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Newspaper

Moravia Union

Location

Moravia, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 16, 1922

Page

7

Church Evening Program At OP Opens Doors To Mission

At the churches in OP a Home Mission Thursday evening and quarterly tea are planned. Members are asked to help decorate the basement, share dinner with the ladies, and attend. An important board meeting followed the Sunday service. Remember the orchestra program Friday at 7:30 with fine specialties and youth music.

Bi Rayhill Sandéy School Orhan Mia J. W. Haish Temperence Newell Fae Lincoln Phw

Local U B Church Activities and Funeral Notice

The U B Church at 10 Main hosts Sunday school at 3 00 with superintendent Johnson and Edna Burns leading the wing. An aid society meeting is planned in the church room with a Valentine social this week. Regretfully we record the death of Lowell Quell who was active in the Bible School and church. Funeral details and tributes follow in a brief notice.

U. B. Church Johnson Ema Ja Behool Ar Main Ie Bete Dwight Hiatt Edna Burns Cock de Ptigen Wei Aid Society Pogiety Hetermediates Lowell Quxell C. BE. Society Bible School Ewes

Fragment from memorial tribute to a life well used

A reflective obituary passage honors a life begun and lived with joy, noting that destructive forces exist alongside constructive ones. It closes with spiritual lines about trust in God and a final acknowledgment that life’s work continues beyond the present.

Christian Church Schedule Under Pastor Hy York

Bible School at 10. Preaching and Communion at 11. Evening services at 7. Prayer meeting and Bible exposition every Wednesday at 7.00.

Christian Church Hy F. York

Pleasant community notes from MT PLEASANT area

Mr and Mrs Yau Lemaster spent Friday at the Georges Robins home Hazel Brown spent the weekend at home Open PLA Business meeting was held at Earl Woodcock home Friday evening Richard Brown Keith Clark Gilbert Woodcock Everatt Gil P Edmond Glen and y Robinson Mrh and Hare a skating on Brownhd Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon Lloyd Clark and family spent Saturday and Sunday at the Will Callen home Mr and Mrs Zell Callen and daughter Marie attended B Y P U Sunday evening Mrs George Brown and daughter Florence spent Friday at the Alvin Hankins home There is going to be a spelling Bee and Pie and Candy social at Buffalo Friday evening February 7th Everybody come theater Woodcock and wife and Will Spencer and wife spent Sunday afternoon at the Will I Sharp home in Moravia The Farm Bureau was well attended Thursday evening An address by the County Agent was enjoyed by all Mr and Mrs Homer Brown are the proud parents of an 11 pound baby boy born February 11th Hagelle Robinson taught school at Fairview Tuesday for Rex Brown Mrs Fred Thomas left Saturday morning for a visit with her daughter Mrs Ed Brown at Wichita Kansas Emory Erskin and family returned home last week from a visit with Mr Erakin's parents

Earl. Woodcock Richard “Brown Keith“ Clark Gilbert Woodcock Everatt Gil P Edmond Glen “Andy Robinson Mrh Haréa George Brown Florence Alvin Hankins Buffalo Theater Woodcock Will Spencer Will I Sharp Moravia Farm Bureau Homer Brown Hagelle Robinson Fairview Rex Brown Fred ‘Thomas

Debunking Physical Traits as Crime Indicators

The text reviews Karl Pearson’s experiments showing hair color and curliness better reflect intelligence than forehead height, argues no single head shape predicts character, and recaps Lombroso’s flawed crime-sign theory with widespread signs among noncriminals and impracticality of enforcing signs.

Karl Pearson Henry Foster Adama Scribner’s Lombrosa

Indian giver and meerschaum the word origins

The piece explains the origin of the expression Indian giver tied to potlatch customs where gifts are exchanged with expected returns. It also describes meerschaum, its German roots, composition, sources in Asia Minor and the Scandinavian coast, and how pipes are made and finished.

Northwest Puget Sound Alaska Asia Minor Livadia Paoboen Scandinavian Eskicnehir Scandinuvign

Limousine's Origin Emerges From French regional Coif History

A garbled OCR sketch traces the word limousine to French peasant head coverings worn by Limousin region women around Litages. It links a hooded coif fashion to a transport term later associated with a covered carriage and a high powered automobile, though the text is fragmented.

France Litages Limousin

Conscience Not on the Job At School Creek

Two boys Jimmy and George ignored their mother’s warning not to play behind the school building near a Woley Creek. They returned home muddy at dusk, their shoes caked with mud, and their mother scolds them for disobeying the instruction and risking trouble. The boys defend themselves by saying their sleds or chores weren’t working right, and their mother questions how they ended up at the creek.

Jimmy George Jimny Weber Jimsy

Fragmented query on names and places in a garbled text

The readable words include personal names and places such as Silvke and Lieu Wy Visilius with references to a secretary. The passage is incomplete and lacks a coherent event or action to report.

Dalton Quad Nes

Mine Opening Notice Near Duff Mine Area

A farmer invites neighbors to inspect a newly opened mine on his property located 3 to 4 miles south of the Duff mine and 24 miles northwest of Rathbun seeking to gauge value and potential profits.

Duff Mine Rathbun Namibis al

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