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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1926
Page
4
Mrs. W. G. Grosucle of McGregor Minnesota is visiting the home of Lester Jones. The notice notes a briefly described social visit at the Jones residence.
The Hilton Ladies Aid spent a pleasant day with Mrs. Joe Clark and included many neighbors and relatives. Rev Rowe will fill his regular appointment Sunday. Locals joined the Albia Moravia celebration, with several young folks motoring to Oskaloosa. Family visits and weekend gatherings are noted among Estlack Spencer and Humphrey households.
Scattersburg residents report attendance at the Republican Convention in Centerville on Saturday. Local celebrations occurred in Moravia with the Willian family and Geo McCumber visiting Fred Coltrains Friday evening. The Adams family visited Mrs M Adams Sunday evening. Rev. Walker conducted church services in Scattersburg Sunday afternoon. J W Lockman and W T Irelan attended meetings in Hlakesburg Sunday night. Willian and Tomlin traveled to Moravia Monday. Raymond Lockman called on J W Lockman Monday afternoon. Mystic resident Tom Ray visits neighbors this week.
City notice from Mayor P. Ke. Horner urges residents to keep weeds under control around premises and to ride bicycles in the street. Cars should have proper lights and cut outs closed. Last chance for compliance.
Philadelphia reports Robert Whitman alias Lord Beaverbrook and John Wiedemier arrested in Moyamensing prison while recounting swindles across the country. Whitman admits vanity led to downfall and claims to have swindled and married several women including Frances Kemp, totaling about a million dollars. He offered detectives $50,000 for freedom, and says he lost $100,000 to Atlantic City gamblers before arrest. He has a long police record and allegedly jumped parole.
A collection of statues and household relics from Ur of the Chaldees has found a resting place in America, featured in the new wing of the University of Pennsylvania Museum. The exhibit, protected by Moon kuddébs, honors Eckley Brinton Core Jr. for guiding the museum’s Egyptology research and excavations. The Ur collection results from a joint expedition by the university, aiding British excavators in the ancient metropolis.
Woman heads road in New Orleans to Miami. Sarah Drnio Neuborn, active since the seventies, becomes president of the Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company succeeding her husband as lead.
A damaged report says Tristan da Cunha hosts about 140 people, roughly double the population in years past, straining food supplies. Isolated in the Atlantic mid south between the Cape of Good Hope and Bouvet, most residents are shipwrecked sailors and their spouses from St Helena, with potatoes failing as the main crop.
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