Hotel Keepers Pick Waterloo for 1929 Meeting
The seventeenth annual Town Hotel association meeting will be held in Waterloo in December 1929. W B Smith, head of the Hotel Martin, Sioux City, was chosen president, succeeding Chester Hartnagle. Officers include Fred Horton, Royal H Holbrook, and George Dempsey. next year’s convention to be in President and Russell Lams on hotels. A national campaign will tout Iowa tourism and a clearing house for bad checks and hotel skippers was approved.
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Courier
Council Bluffs
Town Hotel Association
Waterloo
Hartnagle
Association
Iowa
Iowa ‘Nebraska
Hotel Greeters of America
President
Russell Lamson Hotels
E. F. Tangney
Tangney-McGinn Company
Randalia Woman III Ill With Pneumonia
Randalia Iowa December 20 Special Mrs Gilbert Torrey is ill with pneumonia at her home here in Randalia.
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Randalia
Gilbert Torrey
Winners Receive National Radio Auditions Prizes
Hazel C Arth and Donald Nevis were named winners of the 1928 national radio audition and received a prize of 5000 dollars and two years of scholarship in an American musical academy. They were photographed as they accepted the awards.
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Pretty Hazel C. Arth
Donald Nevis
Pioneer engineer dies at 75 in Des Moines
Daniel T. OConnell, 75, longtime Rock Island Lines engineer, died after a brief illness from pneumonia. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at St. Ambrose Cathedral in Des Moines.
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Des Moines
INS
St. Ambrose Cathedral
Daniel T. O’connell
Rock Island Ines
Home Made Cough Remedy Promises Fast Relief
A vintage home remedy advises mixing 244 ounces of Pinex with a pint of sugar syrup or honey to treat stubborn coughs. The ad claims quick relief by loosening phlegm and soothing inflammation, with absorption into the blood to reach bronchial tubes. Pinex, a creosote-containing pine extract, is touted as superior to substitutes and guaranteed to work or money back.
Girl Flier Seeks Endurance Record
Roosevelt Field New York December 20 Miss Viola Gentry holder of a transport pilot license took off in a travel air biplane aiming to set a new endurance record for women. The craft carries 1100 gallons of gasoline for roughly 18 hours aloft with Gentry targeting about 15 hours in the air. She has about 150 solo flying hours to her credit. A bank in Shanghai is run by a Chinese woman for women.
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N. Y
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Viola Gentry
Gentry
Shanghai
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