Linn County medical aid averaged 2970 monthly in 1937
Linn County's clinical plan spent an average of 2970 per month in 1937. The county received a 2751.05 refund from the clinical fund as of December 31, 1937. The 1937 report shows receipts 39142.40 and disbursements 3639.35 with 5202.05 carried as contingency.
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Linn County
Alice Ferber
Ferber
Elmer M. Seevell
Marion
County Board of Supervisors
Linn County Medical Society
Niemoeller Sent to Concentration Camp by Gestapo
Berlin AP reports the Rev Martin Niemoeller, noted Protestant opponent of the Nazi regime, has been placed in a concentration camp. His wife collapsed upon learning he was sent to Sachsenhausen after a prior jail term was deemed served.
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Berlin
Martin Niemoeller
Gestapo
Niemoeller
Snachsenhausen
Grandfather Dies After Saving Grandchildren in House Fire
In Elizabethtown New York Gusman Parker 60 perished after tossing his three visiting grandchildren to safety from a second story window The fire destroyed his six room frame house His son Claude 17 stood in freezing cold snow as he carried the children to safety and was hospitalized with frostbitten feet Also injured were Claude s sister Margaret 20 and the grandchildren aged 18 months to 3 years May he rest in peace.
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Elizabethtown
N. Y
Gusman Parker
Claude
Margaret
Wilson students hold four day conference on employment
A group of Wilson high school boys attended a noon four day conference at Wilson school on how to qualify for employment in business and industry. Speakers from Killian company Merchants National Bank Cherry Burrell and Wilson Packing discussed job prospects training and traits sought by employers.
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Wilson High School
Wilson School
Robert Yaw
The
Killian Company
Marvin R Selden
Merchants National Bank
J. TL. Gilmore
Cherry-Burrell Corporation
C. A. Engel
Wilson Packing Company
Richard Hubacek
Jack Machula
Marvin Lockwood
Charles Wood
Wolson
Palestine night council set to meet at Masome hall
City brief notes that Palestine council No. 27 Royal and Select Masters will meet at 7 30 this evening at Masome hall. Also reports several local residents undergoing or recovering from medical procedures and minor incidents including a car theft of a spare tire and accessories.
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Palestine Council No
Masome Hall
Ted Herckson
Oakland Avenue NE
Twelfth Avenue
Ninth Street
Rebuilding the American Commercial Fleet and Transatlantic Air Plan
The House Merchant Marine Committee favored amendments to the 1936 merchant marine act to rebuild the American commercial fleet and push transatlantic air transport. They back Kennedy's suggestions while omitting labor provisions and leaving study of seamen under the railway labor board. The amendments authorize government subsidies for transatlantic airline operation.
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Washington
INS
House
Merchant Marine Committee
Congress
Joseph P. Kennedy
Maritime Commission
Kennedy
Railway Labor Board
TVA Officers Urge Chairman Morgan to Quit
President Roosevelt released an official TVA report from Harcourt A Morgan and David E. Lilienthal urging Chairman Arthur E. Morgan retire to private life. They accuse him of obstructing approved policies while serving as an executive officer amid a board feud.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Tennessee Valley Authority
Arthur E. Morgan
Harcourt A Morgan
David E. Lilienthal
Morgan
TVA
Jong
WPA Officials Must Pay For Their Own Protest Telegrams
Washington AP report states WPA officials who defend WPA actions cannot charge protest telegrams to relief funds. Comptroller general ruled relief appropriations cannot cover telegrams to newspapers defending conduct of the WPA program or its officers.
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Washington (Ap
WPA
Comptroller General
Penick Workers Fight Free Import of Starch
Penick and Ford plant workers campaign to press Congress for an excise tax on foreign tapioca starch to restore parity with domestic starch. Hugh Sheridan cites a 68.1 percent foreign share in 1937 and estimates $14 million in lost farmer income plus labor hours and coal and freight costs in the industry.
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Tapioca
A. F. of L. Union
Penick and
Middle West
Sheridan
Corn Industry Research Foundation
New York City
Ford
Penick
Congress
Icy Rain Follows Snow Across the North
Freezing rains followed snow eastward across the plains Friday and heavy precipitation was forecast for Ohio and New York within 24 hours. Snow covered the north from the Rockies to the upper lakes, 2 to 6 inches deep, with Chicago at four inches and Canton New York at 30 below zero. Burlington, Vermont, set a record at 24 below.
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Chicago
Great Plains
Ohio
New York
U. S
H. A. Downs
Chicago Weather Bureau
United States
Rocky Mountains
Upper Lakes
Canton
N. Y
Burlington
Whipple critiques war paradox at Coe College chapel
William Whipple told Coe College students that war to end war created a peace that ended peace and warned that democracy battles still breed war. He condemned munitions financiers and argued war profits fueled the conflict while education mixed Bible study with mandatory military training.
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William Whipple
Coe
Mars Unlimited
Whipple
Germany
Mr Whipple
Invest in Peace Preferred over Mars Unlimited Appeal
Mr. Whipple urged prioritizing peace through debt elimination and curbing wartime trade. He proposed laundering funds by ending loans to warring nations and stopping contraband shipments, conscripting national wealth via enlistment of citizens, and creating a college of diplomacy to parallel the war college.
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Mars Unlimited
Whipple
War College
Births in Iowa City: George Harrison Kyle
Born to Mr and Mrs Clarence Kyle 614 I avenue NW a son named George Harrison Kyle on February 26 in Iowa City. The text references colonial tariff laws after the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
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Clarence Kyle
I Avenue NW
George Harrison Kyle
Iowa City
George F Peabody Dies at 85 in Georgia
George Foster Peabody 85 banker and philanthropist died at his winter home in Warm Springs Georgia on Friday He was treasurer of the Democratic National Committee and a Columbus native who moved to New York with Spencer Trask and Company and rose to prominence He supported many educational and other institutions.
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Warm Springs
George Foster Peabody
Peabody
Democratic National Committee
Columbus
New York
Spencer Trask and Company
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Joe Parleys
Neicksen
R Avenue NE
Milwaukee Railroad
Cedar Rapids
Labor Temple
Milwaukee
International Association of Teamsters
Witwer Grocer Company
Rock Island
Joe Kenney
Omar Flour and Feed Company
Kenneth Morehead
Second Avenue SE
St. Lukes Hospital
Margaret Spillane
First Avenue W
University Hospital
George Thomas
Alburnett
St. Luke’s Hospital
FM. Popenhagen
J. A. DuBuis
Star of the West
Judge No. 1
Knights of Pythias
Marenga
Knights of Pythias Lodge
Pythians
Brighton
Shueyville United Brethren Church
Wm. Whipple
Alethia
Maytag
Zenith Radios
Frigidaire
Maytag Co
TNT Ti
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George F. Peabody
Peoples Savings Bank
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Melody
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