Local visits and tournament ads in Albia area
Cleo Barnes of Creston spent Sunday with his mother Delia McCrory. Paul Coffin and daughter Shirley of Moulton visited at the Charles Coffin home. Zell Callen and Joan were six oclock dinner guests with Chester Woodcock at Albia. State boys basketball tournament ads promote Zenith radios from L. L. Smith Piano Co. in Albia. Mrs. William Gardner Sr lists her daughter in Oskaloosa and notes winter visits with her son and daughter-in-law in Albia. Best way to enjoy the tournament is to be there, or listen to every game on Zenith radio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester Woodcock
Albia
Zenith Radio
L. L. Smith Piano Co
Albin
Adv
William Gardner
Roy Watson
Oskaloosa
Zell Callen
Joan
Alvin Hiatt
Okaloosa
Neal
Larry
Jack
Stanley Hodges
Mervill
Norma
Patty
Ottumwa
James Buckingham
Cedar Rapids
Pauline Burk
O.F. Blumer
Bonnie
Wendell Roberts
Sharon Kay
Mervin Fred
Lone Rock
Fred Tillmont
Roberta
Guy Roberts
San Diego
Calif
Classified seeds and farm items with local notices
Classified ad listing cheap seed and alfalfa varieties with offers and free samples. Community notices include visits, school board election, family gatherings, and local residents traveling or moving homes in Moravia Iowa with scattered names and places.
Milwaukee Road Plans $8 Million Improvement Budget
The Milwaukee Road announces an $8 million capital program for 1940 upgrades across its 11,000 mile system. The plan includes $1.6 million for rail and ballast, laying 27,800 gross tons of new rail, construction of two thousand steel box cars and 26 steel cabooses, remodeling 26 coaches with air conditioning, and purchase of ten high speed freight locomotives along with 16 heavy Diesel electric yard locomotives and two light Diesel-electrics for branch lines. Total operating expenditures last year exceeded $85.9 million with $8.257 million in taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Mage Life for Centerville Clerk of Court campaign
Campaign material advocates M. G. Mage Life as Centerville clerk of court. The text notes an $8,000,000 figure covering 209 percent of costs for new locomotives and bus cars, with the balance raised by Equipment Trust certificates from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and mentions diesel locomotive payments spread over years.
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Republican
Clerk OF Court
M. G
Mage” Life Centerville
Reconstruction Fish Price Corporation
Double Trouble at The Clarion Theatre
The Clarion theatre operates with two sets of twins in key roles. Walter and Wallace Oldham oversee the machine and candy aisles while Dick and Bob Middleton share usher duties.
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Clarion Theatre
Walter
Wallace Oldham
Bob Middleton
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Clover Seed
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R. R. Pennington
Doris
Charles Coffin
A. M. Pennington
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Coffin
Abbott's Hospital
Lloyd Carter
Fran Hiatt
Frank Chambers
Ella Hiatt
Mary. Hopkinson
Stella Carter
Olive Miltenberger
Kansas City
West
Jack McDonough
California
Paul Spencer
Chariton
Delph Pence
Spencer
Ed Neff
Plane
Roy VanCleff
Guthrie Center
T. T. Lockman
Lew Hiner
Jolly Dozen Club
MresFimony Hiatt
Elizabeth Hiatt
Moravia
McCumber
Roy Rogers and
Smiley Burnette
Western Stars
Warner Bros. Comedy
Lynch Bldg
Milwaukee Road
Hogan
Seandrett
Dedj
Ofa Insurance
Chet Broshar
Nadine
George
EPR Boys
Flint Hill
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