Lansing News Briefs From January Events And Local Changes
Local officials attended the Illinois State Fireman's Convention in Quincy on January 11 to 13. James Hoekstra reopened a grocer shop with fresh meats and produce. Various residents hosted or attended gatherings, births announced, illness noted, and a car fire contained by the Lansing fire department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Winterhoff
Clarence Kemp
Quincy
Theo. Hoekstra
John Swart
Viola Barkow
R. Hocking
Englewood
Wm. Schmidt
Hecht
Geo. Busch
Herman Schmidt
Jacob Walstra
Lawrence
H. Klooster
Bloom Township
Bock’s Hall
Pattersons
Chicago
Wm. White
North Burnham Avenue
Youngstown
J. Jd. Joseph Co
Alfred van Steenberg
John H. Ooms
Bernice
Lansing Fire Department
Raymond Logan
Lansing
Clarence Underwood
Lansing Public School
Florence Lucas
Dorothy McPherrin
Beatrice McNaughton
Woodlawn
Elizabeth Woolsey
Knox- Wille
Clifford Woolsey
Peoria
Owen Lucas
Glen Nade
Ridgewood Avenue
Peter Wind
Frank la Salle
Oak Glen
Chas. Cross
el Mitchell
Organ Recital at Bethany Church to Feature Fred Fassen
The fifth monthly organ recital at Bethany Reformed Church near Perry Avenue will occur Monday evening January 24 1927 at 8 o clock. Fred Fassen organist at Zion Tabernacle and WCBD Zion will perform with the Bethany robed choir of eighty under J C Bovenkerk. The concerts are popular with about 1100 seats filled and admission is free.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethany Reformed Church
Perry Avenue
Fred Fassen
Zion Tabernacle
Wcbd Zion
Sinois
Fassen
Bethany Robed
J. C. Bovenkerk
Alaska Gold Reserve Seen Worth 360 Billion
A historic estimate places Alaska placer gold reserves near 360 billion dollars, signaling vast untapped wealth beneath the state’s rivers and hills. Analysts warn value may fluctuate with metal markets and extraction costs.
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Alaska
Bunco party in South Holland attracts locals
Social notices show a Bunco party at the village hall on Friday evening January 21 at 8 o clock with three tables and prizes won by Mrs. R DeGroot and Dora Smith. Also society updates on illnesses and visitors plus local sale ads and notices from Arthur Dykstra and Peter Vander Griend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Rietveld
R. DeGroot
Dora Smith
Frank Mossell
John W. Anker
Chandler
Minn
William A. Anker
Helen Bottema
R. Rinkema
Disposed
William
Arthur Dykstra
South Holland
First Methodist Church Sunday Services January 23
The order of services lists Sunday school at 9 45 a m with a missionary offering by Miss Clara Baecker and a seventh anniversary program marking the eighteenth amendment. Miss Nellie Cooper directs music and readings. Mrs. Robert Vandenberg presents a Frances Willard picture to the church. Morning worship at 11 00 a m Epworth League at 6 45 p m with Home Missions topic. evening service at 7 30 p m.
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Clara Baecker
Nellie Cooper
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of
Delton
Robert Vandenberg
Frances Willard
Epworth League Society
A. A. Myers
At the Y M C A By Thomas B Randall
A YMCA feature highlighted music for men with Mrs Farbridge on piano and Thomas B Randall on organ. Rev Myers praised the talk to the men. The Sherwood Symphony Orchestra from Sherwood School of Music, Chicago, gave a concert at Orchestra Hall with Horace Flood contributing.
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Farbridge
Edna Reding
Mayme Luther
Card of Thanks for condolences and support
We thank neighbors relatives and friends for sympathy shown during illness and death of our husband and father Rev A A Meyer We appreciate kind words flowers and car donations from those who helped Mrs Minnie Fregeau Marie Fregeau
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A. A. Meyer
Minnie Fregeau
Marie Fregeau
Made Candy of Clay After the Civil War Experiment
After the Civil War rising cane sugar prices spurred candy makers to try clay as a substitute for sugar in confections. The note highlights wartime shortages and inventive efforts by early manufacturers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eady
Sims Raps Annapolis as Worst School in the World
Rear Admiral W. Sims ret. blasts Annapolis as the worst school in the world saying naval officers lack education. He brands the academy his alma mater as failing to train capable leaders.
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Providence
W. Sims
Annapolis
Safety urged in road building convention address
President H G Shirley urged road builders to treat roads as arteries of the nation and push uniform traffic laws to cut accidents. He predicted major reductions within two years if lessons from the convention are applied, with maintenance as a keynote alongside improvements. Thomas H MacDonald cited one third of the 3,000,000 miles needing improvement.
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Chicago
American
Shirley
Thomas H. MacDonald
United States Bureau of Public Roads
Ball Players Not Guilty Landis Plans New Rules
Commissioner Landis clears 21 players of wrongdoing in the 1917 White Sox Tigers games in Chicago and proposes four rules to curb similar schemes. He says the money involved was a sift not a bribe, tied to a Tigers win over Boston, and outlines new eligibility and betting restrictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
K. M. Landis
White Sox
Sox
Detroit
Risberg
Chick” Gandil
Tigers
Boston
Indians Remember Custer Aftermath Quote at Frontier
The speaker Rain in the Face recalls the Custer massacre and calls Custer a bad man and liar. He notes a Cheyenne Sioux Arapaho clash and reflects on frontier violence and harsh rhetoric about Indians. The memory appears in General Eli Huggins’s American Mercury piece.
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Custer
Oklahoma
Jamilton
Alexander Hamilton
Popary Peary
Sheridan
Jie
Eli Lluggins
American Mercury
Do Not Disfigure Library Books Warns Washington Star
A Washington Star notice urges readers to protect library volumes as essential sources of knowledge for many patrons and warns against vandalism or damage to the collection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Star
Riverdale Special Assessments Due in January 1927
Assessment No. 8 for the Village of Riverdale is due January 2, 1927. Special Assessments Nos. 3 through 7 for water service pipes second installment are due January 6, 1927. Payments may be made at the village hall from 1 to 5 p.m. daily except Sundays. CHAS NIEMEYER, Collector.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverdale
House Committee Approves McNary-Haugen Farm Bill
Washington report notes the House Agricultural Committee approved the McNary-Haugen farm bill by 18 to 8 after rejecting Curtis Crisp substitute. The Curtis-Crisp plan failed 16 to 0, ending a three day dispute over the bill’s equalization fee provision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Agricultural Comittee
Theatres listing for Friday to Thursday
The notice bills Friday tonite The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse with Rudolph Valentino. Saturday features Lewis Stone and Anna Q Nilsson in Midnight Lovers. Sunday matinee 2 30 Laura LaPlante in Her Big Night. Tuesday and Wednesday Jan 25 26 Reginald Denny in Take It From Me. Thursday and Friday Jan 27 28 Across the Pacific Monte Blue.
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Tonite
Rudolph Valentino
Lewis Stone
Anna Q. Nilson
Laura LaPlante
Reginald Denny
Pacific
Monte Blue
Riverdale Theater Weekly Program At a Glance
Saturday shows feature Tom Tyler and his Pals in Out of the West with fables and comedy. Sunday matinee at 2 30 includes Laddie with John Bowers Gene Stratton and Bess Flowers. Wednesday and Thursday present Patsy Ruth Miller in Hell Bent for Heaven a Carolina flood drama with a sensational flood scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Tyler
State Theatre Screenings at Michigan Avenue House
Matinee today at the State Theatre features Claire Windsor and William Haines in A Little Journey with five vod-vil acts. Shows run Sunday and Monday through Wednesday January 24 25 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan Avenue
110Th Place
Claire Windsor
William Haines
Pola Negri in Hotel Imperial unfolds wartime chapter
Polish star Pola Negri headlines Hotel Imperial in a wartime chapter with added specialties and stage events. The program also presents The Temptress with Greta Garbo Antonio Moreno and Lionel Barrymore from Blasco Ibanez story. The three showings run Thursday Friday and Saturday January 27 28 and 29.
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Pola Negri
Imperial
Greta Garbo
Antonio Moreno
Lionel Barrymore
Blasco Ibanez
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Julia Komorowski
Gary
Ind
Chas. Dickelman
Fred Sass
Ernest Evert
Baldwin
Rosie Frigo
Louis Frigo
Doris
Virtue Barton
Bethany
Miller Bros
Edbrooke Avenue
J. Koster & CO
J. Koster
P. Vander Griend
Claud Kramer
Harvey
Vine Avenue
Bargam
West Ridge Road
First Methodist Church
Thomas B. Randall
Sims Raps
W. S. Sitfis
American Association
Landis
S the
Chas. Niemeyer
Garrick Theatre
Randolph St
Clark
WM. Fox
Tribune
Garrick
Journal
House
O. K
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Mnow
Riverdale Theater
State Theatre
Pole Negri
TE Ete
Ofperial Mauritz
Stiller
James Hall
George Siegmann
Roseland Theatre
Matinee Daily
Douglas Fairbanks
A.r.harris the Furnace Man
Carondelet Ave
Hehman St. Hammond
Wammond
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