Books Added to Washington Public Library Shelf
The Washington public library gains thirty six new titles across topics from birds and vitamins to biographies and travel. Notable items include works by Moffatt Eliot Mann and Ferber with a mix of science, history, and literature, plus a photo essay on American transportation and a biography of Benjamin Franklin.
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Washington Public Library
W. E. Blatz
Dionne
Jill Edwards
Shailer Mathews
Jerusalem
James Moffatt
G. F. Eliot
J. E. Johnson
United States
E. R. Nichols
Erika Mann
Thomas Mann
A. A. Allen
W. G. Ross
H. N. Helms
W. A. du Puy
M. L. Coleman
M. G. Kains
L. M. McQuesten
E. van Brussell
F. M. Beck
W. S. Grooch
Iowa Federated Music Clubs
Iowana
Joseph Leeming
J. C. Powys
C. M. Hill
C. O. Skinner
Burns Mantle
R. L. Negros
Lear
Bertha Damon
Grandma
Jas
Bertram
China
George Antonius
Sacheverell Stitwell
Roumania
Frank Case
Algonquin
New York City
W. A. White
Babylon
President Coolidge
J. A. Swisher
Robert G. Cousin
Iowa
State Historical Society
Edna Ferber
Carl van Doren
Benjamin Franklin
Uncommon Americans The Hawken Rifle Legend
The piece profiles Samuel Hawken and his St Louis rifle shop, detailing his hand built Hawken rifles, one price policy, and his role in frontier gunmaking. It notes Hawken’s partnership with Jacob, the era’s demand, and the eventual sale to John Gemmer with Old Sam returning to the shop in later years.
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Sam” Hawken
St. Louis
Samuel Hawken
Maryland
Jacob Hawken
Samuel
Hawken
Meramec River
Missouri
John P. Gemmer
Sam
Gemmer
Missouri Historical Society, & Western Newspaper Union
Honor Roll Students Named Across Grades in Ainsworth
Ruth Norris reports high achievement in Ainsworth with students across first through high school earning over ninety percent in deportment and studies over six weeks. The list includes multiple names per grade, from Rose Marie Prosser to Lois Fitzgerald, plus a separate note on perfect attendance across grades.
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Ruth Norris
Ainsworth
Mar
Rose Marie Prosser
Margaret Ann Koehler
Patty Reese
Beverly Ebner
Louise Nordyke
Phyllis Simkins
Betty Joan Koehler
Carl Roberts
James Telford
Edward Zieglowsky
Connie White
Myra Edmondson
Bonnie Bartz
George Colthurst
Keith Orris
Mary Jo Tobin
Jeanette Wood
Beverly Abner
Stella Belle Gardner
Louis Nordyke
Clarence Pulse
Phylis Simkins
Owen White
Frank Wood
Pauline Gosling
Edgar Nordyke
Billy Simkins
Ernest Simkins
Rollin Smith
Richard Zieglowsky
Robert Anderson
Junior Simmering
Patty Stewart
William Cole
Junior Simpson
Samuel Canott
John Dea
Earnest Kiene
Evert Harland
Correne Edmondson
Mary E. Gardner
Shirley Herr
Mildred McCaleb
Ruth Powers
Burdette Wagenknecht
Grace Carson
Richard Edmondson
Arvid Barber
Wayne Cline
Louis Koehler
Wilma Marsh
Bernice Zieglowsky
Doris Canott
Virginia Miller
Daryl Pearson
Helen Pearson
Evelyn Powers
Jay Edmondson
Cecil Medicore
Jeane Goble
John Walker
Lois Fitzgerald
Longtime Lytle grocer Arthur Mace retires on birthday
Arthur Mace, employed 27 years at the Lytle grocery, turned in his key on his 71st birthday. He worked Saturdays and rush days recently and plans to fill spare time with new activities. Noted as a long tenure under a single employer, the event was marked by colleagues and local chatter.
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Arthur Mace
Lytle
The Brooklyn Bridge Jumper Steve Brodie
The Brooklyn Bridge jumper Steve Brodie gained fame after surviving a 135 foot plunge in July 1886. His boast led to a $100 bet and a $1000 life policy, which he used to back his public jump that made him famous in a melodrama and sparked imitators. His name defined a phrase for a spectacular jump.
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Brooklyn Bridge
Steve Brodie
Brodie
Life Insurance Company
Western Newspaper Union
Official and Wife in Hospital after Accident
Barr Keshlear chairman of the state commerce commission remained in critical condition after an auto crash. His car struck a stray horse then hit the rear of another vehicle. A wrecking crew freed him from the wrecked engine. The Keshlears were returning to Shenandoah from Washington where he testified before rate hearings.
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Creston
Barr Keachlear
State Commerce Commission
Mr. Keshlear
Keshlears
Shenandoah
Washington, D. C
Keshlear
One Family Endures Repeated Tragedies in Corwith
In Corwith the Albert John son family faces a string of misfortunes as patriarchs illnesses, injuries, and fatalities strike each member. The father died in a auto accident, a brother fell to his death from a tree, and a pneumonia case plus a rain concussion hit another. The family calls itself jinxed after these consecutive calamities.
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Albert Johnson
Mr. Johnson
Pickler, Prominent Democrat Dies in Ottumwa Accident
T. H. Tom Pickler aged 79, a prominent Democrat leader and former Ottumwa mayor, died from shock after being struck by a car driven by Elmo J. Todd. He had pelvic and internal injuries and was taken to Ottumwa hospital.
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Ottumwa
T. H
Tom) Pickler
Elmo J. Todd
Ottumwa Hospital
Social Roundup of Local Residents and Illness Notes
Mr and Mrs George McFadden and Mr and Mrs Fred L Moore attended the Minnesota Iowa basketball game in Iowa City. William Glassburner and Mrs Tom McGuire returned to Gary Indiana after attending the funeral of Mrs Earl Glassburner in Ottumwa. Mrs William Glassburner remained to visit her parents. The couple Lester Jones and A Marjorie Pratt of Washington secured a marriage license. Jimmy Alm missed work due to flu. Marie Landau visited Waterloo. Mrs Floyd Grecian and daughter Judith Ann are ill with flu.
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George McFadden
Fred L. Moore
A. Keith Droz
Iowa City
William Glassburner
Tom McGuire
Gary
Ind
Earl Glassburner
Ottumwa
J. C. Carris
Floyd Grecian
Judith Ann
Open Door Policy Benefits Governor Wilson Office
Doug Miller, the governor’s messenger, praises the open door policy at the Iowa governor’s office. He notes more visitors can enter and that callers are told the governor will see them shortly, a change from times with closed doors under prior administrations.
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Governor's Messenger
Des Moines
Wilson
Doug Miller
Miller
Iowa
Water Exceeds Ice in Weight by Volume Rule
The article explains that water weighs more than an equal volume of ice. It notes that when water freezes it expands by about one eleventh of its volume, meaning 1 volume of water becomes 1.0008 volumes of ice.
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Walter Connolly
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Robert Brinton
Everette Griffith
Washington Loan & Trust Co
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Franklin Starr
M.F Starr
L. A. Meridith
E. A. Hofer
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Grace Brinning
Ed Murphy
Elwood Misel
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Bert Mulhern
Columbus Junction
Anna Wooley
Dorothy
Clifford Snyder
Riverside
Ivan Bush
Burlington
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Geo. Norman
Gilbert Hotle
Marjorie Marston
W. C. Hotle
John Baler
Winterset
W. H. Wheatley
Chas. Lee McGill
Walt Nicholson
John Little
E. Aston
Marvin
Mrs. Johnson
Terry
Elmo Scott Watson
Sam Hawken
Darlene Simkins
Shirley Simkins
Kathleen Smith
Jean Anne Wood
Julia Mae Koehler
Tracy Norris
Joyce Powers
Billy Ray Stewart
Max White, Jr
L. W. Potts
Carroll
Floyd Tucker
East Tenth Street
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Jefferson Street
Gale Glover
Chicago
John Lemmon
Bennie James
Fred Downing
Preston Wolt
A. E. Baldrige
American Legion
Town City
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Graham
Helen Anderson
Grace Mottet
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Sup Valley
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Mexico
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Pickler
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Jones
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Jimmy Alm
Miller Footwear
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Waterloo
Corinne Martin
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Pontice
Michigan
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General Motors
Stewart & Crone
2Nd St
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