Parsons College Alumni Banquet and local notices
Community items include Crail's Restaurant ice cream sodas and vending at Kellogg’s bakery, plus Kargon Compound prescriptions at Shriner's drug store. Memorial Day address by Rev. Pearse Pinch and June 6 Commencement at Presbyterian church. Park flowers, post office receipts drop, and new Q line time changes ahead. Funeral notice for Joseph Gilchrist. Lutheran church services set for Sunday. new stamp and envelope issues coming after June 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parsons College
J. W. Dole
Presbyterian Church
Fairfield Gazette item briefs mixed notices and ads
A collage of local items notes Fairfield area happenings including bank closures on Memorial Day May 30, praise for Fritz and Droz roofing at 1.75 per square, graduation attendance, county ball games, and a June 16 Sunday School convention in Lockridge township. Also mentions sales pitches, social events, a farewell for Fred Callister, church memorial services, and post office stamp change practices. Funeral noted for Mrs. Rebecca Troxel Wright aged sixty five.
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Benj. Franklin
Geo. Washington
Washington
Swedish M. E
Lockridge Township
Rebecca Troxel Wright
Alfred Wright
Mt. Pleasant
Concert at Presbyterian Church by College Conservatory Students
A Thursday evening concert on May 16 at 8 pm in the Presbyterian church features four works for two pianos by college conservatory students. Assisted by Ada Montgomery contralto Cora Ball Alice Pinch Helen MecCord violin and Avery and Moorhead accompanists. The free program includes Mozart Grieg Mendelssohn Liszt and Woodford-Finden pieces with several soloists and two pianos. Public invitation extended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian Church
College Conservatory of Music
Ada Montgomery
Cora Ball
Alice Pinch
Helen MecCord
Avery
Moorhead
Mozart Lucille Wisecarver
Grieg
Miss Avery
Hie
Aneel
Sseesee Rubinstein
Mendelssohn
Miss Pinch
Mlinarski
Miss McCord
Mozart
Fairfield Man Gets Praise for Guard Inspection
Major J. A. Olmstead, inspecting officer for the Iowa National Guard in 1907, commends Captain E. E. Lucas of Fairfield 54th Infantry as efficient and faithful. Lucas aided company commanders and was praised by many. Co. M. Fairfield leads among four Iowa regiments in excellence.
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Fairfield
J. A. Olmstead
Iowa National Guard
Lucas
E. E. Lucas
54Th Infantry
The
Guardian
Co. M
Iowa
Open Fishing Season Starts May 30 in City Ponds
Fishing season begins May 30 with water works ponds open for those who wish to fish. Permits issued at the mayor's office City Clerk pumping station Copeland's drug store L C Bradshaw Co Frank Shriner's drug store. Season permits issued by the City Clerk only.
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Copeland
L. C. Bradshaw & Co
Frank Shriner
Piano Tuning Services in Fairfield Schedule
E Eisenhart announces piano tuning availability in Fairfield from May 27 to June 9. Leave orders at Baker's Music Store or Leggett House for service.
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Fairfield
Baker's Music Store
Leggett House
E. J. Eisenhart
Faith cures and the limits of belief in distress
A saying notes that many men speak seriously about faith cures until illness strikes, exposing gaps between theory and personal need. It reflects skepticism about simple remedies and the challenge of translating belief into real healing.
Is the Thirteen Year Locust Coming Soon
Washington dispatch warns of an anticipated 13 year cicada emergence from May to June across southern states east of Texas and into the Mississippi and Ohio valleys. Bureau of Entomology seeks citizen reports on observers and locations to map western range limits. protection advice favors bag or umbrella collection at dawn or dusk and noting locality details.
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Washington Dispatch
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Periodical Cicada
Bureau of Entomology
Department of Agriculture
Kansas
Missouri
Bureau
Texas
Rio Grande
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
Florida
Mississippi
Ohio
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Tennessee
Model Missouri Town Westphalia Osage County
The town of Westphalia in Osage County, away from railroads, settled about 75 years ago, has never faced a lawsuit theft divorce scandal or arrest among neighbors. About 200 residents live there, described as well kept with no marked rich or poor among its industrious inhabitants.
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Missouri
Westphalia
Osage County
St. Louis Republic
Horses in Iowa Demand Surplus Work for Brisk Buyers
Chicago horse buyers continue to drain Iowa’s best stock paying high prices. With the automobile era rising concerns about horses fade, yet horses still find ample work, outstripping available animals and workers in many areas according to the Cedar Rapids Republican.
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Iowa
Chicago
Cedar Rapids
Raw Eggs as Cure for Tuberculosis Claim
A 19th century style blurb notes raw eggs and sweet milk given in large frequent doses as a supposed tuberculosis cure. The speaker questions the impracticality, imagining capsules or powder form to make the treatment easier.
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St. Louis Republic
Feud Ends in Fatal Iowa City Farmhouse Incident
Pratt, a prominent young man from Fort Johnson County, killed William F. Connell of a neighboring farm east of Iowa City in a long standing feud. Pratt surrendered to the sheriff. Connell had served as a former supervisor and school official and left a wife and several children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Pratt
Johnson County
William F. Connell
Connell
Also Mentioned on This Page
Oxfords
Vici Kid
New York
J. E. Roth & Company
White Goods
India
Nainsook
Nansoc
Organdies
Batiste
Dimities
Frank S. Shriner
N. W. Cor. Park
F. D. Kerrick & CO
A. V. Frazey
Undertaking
N. Court Street
Crail’s
Kellogg's Bakery
Shriner's
Pearse Pinch
Lockridge
Beckwith
Virgil Howard
Ladies’ Improvement Association
Archie
Geo
David Gilchrist
Joseph
Hampton
Adolph Meyers
Sheffield
Gilchrist
Lutheran Church
W. Luther Bright
Christian Endeavor
Liberty Tribune
Smith
South Chestnut Street
Brown
Postmaster Brown
Fritz & Droz
Brighton High School
Bern Wisecarver
W. EF. Harris Clothing
Charter Oak Wagon Works
Malleable Iron Company
Company M Armory Fund
Florence
R. F. Wilson
Fred Callister
Wyoming
Christian Sabbath School
Fry
Third and
Stone Streets
Parsons
Pella
Highland Park
Des Moines
Louie Jones
Ora Scheffer
Parsons College Department of Music
Kellogg’s Bakery
Northeast Corner Square
Christian Church
W.H. Betts
Betts
Keokuk
Atty. J. A. Huglin
16Th District
W. S. Maddux
Effie Gantz
Prof. Gage
First Presbyterian Church
Kellogg’s Bread
the House of Kuppenheimer
Ruth Johnson
Mr. Moorhead
Woodford-Finden
Ira Harvey
Wisecarver & Mohr
B. Kuppenheimer & Co
Chicag
West Side
W. B
Dixie
George W. Unk
North Side Square
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