Chautauqua Program Weekend Schedule and Weather Report
A detailed Chautauqua program lists multiple events across Friday to Sunday including opening exercises, lectures by Judge Schoon, performances by The St. Clair Quartet and The Orphean Musical Club, magic by Reno, and children's Funfest. The Iowa Weather and Crop Service notes continued heat and dryness aiding cultivation with corn growth and harvests progressing statewide.
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St. Clair
Manford Schoonover
Childran
Anna Theresa Davault
Orphean Musical Club
Charles H. Plattenburg
The
Orphean Musica
Reno
Iowa Weather and Crop Service
Census figures and old world rings in a scattered page
The article reports school census figures for 1915 and 1916 with counts of male and female scholars, notes on non resident pupils, and average daily attendance. It also mentions John Brunthaver’s illness and includes a historical discussion of the seal ring and gem engraving practices across ancient civilizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Israel
Telegraph With Lights Signals Eleven Miles At Daylight
The article describes battleships using searchlights and projectors to spell messages by dots and dashes at sea. Day signals reach about twelve miles, while clear nights extend range to forty or fifty miles by reflecting light off clouds. Captive balloons as substitutes for clouds are proposed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerald Forbish
Metropolitan Museum
America
Peter Forbish
Mr. Forbish
Gerald
Forbishes
Early Trademarks in English Law and the Cardenna Tale
The article traces early trademark use from James I to Lord Hardwicke and Lord Eldon, noting the shift from fraud cases to formal protection and injunctions. It also notes a medieval link between Cervantes and Shakespeare regarding the lost Cardenna play and its uncertain status, with Sidney Lee positing a Don Quixote inspired tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Hardwicke
Lord Eldon
London Standard
Cervantes
Shakespeare
Cardenna
Wletcher
Sidney Lee
Cardenio
Don Quixote
Shelton
When Nature Was Timekeeper
In the British Museum a large stone of carbonate of lime served as a day laborer calendar. The “Sunday stone” records coal mine work: black deposits mark work days, white deposits mark nights, and wide white streaks indicate holidays and Sundays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Museum
Tim
Objection Silenced at Wedding as Motion Carried
In a church ceremony the minister invites objections. a church chairman taps the pew and declares there being no objection the motion is carried. The moment echoes a humorous formal parliamentary gesture captured by the New Orleans States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Modern Life Courtship Told In Elevator Romance
A Kansas City Journal piece recalls courtship on a tall office building ride. The couple's romance progresses floor by floor from meeting on the seventieth doorway to engagement on the fifty-seventh and marriage after a minister joins on the forty-ninth. The reminiscence mixes city life with a light quip about a Tabby cat and silk lore referencing Bagdad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City Journal
The Back Seat and a Blind Man's Insight
A blind narrator recounts a car ride with Gerald Forbish and his parents. Gerald’s overconfident driving leads to a crash, and doctors later reveal his head shape and intellect were ill suited for danger, prompting a controversial head reshaping operation.
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Gerald
Harvard
Mr. Forbish
Mrs. Forbish
Ike
Fate
Blondin
Niagara
Casey Jones
Staccato
Chicago
McGintys
Kildare
Forbish
McGinty
Glow
Mike McGinty
Tasmania
Edward Halloran
Mr.Forbish
Wallace
Dr. Globb
Globb
Blobb
Doc Kenkenheim
Knocking Women and Quiet Fish Tales Across Pages
A fragmented miscellany notes two saleswomen insulting rivals on a streetcar with mocking remarks. It also cites a study showing noisy motorboats do not disturb harbor fish, except for splash impact. Abridged lines include moral lines on covetousness and an optician ad.
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Bureau of Fisheries
Popular Science Monthly
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Shoemaker's A
Sword Ril
Parnells
L. Y. Davis
Hie
Wil. Y. Davis
George Fred Willams
Greece
Our Old Home Singers
Quintana
D. M. Kelley
Quintano
Public School Statistics
H. 8. Lee
John Brunthaver
Dublin Castle
John
Henry
Ireland
Duke of
Glarenve
Edward
Mother
Alice
Edith
Freddie
St Louis Post-Dispatch
Shakespeare Plus Cervantes
Bagdad
Frank A. Munsey Co
Frisco
Bing
Biff
Indianapolis News
Motorboat
Dr. L
Stubler
L. G. Stabler
M. W. Herrick
William Lubben
Frank Page
Bidwell
Bellevue
Borsa
Bugpy
Ihequire
Dave Corbett
R. OC
Stirton
Sovereign Millinery School
Middle West
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Meta Kasper
the Express
Minnesota
Hiniker
Lakeville
Oliver
Monticello Express
Anna Reimer
Wyoming
A. H. Jansen
Paul Paulson
Onslow
Stover
W. F. Robn
Hosford
John. G. Schoon
J. E. Pond
Denkhofp’s
Match and
Monticello
Dyersville
Central Lumber & Coal Co
G. P. Rockstad
Beatrice
William Altman
Towa
H. M. Remery
Jams Remiry Kemley & Remly
Tyorneys AT Law
Anamosa
Main Street
Kiesterly Hotel
DR. M. F. Hogan
F. A. Hefner
Stickford
KE. G. Rawson
Onslow, Iowa
Fred Puleston
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