Pothovens Live In Modern Holland Farm Home Eleven Years
A weekly Chronicle visit to the Pothoven Rus and De Bruin families in Holland profiles Andrew Pothoven’s 80 acre farm rebuilt from bare ground with furnace heat and electric power, the Rus household of seven on a 270 acre farm, and Tom De Bruin’s family on a 400 acre tract. The piece notes low prices, political opinions, and local farm life including pig losses, occasional theft, and the Old Home Place barn sign.
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Andrew Pethoven
John D. Rus
Tom de Bruin
Pethoven
Pothoven
John de Cook
Anna
Rus
de Bruin
Mrs. Rus
Holland
Thieves Break Into Godfrey Ice and Coal Office
In Monroe County Indiana or Iowa area thieves broke into the Godfrey Ice and Coal company office Friday night via a rear window. They pried a desk open stealing about four dollars in change a pocket knife and some keys. The safe was not opened and desk wrecking hints attack may be linked to earlier property damage at Hawkeye Lumber Yard.
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Monroe County
Godfrey Ice and Coal Company
Hawkeye
Hobo With Prison Jacket Appears On Bloomfield Streets
A Bloomfield sighting reports a hobo wearing ragged clothing and a prison jacket with convict numerals on the back. The man appeared unshaven for months, footwear improvised with cloths and strings, presenting a rough, hard times image as he wandered through the town.
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Bloomfield Streets
Davis County
Bloomfield
Ieee
Woman Bandit Gets Twenty Five Years At Rockwell City
Mrs. Hazel Myers 28 of Seward Nebraska was sentenced in Lucas County District Court to up to twenty five years at Rockwell City reformatory for women. Judge G W Dashiell cited guilt fixed by a Lucas County jury and noted the defendant’s role with two accomplices. Myers appealed for mercy citing her two children as the sentencing followed a February 2 Ottumwa arrest near Ottumwa.
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Fort Madison
Anamosa
Chariton
Hazel Myers
Seward
Nebr
Rockwell City Reformatory
G. W. Dashiell
Albia
Dashiell
Lucas County
Towa
J. H. Smith
Myers
Ottumwa
Frank Moynihan
Joe Tyler
Defendant Loses In Action Against The Utility Company
A damages suit for 10000 filed by Mrs. Anna Swartzwelter against Southern Utilities Co and county engineer A R Bartell ended with a defense verdict. Judge R W Dashiell sustained the motion directing a verdict for the defendants in Albia. The accident occurred March 27 1931 when an uncovered hole in a road one mile south of Russell caused injuries to Mrs Swartzwelter.
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Chariton
Southern Utilities Company
A. R. Bartell
Anna Swartzwelter
R.W. Dashiell
Albia
Mra. Swartzwelter
Bartell
Russell
Swartawelter
H. V. Lewis and
McNett
Ottumwa
E. A. Anderson
Chariton and Parish
Parish, Cohen, Guthrie and Watters
Des Moines
Toonerville Line Ending on Sigourney Route
The Sigourney Review reports the Rock Island line will retire the gas buggy on Saturday night under J K Arnold local agent. Although orders are not yet issued, starting next Monday Sigourney will be served by one train daily alternating days. Mail will shift to a Washington to Oskaloosa star route running twice daily each direction.
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Sigourney Review
Rock Island
J. K. Arnold
Sigourney
Washington
Oskaloosa
Thieves Loot Produce House on East Washington Avenue
Swift's Produce and Ice Cream station on East Washington avenue was robbed Saturday night of between 15 and 20 one dollar bills and silver and approximately 115 in checks. Manager Lewis Trusell says entry was gained through an east window in the front office opening to a fire escape.
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Trussell
A. A. Robinson
Oscar Tedford
Monroe County News Swift
Washington Avenue
Lewis Trusell
400 Miners Have Employment Through Summer Season
Lovilia Press reports labor disruptions in eastern coal fields lead to full-time work for about 400 miners in the Lovilia coal area through the summer. Most residents of Union township near Louilia will have steady employment, with contracts for railroad and especially commercial coal. Loading points include Rex No 4, Rex No 5, Sheriff, Miami, and Buxton on the Northwestern railway. more eastern county mines may join.
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Illinois
Lovilia
Union Township
Louilia
Iowa
Rex No
Sheriff Mine
Miami
Buxton
Northwestern
Albia
Bible study campaign on Psalm 119 theme
American Sunday School Union promotes a Bible study based on Psalm 119 verses 33 to 40. It emphasizes the eye as a gateway to the Word of God, warns that unhealthy literature harms the mind, and calls for a heart renewed in Christ Jesus leading a life that hates sin.
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Christ Jesus
The Way to Heaven Eyed by the Word of God
A reflective meditation on Bible supremacy over earthly vanities. It warns against money, worldly pleasures, and covetousness, urging devotion to Scripture. The speaker prays for guidance to love and obey the Word, shun sin, and keep the heart fixed on godly paths.
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Heaven
Fragmented Hymn Verse About Faith and Sin
A poetic passage proclaims reliance on Thy Word to keep and reform the speaker. It pleads for deliverance from reproach and deception, asserts liberty in truth, and asks for ongoing engraftment of divine promises within the believer. The fragment references enemies, predictions, and personal convictions.
Times Are Good Says Knoxville Man
Knoxville Iowa April 27 A Knoxville merchant reports that during the last four weeks there have been more than 5 000 customers visit his store and that with decreased prices his volume of business is larger than in 1931 He is a consistent advertiser and runs his business carefully The world likes to patronize the man who has the ambition nerve and industry to put across his ideas
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Knoxville
Iowa
Piles and Varicose Veins Treated Mildly In Office
Cured by mild office treatments without pain hospital or loss of time from duties at Block South of Court House. Write for illustrated booklets. Note Consultation and examination free. Nurse attendant for women.
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Court House
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Leighton
Pella
Peoria
Emma
Roy
Tom
Martin Boender
Louis van Roekel
Gerrit van Roekel
Ralph Kruseman
Guernsey
South Woods Dairy
John W. Vos
Union Monarch Laundry and Dry Cleaners
Rockwell City
Toonerville
Lovilia Press
American Sunday School Union
Earth
Sheldon Gladstone
Equitable
Des Loines
S.C. White
Plymouth Rocks
J. H. Shinn Hatcheries
Indianapolis Speedway
American Automobile Association
Mr. Casey
Miss Lane
Davidson
Robert J. Casey
Chicago Daily News
Margaret Lane
International
London “Daily Express
J.brownlee Davidson
Ames, Town
Standard Oil Company
Windle Clinic
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