Local News Involving Iowa Residents And Area Notices
City updates cover visits and travel plans of Mrs. Nietzel and others, church and club events, hospital returns, and a Lions club banquet for Muscatine high school. Court fines for intoxication and postponed criminal hearings, plus school concerts and hog sales mark the day’s local happenings across Muscatine and nearby towns.
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Muscatine
Lions Club
Elks Club
University of Iowa
George Bresnahan
Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis receives the 1930 Nobel Prize in literature for his powerful and vivid art of description and his wit and humor in creating original characters. The Swedish academy’s citation accompanies a prize of about $46,350 and is signed by Erik Axel Karlfeldt and Anders Österling.
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Stockholm
Sinlair Lewis
Swedish Academy
Sinclair Lewis
Lewis
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Academy
Anders Oesterling
Sweden
Wilmington chosen for Chicago and Alton sale auction
The Wilmington depot in Illinois was named the sale site for the Chicago and Alton railroad being sold by federal court. The line with 1028 miles of track had served Illinois and Missouri since 1861 and was operated under receivership for eight years by William G. Bierd who valued it at about 100 million dollars.
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Wilmington, Ill
Wilmington
Chicago and Alton Railroad
Joliet
Chicago
Chicago and Joliet
Chicago and Alton
Illinois
Missouri
William G. Bierd
Spanish Strikers Clash With Police in Cadiz Walkout
Cadiz Spain AP reports a 48 hour strike by masons and carpenters escalated into clashes with police. City traffic halted and stores closed as guards patrolled while Valencia saw carpenters resume work after riots that left one dead and several injured. Fire in East Side Apartment Causes Evacuation.
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Cadiz
Spain
Valencia
Cuba Faces New Crisis as Firefighters Battle Blaze
Twenty one people, mostly in night clothes, shivered for over an hour in the cold morning air while firemen fought a blaze. No injuries were reported.
Test of Iowa Gasoline Tax Law Action Filed
F. J. Lineberger a naphtha importer filed in Polk county district court to challenge the Iowa gasoline tax as applied to commercial naphtha. He seeks to enjoin State Treasurer Ray E. Johnson from collecting a 3 cents a gallon tax on a carload shipped to Des Moines on December 5.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Polk County
F. J. Lineberger
Lineberger
Ray E. Johnson
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John Nietzel
Maquoketa
Owen Vance
Park Avenue
The
Old Ladies’ Home
Mulberry Avenue
Charles Higgins
Ed. Clander
H. D. Horst
Jessie Bromwell
J. C. Coser
Jack Pace
Andrew Ernst
Linda Musser
West Third Street
Mexico
Jim Walker
Rock Island
Fred B. Nesper
Fairport
Rev. Leland
Grace English Lutheran Church
Muscatine Junior College
Martha
Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
Bertha Durst
Evangelical Protestant Church
Aid Society
Wyoming Lodge 76
K. P
Charles Ballenbach
Columbus Junction
Bellevue Hospital
Newt McGill
Creighton Gray
Oregon Street
Hershey Hospital
A. F. Bishop
Ash Street
Carl Paetz
Linn Street
Lila Ballew
East Fourth Street
Clara Thede
Wilton Junction
J.S. Kelley
Wapello
Edward Gorham
University of Iowa Hospital
Hoffman
Elmer Ziegler
Washington, Franklin, Garfield
Lincoln
Franklin School
John Doerres
Lone Tree
Des Moi
Yire
Cuba
Havana
Associated Press
Wilson’s Shoe Store
Aes
Romeos
Jong
Infelt
Boy Scout
Jingle Bell
Woolworth
East Second Street
Ac. Ee
Axminster
Conan
Tams ‘En's
Misses
Porto
Fane
Hoaglin’s
Skinner
Kid Everette
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