe
Benton
Morgan
Holyoke
Colo
Girl of the Golden West
Rialto
Harley Miller
Cumberland
Bridgewater
Alvena Silvey
Austin Silvey
Court House
State
Old Age Assistance Commission
Briardale Grocery
Anita, Iowa
Fornia Sunkist
GWC
Telegraph Service
G.O.P
Helping Hand Club
Springbrook State Park
Guthrie Center
Joan Faulkner
Harry C. Faulkner
Joan
Frederic Mizen Academy of Art
Chicago
Faulkner
Bhrea Arts Club
Frederic Mizen Academy
Albert A. Miller
D. L. Spiker
Miller
Cynthia Blue
Claude Kitelinger
Kenneth
Keith Kitelinger
Corwyn
Colleen
Brayton
M. C. Graham
Peoria
Ill
George Garnett
Otto Garnett
Dale Graham
Misa Arline Jones
Menlo
Mr. Miller
Galesburg
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