Feast of five tables at church draws large crowd
A “feast of five tables” supper with entertainment drew a large crowd at United Brethren church on Wednesday. Hosted by the Ladies Aid society, tables named by color featured hostesses and a separate entertainment lineup. Officials announced future repeats at Island Methodist Episcopal church on April 1 and at United Brethren church on April 2.
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United Brethren Church
Ladies’ Aid Society
Carl Kautz
Will Rynearson
Ethel Smith
Bert Kiepper
First Ward Members Lead R N A Program
Woodbine Royal Neighbors of America unit in the First ward organized the program at Woodman hall on Wednesday. The highlight was a character show featuring figures from cartoons songs and cateleries. A business meeting preceded the program discussing plans for the thirty fifth anniversary observance in April with a special event planned.
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First Ward
Woodbine Camp
Royal Neighbors of America
Woodman Hall
Bride Mrs. Francis Honts Honored at Mabry Party
Mrs. Francis Honts formerly Miss Rose Denton was honored at a post nuptial party given by Miss Nina Forbes and Mrs. Charles Mabry at 1012 Fast Ninth Street. Green and white decorations featured sweat peas and other cut flowers. Games and contests provided entertainment.
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Francis Honts
Nina Forbes
Charles Mabry
Mabry
Fast Ninth Street
Honts
Rose Denton
Mulford Ladies Aid Plans Food Sale For April
The Mulford Congregational church Ladies Aid Society advanced plans for a food sale to be held April 5. The exact sale location will be announced later. A work session and two upcoming meetings at the church were noted with hostesses Mrs George Neitzel and Mrs J A Broom.
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Mulford
Public card party plans by Spanish American War auxiliary
Members discussed a public card party to be sponsored by the auxiliary at Memorial hall in the courthouse during Wednesday’s meeting. Officers worked on membership applications and announced plans to be finalized later. The next auxiliary meeting is set for April 30.
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Spanish American War Auxiliary
Auxiliary
Grace English Lutheran Ladies Aid Hosts Church Meeting
Mrs Ed Horst and Mrs John Haveman hosted the Grace English Lutheran Ladies Aid at the church noon. A work meeting and social hour followed. The group will meet again next week with Mrs G Honts and Mrs Charles Klink as hostesses.
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Grace English Lutheran Society
Ed Horst
John Haveman
Ladies’ Aid Society
Grace English Lutheran Church
G. Honts
Charles Klink
Election of Sigma Alpha officers at First Methodist supper
Miss Eva McDonald was named president with Miss LaVada Schmeltzer as treasurer Miss Della Althaus secretary Mrs W J Grady teacher Miss Minnie Coss assistant teacher. Thirty suppers were served before the election and a musical program followed by Thelma Kintzle and others. Mrs Ethel Smith hosts Kensington society Friday at Lucas Street.
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Sigma Alpha
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Eva McDonald
LaVada Schmeltzer
Della Althaus
W. J. Grady
Minnie Coss
Thelma Kintzle
Benjamin F. Schwartz
Carl Houdek
Mrs Sywassink Hosts Lowe Run Kensington Club
Fifteen members of the Lowe Run Kensington club met at Mrs. J. Sywassink’s Lake township home Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Benjamin Sywassink and her three daughters were special guests as needlecraft occupied the work session. Luncheon featured yellow and white decor. the next meeting will be at Mrs. Adolph Luedtke’s Bayfield home in two weeks.
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Lowe Run
Kensington Club
J. Sywassink
Lake Township
Benjamin Sywassink
Adolph Luedtke
Bayfield
Morehouse to Speak on Astronomy at Ethics Club
Dr. D. W. Morehouse president of Drake University will lecture on Astronomy at the Ethics study club meeting Friday evening in the Young Women’s Christian Association parlors. A question box and social time will follow the 8 o'clock address.
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Ethics Study Club
D. W. Morehouse
Drake University
Young Women’s Christian Association
Morehouse
Wimoudausis Club Holds Regular Meeting at Hocke Home
Mrs John Hocke hosted the Wimoudausis club at 1014 Iowa Avenue on Wednesday afternoon for their regular session. The next meeting will be in two weeks at Mrs William Pratts residence on Sycamore Street.
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John Hocke
Wimoudausis Club
Iowa Avenue
William Pratts
Sycamore Street
Miriam Rebekan Lodge to Honor Founder at Meeting
Miriam Rebekah Lodge will honor founder Schuyler Colfay when the group meets Friday evening at the I O O F hall. The program follows a regular business meeting starting at 7 50 o clock. A church sewing circle meeting is postponed due to button shortages and will reconvene in one week.
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Miriam Rebekan Lodge
Schuyler
Evangelical Protestant Church
Degree Work at West Liberty
Officers of Iowa lodge No. 2 assisted in conferring the third degree at the West Liberty lodge meeting on Wednesday evening. Muscatine delegation included Frank Holcomb Herman Lord Fred Tobias E W Schoenig Albert Haight Clarence Christopher son A L St Denis and W J Shoults.
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Iowa
Einstein’s New Discovery Receives Public Attention
Berlin reports a breakthrough linking gravity and electricity through Einstein’s field equations. MIT physicist Dr. Vallarta calls the result important, noting the equations unite gravitational and electrical laws and suggest a connection between two fundamental forces. A spherical, non flattened earth-like model illustrates the concept.
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Berlin
M. S. Vallarta
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Einstein
Space
Earth
Farmer Confesses as Slayings of Two Daughters Unfold
McKinney admits the killings after authorities say he traveled to Newton to report the crime. Mrs McKinney and neighbors found Artie Dora in the bedroom and Gladys in the barn. doctors plan an insanity evaluation while officials dispute the motive. State agents photographed the scene as investigations continue.
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MccKinney
Newton
Mrs. McKinney
Son
Artie Dora
Gladys
McKinney
McKinney Home
R. W. Dodd
Jasper County
Bert Carson
Mitchellville
M. C. Mackin
Mt. Pleasant State Hospital
McPherson
McKinney Farm
Fire Destroys Park Avenue Hotel LaFayette in Long Beach
Fire early today consumed the $1,000,000 Hotel LaFayette on Park Avenue Long Beach New York with the opening delayed by days. The cause remains undetermined as investigators inspect the scene.
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Long Beach
N. Y
LaFayette
Park Avenue
Graf Zeppelin skipper outlines trans Atlantic flight plan
Dr. Hugo Eckener meets with President Hoover and top officials in Washington to map the Graf Zeppelin's next trip to America. The voyage within days includes a May 10 start, a refueling stop in Seville, then to South America and a Lakehurst finish by May 20, with naval facilities and mail handling arranged. Eckener will inspect Baltimore sites for the American terminus.
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Hoover
Brown
Hurley
Jahncke
Hugo Eckner
America
Seville
Spain
South America
Lakehurst
Navy
Dr. Eckner
Graf
United States
Post Office Department
Eckner
Baltimore
Medicine Agent Prescribes Girl Dies in Hospital
O E Sickles a Sioux City medicine salesman was arrested for practicing medicine without a license after Dorothy Obershaw 11 of Oakdale Neb died in a Sioux City hospital. He allegedly gave pills to cure diabetes that were taken by the girl’s sister and later caused fatal illness. The pills will be tested for poison. The child’s father C E Obershaw signed the warrant.
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Sioux City
O. E. Sickles
Dorothy Obershaw
Oakdale, Neb
Sickles
C. E. Obershaw
Oakdale
Neb
Convict Riot Breaks Anew in Missouri Penitentiaries
About 600 convicts at six Missouri plants refused to work, triggering a forced work suspension. Most showed passive resistance. 50 were locked up after talks with Warden Leslie Rudolph. The action spread to broom and overall factories with hundreds either quitting or threatening further stoppages.
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Leslie Rudolph
Broom
Overall
Missing Students Found Dead in Car in Jonesville
In Jonesville Michigan on March 27 two 17 year old high school students Lowell Durfey and Cecile Nye were found dead in Durfey's sedan in a cemetery after leaving a football banquet. Police suspect carbon monoxide poisoning with the ignition on but engine stalled. no violence noted. The bodies were found by Cecile Nye's father Emery Nye.
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Jonesville
Mich
Lowell Durfey
Cecile Nye
Durfey
Here
Jonesville High School
Miss Nye
Emery Nye
Insurance Policy for Paramour Declared Void
Vienna reports an incident where Dr. Herman Wattsl of Cleveland secured a $35,000 accident and death by own action policy for his bigamous wife Mrs. Mary McGranahan, under a false name. The insurer voided the policy, noting the two year non operative clause. Wattsl shot Mrs. McGranahan and then himself in a Cleveland hotel after his disappearance last November.
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Vienna
Herman
Ernst) Wattl
Cleveland
Mary McGranahan
Eva Howarth
McGranahan
Watts
Flassak
Watzl
Employment in Seventh District Shows Increase
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago reports that manufacturing employment in the Seventh District rose slightly in 1,771 plans, with gains in payrolls and a steel driven upturn in metals products. Non manufacturing employment fell across all states, Wisconsin suffering the largest payroll loss while Illinois Iowa Indiana and Michigan posted higher aggregate earnings overall.
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Chicago
Federal Reserve District
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Metals Products
Wisconsin
Illinois
Iowa
Indiana
Michigan
Doctor Among Two Hurt When X-Ray Fuse Blows
In Canton March 27 AP two men including a doctor were shocked by electricity in the X-ray room at Molly Stark hospital when a fuse blew while they were working on the apparatus. They were not seriously hurt, officials said.
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Canton. O
Molly Stark Hospital
Here
Lived Happily With Two Wives Police Step In
Cleveland reports a man named Frank Ipollito keeping two legal wives and an auxiliary wife plus five children. Police intervened after 12 years of what was described as a happy home. He faces charges of contributing to the delinquency of his wife’s children as the juvenile court may decide.
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Cleveland, O
Frank Ipollito
Ipollito
Applied for Job as Policeman In 10 Cities Ask Arrest
J. J. Klinck sought a police job and now ten cities including Davenport Iowa request his arrest. He visited the detective bureau with a real estate firm letter asking he be deputized as a special officer and expressing the firm’s faith in his integrity. His identification file revealed a photo on a notice seeking his capture.
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Chicago
J. J. Klinck
Davenport
Detective Bureau
Bureau of Identification
Authorities to hold suspect in Davenport on bogus check charges
Police say the suspect will be held in Davenport on bogus check charges. Investigators report nine other cities seek similar charges, but Davenport would have first chance on extradition or prosecution.
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Davenport
Iowa City Woman to Be President of Woman Voters
Mrs. Frank Stromsten of Iowa City was named president of the Iowa League of Women Voters by the nominating committee at the state meeting. Officers listed include Mrs. George Martin and Mrs. Max Mayer as vice presidents, Mrs. Dorrance White as secretary, and Mrs. Phillip Jeans as treasurer.
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Cedar Rapids
Frank Stromsten
Iowa City
Iowa League of Women Voters
Stromsten
George Martin
Max Mayer
Des Moines
Claude Knutson
Clear Lake
Raymond Schmidt
Davenport
Dorrance White
Phillip Jeans
Dubuque Youth Killed by Freight Car Accident
Herbert Klass 19 of Dubuque was struck by a freight car and killed last night at North Buena Vista. His body was thrown into the river and recovered later.
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Dubuque
North
Buena Vista
Herbert Klass
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