Community Clubs and Hostess Notes Run in Local Social Calendar
A dense social calendar lists numerous groups and meetings across the week including Ave Maria Society Pansy Club Christian Missionary Society Newcomers Society Sorasis Society Tuesday Afternoon Club TW. T. Club Tivoli Club and many more. Entertained guests at 707 South Pine Street included Miss Ingridham with a bridge game and a reception.
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Ave Maria Society
Pansy Club
Christian Missionary Society Newcomers Society
Sorasis Society
TW. T
Tivoli
Ww. Cc. T. U
E. C. Hanon
South Pine Street
Ingraham
C. W. Jarvis
Lotus Bridge Club
George Alexander
J. H. Farthing
Cicero Cobb
South Sumner Street
F. M. Phebus
Louise van Sweringen
F. M Phebus
New York Avenue
Marriage License Issued to Higginbotham and Ward Creston
A marriage license was issued to Gerald D. Higginbotham and Miss Mabel I. Ward, both residents of Creston. Their ages were recorded as legally eligible for marriage.
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Gerald D. Higginbotham
Mabel I. Ward
Creston
Local residents travel and visit across towns
Locals describe Charles Burg of Orient as a Creston caller with Mrs. James McBrien returning from Bedford. Wilma Hitchcock visits Osceola and heads home. J J Oshel and son Charles visit Clarinda. McGuigan family visits Shannon City and Omaha. Selma Spredgren returns to Rockford. Holmes family returns from a long car trip through Burlington Galesburg Ottawa and Chicago. Ickis party arrives from Denver to visit Frank Ickis. Dick Logue moves to Corning and stays with the Wallaces. employed by Standard Oil.
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Cc. H. Burg
Orient
James McBrien
B. R. Tinkham
Bedford
Wilma Hitchcock
Osceola
Josephine Sheppard
J. J. Oshel
Charles
Clarinda
Glenn Sissell
Pearl McGuigan
A C. McGuigan
Omaha
Emmet McGuigan
Shannon City
S. M. McCullough
George A. Miller
Oceola
P. J. King
Selma Spredgren
Victor Peterson
Dick Logue
Corning
Lodge Meetings Notice for Free Carry Provided
Lodge notices state meetings will be carried free under this dead provided notice is given to the advertiser. Telephone 134.
Miss Ward Weds Gerald Higginbotham
Miss Mabel I Ward and Mr Gerald D Higginbotham, Creston youths, married at 9 this morning with Rev H B Malone officiating. The couple, attended by Miss May Ward and Mr P E Kelley, will honeymoon in La Salle Chicago and Waukegan before returning to 215 West Montgomery after Sept 1.
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Mabel I. Ward
Gerald D. Higginbotham
Creston
H B. Malone
Immaculate Conception Church
May J. Ward
P. E Kelley
A. F E. Ward
North
Maple Street
Iowan builds new type plane in Hancock Iowa
F W Lambert aged 73 of Hancock is nearing completion of a cabin aircraft designed to rise vertically and reach 400 miles an hour he expects a test flight this fall The inventor claims a patented propeller and curved end deflectors will mute sound and create a cyclone under the wings Lambert was born near the Wright brothers home in Dayton Ohio and has spent five years on the project
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Hancock
Towa
F. W. Lambert
Lambert
Thee Wright Brothers
Dayton
Ohio
Deepest oil producer to be drilled deeper in Texas
The deepest oil well in the world on University of Texas land in Reagan County will resume drilling after a fire damaged the derrick. Oil was found at 3000 and 6000 feet, with scientific interest in temperature data for Earth's interior studies by UT Bureau of Economic Geology. Odessa notes Texas progress contrasts with cow town nostalgia as dog catcher Tom Fifer defends rope catching over nets.
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Austin
Texas
University of Texas
Big Lake
Reagan County
Bureau of Economic Geology
Portland Fire Belt Upgrade Aims to Save Lives
In Portland Oregon after two firemen fell to death when belt snaps failed the fire bureau designed a stronger belt with a bronze cable running around the leather girdle. The new safety device lets a fireman attach a snap to a solid projection and free both hands while climbing with a burden. Chief Edward Gren fell says the belt should save lives.
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Portland
Ore
Portland Fire Bureau
Bureau
Edward Grenfell
Salvation Army Meeting Schedule Encourages Attendance
Captain and Mrs. Slous announce regular Salvation Army meetings at the hall tonight at 8 and Thursday at 6 with open air preludes. Saturday’s 8 o’clock gathering will also be preceded by an open air meeting, inviting all to attend.
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Salvation Army Hall
Mrs. Lions
Local shoppers and visitors seen in Creston and area
A flurry of residents from Arispe Greenfield Lenox Orient and other towns visit Creston and Des Moines for shopping business and family visits. Notables include Mrs T Owens F M Phebus T L Dougherty Mrs Leo Casky Miss Eunice Ewalt and many others traveling to Des Moines Omaha and beyond for markets and appointments.
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T. Owens
Arispe
F. M. Phebus
North Platte Neb
T. L. Dougherty
Leo Casky
Lenox
Creston
Herbert Stapleton
Des Moines
G. W. DeLay
Afton
Walter Nolan
Greenfield
Ruth
Inez Porter
Andrew Halm
Tingley
B. J. Cornell
Shannon City
George Wells
Cleo Saxon
Lorimer
FE. H. Proctor
Blockton
William Geller
Omaha
Joseph Bates
Co. D. Grill
Corning
Eunice Ewalt
Wanda Wallace
Enos Mundell
Derby
Fred Grant
Orient
Ave Richards
Vera Hittle
John
Jake McElroy
Pauline Moon
Prescott
Ab. Schuck
Forest Day
Leona Howe
M. C. England
Prentice Cooper
Bridge Over Tricks How to Duck and Draw
The article explains ducking in bridge, advising players not to duck routinely to avoid giving opponents ruff chances. It outlines when ducking is useful, especially with weak re entries, and provides a dummy versus declarer sequence to illustrate establishing diamonds by careful play of heart and diamond suits to force missing diamonds to drop and reach game.
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Declarer
No Baby Kissing Edict Signals Political Shift
The piece argues that kissing babies has long aided politicians with mothers who vote for them, noting Herbert Hoover’s remark about not kissing babies for publication as a notable exception. It questions whether such baby kissing reflects a lasting change in politics or in women's voting habits.
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Herbert Hoover
Women Voters Evolve From Baby Kiss Politics Says Column
A newspaper column argues women voters now prize policy and welfare over kisses for babies. Politicians once wooed with infant praise, but modern women balance motherhood with citizen and worker roles, demanding real records and support. Dame Ellen Terry is briefly referenced as a historic figure.
Dame Ellen and Her Pursuit of Genius
The text argues Dame Ellen’s life read as more than death of a great act. her following gleam and real objective framed by obstacles. It notes her marriage to the painter Watts as a failure, yet suggests genius demands realization beyond ordinary mortal limits, with heritage easing her path.
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Watts
Dame Ellen
Public wedding charms despite critics over 5000 witness crowd
The ceremony unites Lou Gordon and Ann Bruce with Amelia Earhart’s pilot Earl Gordon aboard the Friendship in front of 5,000 public witnesses. The union, viewed as perhaps a commercial stunt, still holds a genuine romance admired by onlookers hungry for love.
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Lou Gordon
Amelia Earhart
Ann Bruce
Woman Wins $25,000 Novel Prize For The Father
A publishing house offered 25000 to both a man and a woman for a best novel. The contest ends with no male entry earning the prize while Catharine Holland Brown wins the women’s prize for her novel The Father.
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Catharine Holland Brown
Women Seen Matching Men in Suicide Rates Study
A Vienna doctor reports that women now commit suicide at roughly the same rate as men after years of divergence. He attributes part of the change to women entering the economic sphere and public life.
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Vienna
Women and money freedom spark modern gender debates
The piece argues about the divide between sexes and the impact of women gaining money freedom and modern pleasures. It questions whether increased autonomy makes modern women happier than their maternal ancestors, suggesting a nuanced view of social change and satisfaction.
Visitors return home after Creston shopping trip
Mrs. Frank Bolinger and daughter Florence, visiting in Afton, were in Creston for shopping yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Kane and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Robbins, visiting relatives in the city, returned to Galesburg today by automobile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elva Olson
Afton
Geneva Tyler
Betty
Lenox
Creston
Mary C. Tordett
Monmouth
Til
George Phillips
Lorimer
Greater Comunity Hospital
C. L. Shull
North Maple Street
North Elm Street
Jean Edinbourough
Des Moines
G. C. Gibson
Ellen Grace
Prescott
Helen Jean Hartley
Bedford
Omaha
Betty Jean
Berta Louise Wesses
Kent
C. H. Bowers
Charles Culbertson
Shannon City
L. A. Tillotson
Roy Tillotson
Osceola
Lois Shoemaker
C. L. Shoemak
C. W. Jones
Sharpsburg
Greater Community Hospital
Moffit Howell
James Lipton
Cedar Lake
Neb
J. H. Ogg
Alliance
Lee Ogg
South
Cherry Street
Frank Bolinger
Florence
Tom Kane
Paul Robbins
Galesburg
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Ciety J
Women's Cooperative Circle
Carnelian Club
Afternoon Club
Royal Neighbors
Black Cat Club
King’s Heralds
Jolly Larks
H. G
U. Club
L. S
B. of L. FP
Monday
Octave Bridge Club
Miss Ingraham
J.B. Club
John Elftman
J. B. Club
Jarvis Street
Mildred Allen
Olga Collings
John T. Shea
Miss Ward
Gerald Higginbotham
Iowan
Odessa
Tom Fifer
THE
Salvation Army
A. Slous
W.w.wentworth
Ellen Terry
Bloomer
Purgeon’s Thrift Store
Dimity Batiste
Dimity
Batiste
Oliver Twist
Damas
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