Former Traer Man Plunges To Death In Chicago Hotel
Raymond Kennedy a 40 year old cattle buyer formerly of Traer Iowa fell from a tenth floor window of the Sheridan Plaza in Chicago after a troubled divorce. He struck the iron facade and died on the sidewalk. Kennedy worked for C E Nixin and company at Union stockyards and was staying at the hotel with relatives nearby. He is survived by his parents a sister Nellie and four brothers. His wife had divorced him about a year earlier on a charge of drunkenness with no children reported.
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Chicago
Raymond Kennedy
Traer
North Side
Frank McKune
Sheridan Road
Kennedy
C. E Nixin and Company
Union Stockyards
Sheriday Plaza
McKane
Edward Kane
Marie Leonard
Auife
Gazette Traer
Mike Kennedy
Trner
Nellie Kennedy
Marshalltown
Joseph
Conrad
Paul
Iowa City
Edward
Ralph
West Liberty
Fred Lehman
Harold Lehman
Sacramento
Francis
Rosanna Zimmerli Lehman
Cedar County
Lillie Rose Weyer
New Jersey
Grace Nicks
Charles E
Owen, Wis
Donald Morrison
Letts
Pierrie
Marvin Morrison
Florence Lehman
Percy Lehman
Charles Hunt
Washington
Denver
Thomas
John
West Branch
Oak Ridge Cemetery
W W. Anderson
Frank Weber
E C Kerr
A L. Dice
C. A. Nichols
Fritz Jensen
Unidentified Man Found Dead in Perry Creek Sioux City
Woodbury county authorities seek to identify a roughly dressed man about 45 found with a deep head wound and a discolored eye in Perry Creek. Coroner Kingston believes he was slugged and left there, noting a tailor's mark on his trousers as the only clue.
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Sioux City
Woodbury
Perry Creek
J M . Kingston
Kingston
Oldest Resident of Colesburg Dead at 96
Mary Anne Adams, 96, Colesburg's oldest resident, died after a stroke. Born in Rockford Illinois on March 24 1841 she moved to Colesburg as a child and later married W S Adams in 1862. Surviving children include William George Katherine Wordehoff and Margaret Moser. Funeral at St Patrick's church.
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Colesburg
Mary Anne Adams
Katherine Wordehoff
Margaret Moser
Colesbury
Margaret Lewis
Greeley
St. Patrick's Church
Father Mayer
Walker
Henry Grant
Coggan
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Louisville
Mary Ann Cosgrove
Iowa
Henry
Ryan
Charles
Red Lodge
Mont
Patrick
Cedar Rapids
John
S. D
Delia
Monti
LA Porte City
Zeb
J. W. Craft Wayne Longaker
Mr. Craft
Manchester
Silver Creek
F. C Grieve
Margaret Carrothers
Delaware County
Carrothers
William R. Carrothers
Robinson
W. R Carrothers
Waterloo
Edna
William Robinson
Roy Emerson
Leslie T Carrothers
Pine Plain
No Y
Anthony W. Carrothers
Oakdale
Robert L. Carrothers
Victor T. Carrothers
William B. Robinson
Van Horne Couple Wed In Cedar Rapids Ceremony
Ivadel Hagen of Van Horne became the bride of Harold Pickering of Van Horne at Trinity Lutheran church Cedar Rapids in a double ring ceremony. Rev P L Bornhoeft officiated. The couple will reside on the bridegroom’s father’s farm near Van Horne.
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van Horne
Ivadel Hagen
Fred Hagen
Harold Pickering
William Pickering
Trinity Lutheran Church of
Cedar Rapids
P. L. Bornhoeft
June Hagen
Jerome Greene
Pickering
Mrs. Pickering
Colesburg
Marjorie Barnhart
Harry Barnhart
Julius Moser
Mary Moser
St Paul's Lutheran Church
Garnaville
Warder
Kathleen
Cyril Nell
Florida
Maquoketa Marrying Parson Handles 46 Ceremonies in 1937
In Maquoketa the Rev H I Dill earned the nickname marrying parson after conducting 46 marriages in 1937 with 26 between Oct 1 and Dec 31 Justice Clifford Miller read 30 ceremonies that year. Jackson County licensed 214 couples in 1937, 140 after July 1, including 28 licenses to Illinois couples and 12 to Wisconsin couples.
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Maquoketa
H. I Dill
Clifford Miller
Don Sagers
Jackson County
Ilinois
Wisconsin
Illinois
Iowa
Tribute Follows Death Of Professor Sidney Chandler
Community and Cornell college mourn the Mount Vernon sociology professor and former mayor Dr Sidney L Chandler. Funeral services were held Sunday and burial Monday at Odebolt as faculty and students recalled his teaching ministry and human approach. The memorial service at the chapel united students and faculty with remarks from Dr Burgstahler and Dr Keyes, and a violin solo closed the observance.
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Mount Vernon
Sidney L. Chandler
Cornell College
Odebolt
Lloyd A Gustafson
Methodist Church
Chandler
Charles R Keyes
Cornell
H J Burgstahler
Franklin Cole
South Bend
H. C Lane
Wordsworth
Burgstahler
Karl Andrist
Eugene Devereaux
Dubuque Nurse Weds Iowa City Speech Professor
The marriage of Miss Marie Meyer of Dubuque to Q A Dieter of Iowa City was announced by Rev and Mrs C Meyer of Oelwein. The ceremony occurred in Dubuque on December 27. The bride worked at Finley Hospital and the groom is a professor of speech at the University of Iowa.
Rural Iowa towns record 1937 marriages and deaths
Buchanan county issued 190 marriage licenses in 1937, with 23 divorces mostly to wives. January had 9 licenses and June 23. Multiple city notices report marriages in Independence Oxford Junction Maquoketa Colesburg and Manchester, with deaths of Marshall F Cook 55 near Maquoketa and Margaret Carrothers 78 in Delaware county and tributes to other locals.
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Independence
Buchanan County
Eleanor Stewart
Clara Stewart
Charles H. Behrens
Christina Behrens
Fort Atkinson
Supreme Oracle of Royal Neighbors Dies in Davenport
Mrs Mary E Arnholt 72 supreme oracle of the Royal Neighbors of America died at St Luke s hospital Davenport after an appendicitis operation Funeral services planned for 2 p m Tuesday She had led the society since 1926 and served in Illinois Kentucky and Indiana before joining the supreme board of auditors in 1914 Survived by a niece and two nephews Her husband died in 1931.
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Davenport
Mary E. Arnholt
Supreme Oracle
The
Royal Neighbors of America
St. Luke’s Hospital
Arnholt
Illinois
Kentucky
Indiana
Supreme Board of Auditors
Peoria
Marie Kippenhan 93 Oldest Amana Woman Dies
Funeral services for Mrs. Marie Kippenhan of Homestead were held Sunday after a lingering illness. She leaves a daughter Mrs. Frank Querry of Decatur Illinois two sons John Kippenhan Homestead and Henry Kippenhan Decatur six grandchildren and one great grandchild. She was 93 years old and the Amana Society's oldest woman.
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Amana
Marie Kippenhan
Homestead
Frank Querry
Decatur
Ill
John Kippenhan
Henry Kippenhan
Kippenhan
Amana Society
Award $1500 in Iowa City auto death suit
A sealed verdict in district court awarded the Louis R. Scott estate $1500 damages in a $15000 auto accident suit against John Gorman. Scott was fatally injured August 7 1936 in an alley when Gorman's parked car started downhill and pinned him against a truck he was unloading.
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Iowa City
Louis R. Scott
John Gorman
Scott
Gorman
Columbus Junction Alumni Banquet Honors Local Figures
The annual alumni banquet in Columbus Junction featured talks by William Dunn, Miss Daisy Kemp, Miss Mary Leafy Edwards, and Richard Jenkins. Officers elected: Miss Gwendolyn Arthur president, Miss Marie Jones vice president, Gomer Owen secretary-treasurer. Glen Quigley retires. The Cotter Presbyterian Ladies Aid served the dinner and the 1938 event will be held during the holidays.
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Columbus Junction
Ladies’ Aid Society
Cotter Presbyterian Church
R. L Amsberry
Marengo
William Dunn
Daisy Kemp
Conesville
Mary Leafy Edwards
Richard Jenkins
Gwendolyn Arthur
Marie Jones
Gomer Owen
Glen Quigley
Des Moines Policeman Hit by Furnace Shell Barrage
Des Moines police radio operator Hugh Glassburn faced an artillery barrage from his own furnace on Sunday. He reportedly tossed a bag of old shotgun shells into the furnace with New Year's gadgets and confetti. No injuries occurred though brickwork in the firebox was damaged.
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Des Moines
Hugh Glassburn
Glassburn
Two Polk County inmates die of drinking party
Polk County coroner said two home inmates William Faris and Charles Berry died from alcoholic poisoning after a weekend drinking party. Elmer Allen was in serious condition while John Fahey recovered. Fahey said the alcohol was bluish in color and diluted with water.
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Des Moines
A. E. Shaw
Polk County
Shaw
William Faris
Charles Berry
Elmer C. Allen
John Fahey
Fahey
West Liberty Fire Contained After Chimney Flare
West Liberty fire company answered a call Sunday to the R. R. Carpenter residence where a defective chimney caused a rafter fire. Loss was slight. The home belongs to Mrs. Mary Hindee of Cedar Rapids. Conesville elected Amos Owen president of the union young people's society of the Methodist and Grace Evangelical and Reformed churches. Other officers include Ruth Walker Jack Jean Charles Buser Alice Cox and Edith Wolford in various secretary treasurer roles.
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West Liberty
West Liberty Fire Company
R. R. Carpenter
Mary Hindee
Cedar Rapids
Conesville
Amos Owen
Union Young People’s Society
Methodist and Grace Evangelical and Reformed
Ruth Walker
Jack Jean
Charles Buser
Alice Cox
Edith Wolford
Farmer Aids Motorist, Then Robbed Near Sioux City
A Good Samaritan, Ed Yeager, helped a motorist whose car overturned. The same man robbed Yeager of $50 and his car at gunpoint as he left the city limits. Police found the abandoned wreck in the business district.
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Sioux City
INS
Ed Yeager
Yeager
Hardin County's Last Civil War Vet Dies After Flight at 100
Alden resident Amariah Chandler died at 100 after a plane ride near Des Moines two months earlier he said he longed to fly and could now die happy. The longtime Civil War veteran passed away Sunday from complications of a cold. Bess E. Sherman reports Jones County recorder activity rose in 1937 with 5 105 instruments issued an increase of 535 from 1936 deeds mortgages chalels releases and miscellaneous business totaling 2318 45.
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Hardin County
ALDEN
INS
Amariah Chandler
Des Moines
Chandler
Anamosa
Bess E. Sherman
Jones County Recorder
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Frances Smith
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Kenneth Boots
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Clinton County
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Mae Shattuck
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Lost Nation
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Nampa
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Charles G Hildebrand
Karl F Weltner
Mount Hope Cemetery
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Oskaloosa
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Dubuque
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Wapello Community Club
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G W. Oakes
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A J. Williamson
E. O. Woodruff
Martha Wachs
L. E. Weber
Paxson's
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