East Iowa Chautauqua Pioneer Keith Vawter and Era
A retrospective on East Iowa and Cedar Rapids as centers of the Chautauqua and lyceum circuit. Keith Vawter, Iowa native and founder of the circuit, modernized touring tents, tickets, and logistics, shaping venues from Williamsburg to Ottumwa and beyond. He fostered a mobile road show, led Redpath Vawter ventures, and influenced Midwest culture before his death in 1937.
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Lyceum
Keith Vawter
Vawter
Towa
Williamsburg
Ottumwa
Iowa
Midwest
East
Center Point
Coggan
Walker
Cedar Rapids
Ridgeway Drive
K. W. Woodhouse
Iowa Manufacturing Company
Sixteenth Street
Chautauqua
Warren G. Harding
Senator Willis
Ohio
Elsie Baker
John Foster Frazer
England
S. Parkes Cadman
Frank Gonzales
Coe College
Redpath-Vawter
Redpath Chautauquas
New York
New England
Drake University
Des Moines
Central Avenue
Marion
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Chapel of
Betty
Keith Jenks
Chicago
Iowa in Washington reports mixed Iowa GOP and Democratic sentiment
Gould Lincoln of the Washington Evening Star finds Iowa Republicans split between Taft and Eisenhower with a rising anti Truman mood among farmers. He cites Iowa Farm Council support for a GOP farm program and notes Dr Myron Koenig hosting Iowa guests at George Washington University.
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Annerarot
Iowa
Gould Lincoln
Washington Evening Star
Lincoln
Senator Taft
General Eisenhower
Kefauver
Jake More
Truman
More
Eisenhower
Taft
Star
Beardsley
Hickenlooper
Washington
Iowa Republican Farm Council
G.O.P
Agriculture Department
Brannan
al Loveland
Myron Koenig
Che College
George Washington’s
National Politiconomic Forum
Bud Cloud
Henry O. Talle
West Union Welcomes D P S from Germany
A family of five displaced persons from Germany will be honored at a reception at Zion American Lutheran church in West Union. Mrs Rosalie Bloch and her daughter Mrs Marie Rast with children Herman 15 Reinhold 11 and Rosamunde 8 will be welcomed. Sponsored by the church they arrived last week. Mrs Bloch lost her husband in World War I and Mrs Rast in World War II. The women will be given jobs locally.
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West Union
Germany
Zion American Lutheran Church
Rosalie Bloch
Marie Rast
Broad Gift for Heart Research Funds at Iowa
The Iowa State Board of Education finance committee accepted a $300 grant from Mrs. J. C. Broad of Muscatine to establish the Broad Gift for Heart Research in the University of Iowa internal medicine department. The gift honors her late husband, a former University Hospital patient.
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Iowa City
State Board of Education
J. C. Broad
Muscartine
University of Iowa
Department of Internal Medicine
Virgil M. Hancher
Iowan Conger Reynolds Named Public Relations Pioneer
Native Iowan Conger Reynolds, headlining the Iowa Conference on Public Relations at Cornell College on April 18, is director of public relations for Standard Oil Company of Indiana. A U of I graduate, he has a long career in publicity, diplomacy, and journalism including work with the Chicago Tribune and U S foreign service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Cornell College
Conger Reynolds
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Reynolds Is
University of Iowa
E. P. Reynolds
Cedar Rapids
John H. Reynolds
Gazette
France
AEF
Reynolds
Paris
Chicago Tribune
Tribune Foreign News Service
U.S. Foreign Service
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Stuttgart
Germany
Standard Oil
Easter egg hunt on courthouse lawn in Anamosa
The Chamber of Commerce will sponsor an Easter egg hunt on the courthouse lawn on Palm Sunday. Children are divided into three age groups and winners in each group receive a rabbit, while the grand prize winner takes a dog, according to contest chairman Buddy Downing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
Chamber of Commerce
Buddy Downing
Oral Surgery Parley To Be Held at SU
Approximately 35 Iowa dentists and physicians plan a two day oral surgery conference at University of Iowa Hospitals Monday and Tuesday. Faculty from the university’s medicine and dentistry colleges join out of state experts from Michigan Missouri and Minnesota for lectures and presentations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Iowa
University of Iowa
University Hospitals
University’s College of Dentistry
Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry
Michigan
Missouri
Minnesota
Donald H. Bellinger
H Ford Hospital
Detroit
Edward J. Hempstead
St. Louis University Dental School
Stanley A. Lowestedt
Mayo Clinic Dentistry Secition
Rochester
Minn
Edmund A. Smolik
St. Louis University School of Medicine
Robert Carney
Alton K. Fisher
Albert P. McKee
A. Sachs
Paul Seebohm
Wellman Community Club Elects Officers
Roy Crossett elected president of the Wellman Community club with Franklin Lewis as vice president and Wilbur Swartzenroober as secretary treasurer.
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Wellman
Roy Crossett
Wellman Community Club
Franklin Lewis
Wilbur Swartzendruber
Standard Oil outlines 1951 earnings and spending
An accounting officer explains how Standard Oil earned 1 764 930 319 in 1951 and how it was spent. 58 percent went to purchases and wear and tear, 19.1 percent to taxes, 14.5 percent to wages for 49 700 employees, 5.9 percent to service improvements, and 2.5 percent paid as dividends to 116 800 stockholders and employees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standard Oil
Preston Chalk
Wood River
Illinois
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Chautauqua and
Crabtree Corners
Dubuque
William Jennings Bryan
N. Y
Indianola
Ao Siemens Academy
Oskaloosa
Cora E.er
Standard
Redpath Lyceum Bureau
Redpath Vawter Chautauquas, Inc
Cers
Bohumir Kryl
Bert Kemmerer
District of Columbia
Yale
The
Washington Post
Gould
Hawkeye
Snipe
Crossroads
Frank Nye
Peep-Sight Tolliver
Dr. Koenig
Forum
George Washington Uni
Mike
Grinnell College
University of Chicago
Vinton
Marguerite Gordon
Alfred E. Koenig
iCedar Rapids
Koenig
Barbara
Anne
Rep. Talle
Deborah Jane Tilton
Deborah Jane
William P. Tilton
Harvey, Ill
Tilton
Mary Jane Talle
Patricia Smith
Board of Trade Committee
National Capital Parks
A. C. Link
Dyersville
United States Naval Acad
Emy
Annapolis
James F. Link
Navy
Young Link
Decorah
Dyersville High School
Montezuma
Frank Bechly
Bechly
Mike Hyland
Tama
U. M. Eed
Brooklyn
Ingalls Swisher
D.p.’S
Seeley
Guaranty Bidg
Appliance CO
Second Ave
Tenth St
SUI
National Association of Public Relations Counsel
Frank Wrenick
Evanston
Sarah
Frank
S. Dexter Hastings
Green Bay
Wisconsin
Ralph Nolan
Raymond Morris
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