12 Easy Melody Way piano lessons via Evening Courier club
The Evening Courier announces a 12 lesson Melody Way piano program for readers starting Saturday. Miessner designed the method used in Milwaukee schools, with blanks to join the club and a keyboard and piano provided for members at Ross conservatory under Frederic Mills Ross. Parents urged to have children apply now and watch for details.
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Evening Courier
Courier
Miessner
W. Otto Miessner
Milwaukee
Wis
Fiano
Davidson Company
Ross Conservatory of Music
Frederic Mills Ross
Extortion Charge Brought Against Victor Youth
George Hornbeck aged 20 of Victor is jailed in Linn county on attempted extortion charges. Sheriff R L Whelan from Benton county summoned to Belle Plaine after Roy Bird, a used car dealer, reported receiving a letter demanding 1800 to avert harm from a supposed New York hijacker. Hornbeck confessed aiming to raise money to buy a car and was sent to Cedar Rapids in federal custody.
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Vinton, Inc
Hickman
George Hornbeck
Victor
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Young Hornbeck
R. L. Whelan
Benton County
Belle Plaine
Roy Bird
Bird
Sherif
Hornbeck
New York
Young Horneck
Dolls Will Smile at Salvation Army Christmas Party
The Salvation Army hall hosts the annual Sunday school exercises tonight at 7 30 p m with a decorated tree, tinsel lights and gifts for children and adults. Capt. and Mrs. George Watt announce proceeds from the Christmas dinner fund exceed last year, totaling over 1100 dollars from boxes and kettles.
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Salvation Army
George Watt
Watt
Real Estate Transfers Mixed in Cedar Falls Listings
Real estate transfers show Ed Madigan as treasurer conveying land in Sec 24 87 12 to H N Silliman. Lizzie Geyer and others transfer part of lot 8 block 3 O plat to R C Moore. Jesse E R Van Horn and wife transfer lots 16 and 17 block 30 Hagerwinn Place. W H Button transfers to Henry J Sutton et al. lots 2 block 3 Conger Park. Button also transfers Be lob 11 Schilliam's Second sub Nine g PeAaeebeti to G A Wentland. John I Wentland acquires lot 9 block 20 Normal add Cedar Falls. Madigan as treasurer conveys Felis land in Sec Lee EB Dathine to Johnson It 83 black 7. & McWilliams' add Howrey sy pbespe.
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Ed Madigan
H. N. Silliman
Lizzie Geyer
R. C. Moore
O. Plat
Jesse E. R. van Horn
Hagerwinn Place
W. H. Button
Henry J. Sutton
Sec
Lee EB
al Johnson
McWilliams
Howrey
Oxen Replace Switch Engines at Navasota Plant
In Navasota Texas on December 28 1947 oxen pull 50 to 100 ton loads on railroad sidetracks replacing steam switch engines. Jim Brown guides five yokes of oxen through the cotton seed mill yard, proving economical motive power and earning local regard for decades.
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Navasota
Tex
FH. Schumaker
Jim Brown
J. J. Piper
Texas
Jim
Dante Pierce denies cabinet job knowledge
Des Moines December 28 Dante M Pierce publisher of the Town Homestead says he has no knowledge of being under consideration for the post of secretary of agriculture and refutes rumors from Washington dispatches about Secretary Sardines resignation. A separate note mentions the value of the world’s diamonds at about five billion dollars.
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Des Moines
Washington
Dante M. Pierce
Washington Dispatch
Sardine
Mason Halleck Re employed as road pasto rmen and constables
Harry P. Mason and Lloyd Halleck were reappointed by the board of supervisors as road pastormen and constables for the year. Bonds set at 1600 each. Mason served three years, Halleck appointed in 1827. They aided state agents against booze runners, seizing ten cars. A shooting incident involving Roscoe T. Flack led to a civil suit for damages. Flack also filed a state charge, and the officers’ defense is handled by Pike Sias Zim mer man & Frank.
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Harry P. Mason
Lloyd Halleck
Board of Supervisors
Mason
Halleck
George Gillespie
Attourney
Roscoe T. Flack
Independence
Limer Nelson
Flack Hnally
Mlack
Assail
Gillespie, Major
Pike, Sias, Zimmerman & Frank
Flack
Special grand jury clears officers of criminal liability
A special session of the grand jury investigated by a Council Bluffs lawyer as special prosecutor did not indict anyone. The jurors returned a written report exonerating the officers from criminal liability after the inquiry into an assault with intent to commit murder.
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Grang Jury
Council Bluffs
Masons to Conduct Wheat Funeral at Shell Rock Friday
J W Wheat aged 69 died of heart disease on a Shell Rock sidewalk after starting for town. Funeral Friday afternoon at daughter Mrs Jessie Mansfield home with Masons in charge. Local pastors Rev E L True and Rev S V Williams to participate. Surviving are two daughters Mary Shell Rock and Mrs Julia Betts. wife and son had died earlier.
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Shell Rock
J. W. Wheat
Jessie Mansfield
Masons
E. L. True
the Baptist Church
Commercial teachers at convention in Kansas City
Bruce F. Gates, president of Gates College, and Mrs. Gates attend the Commercial Teachers association annual convention in Kansas City. M. H. Renz of Vinton High School heads to the three day session and Mrs. Clarence Por of Gates College plans a late departure for a stenotype teachers meeting with a return tonight.
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Bruce FP. Gates
Gates College
Gates
Banras City
Commercial Teachers Association
M. H. Renz
Fourth Street East
Vinton High School
Clarence Por
Worth Billmaan to Show Legion His Own Movies
Worth Billmaan, as a Legion delegate, will present several hundred feet of motion pictures at the Memorial hall meeting of Becker- Chaplin post No. 138 in Paris on Thursday night January 5. A Linden M. E. church male quartet will provide music under W. F. Dilworth. With late deadlines for adjusted compensation, 34 ex-service men have applied through the post, and Brucher urges eligible veterans to arrange evening appointments at 145 Prospect Ave.
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National Convention of the Legion
Paris
Post
Memorial Hall
Hilman
Fim
Linden M. EB. Church
W. F. Dilworth
Becker- Chapmin Post
BE. J. Brucher
Sale
Americ Legion
Mas Viake
Brucher Worth
Portraits for town’s two World War veterans unveiled
A Becker-Chapman post delegation will assist at exercises on Wednesday night, Jan. 4, in Hudson, in connection with the unveiling of portraits of the two World War veterans for whom Gibson-Mueller Josh of that town is named.
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Becker-Chapman Post
Hudson
Qibson-Mueller Josh
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