Dr Gillespie's Criminal Case at Rialto
Lionel Barrymore stars as Dr Gillespie in a comic drama at the Rialto with Van Johnson Keye Luke and Marilyn Maxwell. The plot centers on a prison break and a fight to stop a children's epidemic in the hospital ward while Donna Reed's adventure continues with Roy Todwell.
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Dr. Gillespie
Lionel Barrymore
Rialto Theatre
Donna Reed
Roy Todwell
Margaret O’brien
Barrymore
van Johnson
Keye Luke
John Craven
Blair Hostal
Johnson
Marilyn Maxwell
Avith
Marianne Quon
Mormontown readies Fourth celebrations and town notes
The piece lists local plans and happenings including Fourth of July enthusiasm in Mormontown, changes in business such as Dr. L Franklin selling windmills, John Graff starting a new building, and multiple civic updates. It notes crop prospects, local marriages, accidents, bridge contracts, and railroad progress toward Bedford and Mount Ayr.
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the Argus
General Drake
The
Missouri, Iowa & Nebraska Railway
Mount Ayr
Corydon
Bedford
Platte River Bridge Missing After Flood In Andrew Buchanan Line
County workers search four miles downstream for a 110 foot steel span lost in high water on the Andrew Buchanan county line road. County Judge Gus G Hillix stated the bridge did not sink in quicksand and the disappearance remains unexplained.
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Platte River
Andrew- Buchanan
Hillix
St. Joseph
Trainmen in Missouri Stir Laughs With Tall Tales
Report from Pattonsburg describes the Wa bash train to St. Louis halted while the fireman had a tooth pulled. The crew allegedly checked a bed of mushrooms in a wooded area during the stop, sparking a local joke about milk runs and odd country exploits.
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Missouri
Pattonsburg
St. Louis
Maryville Forum
Escape scare at local German camp ends with all prisoners accounted
Monday afternoon officers suspected an escape from the German prisoner work detail. A Hamburg citizen was questioned but a follow up check showed every prisoner present and accounted for.
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Hamburg
Owl In Chicken House Wipes Out Hiawatha Flock
A large owl entered Ernest Jimeson’s chicken house near Hiawatha Kansas. It killed two chickens and caused 149 more to smother as panic drove birds into a corner. The owl was killed with a rake next morning. The bird measured four and a half feet wing to wing. 150 chickens remained unharmed.
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Ernest Jimeson
Hiawatha
Kansas
Jimeson
Six Goslings Hatch From Five Eggs Puzzle
Jimmy Lockridge of North English set six goose eggs under a hen. One egg spoiled and was discarded. He suspected two goslings were in one egg, a claim many doubted. When hatchings finished, six healthy goslings emerged confirming his hunch. Afton Star Enterprise.
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Jimmy Lockridge
Jimmy
Afton
Star-Enterprise
Groundhog Fighter in Monett Neighborhood Incident
In Monett Missouri a 15 pound groundhog reportedly fought off dogs until police shot it after responding to a Burl Thames home report of a vicious dog. Police Chief Dan MacDonald led the response with dogs retreating and the groundhog backing into bushes.
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Monett
Missouri
Burl Thames
Dan MacDonald
Deer at Large Around Hamburg Reported
Mr and Mrs Will Wiles spotted a full grown deer on the highway south of Hamburg last Wednesday. The animal cleared a fence at Eldon Lair farm and fed with cattle in a field, staying for over an hour. A deer herd near Avoca has been seen in the area in past years according to the Hamburg Reporter.
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Will Wiles
Eldon Lair
Avoca
Hamburg
Buying Farm Land At Postwar Prices A Laboring Question
Advice on purchasing farm land cautions buyers to consider long term corn yields and prices. It questions paying current prices unless farm products stay above pre war averages for the life of the mortgage.
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Wallace
Remarkable 105 Hour Week For Local Tractor Work
A Clarinda youth logged 105 hours plowing and preparing corn ground in a seven day stretch, averaging 15 hours daily. The note, citing the Redding Herald, contrasts with 40 hour factory work elsewhere and hints at broader wartime labor pride.
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Clarinda
Pacific
Italy
Redding
Two Nodaway County AAF Captains Bunked in German Camp
Two Nodaway county men who studied at STC are prisoners in a German camp near Sagan. Capt Edwin Carmichael near Pickering and Lieut Herman Lindsey of Maryville, both with the American Air Force, were stationed in England and were shot down on a mission over Germany.
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Nodaway County
STC
Sagan
Germany
Edwin Carmichael
Pickering
Herman Lindsey
Maryville
England
Man Among 86 Women At Mt Ayr Summer School
Ralph Skinner teacher in Ringgold county rural schools is the sole man enrolled in the Mt Ayr summer school where 86 women are his classmates. The Afton Star Enterprise notes the unusual gender mix in the program.
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MT. Ayr
Ralph Skinner
Ringgold County
Afton Star Enterprise
Passage to Marseille at Rialto offers Bogart daring voyage
Humphrey Bogart stars as Matrac in Passage to Marseille a perilous escape from Devil's Island with Renault Garou Petit and Marius. The group seeks freedom in France facing jungle dangers and a perilous mid ocean drift after setting out in a small canoe.
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Marseille
Humphrey Bogart
Matrac
Devil’s Island
Bogart
Renault
Philip Dorn
Garou
Helmut Dantine
Petit
George Tobias
Marius
Peter Lorre
France
Beautiful But Broke at Ri Alto Theatre this week
Joan Davis stars in Beautiful But Broke at the Ri Alto Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday June 28 and 29. The musical comedy follows a star who takes over as an orchestra agent with Judy Clark and Jane Frazee forming a girls band, delivering fast paced laughs for audiences.
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Joan Davis
Rialto Theatre
Joan
Judy Clark
Jane Frazee
Arga
At The Library By Ellen Beebe
A review of Jack Belden’s Burma War memoir follows his journey with Chiang Kai-shek’s forces to Rangoon front. It portrays battlefield brutality, supply woes, and imperial decline with grim humor. The book aims as a study for military students and a stark narrative of defeat and perseverance.
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Jack Belden
Burma
Belden
Seagrave
Chiang Kai-shek
Rangoon
Burma Campaign Shadows General Stilwell's Burma Journey
Witnessing the Burma battles, a traveler joined General Stilwell through rivers mountains and jungles. Some fear the war's toll may yield a harsher larger story, hoping the Allies avoid such a great tragic drama.
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Stilwell
Burma
Homecoming Notes Show Small Town Life and Mischief
A returning correspondent writes from Cedar Rapids and Bedford about adjusting to home, helping with a newspaper desk, dodging chores, and memories with sister Mary. The piece captures neighborhood scenes, mulberry foraging, a bird encounter, and a run-in with a visiting Army colonel.
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Rialto
Times-Preas
Mormontown
John Graff
Conway
John Schwertly
Frank Lewis
Green Street
D. M. Dunn
Conway House
Major Morris
Valley House
M. Ferrell
Pickering, Mo
Sheriff Scott
Henry McConvill
C. H. Dow
J. M. Thirkield
Dr. Whiffin
Argus
George H. Powers
Burlington
J. P. Flick
Blackstone
Sam Coleman
Moulton
Iowa
Clara Hoy
Marshall Township
Grover Loomis
Jas. Ross
Bonar Fordyce
Chicago
Platteville
Cyrus Wagner
M. C. Connett
Kingdom of
Taylor
Litteer
Fair Grounds
H. A. Greenlee
Shaw
Iowa, Missouri & Nebraska Railway
Corps of Engineers
Centerville
Missouri River
Bedford Times-Press
Main
Tews
A. W. Hamblin
Taylor County
Iowa Press Association
National Advertising Representative Newspaper Adverting Service, Enc
National Editorial Association
N.A.S
America
W. Randolph
Chicago I, Ill
Holbrook Bldg
San Francisco
Cal
Recheck
Owl
Groundhog
Terry and the Pirates
Milton Caniff
Ellen Beebe
Ictory
Taearekaenth
S UY
Dodie
Pop
O.k
Mary
Pipsqueak
Sonavagan
Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Washington, D. C
Red Cross
O. K
Hank
Mrs. Brown Thrush
Pop Brown T
Col. Kermit Gates
Foreign Service
Medical Corps
Arthur Dinwiddie
Mrs. Roosevelt
Bellowe
Hamblin Kids
Tim
M. R. Brant
Bedford, Iowa
Wayland R. Maloy, M. D
Shenandoah, Iowa
J. M. Haddock
Opetaira
Court Street
Court House
Ahrens Drug
J. H. Gasson, M.D
James R. Locke
Locke Building
Bedford National Bank
C. J. Kirketeg
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