World Good Will Day to Be Observed by Iowa Schools
Iowa schools will observe World Good Will Day on May 18. Miss Agnes Samuelson states a translated message from Venezuelan schoolchildren requests world peace and friendship among nations. The greetings, transmitted via the Pan American Union, will reach 700000 children in Iowa and beyond.
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Hos
W. J. Cooper
Washington
Agnes Samuelson
Venezeula
L. S. Rowe
Pan American Union
Venezenla
Iowa
Sammelson
Two World War Veterans to Be Honored at Fairfield
Fairfield in Jefferson county will host a major military event on June 1 to award two World War I Distinguished Service Crosses. Lane E. Stansberry, sheriff, and J. J. Cross, farmer, of Company M, 168th Infantry, earned their crosses on September 12, 1918 near Priory, France. Cross captured an enemy post under heavy fire. Stansberry single handedly captured an enemy machine gun and twenty prisoners. Government and military officials from Iowa and Fort Des Moines, plus national guard detachments, are slated to attend.
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Farfield
Jefferson County
Lane E. Stansherry
J. J. Cross
Company M
One Hundred Sixty-eighth Infantry
Priory
Trance
Cross
Stansberry
John Hammill
Bailey
Fort Des Moines
Town National Guard
Matt Tinley
Council Bluffs
D. P. Hoyt
Omaha
Lloyd Ross
Fort Leavenworth
Death-Watch Beetles Damage St Lawrence Jewry Woodwork
Builders reopen St Lawrence Jewry in London after restoring woodwork damaged by death watch beetles. The pests, part of the Ptinidae family, feed on timber, old books, furniture, ship stores, and even dried tobacco, with superstition surrounding nocturnal tapping signifying death.
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St. Lawrence Jewry
London
Christopher Wren
Church of St. Lawrence Jewry
Golden Words from Unknown Tongues Across History
A meditation on nameless voices that shaped literature and culture. The well-dressed woman near Loch Kathrine inspires Wordsworth with Stepping Westward, a watchman cries at a frosty dawn, and a Breton petitioner pleads for guidance as the sea looms large. The piece honors countless unnamed speakers whose words endure.
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Wordsworth
Loch Kathrine
Disavowal of Liability Echoes Biblical Rite in Quote
A Kansas City Star item notes a phrase about washing hands of responsibility. The example cites Pilate washing his hands before the crowd and declaring innocence of the accused, linking it to a modern usage in discussing accountability. The passage frames the expression as an old, biblical allusion rather than a new idea.
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Pilate
Kansas City Star
Through Rock Valley Local Timetable for G M & St P Ry
G M & St P RY timetable lists through Rock Valley with Train No 4 to Spencer Des Moines Mason City Marquette Savanna Clinton No 22 Sioux Flyer to Sheldon Spencer Des Moines Mason City Madison Milwaukee Chicago Wayfreight No 98 to Sanborn regular local service to Mitchell and Canton North Westward Sioux Flyer No 11 8 53 A M daily to Canton Sioux Falls Mitchell Black Hills Train No 3 local to Mitchell 7 24 PM No connections to Sioux Falls Tickets baggage check advised previous afternoon Sleeping car reservations encouraged by day of travel Agent C W Jacobs phone 16
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G. M
ST. P. RY
Rock
Canton
Sioux Falls
Mitchell
Black Hills
C. W. Jacobs
Earl Hayden Proclaims Cash for Live Stock Losses
The speaker offers immediate cash for any live stock lost or injured while on his frock, signaling a straightforward buyout promise or compensation approach.
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Earl Hayden
Ice Age Turkeys Found In Los Angeles Region
Dr Hildegarde Howard at the Los Angeles museum reviews Ice Age birds from Rancho La Brea tar pits to census regional fauna. Among about 500 Parapayo specimens of the extinct turkeylike birds, more than 150 are young, with many chicks.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Rancho la Brea
Los Angeles Museum
Hildegarde Howard
Museum
Bartender Some six years ago says a writer in Piccadilly
A Piccadilly writer recalls The Cider House inn at Haddenham Buckinghamshire England where the sign once read Sir Henry Wehlin Bart licensed to sell wines and spices. He was the eighth baronet who became a publican after service in the Life Guards as four predecessors squandered the family fortune.
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Piccadilly
Haddenham
Buckinghammshire
England
Sir Henry Wehlin
Sir Henry
Life Guards
Tragedy of Long Ago Echoes in Fatal Undertaking
A young man once sent a coffin to a young woman’s home causing her to faint and troubling him to the point of illness. He later died of consumption and was buried in the same coffin he had sent, a grim tale recounted by the Nashvilla Whig and Banner on March 9, 1830.
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Nashvilla Whig and Banner
Kiss Bet Ends With Slippery Replay
A couple argued whether a man could kiss a girl without explicit consent. They staged a test. the man won after a brief struggle and kissed her ardently. She claimed unfairness and demanded a repeat, calling her foot slip a retry.
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Sheldon
Taws Stalrs
F. L. Meyers
Rock VaLley Grain Co
Joan Coert
Prop
Rock Valley
VOSS
A. F. Schemmer
Suaker
Valley Poultry Yards
Peter Spruyt
C. J. Schroeder
Rock Vailey
John
Vander Poel
Prap
Easses
Tae
Evelalawa
Pioneer Drag Line
Richard Sneller
Jake KE Vande Weerd
Mar
Kersbergen
Huntting
W. Vander Well & Sons
Rock Valley, Lowa
Westinnghouse
Westinghouse
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