Palm Reader Sparks Elgin Housewife Writer Career
Mrs Marguerite Zurbriggen a busy Elgin mother of four began writing after a palm reader told her she would be a writer. Since 1937 she has published a book and submitted a second while planning a third about Europe and her Fayette county life. Her husband Mattias runs a bakery and leads a German band.
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West Union
Marguerite Zurbriggen
Elgin
New York
Switzerland
Italy
England
Fayette County
Marion area social events and club notices highlight week
In Marion a gift shower honored Mr. and Mrs. Lee Sloan who wed Feb 22 hosted by the Sloans north of town. Community groups meet at Christian and Congregational churches with plans for the Priscilla guild, Marion Linn D A R, and various clubs. ads promote apartments and services as residents attend meetings and social events.
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Arlene Quaas
Dorothy Knapp
Carolyn Hagerman
Robert Sloan
Marion
Lee Sloan
Banco
Allen Sloan
Helen
Leah Youtzy
Lea
Woodrow White
Cedar Rapids
Yvonne Knapp
Paul Quaas
Alburnett
Jane Reed
Springville
Russell McBurney
Merle Blair
Ardyce Quaas
Norman Johnson
John Rhinehart
Edith
Jeanette
Robert Hagerman
R. T. Sloan
Virginia
Mildred
G. R. Hagerman
Stanaway Family Called to Martinsburg by Sudden Death
Mr and Mrs J H Stanaway and daughters Ruth and Marjorie were summoned to Martinsburg Friday evening by the sudden death of Mrs Stanaways mother Mrs Charles Messerschmidt after a stroke of apoplexy. Mrs Messerschmidt had visited here several times. Funeral services will be held in Martinsburg.
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J. H. Stanaway
Ruth
Marjorie
Martinsburg
Stanaway
Charles Messerschmidt
Austin Case Recovers At Marion After Knee Surgery
Austin Case has the cast removed from her knee and will stay in Marion for a week before resuming teaching duties in Buhl Minnesota. Public notices include Patmos Commandery No 27 Knights Templar meeting Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Masonic temple. Mrs. L. C. Dow hosts Monday bridge. Housework wanted by phone 507W admission. W. R. C. No. 126 picnic and farewell for Nettie Wallace moving to Holland Michigan. Tuck-a-Stick club meets Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Mrs. Walter Bensch’s home. Sorosis club meets Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at Mrs. M. W. Courtney’s home.
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Marion
Masonic Temple
Austin Case
Buhl
Minn
Patmos Commandery No
Knights Templar
Robert Mitchell
W. R. C. No. 126
Memorial Hall
Nettie Wallace
Holland, Mich
Walter Bensch
Thirteenth Street
Soloists Selected For May Festival At Cornell College
Mount Vernon birthplace Bruna Castagna renowned contralto of the Metropolitan and Alec Templeton famed blind pianist are chosen as soloists for the forty first May Festival at Cornell College May 11 12 13. Castagna famed for Carmen Azucena and Templeton has been soloist with Chicago Detroit and Kansas City symphonies. Dr Frederick Stock directs the Chicago Symphony Orchestra May 13 with both matinee and evening concerts. In the afternoon Bach Mass in B minor excerpts will be sung by the Cornell Oratorio Society with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
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Frederick Stock
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Cornell Oratorio Society
Chicago Symphony
Iowa U Debaters Top Field In Tournament
University of Iowa debaters won 13 of 18 bouts in the intercollegiate tournament ending Saturday in Iowa City. Iowa led the field with top honors for Marvin Chapman, and numerous peers from Augustana, Hastings, DePauw, Sioux Falls, Westminster, and others placement across multiple speaking events.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Sioux Falls
South Dakota
Hastings
Nebraska
Texas
Westminster
Missouri
DePauw
Indiana
Augustana
Marvin Chapman
Town City
Roland Christensen
George Hill
Iowa
Wyman Wumkes
John Mundt
Carl Lundquist
Earl Saunders
Margaret Mensch
South Dakota State
Ross Oviatt
South Dakota University
Ray Myers
William Rivkin
Edward Greenough
James Swanson
Russell van Dyke
Don Marsh
al Thompson
Walter Tait
Wichita
John Yaklavich
University of Denver
Donald Hallam
Arkansas
James Meredith
Kansas
Charlotte Mohr
Louise Bohmer
Denver
Darwin Shrell
Louisiana Polytechnic
Loren Hickerson
Merle Miller
Herb Petry
Gordon Carlson
Golden Wedding Kerns Celebrate 50 Years at Blairstown Farm
Mr and Mrs Joseph Kern of a Blairstown area farm celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary with a family dinner at home. They married March 5, 1889, on the Snow farm and later bought a 200 acre property. They have four children and ten grandchildren, with one grandson and one granddaughter living nearby. Both are in poor health but continue to work and tend chores. Mrs Kern enjoys flower cultivation as a hobby.
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Gendal
The
Gazette
Blairstown
Joseph Kern
Mr. Kern
DeKalb County
Belle Plaine
Bertha Birch
Edna Stacy
Lyons
Ind
Edwin
Otto Kern
Kern
Lillian Tehon
Emma Kovicek
Elberon
John Oliva
Marengo
Frank Oliva
Iowa City
Joe Oliva
Portland
Ore
Fred Kern
Frank
Otto
Lisbon
Emma Radeke
Ted Shawn Troupe to Perform at Cornell College
Ted Shawn, famed male dancer, will appear on Cornell lecture course March 13 with eight male dancers. The company, the only all male dance group, presents "O Libertad!" a four act American saga tracing episodes from Spanish conquest in Mexico to the present.
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Ted Shawn
Cornell College
the Gazette
Mount Vernon
America
Cornell
Shawn
Mexico
Governor to Make Key Appointments and Policy Bets
Iowa faces a clash over liquor policy as the governor plans to keep liquor by the drink ban and let counties vote on state liquor stores and beer sales. The senate will revisit the farm to market road bill which diverts 658000 from primary roads and adds about 1.75 million yearly for secondary roads. Administrators fret over bills seeking new spending that could raise Iowa taxes by at least 20 million.
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Iowa
Iowa Senate
Legislation Advances On Decoys And Spearing Measures
The legislature debated conservation bills with mixed momentum. A proposal to cut duck and goose bag limits from 10 and 4 to 6 and 2 was postponed. A committee backed a bill permitting five live decoys in duck and goose hunting from blinds. Another measure would allow spearing fish on the Cedar River in Muscatine Cedar and Louisa counties.
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Latchaw
Cedar River
Muscatine
Cedar
Louisa
Grant Wood Lecture in Iowa City on Peirce Exhibition
Grant Wood will discuss the art of Waldo Peirce this afternoon as part of the Peirce paintings and lithographs exhibit in the art building exhibition lounge. A Sunday attraction features Beethoven’s String Quartet in F Major by a department of music quartet at 4 15 followed by Wood’s talk. Public invited.
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the Gazette
Iowa City
Grant Wood
Waldo Peirce
Peirce
Department of Music
Mr. Wood
Anamosa Civil War veteran believed 103 years old
Special to The Gazette. George Cook of near Anamosa is regarded as Jones county’s oldest man. Born details unknown, his age is claimed at 103. He served 32 months in Company B, Ohio infantry, 1861 to 1865, later freighting west to Colorado. He recalls wagon trains, Indians, and a peace-demand dispute over $30, and now resides near Anamosa with care from a daughter.
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Anamosa
George Cook
Jones County
Indiana
Dubuque
Prairieburg
Cook
Infantry
Colorado
Denver
Learn By Listening Motto of Iowa U Phonetics Lab
The University of Iowa opens a phonetics laboratory used across French and German classes. Students use earphones and multiple phonographs to hear native speech, with records ranging from prose to music. The lab plans to document regional dialects and preserve tongues of the Midwest while expanding tools like short wave radio and voice recording for later review.
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Iowa
U. Phonetics Laboratory
Iowa City
France
University of Iowa
Paul Hartstall
Milton Cowan
Middle West
Amanas
Prof
Hartstall
Ste. Genevieve
Phonetics Laboratory
Cowan
Grant Fairbanks
Manchester High School to stage The Seven Keys to Baldpate
Manchester junior class will present The Seven Keys to Baldpate in the gym March 7 with cast members including Robert Timmons Kitty Strathman Russell Miller Hubert Smith Norma Hattell Mary Louise Hintz Ralph Willard Susan Cloud Robert Bissell Avery Smith Junior Davis Duane Boone Ted Winters Welcome Hunt and Robert Bardiman. Funeral services are set for Stephen A Douglas Seely 57 Sunday at 2 30 p m at the site chapel burial in Evergreen cemetery Seely born Sept 8 1881 near Mount Auburn and formerly cafe operator at Falls City Neb later farmer east of Vinton Surviving brothers and sisters listed. In Lisbon Thomas J Bickett 79 dies Saturday funeral Monday 2 30 p m at home burial in Andre cemetery Born Jan 28 1860 to Robert and Eliza Bickett on a farm east of Lisbon Married March 1 1905 to Effie Staab two children died in infancy Surviving wife Lizzie Woods and A H Bickett both of Lisbon.
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Manchester
Manchester High School
Seven Keys
Baldpate
Robert Timmons
Kitty Strathman
Russell Miller
Hubert Smith
Norma Hattell
Mary Louise Hintz
Ralph Willard
Susan Cloud
Robert Bissell
Avery Smith
Junior Davis
Duane Boone
Ted Winters
Welcome Hunt
Robert Bardiman
Winton
Stephen A. Douglas Seely
S. R. Wall
Church of Christ
Evergreen Cemetery
Mr. Seely
Mount Auburn
William Seely
Falls City
Neb
Vinton
Delbert Seely
Nebraska City
Thomas Seely
Boise
Idaho
Lillian Cushing
Melissa Bingaman
Nellie Dunklee
William and
Charles Seely
Minnie Holcomb
Albuquerque
N. M
Henry Seely
Humbolt
Lisbon
Thomas J. Bickett
Andre
Mr. Bickett
Robert
Eliza Bickett
Effie Staab
Lizzie Woods
A. H. Bickett
Colorful Russian on Cornell Campus
The narrative follows a Russian musician Seroff, his time at Castle Klessheim and in Vienna, and his chess influenced misadventures. Police misread their chess packing as a code, yet they were released after the tale of their wartime chats during bombardment. Seroff later collaborates with Jolas for Bach, rehearsing in Mount Vernon ahead of a Cornell recital.
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Vienna
Seroff
Paris
London
Jolas
New York
Mount Vernon
Cornell
Honored On Golden Wedding In Anamosa
Mr and Mrs Harper Smythe celebrate their golden wedding with family at their daughter’s home in Anamosa Mrs Smythe a sports fan and the couple’s forty seven years at the Easterly hotel are noted Smythe born 1866 in Washington Iowa and formerly with American Express built a home on South Ford then returned to the hotel life a hobbyist collector with a thousand dollar world scenic picture collection remains active with old salesmen friends
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Anamosa
Harper Smythe
Lee Lanner
Smythe
Washington
Iowa
American Express Company
Des Moines
Harriet Easterly
Sol Easterly
Easterly
Chicago
Smythes
South Ford Street
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Palm-Reader
Marion News
C. A. Dykes
Women’s United Missionary Society of the Christian Church
Charles Montgomery
Clarence Meggers
Ray McCalley
Irving E. Wade
J. L. Roberts
Roy Mack
Priscilla Guild
Congregational Church
I. E. Isham
Alburnett Road
Adeliza Danjiels
J. B. Howell
Elmer Hollingsworth
Marion Linn
J. T. Gallivan
Sixth Avenue
A. J. Keyes
George Munier
Gallivan
11Th Street
Townsend Club No. 1
C. E. Reiter
C. S. Shanklin
Minnie Schenken
Bernard Schenken
Loyce
Rudy
Carroll Roberts
Claire
Jeannette
John
Missionary Circle
Grace H. Starr
Natex
Marion Agency
Owen's
Oxford Club
Methodist Church
Epworth League
Neal de Wees
Paul Bowdish
Eleventh Street
Quinty
Donald Reedquist
Lester Hilleman
Ottumwa
Mrs. W. G. Bowen
Harriet Cunningham of
W. A. Ladd
Mr. Ladd
Entre Nous Club
R. Lee Taylor
Tenth Street
Presbyterian Ladies Aid Society
J. M. Albright
Sixth Street
Melvin Clark
Cleveland
Kappa Phi Kappa
Beta Alpha
Coe College
Clark Gable
Myrna Loy
Cary Club
Carrie Reichert
Ameigo Club
Karl W. Kendall
Twelfth Street
Rural Garden Club
Carl White
Dorothy Carver
Udell
William Ambdenstock
St. Luke's Hospital
John Troy
Elliott Apartments
Mary Frances Howell
Barbara Clay
Theresa Phelps
Ann and
Mary Mullaley
Arlene Tow
Martha Ann Young
Virginia Jackson
Zella Mae Fenlon
Faye Parks
Kathleen Oxley
Earl Beadle
Bonnie and
Tommie
Davenport
Mr. Beadle
Charles Beadle
Wahl’s Taxi Service
Alpha Williams
Seventh Avenue
Clark Williams
F. A. Kempshall
Nelle Kempshall
Miss Kempshall
L. C. Dow
Eighth Avenue
Sorosis Club
M. W. Courtney
Fifth Avenue
Iowa U
Mrs
Mary Burke
Ruth Weber
Phonetics
William Galvin
Iowa News
Mrs. Harper Smythe
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