Lansing Social News Recaps Nov 4 Shower and Local Events
Mrs Christ Kovacheff honored with a Nov 4 shower in Lansing on South Boy Street with prize games won by Alvina Rahn Esther Mueller and Hattie Koselke. Scout group meeting elected officers Harold Barkow president and others. Birth of a 9 lb boy to Gilbert Brumm and family noted. Funeral attendance and various visits, church events and local notices follow, listing residents and activities across Lansing Hammond Gary and Oak Glen communities.
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Christ Kovacheff
South Boy Street
Lansing
Alvina Rahn
Esther Mueller
Hattie Koselke
William Lange
Kavavheff
Theo. Everett
Loretta Frey
Fred Hecht
Irene
A. H. Koselke
Max Koselke
Wm. Lange
Esther, Mueller
Amanda Schultz
Wim. Winterhoff
Lansing Boy Scouts
Harold Barkow
Merton Bertram
Gerald Margeson
Wilfred Keehn
Merton
Gilbert Brumm
Eleanor
Godfried Vick
Rex Knickerbocker
Fern
Gary
Albert Koselke
Arthur Ward
White Sox
Chicago
Bulls
Wild Cats
Gertrude
Margaret Brumm
Oxford
Ohio
Ruth Lovegren
Floyd Bothwell
Wm. Lorenz
Wm. Lehmker
Fred Jaeger
Ainsworth
Ind
Mr. Bothwell
Harold Markow
Max Bertram
St. Joseph’s
Danco
Beth- el Temple
Hammond
May
Dorothy
Woodrow Eskstein
Gertrude Schwenk
Hamlet
Ted Timber
Straus
Wilbur Sievers
Turner Field
St. Anne’s Church
United Charities
Lansing Public School
Girl Scouts
Lenzig
Howard
H. Ridge Road
Arthur Sacks
St. Margaret’s Hospital
Wm. Potts
Sacks
Fred C. Schultz
Erfedt
Burnside
Susan Winters
Phillip Schuringa
South School Street
Frieda Hoeksema
Englewood
Tillie Ketlaar
Oak Glen
Chicago Heights Public Service Co
C. J. Frank
North Torrence Avenue
O. J. Chappel
P. L. Prior
Christ Frank
Obermeyer
Peters
Paul Frank
Dockweiler
Schroeder
Mail Early for Christmas Parcels to Foreign Countries
The Lansing Postmaster WM. Erfert urges mailing stamps and packages to foreign nations by November 16 to ensure arrival before Christmas.
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WM. Erfert
Lansing
South Holland P T A Meeting and Local Notices
South Holland P T A will meet at the school next Thursday evening November 18 at 7 45. Clarence Hoekstra is home from the hospital and can walk about. Louis Holleman remains hospitalized for wound infection. A baby girl was born to Mr and Mrs Henry Van Drunen. The Van Derbilts and Pals on a duck and rabbit hunting trip in southern Illinois counties. Prepare for snow with rubber wear available from Arthur Dykstra. Rent: 7% or 8 8 acres onion set land shares offered by Peter P Van Drunen of South Holland.
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South Holland
Parent-Teacher’s Association
Clarence Hoekstra
Louis Holleman
Henry van Drunen
Hiram and
John Vanderbilt
Harry Pals, Jr
Peter P.vandrunen, Jr
Illinois
Arthur Dykstra
Peter P. van Drunen
Auctioneer offers low terms for same day results
James Gouwens of South Holland Illinois advertises exceptionally low terms for a service promising a result in dollars and cents on the day of the auction. Contact Harvey 1600 R i for details.
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James Gouwens
South Holland
Ill
Harvey
Card of Thanks for Mrs Micheal Vanderla
We express gratitude to relatives friends and neighbors for the sympathy extended in the bereavement of our beloved wife daughter and sister Mrs Micheal Vanderla Special thanks to Rev Muilenberg for his words of comfort Mr and Mrs G Westrate and Family
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Micheal Vanderla
Muilenberg
G. Westrate
Thunderstorm Speech Loss and Sudden Recovery in Brain
A report from London Tit-Bits notes incidents where lightning near Sheffield dulled a man’s speech, while a Norfolk soldier who had lost speech after war shocks suddenly recovered it while painting. It compares brain speech control to a complex telephone exchange, noting damage is often unlocatable and may self-correct mysteriously.
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Sheffield
Fakenham
Norfolk
Shallshock
London
Theatres Screen Week of Features and Stars
Saturday wild justice features Peter the Great the famed dog hero plus a tender love story. Sunday matinee at 2 30 Richard Barthelmess in The Amateur Gentleman. Don Juans Three Nights continues November 16 and 17 with Lewis Stone. The Midnight Sun starring Laura LaPlante and Pat O Malley ends the run November 18 and 19 with a lavish jewel ballet and spectacular scenes.
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Peter
Richard Barthelmess
Lewis Stone
Shirley Mason
Hollywood
Midnight Sun
Laura LaPlante
Pat O’malley
Riverdale Theatre Weekend Showings Highlight Farce and Romance
Saturday features George O'Hara in a high energy screaming comedy with Fables and comedy. Sunday shows at 2:30 PM present Betty Bronson Ricardo Cortez and Theodore Roberts in The Cat's Pajamas. Midweek dates November 17 and 18 offer The Show Off starring Lois Wilson Ford Sterling and Louise Brooks.
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George O’hara
Betty Brongon
Ricardo Cortez
Theodore Roberts
Lois Wilson
Ford Sterling
Louise Brooks
Stock Show sets record entries for International Exposition
Secretary-Manager B. H. Heide reports the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago will feature the largest array of cattle horses sheep and hogs yet. Entries to be counted on November 13 and November 20 push total animals above 11 500 with cattle 1959 head sheep 1275 swine 1163 and horses 448 amid year over year growth. The show includes the world champion litter of hogs weighing 5117 pounds at six months.
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B. H. Heide
Chicago
State Theatre Friday Nite Dance Contest and Sunday Film
STATE THEATRE offers a Friday nite dance contest with cash awards. Sunday show features Billie Dove and Francis X. Bushman in The Marriage Clause plus five splendid acts.
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Billie Dove
Francis X. Bushman
Not Much Doubt as to Where She Stood
Attorney W B Ward recalls a Kansas City divorce case in which a black plaintiff denounces her husband as the most innocent, trifling man. The judge hints another suitor exists, but she denies it and curses the spouse. The court grants the decree and predicts she will marry again soon, then she fires a final quip about a future husband not yet born.
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W. B. Ward
Kansas City
Ebon Hue
Birney
The Vital Spark in Poetry and Its Readership
Marie Luhrs contemplates why poetry fails to reach a wide audience. She questions if satire, ornamented gardens, and social climbers nurture genuine poetic mood, noting even small fragments can feel vital to the poet.
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Marie Luhrs
Indiana buyers plan new theatre on Boersema site
A parcel behind the Boersema Company store fronting 75 feet was sold for 3000 per front foot to Indiana buyers connected with Earl DeYoung & Company. They plan a five hundred seat larger picture and vaudeville house with fine entrance and lobby across from the Roseland Y M C A while Riverdale mail carrier Herman Brolsma smiles from across the street.
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Denny & Westerhof
Earl DeYoung & Company
Boersema Company
Roseland Y. M. C. A
Indiana
la Fahnlove
Herman Brolsma
Riverdale
Fitzpatrick McElroy Theatre Circuit Eyes 119th Michigan Site
The Fitzpatrick-McElroy Theatre Circuit, owners of a chain extending from Indiana to Michigan, may build a new theatre at 119th and Michigan Avenue. No firm plans announced yet, but a general development is expected. they once operated a vaudeville venue at 115th and Michigan, the Lyric, and later moved into moving pictures.
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Fitzpatrick-McElroy
119Th and
Michigan Avenue
Indiana
Michigan
115Th and
Prickett Family thanks donors and helpers for support
The Prickett Family extends sincere thanks to those who sent flowers and donated cars. Appreciation is extended to the Rev Meyers and the ladies who assisted him for their help.
Patron Saint of Crippled St Giles Chosen for Lameness Defiance
A Greek who migrated to France in the seventh century was named patron of cripples after refusing a cure for his lameness. He led a monastic government and became a revered figure in religious history.
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St. Giles
France
Public Farm Sale at Highland Ridge Road Indiana
The undersigned offers a public sale at his residence two miles west of Highland on Ridge Road Tuesday November 16 starting at noon. Items include 2 horses 1 cow 4 dozen chickens harness wagons mower implements tractor scale cream separator farm equipment and assorted household goods. Usual terms. Fred Elco ster propriet or auctioneer James Gouwens clerk Swieringa. 27-1
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Highland
Ind
Ridge Road
French Adventurer Douville Receives Dubious Medal
Jean Baptiste Douville, a French adventurer, earned the Paris Geographical Society gold medal for a 1830 Congo discovery lauded as decisive, but the award rests on a book later exposed as a fabrication. The episode questions the validity of the society’s 1830s honor.
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Jean Baptiste Douville
Paris Geographical Society
The
Congo
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Fred Rausch
Calumet City
Wm. Beckman
Herman Mueller
Fritz Mueller
N. Poppe
Helmuth Vierk
Wilbur Canaga
Swift & Co
Georgia
Harry P. Deyoung
Til
Riverdale Theatre
State Theatre
110Th Place
Fred Elcoster
J. B. Swieringa
J. Koster & Co
J. Koster
P. Vander Griend
Claud Kramer
Vine Avenue
Henry C. Rietveld
167Th St
South Holland, Ill
Monarch
Armour’s Cleanser
Theodore Koch
Chicago St
Dolton
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