Tiffin Station Demolished In Rock Island Freight Wreck
A Rock Island freight wreck destroyed the Tiffin station nine miles west of Iowa City. Fireman C E Hayes and engineer C Frew were uninjured while agent George W Seigle escaped with minor injuries after waking in the building. Wrecking crews cleared tracks and service resumed by 9 am as A C Bradley investigated cause.
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Iowa City
Tiffin
Here
Rock Island
George W Seigle
C Frew
C E Hayes
Cedar Rapids
Valley Junction
A. C Bradley
Two-Pound Baby Triples Weight In Eight Weeks
A baby born under two pounds at Iowa Lutheran Hospital has more than tripled its weight in eight weeks and appears healthy. Doctors withheld birth details to protect the infant from curious or exploitative individuals. Parents’ names are not released at this time. The premature baby was incubated with oxygen and fed via a stomach tube. The infant was moved from the incubator to a heated nursery on Wednesday.
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NES
Iowa Lutheran Hospital
Delaware Relief Laborers Strike For Pay Increase
Nine relief workers at the county rock quarry northeast of Greeley struck for fifty cents per hour, up from twenty five, after a wage cut and hours reduction. Relief rolls may be affected as strikers seek relief and possibly direct aid. no supervisors or entrance committee were approached.
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County Rock
Greeley
Manchester
Young Republicans to Rally April 26 in Des Moines
Town Young Republicans plan a April 26 meeting to firm up a 1936 election strategy. A nationally prominent speaker will be invited as keynote. The convention committee includes Don Graham Waterloo chairman Mrs Arthur Keyes Des Moines Mrs Kent Martin Atlantic Keith Wilkins Allen and Owen Cunningham Des Moines.
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NES Movies
Don Graham
Waterloo
Arthur Keyes
Des Moines
Kent Martin
Atlantic
Keith Wilkins Allen
Owen Cunning
Ham
82 Year Old Great Grandmother Champion Reinbeck Fisherman
An 82 year old Reinbeck woman Mrs Detlef Petersen is celebrated as a champion fisher. She walks daily to Black Hawk creek during fishing season and spends vacations at fishing resorts. She shared a two week fishing trip with brother William Fredericksen. She preserves bait each fall and has deep roots in the local community. eight of her ten children survive and she has 87 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren. Kalona councilman ROS Fry resigns from the city council with a vacancy to be filled.
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Reinbeck
Detlef Petersen
Black Hawk Creek
Lake Oxkobon
William Fredericksen
Mrs Petersen
Europe
Tancoln
Mock Trial Marks S U Ninth Annual Supreme Court Day
Iowa City AP reports the ninth annual University of Iowa Supreme Court Day with state supreme court justices presiding. Senior honor students presented the mock trial while several students were initiated into the Order of Coif.
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S. U
Supreme Court
Iowa City
Order of Caif
University of Iowa Supreme Court
Dale S Missildine
Des Moines
Carleton Starr
Fairfield
Charles Whitebrook
Robert Olson
Lansing
Order of Coif
Russell B. Day
Town City
Maxwell Anderson
Sac City
Herbert F. Box
Ottumwa
Horace J. Melton
Neola
Edward
James M Parsons
Dee Maines
Paul W Richards
Red Oak
Louisa County Supervisor Frank Berk Dies After Stroke
Prominent Grandview resident and 13 year Louisa County board of supervisors member Frank Berk died at his home Wednesday following a paralytic stroke. He was reportedly returning from Columbus Junction with his brother Chart Besk when the accident occurred. Berk's car left the road but sustained only slight damage.
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Muscatine
Frank Bok
Grandview
Louisa County Board of Supervisors
Mero Berk
Columbus Junction
Chart Besk
Vinton Group Heads to Oelwein Music Contest
The Vinton high school band led by J. C Cleary competes in the district music contest at Oelwein Friday night. The 50 piece ensemble includes 32 marching players with several soloists and chamber groups scheduled across Thursday to Saturday events.
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Vinton Group
the Gazette
Vinton
Vinton High School
Oelwein
J. C Cleary
Clyde St. Clair
Louis Dorsey
Chandler Griffin
Margaret Leeman
Junior Evans
Gerald Siegel
Fred Braginton
Charles Sauer
Richard Edmond
Gertrude McKevitt
Tori Gott
Margaret Leemon
Virginia Leemon
Jane Carrier
Naomi Hall
Margaret Teeman
Ruth Biekel
Beulah Cook
Robert Lent
Emmetsburg Man L. H. Mayne Dies at 77
L. H. Mayne, 77, former Iowa state legislator and Palo Alto Reporter editor, died in Emmetsburg. He served twenty years as postmaster and preached in Methodist pulpits across north Iowa for twenty-five years. A Spanish-American War veteran, he will have a military funeral Friday.
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Emmetsburg
T. H Mayne
Mayne
Palo Alto
North Iowa
Chain Store Tax Plans Meet Snag
Iowa lawmakers face a hurdle as landlords potentially bear tax shifts through leases. Mercer and Knudson push an amendment to bar tax shifting to buyers or landlords, amid concerns over lease clauses authorizing tax pass through.
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George Mills
Iowa Daily Press Bureau
Des Moines
Iowa
House
Leroy S. Mercer
Johnson
Herman R. Knudson
Cerro Gordo
E. L. O'Connor
Mercer
Forty-fifth General Assembly
Iowa City
Frank C. Byers
Linn
Cedar Rapids
Manley Bryan Proves Courage After Crash Near Town
Spar tan employee of Iowa Electric Light and Power, Manley Bryan, survived a highway 113 wreck five miles north of town. He escaped his burning car with a broken arm and internal chest injuries, then walked to a neighbor’s, was helped home, collapsed, and later broke a leg on the return ride. He went to Monticello hospital with a passing motorist and an ambulance.
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Spreial
Gazette
Hnopkinton
Manley Bryan
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Bryan
Here
William Schnittjer
Monticello
Cornell Symphony Begins 30th Annual Spring Tour
The Cornell College Symphony Orchestra opens its thirtieth annual spring tour with a Gladbrook concert, nine engagements planned including Nashua Waterloo and next week visits to Riceville Charles City Waverly Northwood and Osage. Professor Horace Alden Miller has led the group in over 400 concerts across 145 Iowa and Illinois towns since 1904 with more than 400 members. Soloists Alison Moore Tipton violin and Rheeon Woodward Mason City harp are featured.
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Mount Vernon
Cornell College Symphony Orchestra
Gladbrook
Nashua
Waterloo
Riceville
Charles City
Waverly
Northwood
Osage
Horace Alden Miller
Iowa
Illinois
Alison Moore
Tipton
Rheeon Woodward
Mason City
Maynard couple marks sixtieth wedding anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ponsar Jr. observed their sixty years of marriage with an open house for friends and family. They wed April 4, 1875, in Clayton County and spent decades on a farm before settling in Maynard. Their children and twenty grandchildren are noted, with one son deceased in 1918.
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Maynard
Robert Ponsar, Jr
Augusta Stahl
Ponsar
Robert Ponsar
Lena Klink
Jacob Ponsar
Clayton County
Fayette County
Town
Albert
Mount Auburn
Otto
Jake
Louis
Anna Schaffer
Bertha Miehe
Edward
William
Robert
Caroline Simpson
Clinton Student Wins State Essay Contest
Margaret Cahill 17, senior at Our Lady of Angels Academy Chicago native, won the Iowa American Legion Auxiliary essay contest with How can American youth cooperate with the American Legion and Fidae to remove the profit motive from war as an aid to world peace. Paul Shea Creston and Ruby Borchert Grafton took second. Cahill, daughter of Mr and Mrs Michael Cahill, plans college and journalism. Judges included Mrs Ione Fitting Hollowell and Irene Freeman.
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Clinton
Margaret Cahill
Our Lady of Angels Academy
Chicago
American Legion Auxiliary
Department of Iowa
American Legion
Fidae
Paul Shea
Creston
Ruby Borchert
Grafton
Miss Cahill
Iowa
C. E. Heysinger
Ione Fitting Hollowell
Irene Freeman
B. F. Martinson
Bernard Dubbert
Cedar Falls
U S Deputy Marshal dies from crash injuries
Burlington AP reports Thomas P Gray United States deputy marshal for the southern district of Iowa died in St Francis hospital from injuries suffered in a Sunday afternoon car crash near Burlington. His wife also died shortly after the accident.
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Burlington
Thomas P Gray
United States
Towa
St. Francis Hospital
Cedar Rapids Firms Seek State Payout on Liquor Insurance Claims
The Iowa Attorney General ruled 6 908.01 dollars in insurance claims against the Iowa liquor control commission cannot be paid from state funds. The legislature could approve a special appropriation with a two thirds vote, to settle the claims. Names listed include B L Belt Slavia Realty Co M Lobenstein Don C Cook J M Welch R D Gray and company Cedar Rapids.
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DES Moines
Iowa Liquor Control Commission
Ed L. O'Connor
O’connor
B L. Belt
Oelwein
Slavia Realty Co
Cedar Rapids
M. Lobenstein
Don C. Cook
J. M. Welch
R. D. Gray
Bliss Funeral Held Friday in Central City
Howard A. Bliss 70 long time resident died Wednesday in Salem Indiana. Funeral 1030 am Friday at Hatch chapel Central City with Rev. C. F. Stratton officiating. Survived by widow Minnie McLoud sister Minnie Freeman Minneapolis one child died at age eight.
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Central City
Hatch Chapel
Howard A. Bliss
Salem
Bliss
Missouri
Minnie McLoud
Minnie Freeman
Minneapolis
C. F. Stratton
Washington City Seeks Quarry Lease for City Streets
The Washington city council secured a five year lease on a quarry south of Washington on W. W. Wilson property. Rock will be quarried and crushed this spring for city streets with approval from county and state relief administrations.
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Washington
W. W. Wilson
Tracy Appeal in Supreme Court Files in Des Moines
A clerk's transcript in Des Moines outlines Reginald Tracy's appeal from a murder-for-hire conviction. The filing claims excessive sentence and biases at trial, notes intimidation by hostile crowds, and questions Tracy's sanity. Tracy and accomplice Flossie Fear were convicted for hiring Adolph Berg to kill Mrs Tracy. execution is set for November 29.
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Des Moines
INS
Reginald Tracy
Manchester
Supreme Court
A. B. Lovejoy
Tracy
Flossie
Adolph Berg
F.G Ladd
Cedar Rapids
Wheatland Farmer Burns as Home Burns North of Wheatland
Arthur Klahn suffered burns to face and neck when fire destroyed the living room and bedroom of a farm home two miles north of Wheatland Tuesday afternoon. Mrs Klahn had lighted an oil stove in the living room. Fire trucks from Wheatland Toronto and Londen responded. the home belonged to Gil Klahn and was occupied by his son Arthur. Insurance covers the loss.
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The
Gazette
Wheatland
Arthur Klahn
Toronto
Londen
Qils Klahn
Arthur
Iowa City Light Co Lays Off Ten Employees
Iowa City Light and Power company, defeated in a city election favoring its retention, laid off ten workers in the home lighting division and on the sales force. Snow buried trains and motorcoaches in Algiers.
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Iowa City Light Co
Tha
Iowa City
Iowa City Light and Power Company
Algiers
Help Kidneys Avoid Drastic Drugs
An advertisement warns kidneys contain nine million tiny filters vulnerable to neglect or harsh drugs. It promotes Cystex as a doctor prescribed treatment for bladder and kidney symptoms with a claimed 48 hour onset and money back guarantee, priced at 3 cents per dose.
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Cornell Symphony
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