Local births and community notes from Van Zee to Ames
Local news item brief listing births and health updates including Kenneth Leroy Van Zee as the newborn son of Mr and Mrs John A Van Zee. Also notes patients and operations at Lutheran hospital Des Moines and Oskaloosa hospital, visits by relatives, and movements of residents such as Engbers moving to Ames and Leydens selling a service station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. van Zee
Kenneth Leroy
Frances de Bruin
Denver
Colorado
J. W. Lankelma
van Sittert Dry Goods
Frank Bakker
J. W. Bakker
Mahaska Hospital
Oskaloosa
John Leydens
West End
William Deruyn
Kirkville
J. A. Hagens
Robert Conn
Sully
William Hoozeboom
Dick Roozeboom
Ottumwa
Herman Schakel
Hank Kiest
Des Moines
James Sheehy
HL DP. van Gorp
Fred Lankelma
Henry Edmand
Ames
MISS DOROTHY COOK WRITES OF WALLACE TOUR
Central College student Dorothy Cook recounts a Northern Pacific voyage with the Wallace party. She describes early Minnesota plains, North Dakota prairies, the Alaska cruise on the SS Yukon, towns like Ketchikan Wrangell and Cordova built on pilings, seasickness club moments, vast glaciers at Columbia Glacier, and encounters with locals, workers, and scenery along the voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Cook
Wallace
Northern Pacific
Minnesota
North Dakota
Rockies
Seattle
Alaska
U.S
Oeek
Queen Charlotte Sound
Seasick Club
Gers
Kinin
Wrangell
Voyage Through Alaska and Canada Ends in Minnesota
A travelogue recounts a voyage from Valdez to Seattle, via Ketchikan and Vancouver, then through the Canadian Rockies to Lake Louise and Banff. The journey includes Alaska mining areas, encounters with rail travel, totem poles, and a return journey through Manitoba, Portal, and Minneapolis before home. Passengers bid farewell to Della Beach and family members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Vancouver
Canada
Royal Mounted Police
Canadian Rockies
Manitoba
Portal
North Dakota
Iimmigration
Minneapolis
Des Moin
Della Beach
Cook
Joan
Corne Hoopers
No Home for 12 Year Old Boy Surfaces in Tale
A fragmentary report describes a 12 year old Mexican youth Dale Martinez facing hardship and potential danger after a troubled incident. The account mentions an individual called Potion Chief Aligaud and a confrontation at an office Friday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ani
Dale Martinez
Lee
Aligaud
USA
Seangeter
Dale
Dale and Buddy vanish into the South American unknown
The report describes Dale leaving with his companion known as Buddy, after tensions with a guardian in Kansas City. Buddy claims government work in Mexico and impending return to South America, implying Dale may accompany him this fall as they depart to parts unknown per an Oskaloosa Herald account.
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Dale
Shannon
Kansas City
Stat
de Tt
Buddy
Mexico
South America
Oskaloosa Herald
Delta Restores Street Lights After Two Years
Delta council meets as street lights return for the first time in two years. Debt issues hindered maintenance and gas funds, but new tax money and bank factors allowed reactivation of lights, ending a lengthy blackout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delta
Lowa group aids industries with reconstruction funds
The Greater Lowa commission is organizing to assist Iowa industries in securing Reconstruction Finance funds for expansion. Or. S. Mantz, chairman, said Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greater Lowa Commission
Lowa Industries
Reconstruction Finance
Or. S. Mantz
Saturdas
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Cen
William van [Thi
Ouis Papma
Catherine
This City
Olive Hodges
Knoxville
Henry Post
Grand Rapids, Mich
James van Dusseldorp
Oskaloosa Hospital
EV. Goud
Stuart Goud
Teoria
Ill
van Houwelingg Auto Co
Dex
Dodge
Plymouth School of Instruction
Hd. de Wit
Praise City
Walter de Wit
Mra
N. de Wit
C. EB
Ruth
Eddyville
W. H. Gray
Kate Beard
California
Ade Bruins
Chicator
Anna Bruins
Lois Rietveld
Agnes Mathes
Mrs A. Krumm
Grinnell
Aart van Zante
Ka Kempkes
Nevada
Mrs. Kempkes
T. Kempkes
Houdt
Omal
I. F. Johnson
Ella
Norman
Gerrit Valkenburg
Keokuk
F. Veenstra
John Gosselink
Marion Kuiken
Muskegon
Michigan
Samuel Kuiken
Chicago
Illinois
Jacob Kuiken
Arie Engbers
Do i Doukker
Grand Rapid’. Mich
FL Hie Dong
Maurice
Joe Scott
Perry
J. Rietveld Hom
Central College
Duncan
Legislative Department
Mack
Juneau
Torial Museum
Fbrar
Gulf of
Alaka
Owas
Cordova
Lathrop
New England Fish Company
NEFCO
Becae
Columbia Glacier
Columbia
Golden Heart
Valdez
Valedez
Gond
Seward
Andrew Jackson
Tun Kere
Fede
Blue Water Lakes
Lake Louise
The
Alps
Uus
CPT Chateau
Mirror Lake
Banff Springs
How
Alo
Twadbye
Pella
den Adel
Aladdin Fund
Mark Twain
Pella High School
Vander Linden’s
Star Oil Co
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