Ponca City Banker Meek Built Oklahoma Postcard Trail
PONCA CITY OKLA December 5. Pioneering banker Meek, a leading Ponca City figure, built a fortune selling town postcards that featured Oklahoma’s landmarks. He moved from Kansas to Oklahoma, helped found Ponca City’s chamber of commerce and city government, and became bank president and loan head. He promoted roads and roadsides, hosted signs for “Meek’s highway,” and aided local commerce while guiding Mulhall’s Ford dealership venture.
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Ponea City
Okla
Tostenraa
IL. K. Meek
Ponca City
Oklahoma
Kansas
Mulhall
Tulhalt
Meek
Oldtimers Ag A
Chamber of Commerce
Arkansas City
Kan
Promised Land
Arkansas ‘City
Fesk
Yortherm
Spa
Wiliam T. Kemper
Kemper
Oklahoma Somewhere and Get One.” — Maegk
Oklahoma Bank
Lawrence
Topeka
Newton
Wichita
Winfield
Arkansas
Guthrie
Arkangas Ood
Busi
Aihouse
7 & Te
Ford Cars
Meak
Meeke
Harry Cragin
Min" Hutchings
Chamber Dicommerce Railroad Committee
Cit
Ponca City Boy Scout Organization
George
Ice Cream Makers Headed for Iowa Parley
Local ice cream manufacturers Roger Crowell and Earl Glasson of Waterioe Ice Cream Co plan to attend the annual Ice Cream Association of Iowa meeting in Destin es next week. The convention runs three days at Hotel Fort Des Moines with an annual banquet Wednesday. Speaker lineup includes W. E. McMurray of the Iowa state department of agriculture, P. Beck of Chicago, Fred Rasmussen of Harrisburg, and W. Owen Duan of St Paul.
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Roger J. Crowell
Earl ©. Glasson
Waterioe Ice Cream Company
L. ‘Jf. Potter
P. Rb.’ Beck
Chicago
Fred Rasmussen
Harrisburg
W. OW. Duan
St. Paul
Minnesota Association of Dice Cream Manufacturers
Grand jury to probe 25 million dollar rum ring
New York reports that a federal grand jury will investigate the Dwyer ring described as the biggest in the country. Buckner expects numerous indictments beyond 43 warrants issued. Officials cited bribery of coast guards and employed help as part of a vast bootleg operation earning about 25 million annually.
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Grand Jury
New York
INS
Federal
Manny
United States
Emory R. Buckner
Coast Guard
Coast ‘Guard
Buckner
William Dwyer
Welfare League To Discuss Christmas Relief Next Wednesday
The Social Welfare League plans its monthly meeting to review Christmas relief and social service work for the winter. Miss Anne Denston, superintendent, released November reports showing 105 families aided, groceries to two families, clothing to 15, rent and fuel support for several, and one fit hospital item. The nurse’s report notes 49 cases handled in November with 36 calls in December, 26 home visits, and clinic attendance. Nurse Merie James resigned. Mrs. E C Pugh named acting nurse.
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Sovial Welfare League
Anne Denston
League
Merie James
E, UC. Pugh
Actlaz Nur
Klan Dinner and Lecture Draws About 250 Attendees
About 250 persons attended a Ku Klux Klan dinner and invitational meeting at Johnson's Hall in Black Hawk County. Rev Mr MecCannon of Des Moines lectured on the group's principles while Jack Hawk led the Klan band.
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Black Hawk County
Johnson's Hall
Mr. MecCannon
Des Moines
Jack Hawk Klan
Ancient and rare volumes haunt the west library shelf
A historian notes a ghostly shelf of leather bound volumes and old Bibles. The Tacitus Annals collection presented by Edward Kurtz sits with other 18th and 19th century works. Titles include The Christian Remembrancer, Roblins Ancient History, Don Quixote and History of Greece.
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West Library
Tacitus
Thomas Gordon
London
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Edward Kurtz
Towns State Teachers College
Snowden and McCorkie
Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles- Lettres
Luke-Han Sard & Sons
Paris
M.D
Royal College of Physicians
M. Fondblanque
Inn
Charles Jervis
Wilk Lan Mitford
Greece
Architect to Prepare Plans for Penney Building
Bartley has been employed as architect by the Waterloaf & Cedar Fats Union Millo to prepare plans and specifications for a new building on the site of the old mill at Fourthated Water streets for occupancy by the Wt. Ct. Penney company of New York. Machinery in the mill is being removed and sold to the Standard Mill Supply Company of Kansas City. Foundation for the new building will be laid before spring, with dismantling of the mill to follow.
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Bartley
Waterloaf & Cedar Fats Union Millo
Wt. Ct. Penney Company
York
Glam
Bown
Standard Mill Supply Company
Kansas
Pantatrope Electric Musical Instrument Display
Leath & Co displays a Brunswick Pantatrape instrument in collaboration with Brunswick Balke Collender, General Electric, and Westinghouse. It uses a magnetic pickup to convert electrical impulses into sound, claimed to surpass phonographs and capable of hooking to a radio.
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A. Leath & Co
Brunswick
Black Laughter and Travel Books in the Winter Reading List
Miss Callie reviews new travel related books as winter travel moves indoors. Stella Benson’s This Little World surveys Japan China and the States with humor. Charles Lum’s Some Strange Corners of Our Country revisits the Southwest with new notes. Liewelyn Powys writes Slack Laughter on care of 34 000 sheep and East Africa. Konrad Bercovici’s On New Shores follows diverse groups from New York to Wisconsin North Dakota Minnesota and California with a humane, romantic touch.
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Miss Callie
Wieder
Mesa
Canon and
Pueblo
Stella Benson
Japan
China
Miss Benson
Aden
California
Stephanie the
Ford
Stephanie
Ler
Charles Lummis
Southwest
Liewelyn Powys
Powys
East
Africa
Konrad Bercovicy
Konrad Bercovici
New York City
Wisconsin
North Dakota
Minnesota
Maid of Athens Weds Naturalized American Here
Frieda Gonzanis from Samiolandi Greece marries Andrew Ganzonas, a naturalized citizen, and moves to Waterloo. She begins night school at West High and plans to seek American citizenship. Ganzonas notes Greeks fleeing Asia Minor, cites local growth and American cars in Athens. The piece compares Athens Piraeus, Waterloo Cedar Falls, and recalls ancient port history.
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Athens
Waterloo
United States
Frieda Gonzanis
Andrew Gonzanas
Piraeus
Greece
West High
Ganzonas
Asia Minor
Cedar Falls
Themistocles
B.C. Walle
Cimon
Pericles
Delegates Go to Texas to Oppose Rate Zone Division
Des Moines dispatch reports Iowa railroad officials and delegates travel to Dallas Texas to oppose a proposed S percent increase in railroad freight rates. They would contest splitting the western states into north and south rate zones, a move opposed by the interstate commerce commission in 1920.
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Texas
Des Moines
UPJ
M. Richardson
Iowa Railroad Commission
J. H. Henderson
Ecommerce Coun
W. F. Parsons
Dallas
Tex
interstate _ commerce commission
Fulton Retires from Boxing to Join Minneapolis Police
Fred Fulton, famed heavyweight pugilist and plasterer, announced retirement after 12 years in the ring and has applied for a position with the Minneapolis police force. England claims the oldest woman's club in the world, organized 118 years ago.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Fred Fulton
Squared
Fulton
Minneapolis Police Forest
England
Fredericksburg High Basketball Team Stranded In Snow
Fredericksburg high school's basketball squad endured a snowy journey to Lawler with a win, but on return one car got lost and stopped at farmer George Lochdasell's farmhouse six miles southeast of Fredericksburg. A second car broke down two and a half miles from town and its occupants walked in.
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Fredericksburg
Lawler
George Lochdassel
Lochdassel
College News Scoop At State High School Convention
More than 125 high school journalists from 48 schools attend the annual convention of the Iowa High School Press association. Practically all larger cities in the state are represented.
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Mee
Grinnell
Dee
Tews
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