Dear Genie Editor's Note and Readers Help Requests
A column outlines submission rules for the Dear Genie feature and presents reader inquiries. Questions seek Iowa connections about ancestral lines including Johnson Campbell Pace Grubb and Tufts descendants, requesting parental links, marriage details, census data, and migration paths across Virginia Ohio Iowa and West Virginia.
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Raffles Hotel in Singapore Celebrates 90 Years of Old World Glamour
The Singapore landmark Raffles Hotel marks its 90th anniversary, preserving stiff upper lip colonial charm with dark paneling, fans, and a Palm Court garden. It traces to 1886 with Armenian founders, famed for the Singapore Sling and tales of tiger shots, Kipling, Conrad, and Lord Jim inspiration. It stands among Southeast Asia's remaining colonial-era hotels alongside Bangkok’s Oriental and Hong Kong’s Peninsula.
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Singapore
Raffles Hotel
Palm Court Garden
Raffles
Beach Road
Stamford Raffles
C.M. Phil
Lips
Ngian Tong Doon
Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim
Rudyard Kipling
Southeast Asia
Bangkok
Peninsula
Repulse Bay
Hong Kong
Rangoon
Americans Boost UPI Italy Tourists Record in 1975 Visit surge
Rome reports a record 36,065,500 visitors to Italy in 1975, including 1,576,500 Americans. Dr. Emilio Tommasi, director of tourism in the United States, cites the weaker lira and dollar and predicts 1976 will top last year.
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Rome
Italy
UPI
Emilio Tommasi
United States
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Joseph H. Johnson
Hampshire County
Virginia
Wayne Township
Montgomery County
Ohio
Joseph N. Johnson
Catherine E. Bowlby
Anamosa
Louise Davis
Rt. 2
William Henry Pace
Sarah Ann Ferguson
Fluvanna County
Virginia R. Gray
Harmony Street
Las Vegas
Nevada
Harrison H. Campbell
Harriet
Washington Township
Linn County
Mary
Martha
Sarah
John
William H
Elva
Sam
William
Margaret Brown
Vinton
Donald Campbell
Newhall
Joseph Jacob
Margery Young
Ohio County
West Virginia
Polk and Muscatine
Woods Moss
Hamilton Avenue
Wheeling
Tufts
Herbert F. Adams
Tufts Kinsmen Project
Hosmer Street
Boston
Massachusetts
William Grubb
Jasper County
Pleasant Grubb
Catherine Lee
Irene Grubb Maypol
Elm Avenue
Killians
LonDon
Glencoe
Ester
Life
Killian
Iowa City
Sandalwood Fee IE
Killian's
Lindale Plaza
Cedar Rapids and Mall
Lowe City
Lindale
Iowe City
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