Iowa City Prepares For Record Homecoming Attendance
Iowa City braces for a record homecoming with housing planned for about 10060 visitors in hotels fraternities and sororities and private homes More than 23000 students march in a giant parade and a mass meeting is planned alumni governors and Des Moines leaders are invited Decorated houses compete for prizes while civic groups fund plaques memorial arches and a potential bonfire reversal depends on the game outcome Rubber and tin sales may rise as a national recovery drive continues
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Iowa City
Iowa
Hstacenis
A.umn
Schedlec
Ted
Clyde Hermere
Waner Stewart
Des Moines
Colece of Medicine
Henry J Prer
Envy xi
Cecoratec
Reta
Merchants Bureau
Coliece
Baldwin Couple Celebrates 56th Anniversary at Home
Mr and Mrs Joseph Curry of Baldwin celebrate their 56th wedding anniversary at their Baldwin home. The couple married Oct 16 1877 by Rev Isaac Newtor at the Meth odist parsonage. They began housekeeping in Morrow’s farms then moved to South Grove in Clinton county.
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Joseph Curry
Baldwin Mondar
Bernard Curry
Curry
Jones
Lydia Nooe
John
Susannah
Curr
Low Natron
Malcom Curry
Canton County
Three Killed and Dozens Hurt in Iowan Auto Crashes
Three people died and many were injured in a string of weekend car crashes across Iowa. Notable victims include Leonsaré Joenks, 20, and Mrs. Arthur Kraft, 25, both killed in separate collisions near Ruthven and Sioux City involving Ralph Mancan and Henry Janssen. Several others, including Mabel Scanlon of Boone and Marian Kennedy of Namra, sustained severe injuries. Kennedy and her brother were hit during a crash near Webster City.
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Dickens
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Ralph Mancan
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Sioux City
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Medapolis
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Lester Manning
Paul
Prof Nagler Sees No Improvement After Surgery
Special to The Gazette Iowa City professors health described as very serious after ruptured appendix operation a week ago. Doctors say he is holding his own but shows no improvement and remains in critical condition at the university engineering college.
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Iowa City
Fred A Nagler
University of Iown College of Engineering
Grinnell Debates 11 Ton Cannon in Park
Grinnell residents clash over placing an 11 ton cannon in the city park. Professor Henry C Conard says it would discord the park scene and suggests it belong at a high school entrance with a warning plaque about war. A Grinnell Methodist class objects to the gun while Legionnaire John Garwood argues a city is not first class without a cannon and recalls four cannons on a courthouse lawn.
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Marshalltown
Shimek Honored By Will H. Dily League
ESTHERVILLE Iowa Dr T D Kas of Sutherland began a new term as president of the Will H Dile league of Iowa after an annual convention re electing him honorary president Bohumil Shimek of Iowa City was honored at the gathering Officers named include Frank Marnette Spirit Lake A Claire Dewey Washington RS Barnard Spencer L P Shaffer Spencer Joe Howe Estherville and A B Coffman district directors The Nichols death notice reports Clara E Rhodes 48 in Pasadena Calif widow of Clark Rhodes survived by son Burrell mother Mrs Wilvert and brother Bert Wiltert Muscatine The family lived in Nichols before moving west
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Sutherland
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Pasadena
Calif
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Burrell
Wilvert
Bert Wiltert
Muscatine
Rhodes
California
Methodist Church
Royal Neighbor Lodge
North Liberty Man Killed by Live Wire
Swisher Millard Singleton aged 24 son of Mr and Mrs George Singleton of North Liberty was electrocuted at the Iowa Electric Light and Power substation at 125 am Monday. He was cleaning equipment when he touched a high voltage wire. Fellow workers Lester Consamus and Leo Vanourney found the body. Singleton, unmarried, had worked three years for the light company. A year ago John Svoboda died in a similar accident at the station.
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Millard Singleton
George Singleton
North Liberty
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Lester Consamus
Leo Vanourney
Singleton
The
Light Company
John Svoboda
Ten Students Named to Cornell College Honor List
Special to The Gazette Mount Vernon Ten students head the Cornell College honor list published by registrar Dr W S Ebersole here Saturday. The second group includes seventeen names and thirty are given honorable mention.
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W. S. Ebersole
Gordon Johnson
Cedar Rapids
Priscilla Keeler
Richard Tims
Tama
Marian Chamberlin
Muscatine
Richard Baker
Cedar Falls
Pau Clayton
Holyoke
Colo
Margaret Herrick
Minneapolis
Alice Maher
Flushing
Ruth Miller
Waterloo
Edith Slothower
Dixon
Doris Albin
West Branch
Leo Beraneck
Marguerite Bresson
Compton
Ill
Ruth Burton
Gordon Chamberlin
Arlington
Marjorie Coleman
Eleanor Culver
Mitchell
S. D
Florence Hanson
Arline Herdklotz
Woodstock
Alison Moore
Tipton
William Reynolds
Ottumwa
Claude Rose
Newton
Donald Rugg
Rochester
N.Y
Pearl Rumble
Robert Smith
Lost Nation
Margaret Stratton
Ruth van Buren
Anamosa
Rosco Anderson
Clinton
Eleanor Atkinson
Hubert Barr
Margaret Chamberlin
Dorothy Cheever
Wilton
Lester Coleman
Alice Davidson
Lissette Ehrmann
Des Moines
Bernice Fictor
Clarence
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Josephine Hart
Dreva Hawks
Ruth Hill
Springville
Hele
Holmgren
Davenport
Raymond Kautz
West Chicago
Robert Kendrick
Wapello
Pauline Kyle
Margaret Leonard
Laura McKay
Savanna
Odd Fellows and Rebekahs Open State Convention
Two thousand five hundred members gathered in Council Bluffs to open the eighty sixth annual state convention with sessions running through Oct 20. Across the Missouri River in Omaha Nebraska delegates of the same orders organized for their state convention and planning a joint banquet. Cedar Rapids grand master N D Smith leads the event with Lola Clinton Marshalltown presiding for the Rebekahs.
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Rebekahs
Missouri River
Omaha
Nebraska
N D Smith
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Lola
Clinton Marshalltown
Believe Cresco Man Killed Wife And Self
Authorities plan an inquest to determine exact circumstances of the deaths of Fred Rossman Jr and his estranged wife. They believe Rossman shot the woman and then killed himself. Mrs Rossman was found at her Cresco home Saturday night. Rossman’s body was later found near the house.
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Fred Rossman Jr
Rossman
Rossmans
New Auto License Plates Delayed to January 2 In Iowa
Des Moines AP reports Iowa will extend license plate sales by a month. Superintendent Lew Wallace said 1934 plates go on sale January 2 and delinquency for owners who fail to obtain them starts February 1, extending the prior December 1 sale date and January 1 delinquency.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Lew Wallace
State Motor Vehicle Department
General Assembly
Former Ainsworth Mayor And Postmaster Dies
Funeral services for W. T. Trotter 73 former Ainsworth mayor and postmaster will be Tuesday afternoon at 2 in the Ainsworth Methodist church. Born June 18 1860 in Fairfield he moved to Ainsworth at 17 and spent 42 years in blacksmithing. He served 17 years as postmaster and 17 years writing insurance. Surviving are eight children in Iowa Galveston and Cincinnati.
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W T Trotter
Ainsworth
Methodist
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Alexander
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Isabelle Stewart
Trotter
Des Moines
Willis T. Trotter
Kansas City
H. B Stickley
Galveston
Tex
G F. Trotter
W H. Ross
Keota
L. J Trotter
Vinton Plant Packages 120000 Cans of Pumpkin
A Vinton Iowa plant completed a pumpkin canning run totaling 120000 cans in five thousand cases. The operation lasted ten days employing thirty to forty workers and disbursing about $2000 in wages. Pumpkin supplies arrived from Edgewood Rowley Palo Garrison Vinton Urbana Brandon Shellsburg and Van Horne.
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Iowan Canning Company
Edgewood
Rowley
Palo
Garrison
Urbana
Brandon
Shellsburg
van Horne
Death of Decorah priest Father Hogan at 73
The Rev. Father Marth Hogan aged 73 longtime pastor of St Benedict’s church Decorah died Sunday from a heart attack after preaching services Saturday he had been ill but conducted Sunday mass Funeral services are set for Wednesday at 10 am burial in Duburne He was born in Ireland and is survived by two brothers a sister and several nephews and cousins all clergy members including Rev Fathers M J Hogan Greene Patrick Hogan Postville James Hogan Brainard Minn and Maroney Helena Mont
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St. Benedict's Church
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Ireland
M. J. Hogan
Greene
Patrick Hogan
Postville
James Hogan
Brainard
Minn
Maroney
Helena
Mont
West Branch Farmer Injured by Cow Accident
Andrew J. Foraker suffered a broken elbow in an odd farm mishap near West Branch Friday. While driving a cow, the animal stepped on a loose board, tripping him and causing a three place fracture.
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West Branch
Andrew J. Foraker
Civil War veteran J D Byers dies at 87 in South English
J D Byers born December 9 1845 in Lancaster Pennsylvania died at his home in South English after living in Washington community and Pilotburg. He served in the Twenty first Pennsylvania Cavalry and the Fifth Corps Army of the Potomac. Survived by eight children including Martha Myers Fredonia Vivian Byers Althea Burns Clara Byers Fred Byers John Byers Grace Sigmund and Bessie Fickling. Funeral services were held at Wellman Methodist Church.
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Henrietta Bartholomew
Pilotburg
Wellman G. A. R
Martha L. Myers
Fredonia
Kan
Vivian Byers
Lake Park
Althea A. Burns
Des Moines
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