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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1940
Page
1
A list of dates and names shows residents in Omaha and surrounding cities recording marriages ages and addresses, property transfers, and sums for parcels. A note highlights Austrian Jewish refugees Otto and Julius LoMer aided by Oregon neighbors who plowed, cultivated, and seeded 150 acres to save a crop this past season.
Mills County residents spent $3,549.11 on water in October, funding church support for a year, while editorial figures note higher Bayer purchases in October. Vern Marshall of Cedar Rapids Gazette criticizes the Diamond appointment, urging honest press coverage. The piece highlights better farm crops, more painted buildings, and a push for improved rural housing, woodlots, and pastures across eastern and northern Iowa, urging state focus on housing shortages and farming prosperity.
R B Boswell of Emerson reports new car licenses for a Chrysler Windsor and a Ford Tudor. C E Doyle of Malvern lists a Ford Tudor. Frank Ogley of Emerson shows a Ford coupe. Your ad in The Leaders is worth two on the fence.
The Telephone Company seeks approval of a franchise to install a dial telephone ordinance at Malvern. If approved, the company plans a dial service with an estimated expenditure of about $31,000 to provide reliable and convenient telephone service to the community.
A lively Hinges on Mrs. Wilson’s taxing contest among county hens. One hen suddenly increased egg output after a slow week, followed by a pattern of rest days and renewed laying. Football at the University of Town features a rabbit-chasing moment near the end zone amid school antics. A distant Iowa town reports on a radio exercise crowd, and a University of Iowa artist’s resurgence sparks chatter. The state Republican note notes Roosevelt’s projected Dec 16 election by mail with electors meeting in state capitals, listing several named locals in Mason City, Onawa, Town City, and other places.
A list of marriage license fixtures with names ages and residences includes Maynard Mackie and Mary Ackley from Missouri and Nebraska pairs, dating around mid November with several entries showing Omaha and surrounding towns. The OCR text presents multiple couples with ages in the 20s to 60s and towns like Hamburg Evans Plattemouth Blanchard and Omaha.
Birth notices announce a son to Mr. and Mrs. David Deavers Pacific Junction on November 7 and a daughter Karen Key to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kates of Pacific Junction.
On Monday December 2, 1940 at ten o'clock A M the County Treasurer's office in Mill County Iowa will offer for sale all land and town lots in the county for delinquent taxes due for 1939 and previous years that remain unsold. The treasurer will offer and sell at public auction all real estate remaining subject to sale for delinquent taxes and previously advertised for two years or more with no bidders. A list of lands subject to scavenger sale follows. Denotes two or more years. Denotes two or more years. Henwood Iowa November 21 1940 D S AISTROPE Treasurer of Mill County Iowa.
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