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...City Bar's wide wooden counter, MacKenzie County farmers, their jeans heavy with cash, drank up 40 cases of beer a day. At Christensen's hardware store they stripped the shelves nearly bare. They played poker, guzzled, loafed, had Doc Winter put gold in their teeth...
There were Edward Czeklauski of Brooklyn, George Pucilowski of Detroit, Theodore Hakenstad of Bremerton, Wash. There were Frank Rebbillo of Providence, Zane Gemmill of St. Clair, Pa., Frank Christensen of Racine, Wis., Abraham Dreiscus of Kansas City. There were the older, but not better, American names like Ray and Thacker, Walsh and Eaton and Tyler. The war was closer. And it was getting Americanized...
...street corner in Salt Lake City, police picked up 37-year-old Mark Larmon Stewart, a post-office employe, as he stood earnestly expounding his faith to pretty Evelyn Christensen...
Father of two children, and expecting another, Postman Stewart told police that the Lord had appeared to him in a dream, commanded him to restore the practice of polygamy which the Mormon Elders abandoned in 1890. Postman Stewart had written to Miss Christensen and to three other Salt Lake City girls, asking them to help him "fulfill a command from the Lord and take on another wife." Miss Christensen had turned her letter over to the police, agreed to act as a decoy...
Commercial Credit Company National Scholarship to Carl R. Christensen, of Iowa City...