Politicians debate 1940 bids in Iowa party splits
The article outlines Senator Herring backing United States District Attorney John K. Valentine for governor and hints at Breen possibly joining Valentine on a ticket. Breen denies plans for lieutenant governor, suggesting a gubernatorial bid instead, while jokes about Roosevelt era Thanksgiving dates circulate. A second education board report is sent to Gov Wilson.
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United State District
John K. Valentine
Valentine
Senator Breen
Breen
Herring
Tye
Iowa
Board of Education
George A. Wilson
Duplication concerns in tax supported colleges and race for office
The text discusses eliminating needless duplication in tax supported colleges and facilities. It notes legislators face possible disappointment if progress stalls and that such institutions have long been guarded against duplication with fewer overlaps than many states. It mentions board reports and school comparisons in the middle western states. Applications for nomination papers are arriving slowly for the secretary of state's office with four filed for the sixth district race and state senate. W S Rupe, Ames Tribune president, may enter the congressional race and has been active in politics.
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Lawa
Secretary of State
State
W. S. Rupe
The
Ames Tribune
Fatal farm wagon accident adds to Iowa toll near Pierson
A wagon driven by Volrath Knaack, 31, of near Pierson, overturned while delivering corn to a neighbor. He died from injuries. Other items note Kansas City youths robbing an interstate bus near Iowa, a hillbilly-leaning Audubon girl with chicks, George Niewald’s air turbine motor demonstration, a Nordic-ethnic courtroom withdrawal, Ranger Teff's ice death, Ackley lineman 2300 volts fatality, and a McChegor fire chief resignation, ending with a light closing line.
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Iowa
Volrath Knaack
Pierson
Enduring Iowa Tales From Small-Town News
A bizarre collage of local notes reports J L Bay surviving a wreck in Lineville with bruises after his car rolled. Anamosa star Lawrence La Barge shines in a foot race. a pigeon returns a marked aluminum leg band likely tied to popular races. Mrs Jennie Enarson of Villisca dies from burns after setting fire to her wrapping paper. Mondatin H C Hillman home cat causes injuries to Hillman when chased by livestock. two Preston residents narrowly escape stray bullets. John Cox and wife of New Sharon celebrate their 63rd wedding anniversary after 68 years together on a farm northeast of town.
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Iowa
John Cox
New Sharon
Allied leaders in Paris pledge aid to Finland
Premier Edouard Daladier British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax and Premier Neville Chamberlain are pictured after the Allied Supreme War Council meeting on December 1 in Paris. They smile as they decide to give Finland moral and material aid without weakening the Western Front with Germany.
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France
Hadiophoto
Edouard Daladier
Viscount Halifax
Neville Chamberlain
Supreme War Council
Finland
Germany
Daladier
Halifax
Calves Set Record Gain At International Livestock Show
Fourteen and a half month old Lindwood Lanford, a Champion Shorthorn steer shown by Makena 4-H Club member Chester Ebert, weighed 1,115 pounds at the International Livestock Show in Chicago. The calf gained 77 pounds per month, an efficient beef record noted in the Junior division.
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Gormley
Chester Ebert
Makena Tl
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Chicago
Local man survives wood sawing mishap with only a sleeve and a leg
Nade Harris Hanson of De corsh escaped serious harm after a wood sawing belt tore off all his clothes. He rose to find himself wearing only his left shirt sleeve and a single trouser leg, while the rest had vanished with the wind.
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Nade
Harris Hanson
Decorsh
First American sailing vessel the Virginia of 1607
The Virginia was a two mast 80 ton sailing ship built in 1607 at Stage Island near the Kennebec river in Maine. It was constructed to carry a small group of discouraged settlers back to England and completed several voyages between America and England.
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Stage Island
Kennebec River
Maine
England
America
Match Collection Aids Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans
Anna Reany of Cleveland has sent over 1,209 book matches to boys at the Soldiers and Sailors' orphanage in Xenia Ohio. The collection now totals more than 6,000 varieties across the group, boosting their assortment and study materials.
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Anna Reany
Cleveland
Soldiers’ and Sailors
Xenia
Ohio
Tasmanian tiger hunt ends with odd find in Tasmanian woods
An expedition to locate the rare Tasmanian marsupial wolf, known as the tiger, leaves Hobart to the west and southwest in a last stand belief. George Wella of V atajl fir tree reports discovering a golf ball at a base under a tree with a dead squirrel beside it, suggesting an unusual incident during the search.
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Joseph Teff
Ed Davis
Mississippi River
Lansing
Iowa
Teff
Hobart
Tasmania
George Wella
Vatajl Fir
Schense quadruplets of Hecla age nine next month
A special CFI photo shows the Schense quadruplets of Hecla South Dakota. The four siblings Jean Joan Jim and Jay appear healthy and in good spirits in the frame taken for the Echo by Leif Johnson.
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Leif Johnson
Hecla
S. D
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yoRmal
Younsters
Jean
Joan
Jim_mie
Jay
The Supreme Court of American Business
A fragmented passage proclaims a court judging American business decisions as absolute and final. It casts the buyer as the ultimate power to judge quality and price, shaping which industries survive and which services are worthy.
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The
Supreme Court of American Business
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