Weather and city notices from the Daily Record Aug 11 1946
The August 11 1946 issue lists high and low temps and precipitation for Bismarck and nearby cities, a forecast for Iowa with partly cloudy skies and scattered showers, cooler days ahead, and northerly winds 20 to 25 mph. It includes a detailed list of fines for traffic offenses, vehicle thefts, and improper driving, plus multiple marriage licenses and births announced in Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas.
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Bismarck
Miami
Chicago
Minneapolis
Denver
New York
Duluth
Phoenix
Los Angeles
Sioux City
Iowa
Ragen May Have Died Of Poison Not Wounds
CHICAGO (UP) Coroner A L Bindie reported traces of mercury found in James M. Ragen’s tissues. Ragen, head of a nationwide news service, died after being wounded by gangland hitmen. FBI officials considered the possibility his enemies feared he might survive and had poisoned his food as he lay in a private hospital.
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Chicago
A. L. Bindie
James M. Ragen
Uerbhy
Acing
FBI
Ragen
Condition of Fred H Schwarz Critical at St Lukes
Fred H Schwarz of Marion remained listed in critical condition at St Lukes hospital on Saturday after his car was struck by a train on Thursday. Attendants said his skull fracture and other injuries left him in critical but potentially stabilizing condition.
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Fred H. Schwarz
Marion
St Lukes Hospital
Schwarz
Frian Bencke
Pasengee
Cedar Rapids
Josephine Verderber
Lois Southard
Twelfth Street
Paul Putt
Sixth Street
St. Luke’s Hospital
Putt
Joe Sudilek
First Street
Sudilek
Reds Thwarted In Effort To Accuse Greece
Lake Success New York AP United Nations Security Council adjourned without voting on placing a charge against Greece on its agenda. Soviet diplomat Andrei Gromyko pushed for an immediate hearing of Ukrainian claims linking Greece to endangering world peace through cooperation with Britain. Greece votes Sunday on restoring its king as discussions linger until Tuesday after a 6 to 3 vote to exclude Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitri Manuilski from the debate.
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Lake Success
N. Y
Russia
Greece
United Nations Security Council
Great Britain
Andrei Gromykov
Ukraine
Gromyko
Dmitri Manuilski
Manuilski
Alexander Cadogan
Trygve Lie
Deleegates
Manuilsky
Grom 50
Ukraine Balkans row at UN as Greece plebiscite looms
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Manuilsky accuses western powers of violating the UN Charter by not hearing Greece charges before the Greek plebiscite. Gromyko and Cadogan clash over procedural steps as the council debates Greece and Britain’s role, with Iran cited in earlier disputes.
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Cadogan
Ukraine
Manuilski
Gromyko
Russia
Eelco van Kleffens
Netherlands
van Kleffens
Iran
State Fair Nets Over 100000 in 1946 Attendance Record
DES MOINES Iowa state fairgrounds closed the Centennial fair with 514 036 attendees, breaking the 1929 record of 435 385. Fair Board President J P Mullen predicted net profits over 115 000 and gross receipts above 500 000 with expenses near 400 000, signaling a new high in state fair revenue.
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Des Moines
Iowa State Fairgrounds
Fair Board
J P Mullen
Fonda
Mullen
Scarborough Named President of West Virginia College
Dr. William J. Scarborough dean of Morningside college Sioux City since 1943 has been elected president of Wesleyan college Buckhannon West Virginia He formerly taught at Cornell Mt Vernon and McKendree Lebanon Ill He is a Hamline and Boston university graduate and was notified of his selection Friday
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Sioux City
William J. Scarborough
Morningside College
Wesleyan College
Buckhannon
W Va
Scarborough
Cornell College
Mt Vernon
McKendree College
Lebanon
Hamline University
St. Paul, Minn
Boston University
Charge Changes On Duke Assault Case In Ohio
Venus L. Duke, 27, of 1210 Wilson avenue SW, was fined 100 dollars and costs by Justice of the Peace W. A. Rall after pleading guilty to a substituted charge of assault and battery. $75 of the fine was suspended. Duke allegedly choked Evelyn Kramer, 1330 First avenue NE, into unconsciousness. original charge was assault with intent to commit great bodily injury. County Attorney Crissman said the substitution followed investigation. Kramer did not provide a statement. Duke waived preliminary hearing and was bound over to the grand jury. Mrs Duke filed for divorce Friday.
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Venus L. Duke
Wilson Avenue
Justice of the Peace
W. A. Rall
Justice Rall
Duke
Evelyn Kramer
First Avenue
William W. Crissman
Kramer
Crissman
Justice Court
Court action filed over two notes in Cedar Rapids bank
Courthouse A Lohman acting for the liquidating committee protecting Cedar Rapids National bank stockholders filed suit Saturday seeking $1 070 50 against William Lauber and Margaret Lauber alleged signers of two notes dated November 23 1933 Each note carried five percent interest with terms of two and three years.
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A Lohman
Cedar Rapids National Bank
William Lauber
Margaret Lauber
Luke Sewell Quits As Browns' Pilot
St Louis Browns president Richard C Muckerman announced Luke Sewell resigned for the good of the club. Zack Taylor, a veteran coach, will manage the team for the rest of the season.
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Luke Sewell
Browns
ST Louis
Richard C Muckerman
St. Louis Browns
Softspokens
Muckerman
Zack Taylor
Notable Nazi Defendants at Trial Echo Midway Warnings
The report recalls Nazi leaders at trial as Ribbentrop defends appeasement while admitting goals beyond land. Hess rambles about "slassy-eyed" guards and glass diet in camps. Keitel rejects guilt, claiming high command bears no Russia blame. Schacht admits Hitler criminal but too late.
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Wilhelm Keitel
Russia
Hitler
Hjalmar Schacht
Work Postponed On Six Warships
Washington The navy postponed at least a year further construction on six warships including the battleship Kentucky and the aircraft carrier Oriskany Vice Admiral E L Cochrane said the move follows President Truman economy orders and frees ship workers for civilian jobs Eleven other ships will be built but more slowly All 17 ships were to be delivered next year
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Washington
Navy
Kentucky
Oriskany
E. L. Cochrane
Navy Bureau of Ships
Truman
Tax on back pay to be withheld under NLRB rulings
The treasury ruled that employers must withhold income tax on back pay awards issued under NLRB decisions. The order, effective immediately, reverses prior practice but is not retroactive.
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Washington
The
Treasury
NLRB
Death of Grocer Axel Nelson at 58
Axel Frederick Nelson 58 of 1725 Ellis boulevard NW died at 5.35 am Saturday after a brief illness. Born June 10, 1888 in Burlington he owned the Nelson grocery on Ellis boulevard for 19 years. Surviving are wife Ann three sons Allen L Harvey B and Walter D all of Cedar Rapids a brother Elmer of Stillwater Minnesota a sister Mrs Albert Lundquist of Milwaukee and four grandchildren. Services at Beatty chapel Monday at 2 pm conducted by Rev S E Dooty. Burial Cedar Memorial cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
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Axel Nelson
Axel Frederick Nelson
Ellis Boulevard
Burlington
Nelson Grocery
Ann
Allen L
Harvey B
Walter D
Cedar Rapids
Elmer
Stillwater
Minn
Albert Lundquist
Milwaukee
Wis
Beatty Chapel
S. E. Dooty
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Regan Services Sunday in Mt Calvary Cemetery
Regan Services for T/5 Robert L Regan 19 who drowned June 8 in the army camp Gmunden Austria will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in Mt Calvary cemetery with Rev J D Kearn of St Matthew's church officiating. Military honors will be given at the grave by American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars escorts. Regan's body arrived in Cedar Rapids and rests at Brady mortuary where Knights of Columbus and Father Kearn will recite the Rosary at 8 p.m. today.
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Robert L. Regan
Gmunden
Austria
J. D. Kearn
St. Matthew’s Church
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Young Regan
Cedar Rapids
Brady Mortuary
Knights of Columbus
Father Kearn
Regan
Mrs Lahman V Bower Dies in Cedar Rapids
Mrs Helen C Bower of 2355 Blake boulevard SE wife of Lahman V Bower vice president of the Iowa Electric Light and Power company died Friday in Cedar Rapids after a long illness Surviving are her husband a son John and a daughter Nancy Private committal services will be held at Summit cemetery Summit Wisconsin Friends are asked to omit flowers
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Helen C. Bower
Blake Boulevard
Lahman V. Bower
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Cedar Rapids
John
Nancy
Summit Cemetery
Summit
Wis
Obituary: Mrs Anna Rabik of Cedar Rapids
Mrs Anna Rabik a Cedar Rapids resident since 1900s died at home Friday evening after a lingering illness Born in Czechoslovakia January 6 1861 she lived near Center Point farmed with husband for 16 years Survived by three daughters Rose Mrs John Kups and Mrs Gus Librava Cedar Rapids two sons Joseph and Charles Center Point a sister and a brother ten grandchildren and seven great grandchildren Burial at Alice Cemetery Center Point with service Monday afternoon.
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Anna Rabik
Sixteenth Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
Czechoslovakia
Center Point
Rose
John Kups
Gus Librava
Joseph
Charles
Frank
Wesley
Louis
Rudolph
Miller Families Mourn Two Iowa Deaths in Central City and Des Moines
George Ira Miller 80 of Anamosa died Friday in a local hospital after months of illness. Born November 28, 1865 near Monticello he farmed near Central City most his life. Surviving daughters Irene Thompson Elaine Fuller Inez Guilford and sons Alfred L Miller and George Perry Miller plus another son predeceased him. Services Monday at Hatch Funeral Home Central City with burial Mt Clark Cemetery. Mrs Charles W Manatt 71 of 2015 Grande Ave SE died Saturday in a local hospital. Born March 21 1875 at Montezuma she is survived by husband and two daughters Naomi Nobie and A J Grother. Body at Beatty Mortuary.
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George Ira Miller
Anamosa
Monticello
Central City
Irene Thompson
Elaine Fuller
Cedar Rapids
Inez Guilford
Alfred
Belle Plaine
L. J. Miller
George Perry Miller
Hatch
Mt. Clark Cemetery
Charles W. Manatt
Grande Avenue SE
Montezuma
Naomi Nobie
Wichita
Kan
A. J. Grother
Des Moines
Beatty Mortuary
1000 Mile Horseback Ride Ends in Cheyenne
Two young men from Peoria Illinois rode 1000 miles on horseback in 31 days, turning a joke into a serious trek. Roger Miller 21 and Heyle Taylor 23 followed highways to the Nebraska sandhills before cutting through to Wyoming. They faced getting lost twice and survived by working on ranches for about 23 days. A graveyard encounter and persistent mosquitoes added hardship to their voyage.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Peoria
Ill
Roger Miller
Heyle Taylor
Miller
Nebraska
Wyoming
Taylor
Russian general and five others executed for treason
Gen. Gregorie Semonov, 56, a Cossack counter revolution leader, was hanged on Saturday for bearing arms against Russia and spying for Japan. Five co defendants were shot. They were all sentenced Friday by the military collegium of the Russian supreme court.
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Moscow
Gregorie Semonov
Russia
Japan
Supreme Court
Labor Day Strike of Musicians in New York Hotels
NEW YORK AP A strike of musicians in 51 large New York hotels on Labor Day was voted Friday. Some hotels sent two week notices as wage talks with AFL union Local 802 collapsed. About 3000 musicians may walk out at 12:01 a.m. Labor Day with $1 million in strike funds ready.
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New York
American Federation of Musicians
AFL
Richard McCann
Harry Suber
McCann
Kilian Sentence Whitewash Contested by AVC
The American Veterans Committee condemned the Bad Nauheim court sentence on Col. James A. Kilian as a whitewash. Kilian, former commander at the U S Army replacement depot in Lichfield England, was fined 500 dollars and reprimanded for permitting guards to club and punch American prisoner soldiers. AVC urged a full dress congressional investigation of the army court martial system.
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Washington
American Veterans Committee
James A. Kilian
Kilian
United States Army
Lichfield
England
United States
Bad Nauheim
Germany
AVC
Col
Drowning Tragedy Near Muscatine Claims Two Lives
In Muscatine County a gravel pit southwest of town yielded a double drowning Friday afternoon. Eva Nesbitt, 11, daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Nesbitt, and a man identified as Co C Hart, 43, of Muscatine Police, died after Hart tried to save Eva from the water. Hart and the elder Nesbitt girl perished despite artificial respiration attempts. Two other girls fled to town to tell their parents and the police.
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Muscatine
Here
Eva Nesbitt
Charles Nesbitt
Co. C. Hart
Hart
Nesbitt
Phyllis James
Acheson Denies Hand in Greece Plebiscite
Acting Secretary of State Acheson backed the U S plan to dispatch a naval flotilla led by the aircraft carrier Franklin D Roosevelt to Greece as a goodwill mission. He denied U S interference in the September 1 plebiscite, noting the decision was joint by State and Navy and that observers were sent at Greece's request. He said British troop presence in Greece concerns Britain.
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Washington
INS
Acheson
Aegean Sea
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Greece
State Department
Navy
Roosevelt
Piraeus
United States
Great Britain
Blairstown Hardware Man Wm Hoebel Dies at 86
William Hoebel 86 longtime Blairstown hardware dealer and former postmaster died suddenly at his summer home in Pequot Minnesota with daughter Ida Hoebel at his side. He is survived by four children Ida Lois Lincoln Estella Duff Otto and Louis. Body brought to Blairstown for viewing at the Masonic temple. Funeral held at Presbyterian church with Masonic rites. Burial at Pleasant Hill Cemetery.
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Blairstown
William Hoebel
Pequot
Minn
Ida Hoebel
Hoebel
Ida
Lois Lincoln
Norway
Estella Duff
Nebraska City
Neb
Otto
Tennessee
Louis Hoebel
Cedar Rapids
Masonic Temple
Edward Mohr
Presbyterian Church
Pleasant Hill Cemetery
Sunday School Teacher and Pupils Meet After 20 Years
Helen Donnan Hope of Long Beach formerly Cedar Rapids reunited with former Sunday school pupils at Roosevelt hotel. Hostess Mrs. Sidney Myers and four classmates attended. Hope taught at First United Presbyterian before 1910s split, later librarian, married Rev. Ainsworth Hope, widowed, then moved to California. She plans to return home in September after 21 years as secretary and teacher there.
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Helen Donnan Hope
Long Beach
Calif
Cedar Rapids
Roosevelt Hotel
Sidney Myers
Grande ‘Avenue SE
Hope
Merle Dodd
Marion
Leon Elekar
Bever Avenue
Callier
Second Avenue
Wian Taber
First United Presbyterian Church
Grande Avenue
First United
H.R.D
Ainsworth Hope
Cupid
Ellis Park
Parpo
Wian C. Taber
Driver Dozes Trigger Car Crash At Mount Vernon Ave
A car eastbound on Mount Vernon avenue SE struck a telephone pole and rolled over at the Mount Vernon avenue Vernon drive junction. Driver Jim Faaborg, 17, was treated for facial and arm injuries and released. Passenger Jerry Vondracek fled the scene. Faaborg said he dozed at the wheel. Police noted the car ended up upside down across the road.
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Mount Vernon Avenue
Mount Ver ‘Non Avenue
Vernon Drive
Jim Faaborg
Forty-third Street
Mercy Hospital
Jerry J. Vondracek
Thirtieth Street
Jerry Navratil
Roy Walker
Faaborg
Vondracek
Airline Faker Held On Bad Check Charge
Phillip E. Richards of Ottumwa will be returned to Cedar Rapids from Jacksonville Illinois to face a bad check charge. He allegedly passed two bogus checks last month and a district court bench warrant was issued for false uttering of a check based on a $100 instrument. Detectives Marshall and Connell will depart for Jacksonville where Richards is in custody. He was arrested by FBI agents in Nebraska.
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Phillip E. Richards
Ottumwa
Cedar Rapids
Jacksonville
Ill
L. B. Marshall
Richards
Marshall
District Court Bench
George Connell
Sheriff's Office
F.B.I
Nebraska
Food Dealers To Meet At Iowa City Sept 8
DES MOINES UP The Iowa Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers association announced the seventh district meeting of Iowa food retailers will be held Sept 8 at Iowa City Retailers from that area will discuss current problems of food distribution and closer cooperation with suppliers for better consumer service. Main speakers will be Frank Zech secretary of the Iowa association and H E Anderson president of the Des Moines association.
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Des Moines
Towa Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers Association
Iowa
Towa City
Frank Zech
Iowa Association
H. E. Anderson
Des Moines Association
Toy Factory Burns in Naperville Fire
Fire destroyed the interior of the two story cement factory building of the Les Brown Toy Co in Naperville Illinois on Friday. The blaze caused extensive damage but no injuries were reported. Local fire crews fought the flames and investigated the scene.
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Naperville, Ill
Les Brown Toy Co
Price Controls Expand As Meat Slaughter Traced to Source
The restored slaughter program is hailed as crucial to curb black market meat by tracing product to the slaugh terer. OPA raises toy prices by 4.8 percent and lifts ceilings on rubber footwear, silver items, and certain feeds. Hog and beef ceilings rise, with live cattle tops near record levels, and various cuts see targeted increases while some categories remain unchanged.
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Himy
OPA
Chicago
Meat wholesalers raise markup to balance new law
The text notes a 25-cent rise in the wholesalers markup to $1.25 per pound and $750 for choice loins, effective September 5, aligning the percentage markup over cost with March levels as required by the new law.
U S Warns Reds in Korea Not To Try Power Grab
The United States reaffirmed its policy to support representative governments in liberated countries and warned Korean Communists against seizing power. Acting Secretary Dean Acheson said the U S would keep troops in Korea until a provisional government is chosen, opposing any minority group rule. The note also cited Poland elections as a parallel aim and responsibility from Yalta Potsdam.
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Washington
United States
State Department
Russia
Dean Acheson
Korea
Poland
Yalta
Potsdam
Community Briefs From City Sheets
City resident Ann Novak works at Earl's Barber Shop on 723 8th Ave SE. Edmund Nieting speaks at Trinity Lutheran Church at 10 am Tuesday for opening services of the church school. Bert Baldridge of Minneapolis and couple R. D. Shelley home visitors left Saturday. Gaylon Ritchie Jr of 417 Twelfth St SW listed as fair by St Luke's after head injuries from a midget auto crash at Ce-Mar acres during a trial run last Wednesday.
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Edmund Nieting
Trinity Lutheran Church
Bert Baldridge
Minneapolis
R. D. Shelley
Seventh Avenue SE
Ritchie
Gaylon Ritchie
Twelfth Street
St. Luke’s Hospital
Ce-Mar Acres
4-H romance crosses state line at fair meet
Des Moines AP reports Ardis Bailey and Ardys Bailey, both 4-H club members, twin stories of long correspondence before meeting at the Centennial state fair. Two Wayne Jens, one in Manitowoc and one in Davenport, also met their in-laws by chance when notices crossed. Both Jens brothers were wounded in service, one in Italy and one at Okinawa, and both were courting girls named Dorothy.
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Des Moines
Ardis Bailey
Ardys Bailey
Wayne Jens
Davenport
Elmer Jens
Ardis
Frank Bailey
Atlantic
Ardys
Percy Bailey
Corwith
Mani
Okinawa
Dorothy
New US Flag Stars Arranged Not Fixed Until 1818
Historical note states the American flag’s star arrangement remained unsettled until 1818 when the design was standardized. The issue centered on how to position the white stars on the field of blue, with debates over symmetry and balance guiding interim practices.
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United States
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Nineteenth Avenue SW
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Watkins
Willard F Spratt
Homestead
Charles E Filling
J B. Atwood
A Avenue NW
D R Munsell
Third Street
Leo F Vardly
Sixteenth Street
John R. Tellier
Forest Drive
F Shimon
Third Avenue
Jerry Sindelar
Mt. Vernon
D. C
Elmer Sass
Shellsburg
Harry Rapoport
Ray Svenksen
Sterling, I
Hanford
Pierce
Galesburg
Paul White
Watonga
Okla
W. A Ball
Twentyfirst Street
Charles S McCauley
Catherine M Gibbons
Stanley L. Rose
Frances Joyce Doughtery
Edward J Stava
Lillian M. Smtil
Donald C. Spaight
Elizabeth Newcomb
Frank Thomas Connor
Anita Quaid
Clifford D Wolfe
Dorothy L. Irish
Harold Skripsky
Ellen Jean Treftnar
Clarence A. Milota
Anne Roman
Wendell Otho Rainbolt
Barbara Jane Klotzbach
John Edward Klassen
Mary Jeanette Scolaro
Glenn L. Metzger
Mary Kluber
George Brousseau
Ethel Millard
Vincent L. Nappi
Alta Marie Beatty
Atkins
Kenneth J Clark
Irene Frakes
Charles J. Pickett
Waterloo
Frances Brittin
Keith M. Nichols
Webster City
Margaret Elaine Hunter
Melvin A Schulte
Mary M Meeker
Clarence Q. Meeker
Harry Cady, Jr
Dorothy L. Cady
Beryl O'Kelly
Chauncy O'Kelly
Sophia Phon Block
Irving Rosen Block
Loretta Patterman
Charles Patterman
Henrietta
Alma Kloubec
Raymond John Kloubec
Evelyn Hupp
William V. Hupp
Margaret Elizabeth Wells
Carl H Wells
Jeanne E Higgins
Frank Higgins
Emma Ludwick
Murray Ludwick
Frances Josephine Schmidt
Alfred William Schmidt
St. Luke’s
Chftrid
Tull
Toddville
R. E. Hauff
LeRoy Young
van Horne
Mercy
A H. Abbey
Washington, Ia
Curtis Norris
Kenridge Terrace
John Davidson
Harold Studt
Vernon
Reds
Dmitriy Manuilski
U.N
Balkans
George II
George
State Fair
West Virginia College
Josef Goebbels
Ribbentrop
Britain
Keitel
Charles Manatt
Wm. Hoebel
Masonic Library
George Willits
Eighth Avenue
Tenth Street
Willits
Howard Perrigo
Sleepy Stuart
Pat Donahoo
UES
Contol
John, Doran
Toledo
Iowa City
TOY Factory Burns
Hogan Bros. Service
U.S
Alberts
Ann Novak
Earl’s
8Th Ave
Small World Department
KREBS
First Ave. East
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