Wanted Ads and Local Notices In Iowa Retail Briefs
A dense column of classifieds and notices covers want ads for rates and services, livestock for sale, linotype training, and local business promotions. It includes insurance pitches, political notes on OPS, and liquor board actions plus state leasing concerns and a senate bid by George L. Scott. The items reflect mid century small town commerce and public affairs in Clermont Elgin and nearby Iowa communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liquor Board
Town Liquor Control Commission
Chet Akers
Iowa
Armand Company
Armand
Public Safety
State Office
State House
Backers of Marshall Plan questioned as Europe shifts view
The piece argues Europeans realized the Marshall Plan’s failure earlier than U.S. leaders admit, warns against continuing billions in aid to prevent communism, and claims Congressmen are returning to old virtues like rejecting blackmail regardless of offender.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
William Foster
Paul Hoffman
Europe
Akron mail carrier Lavern Swift retires after 42 years
Lavern Swift ends a 42 year Akron post office career with his retirement on December 31. The text also notes dairying needs for clean milk including clean cows, utensils, single service top er pads, milk coolers, and proper milk houses to ensure safe delivery to the plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lavern Swift
Akron
Thawing weather and spring repair plans
Thawing weather exposes roof leaks that might have been repaired last summer prompting a note to arrange repairs early next spring. A bishop addresses moral courage to a class of boys as a dormitory anecdote about ten sleepers provides a brief moral scene.
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Millet Two TV
Clarence Bear
John Falk
Elgin
The
Echo
Tip Orth-Pecmniee Peaie
Karl Meinhard
Angels
Herbert Blockhus
Artech Olson
Clermont
Elgin Echo
Smith-Corona
Ford
Dial
Robert Moore
Farm Bureau
Fayette Co. Co-op
Breeding Association
Marlan Schultz
Avalon
Elgin Produce
Zotfc
Arlington—Seedorff Food Shop
Clermont — Farmers Co-op Commission Co
Fayette
Hawkeye
C. E. VanSickle
Sumner—Sumner
Qelwein
West Union
Donnan Storn
Fayette Co
Co-op Breeding Association
Cargill
Elgin Territory
Cornelius Reierson
Echo Office
Manhogany
Reuben, Howard
Lyle Krueger
Iowa City
Lawrence Scott
Gehring Hardiware
Clarence Thoman
Duroc
Jersey
J. Arvid Anderson
Gunder
Kenneth Anderson
Almar Gulsvig
Olson
Employers Mutual Casualty Co
R. P. Strauch
Jack Mills
OPS
Des Moines
Mills
Loveless
Ottumwa
Carl W. Reed
Cresco
Iowa Commerce Commission
Reed
Threeman Commission
David Long
Frank B. Means
Manilla
Means
B. M. Richardson
Cedar Rapids
George T. McCaughan
State Executive Council
Attorney General's Office
Senate
George L. Scott
State Liquor Control Commission
Iowa Senate
Scott
Arthur Jacobson
Waukon
House of Representatives
J. C. Davis
Oelwein
C. Wilson Harder
C. W. Harder
National Federation of Independent Burinees
Hoffman
Marshall Plan
Austriaa
Mareshall Plan
Yugoslavia
Tito
America
Congress
Noel Brockway
Eighbours Byan Paurenw
John Tillotson
Wenger Sales Commission
Harry Wenger
Diz” Dean
Auct
Ures Eli
Surat
West Union Auction
Aferican
West Union Auction Exchange
Wadeni-da
Orvin Thompson
G. W. Alderson
Elmer Kenneth Baldwin
Schori
Kuster
Elgin, IO
Elgin Cooperative
Max Medberry
Mer
Elgin, Iowa
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