Grape Concentrate Fight Stirs Prohibition Debate
Walker Willebrandt faces a brewing clash as California grape concentrate makers risk legal action. Karl Offer of Vino Sano presses for indictments of three agents in New York amid raids. Offer claims the product is legal and notes renewed orders from eastern centers boost business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walker Willebrandt
California
Karl Offer
Vino Sano Company
New York
Offer
Willebrandt
California Grape Industries
Federal Farm Board
George Seavers
Prohibition
Friendship club hosts opening of Mrs Donaldson’s home
Mrs. Fred Donaldson opened her new home Friday for the Friendship club with eighteen members and four guests attending. Games were led by Mrs. Wes Meyer and Mrs. Nellie Juzeler. A committee presented a club gift to Mrs. Donaldson. Helen and Marie Donaldson assisted by Mrs. Theodore Meyer Mrs. Lester and Mrs. Burl Pringle served a two course luncheon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Donaldson
Friendship Club
Wes Meyer
Nellie Juzeler
Donaldson
Helen
Marie
Theodore Meyer
Lester
Burl Pringle
Expensive Lights Replacing Klieg Lamps in Film Industry
The article notes incandescent lamps used in movies cost from seven to one hundred twenty dollars and burn about 190 hours. Home bulbs, by comparison, last 1,000 hours or more.
Local notes span births travels and visits in town
telegram from Raton New Mexico announces birth of Mary Ruth to Mr and Mrs Glenn Arnold Mrs Beal and daughter Margaret plan to visit the Arnolds to meet the new arrival Miss Tressa Ferguson visits Grinnell and other local residents travel another day reports gas and electric bill discounts ending soon county hospital treats tonsil removals and appendectomies including Mildred Jane Ficher Walter Brown Catharine Jane and Gloria Morris Dean Moore plus Rudolph Wagenknecht surgery Dr A M Cowden hosts visitors from Marlboro New York George Nesbit family to move to Iowa City Rev J C Dobbin vacationing in West Chester Harry C Ward and Jack Westphal return from Chicago Mrs Ward stays in Rock Island dress fashions trend toward shorter dresses Miss Thecia Patton resumes work at C S Lemmon jeweler Des Moines trip noted Mrs Will Acheson shops locally
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. K. Beal
Raton
New Mexico
Glenn Arnold
Iowa Southern Utilities Co
Mildred Jane Ficher
Leslie Ficher
Washington
Walter Brown
Catharine Jane
Gloria Morris
Ainsworth
Dean Moore
Lyle Moore
William Plank
Marlboro
N. Y
West Chester
Anwyl
Harry C. Ward
Jack Westphal
Chicago
Mrs. Ward
Rock Island
Vacation plans and visitors from across the region
Miss Mary Atchison a Rothschild store clerk begins vacation Monday and travels to Richmond Kansas to visit her sister. D M Bridges of Muscatine will spend Sunday with daughters Edna and Ruth Bridges and Mrs. Ernest Rouse. Mr and Mrs Wells Brown depart for Canada then Hollywood California. Robert OBrien of Santa Anna California visits Washington to find his old school friend David Elder en route to California via Iowa City. Mrs S Richards of Chicago and Miss Jessie Sage drive north to visit a former pupil and arrange extra music lessons.
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D. M. Bridges
Muscatine
Edna and
Ruth Bridges
Ernest Rouse
Wells Brown
Canada
Hollywood
California
Mr. Brown
M. W. Bailey
Robert O'Brien
Santa Anna
Washington
Pomona
David Elder
O'Brien
Oberlin College
Almon Dewey
Iowa City
8. Richards
Chicago
Jessie Sage
Ghter
Threse Mitchell
Des Mones
Marcus Swisher
Dale Bordner
Mark Edwards
R. W Hinson
Ashville
Nlc
Wyoming
Joseph Sehmeiser
Vera
Alice
Orvil
Wapello
Ethel Sehmetser
Sperry
Heidel
Ralph Mortimore
Greybull
Olatha
Montrose
Colo
H. Frazier
Indianola
Harry White
Oskaloosa
Warren Morgan
Orval van Winkle
R. W. Hinson
Leland Horton
Harry Wentworth
BE. Rudolph
E. L. Edmondson
J. A. Horner
Davenport
Gretchen Rock
Creston
Ren Brier
Mar Snyder
Kate
Murray Home
Milton Heidel
Toledo
Iowa
A. F. Bridger
Richland
Joe Day
Helen Bridger
Robert Laughaige
Bobby Jones
Ethel Townsley
Wisconsin
Geo. Kessel
Failsfield
Miss Ocean LaGill
H. B. White
R. C. Bartlett
Homer Brown
Dan Pringle
Earnest Gee
Grace Vincent Honored Before Leaving for Egypt
Miss Grace Vincent, preparing to teach at a girls school in Luxor, Egypt, was feted in Keota with a farewell party at Mrs. Nelson Newton’s home. Forty ladies attended the Presbyterian church gathering, gifts included an Eastman Hawkeye folding Kodak, and a Culture Club project produced book bags for her to take abroad.
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Lillie Houghton
Mary Deck
Marshalltown
Miss Vincent
Culture Club
F. ©. Pershing
Egypt
Serpt
Miss Houghton
Deck
J. Bohr
Marjorie Anne
Dorothy
Margaret
Agnes
Thomas Cappen
Chicago
Don Cady
Bohr
E. L. Kirkpatrick
Charlotte
John Hayes
le Moille
Iowa
Wyoming
Yellowstone Park
Lillian Houghton
Grace Vincent
T. J. Martin
Clara Wright
Keota
Leila
Stafford
Kansas
Harold Martin
Michigan
Odd Oil Hint Near Governor Roosevelt Estate
In Poughkeepsie a farmer, Frank Ingolie, digging a well near Governor Roosevelt’s home notices a strange color and odor in the soil and lights a match to the moist earth. The refinery company promises to investigate possible oil leakage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Poughkeepsie
Frank Ingolie
East Park
Governor Roosevelt
Pleasant Valley club plans annual picnic and local events
In Brighton on August 7, Cora Pringle hosted Pleasant Valley farm bureau members with about twenty five attendees forming plans for a July picnic. The Methodist Ladies Aid met for their monthly session and discussed fall festival plans. A two day infant and pre school clinic treated sixty three children with Dr H L Hendricks and nurse Hiklea Jacobs assisting. Several local residents visited and traveled, including families from Buckhan non, Clarksburg, and Washington, with many attending a band concert and visits to relatives in Denton Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brighton
Cora Pringle
Pleasant Valley Farm Bureau Club
Methodist Ladies Aid
Clara Bier
H. L. Hendricks
County Wealth
Hiklea Jacobs, Co
M. L. McCreedy
McCreedy
Eland
Marie Kessel
Tracy Phillips
Burton
Buckhannon
W. W
Blanche
Washington
H W. Helmick
Chas
Evalyn
Columbia
Meia
Ft. Dodge
Des Moines
R. A. Warnstaff
Mrs Hoover To Christen Akron Airship Incedent
Mrs Herbert Hoover will christen the U S N Akron in Akron Ohio with 48 pigeons released from the airship hull instead of a champagne bottle. The ceremony precedes planned maiden flight amid 100000 spectators and a Goodyear dock crowd. Rear Admiral Moffett and Paul Litchfield speak as the dirigible nears its first voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
Herert Hoover
U. S. N. Akron
Goodyear Zeppelin Airdock
Hoover
Local arrivals and visits noted in town events
Rev and Mrs Sam son arrive from Los Angeles and plan a short visit before Pittsburgh homeward. Carl Phelps and daughter Sue Ann depart for Oklahoma City after visiting relatives. Helen Bishop tours with friends near Hartman’s ice cream bargain day noted. Mrs Francis Rose of Des Moines dies. funeral Monday in St Louis Cubs vs Cards hall games preview.
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W. L. GC
Samson
Los Angeles
Pittsburgh
Macon Wasingtop
Iowa
Phon
Carl Phelps
Sue Ann
Oklahoma City
Harry Bishop
Helen Bishop
Fremont
Helen Titterington
Clint Scranton
Helen
Martin
Chicago
Owen McGovern
Hartman's
Clayton Bear
Wellman
Ed Jackson
Farmers” Elevator
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James Chapman
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Mary Juliet Lemmon
Gkho. So
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Rudolph Wagenknecht of
Thcia Patton
C. S. Lemmon Jewelry
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Sylvia Sidney
Jack Duffy
Barbara
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Ben Lyon
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Journal
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Cincinnati
Mildred Hussey
Sandy
Columbus
Grace McCoy
Common Pleas Court
Marie McCall
Kansas City
Kan
Frank Rohrbach
Rohrbach
A. J. McCoy
Arthur Stutz
Rhua Helmick
Mrs. Hoover
Grant Dirigible
Police
Roten
Washington Boosters
Wapello Ind
Libe Park
PHOND
Catherine Heldebrandt
Sitter’s Auto Parts Co
Francis Rose
de Moines
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Kenneth Hunter
FE. EB. Neal
St. Louis
Cubs
Northland
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Cox Motor Co
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Paris
Margaret Rell
Olney
Ted Herr
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Journal Ride
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S.W. Corner Sq
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Washington Oil Co
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