East Iowa papers win press awards at 24th convention
At the twenty fourth Iowa Press association convention in Des Moines J M Beck of the Centerville Daily Towegian John M Grimes of the Osceola Sentinel and Scott Snyder of the Dallas County News Adel received master editor publisher awards. Other honors went to the Pella Chronicle Fayette County Union and Iowa Falls Citizen for various population brackets plus multiple papers earning best editions general excellence and page awards.
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DES Moines
J. M. Beck
Centerville
Towegian
John M. Grimes
Osceola Sentinel
Scott Snyder
Dallas County News
Adel
Iowa Press Association
Beck
Jowegian
Grimes
Iowa
Missouri
Snyder
Pella Chronicle
Fayette
Hamburg Reporter
Marion Sentinel
Anthon Herald
New Hampton Tribune
Centerville Lowegian
Walcott Tribune
Ringsted Dispatch
Allison Tribune
Garner Leader
Elkader Register
Pocahontas Record- Democrat
Manson Journal
Fayette County Union
Toledo Chronicle
Monticello Express
Rock Rapids
Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune
Sheldon Mail
Algona Upper Des Moines
Iowa Falls Citizen
Storm Lake Register
Iowa Falls Citizen Farm
Sac City Sun
Corning Free Press
Sheldon Sun
Woman writes 90 000 word mystery novel tops publisher
Council Bluffs resident Ab bot M Dean accepted a friends dare to write a 90000 word mystery. The completed manuscript Murder Is a Collector's Item was released by publisher Doubleday Doran and Company as a leading crime literature title.
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Council Bluffs
INS
Abbott M. Dean
Doubleday, Doran and Company
Mrs Edna Shupp of Independence Dead
Mrs Edna Shupp 63 a well known Independence resident died at Peoples Hospital after a month's illness. Widow of Rev Charles Shupp she led Iowa State Teachers College placement bureau 1922 30 and Iowa Child Welfare bureau 1932 36. Survived by son Philip of Paris Illinois funeral at St James Episcopal Church Tuesday morning.
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Independence
Edna Shupp
People’s Hospital
Charles Shupp
Iowa State Teachers College
Iowa Child Welfare Bureau
Des Moines
People's Hospital Board
St. James Episcopal Church
Philip
Paris
Shupp
Chicago
St. James Church
James ‘Poor
Buchanan County
Mrs Charles Jones 66 Dies En Route to Hopkinton
Mrs Charles Jones 66 of near Marion died suddenly of a heart attack in Anamoja while en route to Hopkinton Funeral services will be held at the Alice church Sunday at 2 30 She was born near Alice daughter of Mr and Mrs James Elliott The family lives northwest of Marion Surviving are her husband six children Roy Cedar Rapids Mrs Nellie Edwards Hartford Kan John Alburnett Francis Hopkinton Charles Rigby Ida Pearl Gurich Ill three brothers James Idaho Aaron Cedar Rapids and James South Dakota and a sister Mrs Anna Rose Center Point She joined the Evangelical church at Alice at 16.
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Center Point
Alice
Charles Jones
Anamosa
Hopkington
James Elliott
Marion
Sixhildren
Roy
Cedar Rapids
Nellie Edwards
Hartford
Kan
John
Alburnett
Francis
Hopkin
Chelsea
William Benda
Father Panek
Benda
Agnes Ledvina
John Ledvina
York Township
Gladys
Albert Buresh
Clutier
Irvin Lacina
Tama
William
Helen Hruby
Frances Ledvina
Joseph J. Walters
Cass Township
Walters
Jones County
Cass Congregational Church
Joe
Mary
Nellie
Harriet Post
Cora Purcell
Camp Dodge
Springville
Clinton Andrew Shanklin
Waubeek
Florida
Iowa
Church of God
Carrie M. Gregg
Lloyd C
Errol J
Ola Johnston
Mount Vernon
Ray
Will Travis 72 Dies After Long Illness
Mount Vernon resident Will Travis aged 72, a retired farmer, died Saturday after a long illness. Funeral services will be Monday at 4:30 p.m. at the Methodist church, where he was a member, with burial in Mount Zion cemetery. Surviving are his wife Addie Busenbark. two sons Carl of Mount Vernon and J Quincy of Marion. a daughter Hettie Belle of Chicago. a brother Charles of Mount Vernon. three sisters Mrs. Laura Kepler of St. Louis, Mrs. Addie Thomas of Grand Junction Colorado, and Mrs. Jeanette Kepler of Waterloo.
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Mount Vernon
Will Travis
Monnday
Methodist Church
Mount Zion Cemetery
Addie Busenbark
Carl
Mount Vernon S
J. Quincy
Marion
Hettie Belle
Chicago
Charles
Laura Kepler
St. Louis
Addie Thomas
Grand Junction
Cole
Jeanette Kepler
Waterloo
Wapello
Frank Walker
Port Louisa
Hershey Hospital
William
Mary Martin Walker
Mollie Nelson
Robert
Mary Jean
Arlene
Chet Walker
Dan Berk
Agnes Kammerer
Fay Jackson
Grandview
Davenport
G. A. Carlson
Vinton
John
George Stewart
Cedar Rapids
John G. Stewart
Keota
Stewart
Columbus Junction
Mary Elizabeth Leffler
V. A Bloomquist
Salem Cemetery
Leffler
M. £. O'Laughlin
John O'Laughlin
Richmond
California
Traer
Alvernon Feakins
Aurora
Ill
Buckingham
John Ames
Hesperia Lodge
Feakins
H. G. Feakins
North Tama
Nell Pratt
William Feakins
Dysart
Tama
Tom Marlow
Central Fibre Products Company
John Gill
Doris Dailey
J. M. Standefer
Maquoreta
Perry Farrow
Melvin Atterberry
Maquoketa
Carson-Balster
Farrow
Sidney
Hurstville
Hurst
Ora
Eulalia Wendel
Celia Iron
Gatwin
Lucy van Horn
Welton
Alfred A Geneva
Craven Grocery
Cory
Geneva
Linus Cory
Webster
Byron Snakenberg
A. O. Dillon
R. L. Brown
Moravia
Byron
Charley Snakenberg
Lfe
Blanche Morgan
T. A. Morgan
Kenneth Snakenberg
Jean
North English
Blanche
Jesse
Sorden
Decorah
Merle C. Knight
Board of Education
E. R. Haines
G. J. Howland
Jury in Anamosa Awards Porter 2800 in Fire Suit
In Anamosa the jury in the 5000 damage suit J. C. Porter versus Iowa Electric returned a sealed verdict. On opening, Porter received 2000 for his burned Porter farm home and 800 plus interest for the furniture. Defense witnesses included Mrs Robinson and others.
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Anamosa
J. C. Porter
Iowa Electric Company
Porter
Donald Robinson
Will Robinson
Arthur Vanderbilt
Asa Robinson
Ed Wind
Pete Pazour
Russell Meade
E. J. Streuver
J. G. Taft
Claude Stroud
Harold McDaniel
C. W. Metcalf
Deposits $4 Leads to $466 Theft at Bremer Bank
A stranger told bank officials near Waverly that he would settle in the community after a $4 deposit. Days later he presented an out-of-town $250 check, withdrew $200, left $50 on deposit, and the bank cashed other bad checks totaling $466 more than the original deposit before he vanished.
Iowa U Journalism Students To Edit Four Weekly Papers
University of Iowa journalism students will edit four weekly newspapers this spring. For one edition Edward Walsh will edit the Maquoketa Community Press. Dean Rogers will head the Anamosa Journal. Joe Campagna will edit the Waverly Democrat. Cornelia Shranger will lead the Bremer County Independent at Waverly. Each paper’s advertising and news will be handled by community weekly class members.
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Gazette
Iowa City
Iowa
University of Iowa
Earl English
Community Weekly
Edward Walsh
Maquoketa Community Press
Dean Rogers
Davenport
Anamosa Journal
Joe Campagna
Cedar Rapids
Waverly Democrat
Cornelia Shranger
Atlantic
Bremer County Independent
Waverly
Maquoketa
Donald Morrison
Buffalo
N. Y
Herbert Clark
Tama
Velva Davis
Clarksville
Mary McKay
Madison
S. D
Harry Ryder
Newton
Waverly Papers
Gerald Peterson
Peterson
Arthur Bowman
Jean Witmer
Des Moines
John von Lackum
Waterloo
Sidney Hoganson
Livermore
Ted Peshak
Plymouth
Propose Independent Judiciary For Iowa
Representatives of the District Judges association urged a house committee to submit a proposal for an independent judiciary to the legislature. If favored, it would need action in the 1941 session and then go to voters as a constitutional amendment. Judge J P Gaffney of Williamsburg presented the proposal as the committee took it under advisement.
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Des Moines
District Judges’ Association
House
J.P. Gaffney
Williamsburg
John O. Smith Veteran Motorman Dies in Lisbon
John O. Smith 61 longtime Cedar Rapids and Iowa City rail line motorman died at his Lisbon home Saturday morning. Born near Lafayette he moved to Lisbon in 1914. Survived by second wife and daughter Jane a teacher at Zearing. He belonged to Masonic Eastern Star Lisbon Shrine and Consistory Cedar Rapids. Funeral 2:30 at Johnston chapel Mount Vernon.
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Lisbon
Zjohn O. Smith
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City Railway
Lafayette
Jane
Zearing
Former Center Point Woman Slain In Denver
Robert Kepler of Center Point learned Friday his daughter Mrs. Iva Kepler Jones aged 30 was killed by her husband in Denver and then killed himself. The couple had moved from California. Mrs. Jones, educated in Center Point schools, will be buried there.
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Center Point
Robert Kepler
Iva Kepler Jones
Denver
Jones
California
Brinkley career ruled admissible in libel suit
Del Rio Texas U S District Judge Robert J McMillan ruled Friday night that the entire career of Dr John R Brinkley a famed medical specialist is admissible as evidence in his 250 000 libel suit against Dr Morris Fishbein Attorneys sought to limit testimony to the specialist’s activities since
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del Rio
Texas
U.S
Robert J. McMillan
John R. Brinkley
Morris Fishbein
Iowa considers ending partisan selection of judges
A Des Moines house committee studied a proposal to remove district and supreme court judge selections from politics. A judicial council would vet candidates and governors appoint them, with voter confirmation at the next election.
Pension Fund Bill On Senate Calendar
Iowa senate appropriations committee approved bills totaling 5.34 million dollars in biennial expenditures including 2 million dollars a year for old age pensions from the general fund. Also approved were 1.3 million for a state office building and 40 250 to finish Great Lakes sewage project section B at Okoboji. The office building would centralize downtown offices on statehouse grounds, replacing over 110 000 dollars yearly rent.
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DES Moines
Iowa Senate Appropriations Committee
State General Fund
Great Lakes
Okoboji
Statehouse
Iowa
Wapello Man Burned By Wire At Muscatine
Alfred Miller of Wapello, working on REA line construction in Muscatine, was seriously burned after contacting a live wire. John Farrier of Muscatine was burned but not critically. Both men were hospitalized.
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Muscatine
Muscatine (Ap
Alfred Miller
Wapello
REA
John Farrier
Miller
Iowa City News Briefs Report On Local Events
A sealed verdict in the damage suit by Mrs. Mary E. Pittman against Central States Theater Corp will be opened Monday morning by Judge James P. Gaffney in Des Moines. Funeral services for Mrs. Frank Machovec are set for 9 a.m. Monday at St. Wenceslaus Church in Iowa City. An all state band orchestra and chorus will form for a University of Iowa program this summer, led by Prof. Charles B. Righter and Prof. Herald Stark.
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The
Gazette
Iowa City
Mary E. Pittman
Central States Theater Corporation
James P. Gaffney
Gaffney
Des Moines
House and
Senate Judiciary Committee
Pittman
Englert Theater
Frances Bradley
Mary Budreau
Earl W. Calta
Leonard Curtis
Elmer Dewey
John P. Dolmage
H. A. Herring
Elmer Kasper
Emma Kohl
Bertha Michel
Emil Novy
S. E. Todd
Frank Machovec
St. Wences- Taus
William
Frank
Barbara Hauth
Mary Riley
Catherine Kouba
Rose
Helen Rettier
Harper
Teresa Hoffman
Cedar Rapids
Joseph Machovec
Anna Vrchoticky
Rose Dvorak
Mt. Vernon
Joseph Pitlick
Pierre, S. D
Joseph Hurt
Joseph
John Neuzil
University of Iowa
Charles B. Righter
Herald Stark
Righter
Stark
Notice of Probate Court Sale of Cedar Rapids Property
In Linn County Iowa the estate of EZ A Velde deceased includes a court ordered public sale of Lot 26 Block 9 Browns Addition Cedar Rapids. Sale held at 516 avenues in Cedar Rapids on April 1 1939 at 2 00 PM. Administrators with the will annexed Jed W and G Buresh Attorneys for the administrators.
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District Court of Iowa
Linn County
A. Velde
W. L. Velde
District Court of
Iowa
Reid Court
Brown
Cedar Rapids
Avenues
Marry Rose Silverman to Irwin Berman in Monona
Announcement from Monona that Rose Silverman daughter of Mr and Mrs Jake Silverman plans a March 18 wedding in Chicago to Irwin Berman. Attendants Dora Sanders of Cedar Rapids and Bernard Wright. Bride a Monona high school graduate who worked in Cedar Rapids and Chicago. After a Bermuda trip they will reside in Chicago.
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Monona
Rose Silverman
Jake Silverman
Irwin Berman
Chicago
Dora Sanders
Cedar Rapids
Bernard Wright
Monona High School
Bermuda
Networks To Carry Mussolini Speech
American radio networks begin at 4 a.m. CST to relay Premier Mussolini’s Rome speech to the fascist grand council on the European situation with English interporations and a summary. NBC CBS and MBS networks will be in operation. Station WMT will rebroadcast at 8 a.m. Sunday.
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New York
Mussolini
Grand Council
Rome
NBC
CBS
MBS
Washington Junior College Play Garners Superior Rating
Iowa City festival awards Washington and Bloomfield junior colleges top ratings. The Washington production The Neighbors directed by Ruth Flood lists cast members Carol McDowell Mary Atchison Rex Hazen Wendell Baker Martha Mace Doris Leffler Ruth Dupuis Mary Westphal. Bloomfield presented Babbits Boy directed by Paul V Bissell.
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the Gazette
Iowa City
Washington
Bloomfield
University of Iowa
Ruth Flood
Carol McDowell
Mary Atchison
Rex Hazen
Wendell Baker
Martha Mace
Doris Leffler
Ruth Dupuis
Mary Westphal
Red Oak
Marie Schalekamp
Waukon
Phyllis A. Jacobson
Muscatine
Babette Hughes
Creston
Dorothy Sanderlin
Chariton
Burlington
Albert Cordray
Westminster College
Pennsylvania
Louis van Dyke
Gerald Giles
Lamoni
Photographer Clark Refuses Tax Protest Against Armed State
Brattleboro Vermont AP James S Clark photographer and former minister refused to pay a $30 state income tax in an open letter to tax agent Garrett W Kidd. He said he would gladly spend years in prison to justify his convictions and that rebellion is the citizen's only recourse when the state is wrong.
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Brattleboro
James S. Clark
Garret W. Kidd
Clark
Marion Mayor Election Changes as Drummond Elected
O O Mason suffers severe head injuries from a fall on home rear steps. John C Reid Gordon Fennell and families return from weeks in Daytona Florida. Dr C E Drummond elected mayor of Marion succeeding O M Carson who did not stand. Dr J E Stansbury returns from Biloxi Mississippi.
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O. O. Mason
John C. Reid
Gordon Fennell
Daytona
Fla
Fennell
West Indies
C. E Drummond
Marion
O M. Carson
J E Stansbury
Biloxi
Miss
Lieut Hanford Receives Belgian War Honor Posthumously
A second post mortem honor has been conferred on Lieut. John P. Hanford who died of wounds while leading his men in battle. He was awarded a decoration by the king of Belgium and the notice was received by his parents Mr and Mrs C Hanford. Dr and Mrs I S Raymer return from Daytona Beach Fla after five weeks. Frank Gallagher suffers a broken leg from a car crash at B avenue and Third street. Eugene Palmer resumes Y M C A industrial department secretaryship after a year in France.
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John P. Hanford
Belgium
C. Hanford
I. S. Raymer
Daytona Beachy
Fla
Frank Gallagher
B Avenue
Third Street
Eugene Palmer
France
Sid Slapnicka Joins Topeka in Western Association
March 25 1909 Cedar Rapids pitcher Sid Slapnicka leaves to join the Topeka baseball team in the Western Association. Lous Crow heads to Carryhurst Wyoming to work on a ranch this summer. Mr and Mrs Belden Hill return from Excelsior Springs with health notes. Laurance Press members hold a farewell for Baxter McQuinn as he relocates with family to Siloam Springs Arkansas.
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Sid” Slapnicka
Cedar Rapids
Topeka
Lous Crow
Carryhurst
Wyo
Belden Hill
Excelsior Springs
Baxter McQuinn
Siloam Springs
Aris
Probate notice for William F P Hornstein estate
In Linn County Iowa the administrator seeks court approval to sell Northwest One-half of Lot Five Block Four Beyers First addition Cedar Rapids to pay debts. Hearing set for April 8 1939 at 9 AM at the District Court. Two prior notices published in Cedar Rapids Gazette. Guardian ad litem requested for Frederick Hornstein.
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District Court of
Iowa
Linn County
William FP Hornstein
LaVerna Ornstein
Frederick Hornstein
Grace Bruniuk
Beyer
Cedar Rapids
District Court House
BOOST WAR RISK RATES ON CARGOES
New York UP reports sharp increases in war risk insurance for American shipments to European ports effective Monday. Rates rise 100 to 400 percent with major jumps for Baltic and Suez routes. UK and European shipments up 100 percent. Baltic ports jump to four and a half percent.
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New York
United Press
Londo
Baltic Sea
Suez Canal
United Kingdom
Europe
Sweden
Stockholm
Baltic
Mediterranean
Black Sea
Spain
Far East
Japan
China
Suez
Dutch worry over British French frontier protection pact
The Hague reports a new British French agreement on frontier protection causes Dutch concern. Officials fear Germany may see Holland as aligned with the anti Hitler bloc. The Dutch claim to be fully prepared to defend its borders and would have rejected such proposals to preserve neutrality.
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the Hague
Hollands
Germany
Holland
3St
Adolf Hitler
Liquidation of Secured McKesson Claims Upheld
NEW YORK AP Liquidation of secured claims against McKesson and Robbins Inc in reorganization was approved by Federal Judge Alfred C Coxe. Trustee William Wardell reported payments totaling 1 081889.98 to First National Bank of Chicago 87710096 to Guaranty Trust NY and 83687.30 to Chase National Bank. Wardell noted ongoing audit by S D Leidesdorf & Co and said income report will be issued after the auditor's May delivery. He described McKesson and Robbins as in a healthy condition with steady sales and cash reserves of 8 500,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
McKesson and Robbins, Inc
Alfred C. Coxe
Coxe
William 4. Wardell
United States District Court
First National Bank of Chicago
Lll
Guaranty Trust Company of
Chase National Bank
S D Leidesdorf and Companys
Certified Public Accountants
Wardall
Mekesson and Robbins
Notice of Appointment of Executors in Iowa Estate
Notice from Linn County Iowa dated March 24 1939 stating executors appointed for the estate of John McLa... in Linn County Iowa. Creditors and claimants urged to present debts for settlement and authentication in Linn County Court. Otto L Schuter and Peter Letze listed as attorneys.
Notice of Appointment of Administrator in Linn County Town
The undersigned on March 4 1939 was appointed and qualified as administrator of the estate of Milton S Miller late of Linn County Town deceased. All persons indebted to said estate should pay promptly and those with claims must file them in the office of the Clerk of the Linn County Town District Court. Berte Miller Fred Wo Mann Attorney.
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CXEC
Natinge
Lown Linn
John MoLaceipa
Linn
Lowa
Cain
Miton
Miller
Linn County
Berte Miller
Sadat
Iowa
Lint County
Charles A. Marousch
Linn County, Iowa
Notice of Probate and Administration in Linn County
Notice is given that on April 1 1939 at 9 AM a will of Bertha Cruft deceased will be heard for probate in Cedar Rapids Iowa. Edwin W Lundquist Clerk and Fred W Hann attorney record this notice. Administratrix appointed for Charles A Marousch deceased Linn County Iowa requests debts be paid and claims filed with proper authentication in Linn County District Court.
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Linn County
Bertha Cruft
District Court
Pakedy
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Edwin W. Lundquist
Fred W Hann
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State Bar Association
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Harry Gerndt
Ben Tayek
Carl Siegele
Tom Hogan
E. H. McGhee
Fred Bergman
L. P. Bickel
Erest Nicholson
John Heilman
George Pilkington
R. T. O’brien
Eugene Smith
Heege’s
Rowley
L. E. Swanson
Rowley Church
Smith
Doris Irene Grover
Guy and
Eunice Grover
Eunice
Alma
Gale
Guy Grover
J. D. Grover
Lloyd Grover
Charles Grover
Elizabeth Strachan
Woodstock
Ontario
Can
Grinnell
William Welsh
Poweshiek County
Grinnell Elks Lodge
Clyde Connelly
Lyman Case
Howard Dimit
Howard Edwards
G.N
George Kay, Jr
Boulder
Frank Rohner
Earl Tanner
Cheyenne
George TM. Fields
Fields
Mond. T
Ames
Warren B
Esther Johnson
Bayard P
Floy Raff
Urban J
Hunte
Springville Cemetery
Mary Marsden
Floyd Miller
John R. Fraser
George Foot
A. W. Hinderman
H. E. Hoover
Corwin Burdine
Columbus City
Max Hart
Sherman Moore
M. , Barnes
Francis Bucher
Frank Hook
Don Foster
Jackson County Association of American Legion Auxiliary
Sabula
Andrew
Baldwin
Bellevue
Preston
Grace Wurster
Wilma Briggs
George Ulmer
Legion Post
Chris Kvarsgaard
Tay
Lor Park
Traer Commercial Club
Traer Theater
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Union Ladies Aid Society
Chauncey Wharram
Harold Brownell
Effie Manning
Gordon Maley
Toledo
Melvin Ribby
Tama County
B O. Tankersley
Ribby
M. W. Hyland
George Shaw
Verna Haynes
Kenneth Haynes
Newburg
Vernon
George Beckhemmer
Margaret Meyer
Violet Weston
Charles Kies
Frances Alsip
Helen Finch
Leota Morgan
Virginia Morgan
Ralph Bern
Atalissa
Red Cross
State Department of Health
R. A. McBlain
Brandon
Christian Church
Loyal Women's Aid Society
Ladies’ Aid
Charles Kidwell
Riverside Cemetery
Mr Kidwell
Indiana
Vera Brady Kidwell
State Reformatory
Harry Buckner
Arthur
Glendora
Calif
Harry
Flint
Mich
WMT
Washington Junior College
Peter W Tansen
Geofre R
McKesson
Fred Wo Mann
Irene M. Marousek
Administratriz
Shonka
Iowa Electric Welding CO
First ST. NE
Henry Malek
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