Des Moines River rescue and local farm life notes
Alberta Core celebrated her birth week with a party attended by Grace Ric h Marjorie and Margaret Le Grande Ruth Ruckman Nita Johnson Ruth Hart Katherine Fonda and Tris McGraw amid gifts and games. The piece also recounts threshing activity near Pella and Des Moines river due to flood conditions with families helping and visiting, plus cinema listings and vaudeville-bill details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alberta Core
Grace Rich Marjorie
Margaret le Grande
Ruth Ruckman
Nita Johnson
Ruth Hart
Katherine Fonda
Tris McGraw
Alberta
Henry Merryman
Merryman
Gladys Ganoe
Pete Vanden Berg
Cornie
Willie Roush
Cornie Vanden Berg
Vander Wals
Albert de Joodes
Wm. Karr
Gerrit Klyns
Gerrit's
Wats
Typhoid fever cases rise as summer nears in Iowa
The Iowa State Department of Health warns typhoid fever increases in warm weather. June reports show 10 cases, six months total 27, with 288 cases and 58 deaths in 1930's year-to-date data. Carriers and poor hygiene drive infection. emphasizes fecal and urine testing after recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Towa
Women Everywhere at Des Moines Orpheum This Week
At the Orpheum Theatre in Des Moines two outstanding bills are promised this week. The feature Women Everywhere stars Fifi Dorsay and J Harold Murray and opens Wednesday July 30. The film blends songs with romance and comedy lines as it follows a tuneful dramatic tale of a daring rum runner and his adventures with women everywhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foreign Legion
Clyde Cook
George Grossmith
Pastine
John
Alma Pastine
RKO
Fedor
Four Uessels
Dalton
Frigidaire Offers New Low Priced Refrigerator Model
Frigidaire Corporation, a unit of General Motors, announces an all porcelain finished refrigerator at 157.30 with four and a half square feet of shelf space and ice freez ing capacity of two and a half pounds. A larger model at ten dollars more is also available. both are in dealers’ hands for immediate delivery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frigidaire Corporation
General Motors
E. G. Biechler
Wind Damage Strikes Os Joosa Area Farms
A strong wind swept through the Otley Os Joosa area causing the destruction of two chicken houses on the Walt Verhoogt and fire damage to a field on the Albert Van Houweling farm. Lightning also struck a stub field, but a quick tractor plow by Van Houweling kept the fire from spreading to a straw pile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otley
Lows
Rinas van Buren
Clarence
Henry van Racer
Cedar Rapids
Nen Woc
Palmer Chire Neticsche
Davenport
Palmer
Jeopie
Os Joosa
Lana
Thas
Ti Geert Tysseling
Pell
Tast
N. Parnekock
Sarah Vande Cassie
Rene Lille
Wihelmina
John Stireman
Walt Verought Place
Southern Iowa Fair promises varied acts at Oskaloosa
The Southern Iowa Fair at Oskaloosa, August 16 to 21, plans many features including Marcus Kellerman with a band, vaudeville acts by Pot Pourri of Athletics, Risley and Teeter, and three fun houses B Hive Flappers Hotel and the crystal maze. These acts join a program already building weekly details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac Walton
Athent Hs
Catherine Sinclair
Risley
Oskaloosa
Iowa
Beckmann
Gerety
Riding devices on Beckmann and Gerety's midway
Beautiful and costly riding devices are found on the midway of Beckmann and Gerety's World's Best Shows this season. The display highlights ornate equipment likely drawing crowds to the fairground spectacle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckmann and
Gerety
Building spiritual reserves for hard times
The text argues that happiness in old age depends on physical intellectual financial and especially spiritual reserves. It urges current care through health reading associations finances saving and above all habits of prayer devotion and religious interest. Spiritual reserves come only from right living, not inheritance or purchase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midale
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Des Moines
Cordova
Bert Bloom
Calvin Bricker
Clarence Bricker
Joe Vanden Berg
Henry Muilenberg
Gerrit de Young
Delight
Blanche Karr
Beryl Vanden Berg
Luemma’ Palmer
Tilla Roush
Joy Shilling
Luemma Palmer
Nell Muilenberg
Karr
Oto Wynsteker
Bart Klyn
Gerrit Klyn
John Buwalda
Pella
Henrietta
Helen Buwalda
Fred Karr
Earl Rickabaugh
Anie Klyn
Les Byers
Henry Muilenbreg
Chidren
Morse van Hemert
Lloyd Shilling
Blanche
Delight Karr
Knoxville
Fifield
Dickma
Kool
Gerta Bloodsworth
John Bloodsworth
Arnold Klein
Bert Youngs
Skunk
Lloyd Powers
George Houck
Roy Karr
Monroe
Wheeler and
Morton
Elizabeth King
Pers
Mi Famous
School of Fort Worth
RKO Vaudeville
Mlle
Rootee
Dubagne
Pattawattamie
Webster
Scott
Polk
Y. Allamakee
Linn
Black Hawk
Clinton
iFor
Orpheum Theatre
Mancarets
Frigidaire
Vogelaar Hardware & Implement Company
Southern
Roger W. Babson
Chevrolet
Flint
Michigan
White Way Auto Co
Main Street
Pella, Iowa
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