London girl guide betrays bachelors in witty booklet
A London writer promotes a cheeky guide for bachelors seeking partners. Dick Lestre touts tips to find women aged 17 to 25 across pubs, hotels, cafes, and public spots like the British Museum and Speakers’ Corner. He even jokes about courting via a bold approach and tea after public speaking.
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London
UPI
Dick Lestre
Lestre
Good Girl Guide
Wolfe Publishing Ltd
Biba
Dolly Girls
Hyde Park
Lyons Corner
Parks
Billy Graham
Belem’s Smuggling Era Fades As Manaus Free Port Bids Farewell
Belem Brazil once a smugglers’ hub at the mouth of the Amazon saw its heyday 1961 to 1963. The 1964 revolution and Manaus free port status ended the traffic with contraband boats, illicit shops, and transshipments to southern Brazil. Major goods included U.S. cigarettes whiskey and perfumes with profits up to 100 percent.
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Belem
Brazil
UPI
Amazon River
Manaus
Amazon
Bequest to Auburn funds animal disease research
Auburn University will receive 2.5 million from the 1968 will of Elea nor Elizabeth Ritchey to fund small animal disease research. The Broward County Florida ranch owner cared for 150 dogs and arranged care for them after death or adoption. A portion goes to ranch manager, rest to Auburn veterinary research. Also London report: Bernard McCabe, 24, claims world bed of nails record by lying two hours forty nine minutes after drinking ale.
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Auburn
Ala
UPI
Eleanor Elizabeth Ritchey
Auburn University
Miss Ritchey
Broward County
Fla
Fort Lauderdale
Ivan C. Frederickson
Tucker Frederickson
School of Veterinary Medicine
London
Bernard McCabe
Wellman community groups engage in civil defense plans
Jan 8 Ladies Auxiliary of American Legion Charles Polton Post met. Delores Longwell spoke on organizing Wellman for Civil Defense. Leona Blum showed Civil Defense films. Joint Odd Fellows and Rebekah installation held Jan 6 with district officers installing 1969 officers. Projected socials and community purchases noted, including beds, walkers, and wheelchairs.
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Wellman
Ladies Auxiliary of
American Legion
Charles Polton Post
Marlene Staubaugh
Delores Longwell
Leona Blum
Martha Hall
Deer Hunters Club
Norma Gardner
Mina Debler
Viola Livezey
Wellman Odd Fellow
Rebekah
Odd Fellow
John Durst
Irvin Goodwin
Don Blum
Harvey Wagamon
Dean Wade
Merle Enfield
Mae Marek
Roy Johnson
Bernice Nickell
Odd Fellows
Noble Grand
Donald Blum
Leroy Reber
Thomas Johnson
Ernie Wetrich
Inside Guardian
Outside Guardian
Walter Evans
Bill Detweiler
Jake Letweiler
Glen Blumenstein
Vice Grand
Eddie Jones
Bill Nickell
Rebekahs
Elma Oldfield
Ruth Page
Alene Millice
Tresa Yoder
Eva Wagamon
Bertha Durst
Nina Johnson
Edna Blumenstein
Hazel Enfield
Gertrude Griffith
Ida Bull
Lela Goodwin
Myrtle Blumenstein
Salt silo boosts Wilson meat plant storage and curing
The Wilson and Co meat processing plant in Cherokee adopts a new salt handling system using a silo connected to a brine maker. Cargill supplies rock salt via 45,000 pound self unloading trucks with a pneumatic line delivering salt up to 200 feet into the silo. The system cuts time and labor by replacing conveyors and augers for bulk salt delivery.
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Wilson & Co
Wilson
Cargill, Inc
Iowa Farms
Cargill Salt Terminal
Sioux City
Cargill
Farmers Expand On Farm Storage With USDA Loans
The Nation’s farmers increased on farm crop storage by 117 million bushels this year through the farm storage facility program of the USDA Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. Loans for storage facilities and allied equipment have risen in two years, with most loans under 5 000. In 1968 town farmers added 30 million bushels of on farm storage, up from 16 million in 1967 and 4 million in 1966.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Wellman Guests Attend Linda Kern Ronnie Perdock Wedding
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kerns Fern Bishop and Letha Ashby attended the wedding of Linda Kern and Ronnie Perdock at St. James Catholic Church in Wellman.
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Ed Kerns
Fern Bishop
Letha Ashby
Wellman
Ing
Linda Kern
Ronnie Perdock
St. James Catholic Church
Mary Snyder Named to Friends Team
Mary Snyder daughter of Mr and Mrs Paul Snyder of rural Brighton has been chosen by the Iowa Yearly Meeting board to join a team traveling to Tennessee for a work project next summer. The eight youth and four sponsors will improve Sunday School and Bible classes at Quaker Acres in Tenn leaving June 10 and returning June 24. Snyder, a Washington High School sophomore, will celebrate her sixteenth birthday in July and serves as president of the Pleasant Plain Friends Church youth group and as assistant pianist for Sunday School.
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Elma _ Oldfield
Cora Longwell
Ruth Page
Elma Oldfield
Glen Blumenstein
Thomas Johnson
Don Blum
Maxine Romine
O. B. Godber
Cedar Rapids
Arlene Lemley
Des Moines
Godber
Wellman
Milford Groff
Katherine Wehrle
Eastern Star
J. H. Wehrle
Katherine
Ruth
Edinburgh
Texas
Roy Crossett
Barbara Henderson
Emma Webster
Vella Maplethorpe
Edna Berger
Vic Young
June Pence
Todd Snider
Mae Marek
Edna Blumenstein
Wellman Rebekah Lodge
Noble Grand
Bertha Durst
Bernice Nickell
Lela Goodwin
Harriet Blumenstein
Eva Wagamon
Leona Blum
Margaret Plecker
Zimri Lodge
Washington
Russell Plecker
Eunice Wetrich
Lizetta Walton
Maplewood Manor
Keota
Alene Millice
Spec
Ralph H. Walder
April Lee
Butchbach
Frankfort
Germany
New York
Rochester
Rankin
Illinois
Lyle Wades
Ben Hochstetler
Lester Mannsmith
Merle Crossett
Brighton
Tony Meuth
Jack Emry
Deidre
Davenport
Rex Widmer
Harmony Club
Clara Brown
Brown
Jim Hesseltine
Ottumwa
Moffett Field
California
Alvin Hesseltines
Mary Snyder
Paul Snyder
Iowa Yearly Meeting
Iowa
Mary
Pleasant Plain Friends Church
Harold Reighard
Lloyd Reighard
Conrad Hanze
Lloyd Gray
Hanze
Darrell Edwards
Wayland
Don Statler
Mabel Dunbar
Bessie Leoffler
Local Attorneys and Professionals Directory Entries
Livingston Day Kehoe Meeker Bates Abstract Dept Office at 112 South Ave B with 6532147 Morrison Morrison and Lloyd at 211 West Washington Street 653-5431 John C Owen at 119 West Washington South Side Square 653-2874 Stewart Shearer Attorneys at Law 225 West Main 653-2159 Dr M L Tweeton 108 North Marion 653-2351 Closed Wednesday and Saturday afternoons Dr P L Etter Osteopathic Physician 653-3303 Journal Blog
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Livingston, Day, Kehoe, Meeker
BATES
Robert Day
Louis J. Kehoe
Everett Meeker
Robert Bates
South Ave
John C. Owen
West Washington
South Side Square
Stewart & Shearer
Attorneys At Law
Richard A. Stewart
Paul V. Shearer
West Main
M. L. Tweeton
North Marion
P. L. Etter
Osteopathic
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V. M. Boshart, Mgr
Haydn Owens
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Goff’s Real Estate
Teweles
HiBien
Jarrard Feed & Supplies
Washington, Iowa
Mrs
Mao
Hong Kong
Mao Tse-Tung
New Evening Post
Chairman Mao
Bar & Chain
Bob Roe
Heatine & Hardware
North Iowa
Primaze
Geigy
Keota Chemical, Inc
Tadlock & Osweiler Spray
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