1947 Wasp Record Year For Iowa Prosperity
Iowa's 1947 review by the Iowa Development Commission highlights record agricultural and industrial income, new employment highs, and a surge in retail sales. Agricultural income neared 2.7 billion dollars. per farm income exceeded 12,000. per capita income rose sharply since 1940.
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Wasp
Iowa
Towans
Iowa Development Commission
Towa
State Banking Department
Commission Bulletin
Obituary for Sophia Shutts 79 of Sully Iowa
Sophia Shutts 79 of Sully Iowa died Sunday evening January ath at 7 15 pm in Des Moines Iowa After long illness she was born February 5 1868 near Galesburg Elk Creek Two Married Ernest Shutts December 1 1897 in Elk Creek She lived in Elk Creek Ely and Sully Iowa She and her husband joined St Andrews Lutheran Church Elk Creek in 1900 Funeral services were held at St Andrews Lutheran Elk Creek with burial in Elk Creek Cemetery The family thanks friends neighbors and those who sent flowers
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Sophia Shutts
Sully
Brown's
Des Moines
Shutts
Peter Zickel
Margaret Nee Kinzebach
Galesburg
Elk Creek
Ernest Shutts
Erstsie de Jong
Ella Hunziker
Hbueluh Price
Elwood Shutts
Ely
Iowa
Danshier
Huelah Price
Brown
Elwood
Elsie Devon ‘Ainter
Towa
Buellah Price
Mary Yeorger
Ottumwa
Towne
Sarah Romins
Mitchellville
Carlton If, Rubr
Kellogg
St. Andrew's Lutheran’ Church
van Dyke
Birth and death notice for Nickolas Mickmershuizen in Pella Iowa
Nickolas Mickmershuizen born in Pella Iowa on April 13 1900 died January 7 in Broadlawns General Hospital Des Moines. He was 47 years 9 months 24 days and survived by two and three brothers, with parents and an infant sister. Funeral Friday January 9 1948 at 1 30 p m from the Van Dyk Funeral Home. Rev Edward H Tani officiated. Interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
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Ckmershuizen and
Abeth van Veen
Pella
Iowa
Broadlawns Gentral Hospital
Des Moines
John Schortingh
Boyden
Cornie de Jonge
Leighton, Own
Iifornia
William
Kelso
Washington
John
Bert
van Dyk Fune
Edward H.tani
Oakwood Cesisters
Death notice for Nicholas Michmershuizen
The family thanks friends in Des Moines and Pella who helped after the death of Nicholas Michmershuizen. They acknowledge expressions of sympathy and flowers as tokens of regard.
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Des Moines
Pella
Nicholas Michmershuizen
Funeral services for Chris Vander Hart near Peoria Iowa
Funeral services for Chris Vander Hart age 65 from his Peoria Iowa home will be held Friday January 16 1948 at 1 00 p m from the Christian Reformed church Peoria with Reverend R J Mulder officiating. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery at Pella Iowa A complete obituary appears in next week's Chronicle.
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Chris Vander Hart
Peoria
Iowa
Christian Reformed Church
R. J. Mulder
Oakwood
Pella
The
Chronicle
Death of Henry Bruinekool at sister's residence
Henry Bruinekool died at his sister and brother in law’s home at 1304 West Washington Street in the early afternoon of Wednesday January 14. Funeral arrangements were not available at press time and may be obtained from Van Dyk Funeral Home.
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Henry Bruinekool
M Fred van
West
Washington Street
van Dyk
Iowa Song Verse By Former Iowan Written For Music
Agnes Scanlon Baker of Chicago, Illinois, a former Iowa resident, wrote an Iowa poem with music being composed for potential publication as a new song. The verses praise Iowa scenery, cornfields, cattle, grain, harvests, and the dawn of an Iowa morn.
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Agnes Scanlon Baker
Chicago
Ilinois
Iowa
Towa
Ulrich Shows the New Ford Truck in Pella Display
Ulrich Motor Co. hosts a Friday display in Pella to unveil Ford’s first postwar truck line. Ford debuts two large models FT and FR with high GVW ratings, plus a six cylinder cab over engine, 100 horsepower V eight and 145 horsepower engines. New cabs offer more width headroom and better ventilation with safer front end design and heavier hardware. The range includes half ton to two ton heavy duty lines, several wheelbase options, and school bus chassis variants.
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Pella
Ulrich Motor Co
Ford
John Ulrich
Local Financing Ad From The Federal Discount Corp
A financing notice from Federal Discount Corp located in the Livermore Building Oskaloosa Iowa promotes loans with repayment up to twenty months and small monthly payments. It mentions paying bills, buying livestock or other worthy purposes, and that loan arrangements can be made the same day of application with Martin Naaktgeboren as manager.
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Federal Discount Corp
Livermore
Oskaloosa
Iowa
Ford Truck Line Open House Promises Wide Model Range
John Ulrich announces Ford’s 1948 truck line with wheelbase options of 125 159 and 195 inches and a three ton capacity on the same lengths. He says the company is entering the greatest truck market of all time and expects shipments in coming months to meet strong demand.
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Ford
John Ulrich
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Wilbur Rozen
Melvin Schultz
Ea Robidanz
Kill- 1 Quartette
Geis
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Florida
Rath
Cedar Valley
Joan of Arc Pork & Beans
Nancy Dries Prunes
Lipton Black Tea
Carton 1
Folger’s Coffee
Meadow
Nickolas Mickmershuizen
Ulrich
Martin Naaktgeboren
Red Clover
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Bakker
Rus
Derrich
Oleo
Mes, Betty Sues
Jource
the Great
Uncle Sim
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Jonathans
Illinois
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Calif
U. S. No
Colorado
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