Black Hawk seeks fund transfer to pay back salaries
Black Hawk county asked the State Comptroller for permission to move 2500 from emergency to court expense and 12000 from emergency to general funds to cover back salaries of district court officers and county and township officials after the salary cut law was declared void. The request, signed by the county board, awaits attorney general opinion before a decision.
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DES Moines
Black Hawk County
Supreme Court
C B. Murtagh
County Board of Supervisors
Clare Hamilton
West Union Couple Observe Anniversary
Mr and Mrs M Schlatter celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary with a surprise party in West Union Fayette county. The couple born and raised in the county have one son Jerry Schlatter and live just west of the city. About thirty guests attended including Mrs Schlatter's uncle Mr Milt Smith and wife from Wyoming and another uncle A D Smith of West Union. Wedding cakes were made by Mrs W R Heiserman and Mrs Felix Grafenberg of West Union.
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West Union
M. Schlatter
Schlatter
Fayette County
Jerry Schlatter
Milt Smith
Wyoming
A. D. Smith
W. R. Heiserman
Felix Grafenberg
Coggon Couple Honored On Their Sixtieth Anniversary
Coggon residents Thomas Henderson and Minnie Wallis celebrated sixty years since their marriage in a log cabin near the Wapsipinicon River. A Christmas decorated church dinner for sixty featured a wedding cake by the Henderson daughters, with all ten children and most grandchildren present. Open house at their farm near Coggan concluded the celebration.
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Wapsipmicon
Valley Farm
Thomas Henderson
Minnie Wallis
Hendersons
Ida Lillie
Marion
F E Willis
Dows
Frank V. Henderson
Peoria
Charles Mills
Thomas Mills
Donald
Merril
Walker
Lloyd Mills
Arlene
Coggon
Perry Mills
Darrell
Leo Smith
Elma
Central City
Wills
Ruth
Ray
Marvin
F W. Lindahl
Mark Henderson
Bernard Harman
Clarion
Leo
Helen
Edna
Doris
Geraldine
Leslie Henderson
Velma
Florence
Harold
Arthur Henderson
Margaret
Bobby
Jimmy
Lacy Hill
Frances
Robert
A W Savage
Esther Henderson
Coggan
Biddle
Marton
Mrs. Henderson
Classic Pinex cough remedy ad promises fast relief
An old home remedy sells a syrup made by dissolving sugar and water then adding 234 ounces of Pinex to a pint bottle to create two pints. The ad claims quick action, loosens phlegm, soothes inflamed membranes, clears air passages, and guarantees refund if not effective.
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Vere
New Rating System For Play Festival
Iowa City to name champion at the University of Iowa tenth annual play festival March 28 29 and 30 with a new rating plan awarding superior or excellent to top entries and allowing ties. The 1935 program adds religious drama for church groups and will include community junior college and high school one act plays with about 410 actors in 65 groups from 1934.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Fort Madison
Nevada
Elberon
Cedar Rapids
Masonite Womens Club
Elkader
Einal
Ce- Ger Rapids
Fragmented OCR note on Christmas observances and local events
An unclear OCR fragment references Christmas themes, local sections, and community notes. It mentions numbers and names in a garbled form, with no clear event, date, or identifiable organization. The readable content is too fragmentary to determine a concrete news item.
Iowa pays tribute to wartime chief
Former Gov William Iard ing lay in state at the Iowa statehouse beneath a black-draped catafalque as admirers gathered. Eight sergeants formed a guard of honor around the bier before the body moved to Dunn's funeral chapel for rites by Rev Ezekiel A Moore. Burial is set for Graceland cemetery in Sioux City after services in Sioux City and at Morningside Lodge.
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Des Moines
Capitol Dome
William Iarding
Statehouse
Iowa
168Th Infantry
Towa
National Guard
Dunn
Ezekiel A Moore
Charles S Bradshaw
Graceland Cemetery
Sioux City
Woodbury County
Morningside Masonic Lodge
Jurors Chosen For January Court Term In Fayette County
Fayette county draws grand and trial juries for the January term at West Union. Names include J D Hoyt Oclwein Ern Holzer Elgin R R Fussell N J Martin and others. One major case is a $7500 damages suit by Mary Kennedy against Delia Dailey executrix of William Dailey estate over a car crash near Oelwein on August 25 1933.
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West Union
Fayette County
J D Hoyt
Oclwein
Ern Holzer
Elgin
R R. Fussell
Fayette
N J Martin
Charles Miller
Waucoma
C E Speed
Arlington
Robert Pruckler
Oolwein
George F Burreck
Henry Buenneke, Jr. Maynard
Charles Whitley
J. E
John Poggenklass
Oelwein
J. H. Stahl
Lee Leslie
Lola Gell
S B. Tope
D. D Fennell
Ray Fels
All of
Kate E. Bennett
Nora McGee
Clara Rowland
David Brause
Amy Hochberger
Hawkeye
Elsie Stebbins
Jessie Meyer
Maynard
Maude Dorland
Lou Buenneke
Rex Roberts
Faycette
Minnie Manilhe
Chanel Bond
Johanna Hughes
Glenn Iliff
E. F. Newing
Grace James
Stanley
L. E. Finders
E. F. Carley
Gust Nieman
Mary Kennedy
Delia Dailey
William Dailey
Amber resident suffers broken leg after coasting
Amber resident 11 year old Bernice Freese, daughter of Mr and Mrs John Freese, was treated at Mercy hospital Anamosa after a broken leg incurred while coasting on Tuesday. The brief item lists other local notes from Delaware county including pension checks arrival and school bond payoff savings.
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Amber
Bernice Freese
Daughier
John Freese
Mercy Hospital
Anamosa
Wyoming
Ida Pealer
Woman'’s Relief Corps
Ben Paul Post No. 4
Clara Stephenson
Nettie Wherry
Minner Tasker
Pearl Rogers
Arminda Bender
Kate Anderson
J.W. Thomson
Keystone Lodge
A. F
A. M
Klaud Dick
Henry Bramer
W. H Alden
A. W. Peck
E N Stoffel
Jackson County Refunds $20,000 Bridge Bonds
Jackson County supervisors approve refunding of $20,000 of bridge bonds issued in 1918 to fund flood related bridge repairs. The action follows long standing county concerns amid many bridges and earlier efforts to obtain federal permission for bridge construction across the Maquoketa river.
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Jackson County
Eper
Maquoreta
Glasner, Vieth and
Duncan
Tasenport Tre
Muquoeketa River
Congress
Maquoketa Nver
Senate
House of Representatives
United States
Maquoketa River
Iowa
Mrs Jarnagin Dies. Town Editor at 78
Mrs. Sarah Jarnagin 78 widow of J W Jarnagin prominent town newspaper editor and writer died at her home Wednesday of a heart attack. Surviving are two sons and a daughter.
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Sarah Jarnagin
J W Jarnagin
Des Moines Man Challenges Auto License Relief Order
J O Furnish of Des Moines files in district court a test case seeking to overturn an emergency relief administration order that deprives relief clients of automobile licenses. The petition demands the return of his license plates and argues the relief program conditions aid on turning in plates.
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DES Moines
J. O. Furnish
Emergency Relief Administration
Relief Administration
Pension Payments Approved For 3 863 Aged Towans
In Des Moines the old age assistance commission reports 3 863 monthly pensions approved for aged Towans from among 53 000 applications. Superintendent Byron G. Allen said head tax receipts total 1 001 359 dollars through Dec 15 with 407 446 allocated to pensions to July 1 1935. A 30 396 14 reserve covers funeral benefits, and 60 000 is set aside for possible admin costs. The commissioner estimates 8 283 pensions will be approved between December 1934 and July 1935.
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Des Moines
Old Age Assistance Commission
Towans
Byron G. Allen
Allen
Commission
Iowa City Mayor Not To Seek Re-Election
Iowa City mayor Harry D. Breene will not seek another term due to his health. With no one filing nomination papers by Thursday, the March 25 election will choose his successor along with eleven other city offices.
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Iowa City
Harry D. Breene
Breene
Former Simpson athlete acquitted in bank robbery case
Paul Eggers, former Simpson college athlete, was acquitted in Nevada Iowa of complicity in the July attempt to rob a Roland bank. A district court jury deliberated eight and a half hours before returning a sealed verdict after an eight day hearing, marking his second trial after a hung jury in the first.
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Nevada, Ia
Paul Eggers
Simpson
Roland
Eggers
Farm Dwellings Most Vulnerable To Fire Hazards
Des Moines report shows sparks from chimneys as the leading fire cause in Iowa during the first nine months of 1934. Total state losses reached 3,337,150 with farm dwellings suffering 983,642 and town dwellings 610,149. Farm barns and stores also posted large losses.
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Des Moines
Iowa
John Strohm
Strohm
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