Bernice News Mixes Fires, Pests and Local Notices
A hay fire started by a spark from a passing engine burned fields before Bernice volunteers contained the blaze. A notice warns residents about Canadian thistles and urges action. A local funeral march for a long-time resident drew two thousand mourners, with drink references and stamps price notes included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert Ooms
Bernice
D. P. DeYoung
DeYoung
I. A
Gary
Ind
Vallbrecht
Oakglen
Lansing
Old John Barley Corn
Old John
Summer school opens in South Holland for children lagging in studies
South Holland hosts a summer program at the School of Christian Instruction on 149th street led by Mr. G. H. Naghingale. Visitors from the State Agricultural College checked the set crop on July 2. Local residents note improvements at Huffman’s set onion house and dentist Dr. Kettles will see patients Saturday instead of Friday July 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
School of Christian Instruction
149Th Street
South Holland
G. H. Naghingale
State Agricultural College
Huffman
Dr. Kettles
Ridge News: Sunday Services Move to Berger School
Church and Sunday school will be held at the Berger school due to decorations. Church starts 9.16 a.m. and Sunday school 10.15 a.m. Miss Gertrude Dorshner of South Bend, Ind., visits the Waterman family. An ice cream social at Berger school supported by Ellen Waterman’s chivaree proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berger School
Gertrude Dorshner
South Bend
Ind
Charles Waterman
Ellen Waterman
What America Celebrates On July Fourth
On July 4, 1776 the colonies' representatives formed a declaring that set standards of liberty and democratic government. The ideas spread through Western Europe and inspired nations to challenge monarchies, with liberty proving strong enough to overturn empires, a truth America celebrates on its national anniversary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Western
Central
America
Insect pests drive up bread costs and food scarcity
The article urges action to reduce losses from pests like the Hessian fly, noting annual destruction totaling about a billion dollars. It calls for preserving birds, funding modern insect control research, and deploying barriers such as road oil strips around grain fields to cut losses and lower prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tauoney
Advertising lessons from early 20th century merchants
The note recalls residents recognizing President Wilson when he returned and mentions merchants who spent about $2.75 on handbills years ago with little or no return, suggesting that advertising may not pay.
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Wilson
Theaters Fourth of July Week Program Highlights
Friday shows feature The House of Silence with Wallace Reid and a Lyon Moron comedy. Saturday presents Belle Bennett and J Barney Sherry in The Reckoning Day. Sunday offers Sessue Hayakawa in A Heart in Pawn. Wednesday Violet Merserau stars in Together with Marie Walcamp in Deaths Grip and the Red Glove episode. Thursday Liberty Boys Base Ball Club plus William S Hart in Selfish Yates and Fatty Arbuckle in Good Night Nurse. Adults 25 cents, children 1 dime. Peter Kurz, Manager.
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House of Silence
Wallace Reid
Paramount
Belle Bennett
J. Barney Sherry
Sessue Hayakawa
Violet Merserau
Marie Walcamp
Liberty Boys Base Ball Club
Wm. S. Hart
Selfish Yates
Fatty Arbuckle
Peter Kurz
Mgr
Dolton Theatre Fourth of July Shows and Weekender
Dolton Theatre presents a July Fourth special with Theada Bara in The Two Orphans and a Christie comedy. Saturday features May Allison in The Isle of Intrigue plus a two reel comedy. Sunday offers Mary Miles Minter in The Intrusion of Isabel and another two reel comedy. John Hruby, Manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theada Bara
Christie
May Allison
Mary Miles Minter
Isabel
Honor Noted Missionary in Tahiti Burial Place
Detroit News notes Rev. Henry Nott a leading early South Seas missionary. He landed with the Duff at Matavai Bay in 1797, labored on Tahiti until his 1844 death, and first translated Scripture directly from Hebrew and Greek into Tahitian. The piece also defines totem as a clan symbol among Native Americans and other uncivilized peoples, with religious connotations.
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Tahiti
Henry Nott
South Seas
Detroit News
England
London Missionary Society
Shin Duff
James Wilson
Matavai Bay
North America
Ex-Kaiser Bill and shoe price talk in local chatter
The passage notes that ex Kaiser Bill is not welcome here but wood sawyers are scarce and could fetch good wages. It adds that shoe prices may rise by two dollars per pair, warning that without price relief girls might be driven to go barefoot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill
Voters’ Critique of Government Efficiency Cited
After voting for men who failed in governance, many citizens protest the government’s inefficiency and poor management.
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Bernice News
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Dick Broertjes
Oldsmobile
Theodore Vanderaa
John Ravesfoot, Jr
Harvey
D. Vann Wyngarden & Son
Michigan Ave
Tilstra
Oakland
Cornelius Fray
Dalton
T.T Gouwens
Ridge News
Riverdale Theater
John Hruby
Jauigi
Ylyf
John Harms
Ripley
Dolton Telephone
Dolton
Riverdale
Conrad
KERN
Indiana Avenue
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