Lost watch rediscovered after 47 years in field
Mont Tasker reported finding his wife’s watch in a field near Wyoming after a nephew crossing a potato patch stumbled on it. The watch had been lost for 47 years but was able to be put back in running order.
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Mont Tasker
Wyom
Chicago
Stopsy-Ferry
Northwestern University
Malcolm Dole
Northwestern
Dole
Melrose
Mass
Harvard
Nevada
Lake Michigan
Mystery Out of Banking Drives 1985 Act Support
The American Bankers Association president advocates public understanding of bank functions under the Banking Act of 1985. He notes opportunities for broader service while preserving core safeguards and outlines regional banking service conferences to explain new laws, regulations, and public relations aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Bankers Association
Public Attitude Helps the Banks
The American Bankers Association says public confidence has restored banks to full vigor and ability to aid recovery. A 1835 Banking Act revision is praised for stabilizing banking and creating a Supreme Court of Finance through Fed Reserve reform. The group urges retirement of government from joint credit activities as conditions improve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Bankers Association
Federal Reserve Board
Supreme Court of Finance
Accurate Records in Business and Agriculture
The Bulletin of the American Bankers Association Agricultural Commission states accurate record keeping is essential to successful business management across farming, manufacturing, and merchandising sectors. It notes that a well kept system underpins decision making and efficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bulletin
American Bankers Association Agricultural Commission
Tonga’s Modern Utopia Visit by Queen Salote of Tonga
Queen Salote of Tonga, last independent Pacific state, visits Sydney. Crowned in 1917 at eighteen, she leads a communal system with no poverty or debt, strong religious observance, and universal literacy across about 20 000 inhabitants.
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Tonga
Tropic Isles
Salote
Pacific
Sydney
Selote
George Tubou HT
New Zealand
Unpublished Victor Herbert Songs Revealed
The late Victor Herbert's daughter discloses over forty melodies never heard by the public. They reside in three unpublished operettas kept by Eta Herbert Bartlett since 1924. Only one operetta, Lavender Lady from 1914 after The Gary Girl, is complete. The composer’s music remains as he wrote it, though the book is outdated.
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Victor Herbert
New York
Eta Herbert Bartlett
Gary
Prehistoric Monster Is Belittled by Scientist
Prof Robert Hegner of Johns Hopkins questions ancient monster sizes in Parade of the Animal Kingdom. He says none of those beasts rivaled modern whales, and neither mammoth nor mastodon reached the bulk of Jumbo the elephant.
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Baltimore
Robert Hegner
Johns Hopkins University
Professor Hegner
Mr. Barnum
Strange Parties Appear on Ostrava Ballot in Municipal Elections
In Ostrava's Moravian district upcoming municipal elections will feature unusual entries alongside major parties. Among them are a party of fruit dealers and market vendors, a social club of jobless, a group for widowers and pensioners, and a democratic group for procuration of work. The most noted is a party against party machines.
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Prague
Moravian
Ostrava
Eagle Snare Reveals Magnificent Young Bird
Scott Pim of near Red Oak Iowa set a steel trap after missing chickens suspected a fox. He found a large American eagle at the trap and wrestled the bird free it weighed about four pounds and spanned 52 inches with wings.
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Scott Pim
Red Oak
Iowa
Faith Restorer Justice Lets Off Keefe For Now
Justice L. Maxwell of Sac City granted a motor vehicle violation leniency to Matt Keefe after a highway patrol brought him in. Keefe owed 2 dollars plus 1.30 in costs but promised to pay in Waterloo where he had employment. A week passed before a letter arrived with the money.
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L. Maxwell
Sac City
Iona
Sti
Matt Keefe
Keefe
Waterloo
Maxwell
Ames High Class Elects Jack Smith President
Members of the Ames Town high school senior class honorably ignore color bias. Despite three Negroes in a class of 160, Jack Smith is elected president, already serving as home room leader and student council vice president, with a B average and star athlete status.
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Ames
Town
Jack Smith
Smith
Belated Trophy Found by Iowa Falls School Team
The East Side School in Iowa Falls received a silver loving cup awarded to the 1923 Iowa Falls Twilight League champions. A later inscription notes the cup was given to the school by the team, but it was found in a former jewelry store basement unused for engraving.
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Iowa
Falls Iowa
Fhall
Falls
Giant raccoon trapped near Audubon weighs 24 pounds
Adolph Nelson of Audubon Iowa set a large trap on Harold Thiesen farm and captured a giant raccoon weighing 24 pounds. It is described as the largest specimen of its kind seen in that part of Iowa in several years.
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Cogn
Adolph Nelson
Audubon
Iowa
Harold Thiesen
Nevada man suffers double collarbone fractures in accident
Y W Judd of Nevada Iowa broke a collarbone falling from a ladder while trimming a tree. After months in bed he used crutches but rolled over at night and again broke the arm just below the shoulder, leaving him confined to bed once more.
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Y. W. Judd
Nevada
Iowa
Thief Suspected After Six Hogs Go Missing Near Ackley
Circumstantial evidence at the Arnold Milikex farm in Ackley Iowa suggested a hog thief, with six hogs missing and a broken fence. Tracks led to the road where a car crash later explained the damage, and the hogs were found safe in a neighboring cornfield.
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Arnold Milikex
Ackley
Iowa
Milliken
Terrors of Superstition Seem to Spare Red Oak Boy
Tommy Young, 13, hosted a party at his Red Oak Iowa home with 14 other boys. His mother Mrs Oscar Young organized a superstition themed dinner and program with 13 as the keynote. Everyone enjoyed the event and remained safe.
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Tommy Young
Air
Oscar Young
Red Oak
Iowa
Tommy
Tie
Man Pleads for Luck Then Sat Drunk in Davenport
Harvey Fessenden, a police cook in Davenport Iowa, told Judge Jon Hornby a mixed tale of misfortune and luck ending with a celebration. He said he lost his job and his wife left him then regained both, prompting his celebratory drunk arrest. The judge suspended the sentence and released him.
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Harvey Fessenden
Davenport
Iowa
Jon Hornby
Fessenden
Wis
Wight Couple Choose Friday 1344 for Albia Iowa Marriage
Mr and Mrs C T Wight of Des Moines announce their marriage on a Friday in 1344 at Mr Wrights former home in Albia Iowa selecting the date as their wedding day.
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C. T. Wight
Des Moines
Wright
Albia
Towa
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