The Golden Stranger Serial Debuts in The American Weekly
Serial tale by S. Andrew Wood begins in The American Weekly with love and adventure, as suspense builds toward a dramatic climax. Also includes classified and notices about furnace reps, Pearl Buttons, and sealed bids by the Board of Education for school painting with deposits required.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Golden Stranger
S. Andrew Wood
American Weekly
Chicago Herald-American
Board of Education
C. E. Podhaski
Standard Oil Ups Ad Budget 75 Percent in Papers
Standard Oil Company of Indiana will raise its 1940 advertising budget, placing about 75 percent in newspapers across 18 Midwestern states. The campaign promotes Red Crown gasoline as the 2 to 1 favorite of motorists like Ike Schneider Jr. of Monticello and touts Via motor oil as the midwestern favorite. Around 1,713 newspapers with 14 million total circulation will carry the ads, including 492 dailies and 1,221 weeklies such as the Monticello Express.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Red Crown Gasoline
Motoriste
Ike Schneider, Jr
Monticello
Standard Agent
Middlewest
Monticello Express
Schneider
Red Crown
Standard
Gasoline Tax Revenue Across Two Decades Reaches Billions
American motorists paid gasoline taxes totaling over 7.0 billion dollars in 19 years since the first levy. The amount nearly matches a full year’s federal operating expenses.
Wyoming Social Calendar Highlights Banquet and Commencement
The Wyoming community lists events for the graduation season starting with the junior senior banquet on Friday May 10 at the Methodist church with Rev R C Scott. Other dates include baccalaureate May 19 class day May 20 and 21 exams May 20 21 the annual school picnic May 22 and commencement May 23 with Dr O L Morris of Coe College Cedar Rapids delivering the address. Funeral notices for John Thomson and J L Wilson Conwell are also reported along with marriages and local society items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
Methodist Church
R. C. Scott
O. L. Morris
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Miss Ione Smith
R. B. Pollock
Paul Westphal
Eva Bahnsen
Louis Petersen
June Thomsen
Twyla Clough
Dorothy Ravenscroft
Leona Redmond
Stuart Marshall
Arnold Lazare
Agnes Petersen
Roy Tompkins
Albert Boots
Fred Petersen
Thomsen
John Thomsen
Citizens State Bank of Wyoming
Presbyterian Church
W. P. Nicholas
Thomson
Germany
Board of Supervisors
Jones County
Wyoming Schools
Meinhardt
August
Dora Thomson
Clara Benbow
Seattle
Wash
Jennie Ireland
J. L. Wilson Conwell
Mercy Hospital
Anamosa
Lutheran Church
G. J. Zeilinger
Austin Conwell
Oxford Junction
Iowa
Helen Bennen
Laverna
Bruce
Maquoketa
Anna Dose
Henry Dose
Harold Luke
Joe Luke
Maquoketa Methodist Church
H. D. Green
Lake
Charles Marshall
Eith
Ruth
Olin
Wayne
Dubuque
Gerald Mader
A. W. Peck
Ruth Watson
Watson
Order of Eastern Star
Wayne Hildreth
Lester Bruenig
Rhodes
W. QO. Shaffer
Social visits and gatherings around S Sand Spring and nearby towns
Multiple residents from Sand Spring and surrounding areas visit family homes in Cedar Rapids, Prairieburg, Stone City, Hopkinton, Dyersville, Monticello, and Delhi. Attendees include Mrs. Frances Gestel, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Drum barger, Elmer Heeren, Ed Cox, and Arch ie Payne, with notes of dances and meetings in Lenox College and D-X in Waterloo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Gestel Vis
Art Weber
John Albany
W. H. Behrends
Etta Behrends
Cedar Rapids
E. W Barnel
Elmer Heeren
Manchester
Cyril Stevenson
John Charles
Eldon Stevenson
Prairieburg
Fred Egger
Nelson Freeze
Lee Drumbarger
Robert
Elmer Drumbarger
Stone City
Peter Peutz
Strawberry Point
Minnie Heeren
Wanda Sandhagen
Frances Gestel
Lee Knapp
Farley
Arnold Sandhagen
Frances Drumbarger
Hopkinton
Ed Cox
Lenox College
J. L. Batchelder
Earl Batchelder
Central City
George Arduser
Betty Jean
Emma Marie
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Mia
A. G. Bohlken
Ipd
White Rock Spring
Call
Max Specht
E. C. Nagel
Frank L. Himebaugh
Guernsey
Bateman & Schulte College
Shaffer's
J. H. Perrine
Iowa Electric Co
Ralph Lahey
Farmers Grain Co
Scotch Grove
Shomont Farms
Thos. Shover
Maple Street
William Podhaski
Frank Podhaski
Monticello State Bank
Farmer’s Implement Co
Towa
Charles R. Rice
Dick Naylor
Scotch Groves
Cascade
Wilkerson Nurbery
Henry Schoon
Lillian Harms
Eliza Feede
Bruno Jensen
Onslow
Joel Starks
McNeill Hardware
Baldwin Piano Store
E. 4Th
Davenport
Ryan
Walgreen
Mother
Palmer's
McNeill’s Hardware
Meyer Hat Shop
Monticello Auto Wie
Helmer
Laws
J. E. Messerli
Oliver Implement Store
Long’s Dept
Ugda
Palmers
Harry Gerrets
L. W. Glenn
Phoenix
Stuhler
Eclipse Lumber Co
H. F. Adams
Bernard Kuriger
C. A. Coxsee
Farmall-B
Shaffer
Vernimont
Sycamore Street
Benadom Sanitarium
Albert Hutton
Helms Photo Studio
Hargrave Cleaners
Bell Phone
W. S. Eby
Sargent
Monticello Feed Mill
Sargent & Company
Des Moines
Green Foundry & Furnace Works
Standard Oil
Wilson Conwell
Wilbur Behnke
Harold Huston
John Jones
Walter Behnke
Marian Amend
Floyd Young
Esther Lazare
Edna Finkenbinder
Jacob Allen
Gloria McGuire
Twila Huffman
Paul Levsen
Cedar Falls
Ls.t.c
Levsen
Iowa State Teachers College
Helen
Clarence
Dillon Hall
Midland Homemakers
Midland Homemakers Club
Roy Finkenbinder
Martin Vetersen
Clarence First
First
Marianne Ingwersen
August Ingwersen
Clayton Sherrill
Matthiessen
Matthiessen Auto & Supply Co
Sand Spring
Charles Stevens
Chester A. Condit
General Insurance Agency
Batchelder
Fuestia
Lee M. Sherrill
Office of
Republican
Bea
Love Bros
Lows Brothers LY Po
East Side Yard
H. I. Rodman
Mgr
Goodyear
Goodyyear
Clark Bros. Tire & Battery Shop
Sinclair
First Street
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