Church Notes and Holiday Service Plans
Local church notices summarize Sunday morning and evening sermons at First Christian Reformed Church in Holland and events at Second Reformed Church, including Antiphony music, the Messiah, and a sermon titled Christ giving Light to the Blind. Baptist services are listed with times for Sunday and midweek worship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Christian Reformed Church
J. de Haan
Christ
God
Holland
Christ the Intercessor
A. R. Archibald
Oskaloosa
Elisha
Second Reformed Church
Knickerbocker Quartet Reports Splendid Trip
The Knickerbocker Quartet recounts a concert tour traveling about 200 miles south of Pella into Missouri and Arkansas. They describe Charleston as a crossroads of crops, Baptist hospitality, cotton farms, and rough sidewalks, noting boll weevil damage and the cotton gins processing bales for shipment.
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Central Bay
Pella
Missouri
St. Louis
Charleston
Newton
Ozark Mountains
Baptist Church
Arkansas
Christmas Season Comes Alive In Store Display
Shoppers are invited to visit as the Christmas season fills storefronts with festive displays and cheer. The notice encourages dropping in to find ways to make the holidays more joyous.
The Hollander Quartet Tour Notes A Trip South
A travelogue on a Southern Lyceum tour by the Hollanders. The writer describes forests and mills in Arkansas and Tennessee, vivid scenes of cotton fields, and class tone contrasts. Humorous incidents include window breakage during piano moves and a train passenger who pounds a window. The group praises Memphis cinema The Ten Commandments and notes a newspaper clipping from Gibsland La. about their high school concert.
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Arkansas
Pella
South
United States
Memphis
Tennessee
Nick
Shreveport Law
Gibsland
Midland Lyceum Bureau
Lyceum
Hot Springs
Guerrilla War Definition and Origins
A guerrilla war is irregular fighting carried on by independent bands. The term guerrilla stems from Spanish origin and means a skirmish or little war. It is the diminutive of guerra meaning war.
How Word Originated Fiacre Name for French Hackney-Coach
The French hackney coach fiacre is named after the Irish Saint Fiacre, patron of gardeners. An inn in Paris, Hotel de St Fiacre, served as the first carriage hire station, giving the term its origin.
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Fiacre
Fiore
Paris
Hotel de St. Fiacre
Two-Pant Suits Offer At Vander Linden Shop
A vintage ad for M. Vander Linden touts two pants per suit and extra pants, highlighting 300 varieties of suitings all priced at 25 dollars, urging buyers to keep pressed and ready.
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M. Vander Linden
Proof of Will in Marion County Iowa Hearing Dec 22 1924
Notice that an instrument purporting to be the last will of John A Vander Linden deceased is on file in the Clerk of the District Court office in Marion County Iowa. It will come for hearing in the December term 1924 on December 22 at which time all interested persons may be heard. Walter Kester Clerk of District Court Knoxville Iowa November 25 1924.
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District Court of
Iowa
Marion County
John A. Vander Linden
City Hall of London Guildhall Historic Civic Center
The Guildhall, dating from the early fifteenth century, serves as London’s city hall where sovereigns and princes are entertained and city functions occur. It houses the offices and council chamber of the city of London corporation.
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London
Guildhall
Corporation of the City of London
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Zion
Israel
The
Knickerbocker Quartet
the Book Shop
Paul Bruins
Paul
Jerry
Marie Jorgenson
Bedrock
Walton Clothing Co
Oskaloosa, Iowa
Walter Kester
Knoxville
High Ave
Whitney
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