Prairie Center Community Notes and Family Visits
Prairie Center entries recount visits among families including Mr and Mrs Larry Caple and Veronica Delaney at the Orval Spencer home. Notes cover school operetta, dental work, a passing horse, lectures, sunshine club gathering, church events, a 40th wedding anniversary with a yellow theme, and a mumps outbreak in the Koehler family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairie Center
Larry Caple
Myra. Delaney
Veronica
Miscntine
Orval Spencer
Frank Kephart
Rob Kephart
Alta Dawson
J. O. Matthews
C. Ft. Wolfe
Isabel
Howard
Washington High School
Charles Zieglowsky
Edna Ruebsam
Carl Zieglowsky
Albert Zieglowsky
Ida Koehler
Ruebsam
John Campbell
Harry Campbell
John
Charlotte
Don Wylie
John Greene
Ainsworth An. P
I. K. Beal
Kephart
Dorothy Ruebsam
Fritzie
Co. W. Wolfe
Howard Tommy
Isabel Wolfe
Pleasant Hill
Terry Marsh
Sunshine Community Club
John Baer
Tom Will
Belle McCreedy
Ed Duvall
West Chester
Marshall Edmondson
Dr. Alcorn
Patagonia
Crawfordsville
Riverside
Washington
Carl Koehler
Minnie
Elizabeth
Peter
Ednie Koehler
Peter Koehler
Community Notes From Wyman and Surrounding Areas
A sequence of local updates from Wyman and nearby towns covers visits by families including the Garrells and Myers, travel to Mt. Pleasant and New London, and a Muscatine teachers convention closing schools for the week. Other items note Mrs. Orbin visiting W. F. Orbin, J. C. Cannon and W. R. Cannon in MediaPolis, Besse Werner’s homecoming from Chillcothe Mo, and the Young America district cloth ing class with nine ladies present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Orbin
W. F. Orbin
Muscatine
Griff Humphreys
FE. W. Humphreys
J. C. Cannon
W. R. Cannon
Mediapolis
Besse Werner
Chillcothe
Ladies of Young America
Bake Spencer
8. Carrick
J. R. Rees
Ainsworth News Briefs Include School Closure and Local Changes
The report notes April 4 dismissal due to water main break leaving Ainsworth without fire protection for a couple days. Dr A L Alcorn sells practice and residence to Dr Buckley of Emporia Kansas with possession around April 12. The Alcorn family leaves a strong social and church presence as they rest before relocating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ainsworth
Minnie Jackson
Huh Wall
Rock Isen
United Presbyterian Church
Womans Foreign Missionary Society
M.ef
Alcorn
McKiernan
Kensington
T. J. Easter
Muscatine
A. L. Alcorn
Buckley
Emporia
Kansas
Divinity
West Chester journal notes and community chatter
A noisy column from West Chester April 2 discusses journal correspondents, front page pictures, and memories of Lap wood. The writer jokes about sock deals, a potential 50 yard foot race, a get together day on the 4th of July, and a rule against toasts after meals while recalling earlier times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Chester
Journal
Sandy Hook
Nira
Lapwood
Revival meeting and garden notes from a community column
A local column describes a revival meeting where attendees share personal renewal stories and jokes about future efforts. It then shifts to farm updates noting fine winter onions, green grass, and rhubarb, plus a humorous sketch about a duck and hens. Local residents F A Sherbeck and W S Boyer visit Washington. KE D Lowash reports 400 hens and egg shipments. market price doubts arise over hens and chickens sold at high prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heaven
al Augustine
Ralph Dougherty
Frank Macon
Charlie Houck
F. A. Sherbeck
W.S. Boyer
Washington
KE. D. Lowash
Journal
Alex Miller
Crawfordsville Social Notes Highlight Local Visits
Mrs Edna Witting and son Orlin from Washington visited relatives in town for a few days. Mrs W P Davidson and daughter Marion and her son William spent yesterday in Washington. Mrs John C Wooley arrived from Columbus Missouri for a visit at J W Lease and Mrs Ruxbaum homes. The thigh school orchestra directed by Miss Norma Reaney played at a Cotter play last Wednesday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawfordsville
Edna Witting
Orlin
Washington
W. P. Davidson
Marion
William
John C. Wooley
Columbus
J. W Lease
Ruxbaum
Wooley
Thigh School
Norma Reaney
Cotter
Astronomer Captures Eclipse Shadow Bands On Film
Dr A E B Douglass at Tucson reports success photographing shadow bands during a total eclipse using a shadow-band camera built at Steward Observatory. Exposures in Middletown Conn under Harvard's H T Stetson confirmed the phenomenon, supporting a long held theory that atmospheric density variations create the bands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tucson
Ariz
A. E B. Douglass
Steward Observatory
Arizona
Middletown
Conn
H. T. Stetson
Harvard
Douglass
Douglas
1925 Laughs At Hats Worn By Men In 1825
Berlin viewers amused by a clothing exhibit comparing styles of 1825 and 1925. High hats towered above modern designs while shaggy felt hats and bamboo straw hats from museums drew smiles from crowds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Wonders of America preached to Britons to increase travel
In London March 17 a British middle class audience is urged to vacation in America this summer. Steamship lines promote inexpensive transatlantic trips to New York and Canadian highlights, framing a 21 day holiday as a feasible gateway to the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
New World
Italy
New York
Canada
America
Europe
England
Scotland
Atlantic
Steamship Companies
Fish That Climb Trees and Birds That Sleep Upside Down
New York April 3. Carveth Wells describes six years in the Malay peninsula jungles revealing a tree climbing fish a flirting fish a teddy bear resembling a toy and a monkey that brushes its teeth after meals. A bird sleeps upside down and Wells notes everything is upside down in the Malay jungles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Carveth Wells F. R. G
Malay Peninsula
Mr. Wells
Workhouse Transformed To Deter Tramps In Nuneaton
Poor Law authorities convert the local workhouse into a mansion to deter vagrants. The casual ward is replaced by a bright room with wallpapers and linoleum floors, meals at a long table, books and newspapers, a steam heated reading room, spring mattresses, a piano, a radio, and toys for children.
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Nuneaton
England
Famous Singer Bernice de Pasquali Dies in Omaha
Madame Bernice de Pasquali a famed singer died early today in Omaha at Lord Lister hospital from pneumonia. Her death followed a noted career with performances across the nation and associations with prominent musical circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pies Omaha
Neb
Bernice de Pasquali
Mous
Lord Lister Hospital
Weather Forecasts Need Reports From Distant Continents
Dr. C G Abbott of the Smithsonian urges two more solar observation stations in Africa and Asia to better link solar radiation with weather. Existing stations are in Mount Harqua Hala Arizona and Mount Montezuma Chile. He notes costs and funds shortages, with preliminary surveys needing 5000 dollars and installations 10000 to 15000 dollars per site plus 8000 to 12000 yearly operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Africa
Asia
C. G. Abbott
Smithsonian Institution
Astrophysical Observatory
Abbot
Mount Harqua Hala
Arizona
Mount Montezuma
Calama
Nitrate
Chile
New York Ciy
Lack of Funds Threatens Southwark Cathedral Closure
London report says Southwark Cathedral, described as the poorest in Christendom, faces bankruptcy due to a near total lack of endowment. The bishop notes no compensation for deans and canons and reveals 12 years of uncleaned windows from insufficient funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Christendom
Southwark Cathedral
Woolwich
Nitrogen-filled Tennis Ball Claims Airtight Advantage
London March 17 a technical expert from a large rubber company has invented a tennis ball filled with nitrogen claimed airtight It is said the ball will not lose air and allow standards of compression and bounce to be established with scientific exactitude
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London
Sedteh-Irish Women’s Hockey Team to Tour U S and Canada
Announcement from Belfast Ireland states a Sedteh Irish women’s hockey team will tour the United States and Canada in September. More than twenty aspirants have already enrolled for tryouts, and the squad will include eight Scottish and eight Irish players to be chosen in April.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belfast
Ireland
United States
Canada
Early matches and safety innovations span centuries
The text notes 1829 friction matches by Walker of Stoeckton-on-Tees England, 1812 British patent by Reuben Partridge for splint manufacture, and phosphorus burning in early friction matches. It also mentions safety matches appearing in 1562.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marty
Walker
Stoeckton-on- Tees
England
Reuben Partridge
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Wyman
Graham Theatre
Abie
Pop
Jeanette
Aml
BY Taylor
Everett True
Stanley
Suresting
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