Local Man Elected National Delegate for Rural Carriers
A. F. Forking known as Perk and Jung, active in rural letter carrier affairs, was chosen as one of three state delegates to the national rural carriers meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, on the 25th through 28th of the month. The Chariton gathering drew 350 attendees as the state reports its largest membership, 1,624.
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A. F. Forking
Perk
Jung
Chariton
Cleveland
Ohio
Postal Department
Coolidge
Toe Cal
Atche Ag
Atlantic
Church of Christ Events Draw Attendance At Friday Prayer Service
The Church of Christ held a prayer service last night at the auditorium, with about fifty in attendance. A husband and wife confessed and plan baptism next Friday night after the prayer meeting. The service was moved to Friday due to the pastor’s travel plans. The choir aided the singing, and the Ladies' Aid met Thursday afternoon. The church will run the dining hall during the fair again this year.
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Royal Church of Christ
Phy
Qutvice
Orvice
Subic
Former Atlantic Boy to New Post
Mrs. G. T. Marsh reports her son George Marsh, long with Oldsmobile in Little Rock, has moved to Shreveport to continue work with the same organization. He is regarded as a valuable man in the southern motor field, and friends here congratulate him on the new post.
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G. T. Marsh
Poplar
Ster
George
Oldsmobile
Little Rock
Ark
Shreveport
South
Iowa Geologist Heads Abroad to Mesopotamia Survey
Prof Arthur C. Trowbridge of the University of Iowa is named one of three American geologists chosen by U.S. oil companies to represent them in a multinational geological survey of Mesopotamia. He will take a three year leave, sailing from New York on the Majestic August 2 to Ramah and then Bagdad, with Ramah as field HQ and arrival expected in October. Dr Louise Fillman will temporarily fill his university post.
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Iowa City
UNS
Arthor Co
Trowbridge
University of Iowa
Ineernational Geological Survey
Flere Todsaye Lr
New York Bly
Ramah
Persian Gulf
Bagdad
Louise Fill
Comic strip characters light Cass county fair fireworks
Colored fire will replace ink in Cass county fair night shows this year. The Theatle-Duffield display will feature Barney Google and Spark Plug from comic sections of newspapers in a new full group presentation. The horse show and ring will include Andy Gump, Jiggs and Maggie, Skeezix, Sambo the colored valet, and Felix the cat among others in a laugh provoking sequence. Mechanical effects and ground pieces will accompany the Candy Land number over multiple nights with reruns and aerial stunts.
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Cass County
Theatle-Duffield
Barney Google
Tittle
Spark Plug
Barney
Andy Gump
Min
Chester
Jiggs
Maggie
Matt
Jeff
Walt
Skeezix
Sambo
Rudy
Ostrich
Felix
Cat
Cindy Land
Redoua
Aeria
Songalion
Pigeas
Mary Louise Spas Adoption Drama Sparks Court Move
New York Aug 10 Simultaneous rewards offered for Mary Louise Spas whereabouts as Robert H Dunnett and W Browning announce plans to pursue a complaint against a newspaper reporter for kidnapping. Browning, a millionaire, denounces the accusations and defends adopting Spas while insisting he will pursue action against those digging up dirt. He claims to have spent $20,000 trying to make her his foster daughter and asserts she is 21, not 14, as claimed.
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New York
Robert H. Dunnett
Browning
Real Eraloy
Mary Louise Spas
Richards
Newtonbe
Quinns County
Esland Cify
X.Y
Kdward W. Browning
Debonair
Dom Gerry
Tye
roFney
District Attourney
Richard SB. Newcombe
Mary Louise
hospital notes report local figures in surgery
Mrs Joe Blake underwent a Romindr operation at Atlantic hospital this morning. Miss Nava Wentz, music supervisor in the local schools, had her tune sill removed today at the Atlantic hospital. Jimmy Carlton, appendicitis patient, is slowly improving after an emergency operation several days ago saved his life at the Atlantic hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Blake
Romindr
Atlantic Hospital
Nava Wentz
Jimmy Carlton
Belt of Butler Builds On Growing Meat Plant Plans
Donald Belt of Butler seeks to learn the business from the ground up after completing six months of work at the firm’s Kas. plant. The company, which did a 67,000 business last year, intends to replicate the venture at another Omshé plant.
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Donald Belt
Butle
Local Lewis Notes Highlight Family Visits and Illnesses
In Lewis Iowa a long list of daily items shows Bernard Frommack of Des Moines visiting his parents north of town, and many locals improving after illnesses. Burn injuries, arm infections, and a string of travels by residents such as the Frommacks include Mrs Harboe and Mrs Burkhalter. Visits span Omaha, Des Moines, Anita, Avoca, Atlantic, Griswold, and Linnen points as families split time with kin and friends.
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Lewis
Bernard Frommack
Des Moines
W. H. Frommack
Virginia
Kein Berg
Lele Burkhalter
Thas
Dewey
Conrad Hir
Daufhter
Lois DeWitt
Sword
Arthur Dewey
James Porter
Carl McCully
John Mavally
Ars. McGrewatl
Omaha
Elizabeth
Geo. Blake
Morepsj
Qinuha
Merch Tol
Oman
Praneis Miller
Meola
My A. Miller
Pégrt of
Las
Bunlay
Letha
Mary
Walters
Atanne
Elsie Pratt
Frank Lauder
Anita
Joe D
Hughard Ptrue
Sarl Pierson
Ella Pierson
Henry Gillett
Gillet Cafe
Mav. Halland
Osceola J
Taylor
Worth
Mathen
Remembering Joe Weissel, Influential Sw Iowa Editor
The funeral was held Saturday as the body was sent to Indiana for burial. The writer recalls meeting Joe Weissel 3R years ago in Ness City Kansas where Weissel edited the Sentinel. Weissel later led the Adams County Free Press in Corning, building it into a Southwestern Iowa standout before a creeping paralysis left him an invalid for years.
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Indiana
Joe Weisser
Ness City
Kansas
Weissel
The
Sentinel
Wheales
Shaw
Corning
Adams County Free Press
Iowa
Wheelchair decline interrupts noted writer’s later work
A fragment recalls a writer’s struggle with a wheelchair and a long period of limited public writing, noting a return to clearer output only in recent weeks. The brief passage hints at ongoing health challenges affecting productivity and visibility.
Hundred tickets sell for Rock Island excursion to Omaha
An even hundred people from this city joined the Rock Island Sunday excursion to Omaha setting a local record. In total 87 or so passengers from Des Moines to Omaha used the line that day, marking a new high for the route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island
Omaha
Des Moines
Nebraska
Avoca Editor Honors Late Corning Publisher
Avoca August 10 editor Frank Beymer of the Aviva Journal Herald eulogizes his late Corning publisher friend Grant Weissel who died last week at his home in that city. The obituary reflects on Weissel's writing for the Corning Free Press and his ties to the local press.
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AVOCA
Late Corning
Frank Beymer
Aviva Journal- Herald
Herald
Grant Weissel
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