Local News,Birthday Party,and College Commencement Notes
Local notes include Mrs Bart Donai's birthday gathering with readings and music, and Mrs Clifford and Myrtle attending a funeral in Monroe. Mentions of milk prices and a sewing machine drawing. Des Moines box loss, and Central College events from June 6 to 12 feature lectures, tennis, baccalaureate, field meet, graduations, and commencement concerts.
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G. B. Ver Steeg
Bart Donai
Ida
Lucille Donai
Edna Ver Ploeg
Muth
Harry Gall
Donai
Clifford
Myrtle
Monroe
James Sheehy
Miss Hartford
Illinois
Burma
F. M. Prush
Des Moines
Misa Hartford
Frush
Shurtleff College
G. H. Wormhoudt and Co
Neal van. Li
van Liseel
A. T. Klein
Tanis
Mae Walraven
Langerak
Central College
Vanden Berg
Oskaloosa
Pella
F. C. Stevens
Iowa
Commencement Concert At Glove College June 12
College notes recount student activities at Philo Hall and on campus. Prof and Mrs Bailey receive a rocker from Edna Webster on behalf of two Glee Clubs. Juniors hosted Seniors at a Thursday campus breakfast with fine china and roses. Commencement concerts set for Wednesday evening feature piano and vocal selections with noted performers.
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Philo Hall
Edna Webster
Miss Powell
Lucia
Persian Garden
Mrs. Bailey
Rossini
Meyerbeer
Churchill
Beethoven
Changes in Commencement Speakers at Central College
Changes announced for Central College commencement alter speakers and board meeting date. Honorable E. F. Prouty cannot depart Washington by June 12 due to likely continued Congress session after June 10. Dr. Shailer Mathews of the University of Chicago takes Prouty’s place on the program.
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Chicago
Terefore
Cuba
B. M. Osgood
Pastor Baptist. Church
Mason City
Iowa
Literary Societies
John L. Beyl
Ph. D. Baptist Church
Y.W.C.A
Pastor Baptist Church
Second Reformed Church
Fond Keables
Acade
Jordan Hall
Stull
P. H. McDowell
D. D
First Baptist Church
Davenport
Mildred Wilmer
Woman of Samaria
Central College
Shailer Mathews
Divinity School
University of Chicago
Vestry Baptist Church
G. G. Gaass
Board of Trustees
F. Prouty
Washington
Congress
The
Prpipy
Dean Mathews
For Sale Second Hand Ford Touring Car At Star Auto Co
Classified ad from Star Auto Co Pella offering a repainted and overhauled five passenger Ford touring car. Describes it as in first close shape with a snap sale condition and guaranteed. tf.
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Star Auto Co
Pella
Working In the Dark and the Lincoln Dinner Tale
Secretary MacVeagh urged scientific financial laws at a Washington dinner. He warned against darkness and stressed working in the light. A folk tale about Cornelius Husk portrays a boy harnessing a mule with a cow in the stable, causing a morning commotion.
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MacVeagh
Washington
Cornelius Husk
Dearborn
Corney
Great Plague of London and Its Causes
Medical authorities describe the 1665 London outbreak as plague or bubonic plague. The era’s poverty and poor sanitation fueled lethality as thousands died and many fled the city. Theories blamed goods from Holland or Dutch prisoners of war for introduction.
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London
Holland
Levant
Boy Proudest in France Receives Medal at Pasteur Institute
Raymond Marmiesse a sixteen year old patient at the Pasteur Institute in Paris earned a silver medal with his name and a ministerial letter for public instruction. In Cahors a mad dog bit several animals and two children. Marmiesse tackled the dog despite warning, saving others before a man restrained the animal.
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France
Raymond Marmiesse
Pasteur Institute
Paris
How Howard Saved a Man Brief Temperance Talk
The late General O C Howard recalled a battle at Fair Oaks on June 1 1862 when his arm was severed. While being taken to the hospital he urged a drunken soldier to quit whisky, a moment that inspired the man to reform. After the war the soldier became a judge on New Hampshire’s supreme bench and died recently, noted as a leading state figure.
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O. C. Howard
Fair Oaks
Washington
New Hampshire
Negro Emancipated Man Talks of Freedom at Hotel
A bright runaway slave in a Canadian frontier hotel room faces questions about his past. The observer notes the man enjoyed clothes, meals, and lack of punishment, while the job remains open to others who might seek similar liberties. The escaped enslaved person asserts the opportunity remains available to anyone seeking the same privileges.
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Canada
Frontier
Darky
Massa
Nebber
Boston Home Journal
Conversation Fragments on Social Etiquette and Horses
Fragmentary dialogue notes a Mrs West and Mrs East discussing social roles in the city with a quip about a hostess or operator. The text then shifts to a remark on horses preferring variety, suggesting fussing improves condition and usefulness of the horse.
Wig making with spun glass hailed as hair substitute
Harper's Weekly reports a breakthrough in wig production using spun crystal glass. The new material can be colored to any shade, finely divided and hygienic, addressing shortages and high prices of natural hair and earlier substitutes like plant fibers and horsehair.
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France
Harper’s Weekly
New Lumbermen’s Hospital Opens in Greenville Maine
On Tuesday at 2 PM the lumbermen’s Christian association building in Greenville opened its doors to the 12,000 men yearly entering and leaving the northern forests. A hospital on the third floor provides expert attendants in constant charge, signaling a new era in daily life for Maine woodsmen.
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Maine Woodsman
Great Northern
Lumbermen’s Christian Association
Greenville
First aid training mission aids lumber camps
The organization aims to save injured lumbermen through careful handling and hospital work. Beyond the building, teams will visit lumber camps to teach the benefits of skilled first aid, preventing deaths in the field.
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Lewiston Journal
At the Kennels Long Tail Short Pedigree Jest
A light dialogue overheard about a dog with a short tail paired with a long pedigree. The exchange underscores a humorous contrast between appearance and lineage.
Goethe Birthday Prank At Carlsbad Leads To Birthday Confusion
An amusing anecdote from Bode’s Goethe bio appears in a Paris journal. In August 1818 Goethe, under Dr Rehbein at Carlsbad, had Charles place wine in two windows so he could toast while circling the room. He learns the doctor arrives and learns it is not yet his birthday.
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Goethe
Bode
Paris
Carlsbad
Rehbein
Charles
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