Iowa highway patrol to add safety unit under wartime plan
Des Moines AP reports plans to form a 53 member Iowa highway patrol safety unit within days. Lew Wallace says over 5,000 locations for jobs exist, with 38 positions to fill after current patrol expands. Applicants face 12 hour days, emergency call duties, possible deployments, and no holidays. training contemplated at Camp Dodge.
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BES Moiies
Towa
Lew Wallace
Secretary of Te’s
Wallace
Executive Council
Iowa
Camp Dodge
Des Moines
Lafayette’s Limited English Knowledge Noted Despite Travel
The text notes that although Lafayette traveled widely among English-speaking people, his command of the English language remained limited.
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Lafayette
Cornell Music Festival Opens With Bach Program
The thirty seventh Cornell music festival begins Thursday with the Cornell Oratorio Society and Cornell Symphony Orchestra under Harold W. Baltz performing Bach cantatas Ride With Us and The Peasant Cantata in honor of Bach’s 250th anniversary. Soloists Miss Anne Pierce, Miss Ruth Pinkerton, and Francis German will sing with the ensembles, joined by Mozart arias and other selections from the program.
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Mount Vernon
Cornell
Johann Sebastian Bach
Harold W. Baltz
Cornell Oratorio Society
Cornell Symphony Orchestra
Bach
Miss Anne Pierce
The
Univer
Alleluis Tae
Mozart Miss Rutil
Binkerto
Byrd
Brahms
Cornell College Choir
Cornell Oratorio
Anamosa Seniors Stage Class Play at Reformatory Chapel
The Anamosa high school seniors will present their class play in the men’s state reformatory chapel due to a fire damage at the Niles Theater. The Friday 8 pm performance features the play A Paragraph for Lunch directed by Miss Helen Werbach with cast including Mary Elizabeth Gray Harry Crandall Maxine Johnson Carroll Kempshall and others.
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Anamosa
Anamasa
Anamosa High School
Helen Werbach
Mary Elizabeth Gray
Harry Crandall
Maxine Johnson
Carroll Kempshall
Robert Reid
Mary Elizabeth Russell
Phila du eFloth
Robert Paul
Robert Quinn
Phyllis Miller
Charles Gray
Esther Custis
Charles F. Kramer of McGregor Dies at 70
Charles F. Kramer, 70, senior partner of Kramer-Cords drug company, died Tuesday night in Rochester Minnesota. He began in the family store as a boy and later ran a Jersey cattle dairy near McGregor for 25 years. He served as a director of the Northeast Iowa Jersey Cattle Club and is survived by his widow.
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McGregor
Charles F. Kramer
Kramer-Cords Drug Company
Rochester
Minn
Jersey
Iowa
Jersey Cattle Club
Raids Figure in Iowa City Vice Inquiry
Three people held as part of a simultaneous roundup and grand jury probe into vice conditions near the University of Iowa. Mayor Thomas Martin testified to the grand jury about alleged vice affecting students. Mrs Florence Moore her son Fred 20 and Sam King 45 jailed after five raids yielding alleged liquor at beer joints.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Thomas Martin
E. A. Baldwin
Florence Moore
Fred
Sam King
Grand Jury
Bonus would give Iowa veterans 41 million dollars
President Roosevelt signs the Patman bill enabling a nationwide payment of 2.2 billion in new currency to veterans of World War I. Iowa’s total share is 41,019,480 with Linn County alone at 1,396,830.24 and many northeastern counties listed with individual amounts.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Patman
United States Senate
Iowa
Linn County
Allamakee
Benton
Buchanan
Cedar
Clayton
Clinton
Delaware
Fayette
Grundy
Jackson
Johnson
Jones
Linn
Louisa
Monona
Tama
Wapello
Winneshick
Webster Couple Honored On Their 60th Anniversary
Mr and Mrs W G Bailey of Keswick celebrated sixty years of marriage with an open house for 140 at their farm south of Keswick Their children and families attended including Ella Paull Denver Will Bailey Keswick and Jessie Beinke Webster One granddaughter Jola Ballard and grandson Raymond Bailey wed earlier that day at Sigourney A wedding dinner followed at the Bailey home with about twenty relatives present.
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Webster
W. G. Bailey
Keswick
Forest Free
R. L. Brown
Baileys
Ella Paull
Denver
Colo
Will Bailey
Jessie Beinke
Bailey
Anna Paull
Ottumwa
England
Crestlyne
Mr. Bailey
Iowa
Wilton
V. C. Payne
Charley Griner
Mary Harrison
Perry
Frank Walton
Shattuck
Okla
Thomas Hames
Follett
Tex
John Walton
Oklahoma
Jola
Ballard
William Ballard
North English
Raymond Bailey
W. E. Bailey
Sigourney
Longnecker
Gladys Ballard
Howard Sparrow
Professors of Social Science Convene in Iowa City
Iowa City hosts the annual spring conventions of sociology economics history and political science professors from state colleges. Economist Richard W. Nelson will discuss The Present Revenue System in Town. Harold H. McCarty delves into Business and Industry and C W Thompson outlines The New Deal and Public Utilities.
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Spectato the Gazette
Iowa City
Iowa
Richard W. Nelson
Harold H. McCarty
Public Utilities
C. W. Thompson
Blairstown Lad Builds Dairy After Father's Death
In Blairstown 15 year old Elmer Barthelmes known as Bud runs a one boy dairy with his dog Jimmie. He serves about forty regular customers earning over 100 dollars a month while supporting his mother Ida Barthelmes. Bud quit school but hopes to resume and plans to be a farmer.
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Gazette
Blairstown
Bud
Jimmie
Elmer Barthelmes
J. L. Barthelmes
Ida Barthelmes
Watkins
Waterloo Man Dies in Highway Crash Near Traer
Traer Iowa August 19 1939 A Waterloo contractor A W Schultz 42 died after his car failed to make a turn at the intersection of highways 63 and 96 seven miles southwest of Traer The body was found 150 feet from the wreckage Coroner Harvey Jones Toledo investigated Schultz was returning from Ames He is survived by his wife and two children.
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Traer
A. W. Schultz
Waterloo Concrete Products’ Manufacturing Company
Harvey Jones
Toledo
Schultz
Ames
Vinton Bank Wins Directed Verdict in Samuel Raymond Suit
Judge B O Tankersley sustained a defense motion for directed verdict in the Sam Raymond versus State Bank of Vinton case. Raymond claimed $6600 for services while farming for the bank from spring 1929 to winter 1931.
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Vinton Bank
Sam Raymond
Vinton
B. O. Tankersley
State Bank of Vinton
Raymond
Funeral Held For Fred Seger Earlville Farmer
Funeral services were held at the Seger home for Fred Seger age 64 of Earlville who died Saturday. He was born March 16 1870 and studied at Moody Bible Institute. Survived by wife Amy Armit Seger two children David and Mrs Ehlers and five sisters and two brothers. Burial in Waterloo.
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Earlville
Segar
Fred Seger
Sorum Joel
Sarah Akens Seger
Mabel Bremele
Chicago
Hattie Box
la Mesa
Calif
Vira Lynch
St. Paul, Minn
Martha Schull
Wilmington
Rena Seger
Michigan
Waterloo
Banker Hurt in Crash Near Strawberry Point
Ernest Nichol cashier of First State Savings bank McGregor is in McGregor hospital with head cuts and severe bruises after a tire blew out causing his car to go over a bank near Strawberry Point Tuesday night. Fred Richards president and Elmer Langie director were uninjured.
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McGregor
Earnest Nicholson
First State Savings Bank
McGregor Hospital
Strawberry Point
Iowa
Charles City
Fred Richards
Elmer Langie
Tipton Man Given A Suspended Sentence For Beating His Son
A. L. Mayfield of Tipton relief worker received a suspended 30 day jail term from Mayor J. E. Morton after pleading guilty to beating his 10-year-old son Wendell with a cattle whip. The boy testified the abuse occurred on several occasions due to arriving late for Sunday school.
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Tipton
A. L. Mayfield
J. E. Morton
Wendell
Wellsburg man appeals liquor possession ruling to supreme court
Henry Geerdes of Wellsburg appeals a $300 fine and costs for illegal liquor possession. An appeal bond of $750 has been filed after a February guilty verdict and a sentence imposed two weeks earlier by Judge R. W. Hasner.
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Grundy Center
Henry Geerdes
Wellsburg
Supreme Court
Geerdes
R. W. Hasner
Sioux City Bartender Arrested After Club Raid
W D Fee bartender was arrested Wednesday on charges of maintaining a liquor nuisance and keeping a disorderly house after a raid on the Hurdle and Halter club in the Martin hotel. A quantity of assorted liquors was seized.
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Sioux City
INS
W. D. Fee
Hurdle and Halter Club
Martin Hotel
Fee
Plans for artificial lake near Grundy Center
The Grundy County Game Protective association will meet in Grundy Center court house Monday evening to hear a report on a proposed artificial lake site. Committee members include W. H. Frerichs, Hans Kelsen, and Carl Moeller. About 100 acres may be required, depending on price. D. E. Lawless chaired the meeting.
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Brecial
Grundy Center
Grundy County
D. E. Lawless
Legion Plans Memorial Program At Mt. Vernon
The Mt Vernon American Legion Hahn Howard post schedules a Memorial Day program with Rev S N Williams of Wyoming delivering the address. Parade marshal Lloyd Snyder and other chairmen organize grave decoration, cemetery seating, and flag duties at Stillman Craig Abbey Creek and Mount Zion. The community band will open the season outdoors. The Auxiliary leads sailors and marines services at Ivanhoe and a poppy sale on May 25.
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Mount Vernon
Mac Mitchell
Ivanhoe
Auxiliary
Harry Klinefelter
A. J. Rogers
Greene Co-Ed Crowned S U I Circus Queen
Phyllis Pooley a Greene Iowa sophomore liberal arts student was crowned the University of Iowa circus queen for 1935 at the annual Hawkeye circus sponsored by the athletic department. Her attendants were Betty Saar Donnel son Doris Kelly Britt Virginia Tiss and Florence Paine.
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Iowa City
Phyllis Pooley
Greene
University of Iowa
Betty Saar
Donnellson
Doris Kelly
Britt
Virginia Tiss
Fort Madison
Florence Paine
Iowa officials receive salary boosts in new appropriations bill
The 46th Iowa General Assembly approved a biennial budget with salary increases effective July 1 for 95 officials. Highlights include D W Bates rising to 6000, 70 district court judges to 5000, nine supreme court justices to 7500, and other raises for the secretary of state auditor treasurer agriculture health and labor officials, with several prior reductions deemed unenforceable.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Forty-sixth General Assembly
D. W. Bates
Supreme Court
Ed L. O'Connor
Slot Machine War At Corning Heads To Grand Jury
Corning will present its slot machine dispute to a district court grand jury after city authorization to license amusements at three dollars a month led to sheriff raids seizing twenty machines. Judge Homer L. Fuller ordered the review and the grand jury will consider the case.
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Corning
INS
Fred Binder
John Angus
Homer L. Fuller
Mount Ayr
Fuller
Commencement Exercises Set for May at Local Church
Elberon plans commencement May 23 at the Methodist Episcopal church with Rev. T. J. Elwick to speak. The baccalaureate service is May 19 at the M E church with Rev. Elwick delivering the sermon.
What causes epilepsy is there a cure booklet offer
A free booklet presenting opinions of famous doctors on epilepsy will be sent to readers who write to the Educational Division Dept L-402 545 Fifth Ave New York NY Adv.
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Dept
Fifth Ave
New York
N. Y
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