Local notes and visits mark holiday week
The city records several holiday visits and health updates including Mrs. P. O Connall and family, Mr. Alger’s family, and relatives from Massena and Griswold. Members of the city fire department plan a New Year’s Eve dance, while parcel post and express business remain steady. Also noted are hospital stays, a few marriages, a funeral, and a railway mail clerk examination upcoming in January.
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City, Fire Department
City
Carson
Atlant
Arent
Civil ‘Service
Washington, D
Farm Loan Offer Incomplete Announcement
Fragmentary OCR text indicates a banking notice related to farm loans and lending terms. Details such as exact rates, eligibility, and deadlines are unreadable, but the item signals a financial institution preparing to place loan terms or solicit applicants.
DAnnunzio and World War I feats noted in obituary and events
The account recalls Gaetano Rapagnetto or DAnnunzio with flying exploits over Vienna and Adriatic bombardments, and his decorated service. It outlines his literary career from poetry to drama and his marriage to Princess di Gallese, plus a brief note on G A R activities and funeral attendance for John W Scott.
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Viena
Cattaro
Pole
Wnd
Military Order of Savoy
Aero Club of America
Pescara
Gaetano Rapagnetto
College of Prato
University of Rome
Francesca da Rimini
St. Sebastian
Eleonora Duse
Paris
di Gallese
Hugo D'Annunzio
Council Bluffs Boy Loses Leg From Baseball Hat Blow
December 29. Harold Young of Twenty seventh street and Avenue N, a student at the Thirty second street school in Council Bluffs, sustained a blow from a baseball hat while playing with other children just before Christmas. Infection led to hospital care and the leg was amputated.
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Council Blufes
Harold ‘Young
Twenty-seventh Street
Avenue N
Thirty Second Street
Council Bluffs
Insane Woman Cuts Throat At Rudd Home Tragedy
ROCKFORD Iowa December 29 Mrs A B Kennedy living east of Rudd committed death by her own action cutting her throat with a knife after taking poison Her mind had been affected for a year causing violence and threats She was taken to Charles City hospital but died en route Kennedy 30 leaves husband and three small children
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Rockford
A. B. Kennedy
Rudd
Charles City
Mob Tries Lynch Man After Truck Kills Girl
In San Francisco an angry crowd of several hundred in the Italian quarter seized tone Prantl and threatened lynching after his coal truck ran down and killed six year old Lena Cerelli in front of her home. Prantl escaped and police seek him.
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San Francisco
Antone Prani
Lena Cerelli
I Prantl
Ford Plant Remains Closed Until February 1
DETROIT December 29 Natives posted at the Ford Motor plant that operations would not be resumed until February 1. The plant had planned a January 3 reopening but due to lack of orders it will remain closed through January.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Asio
Iowa Guard Election Held At Cedar Rapids
The Iowa National Guard held its closing session last night in Cedar Rapids. Officers elected include President Major OQ B Robins of this city. first vice president Mrs Hy G Grieger of Sheldon. second vice president Colonel CJ Wilson of Washington. treasurer Captain WJ McCullough of Davenport. secretary Major Frank B Lyman of Des Moines.
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Flags of the Christian Church
Clyde Yount
N. P. Chrisensén
LR Nelson
Iowa Guard
Cedar Rapids
Cedar . Rapids
Dac
National Guard
Towa
Ite
Hers
OQ. B. Robins
Mas. Hy ‘G.greiger
Sheldon
Gol
C.J. Wilson
Washington
W. J. McCullough
Davenport
Maj
Frank B. Lyman
Dea Moines
Tentative Cabinet Names In Harding Discussion
President-elect Harding weighs possible picks after weeks of review and talks with leaders. Likely appointees include Charles E Hughes as secretary of state, Charles G Dawes as secretary of the treasury, John W Weeks as secretary of the navy, Will H Hays as postmaster general or interior secretary, Henry Wallace as secretary of agriculture, Herbert Hoover as secretary of labor, and Harry M Daugherty as attorney general.
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Marion
Harding
Charlies E. Hughes
New York
Charles G. Dawes
Illinois
The
Treasury
John W. Weeks
Massachusetts
Navy
Will H. Hays
Indiana
Interior
Henry Wallace
Iowa
Herbert Hoover
California
Harry M. Daugherty
Ohio
Bulk New State Officers Begin Duties January 3
Bulk new state officers start duties early January at the statehouse. The statute sets the second secular day as the start, with January 3 this year. Officers include state auditor, treasurer, attorney general, and railroad commissioner. Supreme Court justices Lawrence De Graff and F. F. Fav ille take office January 1. Notice to anyone with accounts against E. Crawford. mail to 00 Shugart Building, Council Bluffs.
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BES
Statehouse
Supreme Court
Lawrence de Graff
F. F. Faville
Shugart
Council Bluffs
E. Crawford
Youthful Bomb Maker Learns From Dictionary Claim
Herbert Bramm, a Brooklyn youth, told police he learned how to make bombs from the dictionary. He and a companion ate one of his homemade bombs, injuring the other boy fatally and likely killing himself during the incident last Sunday in New York.
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NW York
Herbert Bramm
Brooklyn
Polies
Wild West Films Popular With German Movie Fans
German cinema fans flock to Westerns as top favorites with an Arizona frontier film advertised across the Rhine and in Bavaria and Baden. The production features cowpunchers cowgirls and Indians drawing strong crowds in Karlsruhe and other provincial theaters.
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Karlsruhe
Germany
Arizona
Bavaria
Baden
American Railroads to Resume Mexican Traffic Start Janu ary
New York December 29 Free interchange of traffic between US and Mexico railroads, paused for a year, resumes January 1, the American Railroad Association announced.
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New York
United States
Mexico
American Railroad Association Y
Nine-Year-Old Weighs 42 Pounds and Has Ten Teeth
Omaha report notes Herman Strziewicz at nine weighs forty two pounds and has ten teeth. The child weighs as much as a typical six-year-old and is described as physically fully developed. His father is Alex Strziewics and his mother unnamed in the copy.
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Omaha
Herman Strziewicz
Alex Strziewics
Road Building Contract Awarded in Wayne County
Corydon Indiana December 29 The Wayne county board of supervisors in special session awarded the contract for eleven miles of road to Littig Construction company Davenport The price is 494 cents per yard ten percent below last year's Wayne county rate The project covers 126000 yards totaling about 62000 dollars
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Corydon, In
Board’ of Supervisors
Wayne County
Littig Construction Company
Davenport
Births Reported in Case County District Court Records
Births reported to the office of the clerk of Case County District Court include Velma Ruth born December 16 to Glenn Babbitt and wife, and a daughter born September 4 to Walter W. Boman and wife.
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Ben
Case “County District Court
Glenn Babbitt
Velma Ruth
Doan's Kidney Pills Ad Cites Atlantic Claim
An Atlantic citizen recounts back strain from heavy work that harmed kidneys and caused nightly trips to the loo. Doan's Kidney Pills are praised by Mr. Gantz as curing the trouble, with price listed at 69 cents at dealers.
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Atlantic
P. Grants
Doan
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Alger Avnew
Re ‘Jones
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Cornela Pe
Rela
John O'Connell
Ature
Officig
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Rochester
Minn
Arid
Walyn
Deeming
C. F. Lytle
Sioux
Raletives
Estel Barnhart
Mound Valley
Kas
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Harry P. Cavenaugh
Whitney Bank
Harvey Mordan
Wsota
the Atlantic Hospital
Des Moines
Margaret. Griffith
A. Griffith
Parcel Post
Atlantic Post Office
Express Company
Touis Moines
Dorothy Ler
Dhake University
Leo Crosley
Steinke & Butler Aloth‘the Bore
Iota
Emma
Ida ‘Eden
Lutheran ‘College
Deshler, Neb
John Eden
James Acton
Ernest Schulty
Aberdeen
M. D
James
Vern Acton
J. K. Driver
Villisca Yesiday
Wisit
H. L
E. E. Grimes
Massena
Roy A. Baker Pond
Griswold
Rhoda D. Baker
E. T. Shannon
Mary Shannon
Clarinda
Anna Muzzy
Charles Muzzy
Sarah
State, Hospital For the Insane
Miss Wubker
R. Patrick
Mrs. Patrick
Baptist Church
Marion Simpson
Young Women's Christian Association
Frederick W. Simpson
Clyde L. Herring
Henry Murray
William Hansen
Hansen
Mias
Dorothy Moreland
John Moreland
Viota
Ghifton, Stott
G. Scott
Anita
Justice J. 8
Presenall
HyEr
Europe
Credit Men's
RR Eternales
Jay Mae
Sam Rice Post
Court House
John W. Scott
Council Bluffs Boy
Razor
Ford
Hughes
Hays
New State
Wayne Co
Walter W. Boman
DR. Earl Co. Montgomery
Oransky
U. S. Mullins
W. S. Greenleaf
Oranaky‘s
Pifth St
DHS, Campbell & Collison
Physicians and Surgeons
Gillespie Building
Dr. Campbell
Cullison
R. L. Barnett
H. M. Boqrman
Charles. A. Grubb
Wood & Savery
Joan H. Wood
BEN. U. Wood Co
D. C. Herbert Abstracts
Tion
East Fifth Street
Swan, Clovis & Swan Law
East Sixth Street
General Law
Thomas Byrnes
Bog
Olive Street
Atlastic
Foss H. Griffith
Griffith
Peacock & Baxter
Jd. L. Winne
Burdette Roland
West 6Th St. Atlantic
Ras Lang
Cana
Elm Street
W. A. Schrader
J. A. Giffee
Red
Atlantic Attic Sanitarium
Lady In Art
Lovett Co
Eatonton
Butler Exclosiva
Board of Supervisors
Atantic
Untiil
Co. E. Kringel
Beffire
Eggers Bros
J F. Price Drug Store
Central Iowa Poultry & Ego Company
S-Elyer
Griswo
Rae
Antic Nor
Kimballton
Elk Horn
Hansen Helt
Gates
Smith Lake
Harriedale
Shaava
P.M
Arriva
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