Record Number of Long Distance Calls Expected for Yale Weekend
Northwestern Bell operators in Muscatine work Christmas to connect families far away. If trends hold, 1935 calls will top last year with about 10 percent more messages. In 1935, December 24 and 25 saw 319,046 Iowa origins and 3,824 in Muscatine.
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Yale
Northwestern Bell Telephone
Muscatine
Ethel Stroup
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Northwestern Bell
Iowa
Miss Stroup
Chapter Holds WAPIELLO Chapter 6 Christmas Party
Wapello chapter 6 held a Christmas gathering in the Catholic church with 57 attendees. After a 6:30 dinner, Court Whist winners were Gordon Stone and M B McNeil for the men and Ruth Ann Stineman and Mabel McKinney for the women. Door prize went to Mrs Lineman. Mary Ellen McNeil from Wapello joined the University of Iowa Oratorio Chorus in a 200-voice performance of Mozart Mass in C Minor and Dvorak Te Deum under Prof Daniel Moe at the Iowa Memorial Union. A divorce decree separated Virginia Iris Wonders from Herbert Charles Wonders on cruelty grounds with custody of five children and a property settlement. Angela Grimm, a baby girl, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Keith Grimm in Burlington hospital weighing seven pounds eight ounces. grandparents listed. The piece also covers calls on Christmas Eve, long distance tips, and a historical note on Cromwell era Christmas bans in England and America.
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Wapiello
YLT
Gordon Stone
M. B. McNeil
Ruth Ann Stineman
Mabel McKinney
Lineman
Darlene Hook
Evelyn Bucher
Lita Ross
Mozart
Dvorak
The
Union
Virginia
Iris Wonders
Herbert Charles Wonders
Keith Grimm
Angela Grimm
Burlington Hospital
Ronald Cross
Lester Wiese
Grandview
Bertha Schneider
Clyde Grimm
Charles Grimm
Wichita, Kan
Wapello
Oakville
Ronald Barth
First Baptist Church of
Davenport
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Oliver Cromwell
Cromwell
England
United States
New World
New England
Boston
Idle’s
Sinclair
Carl L. Idle Second & Walnut
Chester
Ralph J. Wittich
Suneral Shalome
First National Bank
Iat SoMa
Second
Iowa Avenue
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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