Hanford Post Backs Silliman In Legion State Fight
Cedar Rapids Hanford post No. 5 pushes B D Silliman for state commander as younger veterans seek broader roles. O'Connell dismisses Silliman bid as Bolshevik maneuver while Halden supporters rally, and convention gears with five vice commander posts debated. Ailing Russ Jamieson of Monticello is eyed for a vice post as memorial service stresses unity.
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Jack Ferring
Des. Moines
The
American Legion
Hanford
O’connell
Silliman
Hal~en
Cedar Rapids
Legion
Monticello
Russ Jamieson
Jamieson
Inmate Slugs Matron at Girls' Training School
An inmate at the state training school for girls struck the matron on the head with a milk bottle and escaped Sunday night. The 15 year old girl, identified as Cole from Missouri, was recaptured three hours later in a field about three miles from the school.
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Mitchellville
State Training School For Girls
Cole
Browns Lead Azeltine Family Reunion at Cedar Falls
Marengo residents Mr and Mrs Milton Brown attended the Azeltine family reunion at Cedar Falls on Sunday with Mrs Brown elected president of the gathering.
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Marengo
Milton Brown
Cedar Falls
Iowa Obituaries and Funeral Notices From Several Towns
Funeral services were set or held for Tace Ella Thompson 92 at Beckmans with burial in Oakland cemetery and an Eastern Star service. Also listed are notices for James C Griffin 48 Anamosa and George Ross 64 Buckingham, a Mrs Ora Howard Allen 53 Onslow, Mrs Louise Formanek and Mrs Robert Schroeder 25 Tipton with details on survivors and burial plans.
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Town City
Tace Ella Thompson
Beckman’s
Oakland
Ezra and
Prudence Matson Thompson
Jessamine
Order of the Eastern Star
Order
Victor Goff
Methodist Church
Betty Reely
Terrill
Traer
States Funeral
George Ross
Buckingham
Montour
Onslow
Ora
Howard Allen
Onslow Presbyterian
Cedar Rapids
Leo Allen
Lyle
Bella Howards
Carol Bick‘ford
Toledo
Henderson Funeral
Louise Wilhelmina Formanek
Marshalltown
Belle Plaine
Marengo
Joseph Formanek
Katherine Beyer
Fred Beyer
Milo Smith
Edith Formanek Whiting
Tipton
Robert Schroeder
Iowa City
Kayleen
Twyla Mae
Ella Kinnan
Roy Kinnan
Davenport
McCormick Funeral Home
Numismatic Convention Opens in Davenport
The American Numismatic association holds its annual convention in Davenport with hundreds of thousands of dollars in coins on display. A major feature is Tuesday's auction of 1,374 lots of valuation coins during the three day meeting.
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Davenport
The
American Numismatic Association
Honeymoon Couple Dies as Iowa Tornado Hits Camp
Gerald Nurre of Bancroft Iowa was killed when a tornado struck the Green Gables tourist camp near Mankato Minnesota. His bride of one day suffered injuries. Two Ames couples narrowly escaped injury or death after fishing minutes before the storm.
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Mankato
Minn
Iowa
Green Gables
Gerald Nurre
Bancroft
AMES
INS
Jack Roberson
E. L. Morey
Blue Earth
Roberson
Will Open Grave At Burlington
State Police Detective Earl Smith flew to Burlington Iowa to obtain a court order to exhume Mrs. Hattie Calhoun who died in 1937 while in Mrs. Lottie Lockman’s care. Lockman faces murder by poison charges for Mrs. Minnie McConnell who died in 1940. toxicology found mercury in both McConnell and Fred Giddings. Medical examiners could not confirm mercury poisoning as the definite cause. Calhoun died in Dupont and was buried in Burlington.
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Indianapolis
Earl Smith
Burlington
Iowa
Hattie Calhoun
Lottie Lockman
Lockman
Madison
Ind
Minnie McConnell
Fred Giddings
Calhoun
Dupont
Reopening of Lansing Bridge Delayed After Quorum Lapse
The Lansing toll bridge over the Mississippi remains closed as the Iowa Wisconsin Bridge Company postponed its meeting to Sept 17 due to lack of a quorum. Officers were to be elected and repair action decided after a 13 year legal battle between factions ended earlier this month.
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Lansing
Mississippi River
Iowa- Wisconsin Bridge Company
Mason City Police Officer Dies After Accidental Gun Wound
Charles E. Van Horn 58 a 20 year Mason City police veteran died from a chest wound ruled self-inflicted after an accidental discharge Friday while cleaning his revolver. He passed away Sunday.
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Mason City
Charles E. van Horn
Woman Dies After Hotel Party in Davenport
Davenport police will hold an inquest into the death of Catherine Guze 33 a Davenport sales clerk and mother who fell from a third floor window at the Black Hawk hotel after a drinking party This is considered an accidental death though two men Webb and Nelson are being questioned and the body was found in an alley by a taxi driver
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Davenport
INS
Catherine Guze
Blackhawk
Robert Webb
Clear Lake
Frank Nelson
Dubuque
Dubuque Novelty Rrm
Reed Phillips
Webb
Nelson
Gaze
Phillips
Forrest L. Sanford
Sanford
Thieves Take Four Fur Coats Valued at 2145
Four women's fur coats were stolen from the Ben Weinberg fur shop in Des Moines over the weekend. The owner valued the collection at 2145 dollars and the furs include Persian lamb brown squirrel silver blue muskrat and gray lamb.
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DES Moines
Ben Weinberg
Burglars Hit Townley Jewelry Store In Waterloo
Police seek burglars after a Saturday break in at Townley jewelry store. About $15,000 in gems stolen, including a $575 diamond ring, 40 diamond rings, and three watches. Entry gained by prying front door casing and latch.
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Waterloo
INS
Lnto
Townley
Canfield Hotel Fire Claims Grow to 145793
Damages from the Canfield hotel fire that killed 19 on June 9 rose to 145793 as suits were filed. David Shearer, administrator of Stanley Schibsby’s estate, seeks 40000 in federal court. Owen L Rock Island filed 10793 in district court for injuries.
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Dubuque
Canfield
David Shearer
Stanley Schibsby
Minneapolis
Owen L. Clingman
Rock Island
Picnic planned by Walker families at Will Wiley farm
Walker Masons Eastern Stars and their families will picnic Tuesday evening at the Will Wiley farm southeast of Walker.
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Walker
Will, Wiley Farm
Drive For Housing In Iowa City Urges Community Help
The Iowa City mayor’s emergency housing committee launches a two week drive to house SUI students. A housing office in the Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric building will accept calls from 9 am to 5 pm offering rooms or seeking housing. The campaign, using the slogan Share Our Space Shelter Our Students, aims to boost publicity as enrollment nears a record high. Dean Woody Thompson notes wartime housing pressures as 1,600 single men were housed on campus before the war and under 600 were housed off campus last spring. Before the war 600 women lived in residences, last spring only 300 found non university housing.
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Iowa City
SUI
Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company
Iowa Citians
Wilber J. Teeters
C Woody Thompson
Iowa News in Brief highlights from multiple towns
Delaware county W C T U elected officers with Mrs Emma Arnold as president and Mrs Harriet Maynard as vice president. Everett Hettinger faces a false pretenses charge in Benton county jail. hearing set Tuesday. ArdIs McKusker engaged to Raymond Van Hamme. wedding planned Oct 1 in Victor. A tree fell on John Peterson’s house in Onslow. roof damaged. George O Taylor and wife buy Solon Economist. Fairchild plane crash near Calmar. pilot Bob Hart and wife uninjured. Mary Wagner reports dead sparrows after storm near Fort Atkinson. Divorces granted in Tama and Toledo districts.
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Earlville
Delaware County
W.C.T.U
Emma Arnold
Harriet Maynard
Meta Adams
Sarah Huffalin
Gertrude Walton
Des Moines
Vinton
Everett Hettinger
Shellsburg
Benton County
Marengo
John McKusker
Ardis
Raymond van Hamme
Peter van Hamme
Victor
St. Bridget’s Church
Onslow
John Peterson
Solon
George O Taylor
Mt. Pleasant
Solon Economist
C. H. Scott
Calmar
Fairchild
Here
Bob Hart
Lexington
Hart
Army Air
Fort Atkinson
Mary Wagner
Toledo
B. F. Thomas
Fritz Sieck
Tama
Beulah Sieck
Glen A. Ramsdell, Jr
Dorothy Ramsdell
Anna Uchytil
Local notices from Decorah to Tipton span estates to road work
Divorce suit filed by Glen Tompkins of Geneseo township against Lenore Tompkins for cruelty. Decorah progresses on highway No. 24 with Lowe Construction of Cedar Rapids and Carlson Co. of Decorah holding paying contract. Delmar Lundy dies June 5. estate estimated at 18209 with heirs Gordon and Darrell Lundy. Various community items: marriages in Vinton and nearby, business purchases in Decorah, legion auxiliary pins, body shop opening, Pine Lake outing, and estate will of Rev. M E Nolan with executorMonsignor Kerper. Road grading awarded in Cedar county to McGuire Brothers at 22249.96. petition for county line road approved.
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John H. Uchytil
Glen Tompkins
Geneseo Township
Lenore Tompkins
Decorah
Calmar
Fort Atkinson
Lowe Construction Company
Cedar Rapids
Carlson Company
Delmar Lundy
Cora Lundy
Gordon
Darrell Lundy
Marengo
C.F. Hall
Legion
Vinton
Mary Louise Ganske
Ivan R. Phillis
F. C. Phillis
W. H. Ganske
Sumner
Clarence Williams
Garrison
Virginia
Darwin Gott
Erle Gott
Valparaiso
Ind
Chicago
Carl Mohr
Cresco
George Danielson
Danielson
Traer—The
Legion Auxiliary
C. Brown
Mary Cassavka
Elsie Ploughman
Brown
Auxiliary
Ray
Roger Thompson
West Water Street
O. J. Ness
TRAER
Congregational Church
Leo Schlemer
Pine Lake
Eldora
Catherine Arline Lemmer
Greg Lemmer
Frederick W. Brueggeman
William Brueggeman
Somerset
Wis
M. E. Nolan
Loras College
Eleanor Nolan
Masonville
Michael
Clara Latimer
Earlville
Francis Pierce
Frank Pierce
Lorraine Decker
Grand Rapids
Mich
Strawberry Point
Tipton
McGuire Brothers
Cedar County
Board of Supervisors
Cedar
Jones Counties
Curfew Imposed in Flooded Washington Park and East St Louis
A night curfew from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. was ordered in flooded Washington Park and East St Louis to deter looting of evacuated homes. Police and Illinois reserve troops will patrol by boat from nightfall to dawn after reports of looters wading through water. The St Louis area remains clear and cool despite last week’s torrential rains.
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ST. Louis
INL
Illinois
Washington Park
East St. Louis
Illinois Reserve
Notice of Will Verification in Linn County Court
Notice is given that on August 1 1946 at 8 AM the Last Will of Kinetimes late of Linn County Iowa will be presented for hearing in the District Court at the Court House Cedar Rapids for proof and admission to probate in Rapids Iowa.
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Eee
Iowa
Linn Counity
Seorane
and District Court
Cedar Rapids
Rapids
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Hanford Post
Legionaires
Halden
Paul A. Tornquist
Ninth District
Ralph R. Stuart
Hampton
de Loss Marken
34Th Division
Phas
theDhijo
Burma
Oscar Schultze
Wells
Girls’ Training School
J. C. Landenberger
Optometrists
Dr. F. C. Espey
Third Street SE
Pierce
Iere
Bellans
Searles
Searles Dairy
Canfield Hotel
Start Drive For Housing
Iowa News
Msgr. M. L. Kerper
Ramphy
Bietigg Bf
Ghrsfeens
11Th St
Marlon
Alaska
Coast Guard
Lincoln
U.S
Alaskan
Arthur Anmear
Crissman & Bleakjey
Crile
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