Deposits Rise in Iowa Banks Despite War Time
Des Moines July 27 Iowa banks report a net increase of 11 683 215 98 in deposits from 83 savings banks 4819 savings banks and twenty one trust companies under state auditor supervision as of July 6 1944 compared with June 30 1914 The July statement shows deposits down from April but still higher year over year The report notes 57 new state banks since June 30 1944 with total deposits 223 975 412 and an 18 4 percent average reserve Local feature Fort Dodge tells of Noah Crouse pioneer turning a wagon into a home on wheels with electric lights planning a homestead trip to Colorado Springs and beyond using a Pullman style interior and solar travel schedule
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Des Moines
Iowa
Bilver
Fort Dodge
Noah Crouse
Webster County
Globe Trotter
Mr. Crouse
Homer
Fort ‘Dodge
Crouse
Towa
Kansas
Oklahoma
Doan's Kidney Pills Ad Featured by Waterloo Citizen
An advertisement touts Doan's Kidney Pills with a Waterloo resident, Mrs. G. Borwig of 225 Ankeny St., praising quick relief for kidney trouble in her family. The copy urges readers to request the Dean's Kidney Pills brand from dealers, price 50 cents, produced by FosterMilburn Co. Buffalo, NY.
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Cavan
Waterloo
Two Deaths From Eating Toadstools
Keokuk reports a second fatal poisoning from mistaking toadstools for edible mushrooms. John T. Wires, 33, died Sunday after a week of illness following a mushroom meal at the Pittman farm on Argyle road near Mooar station. Louis Pittman, five, died last Thursday. four others, including Mrs. Pittman and her mother, survived illness after the same meal.
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Keokuk
Wires
Pittmans
Argyle Road
Mooar Station
Pittman
Phy Stolang
Louis
John Wires
Mystery Attaches to Death of Woman in Iowa Farm Home
Winterset July 27 Sunday afternoon Mrs F W Myers was found dying at her Gerhart Stork farm home near Van Meter. She had been shot through the head. She died that night. The Myers were married last February. The husband known as Pete says they were together in the forenoon. he went to the barn and upon return found her dying. Sheriff and county attorney investigated but could not unravel the mystery. Immediate relatives report death by own action. Keokuk July 27 Judge Rice H Bell stricken with apoplexy at noon and died yesterday afternoon. A prominent Republican, former chairman of the county central committee, served as justice of peace, judge of Superior court, city clerk. Survived by widow and five children.
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Winterset
F. W. Myers
Gerhart Stork
van Meter
Myer
Pete
Ia F. W. Myers
Keokuk
Rice H. Bell
County Central Committee
Bell
Superior Court
Pythian Ciretes
The
Elks
la Porte City
Jesse Kober
Kober
Ita
Hla Steury
R. B. Tripp
Clyde Wager
Colfax
W. Hummel
Clyde
Charles City
Walter Lyons
Carney, Honges
Ruth Boyd
Jay Ludlow
Cedar Rapids
Miller
CG. A. Brust
Omaha
Grobe
Minden
Henry Rapr
Urbana
Steve Cass
Chicago
Robert Howell
John King
Hilmer-Shull
Jri
Waterloo
Jessie Butler
Dallas Housman
Clara Zager
Los Angeles
Cal
Helen Labode
Luella Mayes
Mabel
Cedar Falls
Fire destroys block in Poughkeepsie. 30 injured in explosions
Fire swept an entire city block in Poughkeepsie New York causing damage estimated at 250000 dollars. Thirty firemen were injured by five explosions in the packing plants as the blaze burned through the area.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
News and notes of La Porte City travel and visits
The column records numerous residents traveling and visiting relatives in nearby towns. Highlights include Jesse Kober detaining a drunken intruder at his lake cottage, several families returning from Colfax and Cedar Rapids, and various relatives gathering in Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, Leavenworth and other locales.
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LA Porte City
Cure for scalp pimples advertised by Cuticura
Miss Helen Beyer reports relief from a six month scalp eruption after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. She states nightly and morning applications healed her head in four weeks and praises Cuticura as the only product she would use. The ad offers a free sample by mail and sells Cuticura worldwide.
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Hamilton Ave
Chicago
Helen Beyer
Fequest
Cuticurs
Dept. T
United Glove and Mitten Company Files in Bankruptcy
The United Glove and Mitten company of this city filed a petition in bankruptcy in the federal court at Dubuque Saturday. Liabilities are about $20,000 with assets near $16,000. James B. Holtz is president and George B. Virden secretary. Formerly Hawkeye Glove and Mitten, reorganized last December, one of the oldest firms in Waterloo with offices on Third street east. The failure is blamed on high debt and bad debts. First business failure in Waterloo this year.
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United Grove & Mitten Company
Dubuque
James B. Holtz
George B. Virden
United Glove & Mitten Company
Hawkeye Glove & Mitten Company
Third Street
Waterloo
Marks Preparations For CIPY Tennis Tourney
Physical Director Jacob Bintz of the Y M C A is spending part of his vacation preparing for the annual city tennis tournament to be held on available courts from Aug 3 to 17. Letters were sent to potential entrants and entry banks may be secured at the US MOA. Lists close at 6 o'clock Saturday evening to allow pairings. Dr L C Hemsworth won last year with R Seymour of Cedar Falls as rimn ocrnp. PURCHASING MACHINES. Demand for lathes and milling machines for shell manufacture is so persistent ammunition companies have dispatched reps nationwide to buy discarded machines to model for higher output. Some old Waterloo factory lathes have been bought and will be repurposed to turn out more shells.
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Jacob Bintz
L. C. Hemsworth
Seymour
Cedar Walls
Panies
Waterloo
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Sunnyside
Mary Clark
Munoaine
Carria Rolph
Karl Stebbins
Lake Geneva
Wis
Misa Hess Shaffer
Vinton
Mra
H. D. Beal
Henry Schwinger
Radcliffe
Arp
Schwinger
Whit Grobe
Bounie Berl
Rockwell
Ruth Hutchins
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Mr. Rummel
Myre
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CIPY
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Fifth Street
Albert Schaum
Milan
Ill
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Water Streets
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Wopyright
Chicago Herald
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