Call for bids on PWA bridge projects in Linn County
Linn county supervisors approved plans for two PWA bridges with bids to be opened December 22 at 10am. A Wapsie river crossing in Buffalo township will be a 301 by 20 feet steel and concrete I-beam structure replacing a steel truss. Hoosier creek in College township will get a 50 by 20 feet I-beam steel and concrete bridge. The federal grant covers 45 percent. the county pays 55 percent. Three PWA bridges already completed this fall, one in Marion and two in Monroe townships. Bids on 143334 feet of creosoted lumber for bridge reflooring open at 2 pm December 22. A creosoted wood pile bridge in Otter Creek township, 24 by 20 feet, is approved for county bridge crew construction at an estimated cost of 804.56.
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PWA
Linn County
Wapsie River
Buffalo Township
Hoosier Creek
College Township
Marion Township
Monroe Township
Otter Creek Township
Await Ruling On Truck Signals By High Court
Polk county district court will decide on December 28 whether requiring directional signals on trucks is constitutional. The attorney general seeks a temporary injunction while enforcement pauses. cases pending will continue if summoned.
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Yowa Highway Patrol
John R. Hattery
District Court of
Polk County
Hattery
Franklin High Seniors Stage The Black Flamingo Play
Franklin high school senior class presents The Black Flamingo a three act mystery melodrama set in northern France during the French Revolution. Allayne Konecny and Robert Smythe lead with period costumes authentic props dueling and a quest for Marie Antoinette’s diamond necklace.
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Geraldine Green
Franklin High School
Franklin Auditorium
France
Allayne Konecny
Robert Smythe
Bastile
Paris
Marie Antoinette
Clotilde
Mildred McKeely
Madame Bodier
Elizabeth Thompson
Felipe Bodier
Richard Gitt
Bourien
Jack Walters
Trigaud
Troy Deal
Man Held in Alabama Slaying of Woman and Escort
Grady Tubbs, 21, a Negro, was jailed in connection with the deaths of Mrs. Lois Lyles and her escort J. M. Nash near Greensboro Alabama. Lyles died after a forced church abduction and the assault followed by a gunshot. Nash died from three bullet wounds.
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Greensboro
Ala
Grady Tubbs
Lois Lyles
J. M Nash
Nash
Tubbs
Kilby
Montgomery
Jefferson County
Birmingham
Lyles
Christmas tree sale advertised in Want Ad Section
Order now for a Christmas tree as listed under classification 3 in the Want Ad section advertisement.
Revolution era newspaper found in Marion home
A tattered Sept 24 1777 issue of the Connecticut Journal, printed in New Haven, is uncovered in Marion. The paper centers on the American Revolution with George Washington's Aug 31 letter to Congress and exchanges between Gates and Burgoyne detailing battles and prisoner mistreatment.
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Connecticut Journal
John M. Birmingham
Ninth Avenue
Marion
Thomas
Samuel Green
New Haven
Birmingham
George Washington
Congress
Marquis la Fayette
Woodford
Saratoga victory follows brutal frontier attack account
The letter accuses a British officer and his men of massacres near Fort Edward, detailing the killing of women and children including Miss McRea. It claims over one hundred innocent people perished at the hands of ruffians paid by him, linking the atrocity to Burgoyne’s campaigns amid Gates’s Saratoga victory.
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Ficer
Fort Edward
Miss McRea
Gates
Burgoyne
Saratoga
Capone Near Prison Release After Six Weeks
Government records show Capone has six weeks and one day left to serve on his 1931 tax evasion sentence at Alcatraz. He began May 4, 1932, and will be dismissed Jan 19, after transfer from Atlanta. He also faces a one year term for a misdemeanor connected to tax evasion. Officials note intervals of mental derangement raise questions about permanent confinement.
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Washington
Capone
Chicago
Alcatraz
the Rock
Atlanta
Cook County
Christmas Plum Pudding and Variants From Mrs Alexander George
Recipes outline plum pudding with orange marmalade and dried fruit including raisins prunes figs and beef suet with spices and method to steam bake and store. Also includes steamed fig pudding Graham fruit pudding notes and variations with buttermilk or sour milk and nutty additions.
Kitchen Steaming Method For Molded Dish
Instructions describe mixing ingredients and forming a half filled buttered mold, then sealing and steaming for two hours to finish the recipe.
Monopoly Probers Eye Patent Law Revisions Amid Probe
Washington reports the senate monopoly investigating committee plans to consider changes to patent laws. Witnesses suggested compulsory licensing as a possible issue. Chairman O Mahoney previewed a broad goal to use the inquiry as a forum for economic reform and a new economic constitution.
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Washington
Senate Monopoly Investigating Committee
Congress
O'Mahoney
Wye
Tarzan Stuff No Go In Seattle Case
Justice Guy B. Knott fined Rudy Prmo zich 22 dollars ten for stunning salmon with rocks and then catching them with his hands in a Seattle case.
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Seattle
Guy B. Knott
Rudy Prmozich
Fukien Cooperatives Seek Agricultural Credits and Marketing Aid
Cooperative societies in Fukien province work to obtain agricultural credits cooperative production and marketing and cooperative purchases by consumers to improve farming and local commerce.
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Fukien
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Franklin High
Jean Knight
Ray Anderson
Leon Zeman
Jean Dollman
Dorothy Davi
Don Brown
Earl Pearson
Barbara Scarlata
Connie Wetherton
Cavita Filipi
Parothy Hungerford
Miss Agnes
Betty Sindahl
Mildred Beecer
Jean Wallace
Jean Miller
Mabel Paustian
Audry Shelquist
Barbara Reysa
Meretta Kushner
Mary Jane Plate
Helen Keith
Robert Harper
Donald Exin
John House
Curtis Layton
George Nassif
Harold Kindler
Evan Kearney
Lucille Powell
Phyllis Hatton
Robert E. Johnson
Dick Wildman
Jesse Fauchier
W. S. Estby Stage
Howard Beals
Ivan Reid
Keith Concannon
Frank Carpenter
Charles Putnam
Milo Raim
Richard Wildman
Marilyn Ingham
W. 8
Esthy
B. Hyers
House
George Hodge
Leo Leonard
Robert McBride
Louis Nelson
William Fluegel
Albert Eddy
Eldon Thompson
Margaret Massey
Mary Priban
Katherine Luberger
Emily Morrison
Maxine Ghezem
Philip Austin
Roland Johnson
John McBride
Keith Newell
Corliss Vetter
M. E. Wilson
B. H. Byers
Montleur
Strem
Alabama
P S
General Gates
McRea
Alexander George
Tarzan
Don
Buy
Ginsberg
First Avenue
Percy O
Neumode Hosiery Store
Second Street SE
FBI
SAT
Second Avenue SE
Cutler’s
Second Avenue
First Avenue SE
Lin Imit Witi
IPIE
Ipiliess Roceries
J. C. Penney CO
Taate
Ikresge
First Avenue E
Brammer
Wes
Third Avenue
Armstrong's
Yu A
Lynn
Second St
Yager
Secon
Eagle Knit
Budget Beauty Shop
Third Avenue SE
Happy Vale
E Joy
WMT
Buehler Bros
1St Street
Dial
Second Street
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