Interesting Events Of Iowa News Highlights Cedar Rapids and More
Mrs. Catharine Adams hosts travelers at Rock Island station in Cedar Rapids for 27 years and notes she has never been late. Banker J. E. Allison reports a woman deposited 3000 in currency, including 100 new ten dollar bills, kept hidden for years. Life insurers foreclose on farm loans, raising property upkeep and market values. Iowa State invents synthetic hardwood from cornstalks with state patent. Historic tunnel under a park draws visitors. Tilman Harmon planned an 8 mile tunnel powered by water, completed in 1858. Pensions for the elderly and widows discussed. Polk County reports 135 blind pensioners and 270 widows. Reports note frost in parts of Iowa after record heat. An estate policy case against Penn Mutual over a 1999 death and alleged alcohol involvement continues in Hardin County district court.
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Catharine Adams
Rock Island Railway
Cedar Rapids
Switzerland
Rock Island
J. E. Allison
Peterson
Clay County
Winterset
Tilman G. Harmon
Lincoln Township
Tilman Harmon
Penn Mottal Life Insurance Company
George Doyen
Doyen
Marshalltown
Penn Mutual
Hardin Bounty District
Eldora
The Monticello Pageant and Circus Listings
Public entertainment listings show Sutton & Sutton Rube and Pumpkin act and a wide array of attractions. The Monticello Municipal Band performs an hour long concert plus base ball games feature crack teams of Eastern town. The program includes Helen Subes Water Circus and a Merry Musical Review with the Melody Maids and Annie Abbot among others.
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Sutton & Sutton
Cherry & Stanley
Skating Macks
Helen Sube
Melody Maids
Monticello
Political Address by Dan Turner at the Fair
Dan Turner, Republican nominee for governor, will speak Thursday at 7 15 p m from a Public Address System near the bleachers. Harness races worth 1800 attract fairgoers with six events. Eastern Iowa baseball teams provide fast games on Wednesday through Friday. Visitors are invited to tour cattle pavilion barns and the Floral hall exhibit featuring a large flowers display.
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Dan Turner
Committee On Baseball
Iowa
Tipton Vaudeville Week Promises Big Shows
The program changes this week with The Musical Revue on Tuesday and Wednesday and Rosie's Minstrels on Thursday and Friday. Ten other big acts join the vaudeville stage with bleacher seats at 15 cents and reserved chairs at 25 cents, plus ample accommodations for all fair visitors.
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Tipton
Rosie
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Hawkeye State
O. R. Sweeney
Department of Chemical Engineering
Iowa State College
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General Assembly
Polk County
District Court
Walter H. Beall
West Union
Fayette County
A. J. Gurney
L. S. Cowley
Crookston
Minn
Vance
Laurens
Pocahontas County
Insurance Company
Lincoln
Missouri Valley
Council Bluffs
Omaha
Missouri River
Blair
Nebraska
Fremont
Gael
Hoag
Detroit
Des Moines
C. A. Fullerton
Iowa State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Towa
Grinnell
Ife
W. G. Gray
Chicago
Tom Purcell
Hampton
Franklin County
Purcell
State Department of Horticulture
Mitchellville
Robert Clark
Fair
Parm Bureau
Jones County Fair
Monticello, Iowa
Schepp
Russ & Jerry
Annie Abbot
Helen Lube’s
Maquoreta Valley
Manchester
Oxford
Thurs
Baldwin
Dyersville
Cascade
Ryan
Co, A
Rutenbeck
Lost Nation
Monticello Municipal
Moncey
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