Rock Valley Bee: crushed stone road a big success in Iowa
J T Tierman says Madison county crushed stone highway work proves highly successful as winter conditions test its durability. Plans to pave Winterset streets with crushed rock emerge while Earlham quarry supplies freight to Hakeye Cement near Des Moines. State Highway Commission awards steel and cement bridge contract at Desoto for 19300 dollars to The Weydell Co of Mankato Minnesota.
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Madison County
J. T. Tierman
Boonville
Iowa
Winterset
Earlham
Hakeye
Portland Cement
Des Moines
Tierman
State Highway Commission
Rock Island Railway
Desoto
We Ydell Company
Mankato
Minn
Marvelous Jack-Knife Circus Carving Display
In Iowa towns and cities a miniature breeding circus is shown. Harry Carmichael of Red Osk carved the marvelous product from pine wood, taking nearly four years to complete the work. The knife artistry draws attention to his patient craftsmanship.
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Iowa
Harry Carmichael
Red Osk
Hall Bros miniature circus dazzles with complete show
A witness describes Hall Bros miniature circus on the road with a 60 foot table exhibit of worn blades as the show travels. The Big Tent features a full circus scene including a band, performing seals, acrobats on the trapeze, an electric light plant, cook tent, animal tent and cages, and a complete circus train.
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Hall Bros. Miniature Circus
Seals
Mayflower Descendants organize Iowa chapter at Ames
J C Gillespie of LeMars reports a recent Ames meeting organized the Mayflower Society with twenty two charter members. Among them Mrs J M Wormley of Kingsley traces nine generations to the Mayflower ancestor and is named delegate to next year’s National meeting in Plymouth Massachusetts. Bowen of Fort Dodge leads both societies.
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J. C. Gillespie
LeMars
Ames
Iowa
Plymouth County
J. M. Wormley
Kingsley
Plymouth
Massachusetts
Doon News Items Showcasing Local Activities
Junior Class held a pie and cocoa sale in the building one door east of the Cosmo Saturday afternoon. Seniors staged the play Peachstrong Joan at Woodman Hall Friday evening May 11 directing by Miss Olive Liddell. Hilda Lews fell from a step ladder Saturday suffered brain concussion and unconsciousness then returned to school Monday. Donald Chever Frank Huyck and Rowe Trower of Sioux City visited Doon Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Triggs and son visited Jasper and Steen Minnesota Sunday. Al Trower and daughter visited relatives in Sioux City Sunday. Olive Liddell spent the week visiting relatives in Le Mars. Will Dreier and family visited relatives in Wilmot Minnesota Sunday. Mrs. Carl Watke of Alvord visited the Nagel home Saturday.
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Joan
Woodman Hall
Elmer Klandured
Olive Liddell
Hilda Lews
al Trower
Sioux City
le Mars
Will Dreier
Wilmot Minn
Carl Watke
Alvord
Ake Nagel Hame
Ireton and Vicinity Notes Highlight Weekend Visits
Miss Trennie Kneubel of Orange City spent the weekend at her parental home here. John Kalsbeek of Sheldon guests at Gale Bergsma home, will depart for New York then five months in the Netherlands. Glen McCrory visited his mother, then returned to Ames. Glen Campbell injured at Coe College vaulting, recuperating at home. father George Campbell met him. Foreign Missionary Society met at Mrs. M. C. Simmons home with helpers Mrs. B. T. De Bey and Mrs. Raymond Johnson. Program committee listed. Mrs. De Jager made a business trip to Orange City. Harries Dykshorn had tonsil operation at Sacred Heart Hospital, Le Mars. Mrs. Andrew De Jager drove to Rock Valley to fetch Lois from grandparents Mr. and Mrs. W. Schouten.
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Ireton and Vicinity
Trennie Kneubel
Orange City
John Kalsbeek
Sheldon
Gale Bergsma
New York
Netherlands
Glen McCrory
Ames
Glen Campbell
Coe College
George Campbell
Hagle Grove
Foreign Missionary Society
M. C. Simmons
B. T. de Bey
Raymond Johnson
George Gran
Phil Walker
Harley Brown
Bertha Bahr
P."de Jager
Orange’ City
Harries Dykshorn
Sacred Heart Hospital
le Mars
Andrew de Jager
Rock Valley
Lois
W. Schouten
Fakir's Filthy Robes Sought for Shrouds
Myriam Barry in Le Temps Paris reports from Damascus where traders fear bankruptcy as shrouds and fakir robes lose demand. A dervishlike figure measures cloth while Ali Bey notes pilgrims once bought shrouds for Mecca and current lack of pilgrimage alters customs. The piece links mourning garments to wealth and fate among sultans interred locally.
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Damascus
Ali Bey
Mecca
Water Pine Makers
Nureddin
Saladin
Bihars
Celestial Springs
Myriam Barry
le Temps
Paris
No Possibility That Home Will Disappear
A Montreal Family Herald writer refutes a British professor who predicts homes may vanish in fifty years. The piece argues love and family create enduring homes through ages from wigwams to modern hotels, stressing that home exists where family gathers regardless of style or changes in custom.
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Great Britain
Montreal Family Herald
The Seven Seas Phrase Origins and History
The seven seas once referred to various waters across civilizations including Hindus Persians Romans and Hebrews. In Persia the seas were river streams along the Oxus while Hindus used the term for water bodies in Punjab. Venice area lagoons inspired the Roman term sentem maria. Kipling popularized the phrase in 1896.
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Pacific
Oxus
Punjab
Venice
Italy
Rudyard Kipling
Exchange
Why God Would Not Give a Carriage
A married woman with her four year old niece leaves a doctor's office after a suggestion to buy a carriage for daily outings. The child asks where babies come from prompting a divine exchange about God and the baby. The niece questions why God wouldn't provide a carriage for her aunt.
Engineer speech and electrical systems unite society
The Body Corporate contends that spoken word conveys ideas and engineers must extend it through intercommunication systems. These systems will connect the nervous systems of every wall of society, forming an indispensable element of a vast and powerful organism envisioned as the ultimate evolution of Exchange.
Erosion Formed Virginia Natural Bridge Structure
The Natural Bridge in Virginia was formed by stream erosion. The current bridge remains from the collapse of an ancient tunnel roof created by water percolating through a fissure, following a bedding plane and draining under a fall. This carved channel gradually widened and diverted the stream away from its bed at the ingress point.
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Virginia
Cleland
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