Colesburg Isolated by Blizzard and Coal Shortage
Delayed and clipped reports describe Colesburg Iowa, a town of 350, cut off by 10 foot drifts. Coal runs low, roads blocked, mayor blames county supervisors for failure to open routes to Petersburg and Guttenberg. Residents heat with scarce coal, some living in single rooms, bob sleds delivering limited supplies as trucks attempt to break through.
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Colesburg
Associated Press
W. E. Hoot
Petersburg
Here
Guttenberg
Great Western
Dr. Hoot
Clayton County
Mississippi River
Dubuque
Poli
Earlville
Boyersville
Chicago, Great Western Railway Company
Deaths New Haven and Charles City Iowa
Eval Lockwood 19 son of Mr and Mrs C A Lockwood New Haven buried after double mastoid infection operation. Services at St Peters Catholic New Haven with Rev A N Tibeau. He died Thursday. He was a member of the New Haven band Charles City also holds funeral for Anna Catherine Jung Monday at 3 PM Lutheran church Interment Riverside.
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New Haven
Qsage
Eval Lockwood
A. ‘Lockwood
St. Peters Catholic Church
A. N. Tibeau
Ival
Charles City
Anna Catherine Jung
Lutheran Church
C. G. Frottengeter
Riverside
Nashua Congregational church elects 1929 officers
Nashua Jan 26 Offiers for the local Congregational church have been elected to serve during 1929. G E Scoles is deacon, succeeding the late William Lytle. W Howard is re-elected deacon, Homer Troutner retains his seat, Mrs W B Smith and Mrs A M Troutner re-elected deacons, R D Staley treasurer, Dwight Grawe clerk, Mrs A D Leaman trustee succeeding Lynch Rust. Other board members are Dr K H Goodale, Dr P B Stuart, G B Ellison, and W B Smith. The church plans to host the Mitchell County Association meeting in October, and a history of the church will be prepared by clerk Dwight Grawe for the Chicago Historical Society.
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Dwight Grave
A. D. Leaman
Lynch Rust
K. H. Goodale
P. B. Stuart
G. BE. Ellison
W. B. Smith
Mitchell County Association of Congregational Churches
Congregational Church
Dwight Grawe
Chicago Historical Society
Thursday Club Banquet Planned For Feb 1 At La Porte
The Thursday club met at Mrs Ralph Rubigan's home with nine members present. Banquet for members and families scheduled Feb 1 at Mr and Mrs Ralph Nichols home. Also covered are Farmers Savings Bank board election results and Cedar Township Farm Bureau monthly meeting with a debate on gender work divisions and parliamentary drills.
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Porte Guy
Ralph Nichols
Farmers’ Bank
Farmers’ Savings Bank
F. G. Gravenhorst
T. D. Teeter
Jesse O. Rober
Glenn Teeter
George Gill
Helen Sweet
Farm Bureau
Cedar Township
S. O. Smalling
James Cir‘dle
Fred Wheeler l
G. Smalling
Miss Shover
Nauity Home
David Allison
Rami
Snowbound roads halt buses and town traffic in Iowa
Frigid Thursday night left deep drifts blocking roads across several Iowa locations. Mitchell and Oneida school buses were unable to operate, halting rural routes and delaying pupil transport. A sleigh overturn injures a rural driver while Charles City plows clear 15 inches of snow as counties report blocked primary and county roads.
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Mitchell
L. R. Dockerty
R. F.D
Oneida
Charles City
Charlies City
Here
E. G. Larson
Records of burial plots at Cedar Falls revised
Cedar Falls Jan 28 Frank F Buller works in the city clerk office updating Greenwood cemetery records. An indexed system records interments with name date lot addition and number age nationality and military status. Three cards per entry cover interment lot and care. About 800 cards already made. the work began years back and the March 1 1893 interments total 1223 per Peter Melendy. Also notes a Cedar Falls fire harvest likely starting Monday with 6000 tons expected and ice 14 inches thick at the cutoff. Mrs Charles T Kramer Esther Shoemaker of Cedar Falls named best home demonstration agent in Arkansas and to Houston Texas trip.
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Gourier
Cedar Falls
Frank 5. Buller
Greenwood Cemetery
Butler
Peter Melendy
Itenor
Charles T. Kramer
Esther Shoemaker
J. M. Shoemaker
Arkansas
Southern Extension Congress
Houston
Tex
Kramer
Crittenden County
Marion
Ark
Smiths Company
Harry S. Brown
Franklin and
Eleventh Streets
Henry Hoyer Longtime Oelwein Publisher Nominated Budget Director
Henry Hoyer, 65, publisher of the Oelwein Register, is reported as Governor Hammill’s likely choice for budget director. A longtime Republican figure, he arrived from Ackley 25 years ago, bought the local paper, and has run it since, after serving years as city clerk of Odl weth in the past.
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Eloortar
Oelwein
Henry Hoyer
Oelwein Register
Hammill
Ackley
al Tho
Republican Party
Hoyer
Odlweth
Road and Bridge Contracts Set to Be Let Feb 3
Ames Ind Feb 26 A bulletin from the state highway commission lists contracts for paying 43 328 miles of the primary road system grading 7 584 miles and bridges and culverts totaling further work. Paving contracts target Adair Jackson Kossuth and Pottawattamie counties with specific mileages. Grading and bridge culvert awards are planned for Appanoose Shelby and several other counties.
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Ames
Indan
State Highway Commission
Adair County
Jackson
Kossuth
Pottawatta
Appenoose
Shelby
Appanoose
Henry
Joneslee
Mills
Monena
Loion
Warren
Mrs Plopper Sinking Slowly At Cedar Falls Hospital
Gradually increasing weakness of Mrs Estelle Plopper of Town Falls is reported at Surton Memorial Hospital where she has been a patient since a stroke Tuesday afternoon after arrival. She was to visit at the home of Mrs Robert Obele and became ill shortly after reaching there. The W C T U will meet Tuesday at the home of Mrs S Knour. Muhing of spinal meningitis of St Francis Hospital Waterloo is much better. hopes for recovery.
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Cedar Falls
Estelle Plopper
Town Falls
Surtort Memorial Hospital
Robert Obele
Dunkerton W
Waterloo
Dallas
Tex
Plaza Theatre
Courier-Plaza Charm School
Mme., Serrec
The
Courier
Births Reported in Charles City
Mr and Mrs Tom Leary of 408 Seventh Avenue report the birth of a daughter Patricia Anne born Friday morning in Cedar Valley hospital.
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Charles City
Tom Leary
Seventh Ave
Petricia Anne
Cedar Valley Hospital
Peace officers defend Kinkel damage suit at Floyd County trial
Testimony by former and present Floyd County and Charles City peace officers described Donovan Kinkel as not vicious, while Mrs. Olive Kiinkel seeks 73000 dollars from Sheriff Saddler and his deputies over Kinkel's 1927 death. Defense witnesses challenged Kinkel's alleged violence. jury list includes farmers, a machinist, a salesman, and a road employee. Trial resumes after noon adjournment.
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Courier Special Service
Charles City
Floyd County
Donovan Kirckel
P. A. Saddler
Kiinkel
Olive Kiinkel
Klinkel
C. D. Strong
Dan Shannon
Bert White
C. G. Gray
W. D. Cutler
Bernard Atherton
Sadaler
A. T. Weatherwax
William Morris
Kliinkel
Lee
Ernest Vandeventer
Herbert Gray
Oak Park
Kilinkel
Beddler Foll
Vandeventer
Saddler
W. G. Henke
Kinkel
Kuinkel
Cr. W. McFarland
Hart-Parr
Kilnkel
M. F. Kepler
Northwood
Gourt
Andrew Ewen
Farmer
Jack Langman
Rudd
R. ¥. Hardy
Marble Rock
George Brown
D. D. Roberts
E. M. Hunter
Orchard
W. W. Atkins
Taborer
Floyd
Lews Matson
Walter Gardener
Jap Hillier
Hobst
Charles Becker
Nashua
L. Pudd
Rippey Consolidated School Wins Fourth in National Canning Test
Des Moines January 26. The vocational home making class of Rippey Consolidated School Greene County won fourth place in a recent national canning test. Prize money of 40 will be used to improve the homemaking laboratory under Miss Helen Swinney, the instructor. Twelve varieties of canned goods were entered in the contest.
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Des Moines
U.A
Rippey Consolidated School
Greene County
E. Moore
State Board of Vocational Education
Helen Swinney
Moore
Clemens Funeral Set for Oelwein Monday
Oelwein IA Jan 26 The funeral of Vincent Clemente who died Thursday will be held Monday at a local church with burial in the adjoining cemetery. Survived by several relatives the family requested prayers and expressed thanks for support.
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Otlwein
Vincent Clemente
Thurs
Funeral Service At Sacred Heart Church For 29 Year Old Clemens
A funeral will be held Monday at a.m. in Sacred Heart Catholic Church with burial in Woodlawn cemetery. Surviving are Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Clemens of 437 South Frederick Avenue, the parents, and the deceased was 29 years old.
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Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Woodlawn
W. R. Clemens
South
Frederick Avenue
Underwood to Be Buried in Alabama
Former Senator Oscar W. Underwood dies of pneumonia in Mount Vernon Washington mourns him. Body to travel to Birmingham Alabama for funeral set for Monday. Family present at bedside as funeral party departs from Alexandria Virginia.
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Washington
D. C
INS
Oscar W. Underwood
Alabama
Underwood
Mount Vernon
Birmingham
Ata
Alexandria
Zion Church name change and local services Cedar Falls
Cedar Falls Jan 26 Members of Zion Evangelical church vote next Wednesday to change name to First Evangelical church of Cedar Falls. Change requires amendment to articles. Midweek prayer precedes session. Dr William G Crowder will preach at First M E church on Sunday evening on The Bible as Literature. Pioneer club boys to be guests at morning service. Pastor W G Rowley to address them. Zion Evangelical morning theme The Beauty and the Blessing of Right Living Evening Seeing Jesus. First Presbyterian morning sermon Gave Them a King by Dr Bruce Gifen. Quartet songs Seek Ye the Lord and Rock of Ages. Six weeks school of missions opens at 5 pm. First Baptist morning Worship theme. evening Trend of the Times. Rev F R W Fillmore morning Is Christ unity a Way of Life What Way evening Loyal to Christ.
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Gourtar
Cedar Falls
Zion Evangelical Church
Zion Evangelical
First’ Evangelical Church of
M. E
William G.crowder
Upper Iowa
Methodist Episcopal Church
First M. E
Pioneer Club
W. G. Rowley
H. J. Faust
Jesus
First Presbyterian Church
Bruce Gifen
Roberts
Buck
School of Missions
Caillaux regains influence in French politics
Paris January 26 Parliaments prophets predict ex Premier Joseph Caillaux will reemerge as a political force. He opposes government debt policy, criticizes foreign exchange purchases, and backs tax cuts over sinking fund retirements. Supporters signal an anti Poincare offensive with a demand for eight million dollars extra for pensions to mutilated soldiers.
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Paris
Joseph Caillaux
Caillaux
Sone
Galliaux
Poincare
Final letter ends life of Milwaukee fugitive in L A cell
Bennie Gustunisk, wanted in Milwaukee and other cities, died by cutting his wrists with glass from his cell window. He scratched a farewell to his mother, wrote a will bequeathing his body to the University of Southern California or county hospital, and asked to be used for scientific purposes. The note spoke of his struggles with temptation and illness.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Bennie Gustunisk
Milwaukee
Maés
University’ of Southern California
County Hospital
England India air line survey under way in Med region
Washington reports Imperial Airways survey party works on locating bases for the London to India airline in the Mediterranean. Passengers will travel 56000 miles by air and land from London to Basle then Genoa to Calcutta flying boat to Suda Bay Crete, Tobruk, Alexandria with Egyptian airport link. London to Karachi in seven days.
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Washington, D. C
Imperial Airways, Ltd
Mediterranean
HH. R. Buckley
Paris
Department of Commerce
India
England
London
Basle
Genoa
Calcutta
Rome
Naples
Brindisi
Taranto
Gallipoli
Suda Bay
Crete
Tobruk
Libya
Alexandria
Karachi
Dry Ice Used in Overland Shipment Test Case
A refrigerated ice cream shipment from Peoria to St. Petersburg uses dry ice in a corrugated box. Dr. J Rex Shell received the ice cream for a long distance shipping experiment. Four pounds left Peoria. two and three fourths remained upon arrival. The container held a floral design and was reported perfect. Academic notes on dry ice and bacteria figures appear in the source.
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St. Petersburg
Fla
Veoria
Express
Dr. J. Rex Shell
Dr. Shell
Peoria
Thoxine Promise Instant Sore Throat Relief Ad
A vintage advertisement touts Thoxine as a physician prescribed cure for sore throats with instant relief and a double action against the internal cause. It claims safety without chloroform and lists 35c 60c and $1.00 prices, sold by Robert Drug Co. and C. J. Miller.
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Robert Drug Co
C. J. Miller
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Delaware Village
Luella Scoles
J. G. McComson
Eliewation
Iowa City
George Stevenson
Burk
Manchester
Everett Leighton
Tae
Manchester & Oneida
Cond's Church
IK Nashua Hodges
Stafe
Osage
Leslie Hil
Sioux Falls
S. D
Newton
H. ©. Hill
Mitchell County Press
Hill
HOVER
Mme. Serrec. Will
Madame Janette Serrec
Clemens
Lion Church
First Baptist
W. J. Diegelman
First Baptist Church
FR. W. Fillmore
Christian Church
Christ
el Milian
Dewar
Springer
S. H
John Necro
Emerton
F. H. Myers
E. McDougall
Anat
F. PF. Davis
Quest & Smiths
ZO Ttoltas
Stor
Mr. Quick
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