Union Labor Seen Through Minstrel Show Prank In Des Moines
The LeMars Sentinel recounts a Bremer county alumni minstrel show episode at the Iowa Farm Mutual Insurance Convention in Des Moines. It highlights unions and jurisdiction disputes from stage hands to electricians and critiques federal labor policy during defense industry strikes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bremer County
Des Moines
Plainfield High School
Iowa Farm Mutual Insurance Co
Fort Des Moines
Electrician’s Union
Stagehands’ Union
Stagehands Union
Roosevelt
LeMars Sentinel
Spotlight unions clash over Plainfield gig
A Summer Gazette item recalls a Plainfield scene where a Motion Picture Projectors union man lit the stage while an accompanist from the musicians union watched, earning full scale for a different role.
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Motion Picture Projectors’ Union
Musicians Union
Plainfield
Sumner Gazette
Montevideo Notes on Dawson and Uruguayan History
In Montevideo the author praises Ambassador Dawson for thwarting a fifth column plot with U S secrets, describes Wincharger impact on South American electrification, and reflects on Montevideo's districts, climate, and port life. The piece recalls the Graf von Spee engagement and the ship’s wreck remains beside the harbor.
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Montevideo
Wiliam Dawson
Dawson
Chamber of Deputies of
Uruguay
Wincharger
South America
Nogaro
William Shorter
Swift and Company
Omaha
Sioux City
Bill Shorter
Prairie Cameraderie
Cirro
Graf von Spee
Graf
Memory of the Graf Spee captain and a haunting hilltop view
The narrator recalls Captain Langsdorff and Magellan’s lookout as a chilling sea wind presses in. A car ride ends with a musing on facing an insurmountable peak and the captain’s death, while noting Harlan Miller’s presumed insight.
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Captain Langsdorff
Magellan
Harlan Miller
Primghar Water Tower Repainted Bright National Colors
Primghar’s 167 foot water tower, said to be the tallest in the state, has been repainted in red white and blue with a white stack a blue roof and Primghar in red. The vibrant change makes the tower more noticeable in the town skyline.
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Primghar
Oldest Subscriber Closely Tied To Leon Journal-Reporter
Mrs. Etta Spencer 86 of Geary Oklahoma has read the Leon Journal Reporter for 73 years and subscribed since the paper was the Decatur County Journal reflecting deep local ties and long service to the publication.
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Etta Spencer
Geary
Okla
Leon Journal- Reporter
Decatur County Journal
Iowa Carbon Monoxide Deaths Rise Sharply in 1940
Iowa health officials reported 28 carbon monoxide fatalities in 1940, up 43 percent from 1939, with 63 percent in rural areas. They attributed most deaths to motor vehicle exhaust and urged opening garage doors, lowering a window, and ensuring engine and exhaust system integrity to guard against leaks.
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Iowa
State Health Department
National Safety Council
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Santa Claus
Aurelia Sentinel
the Sentinel
Bremer CO
Joseph Dvorak
Chelsea
Vincent JF. Harrington
Great Plains
Rio de la Plate
Ciudad Vieja
Old City
Ciudad Nueva
New City
Prado
S.am
Brazil
Los Pocitos
Ramerez
Republic
Schreiber
Indiana
Illinois
Kroll & Patterson
Aurelia
Patriotic Primghar
John Colquist
Cherokee
Good Hope Church
H. P. Westinghouse
E. L. Lyman, Oscar Gustaf
Willard
R. M. Flory
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