Folk To Speak At W L Chautauqua In West Liberty
West Liberty Iowa hosts a lively chautauqua closing with daily programs through Sunday. Thavin's International Band performs today. tomorrow former Governor Folk speaks on The Era of Conscience. Bishop Quayle anticipated to draw a record crowd. Dr William Edgar Geil, explorer, shares Pigmy Land experiences in Africa.
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West Liberty
Thavin
Joseph W. Folk
Missouri
William A. Quayle
Methodist Episcopal Church
America
Mangold
Eleanor Miller
Chautauqua
White Rose Orchestra
J. R. Ellison
William Edgar Geil
Africa
Pingland
Dr. Geil
One Dead Two Dying After Pittsburg Auto Crash
A joy ride ended in tragedy near Braddock when a car traveling about 50 miles per hour skidded. One man is dead and two, Edward Ward and Charles Irwin, are fatally injured. Three companions fled and remain missing. The unidentified victim was found by the roadside.
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Pittsburg
Edward Ward
Charles Irwin
Braddock
Ward
Irwin
Hotter Yet Says Rev. Irl Hicks Forecasts Scorchers
The St. Louis weather seer Rev. Irl Hicks predicts a July with little rain and many heat waves. He outlines multiple storm periods from July 2 to 30, with hot spells, possible thunderstorms, and a general lack of widespread rain in key agricultural regions.
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Irl Hicks
St. Louis
Mississippi River
New Moon
Muscatine School Board Meets Saturday at 4:30 PM
Muscatine board of education will hold a session Saturday at 4 30 o clock in the German American building rooms. The annual reports of the secretary and treasurer will be read and the school census report will be presented. Census figures are not yet compiled due to outstanding canvassers reports. Regular monthly business is expected to be transacted.
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Muscatine Board of Education
Horst
Death Crash Near Embankment Claims Wheeling Man
A car rolling over an embankment a hundred feet below left one man dead, identified as J. F. Trueman of Wheeling West Virginia, according to initial reports.
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J. F. Trueman
Wheeling
W. Va
Sleeping girl believed dying after 11 weeks of unbroken sleep
Miss Hazel Schmidt of Vandalia Illinois has slept almost continuously for 11 weeks. Doctors feared she might die as her breathing ceased and limbs grew rigid but she later revived with restoratives. She has been awake less than five hours in 11 weeks. Parents have received many sympathetic messages.
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Vandalia
Ill
Hazel Schmidt
Lone Tree Saloons Shut In After Thirteen Years
The town of Lone Tree enters dry status as water wagon rules take effect marking the first liquor ban in thirteen years. Johnson County liberals fail to gather enough petition signatures, putting all nearby towns outside Iowa City into dry territory and ending one day of grace for residents to stock up.
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Lone Tree
Iowa City
Johnson County
McNamara and Simpson Face Final Round in Western Open
Grand Rapids June 30. Golf favorites Tom McNamara of Boston and Robert Simpson of Necesha Wis meet in the final 36 hole round to decide the Western Golf Association annual open championship.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Tom McNamara
Boston
Robert Simpson
Nenasha
Wis
Western Golf Association
Weight Question Up Kansas City Convention Discussion
Kansas City Missouri June 30 discussion of the destination weight question and the election of officers marked the main business at today’s session of the Interstate Retail Dealers association annual convention.
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Kansas City
Interstate Retail Dealers’ Association
Titus Loan & Investment Co Offers 5 and 6 Percent Investments
The Titus Loan and Investment Co advertises safe investments comparable to government bonds with 5% and 6% interest. They claim to hold farm loans ready for assignment and accept sums from $100 upward, inviting calls or letters.
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Titus Loan & Investment Co
Coverston Chenoweth Nuptials Beautiful Home Affair
Ada Rachel Chenoweth wed Ray Jacob Coverston at the Chenoweth home on Mulberry avenue in a green and white themed ceremony officiated by Dr. L M Grigsby. Forty relatives and friends attended a three course lunch after the 8 39 pm ceremony with out of town guests from Marion Indiana Anita Ia and Letts. The groom, son of George Coverston of Fallon Nev, will reside in Guanajuato Old Mexi co after a month’s westward honeymoon aboard a San Francisco steamship.
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First Methodist Episcopal Church
Frederick Salisbury
Boston
Mass
Mass., Her Husband, Dr. Salisbury
Guy D’ Hardelot
Boyd Burnside
Hattie Frazier
Hazel Wagner
Grandview
Lela Wagner
Anita
Cora DeCamp
Martha Heller
Myrta Baker
Marie Bagley Baker
Elgin
Ill
Ethel Coverston
Marion
Ind
Edward Blakesly
Charles
William
Olive Henderson
Letts
Muscatine
Muscatine High School
George Coverston
Guanajuato
Old Mexico
Maennercher Ladies Club Meets at West Eighth Home
The Maennercher ladies gathered yesterday afternoon at Mrs. Fred Heerd’s on West Eighth Street with twenty members attending. Mrs. Heerd provided refreshments and Mrs. Robert Heerd performed several piano solos. Mrs. Carl Hess of Pond Street will entertain the group in two weeks on July 13.
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Anna Barnard
Spring Street
Anna Bixby
West Second Street
Amanda Cornell
East Eighth Street
Deutschland
Exie Dutton
Alma Westfall
Anita Crips
Agnes Carter
Fred Morgan
Leonard Fuller
Walter Molis
Will Randit
Fred Heerd
West Eighth Street
Heerd
Robert Heerd
Carl Hess
Pond Street
Amusu Club Members Entertained Thursday
The members of the M. B. A. Amusu club were entertained Thursday with an event featuring social activities and fellowship. Details of the program and attendees are described in the report.
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M. B. A. Amusu Club
Altrora Club Program At Old Ladies Home
The bi monthly program at the Old Ladies Home on Mulberry avenue featured Miss Gertrude Holmes Miss Fern Crow and Miss Marguerite Allen as entertainers on Thursday afternoon. Holmes and Crow sang with Crow also presenting a reading while Allen read several poems.
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Altrora Club
Old Ladies’ Home
Mulberry Avenue
Gertrude Holmes
Fern Crow
Marguerite Allen
Miss Holmes
Miss Crow
Miss Allen
Outing Party Enjoys Day At Wildwood Cottage
An outing party including Mrs. Samuel Stocker and daughter Ellen Mrs. Webster Hakes and daughter Margaret Mrs. R. K. Raff and daughter Edith and Mrs. William Bishop is spending the day at the cottage Wildwood on Geneva island.
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Samuel Stocker
Ellen
Webster Hakes
Margaret
R. K. Raff
Edith
William Bishop
Wildwood
Geneva Island
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W. L. Chautauqua
MISS
Souri
Bishop Quayle
Explorer
Lone Tree Saloon
McNamara and
Simpson Meert
Weigght
Interstate
Mer
Paul Steinmetz
Anson Clothing
Good Clothing
Frank Anson
Lis
Cis
Victoria
Voices
Lilly
Santa Gertrudis
San Francisco
Cal
Chicago
James Hayes Gately
Gertrude Crane
James P. Ryan
Pine Street
Lilly Home
West Third Street
Chicago Record-Herald Society
James C. Crane
Hampden Court
Gertrude
James Haynes Gately
St. Clement's Church
Orchard Street
Deming Place
Lillian
Frank A. Miller
Letta Artz
Fort Madison
Ethel Salisbury
East Second Street
Lillian Young
Miss Salisbury
C. H. Salisbury
Dubuque
H. F. Barnard Co
Jewelers
East
Thompson Brothers Co
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