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Newspaper

Creston Daily Advertiser

Location

Creston, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 15, 1925

Page

4

Dellaimers Declamatory Meet Sets Tonight at High School

Twelve pupils compete in home declamatory contest at 8 PM in the high school auditorium with four speakers in each class. Subjects range from A Man of the Ages to Woman Before Feminism and After and The Death Disc. Organ selections open and close the program. a male quartet performs after the oratorical and dramatic portions. The event aims to select speakers for county and state contests with county preliminaries on Feb 11 at Arispe Cromwell and main county contest Feb 18.

Thomas Hawkins Maxine Kilgore Laura Myera Poland Margaret McCornack Dorothy Giffey Helen Jackson Maxine McNees Virginia Snoderly Sams_ Letter Joe Baldwin George Hag Dean Hood Dottie Diper Margaret McDonough Arispe Cromwell New Hampton

Resort Town in California Closes Jail for Bus iness Decline

Lake Arrowhead California December 14 Chief of Police Tom FE Johnson padlocked the town jail. A sign announced business indefinitely suspended as no arrests were made in a year and villagers ran up debt maintaining the institution. Offenders would be kept in the blacksmith shop for safekeeping.

Lake Arrowhead Calif Tom FE. Johnson

Music Psychic Lever Discussed by Iowa Professor

Prof. Jacob Kwalwasser of the University of Iowa spoke in Iowa City about music acting as a psychic lever and its pleasure value. He argued Americans spend more on music than the corn crop and that music affects blood flow and respiration, linking art to body changes and vitality.

Iowa City Laudiag Music Jacob Kwalwasser University of Iowa Middle West Kwalwasser WSUT Iowa Iown

Prince Fined for Slapping Suspected Aide to Princess

Budapest dispatch reports Prince Abdul Kadir son of the late Sultan Abdul Hamid of Turkey slapped Mustafa Afid a secretary after suspecting him of aiding Princess Medjidie chief wife. The court fined him 35 dollars the prince then learned the princess sought alimony.

Budapest Abdul Kadir Sultan Abdul Hamid Turkey Medjidie Abdul Mustapha Afid Mustapha

Tombstone Becomes Omelet Ad In Dijon Display

A Dijon innkeeper uses his father’s tombstone in a cemetery as a billboard to promote the Mercier omelet, calling Pierre Mercier inventor of the celebrated dish and noting his son on Dole Street holds the recipe.

Tombstone Associated Press Dijon France Pierre Mercier Dole Street Mercier

Jap Farmers Refuse Fertilizer Over Sunspot Belief

Tokio December 14. Sunspots are blamed for a sharp slump in Japan artificial fertilizer sales after a boom was expected earlier. An investigation found Japanese farmers fear sunspots indicate famine, causing widespread reluctance to buy.

Associated Press Tokio Japan

Incomplete Purchase Note Affects Future Plans

Fragmentary record hints at a planned purchase facing delays or reevaluation next year. Text references a misworded quote about waste and seems to involve a decision maker unnamed, with no clear outcome or parties identified.

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