Counties Seek Emergency Funds for Poor Relief in 1933 Budget
Sixty-five of Iowa’s ninety-nine counties request emergency appropriations totaling 1,131,084 for 1933 budgets. Most funds are for poor relief. some counties seek money for their treasuries and for municipalities. Dubuque leads with 72,000, followed by Pottawattamie at 61,000, with other figures listed for Benton, Fayette, Guthrie, Iowa, Jackson, Johnson, Linn, and Washington.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Oscar Anderson
Dubuque
Pottawattamie
Benton
Fayette
Guthrie
Jackson
Johnson
Linn
Washington
Blue Boy Heads to Hollywood for State Fair Film
Ames-Martin Fabricius Audu bon and his Hampshire pigs Blue Boy Judge Dike and Bell Boy have shipped to Hollywood to star in the film adaptation of Phil Stong's State Fair. Fabricius, recently graduated from Iowa State College Dairy Husbandry, will supervise the three Iowa porkers as production begins.
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Blue Boy
Hollywood
Ames
Martin Fabricius
Audubon
Iowa State College Dairy Husbandry Department
Iowa
Phil Stong
Fabricius
Hampshire
Judge Dike
Bell Boy
56 Per Cent Iowa State Summer Grads Secured Positions
The Gazette report states 207 Iowa State College graduates from two summer terms show 56 percent with reported jobs. Doctoral degree recipients have 85 percent placement, master's 65 percent, and bachelor's 44 percent, with some employment unreported.
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Iowa State
Ames
Iowa State College
M.os Helser
Right Denied To Reduce Yard Switch Crews
DES MOINES Iowa Transfer Railway of Des Moines failed to win the right to cut yard switch crews from three men to two. The decision came Wednesday from an industrial arbitration board after hearings with state official A B Funk and union and company representatives. The union says the ruling could influence other roads.
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Des Moines
NAP
Iowa Transfer Railway Company
A. B. Funk
J. P. Brindley
Little Rock
Ark
Switchmen’s Union
J. A. Wagner
Leo V. Kanan
Buffalo
N. Y
Union
Iowa
County Road Levies Not To Be Diverted To Poor Relief Fund
Iowa attorney general rules county road and maintenance levies cannot be diverted into poor relief funds. The opinion states these funds may only support relief work if the poor are employed on county highways. Assistant General Carl J Stephens authored the memo.
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Des Moines
Atmany
Carl J. Stephens
Nickerson Family Reunion At Conant’s Park Near Gladbrook
Descendants of Mr and Mrs B F Nickerson gathered at Conant’s park near Gladbrook on Sunday for a family reunion with about fifty attendees. The list includes Earl Nickerson Johnston Spaulding Rodger Spaulding Howard L Nickerson and family Gloria Ann, Jack Nickerson J Paul Beveridge, Ray Morrison and children Agnes Laufer Ralph Graves Carl Laufer and others from Grundy Center Ackley Monticello Des Moines.
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Grundy Center
B. F. Nickerson
Conant’s Park
Gladbrook
Earl Nickerson
Johnston
Rodger Spaulding
Des Moines
Howard L. Nickerson
Howard, Jr
Gloria Ann
Jack Nickerson
J. Paul and
Beveridge
Ray Morrison
Agnes Laufer
Ralph Graves
Donald Kline
Ackley
Julia Laufer
Carmicael
Monticello
Carl Laufer
Waucoma Farmer Fatally Gored by Loose Bull
Leonard J. Gibbs age 68 prominent farmer near Waucoma was killed at 6 pm Wednesday when attacked by a Guernsey bull that broke loose on the farm. His sister in law Miss Lizzie Meyer drove off the animal with a pitchfork before a doctor arrived. Gibbs had farmed in the area for about 50 years.
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West Union
Leonard J. Gibbs
Waucoma
Mr. Gibbs
Lizzie Meyer
Claims Sum Taken From Safety Vault In Iowa City Bank
Iowa City suit seeks 2700 dollars from the bank receiver for missing bonds and money from a safety deposit box after the Iowa City Savings Bank closed last January. William Teeter alleges a box held 2950 dollars in government bonds and cash, with 2700 dollars missing. He seeks 4 percent interest from October.
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Iowa City
William Teeter
Iowa City Savings Bank
Teeter
Ferkhams
Bee
Twelfth Jackson family reunion held in Blairs town park
The Blairs town Labor Day gathering drew many relatives including Roy Longacre and son Wayne of La Porte City, Edith Greesman, J. F. Krebs, Charles Miller, Ellis Potter of Cedar Rapids, E. Fitzgerald and son Lyle of Des Moines, Tom Scepter and family, Oliver Cole, Elzina Brown and son Ross of Marengo, W. McKenna and daughter, Ralph Anderson and family, Jess Potter of Boone, Rex Jackson and family, Ed Rice and family, Bessie Burkhart and family, Henry Lundburg of Blairs town, Berniece Krebs of Iowa City, and John Jackson and son Sterling of Luzerne.
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Blairstown
Jackson
Labor Day
Roy Longacre
Wayne
la Porte City
Edith Greesman
J. F. Krebs
Charles Miller
Ellis Potter
Cedar Rapids
E. Fitzgerald
Lyle
Des Moines
Tom Scepter
Judge Dismisses Plea To Reopen Prentiss Estate
Iowa City district court Judge H D Evans dismissed Farmers Loan and Trust Company plea to reopen the Henry J Prentiss estate. The receivership cannot file a $1600 claim as the bank did not file a stock assessment claim before the estate closed.
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Iowa City
Farmers Loan and Trust Company
Henry J. Prentiss
H. D. Evans
Evans
Reunions Draw Lewis and Class of 1922 Groups
The sixth annual Lewis families reunion occurred at Columbus chautauqua park with Mrs. Earl Lewis elected president and Mrs. F. A. Lewis as vice president. Attendees came from Muscatine Lone Tree Wapello Columbus Junction and Ainsworth. The Columbus High School class of 1922 also gathered at the park with several locals present. The Dallmeyer family reunion at the M and M cottage on the Cedar River drew 82 attendees and officers were elected: Arthur Crumley president Herman Lange vice president Mrs Ray Dobelbower secretary treasurer.
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Columbus Junction
Lewis
Columbus Chautauqua Park
Earl Lewis
Lone Tree
F. A. Lewis
Muscatine
Wapello
Ainsworth
Columbus High School
Norma Giffey
Chicago
A Ham
Crawfordsville
Harold Pace
Elmer Schmidt
Wilma Enyart
William Pine
Glenn Edwards
Ruth Jennings
Dallmeyer
Cedar River
Arthur Crumley
Herman Lange
Ray Dobelbower
Bishop Lee to Speak at Grace Methodist Church
Resident bishop Edwin F. Lee of the Methodist Episcopal church of Malaysia and the Philippines will lecture at Grace Methodist Church Sunday evening.
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Oelwein
Edwin F. Lee
Methodist Episcopal Church of
Malaysia
Philippines
Grace Methodist Church
Iowan Rises to Prominence in World Affairs
Irving Lindberg, an Iowan born in Cherokee, rises to a high role in international affairs. Son of a Swedish Free church tinner and lay preacher, his family includes siblings Lindberg and an Olympic winner. He departs Managua, Nicaragua, for Europe this month on a financial mission for the Nicaraguan government per AP.
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Cherokee
Iowa
Swedish Free Church
Waterloo
Lindberg
Peru
Irving Lindberg
Managua
Nicaragua
Europe
Associated Press
First Day Of School Proves Unlucky For Supt. At McGregor
McGregor on Tuesday opened its schools with R D Noble, the superintendent, facing a setback as his new yellow sedan was stolen from in front of Rev J F Priestley’s Main Street home. Sheriff McGhee and the Marquette Prairie du Chien toll keeper were notified. No trace has been found.
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Gazette
M’gregor
R. D. Noble
McGregor
Noble
J. F. Priestley
Main Street
McGhee
Marquette-Prairie du Chien
Werner couple marks 25th wedding anniversary
Mr and Mrs Lee Werner observed the twenty fifth anniversary of their marriage Sunday with a dinner for relatives who gathered to celebrate the milestone.
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Columbus Junction
Lee Werner
Hitchhiker Thumbs His Way To Jail In Marshalltown
AP dispatch from Marshalltown says Thurman Dew, signaling motorists, was picked up by an officer who informed him of a warrant for child desertion. Dew admitted the hitchhiking led to his arrest and wondered how the officer found him.
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Wicklund
Dew
Hopkinton Men Confess Grocery Store Robbery
William Miller and Fred Appleby, Hopkinton residents, confessed to a Beitz grocery store robbery after being jailed in Manchester. They previously broke into the Greif and Reggen tin garage on August 29, stole a truck, used it to reach the store, and sold the vehicle to a junk dealer before returning home. Most merchandise was recovered and officials suspect one of the pair in three Beitz store thefts over two years.
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Hopkinton
William Miller
Fred Appleby
Beitz
Coe
Manchester
Greif and Reggentin
Amie
Waterloo
Toledo Farmhand Waives Hearing and Is Jailed on Bail
Bert Smith, a Tama County farmer, appeared in Justice Hufford's court and waived preliminary information, then went to jail Wednesday in lieu of $500 bail.
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Toledo
Bert Smith
Tama County
Hufford
July federal tax collections report totals $121243
Des Moines tax office data shows July federal tax receipts of $121 243 with breakdowns including soft drink makers 3848 candy makers 1147 automobile parts 475 farriers 52 and $67099 from bank checks $18627 from electrical energy use $8221 from admission tax and rent from safe deposit boxes.
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Des Moines
INS
The
Internal Revenue Collector
Pair Indicted In Bank Holdup Case In Cincinnati Iowa
Centerville report states Lew Small and Cecil Kearns both of Numa were indicted by the grand jury for complicity in the Citizens State Savings bank robbery in Cincinnati Iowa last May.
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Centerville
Lew Small
Cecil Kearns
Numa
Citizens State Savings Bank of Cincinnati
Full Assessment Sought Against Stock of I. C. Savings Bank
Petition filed by the bank receivers in district court seeks a 100 percent assessment against the stock of the Iowa City Savings Bank. Sixty three stockholders are named in the petition.
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I. C. Savings Bank
Owa City
Iowa City Savings Bank
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Frank Patek
14Th Ave
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National Biscuit Company
L. J. Gibbs
Guernsey
Prentiss Estate
Supt
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Marshalltown
Thurman Dew
Cincinnati
Kryptok
H. G. Fussell
Second Avenue
Eric the Red
Harland Frazer
North
Tobacco Co
Iaretti
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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