Railroader plans tunnel through coal pile in basement layout
Ackerman, a Cedar Rapids man and Rialto theater operator, builds a quarter inch to the foot model railroad in his home basement. His two-rail system, 31 freight cars and 10 passenger cars, features a six foot trestle and a planned tunnel through a coal pile, aiming to circumnavigate a furnace.
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Furnace
Cary, Cleser
Alph Ackerman
Dana Harrington
Milwaukee
Cedar Rapids
Ninth Street NW
Ackerman
Rialto Theater
Wisconsin
Corrie May Upjohn Finds Wealth and Power in a New Life
In a postwar Louisiana tale Corrie May Upjohn hires at a plantation and marries Gilday after a desperate climb from poverty. She redecorates a grand house and floods her life with clothes ice and party plans while manipulating money. Ann Sheramy Larne returns and confronts Corrie May as their paths cross at the courthouse.
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Carrie May Upjohn
Ann Sheramy
Denis Larne
Ann
Cerrie May
Mr. Gilday
Gilday
Sly
Taol Hrta
Corrie May
Corrie May Upjohn
Rattletrap Square
Dalroy
Tarleton
Louisiana
Ice Company
Corrie -May
Aredith
Fr Gilday
Corrie
Ann Sheramy Larne
Ardeith
Fairfax State Savings Bank 1939 Condition Report
The statement lists assets including loans and discounts 241391.04 United States bonds 23500.00 cash items 3100.00 and total assets 341556.20. Liabilities show capital stock 25000.00 surplus 6000.00 undivided profits 3247.997247.93, deposits 241556.20. Attestation by J Lynch president Chas Elson vice president and J L Krall cashier sworn October 5 1999 before notary Helen Krall Linn County Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl RS
State of
Iowa
Linn County
J. Lynch
Chas. A. Elson
J. L. Krall
C. J. Lynch
Chas. A
Chas
A. Elson
Sealy
Helen M. Krall
EA Johnson
Isley
J. Sedlackk
Marquette Ladies Aid elects officers at home
The Methodist Ladies Aid at Mrs. Ira Everhart home elected officers with Mrs. Donald J. Herron named President. Other officers include Vice-president Mrs. Art Henthorn Secretary Miss Hazel Barr and Treasurer Mrs. Sherman F Krohn. Retiring president is Mrs. Bert Schott.
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Marquette
Methodist Ladies Aid
Ira Everhart
Donald J. Herron
Art Henthorn
Hazel Barr
Sherman
F. Krohn
Bert Schott
Postville
Postville High School
Thelma Mark
Marion Sonnkalb
Dorothy Schultz
Helen Sander
Betty Ann Meier
Maryilyn Thomson
Independence
Buchanan County Boy Scout District
Alva Norton
Nazis Threaten Ship If Sub Met, Aachen Blockade Story
Two American students who ran the British blockade of the North Sea aboard the German freighter Aachen said officers on the ship announced they would blow the ship up themselves if they encountered a British submarine. The men recalled radio bans, cold nights, and sparse rations as the crew faced the war with resignation.
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Boston
North Sea
Aachen
Methodist Official Seeks Roosevelt Mediation on War
In Chicago, the 100-year-old Rock River conference of Methodism urged the President to mediate in Europe and urged continued neutrality. Rev Charles F Boss Jr, secretary of the church world peace commission, telegraphed a plea for mediation and noted the United States' strategic position to help.
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Chicago
Methodist Church
Roosevelt
Rock River Conference of Chicago Methodism
White House
Charles F Boss, Jr
General Conference Commission On World Peace
Europe
United States
Governors incognito drive into Fairfield centennial
Gov George Wilson arrived at a Fairfield centennial event after an extended highway patrol escort at the west city limits. He had toured the Green Bay conservation area in Burlington earlier and has a habit of "sneaking in" to engagements, as he did in Decorah last spring. The piece notes state employee rehiring after short firings, audit criticisms of the tax commission, and potential gubernatorial contenders in 1940.
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Fairfield
George Wilson
George
Wilson
Burlington
Green Bay
Decorah
Norway
I. H. Knudson
Jewell
Highway Commission
Iowa
Madeon Wilson
Britain
Chamberlain
David Lloyd George
Berlin
Sinkiang
India
Iowa Volunteers Plan Expansion at Third Annual Convention
Iowa Volunteers the Iowa national guard veterans group met at the Hotel Montrose for its third annual convention. Plans to expand posts to Burlington Marshalltown Iowa City Keokuk Sioux City and Council Bluffs were announced by State Adjutant J Fred Currell. A national organization may form around the group with the Volunteers as its base.
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Montrose
Iowa Volunteers
Iowa National Guard Veterans’ Organization
Burlington
Marshalltown
Iowa City
Keokuk
Sioux City
Council Bluffs
J. Fred Currell
Veterans
Currell
48Th General Assembly
Louis D. Burgos
Frank K. Hahn
Morris
Cedar Rapids
Earl I. Sibert
Walter Scherrebeck
R. E. Munden
Charles Briggs
Don H. Hoover
National Guard
British aviator survives fiery attack over Siegfried Line
A Welsh gunner escaped after his clothes were set afire by incendiary bullets and his observer was killed. His plane, outnumbered near 20,000 feet, was disabled. he parachuted and was aided by French Algerian troops as German forces closed in.
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London
Ministry of Information
Siegried Line
France
Siegfried Line
Messerschmitts
Rabbit Bites Man in Red Lion Garden Incident
In Red Lion Pennsylvania Quay Minnich sustained two bites from a neighbor’s bold rabbit while guarding the garden on a Saturday. The animal nipped through his pants and darted off leaving Minnich with two wounds as evidence.
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Red Lion
Quay
United State Bank Iowa Statement Of Condition October 2 1839
Statement of the United State Bank Cedar Rapids Linn County Iowa shows total resources 1 136 753 14 including loans and discounts 433 038 48 and securities 963 319 55 with government guaranteed investments 7 000 00 and other assets such as overdrafts 68 34 due from banks 205 738 75 and furniture 4 000 000 000 00. Capital surplus and reserves listed with deposits and other liabilities totaling 21 136 753 24. Officials Prochaska President Pochobradsky Jr Vice President Kanak Cashier Kriz George W Drahos Assistant Cashier sworn statement dated October with signatures and seal.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Linn
United States
U.S
Linn County
Prochaska
Pochobradsky, Jr
Kanak
Charles Kriz
George W. Drahos
Eib
Brocharea
Deky, JR
Charles
ASAL
George Web Dranos
L. Prochaska
L. J. Pochobradsky
Ana Charles Kriz
Fers
Drahos
Seall Bessie Zurka
Towa
Iows
It Happened Last Week On Neutrality Debates In Congress
A flood of mail pressed neutrality revision in Washington as both sides urged staying out of Europe’s war. The administration backs repeal of embargo with cash and carry for beligerents while opponents seek independence for the House. Hull pushes reciprocal trade with Chile and a five million loan to Chile.
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Iteral
Washington
America
Senate
House
United States
Europe
Key Pittman
Tom Connally
William E. Borah
Arthur H.vandenberg
Panama
Arosemena
Canada
Berlin
United States Navy
State Department
Athenia
Naz
Germany
Britain
France
Cordell Hull
Chile
Hull
World at War Warships and diplomacy swirl as Hitler offers peace
Reports outline Hitler proposing a conference and neutral mediation while Britain and France reject any imposed peace. Mussolini and Franco’s positions are weighed amid Russia expanding influence and Polish leadership changes. Military actions include Siegfried line breaches, Baltic blockades, and Allied air losses as baseball headlines tease a Yankees Reds World Series trend.
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Britain
France
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hitler
Germany
England
Daladier
Poland
Mussolini
Bedfellow
Italy
Ciano
Berlin
Spain
Franco
Russia
Baltic Sea
Latvia
Rumania
Constanta
Black Sea
Balkans
Japanese bombs hit American mission in Shantung
The American embassy said four bombs were dropped on September 22 on the Southern Baptist mission at Thsien in Shantung province damaging the mission buildings.
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Peiping
Southern Baptist
Thsien
Shantung Province
Statement of Condition of the Peoples Savings Bank
The bank reports assets and liabilities as of October 2 in Linn County Iowa. Total resources 5,308,938.90 with capital stock 83,000 and surplus 301,000. Liabilities include deposits 2,315,263.30 and other items. directors and officers certify accuracy.
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Gwen Bristow
Fairfax State Savings
Fairfax
Iowa News
J. B. Elliott
F. L. Wolfe
Glen Blackburn
Adrian’. Gamble
Smith-Hughes
Iand
Miss Pearl Robbins
Mr. Gamble
Delmar
William O'Meara
St. Patrick’s Church
J. J. Hopkins
Immaculate Conception
Petersville
O'Meara
Alvord
Lillian Laughlin
Lyons
Methodist
Capitol Currents
Joan BH. Chapman
Associated Press
Karl Fischer
Public Safety Department
Fischer
State’ Tax “Commission
Krashel
State Tax Commission
Board of Assessment and Review
Tax Commission
Law Library
Blanche Smith
Supreme Court
United State Bank
Bob Estabrook
Wladyslaw Rackiewicz
Paris
Ignace Moscicki
Romania
Warsaw
Fuehrer
Werner von Fritsch
Baltic
Saar
Japan
China
Pat Pourin
George Cardinal
Mundelein
Ill
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
National Association of Broadcasters
Charles E. Coughlin
Fritz Kuhn
Kentucky
M. M. Logan
Burlington Zephyr
Napier
New York Yankees
Cincinnati Reds
The
Peoples Savings Bank
Cera
State of Iowa
Linn’ County
Prank C . Welch
Paula, Huston
Warriner
Nice
Rinderknecht, Jr
An Mekota
Ervin F. Stepanek
Brett Dishong
Frank C. Welch
Paul H. Huston
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