Maquoketa Sentinel celebrates centennial milestone
The Jackson Sentinel marks 100 years serving Maquoketa with a 160 page centennial issue and a June 11 press finale. Detailed features cover county history, local clubs, churches, schools, industry and rural life. The paper notes its status as Iowa’s second oldest weekly and outlines ownership lineage from Swigert to Browns to Melvold.
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Naquoketa
Jackson Sentinel
Maquoketa
Sentinel
Iowa
Tipton
Margaret Butler
Maquoketa Sentinel
Swigert
George
Carlyle
Robert T. Melvold
Maquoketa Community Press
Maquoketa Newspapers
Press
Jackson County
Charles Nigg
Bunny Hicks
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
Nigg
Los Angeles
Deadline July 1 for tax exemption claims
Des Moines reports state officials warn veterans and property owners that July 1 is the cutoff to file claims for veterans tax exemptions and homestead exemptions under state law. Also notes Onslow birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. John Snyder on Wednesday.
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Des Moines
Wickham Fund Grants First Educational Award
Iowa City Alyce Jayne Venzke, a 1953 Iowa City high school graduate, is named the first recipient of the Educational Memorial Fund in Honor of Kate Wickham. The fund’s trustees announced the grant for college training. Venzke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Venzke, plans to pursue further study.
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University of Iowa
Kate Wickham
Iowa City
Miss Wickham
Venzke
Alyce Jayne ‘Venzke
Iowa City High School
Educational Memorial Fund
Albert Venzke
Former Teacher Anna White dies at 91 in Fairfield
Fairfield AP report notes Miss Anna White aged 91, a veteran school teacher who spent over four decades in Eldora, Marshalltown and Vinton. A Jefferson County native, she passed away Friday night.
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Vinton
Fairfield
Anna White
Eldora
Marshalltown
Jefferson County
Seven hills protect Toledo from storms legend endures
A jumble of Iowa tales recalls a legend of seven hills west of Toledo that supposedly shield Tama county seat from cyclones. The piece notes grading cuts for Highway 30, a mix up between Oxford Junction and Oxford, and a historic Maquoketa wheelbarrow trek by Charles Nigg. It also mentions floods near Mason City, pet skunks kept in Iowa City, and university policy on class cutting plus local highlights from 1954.
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Iowa
Toledo
LeGrand
Seven Hills
Seven Sisters
Tama
Nates
Wood
English Lutheran Church
Oxford Junction
H. W. Otterbein
Chicago
Jones County
Oxford
Johnson County
Iowa City
Charles B. Thayer
G. Edgar Folk
Thayer
University of Iowa
Ma_rengo Pioneer-Republican
Iowa County Savings Bank
National Editorial Association
Hopkinton Lions Club
Frank Merritt 77 Dies in Springville After Lingering Illness
Frank Merritt 77 lifelong Springville resident and retired farmer died Saturday after a lingering illness. Born February 18 1877 in Linn county he married Alverda Mitchell January 15 1907 in Iowa county. Survived by wife ten children Roy Fred Mrs Paul Mitchell Lee Ed Myron Earl and a brother Thomas and 27 grandchildren. Services Monday at 3 p m at Hunte funeral home with burial in Springville cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
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Springville
Frank Merriitt
Linn County
Alverda Mitchell
Iowa County
Glenn Illian
Waverly
Roy
Marion
Fred
Monticello
Paul Mitchell
Berryville
Ark
Harold Moxon
Pasadena
Calif
Lee
Cedar Rapids
Myron
Cleremore
Oklahra
Central City
Earl
Thomas
West Union
Hunte Funeral Home
Loren Lowery at Veterans Hospital in Iowa City
Loren Lowery is a patient at the Veterans hospital in Iowa City, Iowa, indicating ongoing care within the military veteran health system. The record notes location and status without further details on condition or treatment.
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Urbana
Loren Lowery
Veterans Hospital
Iowa City
Marquette Bridge Toll Free Celebration Planned
Plans for a July 17 and 18 tri city event to mark the Marquette Prairie du Chien suspension bridge becoming toll free. Wisconsin and Iowa governors will cut ribbons July 17 with parades and a water ski show, boat races, a lights parade, and fireworks to follow. The bridge, opened in 1932, has a history of receivership and sales, now to be operated toll free by Wisconsin with Iowa taking over the Mississippi side approach. Committees are led by Hank Quartermant, Gordon Rischmueller, and Charles Peck.
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McGregor
Marquette
Prairie du Chien
Wisconsin
Iowa
Ing
Mississippi
Marquette- Prairie du Chien
LaCrosse
Dubuque
Congress
Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Company
Twospan
Hank Quartermant
Gordon Rischmueller
Charles Peck
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Maquoketa Country Club
The
Ed Grady
Frances Davison
Glee D. Porter
Robert M. Parrott
Charles O. Reynolds
Wickham Fund
William P. Kupka
Chelsea
Joseph Kupka
Kupka
Post Office
W. O. Smith
Montrose
Loyal
Mason City
VFW
Florian Rubner
Highway Commission
Frank Merritt
Margery Goergen
Marquette - Prairie DU Chien Bridge
William Roe
Amana
Midwest
Grs
Amanas
Yo Eichacher
Amana Insurance Department
W. D. Padington
Minneapolis
Bernard Buskowish
Utica
Minn
Roy Grobe
Saginaw
Mich
Russell Ward
Ee Cheiaehllahy
Pontiac
America
Culver Motors
Second Ave. SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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