Local Social Notes and Fire Incident At Conoco Refinery
Local social round up lists residents visiting relatives in Burlington Fairfield Richland and Des Moines. Travel includes Knupps en route to Columbus and the West family on vacation. A fire at a nearby Conoco refinery caused injuries to dock loader Robert Krull while a past father died in 1931 fire at the Panhandle plant. cause unspecified.
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Robert E. Krull
Game
Conoco Oil Co
Panhandle
Oil products destroyed in Wichita Falls fire
Panhandle Oil Co officials estimate $109,006 in petroleum products and equipment destroyed by fire in Wichita Falls Texas as of August 13 193? with details incomplete from the report.
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Wichita Falls
Tex
Panhandle Oil Co
Meredith Chance Leaves Evening Journal for California
Meredith Chance, longtime employee of the Evening Journal office, announces she will depart soon for California marking a ten year span with the paper.
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Meredith Chance
Evening Journal
Ofice
California
Chicago Journal of Commerce Added to Daily Newspapers List
The Chicago Journal of Commerce has been added to the roster of daily newspapers. This expansion broadens coverage and strengthens business and market reporting reach across Chicago.
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Chicago Journal OF Commerce
Obituary Mrs George Wilson 69 of Long Beach Calif
Mrs George Wilson 69 of Long Beach California formerly of Washington died Friday evening August 7 after seven months illness. Born September 3 1886 in Zenia Iowa she was the youngest of six children. She married Walter Ray Jennings in 1902 and had two children Delbert who died in an auto accident and Martha who lives in Wellman Iowa. Her husband died October 11 1920 and she later moved to Washington.
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George Wilson
Long Beach
Calif
Washington
Zenia
Nettie Harner
Nathaniel Baden Rush
Mattie
Fred
Mary
Will
Marrage
Walter Ray Jennings
Washington County
Oregon Township
Martha
Delbert
Keith Adams
Wellman
Iowa
California Life Remembered Colfax Woman
Winter in California aiding her mother after her first stroke. Ten years ago Mrs. Wilson moved from Colfax Iowa to California to live with her sister Mary and brother Ed Rush. After their passing in 1945 she married George W Wilson of Long Beach. Survived by husband daughter Mrs Keith Adams and grandson James Elwin Adams.
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California
Wilson
Colfax
Iowa
Mary
Ed Rush
George W. Wilson
Long Beach
Calif
Ainsworth- Washington Club
Colfax ,Iowa
Keith Adams
James Elwin Adams
Wellman Iowa
Rev Deedrick Attends Cedar Falls Camp Meeting
Rev Leslie B. Deedrich pastor of Spring Run and Cairo Evangelical United Brethren churches attended the annual Cedar Falls camp meeting and spent the weekend with his parents in Columbus Junction on August 12.
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Martha Butler
Columbus Junction
Leslie B. Deedrich
Spring Run
Cairo
Evangelical United Brethren
Cedar Falls
Social notes and travel updates from regional communities
Local visits include Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Johansmeier in Riverside California and William Johansmeier aiding on the Junction farm. Columbus City youths attended Mt. Pleasant Junior Institute. A Ladies Social circle picnic occurred August 7 at Chautauqua Park. Mrs. Mary Wykert visiting from San Antonio plans Jackson Mississippi departure. An ICC official cites a proposed $61.254 million rise for American Railway Express, short of the $70.006 million requested to cover express costs.
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C. W. Johansmeier
Riverside
Calif
William Johansmeier
Junction
Sam Holland
Corona
Ill
Aura Morse
Columbus City
Mt. Pleasant
Rosalie
Billie Morgan
Marlene Gabriel
Joanne Foss
Dean Morgan
Leslie Buffington
Railway Express Rate Increase Soon
Washington August 13 UD reports increases in railway express rates ranging from .52 to 53.51 per cent. The action affects parcel and freight charges across routes, with details expected from railway officials.
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Washington
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Sheila R Yan Edward Norris
I. E
Annally
David O. Selznick
Jennifer Jones
Gregory Peck
Joseph Cotten
Lionel Barrymore
Herbert Marshall
Lillian Gish
Walter Huston
Charles Bickford
Carbola Chemical Co
Rockies
S.W
Carbola Chemical Co., Inc
Natural Bridge N
5Th Avenue
March OF
Butch" Jenkins
James Craig
Gifford Luana Patten
Harold Kratzer
Nila, Opal
Mary “Lou
Burlington
Harry Campbell
Burbank Calif
Fairfield
John Jackson
Kate Schmidt
Richland
Coe’s Cafe
W. J. Knupp
Sioux City
Marian
Ruth Bridges
Knupps
Columbus
Ohio
John J. Balles
Atchison’s
Elmer McArtor
Crawfordsville
Ira Gastman
Nancy
Patty
Kansas City
Marie Stewart
Lemmon’s
Nyla Reinier
Esty Wolfe
Cleveland
Milo Sorden
Sorden
Sunset Park
Dick Powers
Keota
Orrene Trosky
Des Moines
Zelma
Emerson van Sycc
William Scott
Mark West
Judy
Jeanne
Arlington, Va
Fred West
Harry Sowden
West
Lawlor
Oakwood Pavilion
Jack Cole
Deedrick
Interstate Commerce Commission
American Railway Express Company
C. G. Jensen
ICC
Bureau
Iafftc
Kiple & DePreger Furniture CO
S. Marion Ave
Aa. A
S.w.corner Square
R & Lory
Lyon
Cara-Nome Cologne
Gary Sun
Rexall
Westinghouse
Jeris
Alka Seltzer
Absorbene JR
AIDS
KOTEX
Sef Kury
Pratts
Putoh Boy
Colgate Tooth
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