Mrs G Marinus Dies After Yearlong Illness
Gerrit Marinus, 67, died Saturday morning at 12 30 at her Franklin and West Third streets home after a year with heart trouble and complications. Funeral Monday at 1 30 from home and 2 o clock at Second Christian Reformed Church. interment Oakwood. Born in Holland August 28 1866 she came to the US 14 and was widowed from her first husband Dirk Vis. Surviving are four children from the first marriage, two sons dead in infancy, and two living sons Gerrit Vis Sully and B B Huyt Heems Pella, eight grandchildren, a sister Mrs The Stek Holland, and her second husband Gerrit Marinus. She was devoted mother and friend to many. Also notes a Bedford woman with a baffling disease whose nails regrew after diminishing. doctors at Iowa City hospital call the condition unknown and untreatable.
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Gerrit Marinus
Franklin and
West Third’ Streets
Second Christian Reformed Church
D. Hollebeck
Oakwood Cemetery
Holland
Dirk Vis
B. B. Huyt Heems
Pella
Gerrit Vis
Sully
the Stek
Marinus
Postmasters Given NRA Blue Eagle Compliance Guidance
An August 16 1938 memo to postmasters outlines how to handle Certificates of Compliance under the National Industrial Recovery Act. It details sending certificates to the appropriate district Commerce Office weekly and explains NRA blue eagle procedures including signing reemployment agreements or petitions for relief when codes are not accepted.
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Postal Department
Washington
Department of Commerce
NRA
Trade Association of
Focal Chamber of Commerce
Trade Association
Thomas S. Hammond
Divine Selection of David in Samuel’s Time
International Sunday School Lesson from E V Good focuses on I Samuel 16 1 13 and Psalm 78 70 72. It highlights Gods gaze beyond outward appearances selecting David over Eliab and other sons, stressing the heart God sees, and the divine anointing that made David a man after Gods own heart.
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David
Samuel
Jehovah
Bethlehem
Saul
Israel
Saumel
Jesse
Eliab
God
Davids
Land Use Rules for Wheat Adjustment Program in Iowa
Farmers face questions about land removed from wheat production under the 1934 1935 contract. Allowed uses include summer fallow soil building crops or food and feed crops for home use or on the farm. Legume crops favored to restore fertility. caution urged with clover pasture for livestock and avoidance of selling grain crops. Financials from adjustment payments may be favorable, while state decisions will refine crop allowances.
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Walter L. Brown
Washington
Murl McDonald
Iowa State College
Iowa Wheat Adjustment Program
McDonald
Towa
Infantile Paralysis A Brief Health Outlook For 1988
The article notes that polio cases were five in the state through August 1 1988, with August to October typically showing higher activity. It explains transmission, symptoms such as fever neck stiffness and limb pain, and that most cases do not epidemically spread. It emphasizes quarantine, diagnosis by spinal puncture, rest, splints, and potential immune serum, and ends on the relief of preventing crippling through care.
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State Department of Health
Mrs Sallie De Cook Relates California Visit In 1933
Mrs Sallie De Cook writes from Valley Center California about her trip from Ashland Oregon by bus to Richmond and Los Angeles. She describes delays finding her destination, a coastal drive with shell collecting, and a ranch near Escondido with 280 acres of fruit and nut trees irrigated from deep wells. She notes hot days cool nights coyotes echoes and occasional quakes and plans to visit relatives in Los Angeles and nearby towns while considering her return.
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John de Cook
Sallie de Cook
Richmond
Helen
Escondido
Addie
San Diego
Los Angeles
Marie
Jake Schakel
Emma Hamilton
Towa
Oregon
California
Terrie
Frank Jones
Farm Women To Work On Project
Marion county women will study bringing wear able clothes up to date with a five lesson project. A dress clinic will discuss remaking and alterations. Additional sessions cover trimming and fitting, accessories, and gifts to be shown September 6 7 and 8. Gifts use common home materials and offer family friendly ideas.
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Marion County
Iowa Quaker Session Opens at Oskaloosa
Quakers from Iowa gathered for the seventy first meeting at College Avenue Friends church in Oskaloosa. About 300 attendees were expected with Penn college dormitories opened for housing and the Penn campus used for camping despite heavy Monday rain. The meeting Proper commenced Monday morning.
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Iowa
Oskaloosa
Meeting of Friends
College Avenue Friends Church
Penn College
Penn
Electric Sparks Bits and Bobs From Van Den Berg Co
Weekly lighthearted notes on household gadgets lamp humor and sales pitches. Jokes about watches batteries radios and lamps mix with temping ads for new fixtures cellophane shades and a comic line about a family and a sergeant major.
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van den Berg Electric Co
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Iowa City
The
National Industrial Recovery Adm
Chevrolet
R. L. Polk Co
White Way Auto Co
Main Street
Belleco Milk
MASON
Benteco
Benleco Food Stores
E. V. Good
Jno
J. van Dyke
Vander Linden
Pont Like
Frances Pew Speidel
Iowa State College Extension Service
Knoxville
Indiana
Washington and Clay Townships
Summit
Red Rock
Lake Prairie
Gezel
Chronicle
Mazda
Atwater Kent
Lars
Tessie
Teddy
Eroces
Jack Sprat
John den Hartog
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