Independence Fire Kills Two In Apartment Store Tragedy
Sheriff investigates possible incendiary origin after Tuesday morning blaze in Independence gutting a combined store and apartment building. Victims: Mrs Mary Lynch Stats Harper 64 and daughter Mrs Ethel Stats Lamb Chesmore. Two others hospitalized with burns, owner uncertain on insurance.
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Ray Burch
Mary Lynch Stats Harper
Ethel Stats Lamb Chesmore
Louis Kiggins
P. C. Heege
People’s Hospital
Charles Stats
George Davis
Chesmore
George Niebeck
Hazleton
Harvest Home crowd hears Murphy on tariffs and farm costs
Springville crowd at Butler park hears Democratic senatorial candidate Louis Murphy critique government spending and the Smoot Hawley tariff. He cites prices, trade barriers, and a Sheffield Indiana tile maker to argue tariffs harm American farmers. Event features fiddlers, dulcimers, dances, and band performances with results announced for local contests.
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Springville
Butler Park
Louis Murphy
Murphy
Stone
Federal Farm Board
South Dakota
Henry Wallace
Wallace
Farmer
Iowa
Des Moines
United States
Sheffield
Canada
H. P. Gillilan
Richard Bond
Bert McCann
Jean Irvin
Center Point
Wyoming
Roy Schwab
M. L. Hill
No Time For Homesickness on Cornell College Campus
Mount Vernon reports a week of orientation for new Cornell College students class of 1936. Activities include a president's chapel on Friday, a picnic at the Upper Palisades, and a Saturday registration and freshman talent show. New staff include Dr. Albion R. King heading philosophy and religion, Dr. Chester L. Rich leading economics and business, and Prof. H. M. Kelly among new faculty.
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Burgstahler
Clyde Tull
Christian Newton
Helen von Behren
Mechanicsville
Ralph Wilkinson
Rolfe
Upper Palisades
Albion R. King
Cornell
Chapel
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Philosophy
Alice Betts
W. S. Ebersole
H. M. Kelly
The
Chester L. Rich
Mitchell
Rich
Albert F. Johnson
I Ae
Collin
Cornell Hill
Johnson
W. Earl Beem
Modern Surgery Demonstrated by Iowa Physicians
Five branches of surgery were demonstrated by the University of Iowa College of Medicine faculty during a four day course attended by twenty Iowa physicians. Orthopedic, general, otolaryngology, gynecology, and genito-urinary techniques were shown. Registered participants included Dr. C. G. Thomas Monticello and others from Tipton Davenport Cedar Rapids Wellman and Marion.
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Iowa
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Y University of Iowa
University’s
College of Medicine
C. G. Thomas
Monticello
P. M. Hoffman
Tipton
R. R. Kulp
Davenport
H. E. Pfeiffer
Cedar Rapids
E. D. Miller
Wellman
J. T. Grayston
Marion
Henry Mengel Dies At La Porte City
Henry Mengel 92 died Monday at his granddaughter Mrs. Ralph Elliott’s home in La Porte City. Funeral services are at the Elliott home Thursday at 1 p.m. Burial will be in Dysart Evangelical church. Born in Germany in 1840 he married Margaret Shriber in 1860 and the couple later settled near Dysart. Mrs. Mengel died in 1920. He is survived by seven children five grandchildren seven great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren.
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LA Porte City
Henry Mengel
Ralph Elliott
Elliott
Dysart
Evangelical Church
Mr. Mengel
Germany
Margaret Shriber
United States
Bert ram M E Church Homecoming Set for Sept 25
Bertram Methodist church plans its fourth annual homecoming on September 25. A general committee approved specific duties including program invitations reception dinner decorations music registration signs and ushers with Mrs Milo Petrak as secretary treasurer. Speakers will be announced later.
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Bertram
Methodist Church
F. G. Anderson
John Knapp
Fred Lake
G. R. Jorgenson
J. Bruce Eyestone
F.G. Anderson
Frank Anderson
Marguerite Knapp
Leonzo Berry
Frank Lerner
Ed Marx
Byron Wetzel
Walter Martin
C. C. Berry
Floyd Kitchen
J. W. Blaine
R. C. Anderson
Sherwin Caldwell
Milo Petrak
La Porte City Farmer Hangs Self In Barn
La Porte City, Louis H. Goudy, 57, a farmer living five miles southeast of town, died by hanging in a barn on his property. He was found by his wife Tuesday at 1 30 pm. He had been in poor health. Survived by widow, five children, five sisters, and one brother. Born in Pennsylvania, he moved here in 1895.
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LA Porte City
Louis H. Goudy
Here
Mr. Goudy
Pennsylvania
Riverside Homecoming Draws About 3000 in Festivities
About 3000 people attended Riverside’s Homecoming celebration featuring a six block parade. Prizes were awarded to Ted's Beauty Shop and In gram Cafe for best float, with St. Mary's school, Leon Kloppfer and Sammy Marner, and Bobby Workman taking top prizes in children’s divisions. The Muscatine band performed, and events included sports, drills, an operetta, and a seven piece Mt orchestra.
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Gazette
Riverside
Muscatine Band
Riverside Firemen
Glenn Cray
Hills
Ludwig Jarvinson
Minneapolis
Oscar Graham
Bud Mentzer
Rodger Hargrave
Iowa City
Wilbur Wyjack
Coralville
Bud Green
Lone Tree
Bill Scott
Jackie Burris
Ray Connell
Deep River
Mton
Tama County Fair sues for 215 over sham battle fee
R R Westfall and others for the American Legion posts sue the Tama County Fair Association seeking 215 plus interest and costs. They allege an August 1931 oral contract to stage a sham battle for the fair with 180 to the posts and 35 for transport of the Guard unit from Marshalltown. They claim the posts performed but were not paid and that the association is disposing of assets to defraud creditors.
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Tama
R. R. Westfall
R. Cronk
William Omenenade
American Legion
Tama County
Marshalltown
Iowa City hosts three educator conferences this fall
The University of Iowa will host three October conferences for educators with over 1,000 expected attendees. The school administrators and supervisors session runs October 6 to 8 with about 200 participants. A math teachers conference follows October 14 and 15 for roughly 150 leaders, and a science meeting October 27 to 29 gathers biology geology physics botany and chemistry experts.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Bruce E. Mahan
Iowa University to Broadcast Educational Series on WSUI
More than 20 University of Iowa departments will aid in educational broadcasts on WSUI for the coming school year. Six courses will be offered by radio with lectures from university classrooms. Programs begin September 26 and cover speech, child welfare, music, journalism.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
WSUI
Marengo Sees New School Enrollment Record
In Marengo the public schools report 563 pupils enrolled the largest headcount in history. Nineteen students have entered high school this term.
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Marengo
Burgstahler Returns as Cornell Plans 1932 33 Year
President Burgstahler comes back to Cornell college Mount Vernon after a two month vacation in northern Minnesota as final plans for the 1932 33 academic year begin. Faculty members return. Horace Alden Miller and wife hosted after summer western tour. Ruby Wade and Mary Parsons also arrive home from Washington and eastern travels.
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Mount Vernon
Pres
H. J. Burgstahler
Cornell College
Minnesota
Cornell
Horace Alden Miller
West
Ruby Wade
Mary Parsons
Washington
D. C
Unemployment Service Stopped At Iowa City
The unemployment bureau announced a temporary halt in the local unemployment service in Iowa City due to lack of funds. At present 471 persons are registered as unemployed.
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Iowa City
Unemployment Bureau
Cedar Rapids Couple Weds in Dixon Illinois Ceremony
Miss Becans Johnson daughter of Mr and Mrs Johnson of Cedar Rapids wed George Robertson eldest son of Mr and Mrs H D Robertson of West Branch in Dixon Illinois Saturday. The couple, now in Chicago, will reside at 322 Twenty fourth Street NE Cedar Rapids upon return.
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Becans Johnson
Johnson
Cedar Rapids
George Robertson
H. D. Robertson
West Branch
Dixon, Ill
Button Factory Workers End Two Weeks Strike
Hawkeye and Teichmuller button plants in Muscatine reach a settlement ending a two week strike. Workers secure 10 percent wage increase and full time employment through December 24 on a 45 hour week. About 100 workers voted to accept. Arbitration committee aided negotiations. plants may reopen Thursday.
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Muscatine
Hawkeye
Teichmuller
Citizens’ Arbitration Committee
Funeral Services Held For A C Fitzgarrald
Alfred C. Fitzgarrald, 70, of Center Point, died Saturday. Services were held at the Evangelical church in Center Point with burial there. He farmed locally, later retired, and leaves wife Emma Wakefield Fitzgarrald, daughters Mara Holland, Nella Cleator, Virginia Lee Rice, son Sidney A. Fitzgarrald, and a sister in Kansas.
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Center Point
Alfred C. Fitzgarrald
Evangelical Church
Henry
Sarah Hill Fitzgarrald
Cedar Rapids
Minnesota
Emma Wakefield Fitzgarrald
Mara Holland
Bode
Nella Cleator
Virginia Lee Rice
Sidney A. Fitzgarrald
Iowa City
Kansas
Washington High School achieves new enrollment milestone
Washington ta-Washington high school reports 500 students for the first time, with the junior college posting its largest enrollment in the institution's history, according to Dean Harland Mead.
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Washington, Ta
Washington High School
Harland Mead
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