Daily Record Weather and Notices for September 6 1955
The Daily Record lists low temperatures and precipitation for Sunday with city figures such as Bismarck 79 52 and Milwaukee 84 56. It reports cooler northwest conditions and a high of 78 to 88 for Tuesday, plus month totals and wind data. The notice includes birth announcements from several families, fire reports, funeral services across multiple towns, and upcoming marriages and name changes.
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Bismarck
Milwaukee
Kago
N. Orleans
Nver
New York
Duluth
Omaha
Angeles
Phoenix
Jiami
Seattle
Iowa
Esc Reere
Young Slayer Sought Mental Aid Too Late
A 16 year-old Sioux Falls youth who sought psychiatric help too late was turned over to South Dakota authorities in Allison to face murder and kidnapping charges. Ronnie Loughlin admitted firing four shots and fled after an argument with two youths. He was the son of Sioux Falls residents and said he did not intend to shoot anyone.
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Allison
INS
Sioux Falls
S. D
South Dakota
Ronnie Loughlin
Johanna Espet‘wedt
Iowa
Harvey Uhlenhopp
Hampton
Butler County
Pete Boomgarden
Loughlin
Joseph Loughlin
Young Loughlin
Myrtle J.raabe
Emmetsburg
Clarksville
South
Dakota
Roy C. Knowles
Minnehaha County
Prowler Surprises Cedar Rapids Woman at Staub Court Residence
Cedar Rapids detectives investigated a house prowler incident at 1107 Staub court NE reported by Mrs. Lewis Reed. About 2 45 a m Monday a man entered the Reed home and touched her neck before fleeing through the garage, chased by her husband.
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Cedar Rapids
Lewis Reed
Staub Court NE
Reed House
Doctors Urge Stronger Labels for Aspirin Products
The American Medical Association calls for all aspirin and salicylate products to carry keep out of reach of children and consult your physician on dosing for under threes. They urge child resistant packaging and limits on tablet counts after noting 113 salicylate deaths in 1952, 86 of them children under five, with aspirin responsible for 41 deaths.
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Chicago
American Medical Association
AMA
Committee On Toxicology
United States
Three Teens Hurt When Pickup Hits Pole in Marion
Three Cedar Rapids youths were hospitalized after a pickup truck struck a utility pole in Marion Sunday night. The injured include Glen Reif 16 with elbow and leg cuts, Earl Wims 16 with an ankle injury, and Don Lewis 15 with facial cuts. Wims was released Monday morning. Charles Champar 15 and Bob Novotny 16 remained hospitalized with a cut lip and other injuries. Police blamed the skid on loose dirt or gravel.
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Cedar Rapids
Marion
Mercy Hospital
Glen Reif
Twenty-second ‘Avenue
Earl Wims
Cleveland Street
Don Lewis
Second Street
Wims
Charles Champar
Sixteenth Avenue
Bob Novotny
C Street
State Fair 4 H Champion Brings $2 20 per Pound
Des Moines AP reports a record 2 20 a pound paid for the Iowa State fair 4 H grand champion calf named Shorty. Bobby Kidney, 13, Scranton, received 2065 80 for the Hereford. Buyer from an Omaha brewing firm will donate the calf to Gov Hoegh for charity. The fair neared half a million in attendance with 68 185 on Sunday and 480 000 total by Sunday.
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Des Moines
Bobby Kidney
Scranton
Shorty
Omaha
Three Juveniles Involved in Springfield Parade Bomb Blast
A homemade bomb exploded near the Abraham Lincoln hotel in Springfield injuring three people during an American Legion parade. The device was built by two brothers aged 12 and 14 and two friends aged 13. The injured were treated and released. Police will bring the youths before family court Tuesday.
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Springfield
Ill
American Legion
Abraham Lincoln
Legion State Convention and Center
Empire Burlesque House Hit by Car Collision in Newark
Elizabeth Williams, 34, drove into the Empire burlesque theater front in Newark during a Sunday matinee. No injuries reported, investigation ongoing.
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Newark
Elizabeth Williams
Owl in diaper shocks Pasadena backyard observers
Pasadena resident Mode Frasure captured an owl in his backyard and found it wearing a diaper, a curious sight that drew attention from neighbors and local naturalists.
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Pasadena
Ins
Frasure
KCRG TV to air Cedar Rapids high school panel tonight
A second telecast panel on Cedar Rapids two proposed high schools will air on KCRG TV tonight from 9 pm. Citizens Committee Chairman Harry Sargeant and Supt. Clyde Parker join moderator Dick Yoakam to explain plans and problems with two building models. Viewers’ questions from last week will be discussed.
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Cedar Rapids
Kcrg-Tv
Wana 9
Citizens
Robert Blahnik
Clyde Parker
Carl Kesler
W. Sandoe Jordan
Iowa Holiday Toll Hits Five Traffic Deaths And One Drowning
The Labor Day weekend ends with six deaths in Iowa seven including one drowning. Victims include Mary Glen Marchant and Charlene Bryan both 15, and 11 month old Joh Brown of Omaha. Other fatalities span Mutsu Grover Simmons 66 of Ionia Ed McDaniel 14 of Muscatine and Glenn Thompson 57 near Nashua. Iowa’s 1955 toll climbs toward the prior year.
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Associated Press
Iowa
Chicago
National Safety Council
Thompson
Cedar River
Nashua
Mary Glen Marchant
Yale
Charlene Bryan
Guthrie Center
Panora
Joh Brown
Laurence Brown
Omaha
Muscatine
Martz
Iowa State Fair Nears End Amid Attendance Dip
Des Moines reports the 101st Iowa State Fair heads into its final day with officials satisfied the exposition succeeded though attendance lagged behind the centennial. By Sunday night the total reached 480 947 with more than half a million expected. 4-H livestock sales capped the closing day as fair secretary Lloyd Cunningham predicts a profit between 40 000 and 50 000 dollars due to crop conditions impacting spending.
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Des Moines
INS
Ifair
Lloyd Cunningham
Goodrich Signs Pay Agreement With CIO Union
The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company and CIO United Rubber Cork Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America reached a wage agreement before a strike deadline. The deal provides a 12 cent hourly raise for 15,000 workers across nine plants, with skilled and maintenance staff getting an additional eight cents. The pact runs through April 1, 1957.
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New York
B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company
CIO
United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America
Fire at Whiting Is Out at Last
The eight day and five hour refinery blaze at the Standard Oil plant in Whiting Indiana finally burned out Sunday ending a costly fire. Fire crews faced a massive conflagration at the WHiting facility prompting evacuations and large-scale containment efforts. Local authorities reported extensive damage but no further spread was detected by dawn.
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Whiting
Ind
Standard Oil Company
Red arrests ]
The Nationalist Central News Agency reports that more than 427,000 people were arrested in Red China during the first six months of this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red
Taipei
Red China
Woman 75 slain in San Francisco apartment
Elizabeth Manning aged 75 was sexually assaulted and murdered in her San Francisco apartment, according to Coroner Henry W. Turkel. The case was reported Monday and investigated as a homicide.
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San Francisco
Elizabeth Manning
Henry W. Turkel
Long Time Sigourney School Director Dies
Sigourney mourns the death of Don Adams 76 a longtime Mason and school board member who led the board for years He was a past master of the Sigourney Masonic lodge member of Iowa Consistory and Lions Club He born in Washington County lived in Morning Sun North English and Sigourney since 1903 survived by wife two sons Richard and Don and two grandchildren Body at Reynolds funeral home arrangements pending
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Sigourney
Don Adams
Sigourney Board of Education
Keokuk County Hospital
Sigourney Asonic Lodge
Iowa _ Consistory
Scottish Rite of
Cedar Rapids
Eastern Star
Lions Club
Adams
Washington County
Morning Sun
Colorado
Frank Feibel
Feibel
Pact Reached in Bendix Walkout
Detroit AP reports Bendix Aviation workers across five plants voted on a three year contract ending a week long CIO UAW strike. The settlement provides layoff pay 60 to 65 percent for up to 26 weeks, wage boosts of six cents an hour annually, eight cents for skilled workers, pension up to 250 dollars monthly, and improved insurance, shifts, vacations, and holidays.
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Detroit
Bendix Aviation Corporation
CIO
United Auto
UAW
Springfield Auto Workers End 28 Day Strike With New Pact
CIO United Auto Workers at Allis-Chalmers voted unanimously to ratify a three year contract ending a 28 day strike. The Milwaukee signed agreement provides a general guaranteed annual wage and a 24 cent package pay raise with Springfield locals gaining one to eight cents and resolving local disputes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield, Ill
CIO
United Auto
Allis-Chalmers Company
Milwaukee
Springfield
Thief Returns 200000 Yen After Stealing 1 Million
In Hamamatsu Shizuoka workers found a vault opened and a note near the gate claiming 1,000,000 yen was taken from the vault. The thief left 200,000 yen as partial restitution and a message saying the rest was too much. Police investigate the unusual case.
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Hamamatsu
Japan
Shizuoka
Broadcaster discovers his own car blocking arena entrance
Art Metzler interrupted a Knoxville wrestling broadcast to tell police to move a car parked illegally outside the arena. He read the car’s model and license number before recognizing the vehicle as his own.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Art Metzler
Skyway Patrol Nabs Litterbugs In Iowa Labor Day
Special to The Gazette. An Iowa skyway patrol plane spotted beer cans being tossed from a moving car near Waterloo. The two offenders received summonses, part of eight issued Sunday in the tenth district. Sgt. Melvin Howe piloted from Oelwein for about seven hours, reporting rapid ground arrests for most violators.
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Oelwein
Skyway
Iowa
Waterloo
Melvin Howe
Oel«wein
Howe
Man Arrested as Chainer of Wife
Athens Tennessee AP Lee Mc Dowell aged 46 was charged with assault and battery after his wife said he forced her to work in fields all day and chained her to the bed at night. Deputy Reynolds said Mc Dowell claimed fear she would be snakebit. The wife mother of seven was taken to a hospital after escaping and turning to a neighbor for help. She reported a chain around her neck and hospital staff said she had hand and rib fractures and multiple bruises.
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Athens, Tenn
Lee McDowell
W. R. Reynolds
McDowell
Reynolds
Athens
Farm fires mark third blaze at Hawthorne-Mellody farm
Libertyville Illinois authorities probe a 150000 dollar fire at the Hawthorne Mellody farm. The Sunday blaze damaged a feed mill and four silos with 5000 tons of grain after prior fires on November 29 1953 and July 21 last year that destroyed barns and equipment.
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Libertyville
Ill
Hawthorne - Mellody
Early Space Travel Forecast Dismissed by Army Scientist
Maj. Gen. Leslie E. Simon, a leading rocket expert, says the government has no incentive to pursue human space travel now and calls the idea pure fantasy. He argues funding should wait until there is clear gain and notes unmanned satellites could provide quicker knowledge, with a launch planned by 1958.
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Washington
Leslie E. Simon
U.S. News and Word Report
Simon
Woman Charged After Slashing Employer in Early Morning assault
Cedar Rapids woman Ruth Irene Morrow 54 of 340 Twenty second avenue SW is jailed on a assault charge. She allegedly attacked Donald Knight her employer and housekeeper after an argument Sunday morning. Knight received stitched wounds at Mercy hospital. Detectives questioned Morrow at the police station and booked her.
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Cedar Rapids
Ruth Irene Morrow
Donald Knight
Lyman Emery
Knight
Emery
Mercy Hospital
Jon Knight
Possible Amnesia Victim Sought After Burlington Crash
Iowa police hunt Cedar Rapids man William Miller 34 missing after a Burlington crash. Last seen Saturday in a black and gray checked suit. injured right elbow. five feet six and a half inches. 153 pounds. sandy hair, blue eyes. Mrs Miller reported him. police from multiple departments alerted.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Burlington
William Miller
Coldstream Avenue
Miller
Last of Cape Horn clipper Balclutha to become living museum
The Balclutha, last of the Cape Horn clipper fleet, lies at rest in San Francisco as a living maritime museum. Under tow from Oakland after restoration, the 253-foot ship will host visitors at Pier 43, backed by the San Francisco Maritime Museum Association and unions that funded the makeover. Once named Star of Alaska and Pacific Queen, she sailed grain routes and Alaska runs before becoming a museum ship in 1950s renovations.
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San Francisco
San Francisco Bay
Oakland
Bay Area
New Hampshire
Pier
Inda Frances Dunn
Alfred Durkee
Balclutha
Glasgow
Scotland
round-the-Horn
California
United Kingdom
Australia
Alaska Packers’ Association
Star of Alaska
Alaska
Alameda Creek
Frank Kissinger
West Coast
Sausalito
San Francisco Maritime Museum Association
Kissinger
Deaths Edmund B Callender Cedar Rapids Resident
Edmund B Callender 59 of Cedar Rapids a retired Rock Island railroad superintendent died in Brainerd Minnesota after a sudden illness He was born August 16 1884 at Clarion and married Alice Laurence in Spirit Lake on August 3 1910 Surviving are his wife two sons a daughter and seven grandchildren He was a Methodist and member of several lodges and clubs Funeral services will be at Turner chapel at 1030 Wednesday with burial at Cedar Memorial cemetery
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Edmund B. Callender
Fifth Ave
Cedar Rapids
Rock Island Railroad
Dakota Division
Brainerd
Minn
Clarion
Alice Laurence
Spirit Lake
John F. Calender
National Advertising
the Gazette
Scotts Bluff
Neb
Leonard Porter
Cleveland
Callender
Methodist Church
North Starlodge
A.F
A.M
Knights Templar
Estherville
the Elks Club
Cedar Raps
Turner Chapel
Jackson Burns
St. Paul’s Methodist Church
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Myra A. Rigby Dies in Cedar Rapids at 73
Myra Amelia Rigby widow of Samuel LeRoy Rigby died in a Cedar Rapids hospital Sunday at 7 30 p m after a long illness. Born December 1 1869 at Langworthy she leaves five daughters Fern Thomas Gertie Jones Maude Schuchman Violet Connors Hazel Palmer and five sons Clyde Joe George Samuel Galen along with a sister three brothers and 32 grandchildren. Services are to be held in Turner chapel with burial in Castle Grove cemetery near Monticello.
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Myra Amelia Rigby
Samuel LeRoy Rigby
Hubbard Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Langworthy
Fern Thomas
Gertie Jones
Mishawaka
Ind
Maude Schuchman
Rushville
Violet Connors
Los Gatos
Calif
Hazel Palmer
Stanton
Ore
Clyde Rigby
Joe Rigby
Lafayette
George
Samuel Rigby
Dover
Idaho
Galen Rigby
Sand Point
Eunice Harmon
Sac City
Henry Otis Smith
Jed
Albert Smith
Turner Chapel
Castle Grove
Monticello
Matilda Popenhagen 73 Widowed of Fred M Popenhagen
Matilda E Popenhagen 73 of 318 Center Point Road NE Cedar Rapids died in a local hospital at 4 15 am Sunday after a long illness Born November 9 1881 in Benton county she lived in Cedar Rapids 70 years Survived by son Derald I Roland Cedar Rapids brother Lloyd Baumgarter Petaluma California three grandchildren and three great grandchildren She was a member of First Lutheran Church and the Pythian Sisters and the Rebekahs Funeral at Beatty Bearle chapel Tuesday at 3 30 pm led by Pastor Roger Johnson Burial in Linwood Cemetery Friends may call at the chapel
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Matilda E. Popenhagen
Center Point Road
Fred M. Popenhagen
Cedar Rapids
Benton County
Derald I. Roland
Lloyd Baumgarter
Petaluma
Calif
Popenhagen
First Lutheran Church
Pythian Sisters
Rebekahs
Beatty-Bearle Chapel
Roger Johnson
Linwood Cemetery
Infant Carman Sue McDowell Dies in Cedar Rapids
Carman Sue McDowell two month old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Patrick McDowell of 1048 Eleventh Street NE died at a Cedar Rapids hospital at noon Sunday. Surviving are the parents a sister Debra Lynn and four grandparents all of Cedar Rapids. Graveside services will be at Shiloh cemetery at 10 am Wednesday conducted by Rev. Glen W. High of Berean church. Friends may call Beatty-Bearle chapel 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday.
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Carman Sue
Joseph Patrick McDowell
Eleventh Street
Cedar Rapids
Debra Lynn
Earl Rowray
John W. McDowell
Shiloh
Glen W. High
Berean Church
Beatty-Bearle Chapel
Services for Miss Boettcher in Cedar Rapids
Miss Henrietta Boettcher of 1426 Third Avenue SE Cedar Rapids died Saturday. Services set for 9 a.m. Tuesday at Immaculate Conception Church with Msgr. William H. Schulte presiding. Burial at St. John's Cemetery Independence. Rosary at 8 45 p.m. Monday at Monahan Funeral Home. Survived by brother Henry J L Boettcher nephew Henry J Boettcher and niece Elizabeth M Boettcher, all of Sioux City.
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Henrietta Boettcher
Third Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
Immaculate Conception Church
William H., Schulte
St. John’s Cemetery
Independence
Schulte
Monahan Funeral Home
Henry J. L. Boettcher
Henry J
Elizabeth M. Boettcher
Sioux City
Shopper Should Have Left the Car at Home
Mrs Dorothy Boardman left bun dies in her ranch wagon while shopping. She found no bundles when she returned and drove off in a stranger car before realizing her mistake. She found her wagon later with the bundles still inside.
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Boston
Dorothy Boardman
Death of Master Sgt. Francis E. Burns
Mrs S G Blencoe 701 Eighteenth St SE reports her brother Master Sgt Francis E Burns 47 killed in a car wreck while on a fishing trip near Nelson Canada Army veteran of 27 years services at Fort George Wright Spokane Washington burial in National Cemetery details for Sgt Burns provided.
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S. G. Blencoe
Eighteenth Street
Francis E. Burns
Nelson
Can
Services for Ernest Johnson at new Wilson & Company
Funeral services for Ernest Johnson of 141 Kenmore Street NE and lifelong fireman at Wilson & Company after his death on Saturday will be held at the new facility. Johnson served 40 years with the company.
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Ernest Johnson
Kenmore Street
Wilson & Company
Reverend Bernard G. Olson service at Kewood Park Methodist
Funeral services for Reverend Bernard G. Olson will be held at 3 30 p m Tuesday at Ke wood Park Methodist church Burial will be in Cedar Memorial cemetery Friends may call at the chapel
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernard G. Olson
Kewood Park Methodist Church
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
New York Man Elected President of National Radio Club
Ray Edge of Buffalo New York was elected president of the National Radio Club at its three day Cedar Rapids convention closing Monday. About 50 delegates from 15 states attended at the Roosevelt hotel. New officers include Joseph W Brauner Walter Pa vice president Harold Wagner Lake City Pa executive secretary Robert W Gorsuch Cedar Rapids chairman of the board Len Kruse Dubuque vice chairman. This marks the convention's first time west of Buffalo N Y, the club headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Edge
Buffalo
N. Y
National Radio Club
Cedar Rapids
Roosevelt Hotel
Joseph W. Brauner
Walter, Pa
Harold Wagner
Lake City
Robert W. Gorsuch
Len Kruse
Dubuque
City Briefs and Local Notices Summary
City briefs cover events from Western Military Academy enrollment for Alan Allen to a Labor Day concert by Frank Osmowski and a Cedar Rapids Canopus club luncheon speaker John Culver. Community notices include a funeral in California, a Masonic meeting, an African Methodist Episcopal appointment, and local incidents with a car collision and a jail fall injuries.
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Labor Day
Frank Osmowski
Ellis Blvd
Brad’s Beach
Canopus
John Culver
Cedar Rapids
England
Canopus Club
Montrose Hotel
Scientists Offer Tips on Growing Merion Bluegrass
California researchers outline methods to keep Merion Bluegrass lawns free of rust. They urge cutting to half an inch, frequent watering and monthly nitrogen fertilization to maintain rapid growth and a healthy turf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davis
Calif
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Leo
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N.Y
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Grande Avenue SE
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van Vechten Park
Hopkinton
Harriet Saunders
Hopkinton Methodist Church
Stanley
Ray Dickinson
Union Church
Woodlawn
Hintz
West Union
Sophia Woodson
Hawkeye Methodist Church
Smoketown
Earlville
Donald Matthews
Earlville Methodist Church
Zion Cemetery
Colesburg
Oxford Junction
John Kropik
Sacred Heart Church
Hayden Funeral Home
Williamsburg
Matt Goodman
Pilot Grove
Jones Funeral Home
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Reynolds Funeral Home
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Coggon
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Passmore Funeral Home
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Iowa State Fair
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Liz
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Walker
Edmund Callender
Dea
S. R. Rigby
Fred Popenhagen
McDowell Infant
Boettcher Services
Beatty-Bearle
Janeba
16Th Ave
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Johnson Services
John EK
Lapes
3Rd Ave
Mt. Vernon Ave
Radio Club
Alan Alen
Gale F. Allen
Forest Drive
Alton
Western Military Academy
Cemar
Cedar
George Sveer
Jack Svee
San Bernardino
Hoyt Thomas
Iowa Theater
Charles H. Copeland
Ninth Avenue SE
Northwestern Conference
The
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Smulekoff
Masonic Temple
Arthur Saul
Fifth Avenue
Fifth ‘Avenue
Third Street
Ralph Briles
iThird Street
Clair Bosacker
Fourth Avenue SE
St. Luke's Hospital
Bosacker
Turner & Son
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