West High Play The Patsy Delights Nearly 1000
The junior class production The Patsy played to about 1000 in West High auditorium lasting over two hours. Agnes Thomas supervised the romp with Agnes Thomas and Maxine Harned starring as Patricia Harrington, aided by Willis Mayne and Mary Pollard in strong supporting roles.
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Maxine
Patsy
West High Play
West High
West High School
Agnes Thomas
Maxine Harned
Patricia Harrington
Siser
Tony Anderson
Willis Mayne
Patricia
Grace
Pat
Mayne
Mary Pollard
Charles Hoxie
Mr. Harrington
Hoxie
Mrs. Harrington
Lavelle Smith
Shirley O'Neil
Grace Harrington
Geneva
Wright
Sadie Buchanan
Abe Shapiro
Patrick O'Flaherty
Bruce Campbell
Trip
Figs Libeled by U S Unless Someone Acts Notice
A post office bulletin warns about the libeling of 65 boxes of Black Mission figs. The figs are seized and will be condemned and forfeited by the United States unless claimants appear at a federal court hearing in May. Signatures include Charles Kloster U S marshal and deputy John J. Brown.
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United States
Charles Kloster
U. S
Northern District of
Iowa
John J. Brown
Four Towns Take Honors in Hampton Music Contest
Four Towns Oelwein Hampton Story City and Stanhope high school students won first places at the regional music contest held at First M. B. church in Hampton. Winners advance to the state festival at Town City May 3 to 5. Judges were Dean Cowper off Drake University Charles Griffith Penn College and Talbot McRae Ames. Class results include Oelwein first in B boys glee, Hampton second. Hampton first in B girls glee, Osage second. B mixed chorus won by Hampton. Story City first in C boys glee club. Rockford second. Stanhope first in open orchestral. Rockford second.
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Courier
Hampton
Penn College
Talbot McRae
Ames
Oelwein
Osage
Story City
Rockford
Open Competiton
Stanhope
Jailboarder Joseph Jesus Refuses to Leave County Jail
Joseph Jesus a Mexican laborer in Black Hawk county remains in the county jail despite moves toward Mason City for factory work. An insanity test deemed him sane, though he had been jailed five days and preferred the jail’s homelike conditions. Sheriff H. T. Wagner faced a dilemma as Jesus kept returning to the jail and refused to depart after agreeing to pay 20 cents per day.
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Mason City
Black Hawk County
Joseph Jesus
Jesus
Waterloo
Joseph
Forks
H. T. Wagner
Prisoner Nuisance Removed as Sheriff Breathing Easier
Joseph, who stayed on at the bastile and drew county prison pay, has left after the sheriff and his force grew relieved. The nuisance was deemed ended with his departure.
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Joseph
Bastile
John Deere Organizes Private Fire Department
John Deere Tractor Company plant began steps to form an employee fire department under city fire chief Capt. Lou Armstrong. Forty volunteers joined as training on company apparatus began. The unit will have two hose companies, a chief and a foreman to be named later, with weekly drills until city firefighters arrive.
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John Deere Tractor Company
Lou Arstrong
Armstrong
Stolen phonograph found in boy’s home after car thefts
A portable phonograph stolen from a Repass Auto car on April 13 was recovered last night from Donald King’s home at 403 Second Street West. Detectives Ralph Davis and Hugh Crumrine found it hidden. King and Hartzell Greenly were sent to Eldora’s boysIndustrial School after being charged with car theft. They admitted no items were taken or sold.
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Repass Auto Company
Donald King
Second Street West
Ralph Davis
Hugh Crumrine
King
Hartzell Greenly
Boys’ Industrial School
Eldora
Bennett and Goss unveil new viola cello instrument
G. T. Bennett and L. Goss announce a perfected instrument called the viola cello. It blends viola and cello, aims to produce a tenor voice with an octave difference from violin. Patent filed. if tests succeed, Goss will manufacture eight for East High orchestra.
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G. T. Bennett
East High
L. Goss
Goss
Bennett
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Schnitz Seymour
ATA
Armor Y
Biomelodians
Democratic National Party
J. Bruce Kremer
Montana
John. Deere Tractor Company
Young Coal Co
Chicago
Cleveland
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
Vaudevilee
Billy Smith
Tommy Colton Co
Movse
Billy Russel
Frank Walmsley
Grace Keating
Piaaza
Peggy White
Lyle Myers
Jiggs
Dinty Moore
Maggie
Father
Marie Dressler
Polly Moran
J. Farrell MacDonald
One. Crawford
Popular Plaza Music Masters
Fiddlers
Danc
Ers
LOS
The
Rialto
D. W. Griffith
Drums of Love
Mary Philbin
Riviera
Riviera Theatre
Casey” Jones
His Sunny Smile
Dennis Sisters
Bert Mathews A
Ifford and
Gresham
Hollywood
Lionel Barrymore
Don Alvarado
Larry Lemon
Jay Mills
Adolphe Menjen
Night OF
Kezar’s
Kafeteria
Corner
Commercial
Bridge Sts
Home Institution
Bert Lytell
Lois Wilson
Jone Wolf
Pathe Review
the Gumps
Eve & Sun
Etna
Morocco
Paris
Comedy—News—Fables—Organ
Harland Yerkes’ Big Band
Marvelous
Tabhon
George Jessel
Monastery Quartet “Harmony
Harrington Sisters
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