Central College notes on discipline and campus life
A campus column highlights the need for order and discipline at Central College. It notes visits by Rev. S. P. Shai, Profs Cox and Young, and missives about student life, teaching wages, and a German club. The piece covers a broom mishap in the furnace, exam outcomes, and an art exhibit with fifty paintings and accompanying books.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. P. Shai
Cox
Young
Dirk Rietveld
Dorothy Wagner
Ottumwa
Mr. Wagner
Philomathean Society
Washington
Garrison
Anna Hospers
Central College
Miss B
Chu
Jordan Hall
Kings New Life Pills advertised for yellow fever cure
An old advertisement claims Dr Kings New Life Pills can cure diseases from malaria poison and constipation. It promotes use at Langerack's Drug Store and asserts a complete cure for malaria related illness.
First Bath in 30 Years for Web City Recluse
Ed ward Lemke, longtime miser living in a filthy east Web ster City hovel, received his first bath in 30 years after being found near death from cold and hunger. His children Fred Lemke of Chicago and Mrs. Fredericka Lemke of Des Moines brought care, and he struggled to endure the procedure as years of neglect showed in his clothing and health. He wore multiple undershirts and eight pairs of drawers in various stages of decay with neckbands wrapped around his neck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Webster City
Edward Lemke
Lemke
Fred Lemke
Chicago
Fredericka Lemke
Des Moines
Spring footwear from BE P Reed & Co at L Stegeman's
Dr Luella Shaw-Dean specializes in diseases of women and children with an office at her residence near the creamery. Office hours are 1 to 5 p.m. Phone 186 B-tf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Be, P, Reed & Co
L Stegeman
S. Tt
Luella Shaw
The Last Comrade Originst and His Dinner Tale
An elderly Civil War veteran keeps a table set for eighteen as a symbolic feast for fallen comrades. One by one, each plate and bottle marks a friend’s death until the last man, eighty nine, dies at the end, his toast unfinished. Children enter to wake him, but his heart has ceased.
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Churubusco
Grandpa
Atty
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