Prohibition Ends as Iowa State Liquor Stores Open
Eighteen years after prohibitions ended, Iowa opens state liquor stores in five cities including Des Moines Marshalltown and Atlantic. First bottle sold in Des Moines to W C Harbach for 2 75, with minimal rush elsewhere as customers study orders and a guard with a machine gun accompanies a liquor shipment. The Iowa Temperance council asks that dry counties be kept free of stores.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Marshalltown
Oclwein
Mason City
Atlantic
Liquor Commission
Des Peeing
Sysem
W. C. Harbach
Repeal For Prosperity Committee
Harbach
Dick R. Lane
State Liquor Control Commission
State Liquor Warehouse
Iowa Temperance Council
Council
Jasper Marshall Page
Mahaska
George Redington Pioneer Dies at 100 in Vinton
Funeral set for Wednesday at 4 p.m. in Christian church for George Redington 100 year old Benton county pioneer who died Monday at his daughter's home after six weeks bed rest. He witnessed Iowa development from 1834 to 1934 and served as a Civil War era 100-day man. He was born in Indiana and moved west via Covered wagons and later rail to Benton county. He married Mary Howell in Greensburg and three children survive in Vinton.
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Vinton
George Redington
Benton County
Christian Church
W. W. Williams
Evergreen Cemetery
Redington
Lizzie Vinlou
New West
America
Franklin County
Indiana
Iowa
Mississippi
Bear Creek
George
Greensburg
Mary Howell
Mary
Hfe
Wilford
Marshalltown
Marengo
Cedar Rapids
Alice Donley
Will Redington
Plan Unsealing Of Corn In Cedar Co
Tipton officials discuss unsealing corn from cribs under new government rules. Farmers could release part of sealed corn by paying 47 cents per bushel plus interest to federal authorities.
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Cedar Co
Sperin
Gazette
Tipton
Cedar County Warehouse Board
Elks Of Iowa Begin Session At Oelwein
Delegations from thirty four Iowa Elks lodges registered in Oelwein for the Twenty ninth annual convention held Tuesday through Thursday in Decorah plans for the 1936 state gathering were outlined A parade Thursday afternoon will feature 200 Fiks in the Decorah contingent plus Junior drum and bugle corps and the municipal band Local ceremonies opened with an address of welcome by Mayor Leon C Knapp and remarks by President Harry C Phillips of Keokuk and Exalted Ruler C J O'Brien of Elks Lodge No ...
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Borer
Tresazerre Oelwein
Elks Lodges
Iowa
Oelwein
Decorah
I- 15
Hotel Meay
Leon C Knapp
Harry C Phillips
Keokuk
J O'Brien
Orlwein Elks
Stage Folk Attend Hal Skelly Rites
Funeral services were held at the Church of St. Malachy for Hal Skelly Broadway celebrity killed in a Saturday automobile crash near West Cornwall Connecticut The body will go to Davenport Iowa for burial with a Chicago viewing 8 to 10 p m CST A Lambs club quartet sang at the service among many stage figures present including Arthur Hammerstein and George Nash
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New York
Church of St. Malachy
Hal Skelly
Broadway
West Cornwall
God
Jack Patten
Loretta Marks
of Skelly
Larry Lloyd
Gerald Griffen
Hugh O'Connell Spink
R.G Carlin
Major Merwin Lee Earl Benham
Ina Williams
Lee Carillo
George Buck
Arthur Hammerstein
Hiram Blumendale
George Nash
Walter C Kelley
Eighty Descendants Gather for Norway Pioneer Birthday
Eighty descendants of Joseph Boddicker gathered at his Norway home for Father’s Day. The 83 year old immigrant from Germany lived on a St Clair township farm before moving to Norway fifteen years ago. Numerous relatives from Watkin, Newhall, Cedar Rapids, and other nearby towns attended a large family reunion at the pioneer’s residence.
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Norway
Joseph Boddicker
Mr Boddicker
Benton County
Germany
St Clair Township
Antil
Watkins
John Walters
John Boddicker
Frank Boddicker
Matt Boddicker
Oscar Pickart
Clarence Walter
Eldred Brecht
Gerald McNulty O
Berthold Brecht
Art Nedon
Newhall
Joe G Boddicker
Winthrop
Henry Schutte
Edna Snell
Ed Houser
William Potter
Walford
Troy
Jacob Floyd
Harry Price
Cedar Rapids
Andrew Johnston
Arington
Myr
Dale Floyd
Arlington
Pred Floyd
Coggan
Murry Caldwell
Waterloo
Eric Perry
Clark Floyd
Floyd
Clyde Chesmore
Troy Muils
Kraschel Defends Iowa Tax Law at Churdan Picnic
Lieutenant Governor Nels G. Kraschel attacked critics of Iowa's three point tax bill at a Churdan community picnic. He argued the sales tax is a replacement tax and said the law will generate about 20 million dollars annually, easing property taxes and aiding home ownership.
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Churdan
Nels G. Kraschel
Iowa
Kraschel
Economic security the only path to happy family life
Prof Paul Douglas of the University of Chicago told the eighth annual child welfare conference in Iowa City that economic security through jobs or unemployment insurance is essential for happy family life in the United States. He said psychiatrists and mental hygiene specialists cannot re establish the social foundation without securing economic stability.
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Iowa City
United States
Paul Douglas
University of Chicago
Chicago Economist
Amana smokestack dismantling saves old brickwork
Workers lowered the 80 foot Amana print works smokestack by a tin roofing chute to prevent brick breakage during dismantling. The chimney, unused since the Amana Society stopped calico printing nearly twenty years ago, stood for 95 years. The vacant building now houses a furniture factory fed by power from the woolen mill.
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Amana
Amana Society
Print Works
Thirteen Picnic Party Struck by Lightning Near Urbana
A Cedar River area picnic of thirteen people seeks shelter when a lightning bolt hits a cabin. A basketball sized fireball explodes inside two feet from several, injuring none but causing shocks and heat sensations. Two trees burn as bystanders recount the event and list attendees from Urbana and nearby Lauder and Cedar Falls.
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Urbana
Cabin
Cedar River
Here
J. A. Maxson
Cedar Falls
Ed Moore
Helen
C. D. Moore
Robert
Mary E. Moore
Ora Jones
D. A. Moore
Charles
Lauder
Wyo
Herbert C. Moore
Williamsburg Pastor and Family Hurt in Ohio Crash
The Rev. George E. Meyer pastor of the Congregational church at Williamsburg Indiana suffered forehead lacerations. His wife and two daughters Meriam 12 and Betty 19 were bruised in an automobile collision in Columbus Ohio Tuesday. Meriam sustained a hip injury and cuts.
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Columbus, O
George E. Meyer
Congregational Church
Williamsburg
Turner Wins GOP Nomination in Iowa Primary by 13 985 Margin
Official canvass shows Dan W. Turner 36.8 percent to lead four candidates for governor with a 13 985 vote margin over Robert W. Calflesh. Gov Clyde L. Herring tops the Democratic governor field, Hanson prevails for state auditor, while Frank M. Hanson 155 373 leads Mee Glothlen 81 143 for auditor. Tama obituary notes Mrs Charles G Blythe dies after illness Pneumonia listed as immediate cause.
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DES Moines
Dan“W. Turner
State Executive Council
Turner
Robert W. Calflesh
Clyde L. Herring
Frank M. Hanson
Garner
E. B. McGlothlen
Calflesh
Knutson
Short
Herring
Finch
Zylestra
Hanson
Mee
Glothlen
State Auditor Co
W. Storms
Tama
Charles G. Blythe
Iowa City
Robert J. Blythe
Ethel Blythe
J. C. Child
Toledo
Robert
Norma Jean Blythe
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Benton Pioneer
Elks of
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Don Roth
Merry
California Ramblers
Davenport
Amana Thrift
Lightning Bolt
Ohio
Southland
Turkey
Greece
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