Obituary notices from Iowa towns list multiple deaths
Davenport resident Mrs E T Foster 73 dies at home in Columbus Junction. Detroit native Charles H Dowson 74 dies in Iowa. Kalona widow Laura Shillig 82 dies after brief illness. Lamont Stephen Wintenberg 75 dies after long life in community. John F Shull dies near Frederic Wis. Ward. Frank Owen 82 dies in Iowa City. Mrs Clem Dietze 52 dies after brain tumor operation. Mrs Harry D Easton 68 dies in Oelwein. Funeral and burial details given for each.
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Columbus Junction
E. T. Foster
Davenport
Mary Lampher
Alton
Foster
the Hill and Frederick Chapel
Charles H. Dowson
Detroit
Mich
Here
Carl] Dircks
Thomas
Mary Dowson
England
Carrie Harrison
John Davidson
Whittier
Calif
William
Oshkosh
Ned
Stephens Funeral Home
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Laura Shillig
Johnson County
Emory D. Baker
Lawrence J. Shillig
Ka Jona
Isaac
Lurae
Kalona Methodist Church
Sharon Hill
Lamont
Stephen C. Wintenberg
Monticello
Mr. Wintenberg
Wintenberg
Jennie Emmert
Dubuque
Methodist Church
I. O. O. F. Lodge
Donald Stevenson
Park Brook
Minn
Delbert
New York
E. J
Delhi
Harry
Florida
Rhines Funeral Home
Compton
Victor—Ward
John F. Shull
Frederic
Wis
Marietta Capehart
Corning
Ark
J. H. Shull
Marengo
Robert
Victor
Frank Owen
University Hospital
Iowa City
Abraham and
Cyrena Owen
North English
Owen
Iowa
Masonic
Knights of Pythias
Mary O. West
Lillian Miller
Adam Rathjen
Nell Voss
Richard Owen
Clem Dietze
Hazel E. Seaton
William H. Seaton
Millersburg
Clements F. Dietze
Moulton
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Dietze
Dean
Paul
Lee
Laverne
Merle Huntelman
Marvel Dean
Cleone Klaus
Arlene Kutcher
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Icle
Wade
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Pearl van
Wanda Kelly
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Ministers and Speakers Ad Include ADLA Tablets Ad
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Myron Taylor Granted Private Audience With Pope
Vatican City report states Myron C. Taylor Roosevelt’s personal envoy was granted a private audience with Pope Pius XII Tuesday night. Taylor had met with Papal Secretary of State Luigi Cardinal Maglione and arrived after a long U.S. absence. He was said to carry an important message from President Roosevelt.
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Food Prices Rise 1.3 Percent In August
The Conference Board reports food costs climbed 1.3 percent in August while overall living costs rose 0.6 percent. Since August 1940 the cost of living is up 4.7 percent and 24.7 percent above the 1933 low, with rents up 0.2 percent and clothing up 0.9 percent.
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National Industrial Conference Board
Buttermaker Fred Kelley Hangs Self in Plant Locker Room
Fred Kelley, 47, a Swift and Company buttermaker in Atlantic Iowa, killed himself in the plant locker room late Tuesday. A 29 year employee and father of 12, Kelley left no motive found by authorities.
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Atlantic, Ia
Fred Kelley
Swift and Company
Kelley
Test Blackout of Whole West Coast Planned
Vancouver report says Canada and United States plan a test blackout from California to Alaska. Mayor Cornett announced plans are in formative stage and coordinated under Mayor LaGuardia. No date set yet though it could come in the immediate future amid Pacific negotiations with Japan.
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Teenager Kills Self With Ingenious Gun Arrangement
Nashville report says 15 year old Justin Potter Jr., son of a coal company president, died by his own action in a field. A bullet pierced his brain. no gun was found, and authorities concluded suicide despite an apparent murder setup.
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Nashville, Tenn
Justin Potter, Jr
Suicide Scene At Old Storm Sewer Well
A boy chose a storm sewer well as his death site. He used a grandfather's revolver wrapped with a handkerchief, tied a rock to the trigger with shoestrings, and placed both gun and rock on the sewer wall to push the rock into the well. Relatives offered no motive, noting he was imaginative but not widely connected.
Fifteen Year Old Twins Have Marriages Annulled
In Albuquerque a district court annulled the marriages of 15-year-old twin brothers Ivan and Irvin to Margaret 14 and Frances Gleason 15 after their mother, Margaret Rymes, argued the youths were too young. The twins had eloped a month earlier and remained living with parents as high school students.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Ivan
Irvin
Margaret Rymes
Margaret
Frances Gleason
Frances
U S Second Army Men Compare Favorably With German Vets
Observer reports U S Second Army in Louisiana showing high battle potential after a 10 hour battle. Seventh Corps units met tank warfare for the first time, with Illinois Thirty third and Thirty fifth divisions plus Missouri Kansas Nebraska Twenty seventh defending against First Armored and Second Cavalry divisions.
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Louisiana
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Ben Lear
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Second Cavalry
House Wren Sings One Minute Song On Repeating Intervals
A house wren performs a song lasting one minute and repeats the melody every two seconds, creating a steady rhythmic pattern.
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