Iowa Weather And Divorces In Local Courthouse Docket
Weather forecast notes partly cloudy and warmer west region on Wednesday then mild with light rain near the Minnesota border. The Tuesday police court lists fines for drunkenness and traffic violations, and a divorce petition of Nelle A. Evans versus Ralph Evans. Burial notices and obituaries accompany Saint Luke’s and local church services for several residents with deaths in Iowa City, Vinton, Tipton, Independence and nearby towns.
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Iowa
Minnesota
Engineers Prepare Cedar Rapids Farm to Market Meeting
Engineers from 14 eastern counties will meet in Cedar Rapids at 10 a.m. with Administrative Engineer John G. Butter of the state highway commission to discuss estimates for bringing the farm to market road system up to the state standard for bridging grading and surfacing. District HQ is at 430 Sixteenth Avenue. Counties expected: Linn Benton Jones Cedar Johnson Buchanan Black Hawk Clayton Clinton Delaware Dubuque Iowa Jackson Scott.
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Cedar Rapids
John G. Butter
State Highway Commission
Sixteenth Avenue
Linn
Benton
Duke of Windsor Pleased by Princess Elizabeth’s Birth
The Duke of Windsor expressed being very pleased about the birth of a son to his niece Princess Elizabeth. He declined to say if he would travel to London soon to visit the baby.
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Paris
Duke of Windsor
Elizabeth
London
Rail Wreck At Clinton Blocks Northwest Line
A derailment of three cars from the eastbound City of Portland halted main line traffic near Clinton depot. Cause is undetermined and no passengers were injured though some were shaken.
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Clinton
INS
North Western Railroad
Portland
Writ of Habeas Issued for Touhy in Factor Kidnapping Case
Federal Judge John P. Barnes issued a writ of habeas corpus for Roger Touhy, the prolific prohibition era gangster serving 199 years in the state penitentiary, challenging the Factor kidnaping conviction on grounds of perjured testimony and witness intimidation. A May 9, 1949 hearing date was set to allow deposition and further fact gathering. Touhy remains imprisoned.
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Chicago
John P. Barnes
Roger
Touhy
Jake
Stateville Penitentiary
Robert Johnstone, Jr
Isaac Kostner
Baltimore
Barnes
Kostner
Deaths Mrs Adelaide McGinnis of Cedar Rapids
Mrs Adelaide McGinnis a Cedar Rapids resident for 25 years died at home after a six weeks illness She was born February 12 1873 in Mineral Point Wisconsin Surviving children include two sons and five daughters with many grandchildren and great grandchildren Services were set for Immaculate Conception Church with interment planned in Calvary Cemetery Cherokee St Margarets Circle and St Ritas Circle to hold rosaries ahead of the funeral arrangements
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Adelaide McGinnis
Cedar Rapids
Fourteenth Street
Mineral Point
Wis
Royal Francis
Madison
Robert A. McGinnis
Lincoln
Neb
W. H. Schmidt
Cherokee
R. H. Dildy
Scranton
M. W. O’rieley
L. A. Morrissey
H. J. McNalley
Immaculate Conception Church
John M. Molloy
Schmidt Funeral Home
Calvary Cemetery
St. Margaret's Circle
Msgr. Molloy
St. Rita’s Circle
Brady Mortuary
Infant grandson dies in Colorado Springs family notices
Mr and Mrs C W Davis 642 Eighteenth avenue SW have received word of the death Saturday of an infant grandson, son of Capt and Mrs Charles W Grace of Colorado Springs Colorado. Survivors include the parents, Mr and Mrs Davis, a brother Charles William and grandmother Mrs Lillie Hoover Kalamazoo Michigan.
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C. W. Davis
Eighteenth Avenue
Charles W. Grace
Colorado Springs
Colo
Services for Charles Jenista at Barta-Hesser chapel
Charles Jenista of 3306 Avenue NW died Sunday. Services set for 1 30 p.m. Wednesday in the Barta Hesser chapel conducted by T B Hlubacek. Burial in Bohemian National Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
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Charles Jenista
Avenue NW
T. B. Hlubacek
Bohemian National Cemetery
Akers Reports $1206 Campaign Expenditure
Des Moines AP State Auditor C B Akers disclosed his bid for a sixth term cost $1206 with $1060 in contributions. Expenditures include $400 to the Republican state committee and other filings show G M Ludwig of Tiffin $134.44 and District Judge James P Gaffney $125 for reelection-related costs.
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Des Moines
C. B. Akers
Akers
Secretary of State
Republican State Committee
G. M. Ludwig
Tiffin
James P. Gaffney
Marengo Democrat
Resee
Cedar Rapids Tool Engineers Dinner Speaker K N Macomber
Cedar Rapids chapter of the American Society of Tool Engineers meets for dinner Wednesday at 6 30 p m in the Crystal ballroom Montrose hotel. Speaker K N Macomber chief engineer Lapointe Machine Tool Co Hudson Mass discusses Jet Propulsion and its Tooling Problems and Surface Broaching developments. He assisted wartime broaching projects and studied at Northeastern. lecture includes technicolor films. Reservations via John Stark 26734.
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Cedar Rapids
American Society of Tool Engineers
Crystal Ballroom
Montrose Hotel
K. N. Macomber
Lapointe Machine Tool Company
Hudson, Mass
Northeastern University
John Stark
Youth Confesses To Setting Off Dynamite Blast
Daryl Dorman a 15 year old Lovilia high school student admitted involvement in a dynamite explosion Sunday night that shattered windows in six buildings. He named accomplices William Rolls 17 and Jack Bluebaugh 16 both of Knox ville and police planned juvenile court appearances. The trio reportedly obtained fuse caps and dynamite at a Knoxville coal mine and used a dangerous end cap method.
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ALBIA
John Goodwin
Daryl Dorman
Lovilia
Dorman
William Rolls
Jack Bluebaugh
Knoxville
Goodwin
Marion
Woodand
William Gaddis
Rath Packing Plant Returns to Normal Operations
Rath Packing Plant in Waterloo resumes normal production and re-enters the livestock market after a seniority dispute prompted workers to leave. A company spokesman urged farmers to call the livestock office before delivering cattle or hogs as operations normalize following UPWA CIO objections to status granted to two hog cut employees during a spring union strike.
Cunningham Charged In Leighton Shooting
Alvin B. Cunningham, 31, awaits a hearing on a charge of assault with intent to inflict great bodily injury for the Oct. 31 shooting of Darwin Leighton near Leighton’s Palmer School of Chiropractic clinic. Leighton, a student, was shot in the legs and released from the hospital. Cunningham, once traffic manager at the Alcoa plant in New Kensington, Pa., now chief clerk at Bettendorf plant, was arrested shortly after the incident and is free under $1,000 bond. Police say no hearing date is set.
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Cunningham
Leighton
Davenport
LLP
Alvin B. Cunningham
Darwin Leighton
Palmer School of Chiropractic
Alcoa
New Kensington
Bettendorf
Garbage Crews Slacken In October Weighing 536 Tons
Overburdened city garbage crews hauled 536 tons in October, down from 750 tons in September and 711 tons in August. The drop is blamed on reduced canning activity and less disposal of fruit and vegetable waste. A total of 968 tons were burned at the city incinerator last month, compared with 1,194 tons in September. Garbage from stores and debris added 432 tons.
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William Shimek
Davidson Warns Farmers Should Not Get Panicky
DES MOINES AP Farmers should not panic about seasonal price drops in the live stock market but continue normal feeding programs. W H Davidson Stanwood farmer says demand for livestock remains strong and long term profits come from steady practices. He notes feed costs are down and warns against flood selling during price declines.
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Des Moines
W. H. Davidson
Federation
Livestock Committee
Davidson
Iowa corn harvest could finish this week weather permitting
Des Moines reports continued favorable weather may finish Iowa’s corn harvest this week. About 550 million of 657 million bushels on Iowa farms had been harvested by last week’s end, with storage space cited as the main challenge. 65 thousand pickers were used as husks remain on drier ears and mechanical picking lags. Fall plowing 82 percent complete and northern Iowa fields are being plowed. Forage needs are mostly met by pastures, though they require moisture.
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Des Moines
Lowa
Iowa
Doctor Testifies Sierk Was Drunk
Hugo C. Sierk Scott county supervisor was intoxicated when his county car left the road and crashed into a ditch, according to Dr J H Sunderbruch the Davenport impeachment trial opened in district court Judge Matthew Westrate presiding The state plans to press the intoxication charge and may limit other alleged faults to sharpen the case against the 54 year old official
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Davenport
Hugo C.sierk
Scott County
J. H. Sunderbruch
Matthew Westrate
Sunderbruch
Sierk
Emery
Foul Play Suspected After Girl’s Clothes Found
A 12 year old girl filed into the sheriff for her clothes asking for them back after her father figures were reported missing. She walks three miles daily to catch her bus through sagebrush and fences carrying old clothes under a sweater to protect them. A county road crew found the belongings in a big boulder hiding place, triggering an investigation.
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Walla Walla
Wash
Sheriff's Office
Port Strike Lays Off Rail Workers
New York reports about 1 000 railroad workers furloughed as the east coast port strike tightens. The NMU offered to aid AFL dock workers and directs sailors to avoid duties of longshoremen. New York Central cut 720 jobs and Central Railroad of New Jersey 250 as import export freight slows.
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New York
Queens
Joseph Curran
CIO National Maritime Union
AFL
NMU
New York Central
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
Trial on $11,764.45 damage suit in Linn County
A nine man and three woman jury heard Jack A. Frew v Western Transportation Co and Wayne Jasper Clark in Linn County District Court over injuries from a November 23 1947 accident a mile east of Lisbon on Highway 30. Judge Floyd Philbrick presided as panel members were drawn and others excused until November 29. Jury: George A. Stark Anna C. Peckosh V O Phelps M M Altermatt Phalathea Gritman Mery F. Beauchamp Gary Gohmann John Ashlock Lumir A. Horak Mae Foster Starry F T Shaughnessy Jr Paul Sichinger.
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Jack A. Frew
Western Transportation Company
Wayne Jasper Clark
Linn County
Lisbon
Floyd Philbrick
George A. Stark
Cedar Rapids
Anna C. Peckosh
Marion
V. O. Phelps
Central City
Co. M. Altermatt
First Avenue
Philathea Gritman
Walker
Mery F. Beauchamp
Fifth Avenue
Gary Gohmann
Third Avenue
John Ashlock
Center Point
Lumir A. Horak
Mt. Vernon Road
Mae Foster Starr
Two Wills Admitted To Probate In Court
In Linn county district court on Monday the wills of two men who died on Nov 4 were admitted to probate. Florence Jones and Norman Bowers named executors without bond of Truman David Bowers with a life estate for Mrs Bowers. Irene Ashby and L W Struesky named executors of A G Smid. equal shares go to Mrs Ashby and Theodore Smid.
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Linn County
Florence Jones
Norman Bowers
Truman David Bowers
Bowers
Irene Ashby
L. W. Struesky
A. G. Smid
Floyd Freeman Receives One Year For Bad Check
Floyd Freeman pled guilty to passing a 32.50 bad check and was sentenced to a year in the county jail by Judge G. K. Thompson. All but two months was suspended. He admitted writing the check to Iowa Electric Light and Power Company covering 2.78 for a light bill 2.54 for a water heater 23.97 for an electric shaver and 3.21 in change.
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Floyd Freeman
G. K. Thompson
Freeman
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Two Plead Innocent in Tavern Breakin Case
John Good and Arnold Block pleaded innocent to breaking and entering Cannon's tavern on Sept. 26. Both are held on $2,500 bond in the county jail. They are also implicated in eight Center Point breakins in one night and break ins at Swisher.
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John Good
Arnold Block
Cannon’s Tavern
Center Point
Swisher
Arraignment in forged check case for Arnold Turner
Arnold Turner thirty three of unknown address was arraigned before Judge G K Thompson on uttering a forged twenty five dollar check. He was given until Thursday at 2 pm to plead and is held in the county jail on three thousand five hundred dollars bond.
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Arnold Turner
G. K. Thompson
Judge Dismisses Cecilia Landry Divorce Petition
Judge Floyd Philbrick Monday dismissed Cecilia Landry's divorce petition against Virgil E. Landry on the plaintiff's motion.
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Floyd Philbrick
Cecilia Landry
Virgil E. Landry
City Briefs and Local Events Highlight Weekend Calendar
Local notices list clothing collection for Czechoslovakia at CSPs hall, a Linn County Reserve Officers Association dance at Montrose hotel, and St Wenceslaus Bazaar with poultry prizes and cats. Also featured are a Wholesale Credit Meeting at Montrose hotel, Immaculate Conception school bazaar with ham supper, a Coe College recital by Artiss and de Volt, a Carol Ames demonstration, and household appliances promotions. Fined for Disturbances reports Ru Rodriguez and Carl Phelps fined for drunkenness and disturbance at Wheel Inn.
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Ru— Rodriguez
Seventh Street NE
Carl Phelps
K Avenue NW
Wheel Inn
British Ambassador Visits Iowa to Speak at Drake
Sir Oliver Shewell Franks the British ambassador to the United States will visit Iowa next month. He is expected to address a Des Moines university and visit Iowa State College at Ames, with Drake University President Henry Harmon confirming the events.
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Des Moines
United States
Oliver Shewell Franks
Iowa
Henry Harmon
Drake University
Oliver
Univers
Iowa State College
Ames
Linn County Men to Take Draft Examinations
The Linn county draft board orders 20 more men for pre induction physical exams this week. Ten Thursday and ten Friday as supplementary calls after many failed passes. Draftees will be sworn in at the Memorial building draft center and depart Cedar Rapids for army training camps.
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Linn County
Linn County Draft Board
Iowa
Army
Memorial Building
Cedar Rapids
Iowa County
John J. Welsh
Arndt J. Buhrmann
Williamsburg
Henry C. Eich
David A. Diehl
Lamont
Von Krog Libel Suit Dismissed in Iowa Case
Otto S. Von Krog former superintendent at Eldora's Iowa Training School for Boys filed a $20 000 libel suit against Josh Higgins Broadcasting Company and associates. The court dismissed the suit for lack of prosecution. The 1945 broadcast allegedly libeled Von Krog who faced past riot related issues and a dropped conspiracy charge.
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Waterloo
Otto S. von Krog
Iowa Training School For
Eldora
Josh Higgins Broadcasting Company
H. R. Gross
Alstadt and Langlas Baking Company
Black Hawk
Gross
von Krog
Segregated Audience Shuns Hazel Scott Concert
Boogie-Woogie Queen Hazel Scott refused to perform in Austin citing a segregated audience. She denied illness reports and said she would not play before a segregated crowd, after Dr Archie Jones of the University of Texas cultural entertainment committee suggested segregation.
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Austin
Hazel Scott
Cultural Entertainment Committee
University of Texas
Miss Scott
Archie Jonez
Brechler Speaks to Cedar Rapids Exchange Club
Paul Brechler University of Iowa athletic director addressed the Cedar Rapids Exchange Club at the Montrose hotel luncheon. He showed a film of the Iowa Wisconsin game and noted plans for a Thanksgiving children's party at the Chamber of Commerce building.
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Paul Brechler
University of Iowa
Cedar Rapids Exchange Club
Montrose
Chamber of Commerce
Edgar A. Guest Poet of The People
Poem contrasts gloom and resilience with lines urging readers to avoid despair. It notes many find joy despite hardship and encourages keeping a hopeful outlook amid life’s stress and strain.
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Edgar A. Guest
the Poet of
the People
Flood Control Bills Seek Tax, Districts and Roads Funding
The measure would allow districts to levy up to two mills for flood control and permit sanitary districts to finance disposal plants. It authorizes contracts with railroads for rights of way, reduces petitioning landowners, lets electors name drainage district trustees, and outlines maintenance and funding allocations. Local boards would share federal rental revenue: 30 percent to secondary roads and 70 percent to schools.
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County Board of Supervisors
County Board of Education
Board of Supervisors
Board of Education
Cedar Rapids Ranks Third in Slots and Tenth in Liquor Stamps
Cedar Rapids stands third among Iowa's major cities in establishments paying federal fees on coin operated gambling devices and tenth in retailers with liquor stamps. The U S Bureau figures released Tuesday show 23 slot machine stamps, up 13 from last year, and 27 liquor stamps, up one from 1947. For major cities the slot machine record is:
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Cedar Rapids
U. S. Bureau of Internal Revenue
Arms Falling to Chinese Communists In North China
Washington dispatch reports China confirms large caches of undamaged munitions fallen into Communist hands. The arsenal includes American made arms, aircraft, tanks, and ammunition used in the North China offensive. Officials criticize government forces for failing to destroy the equipment.
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Washington
China
North China
Mukden
Four escape injury in B 25 landing at Bolling base
Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor commandant of West Point and three crew members escaped injury when the nose wheel of their B 25 bomber collapsed on landing at Bolling air force base Monday.
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Washington
Maxwell D. Taylor
West Point Military Academy
Bolling Air Force Base
ITU Tells Court It Complies with Contempt Order
The AFL International Typographical Union says it is obeying a federal court order under the Taft-Hartley act. Four officers cited for contempt signed the statement, saying locals have been told to drop prohibited clauses and substitute compliant language for new newspaper negotiations. The union, striking since 1945, appeals Swygert’s ruling while remaining under injunctions. Signers: Woodruff Randolph president, Larry Taylor, Elmer Brown vice presidents, Don Hurd secretary treasurer.
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Indianapolis
AFL International Typographical Union
Luther m. Swygert
Indiana
U. S. District Court
Swygert
ITU
International
Cincinnati
American Federation of Labor
United States
Canada
Alaska
National Labor Relations’ Board
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Woodruff
Randolph
Larry Taylor
Elmer Brown
Don Hurd
Contempt Answers Cloud Chicago Newspaper Strike
Chicago unions and publishers face uncertain impact from AFL printers' contempt answers. John O'Keefe of the Chicago Newspaper Publishers Association said it was impossible to tell the effect. John Pilch of Local 16 ITU was at a meeting and unavailable for comment.
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Chicago
John O'Keefe
Chicago Newspaper Publishers Association
AFL
John Pilch
International Typographical Union
All's Well with Princess and Son
Buckingham Palace issued a third bulletin on the two day old prince as Princess Elizabeth and the infant continue to do well. Relatives gathered to glimpse Britain’s potential next king while doctors report steady progress and a brief post birth period anticipated for the royal couple.
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London
Elizabeth
Britain
Buckingham Palace
Judy Canova Performs Unbothered By Union Dispute
Kansas City AP report describes Judy Canova continuing her act with sister Annie on piano for the Future Farmers of America convention regardless of a jurisdictional clash between the American Guild of Variety Artists and the American Federation of Musicians. About 8,000 in attendance cheered as the band left before Canova’s performance.
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Kansas City
Comedienne
Judy Canova
Annie
Future Farmers of America
American Guild of Variety Artists
American Federation of Musicians
AFL
Musicians Union
AGWA
Miss Canova
Walter Durrett
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Cheyenne
C. R. Weather
Seale Ee
Municipal
Us Ma
Genenes
Nelle A. Evans
Ralph Evans
Rudolph Rodriguez
Seventh Street
Car Phelps
Justice Court
Larry Steggall
I Avenue NE
H. R. Church
Louis Gerhold
Atkins
Helen Slaby
Iowa City
Lester J. Etscheidt
Watkins
Virginia Stransky
Arnold Yanecek
Walford
Mary Gooden
Avenue NE
Robert Rocarek
Fourth Avenue SE
W. L. Johnson
Katherine Franken
Hillcrest Drive
Mercy
Pichard O’brien
Eighth Avenue SE
Charles Tichy
Ely
Charles Buchholz
G Avenue NW
Clarence Gregory
Seventh Street SE
St. Luke’s
Byron Richardson
Seventeenth Street
Leonard Kline
Ninth Street
James Corwin
Sixth Avenue
Dale Rich
Harold Wright
Twentieth Avenue
Merrill Flitsch
Eleventh Street
Charles Radeke
Blairstown
Francis Lyon
Harry Soukup
Toddville
Pueblo
K. B. Smokstad
IGWA
Tipton
Hazel Petersen
Rochester Methodist Church
Nora Duryea
San Francisco
St. Mary’s Church
Vinton
Catherine K. Bierschenk
Fry- Holland
Calmar
Mary Shema
New Hampton Hospital
St. Wenceslaus
Spillville
Noble Whitson
Independence
Dorothy Rosenberger
St. Petersburg
Fla
People’s Funeral Home
Joseph Peter Rowland
O. M. Rowland
Windsor
Mrs
Grace
Jenista Services
Monahan Mortuary
PF. J. Monahan
Wm. J. Stewart
Rath
Coe Y
Turner
Czechoslovakia
C.S.P.S. Hall
Dial
City Cab
R.O.A
Linn County Reserve Officers Association
T. Z. Koo
School of Religion
Wholesale Credit Association
Immaculate Conception
Enzlers
Coe
Artiss
Charlotte de Volt
Coe College
Carol Ames
Genere Electric Ironers
Modern Appliance Co
Johnson County
Dubuque
Clayton
Delaware
Tama
Dubuque County
Buchanan
Johnson
Jones County
Brechler
C.A. Exchange Club
Glory
L’envoi
C.R
Clinton Ee
Council Bluffs
Duduque
Burlington
Fort Madison
Fort Dodge
Sioux City
Muscatine
Ottumwa
Mason City
Princess and Son
Judy
2Nd Ave
Florist
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