Herring appoints 11 to Iowa state posts with party tilt
Gov Clyde Herring sent 11 appointments to the Iowa Senate for confirmation. Most selections are Democrats, including Board of Parole and Board of Education members, with Dr Walter L Bierring as health commissioner. Terms run six years or four years with salaries up to 5 000 dollars.
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Iowa
DFS Movies
Clyde Herring
State Senate
Walter L. Bierring
Des Moines
Bierring
D . Steelsmith
C B Murtaugh
Algona Board of Parole
Matt D Cooney
Dubuque
Vinton
Frank E. Wenig
Spencer Board of Education
Henry Shull
Sioux City
S J Galvin
Sheffield
Jenny Good Corlett
Oskaloosa
Ditto
Osceola County
Maine
H. A Maine
Waterloo Contracting
State Board of Education
Edwin P. Schoentgen
Council Bluffs
Pauline L. Devitt
George W Godfrey
Algona
Boards of Parole, Education and Assessment and Review
Board of Control
C M. Roberts
Independence
Benton
Tama
Oscar Anderson
Murtaugh
Kossuth County Agricultural Society
Wealy
A. L. Urick
Alabama Jim Sutton Celebrates Ninety Years
Maquoketa honors J H Sutton known as Alabama Jim a Civil War veteran who served on both sides. Born March 7 1843 in Marshall County Alabama he was orphaned young and later joined the Alabama infantry before defecting to Union troops. He now lives in Jackson County and shared war memories with his children and families at the Glen Sutton home.
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Maquoketa
J H Sutton
Glen
Charles
Haddon
Lillie Wilcox
Alma Watters
Glen Sutton
Mr Sutton
Alabama
Jim
Marshall County
Jacob Kempr
Abe Lincoln
Alabama Infantry
Stonewall Jackson
Jackson County
Burglars Battle Sheriff In Indianola Office Raid
In Indianola Iowa early Tuesday robbers tried to raid the Warren county treasurer’s office but were thwarted by Sheriff Frank Houghtaling and Deputy Ivan Marquis. A gunman fired on the sheriff. the trio escaped on foot after a brief running exchange. Nightwatchman George Westerly alerted authorities and aided at the scene.
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Indianola
Warren County
Frank Houghtaling
Ivan Marquis
George Westerly
Houghtaling
Marquis
Westerly
Easy La Choy Chop Suey Dinner Idea
Kitchen Gossip presents a quick ten minute chop suey recipe using meat celery La Choy Vegetables and a can of La Choy. cost is low and serves well with rice or potatoes. The label offers the full method and a free Chinese recipe book from La Choy Food Products Inc Detroit Michigan.
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la Choy Food Products, Inc
Detroit
Michigan
One Towa Baby Out Of 20 Died In 1932
Des Moines AP Iowa reports 1932 infant death rate about one in twenty with 1906 deaths statewide. Dr D C Steelsmith cites lack of medical care and economic stress as factors. He urges support for maternity and child hygiene bureau and notes better survival in 1931. Mount Auburn sees four candidates file for school directors to replace Struve and Hill.
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Bureau of Maternity and Child Hygiene
Iowa Health Director
Iowa professors urge federal bank deposit guarantees
Five University of Iowa commerce professors call for a stronger federal role in banking. They argue for a government guarantee of all bank deposits and even potential government takeover of banks to relieve the financial crisis.
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Iowa City
United States
University of Iowa Commerce
College of Commercee
Chester A Phillips
George D Haskell
Homer Cherrington
G R. Davies
H B Eversole
Vinton Man Hurt In Quarry Accident
Leland Neeve a 27 year old resident of Vinton received a heavy bruise on the head when a casting fell about 15 feet at the Nichols stone quarry two miles north of Vinton. He was unconscious at the scene and partly conscious upon hospital arrival. The injury was not as serious as first feared and he remained for treatment at Vinton hospital.
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Vinton
Leland Neeve
Nichols
Vinton Hospital
Records child burned in grass fire incident
Iowa City report says four year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Records was burned while playing with other children in a vacant lot when a grass fire ignited her clothing. The girl was recovering Tuesday from the burns to the lower part of her body.
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Iowa City
Sarah Records
E. F. Records
Farmers win relief as house passes exemption bill
The Iowa House approved an emergency measure boosting foreclosure head of family exemptions by 500 dollars, including 100 dollars for household goods, in a 56 to 42 vote. Opponents argued constitutional issues, while supporters said it offers farmers a fresh start. The bill advances to the governor.
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House
Emergency Committee
Rep
Mitchell
Webster
Elmer Johnson
Linn
Teter
McKinnon
Henry
Senate
Ghost in the barn haunted Sioux Rapids noises and hiding hole
In Sioux Rapids Iowa residents investigated strange noises from a barn near a cemetery and found a hog house ten feet away serving as the ghosts hiding place. A person using garden hose as a makeshift ghost disguise fled the scene.
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Sioux Rapids
IOWA NEWS IN BRIEF ROUNDUP FROM MULTIPLE TOWNS
A Mason City man A J Redding 50 is jailed on a grand jury charge for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated after his car left No 30 south of Atkins. West Liberty rites were held for Ace Heath 66 a retired farmer. Ruth Grove wed William J Schumann at South English. Dollie Troutman eighth grader wins Scotland spelling match. Calmar groups plan milk for school children for a month. Keota school board vacancies elicit petitions to fill terms.
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F. W. Sutton
Christian Church
Mr. Heath
Cedar County
Wilton
May Humpleby
Cedar Valley
Heath
Vearl
Merle
Delmar
West Liberty
Dewey Timberlake
Muscatine
Isaac McElravey
Fort Collins
Cole
Dollie Troutman
Washington Rural School
Scotland
Dale Wenger
Francis Trusier
Silas Horst
Muss Troutman
Washington School
Keokuk County
N G McNurlen
E L Kirkpatrick
McNurlen
Kirkpatrick
Edith Teets
George J Lyle
F. A Klein
H W. Statler
Marguerite Stewart
Bukets Bladder Physic Promises Nighttime Relief
An ad touts Bukets as a bladder physic using juniper oil and buchu leaves to cleanse impurities and acids. It claims the remedy reduces irritation and frequent urination, improves sleep, and offers a money-back guarantee after four days if no relief. Horak Pharmacies call Bukets a best seller.
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Horak Pharmacies
Bukets
Farmer Charged With Drunk Driving After Collision
Peter Huss, a farmer south of Dubuque, waived a preliminary hearing after his car hit an Earlville machine on US 20 east of Manchester injuring Mrs. Leola Young. Huss faces driving while intoxicated charges and potential illegal transportation of liquor counts. The Earlville car owner is Sidney Hunt. repairs cost about 200 dollars. Mrs. Young required thirteen stitches.
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Manchester
Peter Huss
Dubuque
Leola Young
J. J. Pentony
Earlville
Huss
Delaware County
Sidney Hunt
Lynn
Johnson County Studies Scrip Payment Plan
Johnson County officials and Iowa City Chamber members traveled to Des Moines to meet Representative Zylstra about the Iowa scrip law. They seek to study issuing scrip to pay city and county service workers. Chamber committee members listed include Herman Smith Harold L Hands Everett R Means Philip D Ketelsen James L Records Joseph A Munkhoff Charles A Bowman and D W Crum.
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Iowa City
Johnson County Board of Supervisors
University of Iowa Normal cash payments sustain holiday routine
Iowa City reports normal university activity despite the banking holiday. Grounds and buildings department workers were paid in cash on Saturday. Full time staff in other departments received their February checks on the 28th. First Capital State Bank supplied change for merchants and cashier F D Williams confirmed sufficient change. Postmaster Charles A Bowman noted no unusual postal savings withdrawals.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
W. H. Cobb
First Capital State Bank
F. D. Williams
Charles A. Bowman
Clothing Store Accepts Wood as Barter in Maquoketa
In Maquoketa the Gildner Grove clothing store accepts wood as payment for suits and overcoats at 4.50 to 5.00 per cord, with corn also offered at 20 cents a bushel. Ray Grove, the local manager, notes substantial wood received but corn remains scarce as farmers feed stock.
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Maquoketa
Gildner- Grove Clothing
Ray Grove
Chicago professor urges文学 and science studies in Iowa schools
Des Moines AP Prof Gordon J Laing dean of humanities at the University of Chicago urged less bread and butter education and more dessert in literature language and science in public schools while addressing the Iowa Daughters of the American Revolution in Des Moines on Monday.
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DES Moines
Gordon J Laing
Division of the Humanities
University of Chicago
Iowa Daughters of the American Revolution
Father and Son Burned to Death in Farm House Blaze
Gus Nylander and his nine year old son Robert perished in a early Tuesday fire at the Nylander farm home seven miles southeast of Red Oak. Mrs Nylander and two other children escaped in night clothes while George Stifle leapt from a second floor window to safety. Nylander and Stifle reportedly died attempting to rescue the boy as fire and smoke filled the home before Red Oak firefighters arrived.
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Indictment Sought for Hartzell in Sioux City Case
Oscar M. Hartzell, Drake estate promoter, may be indicted in Sioux City late in May. Federal district attorney Harry M. Reed said he returned from Washington where he conferred with the attorney general's office about the case. Hartzell, recently deported from England as an undesirable, was arrested on arrival in New York and bonded in Sioux City on a mail fraud charge. Alex Spear marks his ninetieth birthday at Tipton with friends including Chester A Barth of Buffalo, a longtime prominent citizen born in Balamard Ireland.
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Oscar M. Hartzell
Drake
Sioux City
Harry M. Reed
Federal
Washington
Hartzell
England
New York
Tipton
Alex Spear
Chester A Barth
Buffalo
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Ireland
Senator A. P. Myers of Newton Dies at 77
State Senator A P Myers of Newton died at his home from uremic poisoning at age 77. A longtime lawyer and Jasper County Bar dean, he was serving his first Senate term and chaired the Ways and Means Committee. He helped push Iowa ratification of the lame duck amendment. Survived by widow, a son and a daughter.
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A. P. Myers
Dea
Jasper County Bar Association
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A. H. Bergman
Senate
Ways and Means
Iowa
Washington County
University of
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