Eastern Iowa wedding and community notices sweep
Marjorie Coleman and Harold Millwright announce their marriage set for January 12 in Palmyra Missouri. The bride, daughter of the Colemans of West Union, taught in Mechanicsville and works as a county engineer's stenographer. Millwright, a sales rep for International Harvester, covers nine northeastern Iowa counties. They will reside in West Union.
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West Union
Marjorie Coleman
Harold J. Millwright
Colwein
Palmyra
F. S. Coleman
Mechanicsville
Millwright
International Harvester Company
Iowa
Onslow
California
Ida Brokens
Imogene Hamilton
Animale Gutzeit
Esther Lemnon
Anna Jensen
Helen Edwards
Muriel Johnson
Keith Lennon
Walter Wasson
Howard Bramer
Neil Edwards
Floyd McCarty
Gerald Ritenour
Dale Neilson
Buddy Lathrop
Fayette
Francis L. Robbins
Chicago
Robbins
Illyria Township
Fayette County
John Robbins
Charlotte Medberry
Edward T. Gough
Marion
Monticello couples wed in Cedar Falls ceremony
Frank Himebaugh of Center Junction Oscar Kinler and Arnold Storm of Olin joined Elva Elnora Shatzer and Kenneth Kirk in marriage at Cedar Falls with Rev. W. C. Lang officiating. Attendants included Phillip Bradley and Leona Kinler. The couple will reside in Waterloo.
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Monticello
Frank Himebaugh
Center Junction
Oscar Kinler
Arnold Storm
Olin
Jesup
Elva Elnora Shatzer
Harry Shatzer
Kenneth Kirk
Clarence Kirk
Cedar Falls
W. C. Lang
Phillip Bradley
Leona
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Treat a Cold With Grove's Laxative Bromo Quinine
An old time promotional ad urges aggressive cold care using Grove's Laxative Bromo Quinine. It promotes internal treatment, lists four actions including laxative effect and infection control, and claims a cold may break up in 24 hours with sugar coated tablets available.
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Grove
Iowa City News Briefs Chronicle Local Cases
Iowa City Bar association new president is 80-year-old attorney W. F. Murphy. Officers elected include Ingalls Swisher vice president Harold W. Westermark treasurer Arthur O. Left secretary and Raymond W. Hartsook. Hartsook granted divorce from Helen Hartsook for cruelty and custody of their child. Funeral for Edward E. Demery 85 announced. Mrs. Bion Hunter cancel dinner for democratic victory fund. Lions club funded eye glasses for 33 needy children. Millerstown and Caven bridges damaged in Maquoketa flood. Dora La Von Cumberland and Leon Kyler wed. Sister Mary St Virginia Berry wins poetry prize. John Swisher 83 dies. survivors listed.
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Gazette
Iowa City
W. F. Murphy
Iowa City Bar Association
Ingalls Swisher
Harold W. Westermark
Arthur O. Left
Raymond W. Hartsook
Helen Keeler Hartsook
James P. Gaffney
Hartsook
E. H. Birmingham
State Central Committee
Iowa City Lions Club
Robert Graves
Oxford Junction
Maquoketa
T. E. Riley
Jackson
Millerstown
Monmouth
Caven
Arebana
Dora la von Cumberland
Leon Kyler
Earl Kyler
C. C. Miller
Vanitta Ferguson
Merwin Smith
Marquette
Mary St. Virginia Berry
James M. Berry
Far East
Mary St. Virginia
America
Sigourney
John Swisher
Julia Hamilton
Boston
Leo Higgins
Keswick
Kenneth
W. C. Moore
Grinnell
Frank
Brighton
Iowa Retail Trade Sees Big Six Month Gain Amid Drought
Iowa sales tax receipts show a 11 percent rise in the first half of 1936 over 1935, totaling 7.51 million from retailers despite drought. The six months ended December 31 cover mid-year activity with holiday figures to be finalized in April. Eastern Iowa data covers transactions through September 30, 1936.
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Des Moines
Iowa Daily Press Bureau
Iowa
State Board of Assessment and Review
Cornell Gridiron Banquet Draws 300 Attendees
Three hundred students and professors attended Cornell College’s Gridiron banquet. The event featured humorous roasts and performances. Tom Nelson and Clyde Tull were honored as new Cornell fathers with nicknames, while Russell Cooper served as a professor honoree.
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Mount Vernon
Cornell College
Cornell
Tom Nelson
UDGA Free Trial Offer At May Drug Company
A stomach relief advertisement promises a free trial of UDGA prescribed by a stomach specialist. It targets stomach pain heartburn ulcers and excess acid and invites readers at May Drug Company and Ford Mopkins to try the product.
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May Drug Company
Ford Mopkins
Hugo Birkhahn Highlighted In Ballad And Banquet Notes
The article recounts Hugo Birkhahn as a basketball star and mentions other banquet items including a kiss on a dormitory stair and a wrestler’s narrow escape from Coach Bull Barker. It notes Gypsy Rose Lee Ethel Merman and Rubinoff joining the college faculty, a poker loss involving Merner Hall, and Dale Brand entering the National Sewing meet in Chicago.
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Hugo Birkhahn
Coe College
Frank Cole
Cornell
Gage
Coe
Dale Brand
Chicago
Officers Elected By Tama Indians
William Davenport was chosen to lead the Sac and Fox Indians at the Tama Reservation for the next year. John Papake is vice president, George Young Bear secretary, and Albert Davenport treasurer. An executive committee includes George Ward, John Benson, John Roberts, Fred Brown, Sam Slick, James Poweshick, George Mitchell, Percy Bear, Arthur Bear, Johny Young Bear, Charles Davenport and Young Bear. Four members were chosen to draft a new pow-wow constitution: George Young Bear, Edward Davenport, Horace and Willie Poweshick. The bureau of Indian Affairs approved a 300 percent increase in rehabilitation funds affecting about sixty families to build homes and shelters using Indian labor and native wood.
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Toledo
William Davenport
Tama Reservation
John Papake
George Young Bear
Albert Davenport
George Ward
John Benson
John Roberts
Fred Brown
Sam Slick
James Poweshick
George Mitchell
Percy Bear
Arthur Bear
Johny Young Bear
Charles Davenport
Young Bear
Edward Davenport
Horace
Willie Poweshick
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Washington
Moones Emerald Oil Advertises Varicose Vein Relief
An advertisement promotes Moone's Emerald Oil to reduce varicose veins and swelling. It urges asking for the original bottle at local drugstores and applying it twice daily, claiming rapid, penetrating action and long-lasting results.
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Moone
Mays Cut Rate Drug Store
Liggett’s
Honoring Baker and Boyd Amid Founders Day Messages
Congratulatory messages from educators nationwide flooded Iowa University after Conant Coffman speeches and Founders Day dinner. James R Angell of Yale praised political independence for colleges, highlighting the era’s importance. Des Moines attorney James B Weaver and Prof. Benjamin F Shambaugh attended the event.
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James B. Weaver
Des Moines
Benjamin F. Shambaugh
The
State Historical Society
Conant and Coffman
Conference On Higher Education
Moscow Flights Set To Grow With 400000 Passengers
Over the next three years more than 400,000 travelers are expected to fly via Moscow air routes according to estimates. Authorities project expanded routes and higher traffic to accommodate the rise in passengers.
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Moscow
Bayer Aspirin Gargle For Sore Throat Relief
A historical remedy suggests dissolving three Bayer Aspirin tablets in one third glass of water and gargling twice to numb and ease a sore throat. The ad claims instant relief and endorsement by doctors, urging purchase by full name and bulk pricing.
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Long Grove
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First Street
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Charlies Berdeny
Old Vienna
Alan Benedict
Elwood Young
Jean Minish
Vernon Kohl
Jack Pitlik
Howard Orms
Dale Eyestone
Robert Bryant
Alice Marie Bigger
Robert Fisher
Violetta Cook
Richard
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Winnifred Neal
Belle Plaine
Dorothy Ditzler
Belle Plaine High School
West Liberty
Hazel Gatton Wardlow
S. C. Snider Chapel
Horace A. Larsen
First Presbyterian Church
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Clarinda Reid
Bernice James
Pearl Nauman
L. H. Forsyth
Paul Anderson
Mike Sullivan
Donald Sullivan
L. V. Morris
Evelyn Mansfield
Marion Yavorsky
Ellen Steller
Morgan L. Morris
Hatt
Rotary Club
Commercial Cafe
R. L. Hancock
Sterling Visquain
W. W. Mattox
A. L. Taylor
Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce
Women's Relief Corps
W. T.johnson
Anna Sullivan
Myrtle Reynolds
Elizabeth Embree
Gertrude Case
Elizabeth Hines
Stella Johnson
John Passmore
Margaret Hayes
Hazel Hogan
Gertrude McGuire
Martha Miller
Theodore Schaapveld
Margaret Hilderbrand
Lulu Parks
Frank Lair
Hattie Owen
Emma Range
Margaret Gatton
Blairstown
Eldo Ebert
W. C. Stoll
Darelene Garling
Emil Furler
Henry Schultz
Charles Schultz
Bernice
Martin Krueger
Donald Newton
Lloyd Doerzman
Arnold Furler
George Ohlen
A. E. Schultz
Clarence Schultze
W. C. Stoll and Sons
H. J. Garling
Otto Shhaub
P. G. Young
Art Sick
William Schraeder
W. J. Doerzman
Lou Clausen
William Schaedlich
Fred Tiedemann
Roy Hartz
J. H. Schultz
Prairieburg
N. L. Floyd
Baker
Main Street
Flora Koch
Anamosa
Coggon
Central City
Hugh Hubbard Jennison
Hatchchapel
C. F. Stratton
Oak Hill Cemetery
Mr. Jennison
Knoxville
Laura Jennison
Canada
Alaska
Sixty-ninth Infantry
Hallie Belva Jennison
Russell O
Iraan
Texas
Marguerite Hoglan
Linn
Hoglan
Tri-Laura Circle
Olive Drexler
Naomi Henderson Baldwin
Baldwin Independent School
Kizer
Lyman Teeple
Edgewood
Phineas Wandell
Lodomille Township
Wandell
Anna Hesner
James Sauerbry
Strawberry Point
Worthy R. Robinson
Homer Lewis
Manchester
John Breed
Or. M. Miller
Breed
Mr. Breed
Jones County
Amos and
Eliza Breed
New York
Greenfield Township
Cora A. Burch
Wyoming
Oscar Miller
Knights of Pythias
Masonic Lodge
Presbyterian Church
Lorraine Rohrssen
Roberta Eck
Marsh Hovey
Frances Allen
Ed Thedens
Arnold Jensen
Doris Gates
L. G. Ham
van Baughman
Frances Hallman
Kinross
Bridget Moneghan
Burton Brounnd
Charles T Foley
SB Clirk
Ed Zrklebach
Scotch Grove
Od Jumenon
Fied Idaiken
Wapello
Louisa County
Ada Smith
Toolesboro
Helen Milligan
Washington Independent
Maxine Blankenhorn
Sandy Grove
Emma Shimak
Franklin
Lois Ross
Liberty
Twila Cornie
Louisa Center
Verlee Smith
Shellbark
Leila Williams
Old Clifton
Mamie Stapp
Pleasant View
Dorothy Edmondson
Prairie Point
Vera Wykert
Lone Star
Mary
Ellen Williams
Pitchin
Nadine Gabriel
Amity
Helen Aringdale
Oakland
Anna Boysen
Lyla McKean
Donald Johnson
McQueen
Imogene
Lintner
Westport
Pauline Johnson
Frog Pond
Rose Mary Schwab
Carson
Esther Murdock
Newport
Helen Kerr
Victory
Louise Mayer
Wapello Consolidated
Louise Chatterton
Wyman Consolidated
Norma Mae Davis
Columbus Junction
Harriet Lorena Fletcher
Harry Fletcher
Albert Carston Boysen
Thede Boysen
Cairo
Worthy
Pearl Kremer
Frances Harrington
Helen Miller
Blanche Pantel
Lucille Thomas
Dewitt
Iona Barber
Lee Barber
Virgil Steward
Guy Steward
Donohue
Davenport
J. A. Miller
Jessica Barber
Vernon Steward
Steward
Beulah Graves
Floyd Graves
Baldwin
Gilbert Seuss
Henry Seuss
Lost Nation
First Lutheran Church
Karl F. Weltner
Thelma Pape
Clark Gable
Mays Tea
Tota Allamanee Sesseccese
Benton See
Buchanan
Cran Roy
Clayton Aah
Clinton Eee
Dubuque
Delaware
Payette
Johnson
Jones Ee
Keokuk
Louisa
Poweshick
Winneshick Wee Eenes
Teenie
Willie Willis
Tama Indians
Vstop Hotel
New Health
Hot Springs National Park
Arkansas
Ozarks
Bruce E Wallace
Jothwest Hotels Incorporated
ISA
Sai
Honor Baker and Boyd
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