Local high school girls walk to Otley for exercise
A group of Otley girls including Adele Van Drim melen May Cole Frances Grundman Margaret Grundman and Grace Van Gorp walked to Otley Monday afternoon seeking exercise. They missed a train back but secured a ride home by auto. Local notices mention visitors and health news including Marie DeHaan recovering in California.
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Otley
Adele van Drimmelen
May Cole
Frances Grundman
Margaret Grundman
Grace van Gorp
Local Notes on Visits and Moves in Iowa
Mr and Mrs D Hynes visited relatives in Des Moines Tuesday. A P DeCook was added to the Star constellation this week and now spins over the White Way in a Maxwell touring car. Mr and Mrs D Sjaardema of Sully attended the wedding of Mr Sjaardema s sister here last Thursday. Miss Margaret Wetzel arrived Saturday from Portland Oregon for a visit with her friend Mrs A B Van Houweling. J H Van Vliet and A T Klein attended to business at Eddyville Saturday. Henry Brom who has been living at Lynnville was in town Friday visiting relatives. He informs us that he has recently moved to Newton.
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A. P. DeCook
D. Sjaardema
Sully
Mr. Sjaardema
Margaret Wetzel
Portland
Oregon
A. B van Houweling
Henry Brom
Lynnville
Newton
At the Churches Sunday Services and Plans
The pastor will preach on Christianity in Families in the morning and If in the evening. Baptist Church schedule includes 9:30 Sunday School, 10:45 morning worship, 7:30 evening service with the college glee club. Teacher Training class meets Friday April 17 at 8:15 for Lessons 7 and 8. Rev J W Bailey will speak soon on How the Bible Came to Us. Mr F M Frush starts a course on The School in about three weeks.
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College Glee Club
J.W. Bailey
F. M. Frush
K P Lodge Invites Masons and Odd Fellows to Smoker
The K P Lodge extends an invitation to Mason and Odd Fellows lodges for a smoker on Tuesday evening April 21. Hosts promise an entertaining and pleasant evening for all attendees.
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K. P. Lodge
Mason Lodge
Odd Fellows Lodge
The $25 Difference in County Jail Justice
A woman and her children remain jailed while a man off with a $25 fine goes free. The piece questions equal justice, noting the man can buy shelter and immunity, while the woman bears punishment and stigma for the same offense. It calls for civilized communities to stop letting money decide freedom in cases of vice.
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Prson
Ravenna Named for Italian City Amid Early Ohio Settlers
In early Ohio history the town that became Ravenna was nearly named Tappan. Benjamin Tappan, his relatives, and fellow settlers began a village in Portage County. A Rome letter naming the Italian city Ravenna arrived just in time, preserving the town’s current name and rejecting Tappan.
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Ohio
Tappan
Benjamin Tappan
Boston
Portage County
Cleveland
Buffalo
Italy
Ravenna
New World
Ohio Wilds
Ladies’ Home Journal
Two Meal Tradition Then Modern Breakfast Invention
A historical note traces meal patterns from two meals daily across centuries to modern bacon breakfasts. It cites a fifteenth century proverb urging early rising and equal meals, and recalls that breakfast originally meant a morning ale draft. The Oxford Dictionary dates the word’s first mention to 1463.
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Oxford Dictionary
London Spectator
An Interesting Exhibit on Virtues and Vices
Quoted by Gerald Stanley Lee in Crowds the idea imagines two shops on the world’s main street one displaying all vices in its window and the other all virtues as people pass by endlessly proposing a world that would be good in the morning.
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Gerald Stanley Lee
A Slave to His Own Opinions
An editorial gloss on obstinate thinking cites Bishop Butler to warn that a man possessed by error clings to it, treating his beliefs as unrooted plants that endure only through his rigorous insistence, since false opinions demand stricter holding than true ones.
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Bishop Butler
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Y. T. van Niewaal
California
Iowa
M. Krammer
Ottumway
Herman Moschel
John Nollen
Des Moines
Inn
Cornelia DeGooyer
W. W. Sadler
S. M. Wilson
Swan
8. H. Dickey
Marie DeHaan
East Third Street
A. Kruzeman
The
Star Auto Co
A. Hoogenakker
Nobleton
F. P. VanGorp
Mrs. D. Hynes
J. H. van Vliet and
A. T. Klein
Eddyville
Raisons
VER Steeg CO
Pella, Ia
Stubenrauch
Love Bros
Puritan Drug Co
John H. VerSteeg
Weather Bureau
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
Jerature
M. Vander Linden
Vander Linden
Vander Lindens Bazar
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