Henry Field to See Movie About Relative
Shenandoah Sentinel notes Henry Field seedman from Shenandoah was invited to Des Moines for the Orpheum road show opening of All This and Heaven Too. Jeffrey Lynn plays Henry Field the young minister. Bette Davis and Charles Boyer star. The Field family links to Cyrus and Marshall Field are traced.
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Heaven
Henry Field
Seedman
Des Moines
Orpheum Thurs
Jeffrey Lynn
Mademoiselle Henriette
Rachael Field
Cyrus Field
Atlantic
Marshall Field
Sol Field
Shenandoah
Field
Mason and Dixon Line
Warner Brothers
Mr. Field
Bette Davis
Charles Boyer
Shenandoah Sentinel
Editor’s Paper Challenge Ends With Final Word
A cranky man once halted the editor’s paper over a dispute yet the publication remains. The piece foresees the man’s eventual death and praises the editor’s final words, while reflecting on memory and mortality in a somber tone.
Osceola pond yields legged fish mystery
Vague OCR text suggests Osceola pond discovery involving fish with legs, nicknamed hellbenders. No clear names, dates, or organizations readable. Further details are unreadable or corrupted.
Admission of Mistakes a Test of Character
Fragmentary text discusses mistakes as a gauge of character, noting that everyone errs but the true test lies in admitting faults. The readable portions reflect admonitions on personal integrity and accountability.
Man of high and low character shown in kindness
A highway patrolman stops traffic to allow a pheasant hen to lead her brood across. A lineman moves a robin nest to a safe crossarm, then reattaches it and waits for the mother to feed the young. The acts illustrate the best in humanity against violence.
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Omaha World-Herald
Mower Missed After Alleged Disappearance Alarm
Henry Maine, highway commission employee from Blanchard, was reported missing while county officers investigated his alleged disappearance. He later turned up alive, having stayed in his car at a McCann schoolhouse after mowing weeds along highway No 3 between Shenandoah and Clarinda. His car had groceries inside and a person was seen walking away. Maine planned to return home after an 80 hour weed mowing period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Maine
Shenandoah
Clarinda
Maine
Highway Commission
Blanchard
McCann
Life's Best Things Are Common as Dirt
Fragmentary text extols everyday joys as universal and accessible to all. It emphasizes mature love and self expression through work and play, noting their common, widespread nature despite garbled nearby phrasing.
Discomboomered Phrase Emerges From Local Debate
A fragmentary note suggests a coined term discombomatered used to fit debate needs. Readers are left with unclear context and no definitive attribution.
Bedford News Briefs Show Local Growth And Civic Efforts
Census work begins in Clay ton township as Daniel Underwood takes up duties. Rev Blodgett harvests orchard first fruits and gains $250 tax exemption. County funds indicate a $35715.79 balance on the 18th. Normal Institute to open July 5 at Maryville with Prof Chaney. fish stocking planned in Nodaway One Hundred Two and Platte rivers. Funds near $4000 raised for county poor house. Dr S S Weidner buys City Drug Store. Connett family to continue practice. Raspberry and ice cream festival nets $60 for Presby church. Hair jewelry business announced by Mrs N F Taylor in Bedford. Bridge petition for Wash ington street ravine circulates. Harness maker Doc Keith displays fine equipment valued at $875 for Col J E Babson. Public pump shortages noted as summer nears. pump upgrades proposed. Bedford Fourth of July planned with Third in old fashioned style. Procession to assemble 10 am led by P C King and G E DeLong. program includes prayer, Declaration reading, speeches by McDill and Makepeace, music, dinner, toasts, and fireworks.
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Bedford
P. C. King
G. E. DeLong
Wilkins Cornet Band
Kirkham
G. W. Makepeace
J. W. McDill
L. T. McCaun
L. Evans
J. C. Kerr
Twenty Five Years Ago Highlights From Blockton Area
Local notes recall M R Chandler building a new structure south of Blockton Hotel. Twin sons born to Seymour Straight and wife in Jackson township at Ens worth hospital. Marie Grossman and Ralph Crew wed in Log an Iowa and Clearfield. New Market band performed in Burlington Junction for Sanitarium visitors. Mrs William Steele sold 160 acre Bedford area farm for 82 dollars per acre to Wes Gilleland. Forest Grove church area plans July Fourth celebration with basket dinner and games on Josephus Fuller farm. Church activities include gospel services led by visiting preacher near Hon Sims.
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Seymour Straight
Jackson Township
Ensworth Hospital
St. Joseph
William Steele
Bedford
Wes Gilleland
Forest Grove Church
Josephus Fuller
Bedford couple wed in midweek ceremony at town church
Twenty years ago the couple Garner and Alene Stearns married Tuesday afternoon at the local parish with family present. The ceremony was arranged as a midweek summer event.
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Garner
Alene Alcer
Stearns
Bedford
Knights of the Range at Rialto Highlights Zane Grey Career
The Rialto screens Zane Grey’s Knights of the Range on Friday and Saturday June 28 and 29 with stars Lucky Hayden Victor Jory Jean Parker J Farrell MacDonald and Britt Wood. The article traces Grey from failed dental practice to literary breakthrough with Heritage of the Desert and Harper contract, noting his rise as America’s best known Western author and his final tale of outlaw redemption.
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Knights OF the Range
Zane Gray
Rialto Theatre
Arizona
Co. C. J
Buffalo) Jones
Desert
Harper's
Grey
West
Stand construction gains partial funding
The project team reports that half the required money has been provided to build the stand. Officials say additional funding is being sought to complete the financing and begin construction on the structure.
Bedford to host two Fourth of July celebrations
Bedford plans two Independence Day events with contests and prizes at the Country Club grounds and a fairgrounds program. Fireworks, horse and mule races, bicycle races, a ball game in the afternoon, and a platform dance at night are listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedford
Country Club
Chiggers Mosquitoes Milk Rubber and Ben Franklin Store Notes
A reader shares home remedies for chiggers using rubbing alcohol and jokes about insects. Anecdotes touch on milk delivery to mining camps, rubber goods in Kansas City, flies in summer, and praise for a Ben Franklin Store in the area.
June in Iowa and lake life joys in Buck Creek diary
A community column blends poetry and local observation. The piece celebrates Iowa in June with references to farm life and blessings, discusses Lake of Three Fires fishing protests over feeding, and relays a sailing sighting and a ride in a Thompson boat with C. Max Buck.
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Lake of Three
Max Buck
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Taylor County
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Iowa Press Association
Iowa Newspapers, Inc
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Clayton Township
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Hopkins, Mo
Maryville
Missouri Fish Commissioner
Nodaway
One-Hundred and Two
Platte
S. S. Weidner
Memory
D. M. C. Connett
Connett
A. H. Connett
N.f.taylor
Blackburn's Grocery
Chapman & Owen's Drug Store
Washington Street
Doc. Keith
Ab. Severns
Mormontown
Col. J. E. Babson
BeeSae
Pilgrim Fathers
R. A. McKinley
J. E. Huston
Maern
M. R. Chandler
Blockton
Blockton Hotel
Marie Grossman
Logan
Ralph Crew
Clearfield
New Market
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The
Sanitarium
Welen Eimer
Ernest Stithzuen
Moi
Hon- Sims Oon
Aristienchuren
Rialto
Margaret Andrews
Ralph Hurley
Lenox
Methodist Church
Ash By
Annah
Canada
Kansas City
Ben Franklin
Lis
M. R. Talley
Bedford Methodist Church
Greenfield
State Game Commission
CCC
Ahrens Drug
B. Ss. Flick
James A. Lucas
Flick & Lucas
Attorneys AT Law
Bedford, Iowa
J. M. Haddock
Court Street
Court House
James R. Locke
Ee Frank Wisdom
Bedford National Bank
Wisdom & Company
O. J. Kirketeg
L. C. Smith Dealers
Bailey Typewriter Exchange
Creston
Towa
Phone 407
Pote Drug Store
M. R. Brant
A. Elton Jensen
Ahrens Bldg
Wayland H. Maloy, M. D
Shenandoah, Iowa
John F. Hardin
G. W. Rimel, M. D
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