Cancer Society Publishes New Horizons Magazine
The Iowa Division of the American Cancer Society announces a quarterly magazine titled New Horizons. It is free to readers who request it and can be obtained by mailing a clipped coupon to county chairman Mrs. G. E. Montgomery in Washington, Iowa.
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Iowa
American Cancer Society
New Horizons
G. E. Montgomery
Washington
Army and Veterans’ Administration
Administrator of Veterans Affairs, Veterans’, Administration
Washington, D. C
Omar Bradley
Montgomery County Chapter Seeks New Horizons Magazine
Washington Iowa residents request inclusion on the Iowa Division American Cancer Society New Horizons quarterly magazine mailing list. The note asks to print name and address for future delivery at no cost.
The Girls Take Over Kitchen On Sit-Down Strike
Darlene Humston hosted supper and overnight with Leota Fishburn Martha Davis and Lorene Booth. Leeta and Martha plan to enter nurses training in Des Moines. Neighbors visit and a February community meeting held at Young America school featured a cooperative supper and entertainment led by Mrs. Orval Meeks and Arlene Humpston.
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Mar
Darlene Humston
Leota Fishburn
Martha Davis
Lorene Booth
Leeta
Martha
Methodist Hospital
Des Moines
Hilar
Doyle Jarrard
Ellen Marie
Lloyd Humston
Gaylan
Keith
Orval Meeks
Leo Marie
Frank Pringle
Young America School
Arlene Humpston
Laura Bell
Wm. Marie, Jr
Liloyd Hurston
Mary Beggs
Carter's Little Liver Pills Ad Promotes Bile Flow
A vintage sales ad touts Carter's Little Liver Pills as a remedy to stimulate bile flow and relieve digestive discomfort. It claims foods digest better, reduces gas and sour feelings, and urges readers to buy at drugstores for 33 cents.
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Carter
Neighbor News Wrap From Iowa City Area
Hazel Gookins and Leon Meeks of Iowa City with Buel Meeks of Cedar Rapids visited Orval Meeks home Sunday. Several couples and families report dinners, visits, and illnesses, including Mrs. Wolf not well and Mrs. Phil lips in hospital. Local moves include the Jarrard family relocation and the Luckenbill family planning to move to the Cherry farm.
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Hazel Gookins
Leon Meeks
Iowa City
Buel Meeks
Cedar Rapids
Orval Meeks
Lloyd Alliman
Delores
Roger
Grant Humston
Richard Baker
Otto Bell
Claude Rhodebeck
Mary Jane
Frank Wolf
Dorothy
Lloyd Miller
Donnie Joe
Lloyd Humston
Lloyd
Vince Mineart
Pleasant Plain
Grant Wumston
George Goble
Theodore Goble
Columbus Junction
Ted Simmons
Oren Wallace
Pleasanton
Calif
Wallaces
Ted Simons
Harley O'Loughlin
Mary Shields
Frank Dittmer
Raymond Landau
Doyle Jarrard
George Jarrard
Lester Luckenbill
Cherry Farm
Pasture Grasses Lose Value in Heavy Rain Periods
Pasture grasses become less nutritious during heavy rainfall as water causes nutrient loss. Additionally, soggy, bogged grasses reduce grazing access for livestock compared to firm ground in drier periods.
Veterans and serviceman family problems Q service column note
Editor's note announces a weekly Washington Bureau column addressing veteran and serviceman family problems. Readers may submit questions to the Washington Bureau for later publication and responses in the column. No direct mail replies are provided.
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Washington
Western Newspaper Union
Eye Street
N. W
Washington, D. C
VA Restricts Burial to VA Hospitals Veterans’ cemeteries
Veterans Administration announces cemeteries will no longer bury overseas war dead. About 75 percent of 250000 service members buried abroad likely return home for final rites. VA cites space limits, with 16 active and 8 inactive cemeteries serving current needs and room for roughly 25 000 more graves.
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Veterans’ Administration
War Department
Veterans seek home loans amid price controls end
A letter from Mrs. C. S. M. of Tulsa questions stopgap housing costs as price controls fade and a $6 100 loan would be required to buy a home. An adviser notes no direct answer exists and cites economic factors including ending price controls by Congress and the burden on veterans families. A widow asks about merchant marines allotments. reply says payments to families are voluntary and sign-on may authorize transfer.
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Camp Huben
Veterans’ Hospital
Army
Merryville, la
Mrs. C. S. M
Tulsa
Okla
Merchant Marines
A. R
Hermansville
Mich. A
Merchant Marine
Philadelphia's Literary Roots Run Deep in Pennsylvania
The piece notes Pennsylvania as a historic literary hub with Ben Franklin publishing Poor Richard's Almanac in 1732, Tom Paine's Crisis essays aiding Revolutionary troops, Hopkinson's Hail Columbia, Poe's seven year Philadelphia stint as editor, and Whittier's anti slavery journal around that era.
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Pennsylvania
Ben Franklin
Richard
Philadelphia
Tom Paine
Francis Hopkinson
Columbia
Edgar Allan Poe
Whittier
Community and farm auctions listed across Iowa towns
Weekly livestock sale listings appear for Whittaker Kalona Columbus Junction Ollie Sigourney and Wellman area farms. Special sales include March 3 closing out sale near Wellman and March 6 dairy cattle sale at Trier Sale Co. Barn plus March 5 public farm equipment sale at Luckey Implement building Columbus Junction.
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Whittaker
Midway Sales Company
Columbus Junction
Iowa
Kalona
Ollie Livestock Exchange
Ollie
Hi Dollar Sales Company
Sigourney
Wellman
Highway 22
Bunker Hill School
Clarence Hershberger
Trier Sale Co
Weota
Jack Gilles
Alef Gillies
March
Luckey Implement Building
Luckey
Hurricane Devastates Quail Population in Florida Delta
The Wildlife Management Institute reports that the October hurricane cut a path across south central Florida and hit the Mississippi delta, severely reducing mature quail numbers. In Charlotte County's 61 760 acre investigation area at least two thirds of the quail were destroyed by the storm and high water.
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Wildlife Management Institute
Florida
Mississippi Delta
Charlotte County
Ancient Cochise Indians Migrated from Arizona to New Mexico
Archaeologists report a mass migration of a primitive Indian people due to water scarcity about 5,000 years ago. They discovered a campsite linked to the Cochise Indians near Reserve, New Mexico.
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Arizona
New Mexico
Reserve
N. M
Pickwick Club Mementos Fill Leather Battle Inn
Cobham in Kent hosts Pickwick Club relics tied to Dickens’s Pickwick Papers. The Leather Battle Inn overflows with items honoring the fictional organization and its famed characters.
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Leather Battle Inn
Cobham
Kent
The
Pickwick Club
Charles Dickens
Pickwick Papers
Safety Auto Switch A safety master switch for cars
A safety master switch for automobiles gives fingertip control of the entire electrical system. Similar to airliner switches, it is said to cut fire hazards and extend battery life.
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Montgomery County
Washington, Iowa
Iown Division
Americcn Cancer Society
Mom
Karin
Lone Tree
Bae Lusway
DES Moines Sunday Register
Lone Tree Sales
Legion Hall
Charlie Frits
Lis Fiedle
Forrest Walker
Ned Carman
Cedar Falls
Bill Schatenacker
Muscatine
Long & Hotle
Q Service ‘Bureau
Gress
House
George A. Mulkey
Hollywood
Communist Party
AFL Electricians Union
International Soundphoto
Journal
Theodore B. Bailey
Morrison & Morrison Attorneys
Edmund D. Morrison
Edmund PD. Morrison, Jr
W. Livingston
Robert Day
W. Male
George BF. Morrison
G. Gueford Morrison
J. C. Penney Co
Paul W. Shearer
Court Flouse
Wendell L. Shaffer
Hotel Washington
Optometrists
Co. St. Lemmon
Joan W. Lemmon
Fyel
Journal Bldg
P. L. Etter
F. G. Livesay
Spinal Distortion
Iowa Avenue
Pickwick’s
Western Auto Asso
S. Side
George's
South Ave
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Col
Little
Washington Dairy
Brown Finance CO
IHONE
Court House
Reister Hatchery
the Journal
J.aid
John Blick
Mangold
South Second Avenue
Washington Concrete Co
12Th St
Rock Island
Reister Bros
Creamery
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