Music and Arts Update From Central College
Kalona teacher Miss Margarite Yoder visits Miss Clara Weachter as Keota music and cooking notes are shared. Prof Brouwer leads voice and violin at Central College with a growing class. Ellery and Sorenson highlight student talent. upcoming concerts feature Salvi and Madame Read with Miss Harris as accompanist.
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Margarite Yoder
Kalona
Clara Weachter
Yoder
Keota
Philos
Alethiang
Geraldine Aschenbrenner
Coach
Advance Sociey
Hallowe'en
Sadler
Huron College
South Dakota
Parsons
Ray
Brouwer
Pella
Salvi
College Auditorium
Madame Read
New York
Tatlnhauser
Miss Harris
St. Louis
Graham
D. m
Lettie Condiff
Colo
Miss Smith
Arnold
Dr. Mitten
Central College
H. J. Brouwer
Detroit Conservatory of Music
Louis Rayner
Harry Mitten
Gertrude Klein
Beatrice Boland
Hazel White
Leonard Braam
Harold Veenstra
Do I Prefer Cream of Tartar Royal Baking Powder
A health and economy note asks housekeepers to check labels to verify if their baking powder is genuine cream of tartar from grapes or a mineral alum or phosphate compound. Royal Baking Powder contains no alum nor phosphate.
Mothers Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children Ad
An old advertisement for Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders claimed to ease feverishness stomach teething disorders and regulate bowels. It touted 28 years of use by mothers and urged purchase from druggists with a 25 cent sample offered by Mother Gray Co Leroy N Y.
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Mother Gray, Co
Leroy. N
Winter 1914 Reflects on War Rumors From Flanders
In 1914 the narrator travels from England to Flanders to witness the pan European war but cannot reach the front. He stays at a seashore hotel as winter weather deepens and the channel's threat looms, while cannon fire echoes from both land and sea, highlighting merchant crews' peril.
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England
Flanders
Dreamed vision led to German submarine discovery
A narrator recalls a misty night walk and a haunting dream of shadowy men on the water. The next day, tides reveal a sunken vessel's smokestack, leading to the recovery of a German submarine with twelve dead crewmen. The speaker implies caution about naming the incident or self.
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Irine
Ottumwa youths organize to fight cigarettes
A broad set of Iowa items notes youths in Ottumwa organizing to combat smoking, plus obituaries and updates from Des Moines to Spirit Lake. Highlights include the death of Mrs. Ettack Harford in Indianola, legal matters for Maurice O Connor in Fort Dodge, infantile paralysis cases in Jasper County, and plans for a Des Moines to Spirit Lake Okoboji auto trail.
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Ottumwa
Ettack Harford
Indianola
Maurice O'Connor
Fort Dodge
Iowa
Jasper County
Bessie Jensma
Colfax
Des Moines
Spirit Lake
W. J. Crow
Webb
State University
Iowa City
Irwin
George Glades
State Automobile Department
W. B. Barney
Food and Dairy Commissioner
George Cosson
State Board of Health
Victor Felter
State Dairy and Food Department
Big Cedar
Sac
Pocahontas
Calhoun
Buena Vista
Iowa Baptist Association
H. I. Foskett
Shenandoah
John G. Farmer
F. R. Sage
R. R. Sadler
Pella
J. H. Cochran
Also Mentioned on This Page
Eleanor Thompson
Exie McQuilkin
Ruth Phillips
Bulald Colyn
Henry Ver Steeg
David Ver Rees
David Bogaard
Alice Thomassen
George Ver Steeg
Oren van Niewaal
Junella Thomassen
Guy Elscott
Gertrude Varenkamp
Ethyl K. Guthrie
Phillepina Koelman
Herman Braam
Royal Baking Powder CO
Louis
Royal Blue Shoe Store
D.G. Gosselink
Kodaks
Stubenrauchs
New England
Cole
Marion
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