Christmas Week of gaiety planned at 15 Iowa institutions
Des Moines AP reports the Iowa state board of control and directors arranged a full week of festivities for 15 state institutions. Santa Claus visited hospitals and children's homes, delivering nuts and candy. Christmas dinners featured roast fowl and mince pie as programs continue through New Year’s Day with operettas, trees, balls, and moving pictures across Glenwood Eldora Clarinda institutions.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Board of Control and Institution
E. J. Hines
Santa Claus
Glenwood
Eldora Training School
Clarinda Hospital
Christmas Guests and Local News In Lone Tree
Christmas dinner guests include J C Waples and Gertrude Jewett of Wayland Iowa City shopping trips noted. M R Griebel buys Lone Tree Reporter with transfer Jan 1 from Hazel Atkin. Hacke's last issue Dec 24. Community events include a basket supper at the Methodist church Dec 31 and various holiday visits and visits in Town City Riverside and Thornburg. Farm Bureau officers elected for Fremont township with L E Brinkmeyer president and 12 new members added.
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Lone Tree
Hilda Werbach
J.C. Waples
Gertrude Jewett
Wayland
Carl Werbach
Frances
Carolyn
Walter Shoquist
Jean Alice
Joseph William
Carol Ruth
Sam Herring
L. O. Adams
Iowa City
Frances Ashton
Cedar Rapids
M. R. Griebel
Guttenberg
George Kline
Ames
Celeste Baumer
Ottumwa
Henry Beatch
Robert Hess
Town City
Ruth Ramer
State Teachers College
Valley City
N. D
H. W. Huskins
Karl Wiese
Lloyd Burr
Jake Baker
Frank Huskins
Adna Miller
Fred Miller
West Liberty
Everett Neal
Riverside
Joe Linsley
A. Bontrager
Charles Hacke
Otto Joens
Thornburg
Petersburg
Ill
E. C. Wolford
C. A. Hacke
Fern Holdoegel
Des Moines
Will Wolford
L. E. Brinkmeyer
Fremont Township
Norma
Ainsworth
Horak
Mary Swedensky
Local residents plan Christmas visits across the Midwest
Wellman and Mrs. Jake Erb visit relatives in Arkansas and Kansas for two weeks. Ned Wahl and Mrs. Booth travel to Des Moines to see Theo dore Booth. Helen Coffey from Blairstown vacations with her parents. Many other residents visit Iowa City Des Moines McGregor Dubuque Sac City and Mt. Pleasant for Christmas.
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Aileen
Iowa City
Omer Green
Mearl Enfield
Dennis Jones
Mt. Pleasant
Crawfordsville
G. W. Hunter
Jeannette Holyrod
McGregor
Esse Snell
Brady, Neb
Snell
van Hoene
Helen Schroeder
Fred Schroeder
Blanche Beck
Dubuque
Lloyd Durst
Leslie Lewis
Des Moines
Everett Lewis
Abe Miller
Hilma Dodds
Sac City
J. A. Dodds
Tax Committee to Meet Sunday in Des Moines
AP reports the legislative tax committee will meet Sunday in Des Moines to finish drafting the remaining bills for presentation to the general assembly. Seven bills are printed and complete, while five are not yet finished.
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Des Moines
Legislative Tax Committee
General Assembly
Christmas News And Local Holiday Happenings In Atalissa
The column notes Henry Watters in critical condition after illness at home. Families travel to Rock Island Muscatine Nashua and Barabou for Christmas visits. Mariel Oepping wed Ed Windman in Muscatine. Teachers and students from Lone Tree and Iowa State College return home for vacation. A Presbyterian Christmas program ends with Santa and treats for children.
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Hopperstad
Calmar
Snell
Mediapolis
Smith
West Liberty
Wilcox
Barabou
Wis
Eleanor Hargrave
Lester Cornell
Iowa State College
Ames
Naomi Federlein
Stockton Pupils Present Holiday Program
Stockton School presented a Christmas program Tuesday evening under Miss Bessi Gippert and Miss Hazel Colberg. The operetta Santa's Air Line was performed by the whole school, a large trimmed tree, a concert by local band boys under Carl Starck, and a Santa Claus visit with gifts. School closed for holiday vacation until January 5, with Davenport high school pupils also on break.
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Stockton
Bessi Gippert
Hazel Colberg
Carl Starck
Muscatine
Supt
E. D. Bradley
Santa Claus
Davenport High School
Kurtz Realty Buys Corner Site in Loop District
Des Moines firm Kurtz Realty announces the purchase of a corner site in the loop district and plans a $250000 building to rise early in 1931.
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Des Moines
Kurtz Realty Company
Loop District
Motorized Santa Delivers Gifts to Davenport Children
AP reports a modern St. Nicholas using a motor truck delivered packages to Davenport and Bettendorf, visiting hundreds of homes. More than 3,500 youngsters on the Daily Times Santa Claus list received gifts, with records broken and gifts surpassing previous distributions.
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Davenport
St. Nicholas
Bettendorf
Daily Times
Christmas Dinner Socials Span Several Households
Multiple families and guests share holiday meals and gatherings across Muscatine and Waterloo. The Letts and Turkingtons host noon dinners with extended relatives, while Supt. Doyle Frame and the Hildebrands entertain. Travelers from Chicago join relatives for Christmas visit.
Nichols and Nichols Featured in Bayfield and Nearby Visits
Mrs J A Mills daughter of Felicitas and Harry Braun visited with Charles Harper at Bayfield Sunday. The Braun household hosted Henry Braun and family Monday evening. Laurence Foley Marguerite Foley and others from Nichols Muscatine and Cedar Rapids were in town Tuesday. William Quimby and Pauline Hay wed Dec 5 in Waverly with Rev Biete officiating. Betty and Viola Knetsch visit grandparents Henry Braun.
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Lydia Hanson
Iowa City
William Quimby
Albert Quimby
Nichols
Pauline Hay
O. W. Hay
Cedar Rapids
Baptist
Waverly
Biete
Baptist Church
Clyde Artus
Hubert Patterson
Betty
Viola Knetsch
Henry Braun
Christmas visiting in Sweetland area reported
Sweetland residents and relatives gathered across several homes during the holiday weekend. Kenneth Bieber, a student at Iowa State College, remained with his parents in Ames for Christmas vacation. Des Moines firms reportedly sold 10 to 11 million dollars in merchandise during the season, with a sales rise of ten percent over 1929 despite a lower total.
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Ray Holtz
Verle
Muscatine
Ruth
Reva
Archie Braun
Des Moines
N. H. Nielson
Retail Merchants Bureau
The
Chamber of Commerce
Iowa Miners in Fatal Quarrel
Des Moines AP. Joe Bertus Li 32 a Waukee miner died from gunshot wounds allegedly by Dominic Vanni 38 of Waukee a fellow worker Vanni jailed in Adel on murder charges The shooting occurred in Bertujli s home Tuesday afternoon Sheriff S J Nuzum said He believes Vanni blamed Bertujli for Mrs Vanni s divorce action A neighbor heard the shot and confiscated a rifle from Vanni Bertujli was not married.
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Des Moines
Joe Bertusli
Waukee
Dominic Vanni
Vanni
Dallas
Adel
Bertujli
S. J. Nuzum
Dallas County
Nuzum
Grandview Teacher resigns to join Moline junior high
Ruth Mc Intyre, a sixth to eighth grade teacher in Grandview, tendered resignation effective January 9 and will take a position at a junior high school in Moline. Other items note local visits by the Schweitzers, De Muth, and O. S. Korte, a school party at Hale Reid, and the death of 70 year old M. H. Dumbolton in Chicago from a fall.
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Grandview
Ruth McIntyre
Moline
Charles Schweitzer
Loleta
Oakville
Mary Schweitzer
de Muth
Muscatine
O. S. Korte
George Owen
Dvindall
Columbus Junction
Elma Duindall
George Schweitzer
Fay
Hale Reid
Iowa Briefs Reported Tragic Deaths and Legal Moves
Dan Randolph 13 hanged himself in Council Bluffs and was found by his father after a shopping trip. Audubon reports Amos Nelson arrested in Prescott Arizona for desertion and to be returned for trial. Sheriff Myron Tullar named state justice agent in Fort Dodge. Mrs Mildred Haynes offers no new theory on Auburn Nebraska officials about her husband found killed and dumped in Missouri river.
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Council Bluffs
Dan Randolph
Joseph F. Randolph
Audubon
Amos Nelson
Prescott,Ariz
Fort Dodge
Myron Tullar
State Department of Justice
Mildred Haynes
Auburn, Neb
Missouri River
Golden wedding in Blue Grass ends with dancing remarks
Mr and Mrs Leon Arp and daughters Arloine and Vivian attended the golden wedding of Mrs Arp's uncle and aunt Fritz and Mrs Kautz at the Blue Grass community hall Tuesday evening. Guests from Davenport Rock Island Wilton Durant Muscatine and Davenport joined the celebration with a Christmas program and dancing. Arnold Thiessen of Chicago visited his parents Hermann and Mrs Thiessen during his holiday vacation.
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Stockton
Leonard Arp
Arloine
Vivian
Arp
Fritz Kautz
Blue Grass
E. Gippert
Rock Island
George Dittmer
H. P. Broders
Davenport
Raymond Claussen
Laura Claussen
Wilton
J. H. Broders
Durant
Ferris Colberg
Muscatine
Amanda Oveson
Arnold Thiessen
Majectic Radio Company
Chicago
Hermann Thiessen
Kidnaper Is Chicago Gunman In Long Beach Shootout
In Long Beach a gunfight left a officer wounded as J. Sherman alias Ralph Sheldon, a Chicago hoodlum once with Al Capone's circle, was arrested after the weekend kidnapping of E L Caress and his wife. Police identified him as a principal in the crime and sought the second wounded gangster's body.
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Los Angeles
Underworld
Chicago
Long Beach
J. Sherman
Ralph Sheldon
al Capone
E. L. Caress
Caress
Sherman
Sheldon
Fears of Cautious Woman Unfounded
Mrs Edward W Bundy called police about a mysterious package from an unknown source. A non expert squad smashed the box in an alley. items found included cigarets a screw a box of candy a sausage and a bottle of whisky.
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Washington
Edward W. Bundy
No new poison fog deaths reported in Brussels area
Official word states there has been no recurrence of the poison fog after two weeks. A Tilleur worker died from accidental gas inhalation during repair work, while fear and rumors persist among residents in low areas amid the lingering fog.
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Brussels
Tilleur
Transfer Meeting Moved to Toronto Over Hotel Strike
The triennial convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen is moved from Cleveland to Toronto due to a hotel strike by union workers. The gathering runs through June, after similar labor actions prompted the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen to relocate their 1931 convention from Cleveland to Houston.
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Cleveland
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Toronto
Brotherhood of Railroad
Houston
Tex
Organized Labor
Farmers Gaining Ground in Marketing Through Cooperatives
Washington reports the farm board states that over a million of the nation’s two million farmers in 12,000 farmer owned co operatives have been aided by the agricultural marketing act. They move more than 40 farm crops through marketing channels toward the consumer.
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Washington
Farm Board
With Dance Beating: Mayor Ends Marathon Dances
In Amarillo two days before Christmas a 12 day marathon dance is halted by Mayor Ernest Thompson who invokes a writ. Dancers resist but county attorney Leo Sparks voids the action saying no legal basis to stop the event. The health office backs the effort but the dancers resume as justice prevails.
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Amarillo
Tex
Ernest ©. Thompson
Leo Sparks
Actress Mother Dies in Hollywood Hospital
Mrs. David Farrell of Onset Massachusetts, mother of motion picture actor Charles Farrell, died last night in a Hollywood hospital after an attack of sinus trouble.
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Hollywood, Calif
David Farrell
Onset
Mass
Charles Farrell
Hollywood Hospital
Farm board publication details cooperative sales plans
A new farm board bulletin outlines the board’s activities along with the organization and marketing plans of cooperative sales agencies.
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Farm Board
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