WPA Projects in Emmet County Provide Jobs and Improvements
Forty three workers were employed on three WPA construction projects in Emmet County, with two non certified foremen. Non construction projects also employed two men and one woman. The program, begun in 1935, has spent $116,216, with $85,760 federal funds and $30,456 sponsor funds, funding road work, maintenance buildings, riverfront improvements, park work, and a county sewing room that produced thousands of garments for those in need.
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Works Progress Administration
Emmet
George J. Keller
WPA
County Relief Office
C. F. Roebrick
Spencer
Emmet County
Gladys Hudson
Council Bluffs
Estherville
Dolliver
Ringsted
Planning Board
KeBer
Iowa Liquor Sales Marked Decline Across Iowa
Estherville April liquor sales fell from March totals of 5 443.99 to 5 643.66 as 148 of 170 stores posted declines. Iowa statewide March sales reached 995 063.35 and April 949 779.45, down 45 283.90. Des Moines led, with April sales 51 275.95, Sioux City second at 50 etc, together accounting for about one ninth of state liquor sales.
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Estherville
Iowa
Spencer
Emmetsburg
Webster City
Des Moines
Sioux City
Twin reveal fuels Betty's perilous night
Wealthy foster mother of Marjorie Wetherill uncovers a letter naming Dorothy Gay as her twin and adopted daughter. Marjorie seeks her real family, faces church and a minister, and plots to reclaim a family home as Ellery drifts into drunken danger. Betty flee s a reckless drive, is rescued by a doctor, and asks secrecy about her night. CONTINUED THURSDAY
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Marjorie Wetherill
Dorothy Gay
Evan Brower
Ace Peat
Gray
Marjorie
Brentwood
Ellery
Betty
Aster Street
Keith Sheridan
Letty
Betty Hides Fear At Glitzy Dance Hall Encounter
Betty faces intimidation at a crowded party as a heavyset man with diamonds tormentingly pressures her. She feigns illness and insists Ellery Aiken fetch him, while the scene around her grows tense and unsettling amid a distracting floor show.
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Betty
Ellery
Ellery Aiken
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Keller
Fort Defiance State Park
Commission
Conservation Commission
Iowa State Planning Board
Biological Survey
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