Open School Drive Against Injury and Death on Highways
Davenport AP R E Rhoades of Iowa A A A Motor Clubs announces a statewide high school campaign starting with the new term. A three month program teaches safe driving as a sportsman like course with certificates and possible license exam exemptions upon 75 percent final grade.
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Davenport
R. E. Rhoades
A.A.A. Motorclubs
Iowa
A.A.A. Clubs
State Department of Public Instruction
Department of Public Instruction
Motor Club Committee
Town Shovels Way To Steam Engine To Thaw Water Pipes
Townspeople answered the shovel call Friday to clear two miles of snow to Frank Suchy’s home so he could bring a steam engine to Elberon to melt ice in the city standpipe. Water had been cut off Wednesday evening by a frozen pipe and, though temporarily relieved Thursday, water was dwindling again Friday morning. The grade and high school closed Thursday and Friday due to no city water. if the steam engine remedy fails, temporary provisions will be made and school may reopen Monday.
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Elberon
Frank Suchy
Iowa Druggists To Meet In Davenport
About 400 members of the Iowa Pharmaceutical Association are expected to arrive in Davenport to register for the fifty seventh convention. Registration begins at 3 p.m. Monday. The executive committee meets at 8 p.m. Monday and the convention opens Tuesday morning with President W. H. McClelland introduced by Otto A. Bjornstad. Mayor Merle F Wells will deliver the welcome address.
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Davenport
Iowa Pharma‘ceutical Association
W. H. McClelland
Otto A .Bjornstad
Merle F Wells
Dr Steiner to Be Honored on 50th Anniversary of Arrival
Fifty years after arriving penniless from Czechoslovakia to seek salvation in America, Dr Edward A Steiner professor of Applied Christianity at Grinnell College will be honored. The life story spans sweat shops, mining, weaving a rise to prominence as a lecturer author and humanitarian noted for opposing prejudice. He planned to write a fuller volume during a college leave.
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Dr. Steiner
America
Gbinnell
Czechoslovakia
Grinnell College
Edward A. Steiner
Edward
Hungary
Steiner
City Hall Park
Brooklyn Bridge
New York
Oberlin
Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Minnesota
Ohio
Judge Lovejoy Seeks Iowa Supreme Court Nomination
Judge A B Lovejoy of Waterloo plans to run for the Republican nomination to a seat on the Iowa supreme court bench. A district meeting for Republican attorneys from Black Hawk Grundy Delaware and Buchanan counties is set for Monday to discuss his candidacy. Lovejoy has served on the Tenth district bench since January 15 1930 after seven years of private practice in Osage and twenty seven years in Waterloo. He also served as Mitchell County county attorney six years and as Black Hawk assistant county attorney six years.
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Waterloo
A. B. Lovejoy
Iowa
Mitchell County
Black Hawk
Tax receipt rhymes with bite as Iowa teachers rebel
Marengo school board secretary Marshall Beem sent January paychecks two dollars short and included a rhymed receipt explaining a state and federal tax levy. The verse claims funds go to Des Moines to fund old age support and asks employees to preserve the rhyme for future need. It labels Beem as the nightmare of the reader’s dream and signs off as Marshall Beem.
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Marengo
Marshall Beem
Des Moines
Herring Sees No Need to Run Mines Saturday
DES MOINES AP Governor Clyde L. Herring said he doubts it will be necessary to operate Iowa mines next Saturday to fill relief orders, but weather could change plans. Most Iowa mines ran at half to two thirds capacity after United Mine Workers agreed to suspend the 35 hour week during the emergency. Boone opposed the move, but relief coal was sufficient to prevent shortages and operators expect to catch up next week.
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DES Moines
Clyde L. Herring
Iowa
United Mine Workers
Boone
Jury links woman's death to cold and alcohol in Spencer
In Spencer, coroner's jury finds 28 year old Agnes Buckner died from acute alcoholism combined with extreme cold after a party. Witnesses say Buckner and Olive Mick left a late night show, Buckner's daughter was sent home alone, and Tyrrell admitted possibly serving liquor. Buckner's husband notes she often stayed out late playing bridge.
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Spencer
Agnes Buckner
Olive Mick
C. H. Tyrrel
Miss Mick
Iowa Spirits Taxes Hit $16,456 in 1934 Dealers and Stills
U S internal revenue bureau figures show Iowa raised 16,456 in special taxes on stills rectifiers and spirit dealers last year. Total state liquor tax receipts climbed over 75 percent from 1934 to 1935, reaching 794,318 with growth from distilled spirits wines malt liquor and related taxes across domestic and imported duties.
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Washington
D.C
Internal ‘Revenue Bureau
Iowa
Willford Seeks Return to Congress After 1934 Defeat
Des Moines reports that A C Willford of Waterloo, who lost the 1934 congressional race, filed nomination papers Saturday for another run. State Rep J E Cundy announced his own bid on the Democratic ticket at Cedar Falls. Republican figures Fred C Gilchrist of Laurens, John Grimes of Osceola, and George A Chaney of Des Moines also requested nomination papers for federal or statewide offices.
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Des Moines
INS
A.C Willford
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
J. E. Cundy
Fred C. Gilchrist
Laurens
Secretary of State
John
Grimes
Osceola
Gobern
Atoral
George A., Chaney
Rose Bampton to Be Guest Soloist at Cornell Fete
Rose Bampton a Metropolitan Opera coloratura and prominent concert singer will headline the 1936 Cornell May Music Festival recital set for May 7 8 and 9 announced by Prof Harold W Baltz director of the conservatory of music. The young star has gained notice in radio opera and concert and recently performed in Cedar Rapids during 1934 35 as part of her rising national profile.
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Mount Vernon
Rose Bampton
Metropolitan Opera
Cornell
Harold W. Baltz
Conservatory of Music
Metropolitan
Cornell Festival Opens With Pianist Jolas at May Recital
The Cornell festival runs May 8 to 9 with Jacques Jolas performing a solo concerto with the Chicago Symphony under conductor Frederick Stock. The Chicago Symphony also gives two concerts on the final day marking its 34th Cornell appearance. Thursday's program features the Cornell vested choir and symphony orchestra with baritone Francis German as soloist.
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Cornell
Jacques Jolas
Juilliard Foundation
Cornell Conservatory
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony
Frederick Stock
Cornell Vested
Francis German
Iowa Democrats Plan State Convention Meetings Friday
DES MOINES UP arrangements for the state and county democratic conventions will be worked out here Friday at a meeting of the democratic state central committee. The meeting called by State Chairman E H Birmingham will set dates and designate sites for the conventions and delegates to the national convention will be chosen at the state gathering. Iowa will be represented by thirty delegates with twenty six votes. The Republican side has set February 28 for its state convention to pick delegates to the national convention, with county conventions on February 21 to select state delegates.
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Des Moines
Democratic State Central Committee
E. H. Birmingham
Iowa
Republican State Central Committee
Cure Stutterers By Encouraging Defect In Speech Clinic
Special to The Qazette reports on Iowa State College professor Dr. Guy S. Greene directing a speech clinic since 1933. The program uses aluminum recording to show faults in voice, articulation, and rhythm and examines causes from deafness to emotional factors. Tests for handedness, eye use, and drawing patterns help determine natural hand dominance guiding treatment for stuttering and speech defects.
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Iowa State College
Guy S. Greene
Green
J. F. Edwards
the College Hospital
H. V
Gaskill
Greene
Iowa farm youth who shot father gets light penalty
Bert Johnson a 22 year old farmer's son was found guilty of manslaughter for fatally shooting his father with a shotgun on New Year's Eve. The verdict followed a trial in Clarinda Iowa with testimony of family abuse and the shooting occurred after their car went into a ditch near a Maryville Missouri farm sale. The judge set sentencing for February 15 with a maximum eight year prison term and defense plans to seek a new trial and reduce bond.
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Clarinda
INS
Bert Johnson
RES
Grover Brown
Brown
Earl Ferguson
Clarence
Elmer Johnson
Johnson
Maryville
Young Johnson
Yorktown
Johnsons
Funeral Director And Obstetrician Hampered By Snow
OTTUMWA AP. County Engineer Harry Hansel froze parts of both hands shoveling snow to reach a home where a man had died. A farmer about to become a father labored to remove drifts so a physician could arrive. Helpers and neighbors aided in clearing southern Iowa highways, with snow removal completed in time.
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Ottumwa
Harry Hansel
Iowa
Runaway Horses Head For School They Once Served
In Laurel Iowa a team hitched to a wagon pulling hogs bolted after the hogs were loaded. The horses ran two miles to a school house once used as a bus stop. The hogs were unharmed.
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Laurel
William Lukehart
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