Rocking Chair Brigade Report From Community Desk
The piece notes heat and breeze at a National Federation of Press Women event in Milwaukee with delegates from Texas New York and eleven from Iowa. It highlights Margaret Appleby sailing August 21 to Honolulu to teach at the University of Hawaii Nursery and Kindergarten Training School. It also describes the Gray Ladies of the Red Cross and a wish to start a Washington chapter. Gloves left for Mary Foreman at the Elder home are mentioned.
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Milwaukee
National Federation of Press Women
Margaret Appleby
Paul and
Ruth Appleby
Washington, D. C
Honolulu
T. H
Gray Ladies of the Red Cross
Mary Foreman
Brigade
Two Accidents in Franklin District Injure Man and Girl
Franklin District notes report two farm accidents in late June. Dale Hoyle and his father were injured when a mower sickle struck Dale. he is healing after treatment. Isabelle Combs suffered burns to face and eyes when a double cooker flew up during pie filling. both incidents described as not serious.
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Franklin District
Dale Hoyle
Isabelle Combs
Howard Hoyle
Rich
Dale
Isabelle
Libes
Maurice Libe
Baby
Eva Hoyle
Rose Nebergal
Emma Humston
Harold Humston
Oscar Kesse
Fairfield
Charley Marek
Marek
New Slaven
Prairie Center Weekend Visit And Local Social Roundup
Prairie Center reports weekend visitors including George Westen and family from Hartsburg and the Wagenknecht family at the Fred Zieglowsky home. Multiple calls, picnics at Sun Set Park, and County residents such as Carl Koehler and Frankie Cline are noted along with a new Dodge for George T. Koehler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairie Center
George Westen
Aurelia
Henry Zieglowsky
Anna
Lena Janssen
Hartsburg
Ill
Fred Zieglowsky
Wagenknecht
Sunset Park
Florence
Richard
Farr
H. Wagenknecht
Albert Zieglowsky
John Simmering
J. W. Fields
Joan
Jack
C. H. Wolfe
Hollywood marriages exceed divorces in 1940 survey
A 1940 statistics survey shows 86 marriages among Hollywood residents in Las Vegas Reno Yuma Santa Barbara and other cities while 76 marriages ended in divorce courts.
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Hollywood Film Colony
Las Vegas
Reno
Yuma
Santa Barbara
Visionary Boy Deluded by Mystic Teacher Ends in Tragedy
David Carens, 15, believed Ahmed Sala could reveal destinies through star readings and trance visions. He paid three dollars weekly, gave up his doubts, and foreseen Cousin Anita Banks’s death, which the police connected to his visions before a staged reveal halted the scare.
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Ahmed Sala
David Carens
Ahmed
Mr. Sala
David
Carens
Anita Banks
Anita
Carenses
Mr. Carens
Cousin Anita
Mrs. Carens
Peabody's Barn
Dad
Asia and Australia Compared by Area and Population
A study notes Australia covers roughly the same land area as the United States while its population remains under New York City’s total, highlighting a vast territory with a small number of residents.
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Australia
United States
New York City
Malnutrition and Microbes Tied to Mental Deficiency
At the American Association of Mental Deficiency Pacific States meeting Dr. Emiliano Honda of Tacoma linked cretinism to thyroid disease and microbial factors. He argued goiters originate in normal thyroid glands and that preventive thyroid products and immunizations can combat dwarfism and goiter.
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American Association of Mental Deficiency
Pacific States
Emiliano. Honda
Tacoma
Wash
United States
Grease Method Boosts Muffin Volume and Release
A kitchen note shows greasing muffin pans heavily on the bottom and lightly on the sides yields muffins with better volume and easy removal.
Anna Mulhern Dies in Junction
Anna Mulhern longtime Columbus Junction bank employee dies suddenly at 11 45 a m in her brother Bert Mulhern's home from a heart attack. She was born 1873 in Nebraska City Nebraska and educated locally. Funeral services set for Tuesday at 2 pm with burial in Columbus City cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert Mulhern
Martha Butler
Columbus Junction
Anna Mulhern
Columbus Junction State Bank
Columbus City
Nebraska City
Neb
Samuel
Margaret Harmon Mulhern
Main Street
C. A. Carpenter
Farmers and Merchants State Bank
Board of Education
Columbus Independent
Lou Mulhern
Galesburg
Ill
Mark Schafer
West Liberty
William
Mulhern
Lexington Circle Meeting at Home of Mrs Schultz
The Lexington Circle met with Mrs Herman Schultz with sixteen women and several children present. They quilted and shared a cooperative noon meal. Guests included Mrs Clement Griffith Mollie Tierney and Mrs Lady Knott of Fairfield.
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Lexington Circle
Schultz
Wade Gardner
Lexington
Herman Schultz
Clement Griffith
Mollie Tierney
Lady Knott
Fairfield
Wilma Patterson
Warren Bishop
Gertrude Riorden
Iowa City
Marvin Bishop
Camp Bowie
Texas
Jean Bishop
Theusiness School
Davenport
Avery Eichelberger
Doris
Chicago
William Soukup
Arlys Eshelman
William Flynn
Marie Stewart
Farm Season Notes On Harvest And Canning
Clover and alfalfa hay is being put up. Oats will soon be ready to cut. Women folks are doing lots of canning.
Mother Pleads for Return of Baby in Court
In Council Bluffs, 25 year old Mrs. Harvey MecCleery pleads in district court for the return of her seven month old daughter Mary Ann. The child has been living with the Reichardt grandparents in Iowa and was born in Iowa City. The mother alleges her father refused to let her take the baby after returning home from Iowa City.
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Keota
Ralph Howell
Willard
Linda
Joey
Malcom Montgomery
Raymond Wilson
Ronald
Karen
Boyd Stephens
Marshall Koehlers
J. W. Fields
Joan
Jack
Howard Pearson
Cloyce Zieglowsky
Eugene
Don Simmering
Marion Sheetz
Don McClure
Lloyd Edwards
Muscatine
C. H. Wolfe
Esther
Geo. Zeck
Carl Koehler
Carl D. Koehler
California Tech
Pasadena
Calif
Long Beach
Collins
Frankie
Victor Davis
Iowa City
Dan Cline
Council Bluffs
Harvey MecCleery
Fort Crook
Neb
Charles Reichardt
Reichardt
Mary Ann
Hand Crocheted Hats and Sweaters Highlight Mid-Summer Style
Hollace Shaw, radio singer, models a beige casual crochet hat with yellow trim and a green hand crocheted sailor hat with red flower accents. A cotton sweater vest centered features a coat of arms pattern suitable for now with linen and later with heavier autumn wear. The pattern is easy to launder and allows color scheme variations.
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Hollace Shaw
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Rocking Chair
New York
Towa
Grinnell College
R. F. Brown
The
University of Hawaii
Washington
J. B. Crail
P.L. Etter
S. Iowa
George Koehler
Minnesota Fairgrounds
St. Paul
Berlin
I. I. N. Radiophoto
Visions
Dixie Dugan
McEvoy & Striebel
Bud
Bud Hale
O.K
Big Boy
Junction
P.E.O
Washington Dairy
Planters
North Clark Center
Loop
Famous Circle
Harry
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