Inaugural Ball Draws Northeastern Iowans to Beardsley Reception
About 3 000 guests, from governors to farm workers, waited in line for hours to greet Iowa's new governor William Shane Beardsley at the statehouse inaugural reception. Attire ranged from sport clothes to full evening dress. Beardsley wore a dinner jacket and Lt. Gov Evans in full evening dress.
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ES Moines
Iowa
William Shane Beardsley
Robert Blue
Rourke Hickenlooper
George Wilson
Nelson Kraschel
Dan Turner
Blue
Beardsley
Eagle Grove
Kenneth Evans
Gus Kuester
Griswold
House
William Kruse
Charles City
Statehouse
Des Moines
Senate Chamber
Three Lind Brothers
Judy McLaren
Judy
Jack McLaren
Jack
Cedar Rapids
Christy Lou Foster
James W. Foster
Albia
Delbert Foster
Donnellson
Ludmil Prastka
8. L. Anderson
Anderson
Ernest Kosek
Kosek
Prastka
G. H. Oram
Oram
Harry Weichman
Newhall
William Beardsley
Weichman
Martha Martin Longtime Iowa Teacher Remembers Her Career
Martha Martin 72, a former teacher from Monroe No. 8 Linn County, Iowa, recalls starting at 16 with McGuffey readers and Ray arithmetic. She taught in Adams, Union, Johnson, and Linn counties, married Bert Martin in 1905, farmed 22 years, and later taught while her four children and eight grandchildren pursued educations and service. Her stories include subsistence wages, a school fire scare, and a lifelong vow to help children beyond the classroom.
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Adams
Union
Iowa
Johnson and Linn
Corning
Cromwell
Creston
Carbon
Bert Martin
Johnson County
Martin
Che
Monroe No. 8
Feen A Mint Laxative Chews Marketed As Pleasant Gum
An advertising pitch touts Feen A Mint laxative as a mint flavored gum that people chew. It claims chewing improves delivery and that the medicine acts gradually in the lower digestive tract without stomach upset. Price shown is 25 cents or 10 cents per dose.
Brucellosis Emerges as Major Public Health Threat
Among over 70 diseases transmissible from animals to humans brucellosis now ranks with sleep sickness and rabies as one of the three gravest risks to public health.
Fragmented Reader Notice in Murky Text
A garbled OCR snippet mentions authorities and lab tests on humane organic materials. It references a lab context, a potential medical or digestive topic, and a jumble of phrases about health, sleep, and products, with no clear event or outcome.
Fred L Northey 73 Dies in Waterloo After Stroke
Waterloo man Fred L Northey 73 retired as city assessor after 12 years in office died Saturday from a stroke suffered Christmas night. He long led the Northey Manufacturing Company makers of refrigerators. Funeral services are planned for Tuesday.
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Waterloo
Fred L Northey
Northey
Northey Manufacturing Company
Davene port Man Gets One Year Jail Term
Cleo Edward Martin, a Davennport resident with a long prison record, was sentenced to one year in Polk County jail after pleading guilty to larceny from a building for the 1944 Blackstone Jewelry Store holdup in Des Moines. He had earlier been jailed for robbery in Scott County and released this week before rearrest.
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Des Moines
Davene
Howard C. Reppert
Penitentiaries
Polk County
Cleo Edward Martin
O. S. Franklin
Martin
Blackstone
Davenport
Fort Madison State Penitentiary
Scott County
Reppert
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the Strawmans
Rep
C. M. Strawman
Mrs. Strawman of
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Wolts Grudlo
Richard Lee
Pyar
M. G. Mickelson
Oledo
Drake University
McGuffey
Ray
Martha Martin
Ford
Mrs. Martin
Martha Nessel Rode Martin
Linn County
King Cole
Fred L. Northey
Lowan
New
Hudson
Couns
Wathan Motor CO
Sid Street
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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