Do-Without Club spreads thrift campaign nationwide
Treasury savings division taps Dr. J S Brown Joliet Illinois to lead school thrift drive. Chicago’s Do Without Club offers free membership, literature, and pledges to join and save for defined goals with no dues. Mrs Roy Dickey, former editor, forms club to keep wartime spirit of saving alive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savings Division
Treasury Department
J.S. Brown
Joliet
Ill
Chicago
S. Michigan Avenue
Roy Dickey
Do-Without Club
Woman's Committee Council of
Natonal Defense
Dickey
S. Brown
Ladies Federated Club season tickets promotion
A promotional appeal urges readers to support the Ladies Federated Club by buying season tickets for the upcoming week of productions, stressing that missing any show would be a loss for attendees.
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Ladies Federated Club
Contractor Bortenlanger Killed By 6600 Volt Wire
A contractor named Joseph A. Bortenlanger was instantly killed on June 20 1919 near Omaha Nebraska after contact with a 6600 volt wire. The note cites his firm as installer of the local electric light plant in 1911 and notes his finances were weak at the time with an estate likely limited to a life insurance policy of about 6000.
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Joseph A. Bortenlanger
Omaha
Nebi
Platte Valley Power Co
Bortenlanger
Second Reformed and Central College Preaching Schedule
President M. J. Hoffman of Central College and Prof. P. VanBeek will preach at both services. Sunday School starts 9 30 a m. Preaching Service 10 45 a m. Junior B Y P U 7 00 p m. The pastor preaches in the morning. No evening service in August.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. J. Hoffman
Central College
First Christian Reformed
P. VanBeek
Vander Ploeg and Miss VanZee Wed In City Ceremony
Nicholas Vander Ploeg and Miss Mat tie VanZee of this city were married at 3 30 p m on Wednesday August 20 1919. The couple wed at the bride’s parents home Mr and Mrs J R VanZee with Rev G G Haan of the Second Christian Reformed church officiating. Only relatives attended as witnesses. The couple are well known locally and friends extend congratulations.
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Nicholas Vander Ploeg
Mattie VanZee
J. R. VanZee
G. G. Haan
Second Christian Reformed Church
The
Chronicle
Living monument to dead soldiers by Clarinda residents
Twenty one French war orphans are to be cared for as a living monument to Clarinda’s fallen. Citizens contribute 36.50 yearly per child through the Fa therless Children of France with heads in Chicago and a sister organization in France led by Marshal Joffre. Each adopted child will honor a Clarinda soldier and receive letters from a guardian throughout life.
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Chicago
Clarinda, Sr
Clarinda
France
South
Michigan Avenue
Marshal Joffre
Marriage of Rev Lorentz Hansen to Ursula Whitney
Friends in Pella report the marriage of Rev Lorentz I Hansen of Kalamazoo Michigan to Miss Ursula Fern Whitney of Maquoketa Iowa. The ceremony was held August 14 at the bride’s parents home Mr and Mrs O H Whitney. Hansen, oldest of a large Central College connected family, is pastor at Kalamazoo and first met the bride while at Maquoketa. Chron icle extends congratulations and best wishes.
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Pella
Lorentz I. Hansen
Kalamazoo
Mich
Ursula Fern Whitney
Maquoketa
Iowa
O. H. Whitney
Hansen
Central College
Central
the Chronicle
New Force Starts Corn Borer Clean Up Near Schenectady
The U S Department of Agriculture will open a field laboratory near Schenectady New York to survey European corn borer conditions. About 25 inspectors will work in the field gathering material to determine if specimens are the European pest or native species. Cleanup cannot begin until after frost but data will guide the area to be covered.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Schenectady
N Y
New York
Massachusetts
Third World Citizenship Conference to Meet in Pittsburgh
The Atlanta Constitution quips on excuses by citing a humorous parable about lacking tools to do the right thing. The notice confirms the third World Citizenship Conference will be held in Pittsburgh from November 9 to 16, highlighting the event’s dates and location.
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Pittsburgh
Knoxville notice listing contact for full particulars
Partial OCR item states a request for contact to obtain full particulars. It names John Moore and provides an address at 534 Washington St Knoxville Ia and a date 23-6. The item implies a public notice or inquiry requiring follow up with the listed representative.
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John Moore
Washington St
Knoxville
Iowa farms for sale and Y M C A service deaths
Iowa farms for sale list several parcels offered by Sloan & Co., Inc. in Albia Iowa including a 620 acre rich corn farm at 165 per acre and a 160 acre farm near Albia at 150 per acre plus a 240 acre farm at 110 per acre with two improvements and a 20,000 dollar mortgage option. In a separate note Y M C A secretaries overseas in the late war included eleven killed, nine men and two women. five of the men were ministers, and ministers made up about twenty percent of all who served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sloan & Co., Inc
Albia
Iowa
Sloan & Co.,, Inc
Albis
Chamberlains Tablets Cure Liver Trouble
A historical notice promotes Chamberlains Tablets as a remedy for bilious attacks. It claims the tablets tone the liver, cleanse the stomach, relieve constipation, and ease nausea, vomiting, and headache. Price is a quarter. available from all dealers.
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National Thrift Campaign
Mr. Sigman
Paramount
Jack Pickford
Sidney Drew
Mason
Paramount and Artcraft Special
Billie Burke
Burton Holmes
Niagara Falls
Marguerite Clarke
Little Miss Hoover
Cecil B. DeMille
Mary Pickford
Captain Kid Junior
Oskaloosa Street
Main
Oliver Typewriter
T. D. Franklin Worth & van Zante
Vander Ploeg
Vanzee
Morton F. Plant
LY Asg
Red Cross
Col
William Hayward
Fifteenth Infantry
Hansen- Whitney
Pell- Howell Road
White Way
Arie Klyn
Holland
Wynberg Produce Co
Eddyville, Ia
Second Reformed Church
East First Street
Paul A. Edmand
Bussey
Marion Co
Brother Williams
Atlanta Constitution
H. F
Scranton
Ben Lines
Illinois Coal
Centerville
Iowa Coal
A. A. van Roekel
E. T. Metz
LOT AT
Baptist Church
OF Trustees
Jacob van Zante
East Third Street
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