Beating of 3 Jehovah's Witnesses in flag salute dispute
In Coon Rapids a mob of about 150 beat three Jehovah's Witnesses after one man refused to salute the American flag. E. E. Knowles was held until Sunday, suffered facial cuts, and was fingerprinted at Washington's request. Arden Shelley and Dan Thrapp were also beaten. officials investigated and collected evidence.
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Coon Rapids
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Carroll County
E. E. Knowles
Jehovah's Witnesses
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Knowles
Omaha
R W. Nethergall
State Bureau of Investigation
Washington
Arden Shelley
Dan Thrapp
Guthrie Center
Cunningham Begins Health Checkup at Cornell College
Dr Glenn Cunningham director of student health at Cornell college in Mount Vernon began a thorough health checkup for Cornell 300 women students with Dr Grace Williams Field assisting. Ruth Gould of University of Iowa named permanent staff nurse. program will extend for over a week before a parallel male staff program starts.
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Mount Vernon
Glenn Cunningham
Cornell College
Grace Williams Field
University of Iown Health Department
Sioux City Banker Dies After Being Found Unconscious
SIOUX CITY AP Delko Bloem 52 vice president of Security National Bank died Sunday after his wife found him unconscious in the kitchen. Police say he had a heart attack and a physician notes possible heart ailment or gas asphyxiation. Bloem had worked in Sioux City banking for 15 years after moving from Rock Valley Iowa.
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Sioux City
Delko Bloem
Security National Bank Hero
Leo Perleth
Bloem
Rock Valley
Poweshiek County's Last Civil War Veteran Dies at 95
Grinnell resident Charles Van Doren, Poweshiek County's last Civil War veteran, died at home from a heart attack aged 95. Born near Delhi Illinois he met Abraham Lincoln at 13 and spent years writing memoirs. He planned Civil War material for the Tulip Festival edition of the Pella Chronicle.
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Grinnell
Charles van Doren
Poweshiek County
van Doren
Delhi
Abraham Lincoln
Pella
Nine Lives Lost In Traffic Accidents This Week
Traffic accidents claimed nine lives in Town over the past week, pushing the year’s total to 367, compared with 384 in the same period last year. The report notes vehicle fatalities amid ongoing road danger.
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DEY
FB Tablets Offer Relief From Asthma Misery
Advertisement promotes FB Tablets for asthma relief without smoke vapor injections or narcotics. Claims easy dosing dissolving in water and a money back guarantee. Mentions May's Drug Store at 218 2nd St SE and urges readers to ask their druggist for FB Tablets.
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May
2Nd St. SE
Marion News Roundup Diverse Local Social Updates
Marion residents send well wishes and visit kin across Iowa. John McGuire of Oxford Junction injured in a crash in Anamosa, hospitalized with poor prognosis. Families from Ottumwa Marshalltown and Springville visited, while local clubs hold meetings and events. Building permits total and community notices mark ongoing town life.
Bombing Claim Hinted by London Daily Telegraph
London dispatch cites the Daily Telegraph indicating what appeared to be a bombing attack in Greece.
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London
INS
Greece
London Daily Telegraph
Two Children Left With Grandmother Dead In Decatur County
Officers found two children alone in a house with the body of their grandmother Mrs Clay Mc Connell 59 of Grand River. She died of a heart attack about a day before the body was discovered. Grandson Larry Lamorce 3 ate heart tablets and was unconscious. brother Peter 1 was unharmed. The mother Dorothy Lamore left the children in care while at Osceola hospital with a newborn. The husband was summoned from Chicago to care for his racing horses.
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Leon
Decatur County
Clay McConnell
Grand River
Larry Lamorce
Peter
Dorothy Lamoree
McConnell
Osceola
Hazleton Youth, ISU Student Dies of Infantile Paralysis
George Buchan a 22 year old junior engineering student at Iowa State college Ames died of infantile paralysis in a Waterloo hospital Monday He had been in an iron lung since he was brought to Waterloo from Ames Saturday He was the son of Mr and Mrs Ellery J Buchan of Hazleton The death is the third from infantile paralysis in Waterloo since Aug 1 with ten cases under quarantine in and near the city
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Waterloo
George Buchan
Iowa State College
Ames
Ellery J. Buchan
Hazleton
Buchan
Record Crowd Attends Eastern Iowa Hunt Club Field Trials
TIPTON The Eastern Town Hunt club bird dog field trials drew a record crowd with 450 spectators from eight states. Air Liner Sam, a five month old painter, won the puppy stake for E L Talbot of Centerville. Open All Age was led by Colonel, owned by RW Beal of Clinton. Bird dog trials set for Milan Illinois Oct 13 and Linn County events in early November.
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Tipton
Forest Spear
Sam
E L. Talbot
Centerville
George Osborne
Omaha
L. F. Crum
Forest
Ohio
Jack Spear
Peerless
Peggy
Walter Eaton
Burlington
Harry Kline
Fort Madison
Fred Hoener
Davenport
Jack
Carl Matthey
R. A Walters
Edgewater
John Humes
Rock Island
Tip
Milan
U. S. 67
Linn County Sportsmen's Association
Pattern 4529 Girl Dress Offered In Multiple Sizes
Pattern 4529 is available in children's sizes 2 4 6 8 and 10. Size 6 short sleeve dress uses 2 35 inch yards of fabric and costs fifteen cents to Pattern Department Cedar Rapids Gazette 243 West 17th Street New York NY. Additional ten cents provides latest Pattern Book.
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
West 17Th Street
New York
Changes in train control raise speeds on Northwestern
H J Peters said Northwestern railroad completed $50 000 automatic train control upgrades through Iowa. Coordinated engine adjustments at Chicago shops permit speeds of 93 mph for streamlined trains 83 mph for other passenger trains and 60 mph for freights. Four ten man crews began lengthening control blocks last May from Clinton to Chicago and Clinton to Council Bluffs.
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H J Peters
North Western Railroad
Iowa
Chicago
Peters
Clinton
Council Bluffs
City to hear North Western rail crossing closure plan
City Council, acting on City Attorney Don Hines's suggestion, sent the North Western railroad petition to the plan commission. The closure of the Eleventh avenue and Fifth street SE crossing to vehicles and installation of a pedestrian walkway with a warning bell requires plan commission approval as part of the major streets plan.
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Don Hines
City Plan Commission
North Western Railroad
Eleventh Avenue
Fifth Street
Hines
Ban Heavy Traffic On 21st Ave SW As trucks damage road
A petition signed by 23 residents asks the city council to prohibit heavy traffic on Twenty first Avenue SW. Concrete Materials trucks are cited. Safety Commissioner Wes Benesh says the traffic department has urged avoidance and blames individual employees. He will discuss the issue with Concrete Materials officials.
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Twenty-first Avenue
Wes Benesh
Benesh
Oldest Vinton Resident R. G. Irvine Dies at 98
R. G. Irvine, 98, longtime Vinton resident and former tea and coffee merchant, died Saturday night at his daughter Mae Black's home. Born December 17, 1841 in Scotland, he immigrated at 18 and lived in New York before moving west. He is survived by three daughters, Mae Black, Pearl Boggs, and Maude Quinn. Funeral plans to be announced.
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Vinton
Robert C. Irvine
Mae Black
Scotland
United States
New York
Canada
Margaret Bell
Waterloo
Black
Pearl Boggs
Maude Quinn
Big Springs
Tex
William Caldwell
Scott Chapel
Young Presbyterians Convene At Coggon
The fall meeting of the Cedar Rapids presbytery youth league gathered at Zion Presbyterian Church in Coggon with about 100 attendees. Westminster Cedar Rapids Christian Endeavor led the afternoon service, Rev Daniel E Kerr spoke on The Meaning of Maturity, and Rev David I Berger of Coe College delivered the evening talk.
Mature man urged spirit over matter in service talk
The program featured a choir at the evening service and violin solo by Willam Driscoll. The speaker Mr Kerr urged self awareness and mind care, rejecting the view of man as a machine and business asset. Officers named Dean Morey, Marion Fitzgerald, Anna Mary Conrad, and Gus Clark. Rev Charles W Torrelt stalled the meeting. Next spring's session to be held at Daniels Park church. Rev Cornelius H Hook acts as advisor to the league.
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Willam Driscoll
Kerr
Wew
Dean Morey
Mount Vernon
Marion Fitzgerald
Daniels Park Church
Cedar Rapids
Anna Mary Conrad
Marion
Gus Clark
Westminster Church
Charles W . Torrelt
Mechanicsville
Caniels Park
Cornelius H Hook
Central Park Church
Young People's League
Iowa Guard May Be Called In January
Adjutant General Charles H Grahl said Iowa units of the national guard probably will be called for service between January 3 and 19. Grahl spoke after returning from Washington describing the current information on mobilization and deployment prospects.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Charles H Grahl
Washington
National Guard
Washington Plans Guard Deployment Change
A fragmented note states Washington officials discuss delaying guard deployment and grouping uncalled guardsmen by January. The passage hints at plan changes and potential scheduling adjustments ahead of October 15.
Youth Rally At First Lutheran Draws Region Wide Teens
About 80 youths from Ir a Ciy Ely North Liberty Tiptsa and Cedar Rapids gathered at First Lutheran on Third avenue to join a United Latin church youth rally. Rev Henry Soie noted locals would lead later. Rev Scherer cited no Lake Lutheran group forming due to Ripon trip. Dean William F Zimmermann from Midland College Fremont Nebraska was guest speaker followed by a 45 minute discussion and church banquet.
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Ely
North Liberty
Tiptsa
Cedar Rapids
First Lutheran Er
Third Avenue
Tenth Street SF
United Latin Church
United States
Canada
Oxford Junction
Henry Soie
Lake
Scherer
Ripon
Wis
Wiliam F. Zimmerm
Midland College
Fremont
Sure
Blake Boulevard
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Marion News
James McGuire
John McGuire
Anamosa Hospital
Edward McGuire
Ottumwa
H F. Lockwood
Marshalltown
A T. Hansen
Don Reedquist
Reedquist
W. G. Bowen
Charles Dodge
Minnesota
Nebraska
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Pean Tae
E V. Carey
Bonnie
Wyoma
David
C E. Daniels
Melbourne, Fla
Ed Sigfred
Mrs. Sinclair Venables of
W. J. Goodyear
Elmer Betzer
New Hampton
Matt Mullin, Jr
Manly
Mr. Mullin
Maude Keithly
Springville
Frank Gibson
W. Patterson
Waukegan, Il
Ida Koppenhaver
Glenn Cheadle
Janet
Newton
Robert Widger
Mae Widger
University Hospital
Iowa City
Oscar Bassett
Ruby Ross
Carolyn Howard
Jack Ellis
Jack Richard
Muscatine
Mrs. Ellis
Susie Busby
Oliver Caldwell
Howard Caldwell
Roy Flockhart
Roy Reynolds
Doris Flockhart
Coy Kelly
J. R Cruzan
Joyce
Mrs. Cruzan
Parnell
B. F. Ford
James Fernow
Betty
George Neff
Patmos Commandery
Masonic Temple
Malta
Red Cross
Irwin Lanning
Frank Fairley
Jeanne Lanning
Vogue School of Fashions
Martha Gillespie
Roberta Saunders
A. E. Smith
New Windsor, Ill
Jean Joens
Jerry Waples
Lions
Reid
Don Reid
Iowa Press Association
The
Lions Club
K-V Cafe
George Austin
Excelsior, Minn
Frank Austin
Mrs. Willis Jordan
Big Smokies
Tennessee
W.S Winter
Marion Shakespeare Club
Josephine Whitacre
Bat
Owen
Jack W. Blessing
University of Iowa
Lieut. Blessing
University
J. J. Booth
Lake Delavan
Booth
Charles G Stevens
Fred Blakeslee
Edith Esgate
Harriet Gibson
Helen Esgate
Washington, D. C
R. C. Toms
Ralph Noyce
Norman J. Waffle
Roy Tamblingson
Donald Kroll
Congregational Church
Kroll
Coe College
Harold Miller
A. E. Miller
Parkland Hospital
Dallas
Texas
Dewey Bolton
Waukegan, Ill
Norma Rames
J. B. Howell
C. N Owen
H. A Clearman
Sally
Oxford
Thomas E. Martin
Brownie
Iona Ity
Robert Carey
Town State College
Marion and
Dubuque
West
H. O Allen
Northwestern
James J Wallace
F. S. Skinner
Co. T. Cline
Fannie Erickson
Mr. Cline
C. A. Cline
St. Luke's Hospital, Cedar Rapids
Turkey
Mays Tea Room
Eastern Iowa Hunt Club
Anne Adams
C. and
N. W
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R. G. Irvine
Young Presbyterians
Coggon
First Lutheran
Univis Lenses
J. C. Landenberger
Chevrolet
Linn County
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