Iowa Sunday School Campaign Plan and Get-Ready Days
The text outlines an Iowa slogan to spread Bible teaching through Sunday schools with a sequence of events: March 18 Get-Ready Day to organize and welcome members, March 25 Every-Member-Present Day to aim for full attendance, April 1 Every-Member-Bring-One Day to recruit new members, and Easter April 8 Forward Step Day for public confession or service. Superintendent M van der Linden offers further information.
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Iowa
Jesus Christ
van der Linden
P. E. O. selects officers for coming year
The P. E. O. ladies met at Mrs. A B Van Houwing on Wednesday afternoon last week and chose officers: President H D Wormhoudt, Vice President Emma Hamilton, Recording Sec J J Sybenga, Corresponding Sec Ed Cook, Treasurer J L Warren, Guard Lucy Huber, Organist G G Gaass, Journalist. Also prints a poem by Charles R Skinner and notes advertising as an investment.
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V. E
A. B. van Houwening
H. D. Wormhoudt
Emma Hamilton
J. J. Sybenga
Ed. Cook
J. L. Warren
Lucy Huber
G. G. Gaass
Their Real Wedding Their Real Wedding
John Burnes a foreman at an iron works marries his assistant Peter Rucker to his daughter Madge aged seventeen. Rucker is a steady worker with little money, eyeing Madge’s hand while she loves grocer delivery boy Bob Decker. Madge marries Rucker under family pressure, while still loving Decker who is poor.
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John Burnes
Peter Rucker
Peter
Burnes
Rucker
Madge
Barnes
Tosh
Bob Decker
Little One
Balance Sheet Fragment Highlights Bank Deposits and Notes
The readable OCR fragment lists circulating notes outstanding and various deposit categories. It notes dividends unpaid, certificates of deposit due, cashier's checks outstanding, and totals for demand and time deposits. The legible items include capital stock paid in, surplus fund, and undivided profits with current expenses and taxes.
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U. S
Federal Reserve Bank
New York
Chicago
St.Louis
Inevitable parting leads to true wedding vow
A ironworker sustains injuries but insists on freeing his wife to marry the man she loves. He offers a small fortune and assures a legal separation, while the wife realizes her genuine feelings for her chosen partner. The scene culminates in a genuine wedding replacing a sham union, with both partners choosing truth over convenience.
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Little One
Rock Island train service timetable and freight notice
Rock Island daily train schedule lists eastbound and westbound passenger trains with intermediate stops at Howell Station four miles south of Pella. Local freights require prior 5:00 p m shipment, with freights carrying passengers on some runs. Signals determine select stops. station windows ad.
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Howell Station
Pella
The Clown's Black Lines Origin Story
The Chicago Tribune recalls a tale of Gros Guillaume, a famed 17th century clown in Paris. While his wife lay dying, his stage tears blended with whitened flour makeup, provoking laughter as a pain response. The legend says this moment birthed the black lines on clowns' faces.
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Louis XIV
William
Gros Guillaume
Favari
Commedia
Chicago Tribune
Carlyle Declines Bath Cross Honor Offer
Distinguished writers often refuse honors. Thomas Carlyle, offered the Grand Cross of the Bath by Disraeli in the queen's name, declined yet felt touched by the compliment. A Chelsea bus conductor praised the queen and Carlyle for refusing the honor.
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Froude
He.r
London Standard
Over the Bridge of Sighs and Moral Passage
A historical miscellany notes how youth manhood and wisdom are linked to sorrow and tested intellect amid humorous quips. It references Bulwer Lytton and a St. Louis Dispatch piece on Dr Jones and dietary ethics. It also cites a Mohammedanism view on dancing from the Koran.
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Bridge of Sighs
Bulwer-Lytton
How to Prevent Croup For Children
Advice to avoid heavy evening meals to prevent croup attacks. Watch for the first symptom hoarseness and give Chamberlain's Cough Remedy at onset. For sale by F D Stubenrauch.
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Chamberlain
F. D. Stubenrauch
All Wool Suits Made to Your Order at No Advance
Ad for M. Vander Linden offering custom all wool suits with perfect fit guarantee. No upfront price. 15 dollars covers one suit. Customers may choose from 300 kinds for special order.
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M. Vander Linden
Vander Linden's Bazar Promotes Home Cleaning Supplies
House cleaning needs highlighted with items from scrub brushes and Sappho to fine varnishes wallpaper and window shades. The advertisement promises supply of whatever is required.
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Vander Linden
BAZAR
For Sale and Real Estate Ads in Clearing House
Classified column offers good sewing machine for 12 dollars. Clover and Timothy Kay plants, and farm ads for shipping cases, a large house for sale or rent in Pella, a dark grey Percheron stallion for sale, native lumber and custom sawmilling, and a high class wallpaper and fabric sale with wool worsteds and tailored suits.
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Pella
de Gooyer
G. G. Gaass
Allen's Foot-Ease Antiseptic Powder Ad
When rubbers pinch use Allen's Foot-Ease the antiseptic powder shaken into shoes or foot-bath for tired swollen aching feet. Just the thing for breaking in new shoes it gives rest and comfort. Sold everywhere 25c.
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Allen
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Marion
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UPD
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G. Goedhart
Roorda
A. H. Weber
Des Moines
Rock Island Train Service
Wabash Train Service
Tanden
the Chronicle’s
Clover
Timothy Kay
A. W. Veenschoten
BIG Edison
R. W. Livingston
Monroe
Ployd Locke
Oskaloosa
Phone Red
T. Plette
Oak Grove Nursery
A. Verploegh
College
Anna Hunt
N. Boland
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