Equitable Life in Iowa mails shows vast use of postal facilities
The Iowa Equitable Life Insurance Company processes 5000 pieces daily with a high speed machine stamping dates and postage. Air mail volumes run about 760 letters monthly. The piece notes memorials for two foreign Iowa State College students Fan Chi Kung and Kyu Park, plus diverse Iowa agricultural research and road tax provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Equitable Life Insurance Company
Iowa
Equitable
Pitney-Bowes
Iowa State College
Fan Chi Kung
Kyu Park
Fire on train carloads of goods destroys six cars
A train yard blaze destroyed six of twenty two cars including a car of matches a car of shingles two cars of flour and two cars of sardines. The Marshalltown fire brigade saved the remaining cars noting matches burn stubbornly. In Des Moines a hospital housed Hindu Indian and a negro among twenty nationalities reflecting cosmopolitan america.
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Marshalltown Fire Brigade
Methodist
Des Moines
State House to honor war flags with dedicatory service
A plan to install cases in the state house rotunda for flags from Spanish American and World wars follows Civil War displays. A spring dedicatory service is proposed.
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State House
Iowa
New Books and Readers Move at Local Library Sale
A broad list of new non fiction and fiction titles arrives at the library with author notes including Hoover and Elizabeth I bios, Penrod stories, Tolstoi Anna Karenina and other works. The update also lists new editions from Doyle and Bronte and many Pasadena and Los Angeles readers and residents listed in the notices.
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Barrington
Laughing Queen
Cleopatra
Raine
W. M
Fighting Tenderfoot
Tolstoi
Leo
Russia
Anna
Wilson
H. L
Lone Tree
Ben
Maquoketa Camp Fire Girls Benefit Bridge
The Maquoketa Camp FireGirls held a benefit bridge event with seven tables at fifty cents a seat and raised fifteen dollars. Mrs. John Locher had the high score as Mr. Reed begins a three week talk series on Indians to inspire essays for campfire birthday honors. Torchbearers and other girls are named for upcoming ranks in social leadership music and wood gathering.
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Maquoketa
John Locher
Reed
Sylvia Olden
Vivian Bancroft
Mae Cass
Fae Cass
Madge
Dickey
Woodgatherers
W. Harford
Mary Bender
Monticello Picnic in Pasadena Draws Local Crowd
Miss Katherine Maurice reports a Monticello picnic January 18 at Pilgrim Congregational Church Pasadena. Seventy five attended with many old friends reconnecting after forty years while birth anniversary of Ed Hicks was noted.
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J. H. Winsor
N. Euclid Avenue
Pasadena
James Robertson
S. Bonnie Street
G. L. Lovell
Rex Arms Apts
Los Angeles
Catharine Lovell Adams
Westlake
A. J. Peak
Maple Avenue
Geo. Schoonover
Edna Schoonover
Avenue 66
W. BE. Carson
Rialto
California
J. McLaughlin
Sunset
Hollywood
Emma Lees
W. Garfield
Glenwood
Linda Deutrick
66Th Avenue
Highland Park
Cora Evans
Kate Maurice
E. 5Th
Carrie Eastman Fallis
BE. 5Th
Antonia Hanssen
S. Mariposa
A. G. Hanken
Frieda Hanken
Pine Avenue
Long Beach
R. Scroggie
Sycamore Road
Santa Monica
Carrie Hickman Cowan
Elsie Cowan
Coronado
R. G. Lyons
Palm Drive
la Canada
Ella Petcina
Redcliff
M. H. Teeter
Kenneth Drive
Ed Harms
Charles Scherrer
9Th
J. Q. Skelley
Ella Sherman Skelley
Elm
Mr. Simmons
Trene Skelley Simmons
S. Burlington Ave
Arvilla Tuel Derflinger
14Th
J. F. Shean
Jones
Congregational Church
Anamosa
Pilgrim Congregational Church
Katherine Maurice
Monticello
John Staffer
Warvel
H. D. Sherman
Ed Hicks
Miss Maurice
Harry Doutrick
Pauline Greenewald Doutrick
Carol
Navarro Avenue
Co. L. Butler
North Hill Aivenue
M. &. Barnhill
MacVista Avenue
William Rosa
E. G. Hicks
Lillian Mack
Garfield Avenue
Charles Hurbutt
Harry Dahlstrom
Maple Street
Ben Wilson
Neva Starks
Jefferson Drive
William Carson
Local Notes From Cedar Rapids To Muscatine District
Onslow Mrs. Kenneth Kennedy and Eleanor visited Cedar Rapids with her parents. a February play is planned by the third division of the Ladies Guild directed by Mrs. Kennedy. Several residents attended events in Wyoming Moline and Monmouth. sports results include Cedar Rapids teams beating Baldwin and a high school loss to Monmouth. Dr. W. Scott of Maquoketa died after long illness. he was a prominent local physician and member of Masons Woodmen and Odd Fellows. Church services Sunday include a sermon by Rev. Flett and junior choir music conducted by Mrs. Ethel Koon.
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Kenneth Kennedy
Eleanor
Cedar Rapids
Charles Rowe
Moline
Baldwin
Monticello
Monmouth
Frieda Albrecht
Dubuque
Carol Hunwardsen
George Sears
Marcy Hunwardsen
Riana W Dreiballs
Rad
Shirley Jean
Milwaukee
Belle Johnson
Sam Dreibelbis
Julius Michels
Howard Green
Ward Hicks
Muscatine
Joseph Wasson
Clarence Morehead
Buckhorn
Mr. Morehead
G. C. Flett
Chicago
W. Scott
Maquoketa
Scott
Flett
Ethel Koon
Snow drifts halt travel as roads reopen across county
Clear days and westerly winds moved Ioose snow Friday and Saturday after side roads were opened. Cars remained unable to travel and no services were held at the Presbyterian church on Sunday due to drifted roads. The big snow plow cleared miles of county and township roads on Sunday and Monday. Forest Craig visited Amber and G. J. Hughes visited Cascade. The Presbyterian Aid society plans a February meeting February 5 with Mrs. F. D. Sinclair. Little Lee Rittmer was taken to Monticello for closer care as his condition remained poor. The Townsend to Rittmer road opened to allow transport to Monticello. University of Iowa radio courses on music, astronomy, English novels, and language are offered with Prof. Clapp, Wylie, Sloan, Dickman, and Gonzalez teaching various sessions. The university is noted as a leading American institution in education by radio.
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Presbyterian Church
Forest Craig
Amber
G. J. Hughes
Presbyterian Aid Society
F. D. Sinclair
Lee Rittmer
Monticello
Townsend's
Rittmer Place
University of Iowa
Clapp
Wylie
Richland Center Visit and Local Meeting Notes
Richland Center visitors Miss Martha Balcar Miss Eloise Balcar and Miss Margaret Wismeier extended their stay with Richland friends. Local leaders Mrs. G L Buol and Mrs. Will Balsiger hosted a follow up meeting at Mrs. Will Burrichtes home discussing the fourth lesson of the Women’s project Teaching Children the Use of Money. George Hein Jr was a visitor at the Fred Hanken home near Langworthy last Friday. Roy E Sackett and wife spent Saturday at M D Sackett home near Sand Spring.
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Martha Balcar
Eloise Balcar
Cedar Rapids
Richland
Margaret Wismeier
G. L. Buol
Will Balsiger
John Yossi
John Schweitzer
Margaret Stadtmueller
Will Burrichter
George Hein, Jr
Fred Hanken
Langworthy
Roy E. Sackett
M. D. Sackett
Sand Spring
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Iowa News
J. W. Jarnagin
Hawkeye State
Howard M. Jones
State Department of Agriculture
United States
Mark Thornburg
William McArthur
R. M. Hughes
Ames
Cadwell Farm Orchestra
Dallas County
John P. Wallace
Jay Whitson
W. C. Anderson
Harry J. Bode
Kossuth
James C. Davis
Wayne
Z. T. Dunham
Crawford
Harry B. Fox
Sac
W. M. George
Bremer
Frank Holland
van Buren
John Heuck
Clay
Marshall
Methodist Hospital
Frank Bell
Red Oak
Montgomery County
Kirk Dennis
Dennis
Carl Schiller
Pennsylvania Railroad
Schiller
Cunard
Canada
Waverly
Carl Grawe
Bremer County
Marshall Canning Factory
Washington County
Norton
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Shrine Temple
Interstate Business Men's Accident Association
Fred G. Hunter
J. R. Ferguson
Albia
State Teachers College At
Cedar Falls
Denmark
Philippines
Towa State Teachers College
Finn Bjorn Eriksen
Julian Torrano
Iowa State Teachers College
Iowa Bankers’ Association
Frank Warner
County Board of Supervisors
Willis Allan Glassgow
Iowa State University
Chicago Tribune
Tribune
Red" Grange
Illinois
Irwin
Will
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Anthony
Katherine
Queen Elizabeth
Elizabeth
Barbour
R. H
Jimmy
Darby
A. C
Medora
Hinkle
T. C
Bugle
McNeely
M. H
Rusty Ruston
Rusty
Schultz
J. W
Snedeker
C. D
Dencey
Nantucket
Sammy Jensam
Stuart
D. M
Doyle—White Company
Dumas
Count of Monte Cristo
Bronte
George Herbert
Scotch Grove
Richland Center
American Legion Hall
Paramount Park Orchestra
Express
Ford
Childress Motor Co
Ford Dealership
Big Slaughter Sale
Sale
McNeill
Eilers
Swift & Co
Red Steer Fertilizer
Farmers’ Creamery
Monticello, Iowa
J. B. Zimmerman
Bob
de- Laval
R. H. Balster
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