New Home Grown Potatoes Enter Market Amid Praise
Reading a light local column, residents report large potatoes arriving in town markets with praise for size and flavor. A Prescott vacation reunion yields a surprise meeting with cousins A T Stewart at a hotel. An NM family notes nine jars of canned goods sent home by express, with careful packing and one spoiled pineapple. Caldwell reunion hosts a quiet family Sabbath dinner led by Mrs Irvin Fenn.
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Ray
Prescott
Arizona
A. T. Stewart
By Express
Railway Express Co
Local Social Notes Highlight Visits and Guests
Vera Rogers Bailey leaves Cedar Rapids to visit aunt Cora Glasgow while Vera takes a vacation from work. Sylvia Warren departs for Tow Cry to join a Girl Scout camp. Jimmie and Henry Pangborn stay with grandparents Dr. and Mrs. H. C. Hull in Iowa City. Helen Cresswell visits from Hillsboro with Ella and Nellie Link. A garden party is hosted by Mrs. H. H. McCleery and Mrs. Richard McCleery for Mrs. Carolyn Phelps. Kathy Ball, twenty, heads to Cedar Rapids after a short visit. she is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Owen Rall of Evanston Illinois. Her grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Rall of Cedar Rapids.
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Vera Rogers Bailey
Cedar Rapids
Cora Glasgow
Vera
Sylvia Warren
Jimmie
Henry Pangborn
Iowa City
H. C. Hull
Kathy” Ball
Owen Rall
Evanston, HI
J. F. Rall
Otto Lamansky
Ames
M. L. McCreedy
Billy
Gordon Joe MecCreedy
Boone
L. C. Stannard
Hattie Brier
Rex Brier
Winfield
Chris Jensen
Rock Island
Howard Swisher
Sylvia Ann
Wm. Day
Gome
Memphis
Tenn
William Day
L. E. Helmick
Washington
Brighton
Leo Drish
Lorena Stockman
Baby
Chicago
Joe Drish
Les Drish
Charles Griffith
LDH
Wentworth
Kesta
San Diego
Calif
Iris Planting Guidance for Healthy Rhizomes
Plant irises in a well drained sunny position and trim gid leaves regularly. With rhizomes planted shallowly, about half above ground and sun exposed, the plants resist insects and diseases better.
Brighton News Briefs and Discharges Across Communities
S reports Bernard Singleton returning from overseas and visiting family in Brighton. Several locals and visitors are noted visiting relatives in Washington Ames and Oskaloosa. Roy Retzinger promotes to corporal and homebound from Hot Springs. Multiple social visits, medical observations, and travel to Iowa City Ames and Memphis are listed along with Sinn funeral service for FB Sinn.
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Edna
Crile
Brighton
s.Set
Bernard Singleton
Charles Kessel
Club Picene
Pleasant Valleyarm Bureau Club
Supset Park
Washington
Clifford Weidner
Weidner
Eliza Norton
Robert Edmonson
Oskaloosa
E. L Edmondson
Bernard Teeter
Shirley
Paul
Libertyville
Hot Springs, Ark
Obituary and local notices from Holt Rest Home era
A Holt Rest Home obituary notes a Wednesday evening death and funeral held Saturday at 3 p m at the Presbyterian church under Dr H C Whiting with burial in Hill Crest. Attendees include Harry Sinn and daughter Shirley of Chicago, Mrs Clarence Thillipes of Washington, and others from Washington and Ottumwa. Additional items report travel, furloughs, visits, a closing sale, a vacation to Clear Lake, and a serious car accident injuring Pfc Richard Steren with injuries to wrist, elbow, chin, and head.
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Holt
Presbyterian Church
H. C. Whiting
Hill Crest Cemetery
Harry Sinn
Shirley
Chicago
Clarence Thillipes
Washington
Lucinda Crile
Iva Sinn
D. C
Wm. Herman
Mito Hermar
Ottumwa
B. V. Garbry
L. D Camp
Des Moines
Victor Stacy
Famiy
Wayland
Cpl
Richard Hudson
Hudson
Mountain Home
Ida
Furloaga
W. D. Johnson
Keofa
Idaho
Pfc
Richard Steren
Richard Steren, Jr
Fairfield Hosnitat
Soldier Returns Home on Furlough After Crash
A serviceman arrived at Fort Des Moines Army Hospital by ambulance after a car crash. He had been overseas and came home at 10 39 a m for a 45 day furlough with his parents. The car belonged to his brother and was badly damaged.
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Ft. Des Moipres
Fourth Earl of Sandwich and the gambling legend
The fourth Earl of Sandwich favored gambling over meals, inspiring the famed eat as you work or play sandwich. The anecdote reflects how the nobleman’s choices influenced a habit and a phrase that shaped a modern meal concept, while noting other British nobles contributed the derby hat and sleeves.
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Fourth Earl of
Sandwich
Milk quality notes from dairy herd observations
Better milk is defined as milk from cows or milk on the first day after freshening with higher vitamin content. The text suggests winter milk from the dairy herd contains more minerals and protein than normal milk due to colostrum factors.
Woman credits SYS-TONE for relief from stomach gas
A Washington reader reports relief from daily headaches gas and bloating after using SYS-TONE. The ad claims SYS-TONE cleanses bowels and purges gas while improving liver and kidney function and urges others with gas and constipation to try it.
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Systone
Washington
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McDowall
PCRS
Schaffer
U.S. Government
America
Walter Huston
Walt Disney
Rocking Chair
New Mexico
Caldwell
Harry McCalls
Mrs. Ingalls
O'Cedar
University Hospital
Edith Weidner
Helen Cresswell
Hillsboro
Ella
Nellie Link
H. H. MecCleery
Richard McCleery
Carolyn Phelps
Dalome
Ste Dane
Yvonne Decarlo
David Bruce Mate
USC TV
Bill Putman
East Edge
Atlas Tires
Yg Ona Pomnand
Crames F. Lummis
Cincinnati
Los Angeles
Rocky Mountains
Lummis
Standard Oil
Brindley’s
City Hall Tire Service
Nemember
Singleton
Sinn
Word Hartley
Sconrrey
Brichton
Little's Furniture
Chas
James
Wyoming
Steren In Hospital
C.v.grull
Mangold’s Service
Dange
Oakwood Pavilion
Wellman
Jimmy Smith
Pepsi-Cola Company
Long Island City
N. A
Pepsi Cola Bottling Co
Oskaloos
Scott’s
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