Curious Iowa Well Driller Charles Nolan A Pioneer
Charles D. Nolan, a Cedar Rapids based veteran well driller, has spent 47 years probing Iowa for oil gas and water. He estimates drilling 4000 to 5000 wells, witnessed by shifts from horse power to gasoline rigs, and led notable projects including a 1930 Letts oil gas venture and water supply fights for Cedar Rapids.
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Cedar Rapids
Hell
Charles D. Nolan
Iowa
Nolan
Hades
Nes Eveen
Lee County
New York
Southwest
Panhandle
Wichita Falls
Electra
Tex
Middle West
Iowa Well Drillers Association
Cooperative Drillers Association
Letts
Twentieth Street SE
Edith Dahl Plans Act With Free Husband Harold Dahl
Edith Rogers Dahl, famed for saving her aviator husband from a Spanish Civil War firing squad, plans to feature Lieut Harold Dahl in her act when he returns. He was recently released from captivity and is aboard the Exiria en route to New York.
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Philadelphia
INS
Edith Rogers Dahl
Harold Dahl
New York
Man Who Helped Build Siegfried Line Executed
Berlin reports Walter Hartmann, who helped construct the Siegfried line fortifications, was executed Friday for revealing fortification knowledge to French agents. Fridolin Endras also was executed for furnishing a German emigrant acting for a foreign government with treasonable information.
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Berlin
Walter Hartmann
Siegfried Line
Fridolin Endras
Lodge Fails to Cut U S Ambassador Salary to Moscow
Sen Henry Cabot Lodge failed in a duplicate bid to strike the appropriation for the U S ambassador to the Soviet Union. The push also sought elimination of a 162000 salary for trade specialists aiding Secretary Hopkins on Latin American trade policy.
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Washington
Henry Cabot Lodge
Mass
United States
Soviet Union
Lodge
Senate Appropriations Subcommittee
Sea Department
Appropriations
Frederick Hale
Senate
House
Harry L. Hopkins
York Rite Leap Year Dinner At Masonic Hall
Members of Trowel chapter Palestine council and Apollo commandery with their ladies attend a York rite leap year dinner at Masonic hall Thursday at 6 30 p m The program reenacts the dedication of Gettysburg national cemetery in 1863 by the University of Iowa speech department with WSUI sound effects A 10 person cast includes a vocal quartet and roles for Edward Everett and Abraham Lincoln The evening features leap year specialties dancing and cards.
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Trowel Chapter
Palestine Council
Apollo Commandery
Masonic Hall
Gettysburg National Cemetery
University of Iowa
WSUI
Edward Everett
Abraham Lincoln
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Charles Nolan
Scotty McLeod
Bit
Iowa Gas and Oil Company
Texas
Mr. Nolan
Ryan
Killian's Annual
Carload Sale of
Ostermoorys
Killian Company
Federal Loan Service
Plain Note Loans
Co-Maker Loans
Federal Discount Corporation
Edith Dahl
Husband
le Gant
U. S
Moscow
York Rite
Joe
Caryce Gohe
America
Killian
Killian’s Presents
Lord Torns
Lamin
Killian’s
Realona
Neel
Whale
Nevo, Leniges
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