Sky Ride to Crown Chicago Exposition of 1933
Contracts signed for two 600 foot high steel towers 2000 feet apart linked by cables. Rocket shaped glass cars will glide 200 feet above ground on four aerial cables. Elevators reach observation platforms atop towers offering views of Indiana Michigan and Illinois and the city below. Towers will be triangular and illuminated at night with colored light from bottom flood lights. Eight rocket cars circulate at the 200 foot level on a four cable track.
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Chicago
New York
Indiana
Michigan
Illinois
Community notices from Jamestown visitors and illness
Gust Nelson and Oscar Nelson visited John Brandstrom in Jamestown New York on Friday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Joe Hawkins hosted Thursday dinner for Carl Cuthbertson. Mrs Oberia Ryan and Rev Charles Early were Sunday dinner guests of W C Preble. Mrs Ernest Beck is confined at home by illness.
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Gust Nelson
Oscar Nelson
Jamestown
N. Y
John Brandstrom
Joe Hawkins
Carl Cuthbertson
Oberia Ryan
Chas
W. C. Preble
Ernest Beck
Scandia notices and sales listings from local shop ads
Local notices announce shop services from John Brandstrom and A M Sanborn including varnish drying times. Miss June Freed visits the Larson sisters. Genn Currie homebound due to illness. Ladies Shop promotes dresses before school break. Real estate and rental listings, cream sale at Midget Lunch, and various visits and sales notes across residents and families.
Hiatt Family Visits Nebraska and Kansas Towns
Mrs W Hiatt and Lois and Miss Orpha Lee Hiatt spent the past two weeks visiting at the Hiatt home. They traveled to Hebron Nebraska to visit M C Hiatt. Orpha Lee remained in Hebron at her home. Bernice and Norma Gles Bowersox visited at A E Bowersox Home in Belleville. Mr and Mrs E H Lewis and Mr and Mrs J R Stofer attended the rodeo at Phillipsburg last week.
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Hiatt
Lois
Orpha
Lee Hiatt
Bernice
Norma Gles Bowersox
A. E. Bowersox
Belleville
E. H. Lewis
Phillipsburg
Obituary Minnie Peterson Albers Dead at Hawthorne
Minnie Peterson Albers born in Courtland township on October 26 1884 died in Hawthorne California on August A 1932. She left a husband P A Albers two children Ruth and Bert and her parents Mr and Mrs C J Peterson and a brother Charles of Scandia.
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Minnie Peterson Albers
Courtland Township
Hawthorne
Calif
A. Albers
Ruth
Bert
C. J. Peterson
Charles
Scandia
Andrew Johnson dies at 65 in 1982 in Kansas area
Obituary notes Andrew B. Johnson born in Smoland Sweden in 1866. He immigrated 1883 married Mary Erickson in 1892 and had six children Oscar Franz Reuben Gottfrid Richard Truman. Funeral held Ada Lutheran church with interment at Ada cemetery.
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Andrew B. Johnson
Jonkopings Lan
Smoland
Sweden
Arvil
America
Mary Erickson
Oscar
Franz
Reuben
Gottfrid
Richard
Trunman
Courtland
Jamestown
Ada Lutheran Church
Truman
John Swan
Frank Sallman
Concordia
Kans
Johnson
Ada Cemetery
Peangh Lodge 221 Meets First and Third Mondays
Peangh Lodge No. 221 A M meets the first and third Monday of each month. Visiting brethren are cordially invited. Jen Cooper W M D Blakeley secretary.
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Peangh
A. M
Jen Cooper
D. Blakeley
Scandia Lodge 165 O O F Meets Tuesday Night
Scandia Lodge No 165 Odd Fellows meets Tuesday night with a cordial welcome to visiting brethren led by N G Chas Nondorf and Secretary Fred Moe.
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Scandia
Chas. Nondorf, N. G. Fred Moe
Sec
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Sky Rider
A. M. Sanborn, Lumber Co
June'Freed
Ella
Charla Larson
Genn Currie
Frank Peterson
Berggren
Mrs
Ollie Johnson
R. E. Cooper
W. A. de
Cullers
Joe Lundblade
H. I. Johnson
Milo Johnson
Downs
Frank Crossen
Denver, Colo
Lilly McGregor
Norway
May . White
Genevieve Freed
Madeline Larson
Ted Nelson
Kackley
C. C. Cullers
Mr. Cullers
Carrie Aberg
Gust Bentsen
Oscar Johnson
Richard Hiatt
Frank Larsen
Mens Firestone
Big Smith
E. M. Ivey Cleaner & Clothier
Hiatt’s Store
By Kei
Veniee
Pottstown
Pennsylvania
the Bank OF Scandia
G. W. Nimocks
Concordia Creamery
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