Press Club rooms over two hundred members
The Press Club of Des Moines has grown to over 200 members since its June 1909 launch, including 90 percent of active Des Moines news and magazine workers. The club’s new Seventh Street rooms feature a library, card room, dancing hall, billiard room, gym, writing room, dining room and baths, with plans to occupy the second floor for active newspaper men.
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Iowa
Press Club of
Des Moines
Capitol City
Seventh
Locust Streets
Press Club
Arang
James M. Pierca
Harvey Ingham
C. C. Nye
W. G. Hale
Harold Young
J. T. Meredith
H. W. Stout
W. Il, Wiseman
Boone River
Upper
Town Drainage, Waterways and Conservation Commission
George D. Dobson
French Embroidery Bow Knot Design in French Style
A detailed guide on creating a bow knot embroidery using Valenciennes lace with French embroidery stitches. Instructions cover materials, transfer methods, seeding technique, color choice, fabric handling, and finishing steps for a delicate lingerie blouse and related cuffs and collar.
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Hnen
Batiste
Desert Melody Toucan Duet Sparks Wordplay
A playful verse features two toucans trading lines in a pun filled duet. Each bird hesitates and riffs on can and canning as a lighthearted wordplay exchange. The piece centers on whimsy and creature dialogue rather than a narrative arc or clear event.
Uncle Sam's Breakfast Food inquiry letter from 1910
A 1910 letter from J L Woodson in Los Angeles asks Uncle Sam's Breakfast Food Co. for pricing on cases FOB Omaha or Los Angeles, referencing long use by his mother. The page also includes a humorous series of short items from Woman's Home Companion and a light joke about a doctor and a throat check.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Uncle Sam's Breakfast Food « Co
Omaha
Neb
Tempus
Helen
Tlome
A Touch of Color in White Frocks and Lace
The article discusses adding color to white dresses through satin roses corsages and ribbon rosettes. It explains embroidering solid work on lace spaces using soft-colored mercerized cotton and advises basting the lace to a white fabric for stability. It also suggests padding heavy work on top of lace for a firmer finish.
Tweed Costume Description and Materials List
A vintage pattern description details a heavy tweed costume with a plain gored skirt, semi-fitting coat with a panel back and scalloped edges, velvet collar, felt hat trimmed with ribbon velvet and quills, and a materials list listing seven yards tweed, two dozen buttons, velvet, and related notions.
Everyday Hatpins Shine In Silver For Daily Wear
Everyday hatpins in silver are popular for daily wear with varied shapes. Many feature chased designs and stone settings such as jade carnelian coral and lapis lazuli. Some striking pins boast large jeweled heads with pearls and brilliants.
A Little Frock Describes a Simple Garment Pattern
A quaint frock can be made from remnants of demi flouncing hema with embroidery along the hem. The top gathers into a neckband edge with a small frill, sleeves in bishop style are confined with bands trimmed to match the neck.
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Mother Hubbard
Giving Hat Pins Paired Prizes Guide Fashion
Readers are advised to give hat pins in pairs rather than a single item. The text suggests buying two cheaper pins to match and notes the popularity of large rhinestone pins as a fashionable trend for prizes or gifts.
Ornamental sash worn under jumper in long arayat
A fragment describes a waist sash worn under a jumper in a long narrow arayat, attached at the neck with an ornament and finished with untied pendants. The text notes the decorative ends.
Storm Episode Involving Two Women At Crossing
In a slushy crossing, two young women slipped and fell, arising wet and angry. An observer remarked on their attire and appearance, provoking condemnation of the insulting comment. The Philadelphia Ledger is cited as reporting the exchange.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Healthful Diet Change Promises Quick Benefit
A reader reports improved health after shifting from meat to fruit and Grape-Nuts with cream, toast, and Postum. The letter claims meat slows digestion, while Grape-Nuts supplies natural phosphate aiding brain and nerve function. advertises the Road to Wellville booklet.
What He Was After
Georgia youth George Washington Henry Clay Lin Carter, a young African American man, was confronted by a white neighbor at 1 a.m. in a henhouse after the neighbor accused him of stealing chickens. Lin protested, pleaded for calm, and raised a red hat as a shield while addressing the confrontational neighbor.
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Joseph I. Myerly
Des Moines
Treasury Department
Washington
Postoffice
Joseph I, Myerly
George Washington
Henry Clay
Lincoln Carter
Georgia
George W!h
O. L. GC
George
Fragmentary Musings on Oddities and Animals
A garbled diary like passage mentions violinists, a monkey in Siam swimming, and various odd expressions. It weaves together nonsensical lines about people, places, and actions with no clear narrative or context.
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Dr. Biotdo
Siam
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Toms
Nevada
Stewart
Twenty-fourth Street
University Avenue
H. H. Ernest
Richard J. Scheultege
Arthur Baker
Chicago
Lillian Russell
Columbia
State Historical Department
Hall of
Jhon Sundberg
Iowa Corn Growers’ Association
M. L. Turner
Polk County Medical Society
Des Moines Public
Firemen’s Pension Fund
William Scott
Ed Bartlett
EB. Capron
Sumner
State Board of Health
Dulin
Emeline Dulin
Res Moines
Souths
First Street
James M. Pierce
Des Moines Press Club
H. E. Stout
the Press Club
Desert Melody
Toucan
Toucana
J. L. Woodson
U. S
Alphonse
TWEED
Iiching
Bupd
Dodds
Freee
Carter
Rie
Martin
Ariel
Hame
L Martin CO
S. 40Th St
Omahe
Hay
Fay
Sampla Sone Philp
Ned
California
Elena
T Daag Te ‘Ac B.cliniment
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