Burglar Loots Apartment Store For Fifty Dollars In Groceries
Miss Ruby Carlson reported a break in at her Fourth Avenue SE home between 9 and 10 p.m. Sunday. An intruder entered by a ripped screen and window, escaping with a black leather purse about containing $50, letters, and small items. Police investigated the Ferguson grocery burglary at 901 Eleventh Street NF with items including bologna, tobacco, sardines, pork chops, and soup shank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruby Carlson
Fourth Avenue SE
Miss Carlson
Fergis Risk Grocery
Eleventh Street
Nazis Crack Down On Church Groups
Government memo details a crackdown on church groups amid rising tensions. The note cites threats, surveillance, and enforcement actions targeting congregations and related activities. Authorities emphasize maintaining public order and national security.
Weiss murder linked to chair death in Tipton area
John Wittgert Wingert died Friday afternoon from pneumonia after long illness. Born October 22, 1843 in Maryland, he had lived in Tipton since 1893 and is survived by son Peter Wingert of Tipton, six grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. A service was conducted by Rev. Jerrell of Tipton.
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Tipton
John Wittgert
Onemagerajan
Rey v. Ackman
Choten
Ray R C. Jerrell
Mr. Wingert
Maryland
Peter Wingert
Psychic painter and Derbyshire church saloon tale
Ripley notes discuss the artist Heinrich Nusselein of Nuremberg who paints prolifically since 1929 without subject sight. The piece also recounts Dale Abbey church in Derbyshire sharing a roof with a former inn, now dry, with church house forming part of a private residence.
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Heinrich Nusselein
Nuremberg
Kornburg
Germany
Dale Abbey
West Hallam
Derbyshire
England
Church House
Blue Bell Inn
Why Amana And The Rest Have Failed
A critique of the Amana communal experiment and its collapse detailing the shift from socialism to capitalism. It cites leadership issues family pressures and the rise of wage labor, private ownership, and external labor as factors. The article contrasts Amana with other socialist communities and notes the role of dissent and constitutional limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amana
Iowa
Hinds
Commonwealth
Shambaugh
socialism and liberty in Amana communities analyzed
The piece argues that individualistic democracy tolerates dissent and contrasts Amana communities with broader socialist experiments. It contends socialism fails due to inherent weaknesses, not hostility, and warns of bureaucratic parasitism and loss of liberty. It questions the viability of a business state led by autocratic figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cooperative Commonwealth
Amana
America
Labor Leader Joins Manning in WPA Critique
Des Moines reports Iowa Labor Federation President J C Lewis and Ottumwa Mayor E C Manning question WPA chief Hopkins claims that 3,250,000 Americans have work. Lewis and Manning say few Iowa workers have been placed on WPA projects, criticizing Hill’s charges of political motives in Manning’s complaint.
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Des Moines
J. C. Lewis
Iowa Federation of Labor
E C. Manning
Ottumwa
WPA
Harry Hopkins
Iowa
Lewis
Manning
Hopkins
Washington
Wapello County
L. S. Hill
Works Progress
Delay Norris Trial Till Next Monday
The perjury trial of "Grocer" George W. Norris in Lincoln Nebraska was postponed to December 9. Assistant U S district attorney Barlow Nye cited scheduling and procedural reasons for moving the commencement date of the case related to a 1930 Nebraska primary election duplicate filing aimed at defeating Senator George W. Norris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Neb
George W. Norris
Barlow Nye
U S
Norris
Nebraska
Noted Educator Miss M Carey Thomas Dies in Philadelphia
Miss M Carey Thomas aged 79, president emeritus of Bryn Mawr College and a leading figure among American women educators, died Monday in Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia
M Carey Thomas
Bryn Mawr College
Fairy Tale Puzzle Clues Offer Mixed Words and Names
A mixed list of clues across horizontal and vertical prompts features terms like wicked at the top of a stalk and items such as country mansion and English colin. The puzzle blends traditional fairy tale imagery with wordplay entries including verbs, prepositions, and object names from common lexicon.
Floating Peril in the Med Aboard Homer Wildburns Yacht
Homer Wildburn a 6 year old American bachelor vacations on a Mediterranean yacht where rivals seek the secret aboard. Louise de Fantanay and Mer million plot around a mysterious treasure while Chicotin schemes to blow up the boat. Lucienne de Montellmar and General Perrisol oppose a feared French political crisis as Wildburn receives an urgent Paris message from his father Luke.
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Homer Wildburn
Mediterranean
Europe
Louise de Fantanay
Mermilion
Baron de Brett
Mermiton
Chicotin
Wildburn
Lucienne de Montellmar
General Perrisol
Mermillon
Tanya
Lucienne
Homer
Nice
France
Perissol
General Perissol
Edouard Mermillon
Paris
Joan of Arc
Marseillais
Fidelite
Auguste
Cap
Grenoble
Juan
Iowa In Brief Colmbus Junction families and regional obituaries
Funeral services were held for Mrs Homer Van Sant of Oakland township Louisa county and for Clement Langley a cafe proprietor in McGregor. The articles note the survivors and origins, including Ida Chown, George Chown pioneers, and Langley family ties across Dow City Don City and McGregor. Other notices include marriages in Independence and DeWitt obituaries for Andrew J Perry and Edward Bakke with details of births, moves, and kin.
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Columbus Junction
Homer van Sant
Oakland Township
Louisa County
United Presbyterian Church
Columbus City
C. S. Ramsdale
van Sant
Ida Chown
George Chown
Fredonia
Mae Shomberg
Howard Green
Roy Littrel
Bessie
Minnie
McGregor
Clement Langley
New Deal
Mr. Langley
Zanesville
Ohio
George W. Langley
Dow City
Langley
Alice Prather
Colorado Springs
Mildred Kile
Sadie McDonald
Margaret Rasmussen
Bessie Binnall
Dayton
W. A. Langley
Springview
Neb
Jay W. Langley
Don City
Stevenson
Littleton
Dewitt
Andrew J. Perry
Virginia
Here
Clinton County
N. F
Leonard A. Spooner
First Congregational Church
Elmwood Cemetery
Mr. Perry
Minnie Hahn
Grand Mound
Grover
Alva
Raymond
John
Mae
Alice Dohse
Martin Perry
Oregon
Anderson Walred
Alice Perry
Decorah
Edward Bakke
Ida Grinna
T. A. Hoff
First Lutheran
Bakke
Peter
Ingeborg Bakke
Frankville Township
Josephine Westby
Leonard Seren Lina
Tye
Gilbert An Ohn P. Bakke
Alice Bakke
Ister
Com mander Berard and Hamer Plan Guards
Commander Berard agrees to a guarded precaution as Homer Wildburn prepares to depart for Paris to answer his father’s summons. Hamer insists on protecting Auguste and Jean with a small guard, noting the nearby cabinet minister and police chief. The risk hinges on General Perissol’s approval.
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Berard
Hamer
France
Homer
Paris
Auguste
Jean
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Science Board
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Sorenniaue
Ifoo
Bureau Chivis
Budget Bureau
Karl T. Compton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rfriin
Weiss
Bettaronte
U. S. Patent Office
Ripley
Alexandre de Peray
Charles X
King Frotern Syndesre
Bates
State Capitol
Denver
Colo
Mary Callinack
Cornwall
Eng
Chicago Sunday Tribune
William Harmon Norton
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
Jews Academy of Sciences
Ant
Keron
Munborn
Nauvoo
Soviet
Russia
Wax
Swolegang
Associated Press
Vincent Baker
Edmund
Wis
Chicago
Ned
le Bourget
Luke
Iowa News
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