Used Car Man Ships 648000 Pounds of Old Iron
Clarence Maggert of Elkader Iowa runs a used car and parts business with a profitable sideline in salvaged iron. Records show over half a million pounds shipped in the past year, including 12 car loads averaging 47 tons each. Mary Bennett of Sioux City sues the city and Sioux Cab for 15880 damages claiming spinal injuries from a speeding street car. Hugh Reid in Bedford captures a large chicken hawk with bare hands after a dramatic struggle near her home. The hawk had a three foot wingspan.
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Clarence Maggert
Elkader
Mary A. Bennett
Sioux City
Sioux Cab Company
Ataziezh
Hugh Reid
Bedford
Iowa
Reid
Alligator hunted and escaped reptiles found near Independence
Shoots alligator activity reported on the Wapsipinicon River near Independence in Buchanan County. A Waterloo man killed a 30 inch gator recently. Six of the reptiles had escaped from a private pool imported from Florida by a local owner.
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Towa
Wapsipinicon River
Independence
Buchanan County
Waterloo
Black Hawk County
Florida
Rock Valley Business Luncheon and Quirky Local Notes
A Rock Valley note column mentions an AA business men luncheon, with weekly hotel dinners to foster exchange among businessmen. The first luncheon is planned for next Tuesday at noon, with casual talk and no toasts unless the hotel serves them. The piece ends with a quirky anecdote about two pheasants left at the Bee office and a light jab at local sharp shooters Sally Schemmer and Bill Bossart.
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AA Business Men
Commercial Club
Rock Valley
Bee
Sally ‘Schemmer
Bill Bossart
Bill
Vengeance talk and winter plans in the community
The note recounts personal tensions with Sally Scheamer and praise for Bill as a shooter. It wonders why birds migrate, mentions Auctioneer Ben Meylink planning a California winter, and notes upcoming Community Luncheon on Nov 21 with County Agent Nicol as guest speaker. Dick Roelofs chairs the Luncheon, with Clay McKeegan and A L Halstead assisting. lunch to follow the program.
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Sally Scheamer
Sally
Bill
Ben Meylink
California
End
Nicol
Nicol J
Russia
Dick Roelofs
Clay McKeegan
A. L.halstead
Lenox Merchant Sells With Favorable Tax Amount
A Lenox merchant made a sale where the sales tax came to favo cents. The customer paid the exact purchase price and offered no further details or actions.
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Lenox
Tax Refund Dilemma Over Two Cent Check
A Chicago mail order firm sent a two cent tax refund check. The merchant wonders whether to cash it, incur exchange fees of five cents, or mail it back at three cents plus envelope cost. Keeping it would mean losing the tax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chiago
Chicago
Day of Freedom for Inmates at Marion County Poor Farm
Two inmates from the Marion county poor farm near Knoxville were granted a day of outing to Knoxville. They drank excessively, were taken into custody, and placed in jail for the night before being returned to the poor farm by taxicab.
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Marion County
Knoxville
Old Papers Rally Sparks Historic Display at Rockwells High
Rockwells High invites public donations of aged newspapers dating from 1668 onward. The collection includes the oldest 267 year old London royal decrees and papers featuring notable American deaths. Early issues like Youth's Companion and the Saturday Evening Post appear in newspaper form.
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Rockwells City
London
Youth's Companion
The
Saturday Evening Post
Mary Hall Reporter Loot Shocks Davenport Home
Mrs Mary Hall of Davenport Iowa hid $100 in ten dollar bills in her corset believing it safe. A prowler broke into her home and ransacked the room, and the money disappeared.
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Mary Hall
Davenport
Wellman Area Turkey Center Sparks Local Relief Effort
Farmers near Wellman seek turkeys to ease farm relief. Wellman hatchery hatched about 200000 birds this year. Farmers within fifty miles bought young turkeys to raise. Turkeys sell for about fifty cents a pound in the east, double last year. Wellman vicinity is nationally famous as a turkey center.
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Wellman Town
Wellman Hatchery
Wellean
Wellman Vici Ity
Chicken Racket in Southwestern Town Reported
Farmers in Audubon county report a new chicken theft racket. Thieves buy a few chickens at high prices, observe the chicken house, then return to rob the roost. Authorities warn farmers to be vigilant about these scams and losses.
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Audubon County
Young man chosen for mule shipment to India
Golden opportunity offered to Frank Klunpar Jr of Independence Iowa. He is selected among several to accompany a shipment of mules sold to the British army by an Omaha dealer. The expedition to India will last about five months with negligible costs, and the trip serves as payment.
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Frank Klunpar, Jr
Independence
Iowa
India
Home on wheels aids college life in Storm Lake
Two Iowa college girls Leona Hintgen Kathryn Hinigen and Seibine Hinigen from George solve housing by bringing a house trailer to campus. They parked on a vacant lot and set up a cozy winter home with no expense, doing their own cooking and using the trailer for living quarters beyond touring.
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Benna Viste
Storm Lake
Iowa
Leona, Seibine
Kathryn Hinigen
George
Miss Hintgen
Walnut Room: A Pioneer Home’s Walnut Chamber
Isaac Brinnegar, a Clinton Town pioneer farmer aged 76, preserves a room in his 1855 house finished entirely in native walnut. The walnut walls, never painted or covered, are said to provide better insulation than modern materials. He also retains the wagon his parents used to arrive from the east about 80 years ago.
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Isaac Brinnegar
Clinton
Brinnegar
Binnegar
Chariton Fisherman Catches 39 Pound Catfish in River
Hurst Bridelbaugh fished on the Chariton River in Iowa and reeled in a 47 inch catfish weighing 39 pounds. The giant, believed largest in Lucas county, was hauled ashore after a wrestle that left him briefly knocked down. The fish yielded 22 pounds of steak.
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Hurst Bridelbaugh
Chariton
Iowa
Bridelbaugh
Lucas County
Indian Village Site Near Algona Unearthed by Ortons
Clark Orton and his son Don report discovering relics near their Algona Iowa property that point to a former Indian village. Found items include flint skinning tools a variety of arrowheads pottery a tomahawk stone war clubs cooking implements and a maul indicating an ancient settlement.
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Algona
Iowa
Clark Orton
Bicycle Pony Collision Leaves Boy Hurt in Albia
Glen Long, 17, of Albia, Iowa, was in a crash while riding a bicycle when his 14 year old nephew Eugene Long rode a pony into the collision. Glen suffered a deep cut over his eye. Eugene escaped injury.
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Glen Long
Albia
Tewa
Long
Eugene Long
Glen
Eugene
Wholesale Theft At Traer Farm They Drive Sheep Into Snow Fence Corral
Unidentified trespassers at a Traer area farm built a snow fence corral and driven about 65 sheep into the enclosure. They hacked tracks to the entrance and herded the animals toward a packing plant, with 5 sheep reportedly taken for sale.
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Traer
Thex
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Alan
Chevrolet
Fortress of Surety
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Fisher
Detroit
Michigan
G.M.A.C
General Motors
Flint
Rock Valley Garage
Rock Valley, Iowa
Gqod
Old
Turkey
Ex-Q-In Chemical CO
Grand Ave
Des Moines
FREE
Grand Avenue
Des Moines, Towa
C. A. Walhof
Lay Eoce Valley
Herman van Eldik
Rock Vailey
Carl
Inwood
Lane Vanden Busch
Momlay
Kessier’s
Tire Shop
Orpheum Theater
Ken Maynard
Tarzan
SUN
TUE
Tom Brown
Sir Guy Standing
Rosalind Keith
Annapolis
Warner Land
Shanghai
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