Iowa's Healthiest Baby Named In State Contest
Janice Howe of Rolfe Iowa named Iowa's healthiest baby with a 98.98 score in the town girls 24 to 36 months class. The record 99.24 was set by Floyd Joseph Cooper of Woodward last year. Ernest William Daniels of Des Moines won healthiest boy scoring 98.70 in city boys 12 to 24 months. Other winners include Frank Edward Capesius and Roberta Jean Cappe among city girls and William Joseph Richards and Bruce Wendell Macy among town boys, with runners up Barbara Ann Rew and Aud rey Ellen Blondis among rural contestants.
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Des Moines
Janice Howe
Clifford Howe
Rolfe
Iowa
Janice
Floyd Joseph Cooper
Woodward
Ernest William Daniels
W. J. Daniels
Frank Edward Capesius
E.E. Capesius
Roberta Jean Cappe
John Cappe
Caroline Crees
Donald T. Crees
William Joseph Richards
Joseph H. Richards
Storm Lake
Bruce Wendell Macy
Oakland
Howe
Barbara Ann Rew
Myron T. Rew
Ames
Walter Gene Huston
Walter Huston
Valley Junction
Bradley Joseph Schnittjer
Howard Schnittjer
Delhi
Audrey Ellen Blondis
Laurens
Donna Jean Smithson
Warren R. Smithson
Altoona
Former Muscatine Man Among Those Who Escaped Jail
Gilbert Thorpe, once of Muscatine, is among five prisoners who tunneled from the Lee County jail at Dixon Illinois on Thursday. The escape came after digging through a foot of masonry with metal scraps from an unused sink. Thorpe was previously sent to Eldora on an in corrigibility charge, according to Sheriff Fred B. Nesper.
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Gilbert Thorpe
Lee County
Dixon
Ill
Muscatine
Fred B. Nesper
Thorpe
Eldora
Standard Oil Expands Labor Force in NRA Compliance
Standard Oil adds 133 new employes to the Davenport division part of Muscatine area as it follows NRA rules. Muscatine unit hires six new workers and increases part timers to full time. Office and plants cut to 40 hours weekly without pay cuts, while nearly 600 new positions are created across the sales division. Payroll up by 650000 dollars annually with about 1100 dollars spent per office on new equipment.
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Standard Oil Company
Davenport
Muscatine
NRA
A. L. Stouffer
Van Zandt elected national commander in chief
James E. Van Zandt of Altoona Pennsylvania was chosen this afternoon as commander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The selection ranks him as the top official of the organization in Milwaukee.
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Milwaukee
James E. van Zandt
Altoona
The
Veterana of
Muscatine Social Notes and Labor News Highlights
Miss Margaret Bisesi and relatives plan Chicago visit for the century of progress exposition. Families move and return from Chicago and Indianapolis for the world’s fair. Labor news covers Carpenter and Joiner union membership drives and a new charter filing for Muscatine sash and door workers.
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Margaret Biseci
East Fifth Street
P. J
Winifred Ann Bisesi
Chicago
Bernice Griffin
Orchard Avenue
St. Louis
Lee Mark
Lee Moyne
Pasadena
Calif
Alice Myers
Davenport
Mark
Emma Sissell
Cedar Street
Myers
Ruth Jones
East Front
Iowa City
Mercy Hospital
Mary Lou Grimm
Lloyd Grimm
Washington Street
Hershey Hospital
Edward Vetter
Charles Vetter
Sterneman
Muscatine Boys
Sycamore Street
Stanwood
Frank Sala
Lincoln
Neb
Muscatine
Charles Sinnett
Sinmett
E. R. Vincent
Mulberry Avenue
Essex
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
Trades and Labor Assembly Hall
Iowa Avenue
Muscatine Organization
Fans choose Louisville for next year's national convention
At the national encampment here, attendees voted to hold the next convention in Louisville, selecting the city as the site for forthcoming activities.
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Louisville
Des Moines Club Honors Genevieve Naber for 4-H Triumph
Special recognition was given to Miss Genevieve Naber 14 of Seven Springs farm Muscatine at a Des Moines chamber luncheon. She received a gold watch and bracelet and was noted as the first girl to show a grand champion in the Four-H club junior livestock show, with the grand champion hairy heifer Holstein. Naber also earned high honors at West Liberty fair and the Mississippi Valley fair at Davenport and at the state fair.
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Genevieve Naber
Seven Springs Farm
Muscatine
Des Moines Chamber of Commerce
Genevieve
Naber
West Liberty
Davenport
Rioting Quelled in St Louis Strike Action
Rioting by garment workers at the Angelica Jacket and Ely Walker Dry Goods plants was quelled by extra police. Sixteen strikers were arrested as clashes left several women stripped or cuffed. violence centered around the Angelica Jacket site and Ely Walker factory as workers resisted attempts to organize today's actions.
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St. Louis
Angelica Jacket Company
Ely-Walker Company
Ely-Walker Dry Goods Company
Sheriff Reports Glen Brown Reformatory Return
Glen E Brown also known as E Glenn Brown and Glenn Barger, first jailed in Muscatine county in December 1929 for borrowing signatures to wed a West Liberty girl, is back in Anamosa reformatory. Sheriff Nesper was informed as Muscatine County officials were alerted. Brown is serving multiple larceny sentences after escaping Anamosa and being arrested in Oklahoma City.
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Glen E. Brown
E. Glenn Brown
Glenn Barger
Law
Muscatine County
West Liberty
Anamosa
Fred Nesper
Brown
Wag
Oklahoma City
Car Catches Fire Twice in One Day
Muscatine resident T. F. Byrne saw his automobile burn twice in one morning. Firemen from No 3 station fought the first blaze on Front Street at 11 15 am using three gallons of chemical. He returned to the central station at 11 45 am where flames were put out with another three gallons. Wiring and exhaust were blamed for the fires.
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T. F. Byrne
Muscatine
No. 3
Front Street
Byrne
Central Fire Station
George Clay Files Suit for Divorce
George Clay sues Blanche Clay in district court for divorce charging cruelty and obscene names. The petition notes they were married June 20, 1932.
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George Clay
Blanche Clay
District Court
Clays
Carloadings Far Above 1932 Mark
Washington The American Railway Association announced stout freight carloadings for the week ended August 26 totaling 631,998 cars. This is a 2,847 car drop from the prior week but a 94,281 car rise from the same week last year. Grain and grain products livestock and coal rose while coke ore forest products and miscellaneous merchandise in less than carload freight fell slightly. All commodities inched higher versus the year-ago period except stock grain and grain products and merchandise in less than carload freight.
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Washington
Americn Railway Association
Wapsie Bureau Hosts Teachers At Monthly Meeting
Rural teachers in Wapsinonoc township will be guests of honor at the Wapsinonoc Farm Bureau monthly meeting Tuesday night at the South Prairie church. A 6 30 basket supper precedes a Four H club led program with club leaders Mrs William Anderson and Mrs George Case supervising.
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Wapsinonoc Township
Dismissal in Case Against C. J. Ford
Charges of leaving the scene of an accident against Muscatine gravel hauler C. J. Ford were dismissed in Justice H. D. Horst's court. The case stemmed from a complaint by Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Gruber and Loren Gruber of Letts after Ford allegedly drove onto Highway No. 22 from a side road, causing the Gruber car to overturn.
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C. J. Ford
Muscatine
H. D. Horst
J. W. Gruber
Loren
Letts
Ford
Highway No. 22
Gruber
Davenport Dentist Samuel J. Evans Dies at 65
Davenport dentist Dr. Samuel J. Evans 65, a longtime practitioner who studied at the State University of Iowa and worked in Le Claire before moving to Davenport in 1903, died at his home Thursday night after a lingering illness following his retirement last May as his health failed.
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Davenport
Samuel J. Evans
State Beer Revenue Tops Two Hundred Sixty Six Thousand
Des Moines reports August beer receipts totaled 69 539 08 with 67 419 08 in taxes and 2 120 in license fees. Since the law’s enactment total receipts reach 266 512 90, comprising 176 002 90 in taxes and 90 510 in licence fees.
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Des Moines
Mabel Lemkau Seeks Divorce By Cross Petition
Mabel Lemkau answers her husband Charles Lemkau’s divorce petition denying cruelty allegations and asks for dismissal of his suit while pursuing a cruelty-based decree in her cross petition. The cross petition is in response to the second of two pending actions in district court. Lemkau is under bond to support his family. the bond was filed about two weeks ago after action by Mrs. Lemkau.
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Mabel Lemkau
Charles
Lemkau
Tree Crushes Car Killing Three Near Sioux Falls
A high wind toppled a large tree onto a moving car five miles west of Sioux Falls killing John McKay and E. C. Lee of Pierre and seriously injuring Mrs Will G Robinson wife of the Pierre state attorney. Archie McKay was only lightly hurt. Coroner Martin Peterson announced an inquest likely this afternoon as the party headed to Des Moines to join a polo series with Fort Des Moines and other teams.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Here
Des Moines
Pierre
John McKay
E. C. Lee
Will G. Robinson
Archie McKay
Martin Peterson
Fort Des Moines
Mrs Reynolds 74 dies at home of son in Nichols
Mrs Sarah Reynolds 74 died at the home of her son E L Reynolds rural route 2 Thursday at 5 15 pm Born March 19 1859 she was last of a large family with 10 siblings. Funeral services set for Kirchner Home for Funerals Nichols at 2 pm Saturday.
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Journal News Service
Nichols
Sarah Reynolds
E. L. Reynolds
Reynolds
Kirchner
Leading candidates Withdraw From Young Democrats Race Kansas City
Cliff Woodward from Des Moines and John Boyden of Utah, along with Frank McCarthy of Indiana, remain in contention for the presidency of the Young Democratic Clubs of America. Tyre Taylor of Raleigh and George B. Freeman of Kansas City withdraw to seek harmony. L. W. Roberts left for Atlanta due to his father’s serious illness.
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Kansas City
Tyre Taylor
Raleigh
N. C
George B. Freeman
Young Democratic Clubs of America
Cliff Woodward
Des Moines
John Boyden
Utah
Frank McCarthy
Indiana
Taylor
Freeman
Harmony
L. W. Roberts
Atlanta
V F W Urges Quick Action on Repeal Referenda
Milwaukee veterans of foreign wars at their encampment urged states to act quickly to repeal the prohibition amendment and to permit ballot referenda where not yet provided for. The recommendation came during a fast mass-session with numerous resolutions.
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Milwaukee
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Personal Finance Co
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