Wilson Exits as Mid-Continent Promotes Executives
Wixson leaves Waterloo to join Tulsa offices as manager of station operations. A.V. Surtees becomes manager, with H. C. Wurster and F. B. Brocksus gaining promoted posts. L. D. Lewis moves from Dubuque to assist division sales. E. V. Supp shifts to Dubuque. Wixson joined Hawkeye Oil in 1926, later Black Hawk, then Mid-Continent after acquisitions.
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Wixson
Oleigh Sireet
Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation
Tulsa
Oklo
Waterloo
Lewis
Dubuque
Hawkeye Oil Company
Iater
Black Hawk Oil Company
BR. W. McDowell
McDowell
Soviet to participate in international anti counterfeit conference
Moscow May 25 The Soviet government has decided to take part in an international conference on methods of combating counterfeiting, called by the League of Nations for Geneva.
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Moscow
League of Nations
Geneva
Indian Maiden's Cornfield Cantata At Junior High
Fast Junior High girls glee club presented the cantata Mon-deh-Min based on Ojibway legend to a full auditorium. Forty eight girl voices plus boys glee club and junior band, under Miss Norma E B Gaiser and G T Bennett, delivered challenging numbers well. Solo parts by Phyllis Mills Tazel Baker Thelma Baree with Wave Trunnell Madeline Bandfield Audrey McPike as accompanists.
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Glee Club
Norma EB. Gaiser
G. ‘T. Bennett
Phyllis Mills
Tazel Baker
Thelma Baree
Wave Trunnell
Madeline Bandfield
Audrey McPike
Prince De Sagan shoots self over love in France
Paris reports Prince Howard de Sagan aged nineteen, son of the Duke and Duchess de Talleyrand, shot himself after his parents forbade marriage to a French girl. He is in serious but improving condition. doctors fear complications may arise, and the duchess condemns sensational coverage. The tale of a hasty vow and a secret ailing heart unfolds with a warning on youth, love, and parental authority.
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Paris
Prince de Sagan
Anna
Gould
Duke
Duchess de Talleyrand
Jay Gould
Howard
Prince
France
Tub Tut
Duchess objects to quick royal match amid scandal
The article recounts a duchess opposing an immediate marriage due to youth amid a family scandal. It notes she may support nuptials later if affection endures and mentions Count Boni De Castellane’s reaction. It also describes Floyd County vigilante activities and a county plan to guard banks, detailing a 50-man deputy sheriff–led committee and rapid communications.
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Howard
Count Boni de Castellane
Floyd Vigilantes Hold Trap Shoot and Rifle Meet
Members of the Floyd county vigilance committee staged a trap shoot and a rifle and pistol match at the Rockford Gun club grounds Thursday afternoon. The event was conducted under the auspices of the committee to support bank protection and bandit capture efforts.
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Charles City
Floyd ‘County
Rockford Gun Club
Rural opposition to Crawford bonds overcome by towns
In Denison, Iowa, May 25, rural precincts opposed Crawford county's 1.5 million road bond issue, but urban areas carried it 2,050 to 1,248. Only one rural township supported the bonds. Denison city vote was 9842 to 155. Charter Oak approved 301 to 17. The issue was among the largest.
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Denison
Crawford County
Charter Oak
Bonds Authorized Reach Seventy Three Million Four Hundred Sixty Seven
The year’s adoption brings the number of counties authorizing bonds to 71 and the total funds voted to 73,400,657.2 dollars. Part of the money will pave the Lincoln Highway through the county, leaving Carroll County to vote on June 4. Crawford County highways No 141 Denison to Monone and No 4 Denison to Shelby also will be paved. Mrs. Ann Virginie Grimith of Winchester Virginia ordered heirs reimbursed for funeral travel costs from her estate.
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Carroll County
Crawford County
Denison
Monone County
Shelby County
Ann. Virginie Grimith
Winchester
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Wurster, Brocksus
Lewis and
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I A Oil Co. Promotions
Ralph Jones
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East Junior High
Volga
Samara
Russia
Ita
Electric Park
Harold Lyman
B. McKibben
Conger St
Trunox Company
Waterloo, Iowa
Conger Street
Amond Reige
Rochester, Minn
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Iowa
RED Cross Drug Store
Sycamore
H. J. Blanchaine Drug CO
la Porte City
Pringe DE Sagan
Anna Gould
Do Tulleyrands
Jso
Fox News
Hving
Edna Ferber
Ziegfeld
Dorothy Mackaill and
Jack Mulhall
Gertrude Astor
James Finlayson
Kate Price
Dr. von Eckener
Lady Dlummond
Atlantic
Zeppelin
Friedrichsnaven
America
Floyd County Bankers’ Association
Floyd County
Elmer J. Waller
Floyd
Eed
Peis
Rica
Schuneman’'S Drug Store Fourth
Crawford
Greece
Rod Laroque
And
Lupe Velez
Love and the
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Dixie Ramblers
Gents
Vitaphone
Rivieraaramount
New York
Chicago
Carlotta King John Boles
Louise Fazenda
the Sheik
Alsqphil
Baker
Spain
Movietone
Paramount News In Sound
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