Paul’s Ev Lutheran Church Services and Feb gathering
The Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Church on 188th Street and Leyden Ave in Missouri Synod holds services Sunday Jan 29 with German at 9 30 and English at 10 45 a m Sermon text 1 Kings 19 9 18 titled The God given Means of Building the Church of God The law and the Gospel are preached and sin is explained The church invites listeners to hear more on Feb 1 at 7 45 p m a good fellowship banquet with speakers Ed Litsinger and Rev G Elbert Pastor W J Kemnitz notes
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Paul's
Luth
Christ
Church of the Open Bible
Ed. Litsinger
Rev
G. Elbert
Our Saviors Lutheran Church Announces Winter Schedule
Our Saviour's Lutheran Church on 138th Street announces Bible school Sundays at 9:30 a.m. and morning worship at 10:30 a.m. on January 29 with A. O. Sarde eon, a prominent layman, speaking on the 4 million dollar Pension Fund. Paper collection next Saturday February 4 and Evangelism program starts February 8. Lent begins February 22. Pastor Edw. A. Voorhees invites all to worship.
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OUR Saviour’s Luth. Church
United Luth. Church In America
S. Edw
A. Voorhees
Sunday Services and Events at First Methodist Church
On Sunday January 29 there is a Sunday school session at 945 am for all ages and an 11 am morning service under the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society auxiliary with Mrs Heritage of Austin as speaker Music will be by the church choir Christmas offering envelopes are to be turned in Epworth League youth plan a program at First Christian Oak Park in the evening in response to a prior visit there no evening service public invited to all events A A Myers Pastor
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First Methodist Church
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society
Heritage of
Austin
Chicao
Epworth League Society
First Christian Church of
Oak Park
Dalton
A. A. Myers
Faassen to Give Fifteenth Monthly Recital at Bethany Reformed
Fred Faassen the Shiloh Tabernacle organist will perform on the Hinners organ at Bethany Reformed Church corner Perry avenue and 111th place Monday January 30 at eight pm. A special number honors Holland Home for the Aged inmates, guests of the Bethany choir. The program includes Babylon's Wave and Thine is the Kingdom. The series grows in appeal for music lovers.
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Faassen
Bethany Reformed Church
Fred Faassen
Shiloh Tabernacle
Zion
Ill
Bethanay Reformed Church
Perry Avenue
111Th Place
Holland Home For
Bethany Choir
Babylon
Gaul
Waiter Frightened by Customer Swap in London
The anxious waiter fears trouble as a customer near the window orders roast mutton for a third course while the manager reassures him the mutton is fine. The scene ends with the customer choosing roast venison instead of fish for his second course.
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London
School Notes Schedule Missed Publication Deadline
The Pointer notes that school news must arrive by Wednesday evening. Highlawn school items came in Thursday evening, too late for publication this week. Editor reminder stresses timely submissions.
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Pointer
Highlawn School News
Bowen School Health Exercises and Student Activities News
Seventh and eighth graders at Bowen School follow a rotating schedule of health exercises on the victrola and class lessons. The eighth grade plans a half year test and an indoor ball game with Highlawn, which Bowen won. A cooking dinner for mothers is scheduled, and next semester adds sewing. The addition to the building grows, music moves from the auditorium to a new music room, and Room 15 gains five new tables and chairs. Students study Europe’s Netherlands Belgium and Denmark, with geography and grammar lessons, art on cave-age topics, and reading Treasure Island. The eighth grade color theme is pea green and pink, and Sophia Palchinsky leads a committee on girls’ attire.
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Juvenile Farmers Institute
Fullerton Hall
Highlawn
Sophia Palchinsky
Fuller
Europe
Netherlands
Belgium
Denmark
Miss Street
Geographic
Lincoln Avenue School Eskimo Village Makes Kindergarten Fun
A Lincoln Avenue School page describes kindergarteners creating a tooth pick town and Eskimo village on sand tables with rubber ball huts, cotton snow, and fur trim using clothes pins as figures. Fourth and fifth graders study Alaska themes while eighth graders advance in arithmetic and a 20 week health contest is planned. The Student Council reports a January 24 meeting with Bruce Waddel as secretary and Harold Law elected new vice president.
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Alaska
Mr. Bright
Robert Propper
Gladys Baldwin
Round Table
King Arthur
Harry
Bruce Waddel
Robert Proper
Harold Law
Scout Meeting Sets Tests and Banco Party Plans
Regular troop meeting at Highlawn public school gym on Friday January 27 1928 to review tests and donations for a banco party on February 17 1928. Candidates Cohen and Joffe must pass tests and pay fees or be dropped. record shows many scouts lagging in progress and advancing slowly.
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Highlawn
Banco Party
David Cohen
Harold Joffe
Donald Mullen
Vernon Strosinski
Lawrence Kanaga
Andrew Baumgartner
Thomas Kinney
Carl Sellin
Russell Brady
John Kinney
Melvin Schroll
Edward Ripley
Conrad Kern
Hector
Wilson Palmer
Warren Wilson
Melvin Brockman
Gordon Claussen
Gordon
Not a Straight Golf Card Notions
A humorous New York Sun line mocks golf as a mix of chores and eccentric players. It riffs on the sport as a flippant, nimble satire about players with varied outfits and improvised tools on a hot afternoon.
Safety posters urge Chicago students to avoid street play
The Chicago Motor Club safety bulletin warns that more children are killed and injured by cars while at play and after school. It cites dangerous street activities and offers three resolutions to look both ways, avoid roadway play, and not cross in the block middle.
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Accident Prevention Department
Chicago Motor Club
WLS Night at Harvey Showboat Artists at Buda Clubhouse
WLS radio presents a Hard Times barn dance at the Buda Clubhouse Harvey Illinois with Tommie Dandurand calling and Art's Aces six piece orchestra. Between acts the WLS lineup includes Tom Dick and Harry The Three Vagabonds Smiling Bob Henry the Singing Scotch man and Cleone Weber. Evening features Old Time square dances and modern dances by a live orchestra. The club sits at 149th and Center avenue.
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Harvey
Sears Roebuck
WLS
Buda A. A
Tommie Dandurand
Art’s Aces
Tom, Dick and
Harry
Three Vagabonds
Bob Henry
Scotchman
Cleone Weber
Buda
149Th and
Center Avenue
Harvey, Ill
National W C T U Regional Conference Opens in Chicago
The National W C T U regional conference meets January 31 to February 1 at the Hotel La Salle in Chicago. Illinois Indiana Ohio Michigan Minnesota and Wisconsin are represented. Leaders include Mrs Boole Mrs De Yo Mrs Munns and other national officers.
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Hotel la Salle
Chicaggo
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Boole
de Yo
Munns
John Thompson
Henry Cheney
Edwin Hughes
Timothy Stone
E. C. Yellowly
Lottie Holman O’neill
Medill McCormick
Frequency of the top 50 English words in writing
Analysis of business letters newspapers and ordinary correspondence lists the most used words with The and and leading. The first twelve words account for about 30 of every 100 words and the 50 words span from 50 to 100 in typical text. Only "very" has more than one syllable.
Paper Shell Pecan Term Expanded Beyond Thin Skins
The term paper shell, once used only for pecans with extremely thin shells that crack easily when two are crushed in one hand, has broadened in recent years to cover many cultivated varieties with shells as hard as wild nuts.
Scientists May Learn Secret of Indian Tribe
National Geographic expedition led by Neil M. Judd probes Pueblo Bonito in Chaco canyon New Mexico to explain why ancient Pueblo people built long roads stairways and terraces. Judd suggests roads and terraces served transport of timber from pine groves and may reveal a larger prehistoric population beyond Pueblo Bonito.
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Washington
Chaco Canyon
N. M
National Geographic Society
Pueblo Bonito
Neil M. Judd
Smithsonian Institution
America
Gallup
Judd
Rincons
Bonitians
Keeping tally from the old debt recording stick
The article explains the origin of keeping tally as a notched stick used by scholars to record debt. The notches on the edge represented the amount owed. once agreed, the tally was split with a piece given to the creditor and the debtor retaining the other as a record of the exact amount due.
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W. J. Kemnitz
Bowen School
Adeline Schaefer, Dorothy Moran and
William van Soest
Miss Tear
Miss Salisbury
Miss Hurley
Robert Reynolds
James Miller
Gordon Wolling
Lester Grapenthien
George Odle
Lincoln Avenue School
Scout News
New York Sun
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