Corn Farm Revenue Greater This Year
Drought devastates planting yet raises corn prices with July at 95 cents and September at 91 cents on the Chicago exchange. State-by-state estimates show-wide variation as the drought thins harvest prospects across Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Illinois, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana. Farmers may haul two billion bushels valued around 1.86 billion dollars if prices hold.
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Chicago
America
United Press
Chicago Exchange
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Washington
Minnesota
Texas
Michigan
Wisconsin
Iowa
Ohio
Indiana
Former Slave, Now 102 Tops Old People's Picnic
Mrs. Harriett Brown aged 102 of 415 Seventh Avenue SE led the crowd at Bever Park as the oldest attendee at the twenty-eighth Sunshine Mission Old People's Reunion and Picnic. About 300 guests, including city council members, enjoyed food, music, and prizes from local merchants despite high heat.
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Harriett Brown
Seventh Avenue SE
Sunshine Mission
Bever Park
Brown
E. E. Doolittle
Valley Farm
Enoch F. Byng
Third Avenue SE
Henry Zimmerman
C Avenue
Mary Sheridan
Eighth Avenue
Thomas Rock
E Avenue NW
M. B. Dodge
Third Street
Willis Winn
Francis K. Ward
Frank H. Ward
H. M. Gage
Coe College
E. R. Robinson
Gage
Illinois corn crop down to about sixty five percent of normal
Heat and drought have cut Illinois corn crop to around 65 percent of normal. The Agriculture Department says the most severely damaged area has shifted to about a dozen southern counties. July assistance is not yet widely needed according to the forwarded report to Agricultural Secretary Wallace in Washington.
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Nebraska
T. A. Blair
U. S. Weather Bureau
A. E. Anderson
Illinois
A. J. Surratt
Springfield
Ill
State Department of Agriculture
Wallace
Washington
Cedar Rapids Assessed Values Show City Increase
City assessor Dom Feiereisen reports Cedar Rapids real estate and personal property rose by $491 261 from last year. The 1936 net assessable value stands at $52 702 537, with totals for monies and credits up to $19 836 795. Exemptions rose to $10 781 466 and no new real estate assessments were made this year.
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Cedar Rapids
Dom Feiereisen
Just Folks at Pointe Aux Barques
A man describes a working room tucked in a tree at Pointe Aux Barques where birds stare like zoo spectators. The birds seem to speculate on the narrator’s desire for liberty as onlookers Johnny Wren and Jennie watch with mock concern. Kaloupek suffers severe cuts operating a threshing machine on Emil Nebendahl farm after the feeder drops on his head. he receives stitches at a doctor’s office.
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Pointe Aux Barques
Johnnie Wren
Jennie
Elberon
E. J. Kaloupek
Emil Nebendahl
Iowa Volunteers Meet Thursday Night at V F W Hall
City briefs note a Thursday 8 pm Iowa Volunteers gathering at the V F W hall on First street SW above the police station. A child, David Rank, 6, of 715 Ninth Avenue SW, fractured his left wrist after a fall at home Wednesday evening. A Marvin Cone painting of bluffs and a placid stream is now hung in the Guaranty Bank and Trust Company lobby. C W Brandon, 219 Sixth Street SE, received a 30 day jail sentence after pleading guilty to intoxication in police court Thursday.
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Iowa
V. F. W. Hall
First Street
David Rank
Ninth Avenue
Marvin Cone
Guaranty Bank and Trust Company
C. W. Brandon
Sixth Street
Hutchinson and Petrus Attend Des Moines Democratic Convention
Walter R. Hutchinson assistant United States attorney and Joseph Petrus United States deputy marshal are in Des Moines attending the state Democratic convention.
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Walter R. Hutchinson
United States
Joseph Petrus
Des Moines
Zoological pilgrimage talk at High Twelve meeting
Homer R. Dill director of the University of Iowa museum of natural history will speak on a Zoological pilgrimage 800 miles into Old Mexico at the High Twelve club meeting Friday noon at Hotel Roosevelt.
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Homer R. Dill
Museum of Natural History
University of Iowa
Old Mexico
High Twelve Club
Hotel Roosevelt
City Playgrounds Host Horse Shoes And Paddle Tennis Tourney
A city wide event unfolds at Daniels park playground this Friday at 2 p m featuring junior and senior contests in boys paddle tennis singles and doubles and girls paddle tennis singles and doubles, plus boys horseshoes. champions from each class advance to city honors.
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Daniels Park
Fire crews extinguish grass blaze and sidewalk cigarette fire
Fire company No. 3 doused a grass fire at Shaver road and G avenue NE at 4 32 p.m. Wednesday. Company No. 1 responded to the Ninth avenue bridge at 6 57 p.m. Wednesday when a cigaret stub set the sidewalk alight. A short circuit in W Sleight’s automobile drew fire company No. 6 to Fifth avenue and Twelfth street SE at 11 34 p.m. Wednesday.
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Shaver Road
G Avenue
Ninth Avenue Bridge
W. Sleight
Fifth Avenue
Twelfth Street SE
Purse With $4 Stolen Reported
Mrs. Winnabell Smothers of 523 Fifth Street SE reported Thursday morning that a coin purse containing four dollars was stolen from her.
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Winnabell Smothers
Fifth Street
Missing Key Found After Tuesday Robbery At Smothers Home
Mrs Smothers reported a burglary Tuesday afternoon at the Smothers home. The purse held 4 in currency and the door was locked with a key hidden, but Mr Homer C Smothers found the key in the door when he returned Tuesday evening.
Surrender of Driver's License Or Fine in Police Court
Ray Murdock pled guilty to speeding and had fine and costs suspended in exchange for surrendering his driving license for thirty days. Ray Rundquist and G. J. Lorenzon paid $1 fines with costs for improper parking while Mrs. Mary Figg paid $1 and costs for overtime parking.
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Ray Murdock
Fifth Avenue SE
Murdock
Ray Rundquist
Thirty-fourth Street Drive
G. J. Lorenzen
B Avenue NE
Mary Figg
Grande Avenue SE
City Council Bans Stock Trucks Parking Unless Empty and Clean
The council passed on final reading an ordinance prohibiting parking of livestock or poultry trucks on city streets unless empty and clean. The measure also bans loading and unloading on streets. Safety Commissioner Benesh questioned delivery impact, but City Attorney Hines said the intent is to curb transfers between trucks.
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W. C. Benesh
Don Hines
Memorial Fountain Receives Quarter-Century Cleaning
Local residents who use the memorial fountain at the old post office corner welcomed a 25 year cleaning by city workers. The stone base and brass plate honoring the Daughters of the American Revolution were scrubbed with an acid cleaning solution to remove the dirt.
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Daughters of the American Revolution
Cogdall Heads to Fort Snelling for C M T C Duty
Thomas E. Cogdall departed Wednesday for Fort Snelling Minnesota to serve as second lieutenant during the C M T C period. He was accompanied by Mrs. Cogdall. Cogdall is among the officers directing the Keosauqua CCC camp.
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Lisbon
Thomas E. Cogdall
Fort Snelling
Minn
Cogdall
Lieut. Cogdall
Keosauqua
Oiling of Dirt Streets Questions Powder Dust Belief
Public improvement commissioner Dave Williams notes oiling dirt streets only reduces dust and does not create a macadam like surface. City council approves oiling for sixteen more street sections including Seventeenth Avenue SW from B to C and A Street SW from Seventeenth to Nineteenth.
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Public Improvement Department
Dave Williams
Williams
Seventeenth Avenue
B Street
C Street
Nineteenth Avenue
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M. E
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Edgar A Guest
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Killias
Sale Price Flat Deck Canvas Co
KiLlian
the Killian Co. Summer Furniture Savings
Geo. A. Nassif
Lilahan
Dergazin
Hai Ching
Kandahar
Sparta
Kazak
The
Killian CO
Oriental Rug Shop
Killian Company
Corella
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