Gas Station Bandits to Face Judge
A Nashua trio Joe Parsons Guy Taylor and Ira Tucker will be sentenced by Judge H E Taylor in district court after confessing to breaking into a Nashua filling station on Oct 31 1926 and stealing tires They were captured after police traced mail and tips led to arrests The men admitted planning and transporting the tires and selling them through several buyers near Minneapolis Waterloo and Independence prior to their capture
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Courier
New Hampton
Joe Parsons
Guy Taylor
Frederika
Ira J. Tucker
Bradford Township
H. E. Taylor
Nashua
Ira
C. A. Upham
BR. P. Blankenheim
Minneapolis
Farmer Springs
Parsons
Taylor
Hamel
Upham
Tucker
Washita
Stires
Janesville
Ed Henn
Waverly
Allen
Stieger
APA
Davits
Henn ‘Place
Art Miller
Independence
Willam Costello
Waterloo
Wiltse Fined $100 on Assault Charge
Charles City April 14 Wiltse indicted on assault with intent to do great bodily harm pled guilty before Judge Clark and fined $100 plus costs which he paid. Tierney charged with burglary aggravation indicted and to be tried this term. Northeastern Iowa Consistory to meet tonight in Charles City with Mounday Thursday services in the Masonic temple and a 6:30 dinner. Charles City Country club opening May with dinner dance and cards Waterloo orchestra to provide music. Harry Patten sold his apple crop to Henry Field Shenandoah. Mr and Mrs F C Hartwig near the city have a son born April 41. Mr and Mrs Roland Sige Will mar Minn are parents of a son born Wednesday April 12 formerly residents here.
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Charles City, Jr
Dayton
Shenandoah
Patten
Shennandoah
F.C. Hartwig
Roland Sige
Willmar
Minn
Dewar Band Plans Summer Concerts
Dewar Iowa April 14 The Dewar corner band plans weekly summer concerts. An instructor from Cedar Falls has joined. Several new members, mostly young men, have been added. The band is self supporting and will begin regular practice after the spring farm rush eases. Roads out of Dewar have been impassable for weeks due to rain.
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Courier
Dewar
Cedar Falls
Unsalaried Staff Runs 8 Mile Road Manchester la
The Manchester and Oneida rail road built in 1901 by local boosters has no salaries for officers aside from a traffic manager, no dividends, no interest payments, and no stock assessments. It operates at a profit now due to motive power changes, linking Manchester to Oneida and Chicago rail lines. Major Edward M. Carr was its first president and remains on the board.
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Manchester
Oneida
Matestie 4
Central
Chicago Great Western
Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Edward M. Carr
Bad Roads Force Reinbeck School Two-Week Vacation
Reinbeck Consolidated school closed two weeks due to poor roads hindering bus service. Local health and community updates mention hospital stays, recoveries, births, and local hires. Several residents face medical issues, a new road superintendent appointed, and a brief note on a gas price fluctuation at the Lauterbach station.
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Reinbeck
Ingward Nielson
Alen Memorial Hospital
Waterloo
Lester
Dodd
Toledo
Robert Shope
Shope
Wendal Biebesheimer
Wilson, School
Phylis Schuknecht
Henry Wieben
Leroy A. Moser
Ed’ Robertson
Raleigh Robertson
Trene Johns
Allen Memorial Hospital
Tracy Jones
Fred Fletcher
Black Hawk Township
Fred Peaton
Fletcher
Ernest Buhrman
Alleene Biebesheimer
G. A. Biebesheimer
M. FF. Tschirgi
California
Edward Hornig
Lauterbach
Ontjes- Frerichs Co
Lauterbach Station
Death Calls Two Oldest Citizens of Grundy Center
A F Willoughby died at his Grundy Center home from age related causes at 88 or 89. He helped found the local Baptist church in 1862 and lived in Grundy County since 1861 with earlier settlement in Davenport. Funeral at the Baptist church led by Rev Crane. Dieken dies at 70, early county settler and large land owner. Survived by widow and several children. Funeral at German Presbyterian church with Rev Siming and Rev Drake. burial at Drake church cemetery.
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Grundy Center
A. F. Willoughby
Tough Willoughby
Harold Willoughby
The
Baptist Church
Grundy County
Davenport
New York
RK. Crane
Willoughby
Dieke D. Dieken
Dieken
Jurgen Tieke
Abe Petersen
Walter Bakker
Sam Smitt
Siming
J. K. Drake
Drake Church
Colfax Township
Charch
Calfax
Tey, Drake
Cedar Falls Woman's Club to be led by Mrs. Cram
Cedar Falls April 14 Mrs Fred D Cram elected president of the Cedar Falls Woman's Club at the annual meeting succeeding Mrs William C Nuhn Other officers elected include Mrs Edward H Carney first vice president Mrs H N Silliman second vice president Mrs A A Rhonalt recording secretary Mrs Mary Nesbit Hiler corresponding secretary Mrs David J Watters treasurer and C S Coddington registrar The annual dinner will be May 2 at Bartlett hall dining room Good Friday services observed across Cedar Falls with multiple churches holding special services including St Johns English Lutheran St Luke's Episcopal and Danish Nazareth Lutheran Churches plus a religious drama St Claudia performed by the Cedar Falls Womans Club members.
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Courier Special Service
Cedar Falls
Fred D. Cram
A. A. Rhonalt
Mary Nesbit Hiler
David J. Watters
C. &S. Coddington
O. B. Read
Bartlett Hall
Christian Church
Thomas Anderson
First Baptist Church
St. John’s English Lutheran Church
Tremont Street
H. W. Siefkes
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
H. C. Bossier
Otto Nielsen
Danish Nazareth Lutheran Church
Ottar Jorgensen
Mmes
W. C. Lang
Levi Jewell
J. E. Dowden
Faust
John H. Robinson
J. Line
J. A. Petrie
John Goff
F. L. VanderVeer
O. H. Leonard
O. E. Sliter
W. E. Hil
A. L. Clark
W. H. Ley
Rachel Wiliams
Frank Watson
Henry White
G. C. Frisby
C. C. Severin
W. E. Noble
H. S. Buffum
Alice Cowie
Harriet McHugh
New Heads
Teachers College
U. KE. Reese
Frank L. McCreary
Elgin
Til
Pre-School Dental Clinic Planned for Fayette in April
Fayette will host a three day pre-school dental clinic on April 28 29 and 30 under Dr George J Wandel with Miss Ethel Reuben assisting. Patients will receive cleanings and examinations with lectures on dental care and disease prevention. Also scheduled is the Upper Iowa State Peace Oratorical contest tryouts with Gladys Mokiroy Rudd Ednth Tux ton OU and Qrrleton Crain Fayette competing.
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Fayette
George J. Wandel
Ethel Reuben
Wandel
Upper Lawa
Gladys Mokiroy
Rudd
Ednth Tuxton
Qrrleton Crain
Faye Vette
Wall
Clutter Man’s Car Burns and He Escapes Slightly Hurt
Frank Kosnar, Traer, and Albert Kosnar near Clutier were alerted by Warren County sheriff about their brother Charles found unconscious and half frozen beside a road south of Indianola Sunday. Clutter man’s car was badly damaged by fire after a likely fuel-line issue caused an explosion that left him unconscious. He recovered with a severe cold from exposure, traveled to Marshalltown, then returned home with his brothers.
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Traer, Jr
Frank Kosnar
Traer
Albert J. Kosnar
Clutier
Indianola
Warren County
Charles
Mr. Kosnar
Joe Kosnar
Iowa
Kosnar
Tama County
Marshalltown
Anita Andrews Chosen President of Home Economics Club
Oelwein Iowa April 14 Miss Anita Andrews daughter of Dr and Mrs Andrews North Frederick Avenue elected president of the home economics club at Ames where she is a student Citizens military training information available from D R Lynch Co L Nelson Speech Arts club Oelwein high school to present three one act plays Friday night at the high school funeral of Mrs Martha Beals aged 86 held Saturday Forest Howard 15 died Tuesday funeral today at Baptist church burial at Woodlawn
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Courier Special Service
Oelwein
Anita Andrews
Martha Beals
H. O. Perkins
Forest Howard
A. H. Howard
Third Street
Northwest
Baptist Church
Woodlawn
Ramseyer Invited to Address Alumni Breakfast
Cedar Falls Iowa April 14 Charles W Ramseyer Bloomfield Ia congressman from the sixth Iowa district has been invited to address the annual alumni breakfast of Iowa State Teachers College Monday May 30 in the women's gymnasium Representative Ramseyer is a graduate from the college class of 1902
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Courier
Cedar Falls
Charles W. Ramseyer
Bloomfield
Iowa
Iowa State Teachers College
Representative Ramserer
Castoria advertising note from historic patent medicine era
An old advertisement promotes Fletcher's Castoria claiming 380 years of use as a safe substitute for castor oil and paregoric. It touts teething drops and soothing syrups with no narcotics and directions on each package, signed by a genuine source.
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Fletcher
Remarkable recovery thanks to Dr Pierce's remedies
Lewis Shuck of Hannibal Missouri touts Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery after a severe decline where doctors hoped for little chance. He reports rapid improvement and regaining health, urging others to ask a druggist for the remedy or send for trial packs to Buffalo New York.
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Hannibal
Dr. Pierce
Lewis Shuck
Doctor Pierce
Buffalo
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Rotary Club
Adam Waener
J. B. Clay
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A. K R. Baxter
Fred Oleson
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Wilbur N. Hostrop
Rochester
Gertrude
Robert Madsen
J. C. Wieneke
Harold G. Palmer
Ralph Isbersold
Kerwin Company
Sullivan Pivlin
Des Moines
Meriam Krane
Powell
A Stuent
Sais Law Soles
Jnoval Club
Clutter Man
Qelwein
State College
Ramseyer
T. C
Hansen Studio
Shipley Premium
Will
Louis XVI
Ivanhoe and
van Raalte
Jergen’s
the Polly Shoe Shop
MNG
Polly
Colleen
Paris
Nanette
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