Cedar Rapids trucker named Driver of the Month for heroism
Jerry G. Steggall, 34, a Denver-Chicago Trucking Company driver, saved a 14 year old farm boy by pulling into a ditch to avoid a collision on highway 30 near Denison. He endured four hours of roadside recovery and remains uninjured. Steggall, married with four children, lives at 605 I avenue NW.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa Motor Truck Association
Jerry G. Steggall
Denver
Steggall
Denizon
Crawford County
Des Moines
Gillespie
I” Avenue NW
Grundy County Officers Investigate Two Thefts
Grundy county officers investigated burglaries at two businesses. A safe, an automobile, and about $160 were stolen from the E and H garage at Dike Saturday night. The thieves then broke into an oil station in Grundy Center and took $7 from the register.
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Grundy Center
INS
Grundy County
E and H
Dike
Barbers Urged to Take More Part in Politics
CHICAGO (UP) Barbers and beauty shop operators influence and reflect public opinion and should take a more active interest in politics, a Nebraska congressman said here. I never yet have met an individual whose business suffered because he had convictions about po.
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Chicago
Nebraska
Curtis touts cosmetics tax repeal at hairdressers convention
Rep. Carl T. Curtis told the National Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Association in Chicago that barbers and hairdressers influence voters. He predicted a repeal of the 20 percent cosmetics tax would pass in the next Congress, noting the measure already passed the House in the last session.
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Curtis
Chicago
Hairdressers and Cosmetologists Association
America
Congress
House
Funeral for Count Folke Bernadotte Held in Stockholm
Funeral services were held in Stockholm on Sunday for Count Folke Bernadotte the United Nations mediator for Palestine who was assassinated.
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Stockholm
Folke Bernadotte
U. N
Palestine
Notice of Appointment of Administratrix in Linn County Iowa
The undersigned May A. Henton has been qualified as Administratrix of the estate of Mary Agnes Seclic, deceased, Linn County, Iowa. Creditors must pay debts promptly and claimants must file authenticated claims with the Linn County District Court clerk. Attorneys are Johnson and Lawrence.
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State of
Iowan
Linn County
Mary Agnes Seclic
Iowa
G O P National Farm Headquarters Established in Des Moines
True D Morse of St Louis Missouri announced the Dewey and Warren national farm committee will open national headquarters in Des Moines at the Kirkwood hotel H L McKinley of St Ansgar will oversee Iowa activities Roy A Ward of Portland Oregon and Gavin W McKerrow of Pewaukee Wisconsin hold other national posts as vice president and secretary respectively
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Des Moines
True D. Morse
St. Louis
National Farm Committee
Dewey and Warren
Kirkwood Hotel
H. L. McKinley
St. Ansgar
Iowa
Roy A. Ward
Pacific Wool Growers Association
Portland
Ore
Gavin W. McKerrow
Soldier Kane Wins Bet After Midstream Swim
ST LOUIS reports Corporal Francis Kane, 23, swam from mid stream to shore during an excursion on the Mississippi. He ruined a pair of pants and nearly drowned, delaying the Admiral for 30 minutes, but won $5 after proving he could reach shore while stripped to his trousers.
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Old Man River
ST. Louis
Cpl
Francis Kane
Kane
Mississippi
Soldier is escorted to depot after long river swim
After a 330 yard swim, a Tenafly New Jersey soldier reaches the riverbank and is helped into custody by police who accompany him back to the Army medical depot.
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N. J
Army Medical Depot
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John Reynolds
Larry G. Steggall
IMTA
HFC
Bayonts
Third Avenue Higley Building
Carl T. Curtis
Rneb
Bernadotte
May A. Henton
Johnson and Lawrence
Newman's
White Rotary
Mullins
Youngstown
A.W. Peterson CO
G.O.P. National Farm Headquarters
D.M
Newman
Oniai
Adams
Na Adams Agency
Dar Rapids Res
PHL
J. G. Landenberger
Optometeists
Zephyr
Guaranty Building
Mary
Dial
Mary Miles
Crompton
Crompton-Richmond
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