Strand Presents War Comedy and Alaskan Adventure Double Feature
The Strand theatre offers a week program starting Sunday with Lost at the Front a war comedy featuring George Sidney Charlie Murray and others and Alaskan Adventures a Pathe production by Art Young and Capt Jack Robertson. The two reels promise thrills with a Kodiak bear shot with an arrow and scenes from New York to the Russian front.
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Strand Theatre
George Sidney
Charlie
Murray
Art Young
New York
Natalie Kingston
Wampus Star
John Kolb
Max Asher
Brooks Benedict
Ed Brady
Harry Lipman
Nita Martan
Nina Romano
Pathe
Far Northwest
Jack Robertson
20 Churches Have Young People at Rockwell Meeting
Young people from 20 towns gathered in Rockwell City over yesterday and today for a conference. Dean W. Q. Bentin, Buena Vista College, spoke on The Challenge of Greatness to Youth. The college deputation team, including Weldon Pickering Ruth Angier Mary Yocum Lola Colburn Ardell Lewis Wesley Lawler and Walter Hammer, attended with a varied program.
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Courier
Rockwell City
Dean W. Q. Benthin
Buena Vista College
Weldon Pickering
Ruth Angier
Mary Yocum
Lola Colburn
Ardell Lewis
Wesley Lawler
Walter Hammer
No. 8 construction begun at Dysart Iowa
Dysart Illinois October 1 construction work has begun on two miles at the town west edge from No 8 past the cemetery including grading bridges culverts and gravel Mackie Co Waterloo and Ingersoll Stover Marshalltown have the contracts Fifty relatives and friends gave a surprise miscellaneous shower for Miss Minnie M Wieben at her parents home to honor her approaching marriage Mrs W Kaupp attends the annual meeting of the Woman's Board of Home and Foreign Missions of the Evangelical church at Waterloo
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Courier Special Service
Dysart
Mackie. & Co
Waterloo
Ingersoll & Stover
Marshalltown
Minnié M. Wieben
Peter D. Wieben
W. Kaupp
Woman’s Board of Home and Foreign Missions
The
Evangelical Church At
Sixth Annual Fair of Fayette High School Oct 7-8
Preparations are underway at Fayette high school for the sixth annual fair to be staged Oct 7 and 8. The event differs from other fairs as it is not money making, run by students under supervision. Prizes honor grain vegetables fruit poultry cooking plants sewing and novelties with side shows and athletic events. A Friday night entertainment and a football game Fayette versus Maynard Saturday afternoon are on the program.
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Fayette
Fayette High School
Fayette and
Maynard
Players Club at Upper Iowa to Give Annual Play
Fayette Iowa Oct 1 University players will stage the homecoming farce Baby Mine at Upper Iowa University. First public farce in years by a local college group. A dramatic club formed after literary societies faded. the new group includes top dramatic talent and produced two well received plays last year.
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Courter
Fayette
University Players
Upper Iowa University
Ramsey ill at Marble Rock home since Saturday
Marble Rock Iowa October 1 Special H G Ramsey has been ill at his home here since Saturday.
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Marble Rock
H. G. Ramsey
Norma Shearer Stars in After Midnight at Plaza
Norma Shearer leads the love story of nightclub life in After Midnight directed by Monta Bell. The film follows a cigarette girl who thwarts a robber, falls for him, then faces temptations as debts and a sporty sister pull her back into gay life, with Lawrence Gray Gwen Lee also in the cast. The Plaza bill features Way Watts and the orchestra with vaudeville acts Hines and Smith Booth and Davis Sands and Claire.
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Norma Shearer
Monta Bell
Plaza
Lawrence Gray
Gwen Lee
Eddie Sturgis
Philip Sleeman
Dogs
Norman
Watts
Jasper County Jail Sanitation Slated for Reform
Newton Iowa October report from the grand jury calls Jasper county jail antiquated and unfit for use a drastic sanitation overhaul is urged with a three month deadline if not improved the court should inform the state board of health and Newton should not confine prisoners there.
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Newton
Jasper County
Grand Jury
Board of Supervisors
State Board of Health
Petrilli Convicted In Burglary Tools Case
Des Moines jurors convict Anthony Petrilli of illegal possession of burglar tools. The circuit court jury found him the leader of a bandit gang, and he faces fifteen years’ imprisonment.
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Petrilli
Des Moines
Anthony Petrilli
Newcomer Jack Retlaw Heads Frank Amusement in Waterloo
Jack Retlaw, new president of the Frank Amusement company, arrives from Los Angeles where he worked in motion pictures with West Coast Theatres, Inc. The firm, now a West Coast Theatres subsidiary, will be headquartered in Waterloo under Retlaw’s management with ambitions to build a large middle west circuit. He and Mrs. Retlaw reside at 832 Second Street West.
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Jack Retlaw
The
Frank Amusement Company
Waterloo
Los Angeles
Cal
West Coast Theatres, Inc
West Coast Theatres
Mr. Retlaw
Middle West
Mrs. Retlaw
Second Street
West
Tom Mix Brings The Circus Ace To Rialto For Four Days
Tom Mix stars in The Circus Ace at Rialto with Natalie Joyce as a trapeze performer. The Arizona set drama features fights with circus thugs, daring stunts by Mix and his horse Tony, romance, and a full circus atmosphere including lions and clowns. Cast includes Jack Baston Duke Lee James Bradbury and others. A comedy and news reels accompany the program.
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Tom Mix
Rialto
Tony
Natalie Joyce
Arizona
Tom
Circus
Ace
Mix
Miss Joyce
Jack Baston
Duke Lee
James Bradbury
Stanley Blystone
Dudley Smith
Buster Gardner
Kangaroo
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King of the
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Mildred Davis
Hines & Smith
Claire
Ernest Torrence
Armory
Lloyd Wells
Antioch Palace
Lloyd
Seattle
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Friedl
East Fourth Street
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Cedar Falls
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