St Pauls Ev Lutheran Church Banquet A Success
The 138th Street parish hall hosted a banquet for about 250 guests with Hon Ed A Litsinger and Rev G Elbert speaking. Praise for Backus singing, Miss L Brunn piano, Little Symphony Orchestra, and efforts of the Building Committee. Divine service Feb 5 at 10 a m in German with Lord's Supper. Preps at 9 30 and Sunday school at 9 15.
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138Th and
Leyden Avenue
St. Paul’s Lutheran Parish Hall
A. Litsinger
G. Elbert
Backus
L. Brunn
Little Symphony Orchestra
Church of “the Open Bible
Christ and the Cross
W. J. Kemnitz
Our Saviour's Church Announces Weekly Services and Events
Our Saviour's Lutheran Church at 138th Street and Wabash Avenue invites all to Sunday Bible school at 9 30 a.m. and morning worship at 10 30 a.m. with a sermonette for youth. A teachers meeting is set for Tuesday at 7 30 p.m. and a paper collection occurs Saturday afternoon February 4. A service and lecture runs Wednesday nights at 7 30 starting February 8 and continuing to Easter. Carthage College subscriptions reminder. Pastor Edw A Voorhees extends a welcome to members and friends.
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United Luth. Church In America
138Th St
Wabash Ave
Carthage College
A. Voorhees
Missionary Day at First Methodist Church Sunday
Sunday school starts at 9 45 a m with classes for all ages and Missionary Day observance. Morning worship at 11 with choir music and a sermon. Epworth League meets at 6 45 p m followed by an evening service at 7 30 p m. Pastor A A Myers presides. all welcome.
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Bible School
Epworth League Society
A. A. Myers
Ten Largest Corporations by Assets in 1930s America
The ten largest U S corporations by assets over one billion dollars include United States Steel Southern Pacific Pennsylvania Railroad AT and T New York Central Standard Oil New Jersey Union Pacific Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe General Motors and Ford. Average age 36 years with about 147 600 employees and 101 800 stockholders. Annual dividends total around 40 million dollars.
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America
United States Steel Corporation
Southern Pacific Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
New York Central Railroad
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
Union Pacific Railroad
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
General Motors Corporation
Ford Motor Co
Destroy Old License Plates Warning From Chicago Motor Club
J H Braun warns motorists to destroy or lock away old 1927 license plates to prevent criminals from using last year’s plates in crimes and auto thefts. Police records show yearly incidents where old plates aid evasion of identification. Community safety requires taking precauions to keep old plates from thieves.
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J. H. Braun
Chicago Motor Club
Delaware legend linked to Lord de La Warr and tragic fate
Fragmentary note cites Thomas West Lord de La Warr after death condemned to eternal thirst though water and food were near. Mentions a puzzled line about a “ TM Colvuvin in the San Francisco hunner,” unclear in origin.
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S. Delaware
Thomas West
de la War
San Francisco
Parents urged to attend school meeting with toy orchestra
The next Parent-Teachers meeting is set for Tuesday afternoon February 7 at 3 o'clock. All parents are urged to attend and enjoy the kindergarten and first grade toy orchestra performance.
Bowen School Notes Highlights Activities And Contests
The school notes cover health talks on teeth, Valentine boxes, and a simple year with no big entertainments. Students showcase shuffleboard and sewing projects while eighteen girls study under Miss Rogge. A Declamatory contest and division, township, and county contests are planned through March at various venues.
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Sophia Paichinsky
Anna Engelhardt
Virgil Bigger
Emmerson Bouchardt
Miss Rogge
Achievement Club
Director of Education
Fullerton Hall
Art Institute
Chicago
Wolfe
Matz
Bigger
Gerloff
Reich
Middleborn
Hedtke
Lincoln Avenue School Sixth Grade News
The sixth grade reports illness of Miss Salisbury and ongoing geography sand table work on irrigation. Pupils age posters in history studying Julius Caesar. PTA plans a February meeting at 3 pm. The flag at the school is under repair. The seventh grade welcomes a new pupil. Junior High enrollment grows. The 7 B’s run a 50 mile motorcycle race with Indians at 25 and Harley-Davison at 23 points. The Knights of the Round Table club recognizes top performers with pins and diplomas.
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Lincoln Avenue
Harley-Davison
Harley-Davisons
Harleys
Knights of the Round Table
Knights’ Round Table
Eskimo sand table project at Chicago Street School
Sixth grade student Bastiano Nuzzo has been absent two weeks due to illness as the class finishes a Eskimo sand table scene. Fifth grade Hamp Money moved to Topeka this week while their sand table portrays Revolutionary War conditions with a block house stockade and soldiers.
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Chcago Street
Bastiano Nuzzo
Hamp Money
Topeka
Kansas
United States
Travel Tales From Highlawn School Class
The Highlawn School geography class edited by Miss Kerr presents travel stories inspired by readings from American Magazine Geographical sources. It notes works on the Borneo Jungle Polar expeditions and Arctic deserts as shared classroom reflections.
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Highlawn
Miss Kerr
Nick Carter
Diamond Dick
Geographic
Eugene Wright
Borneo
Good Housekeeping
Deric Nusbaum
Arctic
My Trip to Germany by Marion Grapenthien
A cousin and I decide to visit Germany by boat, travel ten days each way, and arrive in Berlin. We tour the Spree river, university and opera houses, see Spree Forest and farmland, then return home to tell friends and resume school.
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Marion Grapenthien
Germany
Berlin
Spree River
Government Bank
Spree
Marion
Hunting in Africa by Marvin Altringer
A hunter recounts stalking and killing two tigers and a fox in Africa. He describes a close encounter when a tiger attacked, the use of poison on arrow tips taught by pygmy villagers, and the resulting trophies including tiger skins rugs and mounts displayed at home.
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Africa
Marvin Altringer
Across the Sahara Desert
Franklin Simnick recounts a summer crossing of the Sahara with friends. They encounter a band of Arabs and open fire, killing five. The attackers retreat, and the narrator reflects on the encounter.
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Sahara Desert
Franklin Simnick
Also Mentioned on This Page
ST. Paul’s EV. Luth. Church
First Methodist Church
BOWEN
Katherine Nuzzo
Emerson Rodman
Chicago Street
Paul Money
Gladys Tesley
Miss Huser
Miss Street
Geographic Magazine
Literary Digest
Gladstones
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