Commencement Week Filled With School Activities
The article details a high school play with named cast members and a $100 profit. It notes a Baccalaureate Sermon at the Presbyterian church with Rev. J. P. Lester and a union platform, choir solos, and an organ processional. Commencement Exercises at the high school auditorium quoted Glenn Merry of Iowa State University as speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Very Smith
Perry Allen
Jessamine Lee
Dilly
Clara Peterson
Clara
Frank Wiley
Artie
Supt. Evans
Presbyterian Church
J. P. Lester
T. 5. Hoon
Methodist Church
J. O. Wangberg
Trinity Lutheran Church
Presbyterian
White
Lester
Children of Israel
Glenn Merry
Public Speaking
Iowa State University
Truss Expert Meinhardt to Demonstrate Vacuum Shield in Fort Dodge
J Meinhardt from Chicago will be at Wahkonsa Hotel Fort Dodge Iowa on Thursday June 7 from 10 AM to 4 PM. He claims The Vacuum Shield can seal ruptures quickly with no surgery and warns against old style understrap trusses that can cause serious complications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
KE. J. Meinhardt
Chicago
Wahkonsa Hotel
Fort Dodge
Meinhardt
Iowa Claims Largest Factory Complexes Across United States
The article lists Iowa sites boasting national or world leading factories and facilities. It highlights Waterloo as home to the largest cream separator factory, Burlington the largest furniture factory, Dubuque the largest sash and door factory, Davenport the largest broom factory, Red Oak the largest calendar factory, Cedar Rapids the largest cereal factory, Keokuk the greatest hydro electric plant, Mason City the largest drain tile center, Marshalltown the largest steel furnace factory, Fort Dodge the largest wall plaster mill, Charles City the greatest tractor factory, Sioux City the largest creamery and butter factory, Bettendorf the greatest steel car factory, and Newton the largest washing machine manufacturing center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Waterloo
Burlington
Dubuque
Davenport
Red Oak
Cedar Rapids
Keokuk
Mason City
Marshalltown
Fort Dodge
Charles City
Sioux City
Bettendorf
Newton
Those Chinese Bandits and Emigration Policy Ridicule
A satirical piece condemns Chinese bandits who hijacked a railroad train and took passengers for ransom. It mocks profiteers and grafters, then proposes opening emigration to send bandits to attack thieves and paying no ransom by deporting them back to China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Evolution of Principles Drives the Anti-Federal Party Idea
A manifesto arguing that political parties fail when principle exhausts their dynamic, proposing a new anti federal party to compel unpatriotic and opportunist citizens to declare their stance. It calls for a cadre of brains and character loyal to the constitution, unyielding to expediency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Deep Sea Lantern Fish and Devil Discoveries From Danish Expedition
The Danish deep sea expedition aboard the steamer Dana led by Dr. Johannes Schmidt returned to Copenhagen with new deep sea findings. Researchers report lanterned fish and a sea devil with a lantern on a wire-like tentacle and a spherical red lamp. Bermuda is identified as a central eel breeding area with European eels said to cross the Atlantic from Bermuda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johannes Schmidt
Dana
Copenhagen
Bermuda Islands
Bermudas
Bandits in China and Coal in America
A commentary links Chinese bandits and American coal miners as a reflection on labor unrest and national responsibility. It argues the need to address miners' strikes and government power, cites Gov. Henry J. Allen’s Court of Industrial Relations, and promotes a Rolfe chautauqua appearance by Dr. Teyho Hsieh to discuss China.
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America
Henry J. Allen
China
Teyho Hsieh
Chautauqua
Plover Paragraphs Highlight Weekend Stock Movements
The article notes a busy Saturday at stock yards with eleven cars for Chicago heading north to Ruthven and a trip by F R Eggspuehler and family to Ortonville Minnesota. Mr and Mrs Daniels of Ralston travel to Plover to pack and store during summer, while Plover Pirates visit Britt for an northwest Iowa baseball tourney and suffer a defeat to Bel.
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Chicago
Ruthven
Milwaukee
F. R. Eggspuehler
Ortonville
Minn
W. D. Heathman
Birthday Reflections From a Life Embracing Time
A contemplative passage recalls a girl with nut brown hair and twelve candles on a cake as a father proclaims a rite of passage. Birthdays pass quickly from youth to love to memory, and the mellow years reveal the one birthday that matters, life’s passage into Eternity.
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Dad
Local Social Notes and Visits Around Plover
Wives and siblings visit relatives in the area as teaching staff depart for home. Several visitors include Mrs. Rinehart and son Ruthven, Mrs. Mary B. Wilson and son John, Guy Barker and wife from California, Miss Meneough of Grimes Iowa, Miss Marie Bush of Pocahontas, and many others stopping by the L. E. Garlock home. Lost a gold Eversharp pencil. notify Elsie Lehnus.
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Meneough
Grimes
Iowa
Marie Bush
Pocahontas
Peter Johnson
Rolfe
Plover
8S. H. Kerr
Seattle
Washington
L. E
Elsie Lehnus
M. D. Thompson
West Bend
Eldo Heathman
Ortonville Minn
W. D. Heathman
Warren Heathman
Marshall Minn
Clarence Heathman
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Promised Land
C. G. Conn
Ludwig Drums and Accessories
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Victor Records
Princelettes
MA Matthews
Europe
USCO
U.S
Rolfe Auto Company
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