A Gush from V oil ga parody and local notes
A Volga area oil parody from Zita Humbert is shared with local readers noting test wells and oil hopes. The column also mentions wedding counts in 1951 at the Little Brown Church, Tama county settlement history, and early settlers Osborn Dean and sons with land bids of $1.25 an acre.
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Volga
Zita Humbert
Little Brown
Nashua
F. L. Hanscom
North Tama County
Traer
Navy Veteran Collects War Relics From Six Conflicts
ALGONA Iowa AP Young Dick Strayer a 22 year old navy veteran claims to hold the largest war memorial collection in Iowa outside the state society. His 400 plus items span six wars from the Revolutionary era to World War II with items like a Berchtesgaden room key and a Pearl Harbor era pennies.
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Algona
Dick Strayer
Algona Navy
Iowa Historical Society
the Society
Strayer
Oklahoma
Pearl Harbor
Minnesota
Cuba
Asia
Germany
France
Sedlacek plan for Iowa alcoholics centers discussed
The article outlines Dr. Sedlacek's Iowa plan to rehabilitate alcoholics via district 10-bed hospitals, local judges referring cases, and eventual state 100-bed facilities. It emphasizes community support, Alcoholics Anonymous, and funding from liquor profits, contrasting it with dry movements and urging treatment over jail.
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Alcoholics Anonymous
Iowa
Sedlacek
Cedar Rapids
State Employes Organization Rules Outline
State Employes continues from Page 1 with rules restricting membership to non-elective full time state workers of six months' service. Chapters may form outside Des Moines at the association's discretion. Members who show intent to abandon the association's aims may face expulsion. Five standing committees are created: legal housing legislative publicity and grievance. The grievance committee handles member complaints.
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Des Moines
Battista to Perform Second Decorah Community Concert
American pianist Joseph Battista will present the second Decorah Community Concert at Luther College on Thursday. Battista is noted coast to coast for his keyboard achievements and has appeared with major orchestras in Boston and Philadelphia. His tours include Brazil, Canada and Mexico, and the event is sponsored by the Decorah Community Concert Association.
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Decorah
Joseph Battista
Luther College
Battista
Boston
Philadelphia
Symon
Brazil
Canada
Mexico
Central City Legion Auxiliary Sings at Linn County Home
A group of Central City American Legion auxiliary women visited the Linn county home Friday night and presented a musical program. Lunch followed the performance.
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Central City
American Legion Auxiliary
Linn County
Cornell Students Readied for TB X Rays
Cornell college students faculty and administration will undergo tuberculosis X rays Monday and Tuesday as a follow up for those who reacted positively to earlier patch tests. The state mobile X ray unit will visit the campus to perform the examinations.
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MT. Vernon
Cornell College
State Mobile
Meat Plant Workers Again Desert Jobs
About 300 CIO packinghouse workers walked off in Sioux City protests over a six cent hourly wage offer. Swift and Company workers left again after briefly returning. Armour and Company saw about 100 walkouts for the second day. A union spokesman called the action a spontaneous protest against the lousy wage offer.
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Sioux City
CIO Packinghouse
Swift and Company
Armour and Company
Methodists Plan to Recruit 1000 New Missionaries
The Woman's Division of Christian Service of the Methodist church announces plans to recruit over 1,000 missionaries for home and foreign fields. President Mrs. Frank G. Brooks of Mt. Vernon Iowa led the preliminary session of the annual board of missions and church extension meeting in Buck Hill Falls January 15 to 19. The PTA in Victor will meet Monday at the schoolhouse with a program scheduled.
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Buck Hill Falls
Woman's Division of Christian Service
The
Methodist Church
Frank G. Brooks
Mt. Vernon
Methodist Board of Missions and Church Extension
Iowa Briefs Local officers named and water use reported
Rebekah lodge officers are Mrs. Ernest i Mrs. Ross secretary Mrs. Nelson Taylor treasurer Mrs and Mrs Jo Edna Van Etten recorder Ruth Franck receiver Olsen chancellor and Julia Wal. Water superintendent Carl Selland reports Decorah pumped 153 421 227 gallons in 1951 averaging 425 892 daily enough for 69 per person. Judge G B Rich ter renames Sherman Hart to Allamakee County Insane Commission. Professor Woody Thompson and Wendell Smith will address West Branch Commercial club. Mrs Clair Kress installed as worthy matron of OES Quasqueton with Otto Sorensen Clyde Kimball Guy Reed Leora Turner Verle Kress Ray Helt. Joseph Benesh receives 50 year Masonic certificate in Zenith lodge 581. Clayton county issued 710 hunting licenses and 6 143 instruments recorded in 1951. Dr B J Dillon named county home physician Waukon. Band Boosters to stage home talent show Jan 23. Kiwanis elect Andrew Olson president and Merlin Kruger secretary treasurer. Frank B Cizek to open tavern Feb 1. Milo Orris leaves Louisa County National Bank for Sitler Auto Parts in Washington.
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Rebekah Lodge
Ernest i
Ross
Nelson Taylor
Edna van Etten
Ruth Franck
Olsen
Julia Wal
Carl Selland
Decorah
Waukon
G. B. Richter
Sherman Hart
Allamakee County Insane Commission
West Branch
CG Woody Thompson
Bureau of Business and Economic Research
University of Iowa
Wendell Smith
SUI Marketing Division
West Branch Commercial Club
Municipal Hall
Quasqueton
Clair Kress
O.E.S
Otto Sorensen
Clyde Kimball
Guy Reed
Leora Turner
Verle Kress
Ray Helt
Chelsea
Joseph Benesh
Masonic J
Zenith Lodge
A.F
A.M
Eleader
Columbus Junction
Milo Orris
Louisa County National Bank
Sitler’s Auto Parts
Washington
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Mister Orr
Rockefellers
Iowa” Alley
Navy
Kossuth
Adolf Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Edward Wolf
Wolf
Hitler
Dunkirk
Dr. Sedlacek
Jackson
Sykes
Chicago
Montrose
Fairfax
Highway 149
Cornell
Methodists
Victor
PTA
Iowa Briefs
Alue
the Syndicate
Midway
Hockmeyer
First Avenue
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