Newbery Medal Won by Cornelia Lynde Meigs for Invincible Louisa
Cornelia Lynde Meigs of Bryn Mawr College receives the 1933 John Newbery Medal for Invincible Louisa The Story of the Author of Little Women at the American Library Association conference in Montreal Louisa Alcott inspired her life of the author Meigs has published fifteen books and previously won the Drama League prize and a Little Brown contest prize.
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Cornelia Lynde Meigs
Keokuk
Iowa
United States
Miss Meigs
Engsh
Bryn Mawr College
Louisa M. Alcott
Louisa
Siri Andrews
American Library Association
Association
Montreal
Canada
CRCM
Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission
John Newbery
Rock Island
Hinds
Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
Davenport
Louisa Alcott
Hendrick Willem van Loon
Hugo Lofting
Charles Boardman Hawes
Charles Joseph Finger
Arthur Bowie Chrisman
Will James
Dhan Gopal Majerji
Eric P. Kelly
Rachel Field
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Laura Adams Armer
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
Book Club Selections and New Narratives Ahead
A Des Moines area column lists upcoming publications and authors. Coward McCann will publish Chautauqua by Thomas W. Duncan next year with emphasis on Iowa circuits. MacKinley Kantor's Long Remember is a Prix Femina American candidate. Beulah Vick Bigley and Be Beulah Vick Bigley’s poetry launches are noted along with other literary moves and local book events.
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Middle West
Thomas W. Duncan
Des Moines Register Book Page
Coward McCann
Duncan
Iowa
Wisconsin
MacKinley Kantor
Des Moines
Collier's
Red Book
Cecil Fairfield Lavell
Grinnell College
Lavell
Athens
Sparta
Pericles
Beulah Vick Bigley
Waterloo
Holst Printing Company
Cedar Falls
Weert Bennen celebrate Ruths thirteenth birthday party
Amber Mr and Mrs Weert Bennen entertained Tuesday night July 24 honoring daughter Ruths 13th birthday. Guests included numerous Ricklefs Hanken Streeter Bauserman and Schoon families and others. Also notes relatives traveled from Omaha for Eddie Andresens funeral. Lena Englehart celebrated 74th birthday with family guests George Schoon Haye Schoon Ben Englebart Rex Reuter Englehart Schoon Carl Schoonel Wilmer Englehart. Henry Folkers attended event.
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Weert Bennen
Ruth
Herman Ricklefs
Henry Ricklefs
Tobias Hanken
Harley Streeter
Charlie Bauserman
Joyce
Mildred
Pauline
Will Ricklefs
Henry Wienekamp
Velda Ricklefs
Mary Harms
Evelyn Schoon
John Gerdes
Freda Andresen
Omaha
Eddie Andresen
Rose Deeny
Augusta Boote
Everly
J. C. Martensen
Lena Englehart
George Schoon
Haye Schoon
Richard
Ben Englebart
Vivian
Rex Reuter
Herman Englebart
Carl Schoon
Onslow Wasson Dies Quietly in Iowa City Hospital
Onslow Joseph Wasson, aged 76, died last Friday morning at the University hospital in Iowa City after a brief illness. He was born near Onslow and spent most of his life there with a two year period in Anamosa. He was twice married, first to Carrie Sawyer of Olin, and had three children Ella Spear of Canada, Jessie Orr who died in 1933, and Duncan of Onslow. In 1916 he married Mrs.
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Joseph Wasson
University Hospital
Iowa City
Mr. Wasson
Onslow
Anamosa
Carrie Sawyer
Olin
Ella Spear
Onslow Community Mourns Wasson and Ingwersen Funerals
Edna Hanna and three children survive J. W. Wasson with many relatives attending a Wyoming cemetery funeral service led by Rev. F R Provan. Marie Von Sprecken Ingwersen, widow of Leonard Ingwersen, dies age 46. service at Onslow Presbyterian Church conducted by Rev. Provan with burial in Wyoming cemetery.
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Leonard Ingwersen
Ladies’ Guild
Onslow Presbyterian Church
F. Provan
Kenneth Kennedy
Howard Willison
Wyoming Cemetery
Social Roundup of Visits Across Iowa Towns
A long list of visits and house guests from Dubuque Scotch Grove Delhi Cedar Rapids Monticello Cascade Amber Amber to Martinsville and beyond is recorded. Families such as Welter Johnson Haverly Behrends Batchelder and Bohlken host and travel for weekends dinners and word of mouth between Monticello Anamosa and Wit.
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Fred Welter
Herman Welter
Dubuque
John Wright
Joan
John Richard
Scotch Grove
Frank Johnson
Jim Arnold
Earlville
Will Baum
Doris
Zenobia Bright
Anamosa
Jim Haverly
J. L. Weber
Prairieburg
Fred Weber
Betty Wilson
Fred Eggiman
Manchester
Andy Smith
Delhi
Ernest Brandel
Alice Alcorn
Cedar Rapids
W. H. Behrends
Charles Reinhart
Baby
Mason City
Fred Heeren
Carrie Reinhart
Los Angeles
California
Dean Morton
Des Moines
Fred Fgger
Clare Adams
Monticello
Velma Arduser
Nick
Plane Knapp
Cascade
Joe Wagner
Kingsley
Margaret Mary Welter Eccarpes
John Bohlken
Dick Bohlken
Amber
Ollie Prader
Edna Behrends
John Batchelder
John Eden
Batchelder
Gerd Grafe
Mallard
Walter Martin
Curlew
Jones County Real Estate Transfers July 21 26 1934
Transfers show Margaret McGarry to the Merritts in Sec 16 and nearby parcels with deed dated July 19 1934 for 1.00. Sheriff’s deeds to Elva Young Lot 12 and 8 40 ft Lot 11 Block 1 Cook’s Add Oxford Junction for 649.93 dated July 33 1934. George L. Lovell to City of Monticello WD with building wall reservation dated July 23 1934 for 400. Sheriff’s to Mary C. Whitcomb NE NW and parts of Sec 24 83 3 with metes described from the public highway centerline.
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Jones County
Margaret McGarry
T. A. Merritt
Frank Merritt
Elva
Cook
Oxford Junction
George L. Lovell
City of Monticello
Catharine H. A. Loctje
Mary C. Whitcomb
Property Descriptions and Transfers Across Sec 13 and 83-3
Legal notice detailing land parcels in sections 24 and 13 including boundaries along highways Walnut creek and public road. Describes acreage 93.18 acres total with specific tracts and masses of land transferred and bequeathed, dated 1932 to 1934, involving Josephine Leslie William Robison W D Lots 37 38 Oxford Mills and executors of James L Scholl estate.
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Walnut Creek
Josephine Leslie
William Robison
Oxford Mills
W. S. Brady
A. Kennedy
James L. Scholl
Nicholas J. Rol- Mager
Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation
Pullets on Grass Range Superior to Confined Rearing
A report asserts that pullets raised on a grass range show superior growth and health compared with those kept in confinement. Researchers note better feathering and vigor, suggesting pastured systems benefit poultry performance.
Baby Bibs From Old Aprons
A simple upcycling idea turns thin rubber aprons into attractive baby bibs. Cut and cover both sides with a light fabric and hand stitch to create washable bibs.
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Iowa Book News For
People
Library News
Mildred Othmer Peterson
Jowans
Lyman L. Bryson
Fred W. Weitz
Des Moines Public Library
Louise Orwig
Easton Place
Bernice Thorp
Edna Geisler
Davenport Publicbrary
Round Table
E. Joanna Hagey
Towa Library Association
Mary Bell Nethercutt
Drake University
Vera Brittain
Charlea Dicken
Allen
T. 8. Stribbling
Lamb
Caroline
Phyllis Bottome
Ferdinand
Rome
Woolf
Walter B. Pitkin
Charles Dickens
Mijinsky
Romola Nijinsky
Edmund Jacobson
Joseph and His Brothers
Thomas Mann
H. C. Baitley
Three Men
Diane
Kathleen Norris
Tatiana Techernavin
Walter Lippmann
John Hay
Tyler Dennett
Comstock Lode
George D. Lyman
Mexique Bay
Aldous Huxley
Book Club
Phil Stong
Harcourt Brace
Stong
Ed. Zirkelbach
Amy
Rosemary
Irene Bodeker
Louie Hagen
Archie O'Toole
Ernest Rickels
Will Folkers
Betty Stover
Freda Martensen
Ella Martensen
Lucile Siebels
Lucile Wehling
Elfrieda Wehling
Rosemary O'Toole
John Freese
Tobe Freese
Will Freese
Elmer Osterkamp
Harvey Helgens
D. C. Smith
Robert Schoon
Walter Toole
John Rickels
Donald
W. R. Zimmerman
Herman Zimmerman
Will Jansen
Herman Helgens
E. E. Willms
Ed Farley
Hans Kettlitz
Matie Kasper
Lester Juilfs
Diedie
Louise Collman
Otto Gerjets
George Mardorf
Rev. C. Mardorf
George Siebels
Maquoketa
Lester Tebo
Faribault
Minnesota
Merrie England
Edna Hanna
Wilma Buckner
Mina McGovern
Alva
Chicago
Wasson
John Wasson
Scotland
F. R. Provan
Robert Levien
Dale Mayberry
Harold Overholt
Gordon Hall
C. R. Smith
Alvan Hanna
Hobart McBride
Will Lamey
Phillip Palmer
B. E. Rhinehart
Etta Tracy
Ida
Florence Lehr
Mount Vernon
Margaret Lozier
John T. Wherry
Winifred
August Hansen
Nettle Wherry
Arthur Peck
Albert Young
Wyoming
Lottle Neclan
Will Clark
Harry Chase
Center Junction
George Paulsen
George Sears
J. R. Ramey
Loyal Smith
Lila Bramer
Dolores Hanna
Ruth Sears
Provan
Paul Paulsen
Alvina Paulsen
Emil
Harry Paulsen
Eby’s Mill
S. G. Hutton
B. Rhinehart
Ida Tracy
Miss Tracy
Boston Conservatory of Music
Massachusetts
Scoville Business College of
Clinton
Will
J. L. Batchelder
Graff
Lois Baum
Marton
Charles Reggentine, Jr
Charles Reggentine
Hopkinton
Glen King
Bobbie
Peoria
Llinois
Dean Merton
Dickie
Fred Egger
Dickeyville
Cap Arduser
Velvia
Clifford Arduser
Langeworthy
Arduser
Merle Atwood
P. J. Taylor
Lester Wilson
Ryan
Dave Wilson
R. F. Chaplin
Paul
Onstow
Clara Chaplin
William Conley
Dyersville
Sophia Clement
Leta Cox
Elkader
Edward Cox
Dorothy Blaker
Kathleen Barnhart
Colesburg
John Binker
Lester Lang
Wilbert Shallenberger
Cornell
Phi Beta Kappa
Mount Vernon, Iowa
Liberal Arts College
Cornell Chapel
H. T. Bergstahler
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