19 Dec 1935
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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1935
Page
1
A damaged OCR fragment mentions a printed tag showing the time for a submission or activity. Details are unclear and no full names, dates, or places are readable. The text implies a time reference tied to a copy or submission three months prior.
Readers are urged to promptly notify the subscription department of any address changes. Under postal laws newspapers must charge postage for notices of changes and delays or failures in delivery may occur. Send the change of address in advance to ensure continued service.
An editorial lauds last Thursday's Firemen Frolic for broad community effort and even distribution of tasks. It notes the season of Christmas and calls for peace, while critiquing state seal security and praising the Malvern Junior Chamber of Commerce's solid start. The piece observes a missing Christmas chorus and highlights how Christmas toy makers continually innovate with appealing goods for families.
In Malvern community notes, evergreen Christmas trees frame front porches while a toppled one disrupts a yard display. A local boxing bout ends with minor injuries as residents discuss duck dinners and store window scenes. Petitions oppose a nearby liquor store, while Malvernians sign broadly, questioning petitions’ impact and injecting local debate on commerce.
Sheriff W S DeMoss announces an execution on the estate of P W Bates Supt Banking of Iowa for a 1935 judgment of 10 to 9196 plus costs 271 91 and accruing costs. Describes real estate in Mills County to be sold at the Mills County courthouse in Glenwood Iowa on January 18 1926 between 9 am and 4 pm. Dated December 1936. References to newspaper quotes follow.
Post office pride as new W J Smith building offers fine quarters. Malvern theatre sale to be run locally under G A Pratt after F C Graves sells. George H White sues Nebraska governor Shattenberger over cattle sale damages. Mills County Farmers Institute aims for record institute, with sessions at Cheristean church auditorium and corn display in the basement. A group from Malvern attends Moersiah in Tabor with 40 others. Marton Hutton drives 470 fat hogs to Malvern Packing House. Perry and Ea Wilson supply superior sorghum. Local skating party enjoyable after a snow removal. The program promises humorous features from the opera house.
A collection of short local items notes a free Christmas dinner for 200 children to reduce surpluses, 600 signatures protesting a state liquor store in Oakland, a 750-voter town, the Methodist church concert on a new electric organ, the organ’s claimed 260 million tones, and a Tama county dog-to-person ratio. Evansville celebrates a golden wedding anniversary for Mr and Mrs I Jackson with their cigar after the event.
Franklin the Smoothsayer travels the land gathering crowds and spreading new political promises. He proclaims to lighten burdens and deliver prosperity, then clashes with Herbert the Engineer while pushing a New Deal style agenda. The piece contrasts his rhetoric with the Constitution and calls for reevaluating old ways amid a surge of new bureaus and laws.
A fragmented sentence recalls J R Graham sharing smiles with a friend on a Saturday afternoon. The brief item notes sociable moments and friendly interaction in a casual community setting.
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