Fires from candles near IA body spark house blaze
The Iowa City blaze started by candles near Ira Shidhelm's body nearly destroyed the dwelling where he lay. Quick watchers saved the corpse.
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Ira Shidhelm
Iowa City
Jacob A. Rupert
Marshalltown
Lisbon
Linn Eounty
Rupert
Pueblo
Colo
Andrew Anderson
Floyd River
Logan Park Cemetery
D. 8. Coyle
Humboldt
Delver
W. S. Birhy
Knoxville
Iowa Knights of Pythias
Sioux City Traction Company
Wall Street
Jacob Epstein
Burlington
Eugene Epstein
Des Moines
Wapello
Everett Reed
Grandview
Tibbits Jackman
Ellis Township
Hardin County
Mr. Jackman
Charles Keever
Quincy Adams
Solou
Heever
Solon
Keever
Adams
D. M. Anderson
Ottumwa
D. M. Carisle
Carlisle
Lansing
Carisles
N. W. Marshall
Vanella
Springtime Tea Menu For Bridge Party And Club Luncheon
A reader asks for hostess ideas for a mid afternoon bridge luncheon for 12. Suggestions include a center-piece and candles, self serve salad, two kinds of sandwiches, pickles, olives, salted nuts and bonbons, coffee chocolate and tea passed on a tray, with options like frappe. For a spring reading club, use jonquils daffodils and tulips, yellow shades, tiny umbrellas as favors, and light decorations. Also included are baby shower invitations and serving plans with gelatin molds, cottage cheese and olive sandwiches, hot chocolate or tea, a dainty hamper gifts, and guidance on calls and etiquette for invitations and replies.
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Mme. Merri
Good-By and a Mother’s Embrace Across a Loss
A reflective piece moves from a mother’s tearful farewell to a son heading west to a grave scene where she rests beneath moss. It shifts to light humor about common scenes, then to a tale of fame and failure as a writer envisions grand success before reality.
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Mother
Special work Opinions on Title Real Estate and Probate Law
Special work notes opinions on title real estate and probate law. Office over Town Trust and Savings Bank indicates location and professional focus.
Local contact listing for G. R. Miller office
Listing shows G. R. Miller located in Suite 2 of the Gillespie Building with Musson Phone office 396 in Atlantic points of contact.
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Gillespie Building
Musson
Atlantic
Dr C G Clark Homeopathic Physician Surgeon Profile
Dr C G Clark a homeopathic physician and surgeon based in Atlantial lists contact details including house and office numbers at 461 and 263 Black. Former intern at the University of Iowa Hospital and State University.
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Interne Hospital State Unieversity of
Iowa
Stag Party Luncheon Plans For Brother’s 21st Birthday
A simple invitation approach for a brother's twenty first: host a daytime luncheon rather than drinks. Suggest options from dinner at seven to a light 10:30 refreshment with oyster cocktails, chicken salad, sandwiches, coffee, fruit, cheese, and two birthday cakes. Include "Stag Party" or "Smoker" on invites and invite guests to give a toast with lemonade.
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Maybelle
Linen Shower Gift Idea With Cupid Wheelbarrow
For a Linen Shower, arrange all packages in a child's wheelbarrow adorned with flowers and ribbons. Have a small child dressed as Cupid push the load. Use gilt arrows as favors or atop heart shaped cakes and candy for a charming, playful touch.
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Cupid
Fashion Notes Describe 1920s Baby and Women's Attire
Skirts hang straight as braiding remains popular while daisies top baby millinery. Bell shapes vanish and diabolo accessories mark the era. Flame and watermelon shades lead fashion, tunics end in points and sleeves join bodices with new de crees. straw hats resemble tiny sombreros for little boys.
A Budget of Questions on Social Calls and Etiquette
The writer asks if party calls are out of date and if dinner calls are also outmoded. They query whether colonial tea invitations with two possible hours require a reply. They describe a mutual calling scenario after exchanging cards at a reception and hosting a later party, wondering who owes the first call.
Handkerchief Jabot: A Parisian Needlework Project
A tinted bordered handkerchief can be cut to form a butterfly bow by removing one quarter. The remaining fabric is drafted into a jabot with three finished edges and a lace-edged version offers a datotier jabot option. Easy to make and inexpensive.
Rattlesnake as US Emblem Persuaded Jefferson
Dr Thornton convinced President Jefferson that the rattlesnake Crota lus Horridus, peculiar to this country, was the finest emblem of the United States. The creature acts only defensively and only strikes after warning, with fatal consequences. New York Press quoted in support.
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Thornton
Jefferson
United States
New York Press
The Simple Life on Campus Ethics and Trust
The Independent notes university life resembles a monastery with protected inmates and higher ethics. It argues college professors are perceived as easy marks by swindlers, reflecting a cautious view of campus trust and integrity.
First Greek Letter Societies for Women in U S
The First Greek letter society for women, Kappa Alpha Theta, organized at DePauw University in Greencastle Indiana on January 27, 1870. Phi Beta Phi began at Monmouth in April 1867, years known as I G sorority.
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Kappa Alpha Theta
United States
de Pauw University
Greencastle
Ind
Phi Beta Phi
Monmouth
I, G
Fragmented rural editor quote on time, faith, and life
Found text quotes a rural editor praising a simple life spent telling time by the gun drinking water from a gourd paying the preacher and the editor. The speaker rejects worry about whether the world is round or flat and avoids overthinking heaven’s height.
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Victor P. Remy
Dubuque
Cummins
Remy
Sarah Schoenthal
Asbury Street
Frank Schoenthal
Sioux City
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Hanlon
Kerby
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H. B. Groves
F. W. Edwards
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Fayette
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Frank M. Harman
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Xenia
Womans’ Reading Club
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Michigan
James Gordon Benedick
Hiy Ilgar
Chindler
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Sacret
Chas, A. Grubb
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G. R. Miller
C. G. Clark
R. A. Gamble
Osteopathic
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Avis
T. B. Swan
Atlantica
Atlantic Infirmary of Osteopathy and X-Ray Laboratory
Chestnut St
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Atlantia
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M. H. Butler
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