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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1949
Page
3
A Lone Tree girl, Barbara Kirkpatrick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lowry Kirkpatrick, was treated at Mercy hospital Iowa City after drinking kerosene Tuesday. She recovered enough to return home later.
Band Mothers of Wapello sponsor a minstrel show in the Wapello high school auditorium Tuesday night March 15 at 8 pm. The Jolly Twenty club of Grandview will present The Lady Minstrels of Dixie with other features. Relatives report the death of Dewey Biggs in Lima Peru after an appendectomy at 51. He was born in Louisa County and lived in Chicago before serving as an aviator in Peru. He is survived by his mother Emma Robison, three sisters Marian McCullough Lillian Edwards Ruth, and connections in Wapello Letts Decatur Oakville Letts. Mrs Harold Swan, Mabel Bailey, and Ina Peck joined a regional home makers tour in Missouri Kentucky Illinois led by Ruth Foster to study farm living conditions and historic sites. Frank Schneider of Davenport visited his ill mother Elizabeth Schneider in Letts. Birds have existed since the Mesozoic era and are now the most numerous class of higher animals.
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