Night Picket Lines Shape Weird Military Scene At Iowa Farm Strike
IOUX CITY farmers keep livestock and produce from Sioux City markets in a highly organized night picket. Posts along six roads number from forty to two hundred men, wearing blue overalls and batter hats, signaling trucks to stop or pass. The force uses logs and railroad ties to deter traffic while deputies stay restrained as Sheriff Davenport hopes for peaceful resolution.
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NEA Service, Inc
IOUX
Iowa
Sioux City
Missouri River
Nebraska
Corn Belt
America
John A
Campus course at Iowa University earns student praise
Fifty six students in the new University of Iowa campus course led by Prof. Benjamin F. Shambaugh praise the program as a broad survey of human knowledge. They describe it as profoundly worthwhile and a wholesome educational effort guiding self education and social problem solving. The class collected funds to extend the course and to buy library readings after the first summer term.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Benjamin F. Shambaugh
Pressmay
Walter A. Jessup
Shambaugh
Gov Turner to speak at Vinton Sweet Corn Day
Gov Dan Turner has accepted an invitation to address Vinton’s fourth annual Sweet Corn Day on September 16 at 2 p.m. The invitation came from C D Knupp, chairman, and M J Tobin, a close friend of the governor.
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Gov. Turner
Vinton Sweet Corn
Vinton
Dan Turner
Turner
C. D. Knupp
M. J. Tobin
Fire Causes $5,000 Damage At Oelwein
A fire in Oelwein damaged the Packwood Studio five rooms and offices, injuring J. C. Penney store goods and Gallagher rooms. Estimated losses total about $5,000 with Packwood listing at least $1,500 plus negatives and films. Building owner Oelwein Sisters expected around $2,000 in damage. Cause undetermined.
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Gazette
Oelwein
Packwood
Dr. Gallagher
J. C. Penney
Oelwein Sisters
Penney Company
Gallagher
Kraschel Calls for Boost of Iowa Securities Sale
In Fremont Iowa N G Kraschel the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor urged the governor and state banking department to back Iowa securities He argued that each dollar invested deprives Iowa of credit and called for active promotion of the state securities market.
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Kraschel
Iowa
Arlington Butter State Fair Winner Named at Iowa Event
Walter Waskow of Arlington won the creamery butter sweepstakes at the Iowa State fair with a score of 95.5. Second place went to John H. Schroeder of Westgate. The report covers 4-H livestock judging and honors for Muscatine county exhibitors in hogs and dairy shows, with multiple county winners and top placings across Duroc, Hampshire, Chester White, Tamworth, Holstein, Guernsey, and Ayrshire classes.
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Gazette
Des Moines
Walter Waskow
Arlington
John H. Schroeder
Westgate
Muscatine County
John Brockway
West Liberty
William Anderson
Cleo Yoder
Wellman
Johnson County
Howard Yoder
Kenneth Johnson
Appanoose County
Washington
Tamworth
Robert Naber
Muscatine
Robert Lage
Davenport
Guernsey
James B. Lang
Brooklyn
Ayrshire
Poweshiek County
Palo Alto County
Chicago
Engagement of Unglenk and Roth Noted in Amana
Louis Unglenk and Lina J. Roth both of Amana announced their engagement by applying for a license. Unglenk is a 26 year old University of Iowa graduate in dentistry, former gymnastics letter winner, and the sole full time dentist in Amana. His father Louis Unglenk Sr. is a veteran Amana schoolteacher.
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Marengo
Louis Unglenk
Lina J. Roth
Amana
Unglenk
University of Iowa
Lisbon School Set to Open with New Faculty
Lisbon school will start Monday September 5 with classes beginning Tuesday. New year staff includes Superintendent P. W. Peterson, principal E. Keyes, and teachers John Macaulay Ruth Nagler Henrietta Bowder Frances Langer Eva Floyd Grace Bittle plus music support from Cornell University.
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Lisbon
P. W. Peterson
Aence E. Keyes
John Macaulay
Helen Jamison
Ruth Nagler
Henrietta Bowder
Frances Langer
Eva Floyd
Grace Bittle
Department of Cornell Colege
Two Iowa reunions drawn by West Side Park crowd
Lowden and nearby towns gathered at Rochester West Side park for two family reunions. Sixty Monte Sander families and related households from Lowden Wheatland Clarence Shawano London and Tipton attended with many named relatives listed. A second Dircks and related families group met at the same park with Lon don and area members.
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Caroline Weseman
Department of Music
Lowden
West Side Park
Rochester
Tipton
Monte- Sander
Henry Mente
Mathilda
Henry Ruprecht
Paula
Edwin
Henry
Carl
Harold Ruprecht
William G.—Kruckenberg
Amanda
Ezra
Gerhard
William
Herman Wiebel
Fred
Lillian
Lowdon
Wilbert Mente
Wheatland
Arnold Mente
Jimmie
Clarence
Emil Ruprecht
John
Jean
Hollis Lillie
Shawano
Wis
George Ruprecht
Ruth Miller
Cornelia
Viola Hein
Vernon Beasley
Chicago
Louis Hartwig
Bennett
George Hein
Louis Sander
Herbert
Lois
Lewis
London
Dircks
Emil Dircks
Wallace
Darrell
LaVerne Benning
Carl Dircks
Nadine
Homer Fisher
Arthur
Howard
Milo
Kathleen
Frank Winter
Kenneth
Clifford
Lillian Thein
Williamsburg
Isaac Cashman
I. W. Scott
Marengo
P. A. Harrier
Bertha Kelting
M. F. Cafferty
G. W. McCallister
McCallister
Cashman
Iowa
Clarence Consolidated
Keith L. Benner
Jenna Beadle
John Jansen
Hilma Richardson
Emelda Kunan
Mildred Martin
Ida Kopplin
Mildred Olsen
Barbara Cuddy
Ina Cruise
Ring Found Near Elkader After 23 Years
Mrs. William A. Barrs of four miles south of Elkader found a small gold band ring in a ditch near her home while walking this week. The ring had been lost by her daughter Una when she was about eighteen months old, twenty three years prior.
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The
Gazette
Elkader
William A. Barrs
Una
Robbery at West Liberty oil station by two bandits
Glenn Campbell's oil station near North Point Inn was robbed at 8 a.m. Saturday by two men who stole about $18 and a revolver after entering the cash register. They fled east on highway No. 6 in a Chevrolet coupe with Clinton county plates. A nearby garage was broken into that night, with two wheels and tires stolen from Will Jensen's Ford.
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West Liberty
Glenn Campbell
Campbell
North Point Inn
S U S Law Professor Writes Mystery Novel
Iowa City based professor Philip Mechem of the University of Iowa College of Law has published his first novel The Columbine Cabin Murders by Scribners. The mystery includes commentary on legal technicalities and is set in Colorado where the professor spends summer vacations.
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Iowa City
Philip Mechen
University of Iowa College of Law
Columbine Cabin
Scribners
Mechem
Colorado
Two Women Hurt When Car Skids Near Wyoming
Mrs. Andrew Jansen of Wyoming breaks a shoulder blade and her daughter Mrs. Mary Martens of Rockwell City sustains multiple cuts from broken glass as a car returning from the Monticello fair skids on gravel and overturns in a ditch one mile north of Wyoming. The driver, Mr. Martens, is uninjured and the car is damaged.
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The
Gazette
Wyoming
Andrew Jansen
Mary Martens
Rockwell City
Monticello Fair
Martens
Saddle Horse Show To Be Tipton Fair Feature
Cedar county fair preparations are underway at Tipton. The saddle class draws twenty one entries the largest ever for the event. Entrants include Maple Grove Saddle Farm Muscatine and others from Davenport Mechanicsville Cedar Rapids Iowa City and Tipton. Livestock entries close Saturday evening as stock barns fill up with more stalls to be added.
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Gazette
Tipton
Cedar County
Maple Grove Saddle Farm
Muscatine
L. D. Sears
Davenport
L. P. Parks
Mechanicsville
L. A. Slaven
E. L. Baker
Cedar Rapids
F. W. Spear
Dick Boyles
Iowa City
Debates Sought On Dry Law By Willford And Robinson
Democrat A C Willford challenged Republican Congressman T J B Robinson of Indiana 3rd district to a joint debate on prohibition. Willford urged repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and cited Hoover and Curtis views while questioning Robinsons position.
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T. J. B. Robinson
Waterloo
A. C. Willford
Congress
Willford
Robinson
Hoover
Curtis
A Bs
Davenport man Pushes county group for gross income tax
Henry Graff of Davenport addressed sixty residents Friday to organize a county group to back the adoption of gross income tax legislation. He spoke for the Iowa Association for Tax Justice.
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Maquoreta
Henry Graff
Davenport
Iowa Association For Tax Justice
Two Scenes Shown Simultaneously In Love Me Tonight
Director Mamoulian unveils a sound screen technique in Maurice Chevalier's Love Me Tonight. Two scenes play on full screen without division, with two soundtracks blended so audiences follow both actions, including Jeanette MacDonald watching Chevalier leave and Chevalier’s journey to the station.
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Rouben Mamoulin
Maurice Chevalier
Paramount
Jeanette MacDonald
Chevalier
Miss MacDonald
Theaters Show Weekend Screenings Across Cities
Paramount presents Bela Lugosi in White Zombie while State showcases Ben Lyon and Barbara Weeks in By Whose Hand. Majestic features Don and Mazie Dix in The Bandit Girl. Rialto screens Bill Cody and Andy Shuford in The Law of the North.
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Bela Lugosi
STATE
Ben Lyon
Barbara Weeks
Majestic
Don and
Mazie Dixon
Rialto
Bill Cody
Andy Shuford
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