Local News Notes Cover Prairie City Trips and Buxton Coal
Local notes highlight visits by Mrs C H Randall and others to Prairie City and Leighton, plus family visits from Valey Junction and Des Moines. Buxton No 18 coal mine in Monroe county employs about 800 workers, with shaft depth 176 feet and coal seams 514 to 8 feet. No 19 shaft under construction nearby.
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Marion County
Hiteman
Buxton No. 18
Monroe County
Ramsay No. 3
Anderson
Everist
Electra
Lucas County
No. 18
Buxton
Knox
Foreign Press Oddities From Chamberlain Medicine Ads
A survey of Chamberlain Medicine Company ads notes newspapers worldwide print in thirty-two languages including vernacular scripts from Chinese vertical lines to Urdu and Bengali. The Urdu edition requires handwritten plates for lithography. The Oudh Akhbar Lucknow serves about 5000 readers with 200 native staff while wages are low.
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Chamberlain Medicine Company
Des Moines
Iowa
Chamberlain
The
Ceylon
India
Oudh Akhbar
Lucknow
Ist
Philippine Islands
South Africa
Church Services and Rescheduled Farewell Sermon
Baptist Church led by J W Bailey holds Sunday school at 9 30 a m morning service at 10 45 a m B P U at 6 30 p m and evening service at 7 30 p m Second Reformed pastor Rev J P Witter from Fairview Illinois will preach both morning and evening Owing to severe weather last Sunday Pastor Brinkman postponed his farewell sermon to February 13 at the church
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Baptist Church
J. W. Bailey
Second Reformed
J. P. Witter
Fairview
Brinkman
First church forms choir under Mr Sadler leadership
A new choir organized at the First church with Mr Sadler as choir master lists members including Ruth Grandin Laura Verrips Mabel Iowa Jones Nellie Van Houweling Eleanor Thompson Lois Rietveld Minnie Sterken Jessie Heeren Dora Van Zante Fern Smith Dora Grandia Irene Grandia Cornelia Duiker Herman Braam Will Lubberden Andrew Wormhoudt Leonard Braam Jim Ver Hey Carl Byers Marion Wormhoudt David Van Rees Tom Greene and Lon Wormhoudt. For next Sunday evening the anthem will feature the full choir with solos for Miss Jones and Mr Ver Hey. A vocal solo by Mr Byers and a piano solo by Mr Sadler are also planned. Invitation extended for Sunday evening at the First church.
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Mr. Sadler
Ruth Grandin
Laura Verrips
Mabel Iowa Jones
Nellie van Houweling
Eleanor Thompson
Lois Rietveld
Minnie Sterken
Jessie Heeren
Dora van Zante
Fern Smith
Dora Grandia
Irene Grandia
Cornelia Duiker
Herman Braam
Will Lubberden
Andrew Wormhoudt
Leonard Braam
Jim Ver Hey
Carl Byers
Marion Wormho
WANTED Advertisements in this column are six cents per line
Advertisements in this column are six cents per line per insertion with a ten cent minimum. Quick results promised. Ad examples include rug cleaning and carpet artistry by Reuvers, agent. Also notices for daily work by a good girl and four unfurnished rooms inquiry via Chronicle office. House wanted by a small family, four to five rooms, with care. Also a four-horse gasoline engine for sale at a bargain. Piano sale offer from Schmoller Mueller Chicago? Omaha firm for a buyer to assume payments.
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Housh
E. T. Metz
Depot
Pella
Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co
Omaha
Nebr
Public Sale Notice For Farm Stock And Implements
Public auction set for Tuesday February 18 1917 featuring 118 head of stock 55 head cattle 43 hogs and farm implements. Items include bay mares geldings driving team and 3 spring colts plus hay and equipment. Sale starts 10 am with lunch on grounds. A Karver owner I Reed auctioneer S N Van Vliet clerk.
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Pella
Leighton
Oskaloosa
Wnt
Emerson Gang
Sattley
A. Karver
I. M. Reed
S. N. van Vliet
Wide Awake political clubs helped Lincoln win 1860 campaign
The Wide Awake marching clubs arose during Lincoln's 1860 campaign and were credited with boosting support across the North. Their uniforms included glazed caps, oilcloth capes, and small kerosene torches. organizers planned torch parades and drills to mobilize voters nationwide.
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Philadelphia
Lincoln
Wide Awakes
Hartford
Conn
Cassius M. Clay
Allyn House
D. G. Francis
H. P. Blair
Lincoln era Wide Awakes tied to Hartford meeting
The text notes the Wide Awakes were appointed March 6 after Lincoln spoke at Hartford on March 5. Cap wearers from the previous meeting escorted Lincoln to the hotel, and the club organized the next night. A year later they attended Lincoln's inauguration as a body and the group was formed by both parties in later campaigns.
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Abraham Lincoln
Hartford
Lincoln
Allen's Foot-Ease Antiseptic Powder Advertisement
When rubbers pinch use Allen's Foot-Ease powder to shake into shoes and sprinkle in foot baths. Ideal for breaking in new shoes, it gives rest and comfort to tired swollen feet. Sold everywhere 25a.
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Allen
Pleasant Chamberlain’s Tablets for Constipation
An advert extols Chamberlain’s Tablets as a pleasant constipation remedy. It claims the medicine is agreeable and natural in effect, suggesting readers will not realize its production and sale by F. D. Stubenrauch.
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F. D. Stubenrauch
Make Money at Home by Starting Your Own Business
You can make money right around your home as hundreds of men and women do. Work is easy, pleasant, and permanently profitable. Be your own boss, build your own business with no risk and profits right along. Send name, address, and one reference to L. Brown, 66 Murray St., New York City.
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L. Brown
Murray St
New York
City
Carpet at 10 Percent Above Cost Sale Pitch
An advertisement from M. Vander Linden promotes rugs and carpets priced only 10 percent above cost. The offer claims savings of five to fifteen dollars per carpet bill, urging customers to take advantage of this low margin sale.
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M. Vander Linden
Tailoring at Fifteen Dollars for All Wool Fabrics
No advance on our fifteen dollar line of fine tailoring. Fine all wool fabrics offered. Perfect fits made especially for you. Five hundred kinds, all at the same price.
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M. Vander Linden
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Ross Schake
Valsey Junction
M. Paardekooper
Warner van Spanckeren
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Prairie City
A. Vander Kraan
B. F. Brinkman
Chicago
Eastern Points
Central College
Y. T. van Niewaal
Henrietta Kaldenberg
van Niewaal
William Vogelaar
Montrose
Colo
Henry Rovaart
Eddyville
B. Vander Rovaart
Walter Maxon
Knoxville
H. J. Rhynsburger
Pella Produce Co. Adv
Henry Kuyper
Sid Poland
Deg Moinés
Harry Worth
Monroe
Ben Langerak
H. M. Tysseling
W. L. Tice
Mrs
T. D. Tice
H. P. Scholle
Bousquet, Nieburg & Co
Sunday School Journal
Iowa State Sunday School Association
Andrew Roorda
Marshalltown
Andrew
Second Reformed Church of
P. H. Kuyper
Dora Sybenga
BH. C. Wolf
Pontiac
Simon de Haan
Fairmount
H. Blom
Puritan Drug Store
H.J. Vanden Berg
University Street
Tennis Tysseling House
Ver Ploeg
Frank
Jacob van Nimwegen
United States
Java
East Indies
Calcutta
Repor' Por J
A Ee
First Reformed Church
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Good girl—Inquire Chronicle Office
J. H. Reuvers
Chronicle Office
Arie Schakel
First Street
R. Tf
Rng
George P. Bissell
A. H. Weber
Weatherwax Brothers
Mos
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