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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1937
Page
2
Malvern locals share visits and travel notes with friends and relatives over the week. The column lists a flurry of names, trips to Omaha, California, and Texas, hospital updates, school events, and community happenings including veterans, performances, and church gatherings. it notes guests, departures, and arrivals across Malvern and nearby towns.
The word tram, long used in England and across Europe, designates street cars and trolley cars. It reflects a shared term for urban rail vehicles, tracing its usage to early tramways and continuing in modern transit language.
Local visitors share illness news and family updates as residents travel between Corncil Point and nearby towns. Multiple households report doctors visits, improving conditions, and Sunday gatherings with relatives from Nebraska City Williamesport Detroit and Topeka.
Imogene S E Mills Kenward dies at 1 a m Friday in Red Oak. She was born 1843 in Worthing County and married William H E Renard. Survived by children Fred Willian Maurice and Mary Sister Mary Joan, plus mother Mary Conners, brothers Tom and Jerry, sister Mrs William Shenandoah, two grandsons in San Diego. Funeral held at Imogene St Patrick church with burial Mt Calvary.
Pacific Junction area social roundup notes a Women’s Club meeting with Dr M C Hennessy on cancer, readings by Marjorie Jordan, and refreshments served. Announcements include upcoming meetings, visits by Shenandoah and Glenwood residents, a junior high declamatory contest, and local family news, travels, and illnesses.
Des Moines The Council for Better Education urged lawmakers to cut property taxes for schools to about 63 percent of total school funding, shifting the remainder to the general fund. The analysis shows property taxes now supply 62.8 percent of state revenues and 98 percent of school revenues, sparking calls to spread the burden.
The piece condemns sharecroppers as dependent and shiftless, calling them a blight on the South and nation. It notes minimal government interest, a weak union push, and the push for a $1 per hour wage amid high store credit costs, urging action.
The text appears as fractured, garbled prose referencing political figures and events. It mentions a Mississippi politician, a president, a governor, and a newspaper quote from Richmond Times-Dispatch. It includes stray phrases about women, notes, and a generic campaign atmosphere, but details are unclear due to corruption in the OCR.
Hillsdale notices recount dinners visits and birthday party at Mr and Mrs Earnest White home for Margaret Helen with guests Granville Williams Wilbur Wolfe Robert Ruse Audrey Mickelwait Evelyn Hammond Meriam Gene Ray Seeger Kathleen Gilbert Mary Ann Williams and others. A birthday dinner at Walter Phelps home honored Maxine with family guests including Wilma Sell Dolores Lechister and Hubert Lutz.
Neighbors and friends have sent a Valentine shower to Fferhie Asmussen, totaling sixty two to date as more arrive. Lester Anthony and his grandson Bart ig Hammers joined Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Glhsen in Ghonweeed. Clarence 4 will drive a bus on the interstate line. Mrs. Lester Anthony traveled to Des Moines Friday for several days with her husband and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. John Farher hosted a Pot Luck Dinner at Worthesday evening.
Rev. M. Mueller presides at Sohne Lutheran Church with Sunday school at 9 am and English services at 10:30 am. Baptist Church shows 10 am service and 7 pm activities. Church notices include youth group gathering, scavenger hunt, chili supper served by a hostess committee, and a Bible study discussion on How the Bible May Help Us in Daily Life.
Sunday evening a group of young people will present a short pageant titled The Modern Virgin during the church's evening service.
Ancient Armenian lava farm near the capital, petrified lava from a thousand years ago, is repurposed as construction material for Soviet houses. The site highlights how volcanic rock informs durable local building practices and regional housing development.
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