Easter Cantatas Highlight Diverse Church Observances
Easter services across Washington featured cantatas at several churches with strong choirs and soloists. Notable performances included Mrs Lucille Woods and a roster of soloists, duets, and quartets, plus morning sermons and special Easter music at the Methodist and Baptist churches. Other congregations observed sunrise or brief services with emphasis on Easter themes.
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Washington
Lucille Woods
Marion George
Stanley Simpson
H. L. Walker
Mabel Livingston
Methodist Church
Edna Klein
Pennsylvania
Worrell
Arthur Atack
Kfaeter
Lois Humble
Carol Gray
Betty Michels
Margaret Hennon
Handel
Holy City
David Pearson
Wendell Baker
Jesus
Lord
Marion Timmins
Jane Steele
Frances Sartor
Esther Hayes
Milo Sorden
Atack
Bible School
W. E. Bond
Claude L. Reister
Harold Swanker
Bond
Ruth Lemley
Thora Reynolds
Trinity Lutheran Church
Krueger
Church of the Nazarene
Hogur
J. Phillips
Rock Island
W. J. Stevens
Foursquare Gospel Church
Kenneth Erickson
Pres
Washington Cleaners Promises Fast, Modern Service
The Washington Cleaners describes itself as the largest cleaning plant in Southeastern Iowa for a town of its size. It claims $11,000 in equipment, offers cleaning, pressing and repair for men, hat cleaning with a delivery guarantee, one day service when possible, and delivery of cleaned garments.
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Iowa
Bird Ways of a Cowbird and a Chipmunk? Chippy Drama
In a Blue Spruce nest a Chipping Sparrow lays five eggs including a cowbird egg. A cowbird egg disappears while the sparrow hatches and feeds the cowbird chick, with a robin bringing earthworms as the drama unfolds in an Iowa outdoors scene.
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Roy L. Abbott
Madame Chipping Sparrow
Altho
Robin
Foster care mystery as a cowbird’s brood grows
The narrator narrates witnessing a cowbird nestling being fed by Chip and Robin foster parents. The scene shows the cowbird eagerly following both birds as they forage for its insatiable appetite. The account ends with contemplation on nature’s intention versus puzzling behavior.
Franklin School Ends Week With Notices and Tests
Franklin April 10 students report four weeks left of school with May 5 closing day. Kittenball dominant sport, parcheesi and Bingo when weather fails. Several students have perfect or near perfect attendance and spelling streaks. Eighth graders to take tests at Shiloh May 4. Choir songs known and Miss Brohm read Janice Day recently.
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Franklin
Donald Davison
Grace DeLight Davison
Deane Allred
Ledra Kauffman
Dwight Davison
Dean Kauffman
Mary Vaughn Swartzendruber
Edwin Swartzendruber
Delbert Hesseltine
Shiloh
Miss Brohm
Janice Day
Amlie Declines C I C Nomination After Senate Likely Rejection
Thomas R. Amlie, former progressive congressman, told President Roosevelt he cannot accept a nomination to the Interstate Commerce Commission. He said the Senate likely would not confirm him, and asked withdrawal of his name.
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Washington, D. C
Thomas R. Amlie
Roosevelt
Interstate Commerce Commission
Senate
Bergdoll Plans Return to United States
New York April 10 Grover Cleveland Bergdoll who dodged the draft in World War I will return from Germany to face prosecution his wife said on her return with four of their five children She said her husband plans to sail for America this week.
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New York
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Germany
America
Floral company receipts stolen in Ottumwa
Easter weekend receipts from the Kemble Floral company were stolen after thieves broke into the office and opened the safe. The loot was estimated at 700 dollars. Jean Davison and Darrel Edwards were visitors at school this six weeks. Reporter Edwin Swartzendruber.
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Ottumwa
Iowa
U.P
Kemble Floral Company
Peck
Jean Davison
Darrel Edwards
Edwin Swartzendruber
North Side Cafe Reopens After Interior Upgrades
Work finished Saturday on fixing fixtures and rearranging the North Side restaurant interior. Tables and counters are redesigned for better convenience. Waitresses wear brown and white checkered uniforms, while Jess Winga and other employees retain their existing uniforms.
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North Side
Jess Winga
Otheren
Concord grape origin by Ephraim Bull documented
The gold beater Ephraim Bull introduced the Concord grape in the mid 19th century. He was poorly appreciated by contemporaries and died poor and embittered.
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Concord
Ephraim
Overcrowded Campo Santo Cemetery in Genoa
In Genoa Italy the famed Campo Santo cemetery is described as overcrowded with tombs filling the flat roof of its public mausoleum. The crowded memorials appear to have crowded out open space and create a dense marble landscape atop the structure.
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Campo Santo
Genoa
Italy
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