Des Moines Waiter Turned First Lady's Story of E T Meredith
Edwin T Meredith, later secretary of agriculture, waited tables in Des Moines in 1893 to fund courtship with Edna Ellott. He bought happiness with $2 weekly tips, married Edna in 1898, turned a struggling farm paper into Successful Farming, now part of a multiproperty edition surpassing 1,000,000 in circulation. The Meredith family lived modestly. Mrs. Meredith managed books and circulation, supported wartime Red Cross canteens, and later hosted in Washington society while remaining a home baker of lemon cream pie for her husband.
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Des Moines
Edwin T. Meredith
Agriculture
Ilson
Eangry
Edna Eliott
Meredith
Highland Park College
E. T. Meredith
Edna Ellott
Partners’ Tribune
Edwin Meredith
hHved
Merédith
Dodge
National Red Cross
Edwin Meredith, Jr
Washington
Married Teachers Given Preference in Argentine Says Lawrence
Mrs. McKinley Warren, returning from Buenos Aires and Mercedes, describes Argentine attitudes to women, marriage, and work. She notes fathers and sons judge women in street groups, limited political rights for women, and laws that protect wives and children but bar foreign ownership. Teaching favors married women, pay and pensions exist, and social life centers on bazaars and tea houses. Argentine women dress conservatively, mourn publicly, and learn American cooking. rain shuts streets and schools.
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McKinley Warren
Buenos Aires
Mercedes
Warren
Chiaten
Mrs. Werren
Rai
Girl Reserves Report Finishes Year At High School
The Girl Reserves of LH high school completed a successful year under Dorothy Gregg with 13 members and elect Willardean Harner as next year’s president. The group raised 86.05 through fundraisers, sent 16 to midwinter conferences, and kept busy with programs on The Code of the Road and The Quest of the Girl Reserves Find and Give the Best.
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Young Women's Christian Association
Dorothy Gregg
Willardean Harner
Estes Park
Colo
Emporie
Cosmopolitan Club
Lose Relation Between Proper Food and School Work Says Mrs Stanley
Louise Stanley summarizes a U S Department of Agriculture home economics stance linking child nutrition to school performance. The piece lists nutrition indicators, contrasts poor versus well nourished children, and notes USDA help through cooperative programs for family food education and national child health efforts.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Camp Fire Girls Plan May Lawrence Exhibit at Bell’s
Camp Fire Girls of Lawrence will show their crafts in Bell’s window May 1 to 3. Miss Elve Belle Lawrence chairs the exhibit with Mrs. Ivan Benson and Mrs. Wayne Gill assisting. Girls to bring material to Miss Lawrence’s 1700 New Hampshire St. by April 30, clearly marked to prevent mixups.
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Camp Fire Girls of
Lawrence
Bell
Rusi
Elve Belle Lawrence
Ivan Benson
Wayne Gill
Camp Fire Girls
New Hampshire Street
Guardian
Camp Fire activities and meetings at local groups
Keotima Camp Fire held Monday afternoon at junior high for a brief business session. Plans for Saturday food sale at Metzler's furniture store to raise funds for ceremonial gowns. Elizabeth Walker attended the national Camp Fire convention in Chicago April 1 to 21. Woodlawn Camp Fire met in their new school building to assign individual Camp Fire names and pay dues, nearly all collected. Eewa Camp Fire to hold a junior high meeting after school to discuss hook plate designs. Cheiawenssa Camp Fire met at the Gaskills to work on model fires for the exhibit.
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Aokiya
Blue Mound
Elizabeth. Maddox
Colonia Tea Room
Josephine Underhill
Ackiya Camp Fire
California
Lawrence
Lincoln Avenue
Palo Alto
Hashatuaya
Quincy School
Guardians Association
Leters
Ruth Schaake
Vivian Bunn
Lois Parker
Dorothy Jewell
Lorna Jean McElhiney
Audry Courdier
Lena
Adelaide
Stella Marie Schmitt
Willardean’ Harnar
Mary Virginia Smyth
Margaret Chemney
Lida Holmes
Chelawenssa
Velma Lindsays
Elizabeth Walker
The
Guardian
Gaskill Twins
Keotima
Metzler’s
Chelawengsa
Chicago
Walker
Woodlawn
Areek
Hume
Waoedlawr School
Eewa
Cat
Cheiawenssa
Alice
Alta Gaskill
Music Week at the Library Promotes Opera and Musicshelf
The library announces Music Week with readymade lists of music themed novels and operatic titles. A children’s display by Miss Perkins features operas for young readers while a reference shelf includes Grove Dictionary and New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians.
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Taft
Perkins
Bacon
Kalow
Brewer
Spinach and Potatoes Prep from Early Household Guide
Spinach is washed and boiled with a pinch of salt until tender then drained and finely chopped. Two to three small potatoes are boiled until mealy, peeled, then drained for further preparation.
Dutch Spinach and Pudding Preparation Notes
Recipes and kitchen tips from Mrs A B Fey and Mrs E J Netzer cover spinach dishes with butter, onion, parsley and bread crumbs, plus a creamy egg yolk sauce. Additional guidance on slow pudding baking and rug curling avoidance suggests practical home decor and cooking discipline.
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E. J. Netzer
A. 1. St
Stereotyped Decoration Advice for Grouping Furniture
The text advises breaking up pairs for informal picturesque décor and laying aside extra pieces. It suggests two nearly equal groups of furniture can be paired against each other at room ends or opposite a fireplace, with care to avoid placing similar pieces across from each other.
Cynthia Grey On Monotony Killing Romance In Marriage
Cynthia Grey laments monotony as the deadliest force in love noting how marriages falter when romance becomes habit and the daily kiss loses its spark.
When Love Fades Under Habit and Neglect
A reflective meditation on marriage decay where love withers under routine. The speaker argues heartbreak often lies with the man, while a wife’s capacity for affection endures yet can be stifled by monotony and careless neglect, ending in a hollow relationship.
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Freiler
Untouched by Radio Ailsa Craig Island Adopts Signal System
Ailsa Craig, Scotland, April 24 Associated Press reports a remote island near the Clyde has inaugurated emergency signaling via bonfires and carrier pigeons due to lack of radio. A medical practitioner on the mainland will be summoned, with boat hire covered by the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance. The island rises 1100 feet above sea level and has 40 inhabitants, all fishermen and light house tenders.
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Ailsa Craig
Scotland
Associated Press
Clyde
British Isles
Great Britain
Royal Commission On National Health Insurance
Firth of Clyde
Renounce Dainty Gowns Iceland Will Not Import Ready Made Clothing
Reykjavik reports Iceland will not import ready made clothing this year including modest Easter fashions from Paris. Prohibited list expands to shoes fabrics luxuries and many necessities to stabilize the Icelandic crown. Bread butter eggs meat and other items barred to curb inflation.
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Tceland
Reykjavik
Iceland
Associated Press
Paris
England
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E.T. Meredith
Mrs. Meredith
LH. S
Louise Stanley
Bureau of Home Economies
U. S. Department
Yok Agriculture
Igeving
Everygirl’s
LaVerne Stogard
Edith Kempthorne
Alaska
Janet McKellar
Margaret Thomasma
Miss Rowe Wright
Everygirl’s Magazine
Tpahwakatiwa
Ellen Hazard
Camp Fire
Lethamon
Wanda Edmonds
Rae Stoland
Audra Courter
Jane Burkholder
Ruth Stockwell
Lila Lawson
Stella Schmitt
Lynn Makepeace
Mary Schaeffer
Mary Virginia Smith
Adelaide Schmitt
Rachel Edson
Helen Kinner
Alice Gill
Katherine Hosford
Dorothy Kinney
Barbara Kester
Caroline Rob House
Evelyn Swarthout
Opal Hevener
Martha Meade
Margaret Chamney
Helen Stockwell
Peyence Edmonds
Crelawenssa
Anita Horton
Doroth
Shash
Watanapa
Episcopal Church
Library Notes
Cather
Diver
Lonely Furrow
Crawford
Ruby
Roman Singer
Mothergirl
Hurst
Klein
Maclean
Alex Porter
David
Ramsey
Reed
Rolland
Jean Christophe
Sedgwick
Tante
Sidgewick
Promise
Sidgwick
Sousa
Homs
Cynthia Grey
Estes
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