Shrunken Head Trade Plagues Distant Border Town
A narrator and Juan visit a vendor selling a human head as a bizarre souvenir. The head is displayed for $25 and the tale hints at deadly dangers around head hunting tribes. The narrator recalls a second meeting where Pancho Orteña reappears as the shop owner’s son and later reveals the fate of Pancho Ortめgna.
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Pancho Ortegna
Cano
Cabello
Ortegna
Juan
Pancho
Cabello’s
Pancho Ortegnal
Hope Crosby feud simmers as Fleming co stars in The Great Lover
Rhonda Fleming co stars with Bob Hope in Paramount comedy The Great Lover at the State Theatre amid jokes and barbs exchanged about Crosby. The cast includes Roland Young and Alexander Hall directed production. Community sale notes follow with farm and livestock auctions across Iowa towns through February.
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Bing Crosby
Rhonda Fleming
Bing
Connecticut
Hope
Crosh
Paramount
Crosby
Miss Fleming
Rhonda
Bob
Roland Young
Roland Culver
Richard Lyon
Lover
Alexander Hall
Whittaker
Midway Sales Company
Columbus Junction
Iowa
Kalona Sales Barn
Kalona
Ollie Livestock Frehange
Ollie
Washington
Riverside Gravel
Smith & Glenn
Keota
Charles Jirsa
Brighton
Maurice Bleess
Ainsworth Corner
Highway 218
Finley & Jennings
Eli White
Columbus City
Glen Caldwell
American Pearl Button Company
B. BE. Miller
Crawfordsville
Lyle J. Maxwell
Ainsworth
Wood
P. J. Graber
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Bok
Chicago
W. R. Richardson
Rhode Island
Humble Produce & Hatchery
Elmer Guenther
F. BE. Welsh
Fort Madison
Max Rammel
Richey
Lane Bldg
Davenport
Illinois Business & Realty
Call
Osincup Walgreen Drug
Insul-Wool Insulation Corp
Des Moines Register
al Hahn
Dutch Creek Cemetery Association
Dublin
A. A. Richardson
Aloluntary
Post Office
Good Welle
Marcie
West
Jefferson Street
Sunset Park
Iowa Ave
Leonard Beauregard
Wayland
Elmer Schantz
Gamble
Plymouth
Dodge
Oldsmobile
Chevrolet
Ford
Sorrells
Purina
ROPER
Oupont
Eclipse Lumber Company
Colo
Clinton
Andrew
McAllister Seed Farms
Mt. Pleasant
Walter Nicholson
Gamble's
M. Willis Richards
Bonda
Mindo
Clinton and
Hotle Feed & Grain Co
Hampshire
Donald Robison
J. W. Patterson
Wellman
Westinghouse
Electro
Rooot Delune
Montgomery Ward
Iowa Southern Utilities Co
Timothy Hay
Roy Havel
John A. Horak
Bell & Gevock
Remington
Nicola & Harmon
Farrell
Washington Oil Company
Dupont
Nicola
Freshwaters
Porter Elevator
West Chester
McDaniels Drug Store
Howard McCleery
Contact Farm Service Co
Sat
M. Case
Oliver
Massey Harris
Scott Equipment Co
Winfield
J. C. Penney Co
Delivry
Coleman
Tait
Radio & “An
Washington County
Washington Concrete Company
Ames
Clayde Knupp & Sons
Tucker Chevrolet
Washington Lumber & Fuel Co
Quate
H. W. Jones
Dixie
Canada
Lemmons Pharmacy
Smith’s
Wayne Marston
Sentinel
Little
R. Philip Kneen
Kermy Payne
Mills Auto Service
Thomas A. Edison
Wok. Howell
Virgil Lintz
Southwest Corner Square
Durst Feed Store
Hamilton and Yoder
Wellman 5
J. Murphy
Iowa City
Richard Hill Wilkinson
WE Fenteses
FOX
Jon Hall
Frances Langford
Lippert Productions
Hope-Crosby
Bob Hope
Journal
John Deeres
Internationals
Fords
Olivers
Case
Allis Chalmers
Machinery Dealers
Keoqta
Maurice GG. Courad
John Patterson
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