Des Moines 1866 Baseball Debut and Iowa Tourney History
In 1866 Des Moines hosted a Chicago style reporter’s glimpse of a local baseball club amid rain as the Hawk-Eyes of Mount Pleasant defeated Des Moines Capital City 66 to 48. The piece traces origins from old cat games to Abner Doubleday’s 1839 rules, notes Civil War players, and chronicles early Iowa clubs, tournaments, and rising interest across Cedar Rapids Davenport Burlington and Mount Pleasant with prize-backed state championships.
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Des Moines
Abner Doubleday
Cooperstown
New York
Knickerbocker Baseball Club
National Association of Baseball Players
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Iowa
Hawk-Eyes
Mount Pleasant
Julien Baseball Club
Dubuque
Empire
St. Louis
Juliens
Rockford
Ill
Washington, D. C
A. G. Spaulding
Cedar Rapids
Crescents
Burlington
Scotts
Davenport
Oatlas
Vinton
Excelsiors
Manchester
Vinton Quatkas
Grove City Club
Marion
Iowa State Baseball Association
Mechanics of
Actives
Ottumwa
Orchard City
Westerns
Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest
A foreman praises a keen young worker he mentored predicting the boy will someday run the shop. The speaker admits his own days are numbered and that the trainee is poised to rise to the top once the foreman retires. The piece reflects on mentorship and succession in a workplace setting.
World Series of 1891 Preview Promises Baseball Tales
The piece suggests topics for upcoming features including old-cat games and local baseball history. It invites readers to learn about the towns start in baseball and to hear stories of famous players while previewing next weeks World Series of 1891.
Parathyroid and Vitamin D Role in Bone Health
The article traces early ideas on parathyroid enlargement in bone disease and links deficiency of vitamin D or sun exposure to increased parathyroid activity. It notes that excess compensatory secretion can become hyperparathyroidism, with children often overcompensating when sun or vitamin D intake is low. It previews a forthcoming discussion on high-dose vitamin D treatment for chronic arthritis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doc Brady
Mellanby
Erdheim
Home remedies and medical questions in a 'Ask Mrs.' column
Reader queries cover milk safety boiling raw milk for a minute, obesity types and pituitary injections, soda as cold prevention, and female fertility at age 45. Answers advise boiling milk, hint at hypopituitary obesity, caution against excess alkali in soda, and note fertility declines but possible conception if menstruation occurs.
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H. D
PTA Reelects Officers At Endorf School Meeting
Frank Schroeder was reelected president of the Endorf school P T A north east of here. Silvan Klahn won the vice presidency with Miss Arlynn Pancratz as secretary treasurer. A program was presented and prizes awarded to Mrs. Frank Schroeder Elizabeth Wiebel Gerald Wiebel and Alfred Licht. Luncheon served by Mrs. Herman Meier Mrs. Arthur Licht and Miss Arlynn Pancratz.
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Lowden
Frank Schroeder
Endorf
Here
Silvan Klahn
Arlynn Pancratz
Elizabeth Wiebel
Gerald Wiebel
Alfred Licht
Herman Meier
Arthur Licht
Hats That Suit Doris in a Spring Hat Hunt
Doris roams a hat department exploring styles from homburgs to pill boxes and bonnets. The piece notes veils that brighten skin, blue or purple veils, and straw hats with gardenias, praising hats as easy to wear and flattering.
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Doris
Trousseau
Homburg
Hart
Schaffner & Marx
Lovat
Armstrong
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Waldemar Argow to lead Petrified Forest at Antioch College
Waldemar Argow, former Cedar Rapids resident and Antioch College sub senior, will star as Alan Squier in The Petrified Forest at Antioch College Players in Yellow Springs Ohio on April 10. After the show, a brief road tour follows. Argow, editor of The Antiochian and AP correspondent, plans ten week tours with the Antioch Players next year and may stage his own one act play The Gods Laughed Twice. He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Waldemar W. Argow. his father once pastored Cedar Rapids Peoples Church and now serves Syracuse May Memorial Unitarian Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waldemar Argow
Cedar Rapids
Leslie Howard
Alan Squier
Argow
Peoples Church
May Memorial
Syracuse
N. Y
Antioch
Antioch Players
The
Antiochian
Associated Press
Southern Ohio
Also Mentioned on This Page
Thue
Cuticura
Malden
Mass
Edgar A. Guest
Tilie
Personal Health Service
William Brady, M. D
Frank “Bud” Maher
Armstrong’s
John Morse
Manhattan
Nancy Page
Florence la Ganke
Antioch College
R. A. Holmgren
Armstrong's
Hart Schaffner
Marx
Hickey Freeman
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