Social gatherings mark a busy week in Eddyville
A string of showers and parties highlighted the week. Miss Myrtle Koopmans received a miscellaneous shower before her upcoming marriage to William Van Wijk. Mr. and Mrs. De Geus celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary with family visits and a basket lunch. A Valentine party at the Wilson home honored Miss Louise Gladstone and announced her engagement to J B Van Hemert with bridge, a themed luncheon, and a diamond ring for the guest.
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Myrtle. Koopmans
Miss Koopman
Wm. van wDsetholog
Nicholas de Geus
Eddyville
Mrs. de Geus
Mras Wr
Cornelia Gosselink
Jos Geus
Neal de’ Geus
P Neal de Song
William
de Jong
Elmor
Clarence
Lenita Uftertarkt
Anna
Gertrude
Grace de Jong
J. Ulstermarket
Leighton
John Scott
John de Geus
Vee van Vark
Clarence van Vark
Bernice Carter
Winifred den Hartog
Mrs. van Vark
H. L. Sherman
Young Women’s League of the Second Reformed Church
North Main
Wm. van Sittert
Christ
Minnie van Dyke
J. Snellers
Minnie
Vandyke
Win
Miss van Dyke
T. G. Fultz
L. F. Bousquet
C. J Fox
Women’s Federated Club
Fultz Pane
Henrietta Ver Huel
Mary Todd Lincoln
D. C van Zante
Gleaners
Second Reformed Church
Bert Baron
South Broadway
Myrtle Koopman
Valentine
Wilson Home
Cornelia Wilson
Marie Lafabre
Louise Gladstone
J. B. van Hemert
Bridge
Tapia ‘Ang
J. B. Louise
Knoxville Man Slips On Ice
Ed Brees a Knoxville business man suffered two slightly frozen hands and an injury to the head when he slipped on ice near his place of business last Friday morning He was unconscious about an hour and was found about 6 am He is recovering nicely.
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Knoxville
Ed Brees
Parkway plan eyed by Iowa experts across Des Moines valley
Professor Elwood outlines a proposed Des Moines river parkway with a 36 to 40 foot roadway, land acquisitions, flood surveys, and reforestation to protect soils. He cites state land holdings, needed legislature funding, and side trips to Flanders Bixby park, Pella, Pershing and Melcher as tourism boosters for Marion County and Knoxville.
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Pitt
Elwood
Des Moines
Board of Conservation
Iowa
Mississippi
Flanders-Bixby Park
Marion County
Red Rocks
Pella
Pershing
Melcher
Highway Commission
Knoxville
Record of unprecedented January cold across years
Analysis of monthly temperatures shows Januarys with subzero days in 1928 and 1927, and historic lows in 1893 1912 and 1918. Weather bureau figures cited by M E Mortimore reveal 40 year extremes and state averages, noting heavier snowfall locally despite plunging temperatures.
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M. E. Mortimore
State Weather Bureau
Fragmentary 19th century postal service notes
A garbled OCR fragment discusses multiple historic mail services including cablegrams telegrams night letters and day letters with scattered references to delivery times and pricing. The text lacks coherent events or names but hints at international and domestic postal options and timing constraints.
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Netherlands
England
Runaway Girl Sought in Pella
City officials join father to locate Iola Addie a 17 year old from Oska loosa who left home to come to Pella. They checked a house and then Newton as a possible lead but the father withdrew, stating he would not pursue if she married the young man she planned to wed.
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Charlie Dennis
Iola Addie
Oskaloosa
Newton
Dennis
Chas. Stockham
Morey
Lekse
Ramaeyer Cert
Gouneey
Ieee
Tomer
R. Bex Lee
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