Radio Lessons for Iowa School Children
A survey by the Iowa State Teachers Association shows radio will be a major educational tool this fall and winter. Clarinda reports 1000 students studying music weekly via KSO. The program uses classroom receivers and a 30 minute lesson. The article notes prior national broadcasts by Walter Damrosch as influential and predicts expanding radio education nationwide.
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Tenching
Chay i Pyu
Iowa State Teachers Association
Pye
Clarinda
Lows
KSO
Helen Bayee
Walter Damrosch
Iowa
Renwick Gas Station Broken Into Again
Monday night the Renwick Auto and Implement Co gas station was broken into by breaking a window. The robbers took nothing but a few candy bars, tipped over the cash register with its small change untouched, and did not touch other merchandise. They left through the front door, electric light burning, drawing detective notice the next morning.
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Renwick Auto & Implement Co
Miel Sveerksen
Former Goldfield Doctor Kills Self in South Dakota
Dr J A Richardson formerly of Goldfield and Glen Cross committed suicide near his home in South Dakota. He wrote relatives he would go to Glencross but slashed his throat with a surgical knife in a pasture near his home. Despondency over ill health was cited. He had left Goldfield about ten years ago selling his practice to Dr Kelley and was a familiar figure in Renwick.
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J. A. Richardagon
Glencross
Goldfield
South Dakota
Hig
Ibis
Richardson
Wall
Wehardaon
Kelley
Renwick
Grandma Block Died Last Thursday Morning in Renwick
Obituary for Grandma Block known as Metta Roh Block, longtime Renwick resident born in 1845 in Winnert Germany. Survived by six children, twenty grandchildren, six great grandchildren. Funeral held at Lutheran Church with Pastor Geo F Dirks. buried Vernon cemetery.
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Grandma” Block
Renwick
Vernon Cemetery
Welock
Lutheran Church
Geo. F. Dirks
Black
Metta
Roh
Des
Winnert
Germany
America
Davenport
Claus Block
Traer
Arm
Lock
John Helmke
Frank Block
Gus Rohwer
Otta Block
A. W. Trummel
Glans Block
Dereft
Block
St. Van's
Ed Fricker
Geo
Franz Jock
Forest City
June Krause
Winnebago
Minn
Lia Beloved Grandi Passes In Restful Sleep
A nocturnal tribute recalls Lia beloved and Grandi who has fallen asleep peacefully. The verse laments weariness and rest under sunlight and dew, inviting a quiet, reverent reflection on a life’s quiet end.
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Lia
Grandi
Card of Thanks and Farcical Tidbits From Town
Card of thanks expresses gratitude for sympathy and help after the illness and death of Mrs Metta Block. The piece satire notes cotton, the Prince of Wales promotion, Kingston Ohio streets deserted by skunks, windmill production, and a baffling question about a baby in a motor car struck by an eight wheeler.
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Metta Block
Block
Kingston
Ohio
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Neil Hanson
Lewis Laverade
J. Hanson
Miller Wergeland
Alfred Eysland
Anliker
Henry Erickson
Wm. Beenen Furniture and Undertaking
Renwick, Iowa
I.G. A. Grocery & Market
D. W. Stephens
Eagle Grove, Iowa
Self
Grandma
Grandia
Crondma
Renwick Savings Bank
Wisconsin Lumber Co
G. S. Peters
Texas
Prince of Wales
United States
Congress
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