Journal Weekly News Review highlights varied Iowa events
Summary of week in Iowa includes deaths in Des Moines and near Iowa Center, a fatal coal truck accident, a juvenile arson threat in Mason City, attempted life insurance claims after an October crash, a stabbing death near Iowa Center, bank closure in Grandview, and construction contracts for roads and schools. Also notes church, college, and DAR activities, a major fire in Zwingle, and a planned aged home in Des Moines.
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Leonard Morgan
Council Bluffs
Hoover signs relief loan for drought stricken farmers
President Hoover signed a joint resolution authorizing 7.6 million dollars as a loan fund to aid farmers in storm flood and drought afflicted southern and western states. Unemployment and wheat crisis debates also drew attention at a Tuesday cabinet meeting.
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Persident Hoover
Hoover
Local Auction Prices and Community Notices from Columbus Junction
The Columbus Junction market report lists horses at 140 dollars, milk at 80, fall shoats at 14, corn 71 cents per bushel, and chickens from 65 cents to one dollar. Indian Creek club officers were elected, Norris drug store added a soda fountain, and Columbus City hosts a mayoral and council election nominating meeting.
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Columbus Junction
Here
Paul Kietz
Indian Creek Club
James Solichting
Lyda Shellabarger
Virgil McKean
Beatty grave photo and town notices from Washington
In Washington a 1920 weekly notices column reports Mr and Mrs S P Beatty receiving a grave photo of their son Leon Beatty from the Red Cross. It notes an end of a distant illness episode, high school annual photos, a new restaurant planned, deputy salaries up, and fire department officer elections. It also covers a blizzard, deaths of Beth Godfrey and Dewey McAvoy, a $100 reward for fires, and various local events and changes.
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Mrr
S. P. Beatty
Red Cross
Leon Beatty
168Th Infantry
Sea
G. W. Stewart
Board of Health
Ernest Dean
Anderson
Lawa Avenue
Star Theater
Board of Supervisors
New Methodist Church
C. C. Reister
Eugene Breitenbach
Murray McCreedy
Clarence Logan
Richard Stephens
Willam Boice
Mary McAvoy
Dewey McAvoy
Como * K
Chateau Thierry
Frank Bishop
Kite Contest Delays School Day in Indian Neighborhood
Satya and Ananda plan a kite contest after school while a snake charmer entertains a crowd on the street. Satya, absorbed in the spectacle, spots Ananda on a roof edge and fears danger as a boy threatens to cut a string.
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Satya
Ananda
Annanda
Anouther
Lome
Puzzle in Rocks Turns to Heroic Rescue
A mountain scene unfolds as Satya saves his friend Ananda from a deadly fall after a deaver mishap. Ananda suffers a broken arm, Satya is praised by the crowd, and their father proclaims Satya’s bravery as worth the injuries.
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Satya
Ananda
Andy
Sata Satya
Verbal Portraits of Notable Figures in Old Book Land
The listing humorous describes Old Squiddington Square Trinkle Triangle and Young Cyrus O Circle as notable figures with distinctive features and actions. It references a lesson, a title band, and Clifford Hastings in a playful, antiquated tone.
Longtime rail worker John Buckley dies at 79
John D. Buckley a veteran railway man born in Ireland and longtime Washington resident died Monday at his West Second street home. He worked for the Rock Island in the 1800s and later ran the city water works. Funeral services were held at St. James church with Rev. Joseph O'Donnell presiding. He leaves a widow and seven children in cities including New York Boston Cincinnati Chicago Detroit.
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John D. Buckley
West Second Street
Mr. Buckley
Ireland
Washington
Rock Island
City Water Works
George
New York City
Paul Dede
Boston
Catherine Buckley
Cincinnati
Mable
Frank
Chicago
Raymond
New York
Harold
Detroit
St. James Church
Joseph O'Donnell
Methodist church Ladies Aid to host March meeting in West Chester
Mrs Agnes Ross and three others will host the Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist church in West Chester on Wednesday March 12. All local ladies are invited. Mrs Glenn Dunbar and Mrs Harry Wentworth will entertain the Walnut Woman's club at Mrs Dunbar's home Thursday afternoon with an Irish joke roll call and seed exchange. The American House Fortnightly club section will meet Tuesday afternoon March 11 at Mrs Frank Wilson's residence.
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B. F. Bostwick, Jr
East Main Street
al Cantoni
East Jefferson Street
Board of Education
A. EK. Atchison
P. L. Etter
P. G. Ahrens
George Breitenbach
E. E. Stutaman
Agnes Ross
Howard Stewart
Ernest Temple
Lou Baurr
Ladies Aid Society
Methodist Church
West Chester
Glenn Dunbar
Harry Wentworth
Walnut Woman's Club
American House Department of the
Frank Wilson
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Iowa-Illinois Telephone Company
Samuel J. Creek
Jefferson County
Fairfield
Thomas W. Drumm
Grandview Savings Bank
Grandview
Chillicothe, Mo
Cedar Rapids
Coe College
Walter Casten
Winneshiek County
Henry Fields
Waterloo
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Grand Avenue
Iowa
Ames
Eugene Allen Gilmore
Philippine Islands
University of Iowa Law College
Robert Johnston
Humbolt
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Charles Saunders
Daughters of the American Revolution
Zwingle
Washington County
Federal Farm Board
Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation
G. P. Nye
North Dakota
Senate
Tom Mix
Minneapolis
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Havana
Cuba
Florida
Tiny” Lawrence
Tulane University
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Calv'n Coolidge
Wil Rogers
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George Noel Keyson
San Francisco Stock Exchange
Congress
Francis Hagner
Thomas A. Clayton
William H. Taft
Poly Cross Parochial School
Brooklyn
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Boston Common
Campus Martius
Liie
Oklahoma City
Martha Butlee
Washington Fire Department
CC. C. Reister
L. R. Schilling
James Casey
Jack Westphal
Frank Casey
Jay McNamra
Foreman
Asa Jones
R .H. McCarty
G. C. Springman
Beth Godfrey
Win Eryestone
J. M. Godfrey
O. L. Lyons
A. &. Burr
EB. W. Simons
Moose Lodge
Richard Johnson
Cash Meat Market
McKenzie Bros
Ralph Keller
Henry Tracy
Brighton
Ralph Tracy
Fairfield High School
Washington High School
Matt
Jim Casey
FP. I. Stewart
Ralph Scott
Boving Motor Company
Sarah Wilmer
Woman's Improvement League
Eire
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Ormen ‘ Dorothy Edmonds
India
lIlarvey Peake
Young Cyrus O
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Charles B. Barker
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M. Stanton
California
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Ed Aston
North Second Avenue
Mrs Stanley Maxwell
G. W. Hay
Washington ,County Hospital
C.W. Stewart
Rockefeller Foundation
Stewart
Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
American Legion
Robbins Bros. Circus
Charles Denison
A. E. Baldridge
Fourth Avenue
Madison Street
Alma Ott
Riverside
Washington County Republican Organization
Hamilton
H. A. Pauls
W A. Harper
D. J. Ross
Washington Choral Society
W. C. Hedges
St. James Catholic Church
Cornelius Kenally
Leo Wolfe
J. A. Marie
J. M. Kelly
John Braunhatseen
James Boyd
William C. Jones
Jones
Winsis
Roger Sherman
Telbert Bailey
Sherman
Illinois
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Hal Reister
John Westphal
Maggie Robertson
BE. C. Carris
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Muscatine
Albin
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Ed Mayhew
Washington Street
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