Marion News Plan Family Dinner
Marion residents host and attend a flurry of family gatherings for the Fourth of July with multiple houses hosting relatives from Baltimore Ot tumwa Martello Center Point Cedar Rapids Minneapolis and other cities. The events include birthday observances and park picnics while church groups plan game nights and a DeMolay founders conference sends a member to Kansas City.
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George Clark
Eighth Avenue
Clark
O. ‘P. Clark
Springville
Margaret Clark
Center Point
Theodore Clark
Cedar Rapids
Wanda
Marjorie
Floyd Ireland
Denver
R. M. ‘Clark
Frances
Marion
Lewis C. Harlan
The
Order of DeMolay
Kansas City
Thomas Park
Richard and
Sadie Strait
Stark
Doris Stark
Central City
la Porte
Ind
Marshalltown
Lisbon
Benjamin Holbert of Cedar Falls Is Dead
Benjamin Holbert 49 of Cedar Falls died of a heart attack Monday forenoon at his mother Elma Holbert's Manchester home. Survived by a son Benjamin in Rockford Ill. and three sons from a second marriage, two brothers Thomas and Louis Holbert of Greeley, two sisters Mrs. Paul Caswell Cherokee and Mrs. Marjorie Ryan Manchester, and his mother.
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Benjamin Holbert
Cedar Falls
Elma Holbert
Benjamin
Rockford, Ill
Thomas
Louis Holbert
Greeley
Paul Caswell
Marjorie Ryan
Reader pays subscription for 52 years with wood
Henry M. Thomas of Evening Shade has paid his yearly subscription to the Sharp County Record with a load of wood for 52 consecutive years. While living in Oklahoma he had a relative deliver the annual wood allotment. Editor O C Shaver joked about a future pension when Thomas brings his hundredth load.
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Evening Shade
Ark
Henry M. Thomas
Sharp, Ark
Oklahoma
O. C. Shaver
Mississippi River Stages Report From Davenport Area
Davenport and surrounding stations show river stages with minor changes. Keokuk and Dubuque display small falls continuing, while La Crosse and Davenport remain near recent readings. Authorities track shifts at Dubuque Dubuque and St. Louis area readings to assess flood risk.
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Davenport
Hastings
Eae
la Crosse
Austria's Schuschnigg recalls decline and fate of nation
New York dispatch outlines Kurt Schuschnigg's My Austria a vivid personal history of German Austria from prewar culture to the March 1938 invasion. The book notes his protective arrest and possible treason charges, with Dorothy Thompson providing a stark intro and pages from Schuschnigg's diary.
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Knopf
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Heis
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Europe
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Pioneering Spirit Fails to Spur to Canton Enderbury
Secretary Ickes notes midwestern letters urging settlers to Canton and Enderbury are impractical. Islands lack harbors, soil, and water access for farming or tourism. Hawaiian youth administration would staff any colony, but the sites are barren and unsuitable for agriculture or a South Sea paradise.
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Harold Ickes
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Enderbury
Pacific Islands
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Kansas
Department of the Interior
Middle West
Pacific Ocean
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Division of Territories
New American Islands
South Sea
Canton Islands
Enderbury Island
United States
Kamehemeha School
Honolulu
New Zealand
Tahiti
Riviera
New French Rookie Stamps British Sergeant
George Ham merton, 19, of the Royal Fusiliers from Middlesex, is said to be the only man in the British army to escape a telling-off from a sergeant. A French butcher boy who came to England joined the army and spoke no English, forcing the squad sergeant to demonstrate rifle and drill movements.
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George Hammerton
Royal Fusiliers
Middlesex
Hammerton
England
Hollywood Hypnotist Held in Glendale Murder Case
Robert Gilbert, a Hollywood hypnotist, was held on suspicion of murder in Glendale California after the death of Marie Colombos 23 year old bartender's wife.
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Calif
Robert Gilbert
Marie Colombos
Explosion at Fourth celebration in Manchester home
Alfred A. Cote lit a kitchen stove on a chilly night before the Fourth. An explosion followed when his wife says she stored the children's fireworks in the oven. The item mixes in with a separate property deed noting joint tenancy among Edmund F. and Helen C. Fuegen with survivor rights, and a small real estate valuation.
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N. H
Alfred A. Cote
Misler Curtis
Edmund F
Helen C. Fuegen
W.d
Young
Male Students Form War on Flirting Coeds at Kent State
Kent State University men banded to curb dating tricks by coeds. The Men’s Protective Association, formed by two male students, gives lists of offenses to rate dates. A four judge board reviews each case, and if warranted the coed’s name is placed on a monthly blacklist warning men to avoid or face a penalty.
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Kent, O
INS
Kent State University
Men's Protective Association
Jail 15 Sanctuary for Human Derelict in Honolulu
Delano Saavedra, a 25 year old Spanish national, was released from immigration custody in Hawaii after a long detour through New York and San Francisco. He pled guilty to first degree burglary for stealing two chocolate bars and was sentenced to up to 20 years, with a three month minimum. He now serves three months in a jail sanctuary, then returns to stateless limbo.
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Saavedra
Fernando Po
Africa
Macao
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China
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Francisco Franco
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Patent Granted For Light Bulb Without Filament
Washington UPI reports Rene A Coastal of St. Maur France has patented a light bulb that never burns out unless broken. The bulb lacks a resistance unit and glows from a chemical coating inside the glass, activated by high frequency high voltage electricity. Coastal says the bulbs could best serve street lighting applications.
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Rene A. Coastal
St. Maur
France
Coastal
Raw Egg Sale Law Revealed At Boston Hearing
In Boston it is illegal to sell a raw egg on Sunday unless the buyer eats it on the premises. If the egg is fried boiled or poached the purchaser may take it home without legal reprisal. This quirk surfaced at a recent license board hearing.
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