Social visit features Parizek family and local collectors
Fred Downing visits Mrs. Parizek in Iowa City and tours her shell art and place cards. The piece notes Parizek family members, relatives in the navy, and a lively portrait of antique collecting at the Clark home with 5,000 bottles and other items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swartzendruber
Fred Downing
Iowa City
Parizeks
Mrs. McKay
Parizek
Will Parizek
East
Fairchild
Fred
Clark
Snow White Film Shines With Disney Style For Fox Sunday
Disney presents Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs a full length animated feature offering beauty drama and humor. The film showcases Snow White with white skin red lips and ebony hair while the dwarfs provide comic relief and a blend of high drama suspense and emotion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walt Disney
Disney
Snow White
Locals at Nira visit for kitchen shower for Miss Crawford
Mrs Hanley reports Jake Litwiller and Jamily attended Will Kidermiller's home in Nira on Sunday. A kitchen shower for Miss Crawford is planned for Saturday afternoon. The article notes they reside near the late Ross.
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Hanley
Nira
Jake Litwiller
Jamily
Will Kidermiller
Miss Crawford
Ross
Hero first man to enter Lespieux is Sgt. Albert Warner
Clark Lee reports from Cherbourg that Sergt. Albert Warner, 31, of Albany New York, became the first American to enter Lespieux, receiving a handmade flag with 46 stars from a French woman who also presented wine in gratitude for Allied troops.
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Lespieux
Cherbourg
Sergt
Albert Warner
Albany
N. Y
Clark Lee
INS
Warner
International
Lone MacArthur vote shocks Beloit convention
Beloit Wisconsin farmer Grant A. Ritter cast the lone vote for Gen Douglas MacArthur at the state convention. His single ballot stood out as the only vote Gov Thomas E Dewey did not receive among 1057 total ballots, with Ritter pictured on the convention floor.
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Beloit
Wis
Douglas MacArthur
U. S
South Pacific
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Grant A. Ritter
Mrs. Fred Forinash Visits in Missouri
Mrs. Fred Forinash visits Raymondsville Missouri with Mr and Mrs Earl Chambers. Fred Forinashs father returns to Missouri in the Chambers car. Des Moines postmasters convention trip referenced. several local residents visit, attend camp construction, or travel, including Rev Daniel Rhodes and Rev Arthur Peters. Community groups meet with sewing for Red Cross and social visits noted.
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R. C. Ferguson
Westchester
Fred Forinash
Raymondsville
Earl Chambers
Fred Forinashs
Chambers
Daniel Rhodes
Tama
Arthur Peters
Esther Booth
Des Moines
Frances Booth
Arthur
Peters
Deep River
East Iowa
Dean Niffenegger
Sally
Onawa
C. C
Stocking Thread Repairs Ravel Hidden Mend Technique
A thread salvaged from discarded stockings is used to mend runs. The method, called stocking thread, is nearly invisible and reportedly stronger than standard sewing thread.
Raymond Sistern At Schick Hospital
Ray mond Sistern, wounded in the Mediterranean, has been returned to the United States and moved to Schick hospital in Clinton after calling his mother from a Virginia hospital. The item also notes various local visits births and relocations among area residents.
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Raymond Sistern
Schick Hospital
Edna Crile
Brighton
James Sistern
Mediterranean
U.S
Virginia
Clinton
Vice-President Wallace in China living with Karlin family
Des Moines area notes report Vice-President Wallace in China living with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Karlin. The busy social scene lists Ottumwa nurse Crystal Alter visiting relatives, extended family travels to Washington, and numerous local visits and business at Blakesburg, Burlington, Oskaloosa, and Lone Tree with relatives and friends.
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Albert Karlin
Des Moines
Crystal Alter
R. N
Ottumwa
Tom Alter
Raymond Kiesey
Joan
Robert
Mayfield
Tom Carter
Washington
Janice Robison
W. B. Robison
Glen Hoover
Rock Island
Ruth Hoover
Charles Robison
Robison
Chiang Kai Shek
Henry A Wallace
China
Chungking
United States
Family notices from East Highland column update
East Highland page notes visits and farm chores. Mr and Mrs Frankie Mincer and family host friends on Thursday. The Ge rot family and Pearson family and Stolley household members visited relatives on Sunday. Homer Eden mowed clover hay for Frankie Mincer Tuesday. Mrs James Swailes is staying with relatives.
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Frank Mincer
Highland
Frankie Mincer
Robert Gerot
Guy Gerot
William Pearson
Robert
Nancy
Joyce
Janet
R. A. Stolley
Homer Eden
Frankie Minecer
James Swailes
Prison inmates produce war goods for eight million contracts
In over 100 state prisons more than 160000 prisoners manufacture navy handkerchiefs assault boats and other war items to fill contracts totaling nearly eight million dollars.
Isabella I of Castile Claimed Only Two Baths Taken
The historic claim attributes to Queen Isabella of Spain that she had bathed just twice in a lifetime. Modern historians view such statements as symbolic boasts rather than verifiable facts.
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Isabella
Spain
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Key West
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Kalona
Wellman
Joetown
Jeannette Kyle
Clarks
Lodge
Allure
Seven Dwarfs
The
Fox Sunday
Yard & McFarlane Insurance Agency
Atchison
Pauline O'Loughlin
Riverside
Robert Arthur
DR. Hess Fly Killer
Humphrey
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Sydney
Mrs
Missouri
Wilson Coffey
Chicago
J. K. Coffey
Glenn Martin
Bauer
Sadie Dusenberry
G. J. Wine
Omaha
Mr.Wine
Will Wine
North English
Burlington
Hotle
James Stancer
Rosemary
Merle Gardner
Waterloo
Ben Keller
Southie
Leta Mae
Goldie Miltilok
Clifford Andrew
Alice Faye
South Ave C
Alma Mullens
A. S
Camp Perry
Charles Keller
Jerry Lee
Emmett Keller
Shelby Lee
Beverly Jean
Charles H. Keller
Hazel
Goldie Keller
West Chester
Keller
Bay of ‘Biscay
France
Tondons
England
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Toulon
Sea
Switz
Erland
Paris
Caen
Harold Guy
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Dan Guy
Richard Lahr
Camp Butner
N. C
Joe Lahr
D. J. Kyle
Delbert “Bud” Kyle
Miami, Fla
E. A. Horner
Leonard Hoskins
Lloyd Reighard
Jack Stauffer
David
Lulu Smith
Kirkwood
Ill
Hoyt Greeson
Gorton
Conn
Clarence Smith
Willard Farrier
Calif
Wm. Spencer
Stockport
Ray Hopmann
St. Louis
L. E. McAfee
Mildred Horner
Davenport
A. Horner
Oral Long
Prizer
Wallace
Charles Robertson
Jack
Guy
W. RB. Robison
Hiram Cooper
Mary Dvorak
Pearl Rummelhart
Mercy Hospital
Ramona Marshall
Vera Jean Lewis
Hester Mincer
Austin Collins
Lone Tree
Mike Murdock
Gail
Ardell Gerot
Detroit
Washington Lumber & Fuel CO
Pioneer Yard
Lowe Bros
Jim White
East Highland
GEE
Les Gilmere
Shell Station
Wingal North Side Cafe
Burlington Bus Lines
Winga's
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