Edwin Griffith Speaks at Rotary on Greece Conditions
Edwin Griffith, former Washington boy and Greece-based teacher for three years, addressed the Rotary club on general conditions in Greece and neighboring countries. He notes a 6,000,000 population facing German and Italian ambitions, describing Greece as ruled by a dictator yet democratic in leanings with a strong British influence among the populace. Any
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Edwin Griffith
Washington
Greece
Rotary Club
Germany
Italy
Peace and World Affairs Marked by Club Speech
A club meeting featured Mr. Griffith optimistic on peace in Europe though arising tensions with Italy and Germany may require force. J C Penney attended as a guest and spoke of global experience, asserting U S conditions are among the best. C H Gutheer closed with a group photo in Centennial regalia.
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Italy
Germany
Greece
Griffith
Europe
America
J. C. Penney
C. H. Guther
Kolary Club
Centennial Regalia
Cole Brothers Circus Leaves Mankato After Big Show
Hundreds thronged the city as the Cole Brothers circus packed up after a long day of unloading, parading, and two performances. The tent drew the largest afternoon crowd with thousands present, while the evening show kept a strong audience. Clowns led by Otto Hriebling and Horace Laird entertained spectators between acts.
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Mankato
Minn
Cole Brothers Echoeus
First Avenue
Mternoon
Otto Hriebling
Hlorace Laird
Atenion
Se Riews
Circus Acts Thrill with Aerial Feats in Washington
A lingering pageant opens the program with dancing and a sea of acts. Loyal Repensky troupe of equestrians performs line formations and hurdles while Behees execute net acts and trapeze feats. Frank Shepard flies without a net and Cy see O Dell stands out with one arm flips. Trained seals and elephants close the show as living statues and contortions are absent. The circus rolls into Washington on August 15.
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Hersea
Ang
Frank Shephard
Cysee O'Dell
Washington
Ross Purchases Shop in Wapello
Local report notes Ross bought the Wapello variety shop from Mrs. James Johann and Mrs. Nellie Dawson and Mrs. Dollie Edwards. The item appears in Columbus Junction column with multiple community updates including club visits and residents’ travel.
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Ross
Wapello
Wholesale Firm Opens Local Washington Branch
The John Nash Wholesale Grocery Company of Iowa City is opening a Washington branch this week in the old Milwaukee freight depot on North Second Avenue. Work moved stock into Washington and continues today with official opening expected by Wednesday. Arthur Nelson will manage sales and delivery, with Mrs. Nelson assisting in the office. The Nash firm, operating in Iowa City for about twenty years, will make Washington their first and only branch. The depot space is rented from Milwaukee Rail Road. Telephone number to be installed will be 113.
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John Nash
Washington
Nash Company
Iown City
Milwaukee Railroad Company
Local social notes from Cedar Falla and area
Sunday visit to the late term sister Merle Cecil who is at the summer session of Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls. Birth announced for a son to Mr and Mrs Howell Owen last week. Post nuptial shower hosted by Mere Harry Johnston for Mrs Harold Thottern formerly Mona James of this place. Duncan reunion planned for Thursday at Chautauqua Park. Mr Sam Fattenstein to Secretary. Mr and Mrs B W Shearep William Paul and Mr May Robertson attended a twenty re union at Ballina Kansas. They will visit Denver Yellowstone Park and other points before returning home.
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Merle Cecil
Iowa State Teachers’ College
Cedar Falla
Howell Owen
Indian Creek Club
Mere Harry Johnston
Honos
Harold Thottern
Washington
Mona James
Duncan
Chattouqua Park
Sam Fatenstein
B. W. Shearep
William and Paul
May Robertson
Ballina
Kasunday
Denver
Yellowstone Park
Breakthrough lensless microscope hints at giant telescope power
An electronic microscope without lenses magnifies up to 20 400 times and offers 25 times the resolving power of the best conventional ion type microscopes. If this principle applied to a telescope, it would equate to a 2000 inch diameter reflecting mirror in power.
Iowa Column Reports Nurse to Lead Chile Clinic
Florence Prouty, a Garner registered nurse and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Prouty, has been chosen to organize a day nursery medical clinic in Santiago for the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Church. She will serve a five year contract and depart for Chile next June.
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Florence Prouty
B. L. Prouty
Santiago
Chile
Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Church
Miss Prouty
Sperry Inherits Entire Grady Center Estate
James H. Sperry of Grundy Center inherits the entire estate of his son Maj. Arthur Bruce Sperry who died March 26 at his New York home. The net value is $90,574. Major Sperry was single.
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James H. Sperry
Maj
Arthur Bruce Sperry
New York, N. Y
Major Sperry
Unloaded Gun Fire Hits Woman in Oskaloosa
Two 14 year olds Dale Barnes and Robert Versteeg were checking a 32 caliber rifle they believed unloaded. A bullet fired from the gun pierced the Barnes home, passed a washing machine, and lodged in Mrs Olive Barnes ankle.
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Dale Barnes
Robert Versteeg
Gan
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Overdose of Sleeping Powder Causes Death in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids reports Carl H. Zimmerman 41 of Amana died after an overdose of sleeping powders. Police say the dose contained 36 grains instead of the usual one and a half. Zimmerman, former superintendent of the woolen mills at the colonies until 1932, was found in a hotel room and died in a local hospital.
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Carl H. Zimmerman
Amana
Corders
Zimmerman
County Home Row Fatal to Inmate
Isaac Fletcher a 62 year old inmate at Clintons county home died at Jane Lamb hospital from injuries suffered in a prior week dispute with fellow inmate Joseph Gollobut 52. Fletcher fell fracturing his skull halting Gollobut sanity board proceedings.
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Clintons
Isaac Fletcher
Clintons County
Jane Lamb Hospital
Joseph Gollobut
Fletcher
Gollobut
Sanity Board
Stork Wins Race by Seventeen Miles
WEST LIBERTY The stork was seventeen miles faster than an ambulance en route to the University of Iowa hospital. The ambulance stopped at a Davenport physician’s office where Mrs Harold Thorman gave birth to a six pound baby girl named Sally Ann. Both mother and child were reported doing nicely and were later moved to isolation due to whooping cough in Davenport.
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West Liberty
University of Iowa Hospital
Iowa City
Harold Thorman
Davenport
Sally Ann
Judge Bans Boys From Golf Courses for One Year
DES MOINES three boys aged 16 and 17 were charged with stealing golf balls and ordered not to go on any golf course for a year. The youths told juvenile probation officer Cleatie H. Devine they had gone to Waveland to play and had picked up balls struck by others. Devine sentenced them to a year off the courses.
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Des Moines
Cleatie H. Devine
Waveland
Devine
Unlicensed Driver and Husband Face Fines in Fatal Collision
Mra. Everett Aldrich, 28, was sentenced to 30 days in Polk county jail by Municipal Judge Don Allen for driving without a license. Her husband, present in the car, was fined $100 for permitting an unlicensed person to drive after the vehicle struck and killed an 18 year old soldier from Fort Des Moines.
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Everett Aldrich
Polk County
Don Allen
Fort Des Moines
Chicago Firm Gets Contract for Stamps
Des Moines Iowa state printing board accepted the bid of Columbian Bank Note Co Chicago to furnish 10 million state liquor seals at 68 cents per 1 000 with option to buy another 10 million at the same price The seals midrange between bids 34 cents and 1 72 were chosen as favored by the liquor control commission
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Des Moines
Iowa State Printing Board
Columbian Bank Note Co
Chicago
Liquor Control Commission
Portraits on Aluminum Capture Designers Attention
Chicago artist Miss Buell Mullen develops a new aluminum painting method for murals, streamlined trains, and aluminum aircraft. She sketches, transfers the outline, etches and tools the image, then fills the painted area and seals with a transparent coat.
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Buell Mullen
Chicago
Torrential Rain Strikes Clinton Iowa Causing One Death
A powerful downpour hit Clinton Iowa causing widespread damage and one death. Leonard Webber a seven year old boy from Bryant Iowa drowned in a creek six miles west of Clinton. Downtown streets flooded basements filled, hundreds of cars stalled, water reached boat depth in places.
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Clinton
Iowa
Leonard Webber
Bryant
Chinese Torture Alleged in Cleveland Slaying
Detectives probing the death of Wong Youn, a 50 year old Chinese man, heard reports that oriental torture was used on those who did not contribute to the China war relief fund. The body was found in Lake Erie with skull injuries and multiple traumas. Informants said unpaid Chinese were interrogated by a tribunal and beaten, some forced to wear a "slackers" placard.
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Cleveland
Ohio
China War Relief Fund
Wong Youn
Lake Erie
University of Iowa summer theses showcase long words and diverse topics
Iowa City, Aug. 8. University of Iowa summer session theses include a palatographic study, analyses of diet and metabolism, roentgenographic mandibular movements, and biological topics such as ketogenesis in tryptophane, insect germ cells, and forelimb adaptations in a lizard species.
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Iowa City
Iowa
University of Iowa
Estellus
Mitcheli
Plan Ward Reunion in Fairfield Park
RICHLAND Aug 8 The Ward reunion will be held in Chautauqua park in Fairfield August 13. R L Hannah of Hedrick is moving here and will be employed by J H Hendrickson in the Chevrolet Motorco and implement business. Julia Robertson daughter of Mr and Mrs James Robertson was operated on to the Fairfield hospital Saturday. Dr R G Swinney from here took Miss Robertson to the hospital. She is recovering rapidly. The Friends Sunday school held their annual picnic in Chautauqua park in Fairfield this year. About 60 went by trucks and cars and everyone enjoyed the day very much. Richland will be celebrating homecoming next week Aug 17 18 and 19. Many invitations have been sent out to former citizens of the town.
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Richland
Tom Stewart
Frank Mayer
Nick Schmitt
Ozarks
J. Mayer
Washington
Dorothy Eyestone
Brighton
Oren Elmore
Christian Parsonage
A. Roach
Broom
Elmore
Charles Eyestone
Fane Elmore
Bathroom stats by country from Alfred Bemis study
A survey by Alfred Bemis in the Evolving House reports six of ten American homes have bathrooms while England shows three of ten, Germany one percent, and France a missing figure due to incomplete data.
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England
Germany
France
Alfred Bemis
Teacher Enrolls in Artist Colony at Woodstock
Oma Strain, former Norwood Ohio instructor, attends The Artist Colony at Woodstock studying under sculptor Arechipenki. She visited the World’s Fair Modern Art Show and Vanderbilt estate, plans to return to Waterloo around August 20.
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Mary Manners
Crawfordsviijle
Oma Strain
Norwood
Ohio
Woodstock
New York
Arechipenki
Miss Strain
Dies Committee To Hold Hearings Resumes In Washington
Washington reports the Dies committee announced it would resume hearings today in the capital. The panel will focus on investigations of alleged subversive activities and related matters, pursuing testimony from witnesses and compiling evidence for its ongoing inquiry.
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Washington
Dies Committee
Republicans Blast at New Deal in Parting Shot
August 8 Washington dispatch reports Republican minority leader Joseph W. Martin of Massachusetts condemns the Roosevelt administration in a post session review of the seventy sixth Congress. He declares the era of rash and reckless experimentation ended and vows to oppose new deal socialism at every turn while urging Republicans to press for fundamental Americanism and orderly progress under the law.
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Washington
Joseph W. Martin
Massachusetts
Congress
America
Nazi Papers in Attack on Poland
Berlin editors lash out at Poland in a furious editorial barrage amid Hitler’s talks with Albert Forester. Morning papers cite a Warsaw publication Czas as promising retaliation against Danzig if free by authorities, while afternoon editions amplify the threat with sensational front-page warnings to Poland.
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Berlin
United Today
Polan
Adolph Hitler
Albert Forester
Danzig
Poland
Hearing on Subversive Activity Planned for August 16
A committee plans a hearing on subversive activity set for August 16. The panel will not disclose the first witnesses or the initial organization to be addressed. It has been indicated that the German America Bund fair may be explored as part of the inquiry.
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Bund
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