Eight Hurt by Wind and Hail in Omaha and Clinton
A severe late Sunday storm swept Omaha Council Bluffs and Clinton injuring eight in the Omaha area. High winds up to 86 mph, 2.66 inches of rain and four foot hail drifts damaged crops and homes.
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Omaha
Council Bluffs
Government Airways Weather Bureau
Eugene Hunt
Hels
Theodore Matson
Jack McDonald
E. H. Lovell
Junior Ahlman
Carter Lake Village
Francis Kelly
Francis Richmond
Clinton
Helen Fletcher
Poppy poster prizes and senior banquets across Iowa
The Gazette report covers Anamosa prize winners in poppy poster making with students Margaret Neville Celena Brackens and Beatrice Bauserman. It notes junior senior banquets at Wapello Morley Monticello and Coralville, with speakers, music and dances, plus obituaries and funeral notices for local residents.
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Anamosa
Legion Auxiliary
Margaret Neville
Celena Brackens
Beatrice Bauserman
Jean Strawman
Pauline Arthur
Fidal
Henry Sheer
Edna Zeman
Pauline Bissinger
Phillip Downs
A. R. Morledge
Jack Thompson
Treva Stone
Kremer Orchestra
Joe
George Pullin
Violet Archibald
Florence Pease
Mildred McChesney
William Walker
Fannie L. Matthews
Vivian G. Sillick
Neil Courtney
Eugene Riepe
Marion Brown
Irene Pontzius
Gertrude Bickford
Lawrence Caldwell
Alice Briggs
Genevieve Green
Wilma _Isett
Ruby Fry
Leo Stroup
Effie Wilson
Harriet Gauss
Robert Paxson
Faye Deihl
Lucille Plumb
Clarence Earnest
Bernard Parsons
Otho Wiley
James Stewart
Lester Barrick
Rex Davison
Idabell Dodds
Verl van Houten
Toledo
Freddy Siebels
Lewis McPike
Marengo
W. E. Carroll
St. Patrick’s Church
James Griffin
Catherine
Margaret
James
Iowa housewife wins ten thousand Atlantic prize for novel
Winifred Mayne Van Etten of Emmetsburg Iowa wins the Atlantic Monthly Press Little Brown prize for I Am The Fox valued at 10000. The winner, a former Cornell student and Cornell English instructor, plans revisions in Boston by June 1 and publication set for August. she contemplates how to use the prize money.
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Iowa
I Am the Fox
Atlantic
Atlantic Monthly Press
Little, Brown and Company
Winifred Mayne van Etten
Emmetsburg
Independence
Mount Vernon
Upper
Palisades
Winifred Mayne
Bernard van Etten
Cornell
Clyde Tull
The
New York
Lydia Roberts
Columbia
Mr. van Etten
van Ellen
Howard Hall
Cedar Rapids
Atlantic Monthly
Boston
van Ettens
Garrison Creamery man ends life by hanging
William Herman Bockholt 37 of Garrison, a cream hauler for Garrison Co operative Creamery, hanged himself in a barn at his mother in law Mrs Henry Mealhouse home early Monday. He had married four months ago to Alice Mealhouse. Coroner says no inquest. Survived by parents Fred and… etc.
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Gazette
Garrison
William Herman Bockholt
Garrison Co-operative Creamery
Henry Mealhouse
Alice Mealhouse
J. R. Burrows
Bockholt
Keystone
Fred Bockholt
Elberon
Mary Offt
Laura Odde
Alma Hint
Lillian Bockholt
Waterloo
Alfred
Harold
Helen Baldwin 35 Dies After Albany Fall
Helen G. Baldwin, former Cascade resident and city librarian at Albany, died after a bathroom fall. Daughter of the late Charles D. Baldwin and sister of State Senator Howard C. Baldwin, she was born September 21, 1900, educated at St Martin's, East Cascade High, and the University of Iowa. She held librarian posts in Dubuque Cincinnati and Albany, and directed the WPA American Guide Book project. Funeral services set for Wednesday at 9 a.m. in St. Martin's cemetery burial follows.
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Cascade
Albany
N. Y
Helen G. Baldwin
Frances Baldwin
Miss Baldwin
Howard C. Baldwin
Charles D. Baldwin
The
Cascade Pioneer
St. Martin’s School
East Cascade High School
University of Iowa
Dubuque
Simmons College
Boston
University of Cincinnati
WPA American Guide Book Project
Thomas J. Rooney
St. Martin’s Cemetery
Cedar County Jail Breaker In Custody
Nelson Burmeister, who escaped Cedar County jail a month ago, was arrested Friday night in London after officers traced him from Detroit where he was briefly released. He faced a breaking jail charge carrying up to one year in the state penitentiary. Alvis Cliff remains at large.
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Tipton
W. W. Christian
C. C. Crawford
Nelson Burmeister
London
Burmeister
Detroit
Cedar County
Alvis Cliff
Seniors Stage The Tightwad at Anamosa High
ANAMOSA The seniors of Anamosa high school will present their class play The Tightwad Monday evening at the Niles theater. Arlene Beck plays Edna Taylor and George Powers portrays Tommy Jordan with a cast including Robert Bride Louise Simpson Joe Lazio Janana Lonergan Channing Ziegler Eugene Thompson Beatrice Bauserman and Elizabeth Hughes.
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the Gazette
Anamosa
Anamosa High School
Niles Theater
Arlene Beck
Edna Taylor
George Powers
Tommy Jordan
Robert Bride
Louise Simpson
Joe Lazio
Janana Lonergan
Channing Ziegler
Eugene Thompson
Beatrice Bauserman
Elizabeth Hughes
Linville Demands Bipartisan Relief Boards for Aid
Cedar Rapids Republican hopeful Linville attacks current federal relief as wasteful and politicized. He calls for bipartisan state relief boards to cut costs and distribute aid by population unemployment cost of living and tax resources. He cites varying state relief costs from 5.4 to 18.3 percent.
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Guy Linville
Cedar Rapids
United States
Linville
Gazette
DAVEN
Iowa 1936 Traffic Toll Reaches 133 Fatalities
Iowa's 1936 traffic toll reached 133 fatalities as four new deaths occurred in auto accidents last week. Emmett A. McGoey 43 of Williams died in a north Des Moines auto truck crash while returning from a meeting with Agriculture Secretary Ray Murray about his new food inspector post. Funeral services for McGoey are set for Tuesday in Perry. Other victims last week included D Myron Tripp Newton attorney Victor Koppes Bellevue and George Bennett Neola.
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Associated Press
Iowa
Newton
Victor Koppes
Bellevue
George Bennett
Neola
John Pelleymounter Dead At Age Of 75
Funeral services were held for John N. Pelleymounter 75 who died at his Fayette home. A hotel and restaurant operator and railroad man in eastern Iowa for years he was born January 4 1861 in Galena Illinois. Survived by his widow one son Charles Fayette and one daughter Mrs Clarence Banning St Paul.
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Monticello
Monticello High School
Charlene Rolls
Royal Rodman
Orvin Yeoman
Harry Berg
Wilma Kuhns
Supt. Grimes
LA Porte City
Henry J. Blanchaine
West View Cemetery
Blanchaine
J. C. McGaheran
Presbyterian Church
Narcissus Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Raymond
Norman
Coralville
Loran K. Conklin
J. E. Smith
Joliet
Ill
Percy Bullard
Dubuque
Demos
James
O. T. Conklin
Bettendorf
Loran
Otis
Iowa City
C. L
the Gazette
Fayet
John N. Pelleymounter
Mr. Pelleymounter
Iowa
Galena
Hawkeye
Greeley
Wyoming
Fayette
Scout Executive Named for Iowa City Area
Owen B. Thiel of Toledo Iowa has been appointed Boy Scout executive for the Iowa City area including Johnson Washington and Iowa counties. He will start June 1 succeeding Glen C Fordyce who resigned to take a similar post at Dubuque. Thiel has led 31 Scout troops across five Ohio counties and has worked in Scouting since 1920.
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Iowa City
Owen B. Thiel
Toledo
Johnson
Washington
Iowa
Thiel
Glen C. Fordyce
Ussume
Duebuque
Ohio
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Conesville
Conesville High School
Methodist Church
Ralph Crawford
Roy Jean
Barnadean Holladay
Ruth Buckman Forbes
Mina Emerson Jones
Ruby Yocum
Charles Calhoun
Hilda Owen
LeMoine Heither
Adeline Taylor
Paramount
Prof
Tull
Thompson Photo
W. H. Bockholt of
Helen Baldwin
Arlene Bock
John Pelleymounter
Dave Apollon
Long Island
A. A. McLintock
Eaton’s Neck
Dave Nimmo
Cheyenne
U.S. A
P.S
P. Lorfila
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