Santa Claus Weighs 350 Pounds And He Doesn't Use Stuffing
Eve kept Santa Claus busy as he traveled to parties and brought joy to children. The jovial 350 pound figure attended Quaker Oats events, Fairfax gatherings, and numerous local celebrations. He visits groups near John Pavlicek’s home at 1027 Sixteenth Avenue SE and wears a special go to party outfit for these appearances.
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Santa Claus
Santa
John Pavlicek
Sixteenth Avenue SE
Mr. Pavlicek
Donald Zrudsky
Albin Zrudsky
Hull Avenue
Donald
Thoughts on peace and socialism from the Socialist Labor Party
Editor notes a Christmas wish for peace while detailing a Socialist Labor Party manifesto arguing capitalism causes wars and poverty. It urges workers to organize politically under the SLP banner and economically into socialist industrial unions, citing Louis Mildenstein of the Y M C A in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as a reader.
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Socialist Labor Party of America
Socialist Labor Party
Socialist
Louis Mildenstein
Cedar Rapids
Rev Loren Jenks Accepts Call To San Antonio Church
The Rev Loren T Jenks son of Mr and Mrs K C Jenks of Van Horne a former Coe student and instructor and pastor of Des Moines Mondamin Avenue Church of Christ has accepted a call to be associate pastor of the Central Church of Christ in San Antonio Texas He leaves Des Moines due to his 6 year old son Keiths ill health Mrs Jenks and their son are now in Texas Jenks begins work February 1 after graduate work at Iowa University and Drake and service on the Coe faculty in 1932 and 1933 He was an instructor at the Iowa School for the Blind at Vinton in 1935 36 He is a Mason and a member of Pi Kappa Delta and Alpha Theta Xi.
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Loren T. Jenks
K. C. Jenks
van Horne
Coe
Mondamin Avenue Church of Christ
Des Moines
Central Church of Christ
San Antonio
Tex
Jenks
Keith
Keith Vawter
Marion
Texas
University of Iowa
Drake University
Coe College
Iowa School For the Blind
Vinton
Pi Kappa Delta
Alpha Theta Xi
Syrians honor Archbishop Bashir at Cedar Rapids banquet
Des Moines official Robert O'Brian will speak at a 7 pm banquet in the Roosevelt hotel honoring Archbishop Anthonys Bashir head of the Syrian Orthodox Antioch church of North America. Governor Nelson G. Kinschel's secretary attends with city and county officials invited.
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Robert O'Brian
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Roosevelt Hotel
Arche
Anthonys Bashir
Orthodos Antioch Church of
Frank Hahn
Thomas Shaheen
Nicholas T Habib
Ros Campbell
Grace Episcopal Church
Harry M. Gage
Coe College
Ella Hamati
St George's Orthodox Church
St. Paul, Minn
Father Hamati
Bashir
St. Paul
George A. Nassif
Archbishop Bashir
America
Tobacco Official Harris Dies at 56 in New York Hospital
Carl Wainwright Harris, 56, of Winston-Salem, vice-president and director at R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., died Saturday in a New York hospital after undergoing an operation the previous Wednesday. Business associates reported Harris was hospitalized earlier this week.
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Winston-Salem
WN C
Carl Wainwright Harris
R J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Inca New York Hospital
Hartis
Twins Saved by Incubator Now Husky Boys
Eight year old twins Billy and Tommy Kaylor of Mount Vernon were born under five and four pounds. Doctors kept them in incubators for six weeks after birth. Now healthy first graders at Rosedale School, they attend special tap dancing lessons. The Kaylor family also includes three boys and a daughter.
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Boyd Kaylor
Mount Vernon
Billy
Tommy
Rosedale School
Kaylor
Former Baer Wife Sues Minnesota Wells Family
Dorothy Dunbar Wells Lawson filed a $270000 suit in Minneapolis naming Frederick Brown Wells Mary Wells Staples and two Wells sons. She alleges she was coaxed to sign away rights to trusts created by her late husband Thomas Bucklin Wells II after their 1926 marriage and his 1928 death. She was previously married to Max Baer from 1931 to 1933.
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Minneapolis, Minn
Dorothy Dunbar Wells Lawson
Chester W. Johnson
Max Baer
Minneapolis
Frederick Brown Wells
F. H. Peavey Co
Mary Wells Staples
Frank
Fred Wells
Dunbar
Thomas Bucklin Wells
Riverside
Calif
Isabelle Adams
Miss Dunbar
Reno
Nev
Jeges That
Des Moines Opera Leader Ties to National Groups
The individual elected president of the Des Moines Civic Opera company in 1936 is noted as a member of the American Foundation for the Blind, the National Association of Army Chaplains, and Reserve Officers associations.
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The
Des Moines Civic Opera Company
American Foundation For the Blind
National Association of Army Chaplains and
Reserve Officers Associations
Postal workers sympathize over Do Not Open Until Christmas parcel in Ohio
In Bellefontaine Ohio postal workers noted a parcel marked Do Not Open Until Christmas beside a second label reading Perishable The tags created a tension as staff considered the holiday message and the urgent food item warning in the same package.
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Bellefontaine, Ohio
Youth Admits He Set School Fire
Chicago police captain John McGinnis said Joseph Kosinski aged 19 confessed setting the 3 11 alarm fire that swept a south side elementary school Saturday. Damage was estimated at 10000 dollars. Kosinski was arrested after investigators found several hundred matches in his pockets.
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Chicago
John McGinnis
Joseph Kosinski
South Side
Kosinski
McGinnis
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People’s Forum
Loren Jenks
San Antonio, Tex
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Sears
H.P. Companion
H.P. Kenmore Motor
Jig
Ainves
Third Ave
Husky
Billy and
Tommy Kaylor
Baer
Fisher Drug Co
3Rd Ave
Merveaux
3Rd St. SE
WWE
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