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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1936
Page
6
Readable schedules show Castle Grove and St. John's churches staging multiple Christmas events including pageant casts with named families, choir offerings, recitations, hymns, and a Christmas Eve service emphasizing spiritual gift over theatrics. Other parishes plan children's services, readings, carols, and refreshments.
A batch of 1936 Christmas letters from Monticello Iowa children to Santa requests diverse gifts from dolls and toy typewriters to trains, farm equipment, and clothing. The notes name several children including Theona Aldrich, Marvin and Raymond Oltmann, Eugene and Audrey Oltmann, Bernell Reid Denar, Lois Tobiason, Robert Reuter, Lorraine Bud, Tam Buol, and Elaine Buol, with family references and school notes.
The piece highlights the Betten dorf brothers who built a major wagon gear and railroad car factory in Betten dorf Iowa and expanded to supply rolling stock across North America. It also covers attorney R F Clough losing 700 dollars to a swindle at Waterloo and a severe hand injury to Douglass Warner in Northwood. It closes with a farm misfortune at the Fowlie farm near Rockwell City as multiple equipment failures and a car collision occur.
Al Harker near Sidney, Fremont county, trapped a magpie after his car backfired injured his arm and larcenies of poultry. Charles Warren of Spencer, Clay county, touts a dashboard radiator shutter patent. Earl Sanders of Colfax, Jasper county, badly injured a finger in a Thanksgiving accident while descending basement stairs. Algot Alm of Red Oak, Montgomery county, sued Iowa Supreme Court after drinking horse liniment labeled good for man or beast.
The fragment describes an arrest after a man reportedly swallowed a taiment and was allegedly groggy or intoxicated. Alm argues the substance was ingested by mistake and the subject should have been admitted to a hospital rather than jailed.
Billy Carlson, son of Mr and Mrs E C Carlson of Carroll Carroll County, sustained a severe eye injury during hide and seek when a weed punctured his cornea. He was hospitalized and doctors fear loss of sight may occur.
Slean Hoefing of Manson in Calhoun county is funding college costs with dill pickle crops. He works at a sandwich shop in Town City while attending the state university and planned to scale from four to ten acres next year. A hail storm damaged part of the crop, which would have yielded about 10 000 gallons. Hoefing grew his own dill and used a home recipe.
Denison resident E T Malone discovers a stalled truck on a Crawford county highway. He steps to the road and signals an oncoming car to stop but is struck from behind by another vehicle. He travels about 60 feet but avoids severe injury thanks to his heavy overcoat. The text also notes a claim about kissing origins and the Queen Mary hull weight exceeding 50 000 tons.
Keystone High School in Benton county reported Ray and Glenn Koeppen both arrived with broken arms after their family car backfired while starting. Ray first injured his arm and sought medical treatment. Glenn then attempted to start the car, also sustaining an arm injury.
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