Walnut Church of Walnut Street Baptist Enlarges
Walnut Street Baptist church completes remodeling adding a two story extension with new secretary’s room fireproof vault private pastor entry and exit, Boy Scouts space, Sunday school classrooms, enlarged choir loft and balcony, new bulletin board, drinking fountain, restored heating and kitchen improvements, and a Lime Street nursery entrance for Sunday school.
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Walnut Street
Warren L. Steeves
Park Avenue
Fourth Street
General Pub
Lime Street
State horseshoe record set at state tournament
Moines reporter notes that 146 fingers in a single game set a state horseshoe record in the preliminary round at the state fair yesterday. Frank Jackson Lamont and Ed Cairns led qualifiers with 40 games won and two lost, Jackson the defending champion and former national titleholder.
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Des
Moines
Slhps
Frank ‘Jackson
Lamont
Ed Cairns
Maxwell
Jackson
Near-Mont Blanc Peak Named for Il Duce in Franco-Italian Row
Mont Blanc, the Alps’ highest peak, retains its name after Italians proposed naming the nearby highest crest Mont Benito Mussolini. French officials protested the plan since the crest lies partly in France, though the christening was limited to an Italian peak near the border. The exact highest crest remains to be measured.
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Chamonix
France
Mont Blanc
Alps
Italy
Mussolini
Aosta
Ai Tho
Switzerland
Iowa Roads and Weather 10 A.M. Report
Council Bluffs reports fair conditions while Dubuque, Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, Creston, Clinton, Mason City show clear skies with good weather. Iowa City and Ottumwa remain fair and good. Keokuk and Boone enjoy clear and bright conditions.
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Associated Press
Council Bluffs
Dubuque
Iowa City
Ottumwa
Keokuk
Cedar Rapids
Boone
Des Moines
Creston
Clinton
Mason City
Oakdale and Woodward Receive State Liquor Allocations
The state sanatorium at Oakdale will get 25 gallons while the hospital for epileptics and feeble minded at Woodward will receive 21 gallons. The liquor was seized here in raids on bootleggers.
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Oakdale
Woodward
Timberland gift accepted by Sparta IOOF Lodge
Cherokee Iowa August 31 Sparta lodge IOOF Quimby accepts 93 acres of timberland as a perk from the late Banks Perry. The land transfer follows a bequest. Also noted Romans valued whole wheat bread as nutritive and Iceland marked its thousandth anniversary in 1874.
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Cherokee
Sparta Lodge
IO. F
Quimby
Banks Perry
Iceland
Bank failure probe set for First State Bank Hawkeye
West Union Iowa August 31 county grand jurors for the September term will investigate the condition of the First State bank of Hawkeye which closed April 8 officials announced.
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West Union
Lpfayette County
First State Bank of
McIntieer Dies at Superior Railroad Claim Agent
Edward Meintieer a traveling claim agent for railways and former Chicago Great Western station agent in Waterloo died at his Superior Wisconsin home this morning. He was about 64 and his body will be sent for burial. He had a gracious personality and suffered deeply after his wife perished in an elevator accident. Surviving is one child Madaline, married in the west. they had traveled through Waterloo with friends.
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Edward Meintieer
Railways
Chicago Great Western Railway
Waterloo
Superior
Wis
Soo
McIntieer
W. W. McFarlane
Illinois Central
M. G. Egloff
Rock Island
Altho
MclIntieer
Honora Brown
Walnut Street
Madeline
Madaline
California
Body of Walter Haskell Brought to Burlington Home
In Brainerd Minnesota on August 31 Walter L Haskell a retired Des Moines business man died of heart disease at his summer cottage on Lake Margaret near town His body was moved today to his Burlington Indiana home for burial or family rites.
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Brainerd, Minn
Walter L. Haskell
Des Moines
Burlington
Haskell
Lake Margaret
Road contracts let in Ma-haspka County I A
Oskaloosa August 31 The county board of supervisors of Ma haska county let graveling contracts totaling 23000 for county roads The board also voted a 1000000 paving bond issue within the same action
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Oskaloosa
County Board of Supervisors of
Mahaska
No Strike In Des Moines Expected As Chicago Shows Close
Des Moines officials and theatre managers say extended strike actions in Chicago are unlikely to affect Des Moines. A. H. Blank of the Blank theatre chain and E. F. Lampman, manager of the Orpheum circuit here, stated no anticipated theatre closures in the city.
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Des Moines
Chicago
A. H. Blank
Blank Theatre
E. F. Lampman
Orpheum
Wagner Ships 41 Gals of Alcohol to Iowa Hospitals
Sheriff H. T. Wagner ordered court action shipping 41 gallons of alcohol to two Iowa state hospitals for medical care purposes. The move follows a court directive and reflects early 20th century public health logistics.
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Wagner
H. T. Wagner
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Iowa
Lodge
Park
NCE
Soo” Line
Bretta
Seasotoa
Waterloo Paint & Glass Co
W. 4Th St
Jefferson Street
D. B. Phelps
Dotson
Children’s Dept
L’aiglon
Billy Rough
Kaynee
Eagle’s Hall
Colorado
Colo
Rado Elbertas
Commission
Compan
Buehler Bros
East Fourth St
Liver
Skinner
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