Grandma Kleese Birthday Cakes for Kleese Twins
Pleasant January notes recount Grandma Kleese crafting birthday cakes for twins John and Jane Kleese, ages fourteen, including an orange angel food cake with black frosting and a red white checkerboard cake. The column also shares family antics, a phone gag about a pretend grandma, and cold weather pipe-thawing misadventures.
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Grandma Kleese
John
Jane Kleese
Elwood Kleese
Jane
Larry
Marrilla Rice
Marty
Jerry Mitchell Enrolls at American Institute of Business
Jerry Mitchell enrolled for an accounting course at the American Institute of Business in Des Moines and will begin studies February 4. A winter storm caused the Square Circle Club meeting and other town activities to be affected. various social events continued with members hosting, gifting, and planning future gatherings.
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Crawfordsville
Jerry Mitchell
American Institute of Business
Des Moines
Square Circle Club
Raymond Gerdes
Don Wood
Gerald Howell
Gerdes
Chester Piper
Orville Hodge Leaves Prison for Hardware Store Job
Orville Enoch Hodge, 58, former Illinois auditor, is leaving Menard State Penitentiary to take a hardware store job. He is 25 pounds under his campaigning weight and has six years remaining for looting the Illinois treasury of 1.5 million dollars. Hodge rose from Granite City to politics and was once a potential GOP governor candidate.
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Menard, Ill
UPI
Orville
Enoch Hodge
Illinois
Menard State Penitentiary
Hodge
Granite City
Ill
Anderson
Ind
Menard
Ex-Springfield Politico Returns to Granite City in Prison Suit
A former Springfield politician once famed for lavish parties and personal airplanes heads home to Granite City after a prison sentence. He plans to work in his sister’s family hardware store while his son runs an insurance business, seeking to support his family and forget the past.
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Politico
Granite City
Hodge
Springfield
Bessie Henley
Willian
University of Missouri
Practical Household Tips From The Past
A collection of old fashioned instructions covers starching men’s handkerchiefs with a light spray, serving maple syrup over ice cream in snorket glasses, and chilling the dessert for an hour. It also includes sock prep, winding colored yarn on spools, cleaning a sewing machine needle with steel wool, and drapery tips like reversing hems to hang upside down for lighter cleaning. Finally a tip suggests floating cracked nut shells to remove shell fragments.
TV Highlights and Local Page Note on Cotton Queen
TV highlights include Dinner With the President on CBS with Kennedy remarks hosted by Robert Preston from a Washington hotel ballroom 9 p.m. CST. The listing also covers NBC Wide Country and Speckle Bird 6:30 p.m. GSi Perry Mason Twilight Zone McHale's Navy Premiere George Gobel Andy Williams CSI and a UPI brief from Albuquerque noting Shelby Smith of Albuquerque as Miss Cotton 1963, first from New Mexico to win the national title.
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CBS
Kennedy
Robert Preston
Washington
Albuquerque, N.M
Kite Crossing of English Channel Reported
Two French men used parachute kites towed by speedboats to cross the English Channel in opposite directions. One man departed Calais and finished in 95 minutes while the other started in Dover and completed in 74 minutes.
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Calais
France
UPI
English Channel
Dover
England
Sleep and its phases as described by Dr Osler
The article reviews William Osler's notes on owl and lark sleep patterns and explains sleep phases, from predormitum to final morning awakening, citing The Life Extension Foundation Guide to Better Health and dated 1959.
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William Osler
Osler
Life Extension Foundation
Harry J. Johnson
M. D
Prentice-Hall, Inc
King Features Syndicate
WRC Holds Meeting and Installs Officers at Keota Hall
The Women’s Relief Corps met at Fraternal Hall in Keota on January 25. Installation of officers included Florence Sheetz as installing officer and new officers led by President Tressie Schreckengast. Members sent bed pads, cards, and donations to veterans and hospitals, plus refreshments were served.
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Keota
Women's Relief Corps
Daisy Faris
Velda Lewis
Leo Malley
Florence Sheetz
Tressie Schreckengast
Myrl Waller
Bess Lantry
Mary Aller
Grace Parke
Winnie Statler
Lila Miller
Joyce Acord
Irene Grisham
Clara Fleener
Acs
T. Guard
Mary Roberts
Elsie Greiner
Pauline Romine
Clara
Dorothy Chambers
Mary Sorden
Martha Malley
County 4 H Leaders At Recognition Day
Five Washington County delegates were among nearly 590 leaders and county staff at the 13th annual 4H Leaders Recognition Day held at Iowa State University on January 28. Merritt Canady along with Mrs. Lawrence Whetstine, Mrs. David Norman of Wellman and Alvin Jones of Crawfordsville were selected as representatives. The program limits attendance to four leaders and one extension staff member per county and is sponsored by Iowa State University extension services and the Iowa Retail Federation which funds the day’s activities and banquet.
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Washington County
Iowa State University
Merritt Canady
Lawrence Whetstine
David Norman
Wellman
Alvin Jones
Crawfordsville
Canady
The
Cooperative Agricultural and Home Economics Extension Service of
Iowa Retail Federation
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Forrest Tucker
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