Muscatine County reports semiannual financial balance
County Treasurer Arthur J. Nicholson releases the six month 1936 financials showing receipts of 1 355 922 80 and expenditures of 1 212 143 64, leaving a June 1 balance of 427 209 77. Banked funds total 413 273 55 with the rest in cash items warrants and bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine County
Arthur J. Nicholson
Muscatine Bank and Trust Company
Muscatine Bank and Trust
Central State Bank
West Liberty State Bank
Wilton Savings Bank
Hershey State Bank
First National
Peoples State of West Liberty
Iowa State of West Liberty
Pleasant Prairie Savings
Teachers Institute
West Liberty
Muscatine Corporation
Clerk of District Court
Dancer Shot and Kills Loverthen Ends Own Life in Phoenix
In Phoenix Arizona Donna Park a Los Angeles dancer is shot and killed by Irving La Zarr a former Sally Rand dancer who then shoots himself. Nat McKee justice of the peace calls it murder by self destruction and an inquest is unlikely. Park had recently moved from Los Angeles to stay at a rooming house where La Zarr obtained a nearby room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Ariz
Irving la Zarr
Sally Rand
Donna Park
Los Angeles
Nat McKee
Justice of the Peace
la Zarr
Elizabeth L. Park
Jury Probes Black Legion Terrors in Detroit
The grand jury continues a nationwide terror probe into the Black Legion. Dayton Dean testified about eight shots fired at Charles A. Poole as the hooded group’s victims, while officials plan to broaden the inquiry to a dozen suspected murders. In Pontiac, residents back relentless prosecutions as courts consider a statewide grand jury. A shrine arson in Oakland County linked to the case draws renewed scrutiny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Black Legion
Dayton Dean
Charles A. Poole
James E. Chenot
Chester P. O’hara
John S. Navarre
Navarre
Poole
WPA
Pontiac
Mich
Circuit
Father Charles E. Coughlin
Oakland County
Local Stars Receive Athletic, Palmer Awards in Ceremony
Margaret Luth Klink Alice Mapes Mary Koenigsaecker Cor rine Phillips Marion Stuart Billy Archer Robert Hillmer Helen Dora John Kelly Shirley Randall James McTigue Betty Chaudoin Dolores Fuller Frances Schweitzer Winifred Bisesi Elaine Gremmel John Klaffenbach Palmer method buttons awarded to Dorothy Price John Hall Jean Chaudoin Lucille Dwyer Kathleen McTigue Margaret Kelly Rodger Lindle Gardner Dodge Mary Klepper Joyce White Alice Chayka Patricia Carl Major athletic letters for basketball to Robert Chaudoin Ralph Zybarth John Baker Tom Fifer Arthur Bersch Robert Fuller Minor athletic awards to Leo Dwyer John Summers Tom Kelly Robert Angerer Paul Fuller cheer leader award
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gardner Dodge
Mary Klepper
Joyce White
Alice Chayka
Patricia Carl
Robert Chaudoin
Ralph Zybarth
John Baker
Tom Fifer
Arthur Bersch
Robert Fuller
Leo Dwyer
John Summers
Tom Kelly
Robert Angerer
Paul Fuller
Mary Kern
Mardelle Oxborough
Phyllis Hartman
Anthony Bisesi
Mary Bennet
Clifford Bleadorn
Lawrence Dwyer
Mary Flannery
Catherine Klein
James Malloy
Elmer Mapes
Catherine Martin
Dolores Schare
Mareitta Willard
Ronald Rohling
Robert Ahlf
Lucille Bielfeld
Robert Carl
James Chasteen
Edward Chaudoin
Donald Luth
Robert Maher
George Motier
Frances Rabitt
Robert Schrautmyer
Margaret Thauren
Lorraine Thompson
William Wilson
Marjorie Bleadorn
Dorothy Fagan
Catherine Flannery
Beatrice Vaiett
Frank Albert
Patrick Barry
Mildred Becker
Sam _ Callas
Cheryl Cottrell
Patricia Fox
Betty Carl
William Hillmer
Ruth Paulick
Mariam Fuller
Harold Howell
Robert Koenigsacker
la Verne Salek
Arthur Steinbaugh
Dorothy Will
Margaret Ann Fuller
Mary Ann Molier
Paul Valett
George Dwyer
Henry Pallischeck
John Cottrell
LaVerne Greer
John Yerington
James Kelly
Harold Price
Jane Reindl
Mark Agnes Riley
Dorothy Thompson
Merit
First Internal Combustion Engines Powered by Gunpowder
The earliest internal combustion engines were developed around 1680 and operated on gunpowder rather than conventional fuels, marking an experimental prelude to later engine designs.
Process of curing olives to produce ripe black fruit
The ripe olive is picked while green, placed in brine to ferment for two weeks, then treated with lye. Exposed to air, it turns black. Lye is later leached out before canning.
Roosevelt Signs Navy Supply Bill Seals Record Defense Funds
President Roosevelt signed the navy supply bill totaling 526,546,532 dollars and a separate 572,466,844 dollar war department measure. Together they set record peacetime military appropriations for the coming fiscal year starting July 1.
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Washington
Roosevelt
War Department
Grand Jury Investigation Sought in Sioux City
Sioux City attorney Fred Free urged District Judges F H Rice and A Wakefield to reconvene the May term grand jury to investigate flagrant law violations. Free, a special assistant attorney general, said he gathered evidence over months on liquor and gambling issues following raids last Wednesday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Fred Free
Edward L. O’connor
District Court
F. H Rice
A. ©. Wakefield
Free
Woodbury County
Maurice Rawlings
O’connor
O'Connor
Rawling
Grand Jury
Attendance and Scholastic Awards at St Mathias School
Perfect attendance pins and numerous scholastic and athletic awards were given during St Mathias grade commencement and senior class day. Recipients include John Fifer Barbara Fuller Paul Fuller Dorothy Klaffenbach Dorothy Valett Francis Angerer Marian Volger and many others with special honors for seven years of perfect attendance to Robert C Fuller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mathias School
Charles Kern
John Fifer
Barbara Fuller
Paul Fuller
Dorothy Klaffenbach
Dorothy Valett
Francis Angerer
Marian Volger
Mary Conway
Betty Will
Mary Bujewski
Betty Rauch
Dorothy Kelly
Veronica Kelly
Betty Mapes
Rosemary Kirsch
LaVaughn Edwards
Robert Klein
Thomas Fifer
Benziger Brothers
Dolores Share
Margaret Hotka
Mary Flannery
Robert Fuller
Lawrence Dwyer
Robert Carl
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Muscatine Independent
Conesville
Nichols
Atalissa
Wilton
Stockton
Nichols Delinquent Rozd Fund
Phoenix, Ariz
Emilie
Dionne Nursery
Dean
Nd Am
Gay Bride
Carole Lombard
Chester Morris
Zasu Pitts
Tommy
Michael Arlen
Bette Davis
McGolden Arrow, George Brent
Carol Hughes
Robert Taylor
Navy
American Legion
Dee Lang
Muscatine
St. Mathias
Gene Raymond
Wendy Barrie
Helen Broderick Meeee
Rex and
Rinty
Patsy Kelly
Fox News
Rinso
Mational
Rinsois
Ana, Cotton
Marge
America
Ical Advertisement
IT. Grigg
Ben Finkle
Paradise
Edgeworth
East Second St
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