Ill at home Op Tancher 87 in critical condition
Op Tancher aged 87 is critically ill at his West Madison Street home after a year of poor appetite and a recently worsening state. Mrs D J Patterson is expected home Friday from Miami for the winter. Mrs Ralph Scott was moved from Washington County Hospital to her home after an appendectomy ten days ago.
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Tancher
Madison Street
Ile
D. J. Patterson
Miami
Grahams Department Store
Ralph Scott
Washington County Hospital
Fred McCormick
Newbure
Scott
Ick Skola
Kalona
Ten Years Ago Today High School Track Meet Victory
The senior class won the home track meet ten years ago today. Weather forecast calls for mostly fair to high temperatures through Wednesday.
Local birth and assorted visits feature in Washington notes
Mir and Mrs Merrill Paynter of Lake Beulah Wis welcomed daughter Florence Blaine born April 16. Various locals including Miss Martha McGinnis and Mrs Elizabeth Atchison left for Richmond Kan. to visit relatives. Several residents and officials attended seventh district farm bureau meetings in Fairfield led by Geo Loftier and Mrs O E Millner.
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Rothschild
Iowa City
Washington
Frank Warmer
Wayland
Clark Pulver
Keota
J. H. Tinsley
Chicago
M. M. Hebner
Frank Casey
Frances Jane
Franklin James
James Casey
Homer Birney
Joe Knotek
KB. L. Stewart
Chas. Wm. Jackson
Walter R. Brown
Ric Bi Brown
FB. N. Jessen
H. L. Walker
Joe Jones
H J Montgomery
Seventh District Farm Bureau
Fairfield
Geo Loftier
O. E. Millner
Mrs Mare Aberson returns home from teaching year in Black Mountain NC
The article notes Mrs Mare Aberson completed a teaching year in Black Mountain North Carolina and drove alone back to her parents in town, covering about 290 miles. It also mentions other local movements including Robert J Buckley’s Minneapolis trip with his wife and college sticker plans for a junior college mouse club.
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Mare] Aberson
Black Mountain
North Carolina
Fred L. Stewart
Aberson
Ashville
Soc Miiles
Robert J. Buckley
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Awatonina
Rochester
Faribault
Buckley
Leacox Funeral Held for Betty Leacox in Cedar Rapids
Funeral services were held this afternoon at 2:30 in the Washington Methodist Shareh for Betty Leacox daughter of Mr and Mrs Howard Leacox of Cedar Rapids who died yesterday from burns received Saturday in Cedar Rapids. She was granddaughter of Mr and Mrs Dale Hoth of Washington.
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Washington
Prairie Center Social Notes Amid Flu and Spring Delays
Prairie Center correspondent reports a weekend of visits among local families including the Martins Underwood Koehler and Caple households. Charles Koehler drove to Moline for a birthday party and flu illness affects area, while rain slows spring fieldwork but aids pastures and meadows.
Michigan Woman Cashier Robbed at Cement City Bank
Miss Mabel Parker, a Cement City bank cashier, was held up by four bandits who used pistols and robbed her of about 400 dollars. A bystander, Lester Wall, opened fire as the robbers fled, wounding no one. The incident occurred as the thieves demanded access to the cash. In a separate note, President Hoover was re elected honorary president of the Izaak Walton League.
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Cea
League
Hoover
Chicago
Izaak Walton League
HNO Eleshore
Unclear banquet reservations noted in fragmented text
Fragmentary OCR mentions a banquet honoring a senior with reservations by Ponigahe. Names and places are garbled. references include Mrs Mfan ton Heber, Mary Briley, and a venue labeled Come. The text suggests a Thursday event at 6200 with attendees invited, but many details are unreadable.
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Ponigahe
High Hood
Nicoty
Sharigon
Mfanton Heber
Mary Briley
Ativone Intermstead
For Sale Large White Pekin Duck
Classified notice offering a large white Pekin duck for sale. Includes contact details and a price request.
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Esas
Mt Pleasant hosts bi associative rally officers named
Mt Pleasant Iowa April 28 officers were elected for a bi associative rally of the Iowa and Washington Baptist associations. Logan Reif Kalona is president Lola Wright Farmington secretary treasurer Lois Terrill air field first commissioner Carl Grulke Burlington Mildred Van Syce Mt Pleasant second commissioner Wilma Walker Washington third commissioner. Washington youths performed with Charles Long Harold Kerr Nellie Wiley Wilma Walker Charlotte Campbell Edna Moriarty Dan Moriarty. Rev Newton H Carmen Des Moines state director and Irene Lyons Chicago member of the B P of America spoke. Lyons gave the coronation address Sunday afternoon
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Logan Reif
Kalona
Lola Wright
Farmington
Lois Terrill
Airfield
Carl Grulke
Burlington
Mildred van Syce
Mt. Pleasant
Wilma Walker
Washington
Mr. Pleasant
Charles Long
Harold Kerr
Nellie Wiley
Charlotte Campbell
Edna Moriarty
Dan Moriarty
Newton H. Carmen
Des Moines
Baptist
Irene Lyons
Chicaze
B. ¥. Pltr. of America
Miss Lyons
Grade schools aim for dental health honor roll
Nearly all pupils teachers and parents in Washington show interest in dental health and listing every grade school pupil on the dental honor roll. A bake sale at Ramseyer's Saturday funds dental work for children whose families cannot pay. Several schools approach 100 percent in the race to win first. The contest closes Friday.
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Washington
Wallace PB. A
Ramseyer
Packers Switch to Five Day Week at Kansas City Plant
UP Armour & Co largest packing plant in Kansas City starts a five day week from next Monday. The plant, employing about 3.7 thousand workers, aims to test economy and employment conditions. All departments will be closed each Monday as part of the change.
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Kansas City
Armour & Co
Printing shop ad notes sale on line of suits and ties
An itemized print notice describes a sale of line of printing shop suits and ties. The ad lists limited details but signals a clearance of men’s apparel.
Community notices and personal updates from Des Moines paper
Weekend visitors in Des Moines include Miss Belle Banks and three friends from the University of Commerce with Miss Banks’s parents. Mrs. Fetter’s family prepares for burial arrangements in Chariton for Thomas J. Smith. Local ads advertise paint products and a January service track with air compression pump.
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Belle Banks
Velya Whitten
Aymial Packard
S.&om
Tire & Klovtrie Service
Phow
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