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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1933
Page
3
A field report from Babson Park Florida on April 21 1933 notes unusually wet pleasant weather and discusses citrus prices with oranges cheap due to California competition. It critiques Roosevelt era loans and the gold standard stance while citing editorial views from the Galveston News on public school funding and a German Free Mason dissolution move toward a Christian reformation.
Beacon City offers Short Period Member Ships for the World’s Fair priced at 19.95 with a 10.00 child rate for under eight. Three days cover meals lodging and all facilities, but three days is warned as inadequate by officials and media. Enroll now to secure accommodations for desired dates.
A fragment discusses a proposed National Christian Order of Frederick the Great with claims of exclusion for Jews and criticisms of religious interference. The item also notes Florida ministers opposing beer tax funds for schools and includes various local social notes about Herb Mosher, Stone at Sebring, and Garden club events with Iowa visitors.
A New York exhibit by Dr L V Burton and Dr Harlan T Bretson links solar heat and lunar positions to business cycles and earthquakes. Charts show lower sun output aligning with prosperity and higher solar heat with downturns, while lunar positions may relate to quake frequency. Authorities caution conclusions are premature and ongoing study continues.
A ceremonial gavel bound for the Century of Progress in Chicago travels from Fairmont to Estherville with Grand Master Norman D. Smith. The visit included a large Estherville group and Rebekahs, part of a schedule that will send the gavel to other lodges across the nation. Fairmont marked its 26th lodge anniversary with a well attended open meeting and grand lodge activities.
In Estherville a final settlement was reached on the Spears chattel mortgage foreclosure. H I Spears, Ressell, and five County Council of Defense members attended. Original notes totaled 980 dollars. settlement assigns 425 dollars for 1932 lease and a 1933 lease with two-fifths of crops plus 650 dollars cash. Ressell covers court costs. Past due notes paid and returned to Spears. A prohibition emergency group was formed in Emmet County with officers and committees named to organize precincts countywide.
In Pere Lachaise on summer Sundays, mourners still lay wreaths on Abelard and Heloise, the famed lovers whose romance began in Paris in 1117. Abelard tutored Heloise, secretly married, then separated. he became a monk and she a nun, while their five letters forever reveal a noble, tragic bond.
Arthur Beatty named one suspect in a Monday car theft after a detective showed him a photo. Beatty described the man as dark complexioned with dark eyes and a thin white face, about five feet eight. The suspect, a Sioux Falls resident, and two others are wanted for the Beatty car theft and the Kaylor bank robbery in South Dakota. The bank and car thieves were linked by traces found in the abandoned sedan near Minneapolis.
J B Sheltren receives a B permit to retail beer by the case or serve to the public. The business sits over 200 feet from West Side park.
Ernest Huckaba has rented the old city hall at Sixth and Howard and will move his automobile repair shop to that location the first of the month.
Harriet Elizabeth Godfrey Baldwin Pullen born 1851 in Aurora Illinois. She moved with parents to Appleton Prairie du Lac then Estherville 42 years ago. She married E G Baldwin and later Henry Pullen. Survived by son A E Baldwin and sister Mrs Warren Pullen. Funeral Friday at Mahlum and Anderson chapel with East Side cemetery interment.
Frank Brown a 60 year old farmer four miles north of Graettinger died from a field fire late Monday afternoon. Authorities believe the crippled man started the blaze while lighting a pipe with a match he dropped in corn stalks. He is survived by his wife and seven children.
Friday evening at the Grand, merchants display a summer dress style show with sixteen local girl models. A feature film Whistling in the Dark stars Una Merkel Edward Arnold and Ernest Truex, a mystery comedy shown Friday only, plus five acts of vaudeville by the Edwards Musical Revue on tour from WMBC radio to Denver Palace and bound for Minneapolis.
My, and Mrs. Guy L. Pierson and Gon Richmond and Miss Adelia Thompson of Minneapolis have purchased the States cafe and will operate it in the same manner in which it was so ably run by Mrs. Jennie Sutton. The Piersons and Miss Thompson are experienced restaurant people and will give the public the best of Satisfaction. Mrs. Otto Schaper spent Thursday visiting Terri at the Ira Swartz home.
Manager Henry Hower of the Grand theatre teams with the city for Clean Up Week. Children bring tin cans to the theatre at 10:30 AM for a free show at 11. The child with the longest can string wins three afternoon tickets. strings must have at least five cans. A four year old radio star offers a review, Edwards Musical Revue performs, and Huckleberry Finn screens at 11 and over at 12.
The rural Center township district No 9 schoolhouse suffered roof damage this morning. Miss Ruby Crim the teacher and students, with neighbor help, extinguished the blaze. Replacement of the roof and repapering are needed. suspected origin is a defective flue or chimney spark.
Victor L Hall outlined how counties will select delegates to the state repeal convention. County mass conventions set for May 8 will choose repeal and anti repeal delegates to appear on June 20 ballots. Special election July 10 at the state capitol will finalize convention delegates. Frank Campisano named county chair for Emmet county.
The Eighth grade graduation and Farm Bureau picnic will be on June 14 at Fort Defiance park. Exercises start at 10 o'clock with a full day planned. Planned program includes noted speakers, music with solos, choruses and bands, games, sports, and the noon big picnic dinner. Committee chiefs are Miss Marie Sorum and Max McMillan.
Mrs. Lloyd Ober and H. P. Mack were sentenced to 30 days in jail by Mayor M. K. Whelan after a brief hearing for occupying a room without the owner’s consent. They admitted guilt after a complaint by John Martyr, owner of the Hawk Eye cafe, against the two who had occupied the space.
Esther ville A L Haldeman division superintendent of Cedar Rapids and J E Breheny general manager of Kansas City visiting the Dakota division were welcome callers at the office Wednesday afternoon.
Fire department called to extinguish a roof blaze at Paris Cleaners on Tuesday afternoon. Light damage reported with no injuries.
Court orders removal of the cancerous left eye of Little Helen Vasco of New York to spare her life after the eye was removed by court action without parental consent. Parents refuse to visit, defiant as the tumor's spread and eye surgery outcomes remain uncertain.
Two Estherville youths Floyd Brady 14 and Robert Paulson 15 ran away a week earlier to escape home worries. Father Di Paulson recovered them in Deadwood South Dakota. A heavy snowstorm damaged telephone and telegraph lines there, delaying travel.
The first annual convention of the National Farmers Holiday Association meets in Des Moines on May 3 to decide whether a national farmers strike will occur on May 13. National officers will be elected and A. F. Whitney of Cleveland will speak. Delegates from Iowa New York and Canada are invited with attendees from organized labor and Farmers Holiday groups nationwide expected. The stock pavilion at the state fair grounds is the likely venue with sessions starting at 9:30 A. M.
Mayor Whelan calls out spring cleaning laxity as residents dump ashes and rubbish on streets and vacant lots. Violations punishable by up to $100 fine or 30 days in jail under Section 4 of Revised Ordinance No. 39. The measure bans depositing glass nails ashes straw paper rubbish on sidewalks streets gutters or public ground.
Twenty Emmet county young men may enroll in the Federal Forestry Corps. Enrollment lasts six months with full health checks, vaccinations, and bring-home pay for families. Camps run eight hours daily under military oversight but without discipline. priority to aid recipients.
Nolan Boggess, while on a noon return home for lunch, invited four visibly tired hitchhikers from Des Moines en route to Fairmont Minnesota into his family’s home. He provided a late lunch and then drove them partway toward their destination to aid their journey.
Leave for Supreme Shrine in Grand Rapids for Oscar Fagre and Mrs Owen Morton. Spencer Woman's Club hosts twenty five guests at city hall and tea at Mrs Henry Mahlum with a program including a piano solo and three solos, followed by a play The Conflict. Pauline Merriott honored at surprise birthday party with bridge games and meal. D A R chapter Okamanpadu postpones May 2 meeting to May 16 tentative.
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