Shaker Design and Black Prints At Coe College Galleries
Coe college Sinclair Memorial Art galleries host two exhibits for the New Year. In East Gallery a Shaker design show runs January 6 to 29 with an opening tea January 6 featuring originator Susan Jackson Keig of Goldshell Associates. West Gallery presents The Black Experience in Prints from January 8 to 29, a traveling Pratt Graphics exhibit exploring Harlem, inequality, and activism. Regular hours apply with no admission.
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Sinclair Memorial
Coe College
East
Susan Jackson Keig
Goldshell Associates
Northfield
Ill
Ryder Gallery
Chicago
Pleasant Hill
Harrodsburg
Ciety
West Gallery
Harlem
Martin Luther King
Pratt Graphics
New York City
Finland Ships Over a Million Tons Newsprint Annually
Finland ships more than a million tons of newsprint each year, boosted by its vast forest cover which blankets about two thirds of the country. The industry relies on extensive timber resources and international demand for printed paper products.
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Finland
Water Meter Reversal Suspected in Arizona Billing Row
Phoenix resident Esther Robinson faced a $1313 bill for a single mobile home with two dogs and no appliances using water. A previous bill was $167 and the city found the meter on her lot had apparently run in reverse, prompting an investigation into the billing error.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Esther Robinson
City Water Department
Paroled prisoner becomes jail paramedic in Texas
Robert E. Hirsch, 54, once a Huntsville Texas inmate, earned a paramedic certificate while in prison and, after parole, works 10 to 12 hours daily at Travis County Jail. Sheriff Raymond Frank notices his value and considers more prisoner medics. Hirsch hopes to reconnect with his four Sacramento children.
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UPI
Robert E. Hirsch
Travis County
Texas
Austin
Hirsch
Sheriff's Department
Huntsville
Salvation Army
City
Frank
Lowal University
Duke University
Duke
Sacramento
Calif
Air Pollution Weekly Report from Linn County Health Dept
The Gazette summarizes weekly air quality data from Linn County Health Department. Readings at 445 First Street SW and 2115 North Towne Lane NE show particulate matter and haze coefficients with averages for December and values compared to national standards for annual arithmetic and 24 hour limits.
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Air Pollution Control Division
Linn County Health Department
First Street
Jane Boyd Community House
Noelridge Park
North Towne Lane
Jefferson 1814 Letter on Censorship and Reading Rights
Thomas Jefferson condemns government censorship in a 1814 letter arguing against magistrate control over book sales. He stresses citizen rationality and questions lay authorities pre approving what people may read. The message upholds freedom of inquiry and literary access.
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Thomas Jefferson
America
Tornado energy dwarfs US electricity capacity
The energy of a single tornado is estimated at 100 million kilowatts, about one third of the United States total electrical generating capacity, highlighting the tornado's immense power in a single event.
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United States
Dear Genie genealogical requests from Linn County readers
Readers seek genealogical information on Brosius Drouillard Mikesell and related families. Requests include ancestors in Pennsylvania Ohio Iowa and Virginia. wills marriages children and movements in Linn Cedar Marion Muscatine Iowa and surrounding areas. Contacts listed for replies and exchanges.
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Genie
Linn County Heritage Society
Iowa
P.O. Box
Cedar Rapids
George D. Brosius
Clover Township
Jefferson County
John
Catherine Baughman Brosius
Emma
Richland
Keokuk County
Brosius
Anna Brosius Huber
Summerville
McClelland and Downie
Ireland
Pennsylvania
Stine
Wetherell
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rockwell, Butler and Taylor
Rogers
Virginia
Ohio
Rice
New York
Linn
Cedar Counties
Lisbon
Mechanicsville
Margaret Rogers
East Main Street
Columbus
Mikesell
Simon Kenton Drouillard
Richard Billups
van Buren
Marion County
Joseph Drouillard
Susan Topping
Edward Drouillard
Rebecca Drulard
Des Moines
Drouillard
Billups
Topping
Robert Guest
Thirty-seventh Street
Evans, Col
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Coe
Crowley Hearing Aid Center
M.N.B
Iowa U
By Andrew A. Yemma
Paramedic
Raymond Frank
Jefferson
Nelson C. Swank
Rochester
Cedar County
IOCF
Cedar River
Atalissa
Muscatine County
Catharine Ann Anderson
Sarah Catherine
Edith D. Williams
Fifth Avenue
Fort Worth
Margaret
Sara McCorkle
Robert
Thomas
Chillicothe
Iowa City
Illinois
Kenneth Krause
Kansas City
Qualit
Fantastic Savings
Armstrong
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