Radio love taps and social doings fill Wellman notes
Correspondents from Wellman report John Cray bought a radio receiver for home use the first in town F C Schroeder considers installing one in Park Hotel for guests. Social events include a Rock Card party at the Community Room well attended and notes on local visits, school board talk, and a fire scare at Lewis Brothers.
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Wellman Wellman
John Cray
North
Iowa City
F.C. Schroeder
Park Hotel
Elmer Yoder
Webster
Wellman Savings Bank
Chas, Schaffer
Wellman
Carl Anderson
Frank Mellicker
Rochester
Minn
Mayo's
Cora Tinberky
Ottumwa
Wellman School Board
Miss Whiteford
Lewis Brothers
Local Notes From New Haven April Update
Jane Logan ill at home with grippe. Marion Wells shipped cattle from Richland via Titus. Families visit Baker home. Harold Rathmel treated for rheumatism. Cat tle delivered to Augustine and Son. Bert Smiths visit J W Combs. Bowes child recovering from burns. April showers arrive. farmers seek dry weather for sowing as fields stay wet.
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New Haven
Jane Logan
Marion Wells
Titus
Richland
Merle Stattler
Grace
Marion Smith
Ireta Ferne
Baker
Augustine & Son
West Chester
Bert Smith
Brighton
J. W. Combs
Frank Smith
Dust of the Earth thrills crowd at Brighton club house
The Leg ion home talent play The Dust of the Earth drew over three hundred to the club house Friday night. Mrs. Hilhouse trained the cast with notable performances including David Moore Maple Farm and Susan Moore. The Iowa Wesleyan Girls Glee Club led by Miss Lillis Day stopped in en route to Muscatine.
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Brighton
Legion
Faith Brier
Jerry
Darcy Teeters
Elizabeth
Ruth Hinson
Pr. Templeton
Roy Hinson
Arabella
Eliza Swisher
John Ryder
Russel Lemley
Wandering Tom
Otto McNeese
Old Mose
Earl Hoover
Nell
Mildred Horton
Sibyl West
Harlan Cooper
Winfield
Iowa Wesleyan Girls Glee Club
Miss Lillis Day
Richland
Muscetine
Local Social News Highlights From Washington Area
Mrs Day hosted a dinner for twenty one girls and the Glee club with the Boys planned a concert with Miss Lillis returning from Washington. Several residents resumed school in Des Moines and others visited family in Libertyville Winfield Monmouth and Ottumwa after weekends and travels. Rev James Reeser left for Richland to start revival meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlton Jones
Libertyville
Sade Savage
Harlan Cooper
Winfield
Rudy Cooper
Monmouth
West
Cora Winn
Mayme Lee Evans
Leona McNeese
Elsie Humphrey
Dave McNeese
Glenn Willits
Washington
James Reeser
Richland
Blanche Irelan
Ottumwa
Mabel Robinson
Verdi Stock Shipment and Health Updates
Jay Busby shipped a stock load Monday. Frank Pedd, hospitalized with pneumonia, shows improvement though a setback is noted. Guy Work improves from pneumonia. Frank Leeper aided Busby with stock, and Leeper's son Leater has been ill for several days.
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Verdi
Jay Busby
Frank Pedd
Guy Work
Frank Leeper
Leater
Ada Bales Weekend Visit and New Baby Born
Miss Ada Bales spent the weekend with her sister and family. Mr and Mrs Walter Hotle welcomed a baby boy born March 29 weighing 6% Ibs. Mother and baby are reported fine. Several local residents visit, illnesses noted as improving, and a fall injury to May Churchill mentioned. Dr Irelan was called Sunday afternoon.
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Earl Bitting
Alois Beiter
J. E. Deal
Guy Black
Richland
A. Black
Francis Feltz
Christina Breitenbach
Sickness Update on Louise Wallace
Louise Wallace has been very ill with a feverish head gathering. The doctor pronounced an infection in the head as of Monday morning. She was sick Saturday and Sunday but is resting somewhat better now.
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Ernoon
Louise Wallace
Coppoock News From Noble And Surrounding
Mr and Mrs Fred Dold dined at Will Leeper home in Noble. Zilpha Hesser of Wayland stayed weekend. Mrs A Pratt of Washington cared for someone here. R H McCarty home hosts callers from Washington. School ends second week in May. Dutch Volger and Glenn Hesser visited Brighton. Installation of new officers at city hall this evening. Sunday school well attended despite many sick. Rain and mud holes noted. Everette Weaver and wife visited Saturday afternoon.
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Nettie Welsh
Chicago
Polly Crawford
Ardeh Crawford
Minneapolis
Enos D. Miller
Lucile Hanley
Edna Rowe
Kinross
Iowa
Wellman
E. C. Jones
Washington
Eddie
L. C. Miller
Iowa City
L. C. Bidwell
Sherley
Donald
Bidwell
Don Cady
Keola
Mildred Wehrle
J. Ll. Karr
Coppock
Fred Dold
Will Leeper
Noble
Zilpha Hesser
Wayland
Manuel McKunes
A. Pratt
Gleede Dold
R. H. McCarty
Dutch Volger
Glenn Hesser
Brighton
Claude Carpenter
Fred Edwards
BE. Carpenter
Ronald Cold
al Carls
Rothard
Alters
Mt. Pleasant
City Hall
Everette Weaver
Local Notices From Crawfordsville April Update
Mr and Mrs Will Long moved to the north part of town into a house owned by R E Davis. Loren Moorhead returned from Grinnell for spring vacation. Rev and Mrs G W Hanna and Mrs H P Cherryholmes visited in Washington yesterday. Mr and Mrs Lee Lease visited in Winfield Sunday. Mrs Mary King spent weekend in Wayland with her ill mother Mrs Hannah Kurtz.
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Crawfordsville
Will Long
R. E. Davis
Loren Moorhead
Grinnell
G. W. Hanna
H. PD. Cherryholmes
Washington
Lee Lease
Winfield
Mary King
Wayland
Hannah Kurtz
Bricklayers aboard battleships in furnace rooms
Bricklayers on battleships are described as fitting walls within the throats of great furnaces. They face constant extreme heat that burns away firebricking as if it were charcoal, a surprising duty amid naval operations.
New Defense Claims Temporary Explosion of the Brain
The defense argued a temporary explosion of the brain caused the killing of Olivia M. J. Stone of Ellis Ray Kinkaid, a former Cincinnati cooperation counsel. Annette McRahston, a women’s specialist, testified that such insanity could render a woman unaware of her actions for two hours to a week, potentially ending with no memory of the event.
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New York
Olivia M. J. Stone
Ellis Ray Kinkaid
Cincinnati
Ler
Annette McRahston
Ino
Techneny
Jiodor Halston
Ren
Reds Near Vladivostok After Usuri Advance
Reports from Vladivostok say Red forces of the Far Eastern republic moved south along the Usuri railway toward Vladivostok. They reached Spisseye as Vindivostok troops retired and were disarmed by Japanese forces, dispatches stated.
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Far Eastern Republic
Usuri
Tokyo
Vladivostok
Spissseye
Vindivostok
Fires in Arkansas Destroy The Alice Theater And Lumber Mill
A March 4 report from Texarkana and Pine Bluff details two fires causing extensive losses. The Alice theater in Hope, Arkansas, valued at 500,000, was destroyed, while the Arkansas Short Leaf Lumber company sawmill in Pine Bluff burned with losses estimated between 200,000 and 200,000 dollars.
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Hope Ark
Pine Bluff
Texarkana
Ack
Alice Theater
Sooo
Ark
Arkansas Short Leaf Lumber
Feuling Named Democratic State Central Committeeman
E J Feuling editor of the New Hampton Tribune was elected chairman of the Iowa Democratic state central committee at Hotel Fort Des Moines A governor candidate choice was withheld pending decision Feuling succeeds Dr J W Reynolds who has led the committee eight years Parsons is named as railroad candidate and Mitchell of Ottumwa may run for attorney general Steck declined to run with party support expected for the gubernatorial ticket
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
E. J. Feuling
New Hampton Tribune
Democratic State Central Committee
Hotel Fort Des Moines
FE. R. Mitchell
Ottumwa
Wapello County
Dan Steck
Democrate
S. N. Parsons
Marion
Linn County
Parsons
J. M. Parsons
Feuling
J. W. Reynolds
Creston
C. L. Herring
New Hampton
Miners attacked as firing breaks near New River
Report describes a raid where miners near the New River area were fired upon from the west bank. Several bullets struck, wounding one miner, while others fled as shots rang out amid the disturbance. Named individuals and locations appear garbled in the text.
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West
Reo
New River
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Dollie Bird
Lila
Andrew Pimmey
Tom O'Flaherty
Melhinney Drug CO
Eva Augustine
Dapha Black
May Churchill
Andy Sheetz
Irelan
Success School
Peuling
Democrats
State Central Committee
West Virginia
Dr. Edwards
South
Marion Avenue
John Williams
Macon
BE. Dougherty
C.M. & F. Clothing CO
Northwestern Yeast Co
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