Memorial Day to be sparsely observed in Harvey Iowa
CAPT. BARKER TO GIVE ADDRESS Harvey Iowa May 25 The Des Moines river stands at the lowest stage ever recorded by the oldest inhabitants. Memories fade as drought grips area. fish have vanished except carp now common due to fish commission introductions. W H Barker appointed to speak at Tracy and Oskaloosa Memorial observances with Lincoln Gettysburg Address in Oskaloosa.
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Harvey
Iowa
Des Moines
Harry Brewer
Sherman Awtry
Towa
Fish Commission
Eureka Cemetery
Lemuel Cooper
Earl Miller
W. H. H. Barker
Tracy
Oskaloosa
Lincoln
Nelson Rupel
Andrews
Peoria School Closed Wednesday in Iowa notices
Peoria Iowa May 25 Mrs Gerri Ryken is regaining strength slowly. Margaret Vander Molen helped Mrs Harold Sheesley paper last Friday. Peter and Margaret Vos spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs Barney Memmilaar at Leighton. Thursday May 28 the Peoria Sully and Pella annual school day will include two speakers and sports. Wednesday will be the last day of school for this term and children will have their pieni. Hilda Vander Hart may come home from Grundy Center Wednesday for a week’s vacation before returning to work.
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Peoria
Iowa
Gerrit Ryken
Margaret Vander Molen
Harold Sheesley
Peter
Margaret Vos
Barney Memmilaar
Leighton
Margaret
Jack Vander Melen
Bennie Vos
Sully
Pella
Martin Vander Molen
Dick Vander Veen
Francis Vroegh
Ben Vroegh
Eddyville
Goad
Chronicle
Hilda Vander Hart
Grundy Center
Otley School Closed Friday News Brief
Otley announces a closing on Friday due to local events. The item lists multiple local residents visiting relatives and notes health and family activities, including Mrs. Stineman’s illness and Henry Aalbers undergoing tonsil removal in Des Moines. Other entries mention visits to Aalbers and Lille households and shopping trips in Pella and Knoxville.
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Otley
Martin Kooyman
Durant
Albert de Joode
Des Moines
Rean Aalbers
Tone Ralbers
Knoxville
Jennie Robus and Sons
John de Lewns
Robus
Out-of-town visitors plan Iowa stay. Otley school closes
Mrs C Hardy and children from Los Angeles arrived about eight this morning and will visit Iowa for two weeks with relatives and friends. Otley school closed Friday with a program on Tuesday and a picnic on Thursday. Lucille Postma of near Prairie City visited Richard Postma’s home for the last two weeks.
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C. 2. Hardy
Los Angeles
Calif
Iowa
Otley
Lucille Postma
Near Prairie City
Richard Postma
Gasoline law set to take effect on July fourth
M G Thornburg secretary of agriculture says new gasoline standard mirrors federal specs to protect consumers and ensure efficiency. Law aims to curb adulteration with kerosene, aid competition, and safeguard state tax revenue with practical enforcement through dealer cooperation.
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M. G Thornburg
United States
Mr. Thornburg
Thornburg
Dracula on Screen at Rivola Theatre in May
Universal’s Dracula drama opens with a fog laden chase to Count Dracula’s castle led by Bela Lugosi. The cast includes Chandler Manners Van Sloan Dade Frye Bunston with Tod Browning directing. The feature screens at the Rivola theatre in Oskaloosa Friday and Saturday May 29 and 30.
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Count Dracula
Elen Chandler
David Manners
Edward van Sloan
Frances Dade
Dwight Frye
Herbert Bunston
Tod Browning
Fox Hounds Almost Wreck Sets in The Southerner Shoot
Fox hunting sequence at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for The Southerner filled the studio with fifty hounds and a trained fox. The pack chased the quarry through sound stages as stars Lawrence Tibbett Esther Ralston and Parnell Pratt looked on. The scene ends with the fox secured in a cage amid trainers recapturing dogs. The film opens May 31 at the Princess theatre in Oskaloosa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
Edts
Lawrence Tibbett
Princess Theatre
Oskaloosa
Tibbett
Esther Ralston
Parnell B. Pratt
Raymond
Weekly Letter From Washington on Tariffs and Women’s Progress
The article surveys European octrois and American tariff avoidance at borders, then shifts to women entering professional life. It cites A A Clubhouse stats in New York, 1930 census gains, and banking leadership. It adds Republican politics etiquette, and notes student antiwar sentiment and Harvard’s chapel memorial debate.
Children Learn Thrift Through School Savings Banks
The American Bankers Association reports 1930 school deposits totalled 20,118,163.48 with net savings 7,690,529.68, pushing aggregate child-held funds to about 2,000,000. Declines in withdrawals amid depression show thrift habits endure. despite agitation, a free country tolerates such inconveniences for valued advantages.
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Office of Education
American Bankers Association
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Capt. Barker
Rupel
Clay Township
Matthew Rupel
Frances Spaur
Oklahoma
Marion County
Wade Harvey
Emma Williams
Pike
Rivola
Bela Lugosi
Fox Hounds
Geo. Bernard Shaw
George Elliott
Washington
Europe
France
Alsace
Lorraine
Paris
Alsace and Lorraine
A &A
Manhattan
New York
Newark
AW_A
American Woman's Association
America
Grace Stoermer
National Association of Bank
Republican National Committee
G. O. P. Harmony
Claudius Huston
Senator Fess
Robert H. Lucas
Chaiman
Fess
Lucas
Congress
Mars
Harvard
The
Crimson
Princess
Theatre
Lawrence Tibbett Talone
School Savings Bank
Disraeli
Gotham
White Rose
Re ‘A. Collins
High Ave
HALL
Oskaloosa, Iowa
Pric- Sane
McCollum
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