State program to broadcast high school declamatory contest
Atlantic will host the Iowa High School Declamatory Association contest on Friday April 17 with twelve schools from four districts. The program, broadcast from station KFTZ 273 meters, includes music, oratorical pieces, vocal and dramatic selections, and humor acts, featuring students from Gilmore City Hudson Perry Washington Adel Emmetsburg Bonaparte Rockwell City Eldora Ottumwa Audubon.
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Iowa High School Declamatory Association
Atlantic
Gilmore City
Hudson
Perry
Washington
West Waterloo
Adel
Emmetsburg
Bonaparte
Rockwell City
Eldora
Ottumwa
Audubon
KFTZ
Association
Bee Keeping and Vaccination Plans For Counties
Farm Bureau notes detail bee keeping demonstrations on April 22 at Clifford Fortner farm near Knoxville and at John Templeton Jr. farm near Monroe, plus April 20-24 clothing work across multiple townships. Vaccination Schools for hog cholera are set for April 24-25 in Marion County with a $3.00 exam fee, plus a push for county participation and group sign-ups. May 26 features an Alfalfa Tour. The text also cites a state act creating a blind commission to aid occupational progress and market handiwork for the blind, citing 2000 blind residents in Iowa and noting limited employment among pensioners.
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Farm Bureau
Clifford Fortner
Knoxville
John Templeton Jr
Red Rock
Clay
Polk
Lake Prairie
A. O. Worthington
Monroe
Iowa
Marion County
Craft
Ames
General Assembly
Helen Keller
F. E. Palmer
College For the Blind
Vinton
Colman Battles Five Hours Undersea for Film Scene
In the Alamo theater review of A Thief in Paradise fans learn how Ronald Colman and Charles Youree staged underwater combat. The shoot required multiple days, with sun reflected by mirrors at twenty feet deep, totaling nearly five hours underwater in short two minute intervals. Colman aims to challenge Annette Kellerman in a future diving contest.
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Alamo Theater
Ronald Colman
Charles Youree
Althe
Colman
Youree
Annette Kellerman
Goldwyn-Fitzmau rice film adapts South Seas adventure
The Goldwyn-Fitzmau release adapts Leonard Merrick's The Worldlings for first National release. Staff officers, 1267 enlisted men, 1260 animals, and hospital accommodations for 36 sick accompany production. In Fayette county, genuine maple syrup is being produced generously as sap flows well this spring. Walter S Beall of West Union notes sugaring began about ten days ago and groceries are stocked with the confection, a favored pancake sweetener. Brause and Morse camps supply West Union.
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Goldwyn-Fitzmaurice
Leonard Merrick
Fayette County
Walter S. Beall
West Union
Brause
Morse
Fort Des Moines History Recapped On WHO Broadcast
Capt R T Edwards Des Moines recruiting head cites Fort Des Moines evolution from 1918 hospital conversions to a current garrison. He notes 7425 World War I wounded cared for, the Fourteenth Cavalry and Ninth Field Artillery at the post, one square mile area and 958.5 acre rifle range two miles south, with red brick buildings and housing for officers and staff.
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R. T. Edwards
Army
Des Moines
WHO
Fort Des Moines
Edwards
Post Hospital
U. S. Army General Hospital No. 11
United States Army Hospital
United States General Hospital No
Fourteenth Cavalry
Ninth Field Artillery
Beware Of Coughs That Hangs On
A vintage medical ad touts Kemp's Balsam as a remedy for lingering coughs and pneumonia risk. It claims the balsam soothes the throat and stops tickling coughs, suitable for children, priced at 30 cents in stores.
Hoag Camp Producing With Lloyd Pitts and Stehr Team
The Hoag camp, assisted by Lloyd Pitts John Pitts and Archie Stehr, is producing as reported. Today mirrors yesterday in pupil output and activity across the camps.
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Hoag
Lloyd and
John Pitts
Archie Stehr
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Atlantic High School Boys’ Glee Club
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Herrold Mann
the Cross of Gold
John Mathews
Fred Molke
Madame X
Genevieve Gusland
Elizabeth Hansen
S. C. Frink
Marian Bronson
Siwash
Geo. L. Burch
Chautauqua. Com
Robert Greer
Bill Perkin
Pacae
Cline Graer Rae
Ruby Johnson
Doris Kenyon
Ronald Coleman
Aileen Pringle
Holmes
Walti
Loyd Hughes
Rich
Cullen Landis
Bert Lytell
Claire Windsor
Ruth
Viola Dana
Walter Hiers
Richard Barthelmess
Jno
J. van Dyke
Kemp
New York
Toonne
Oskaloosa
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