Auto crash near Calamus injures Oak Park pair
Frank Sands of Oak Park Illinois and Mr and Mrs John Wendell of Grand Mound Iowa were seriously injured when Mr Wendell tried to pass a hay wagon on highway 30 half a mile east of Calamus Friday at 5 30 pm. Sands suffered a fractured skull and broken arm while the Wendells had broken legs. Miss Lillian Wendell had a broken nose. Mrs Sands and her young daughter plus Rose Wendell were also injured. Both cars a Ford sedan and a Dodge coupe were demolished in the head on collision all were taken to Clinton hospital.
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Calamus
Frank Sands
Oak Park
Til
John Wendell
Grand Mound
Highway 30
Bank Robber Who Squealed Will Receive Parole
Des Moines reports Bruce Casady, jailed for a 1925 daylight robbery of the Cottage Grove State Bank, is set for parole. Casady, sentenced to life, confessed and named four accomplices who also received life terms. Government action reduced his term to 30 years in 1929, with parole now aided by his cooperation.
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Des Moines
INS
Bruce Casady
State Board of Parole
Casady
Cottage Grove State Bank
St. Joseph
John Hammill
H. K. Evans
Board of Parole
Questions and Answers in the Old Gazette
A compiled quiz of world records aviation first flights and art bios lists Nurmi records, Seeree Cane's 1910 St. Louis flight, beauty word choices, stamp presses, anticlines, Suchorowsky biography born 1840 in Galicia, and Malthus life dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seeree Cane
St. Louis
Arch Hoxsey
Wright
Aero Club of St
Maquoketa Baby Born Into Great Greatness
A Maquoketa infant named Charles Leo Ba Bateson, born to Mr and Mrs Leo Bateson on an August day in a South Clark Street cottage, enters the world amid talk of great greatness and lineage tracing back to a long lived great great grandmother Edwards.
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Maquoketa
Charles Leo
Leo Batey
South Clark Street
Edwards
Chauncey Bowen Dies in Nebraska
Obituary note from Hopkinton Nebraska reports Chauncey Bowen born September 14 1863 in Independence Delaware County. He married Jessie Bowen in 1915 and left a widow with five children and two sisters. He was affiliated with United Brethren in Christ Masons and Odd Fellows.
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Hopkinton
Chauncy Bowen
Orchard
Neb
Bowen
Delaware County
Sand Springs
Truman H
June Brown-Bowen
Independence
Stevenson
Ving
Jessie Bowen
United Brethren In Christ
Anna Fletcher
Williss
Beaver City
Juana Jackson
Neleigh
Elven F
Pierce
Irma
Julia B. Melthop
Liberal, Kan
Lulu
B. Gorton
Paw Paw, Bich
Senator Langfitt Dies At Des Moines
AP report states State Senator John N. Langfitt died of heart disease in a Des Moines hospital. Langfitt served Adair County in 1917 1919 House sessions and the Adair Madison district from 1925 to 1931, was not seeking reelection, age 66. He was born in Stott County and lived many years in Adair County. survived by four children.
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Des Moines
John N. Langfitt
Langfit
Adair County
Adair-Madison
Ghe
Stott County
Bottle Message Found In Lake Erie From Wellman
Special to The Gazette Wellman is credited with sending a bottle message. The note, washed ashore on Lake Erie and found by Martin Boiser of Painesville on July 19, travels from Bonside Pennygroth to Donald, who notes the journey began along the Mississippi river and ended in the Great Lakes.
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Wellman
Uncle Sam
Donald
Painesville
Lake Erie
Martin Boiser
Mississippi River
Great Lakes
Tax Reduction Committee Has Spent About Half Its Appropriation
DES MOINES Iowa The legislative committee on the reduction of governmental expenditures created in 1931 reports it has spent slightly less than half of the $10 000 appropriation granted for a two year study of methods to cut government costs.
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Des Moines
INS
Legislative Committee On
Jackson residents oppose county supervisor expenses debate
Special to The Gazette Jackson county taxpayers voiced criticism of supervisor budget and road and engineer costs at a Friday meeting on the 1933 budget. The session drew political candidates including Pendray Browne and Cornelius, who proposed voluntary pay cuts, while Sweeney pressed for matching reductions. The auditor noted the board accounts for about 10 percent of the tax levy as mandatory levies and Round spoke for taxpayers.
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Maquoreta
Jackson County
County Board of Supervisors
Cornelius
Sweeney
Carolyn ©. Pendray
Charles E. Browne
Fred Cornelius
Tom Sweeney
Cornelis
Avmt
Couny
L. M. Guenther
Glen Round
Tama Co. Budget Slashed After Board Action
Tama county board of supervisors reduced the proposed next year budget by 20000 while noting mandatory road levies and a near overdrawn court expense fund. The poor fund shows a 10000 deficit and future levies may rise. Several levies were cut including county fair and bovine tuberculosis eradication. OELWEIN Mrs. G W Smith died at home after long illness. Funeral Sunday 2 30 at First Presbyterian with burial Oakdale. survived by husband and son Carl M and sister. Kinross Kinross Savings bank announces a two weeks holiday.
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TRAER
Tama County Board ‘of Supervisors
Unis
Oelwein
G. W. Smith
Hiram Miller
Nettie Bell
First Presbyterian Church
Oakdale Cemetery
Carl M
Kinross
Kin 1Ross Savings Bank
Tama Taxpayers To Study County And Local Government
Tama taxpayers plan a second league meeting in Toledo on August 20 to discuss county and local government issues. The list names many officials and topics including general county taxes school taxation poor relief court house expenses road taxes county farm and special appropriations.
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Tama
Court House
E. P. Skrable
Elberon
George Gary
Toledo
W. H. Albrecht
W. Walter Wilson
Traer
W. P. Wilson
Charles Meves
County Farm
Winders
W. Tomlinson
John Cher Lveny
Crutier
Clsus Stor
Slayer Suspects Bound Over On Liquor Transport Charge
James Elmore and James Barber were bound over to the Webster County grand jury on liquor transportation charges. They had been held as suspects in the slaying of J. McCarthy near Clare, Iowa, four weeks earlier. Barber admitted firing the shots during the liquor load incident.
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Fort Dodge
Llp
James Elmore
James
Barber
Webster County Grand Jury
J. McCarthy
Clare
McCarthy
Compromise To Settle Dobry Funds At Creditor Meeting
Davenport AP report says a $40 000 compromise offer from American Trust Co to settle a suit by preferred stockholders of the defunct D A Dobry Securities Co will be considered at a creditors meeting on August 13. The amount reportedly comes from insurance on three officers. Tama Tama will probate the will of Mrs Vina Johnson leaving property to her son Francis Laws with remainder to his children. The Humorist quotes a gag from a cartoon.
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Dobry
Davenport
American Trust Company
D. A. Dobry Securities Company
Dobry Cmpany
Tama
Vina Johnson
Hammond
Francis M. Laws
Twelve Bands to Play at Tama County Picnic
Dysart hosts the third annual Tama county band picnic with twelve bands from Tama county plus Reinbeck. Concerts start at 10:30 am with the Dysart municipal band, then Clutter, Vitek, Chelsea, Traer, and others, ending with a massed group of more than 200 musicians. Admission is free and thousands attend annually.
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TRAER
Tama County
Dysart
Reinbeck
Clutter
F. E. Vitek
Chelsea
Toledo
Tama
Gladbrook
E. D. Arnold
Combe ‘Tama
Russell
Karl J. Kingmarch
Sousa
Iowa
Ing
Bandspating
Dan Upah
Clu- Hier
Frank Kladivo
Vitek
P. E. Vitek
E. A. Franklin
Fred Hrabak
James ‘Fitzgerald
Prank Kladivo
William Rowden
Arnold
Garwin
M. F. Schaeferie
Prank Benda
Edyard Davenport
Dysart Commercial Club
American Legion
Boy Scouts
Experts To Speak On Farm Problems In Shenandoah
E A O Neal president of the American Farm Bureau federation and John Simpson president of the Farmers Union headline a Shenandoah farm talks week. Other invited speakers include Marshall Ross Franklin Betz Charles Steward C O Moser and Charles A Ewing. Henry Field sponsors the speaking event. Linley Hoebel pleads guilty to carrying concealed weapons in Tama court and is fined 500 plus costs with five months suspended and parole.
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Shenandoah
E. A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
John Simpson
Farmers Union
Marshall Ross
Kansas City
Midwest Woold Marketing Association
Franklin S. Betz
Chicago
Farmers Elevator Guide
Charles B. Steward
Lincoln
Neb
Farmers National Grain Corporation
C. O. Moser
New Orleans
American Cotton Co-operative Association
Charles A. Ewing
National Livestock Marketing Association
Ing
Henry Field
U.S
Toledo
Linley Hoebel
Tama
Clarence Nichles
Frank Wheeler
Leniency Says Cedar Rapids Freed From Pickpockets Years Ago
Cedar Rapids police say leniency by a detective and a deal with two pickpockets ended a wave that plagued stations fairs and crowds. The pair confessed to a ring of operatives across several Midwest states in exchange for lighter sentences and freedom.
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Cedar Rapids
Milwaukee
Midwest
Iowa Men To Begin Terms As Federal Bankruptcy Referees
Seven Iowa men will start two year terms as federal referees in bankruptcy on September 1. Named are Walter A. Newport Dai T. P. Howell Jr Fort T. L. Brookhart Washington J W Kindelbaugh Chariton E B Stuart Council Bluffs John Denison Des Moines and W A Hunt Ottumwa.
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Des Moines
Iown
Charles A. Dewey
Walter A. Newport
Dai T. P. Howell, Jr
Fort
T L. Brookhart
Washington
J. W. Kindelbaugh
Chariton
EB. A. Stuart
Council Bluffs
John Denison
W. A. Hunt
Ottumwa
Rabbit Story Ends With Unbelievable Road Encounter
Boyd Bailey, a Georgia farmer, reports a jack rabbit charged his vehicle and crashed through the windshield. The rabbit then astonishingly sat on its hind legs behind the car and continued to run.
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Atlantic
Boyd Bailey
Bailey
Turner to Appoint Relief Committee
Governor Dan Turner says a five member relief panel will be named next week to plan 1 cent poor relief in Iowa. After talks with relief agencies and officials he expects to announce the committee’s personnel early in the week and coordinate with the state committee on items and methods of WAPELLO follows.
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Des Moines
Towa
Dan Turner
Und Emi Nt
Psychic bidding and a daring four hearts rebid lesson
A bridge column explains when to keep or drop a double after an adverse declaration. It recounts a Crockford’s Club hand where a takeout double leads to a dramatic sequence, then answers readers’ bidding questions with Three No Trump as the correct choice for South.
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Crockford
New York City
North
West
South
East
Riverside Plans Homecoming Event September 5
Riverside outlines a September 5 homecoming with a street parade program at the park a game between Riverside and Racine Iowa City music and a dance committees led by Dr E Blythe include grounds finance concessions and speakers with many local names. Also FARLVILLE Ladies Civic league reunion planned at the school campus August and HOPKINTON death of Mrs Thomas McDonough in Dubuque noted as pioneer Sand Springs settlers.
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Riverside
Racine
Iowa City
Dr. E. Blythe
Grounds
Joseph Pastore P. Quinn
R. H. Helleman
Griffin
Ernest Petry
William D Tremont
R.A. Kuittel
Shreb
Leo ‘Sueppel
H. Doud
George Schnoebel
William ‘Griffin
R. H. Heitzman
E. E. Blythe
Farlville
Ladies Civiq League
Tnd
Amy Benda
Iriny Thompson
Volf Clifton
Ruth Klaus
Lulu Hunt
Hopkinton
Thomas McDonough
Dubuque
Theaters Showcase New and Classic Screenings
Paramount features Edmund Lowel and Victor McLaglen in Gully 2 percent? Elvis. Tarzan with Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O Sullivan. Rialto screens Frankenstein with Mae Clarke and Boris Karloff. Majestic presents Don and Mazie Die on Players in Men Need Love.
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Paramount
Edmund Lowel
Victor McLaglen
Johnny Weissmuller
Maureen O'Sullivan
Rialto — “Frankenstein
Win ‘Mae Clarke
Boris Karloff
Don and
Mazie
Men
Love
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