Fragmented item on a day and night event
A garbled OCR fragment mentions a day and night event but provides no clear subjects or actions. No identifiable person, place, organization, date, or outcome is readable to summarize into a proper news item.
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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1936
Page
8
A garbled OCR fragment mentions a day and night event but provides no clear subjects or actions. No identifiable person, place, organization, date, or outcome is readable to summarize into a proper news item.
James Guy McCarty 2 former Emerson resident died at his Omaha home Sunday night following an illness. Funeral services were at Glendale Mortuary then burial in Emerson. Surviving are wife Anna and two brothers Thomas of Plattsmouth and Frank of Aurora. Reverend J F Ling led graveside rites. He had lived in Emerson until 1910 then moved to Omaha to run a cafe and filling station.
A Kansan visits the Grand Canyon and hears a guide claim billions of years carved it. The Kansan quips that it must be a government job, provoking a wry laugh. The excerpt blends travel humor with rural life notes from harvest to home improvements.
An ice cream social at Thorson's garage sponsored by Methodist ladies clears over 16 dollars. Numerous local residents and relatives travel between Red Oak, Council Bluffs, Omaha, and neighboring towns for visits, dinners, and weekend gatherings. News covers travels of the Andersons, Langs, the Winters family, and others, plus notes on a local man's attempted self-harm and railway window innovations.
Records from Mills County Recorder 1936 show transfers including H A Darting to Amelia A Anthony for Choate and Cheney additions in Glenwood, and J M Munsinger as administrator to Leone Munsinger with a $20,000 land transfer in sections 22 26 and 27 71 42. Receivers deeds filed but not of record.
Excerpts from The Leader files recall a 1911 near-dry season with a refreshing shower aiding crops and pastures, a memorable runaway wagon crash on Main Street Strahan, and local updates. notes mention Niagara Falls trips, ice plant upgrades, a chautauqua meeting, electric plant dynamo work, and cattle purchases by Mulholland Co, with several Malvern and St. Louis visitors and a road guide inspection planned for April.
In the district court of Mills County Iowa the petition for divorce due to desertion is allowed. Defendant Frank Path must appear before the next term beginning September 1 1936 at Glenwood. failure to appear will result in default and a decree. Dated July 21 1936. Whitney Gilliland, Attorney for Plaintiff.
In the District Court of the State of Towa for Affilts County the matter of the Estate of W. P. Wortman, Deceased. The undersigned has been appointed and qualified as administrator of the estate. Notice to all persons having claims against Wortman.
Fragmentary OCR text shows a court case reference with names Worth and Thome, dated the 28th, in a likely adlinints or administrator context. Details are unreadable. no clear event, outcome, or parties beyond the two surnames.
A police report describes a sober seeming Chief who, after a few highballs, drives at 50 mph with a zigzag path. The article notes danger to other motorists and questions his right to occupy the street as he proceeds toward home.
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