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Newspaper
Oelwein Daily Register
Location
Oelwein, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1946
Page
10
Seaman Donald Zimmerman of Harrison was in a V day parade down 12th Street in Kansas City when a kiss count ended at 93. He could not break away and later married Marie Betty Lou Coy of Kansas City.
A writer recalls New England a century and a quarter ago as a center of religious earnestness with about 20 percent of the population labeled Nothungarians. A visitor reports a minister saying Nothungarians were indifferent to church denomination and freely donated to Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, or Congregational causes.
Newport Arkansas reports a cat living with hens roosting and eating their food. The cat may be using feline wire to plan future meat hunts, as owner Doc H. O. Walker weighs the animal’s behavior and companionship with poultry.
A police officer feared suicide after spotting a body in a car with a gun and a red stain. The grasped door revealed the sleeper was a prison guard who had dozed off relaxing with his gun, jarred by jam.
John Kilburn-Walpole, first settler in 1749, left town after Col Benjamin Bellows received a governor grant. Bellows offered 50 acres to return, Kilburn accepted and settled beside Bellows. Neighbors for generations, they intermarried after about 150 years, a fourth generation Bellows marrying a sixth generation Kilburn.
In Omaha Henry Sikso of the design branch of the district engineers office complains of a confusing telephone extension 90. Calls often begin with Is this Sikso and are answered No this is nine zero. Sikso requests his number be changed to 60 to end the mix up.
In Omaha Nebraska a pair of robins has built a nest atop an electric house sign at 2615 Capitol Avenue. The birds appear drawn to postwar conveniences with heat and electric lighting, according to United Press reports. Meanwhile Everett Washington janitor Howard Morton who tended the county courthouse lawn found a live 0 caliber shell exploded from his sickle strike, causing a minor neck wound to bystander Martin.
SOUTH CARVER Mass. Ellis D Atwood a leading New England cranberry grower bought the old Bridgton and Saco railway in 1941 after Pearl Harbor. He left 45 cars in Maine during the war and has since moved 25 of them to hill cranberry bogs where they shuttle workers and berries between locations.
Wanted men and women hard of hearing to try a risk free hearing test using Ourine drops with a simple syringe. If you are deafened or bothered by ringing or buzzing due to wax, try the Ourine Wome Method test. hear better after the test or your money back. Inquire at Pfeiffer Drug Co Adv.
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