Society notes on club elections and society events
Annual election of Fortnight club officers planned for this evening at Mrs Frank de Wilson’s home. Ladies of Datasets Biting Num Te of the White Shrine hold a thimblebee with fancywork for a sale tomorrow at the White Farm Bureau. Miss Walker gave a reading and a farewell for Miss Elma Zimmerman at Grace Hill. she leaves for Gnaden Hutton Ohio. The C. O. C of West Chester met at Mrs Everett Denison’s home with five guests, a poem Faster and readings My Aunt Manda. Luncheon by Mrs Roy Gardner and helpers followed by civic class notes. The Baptist F B C class held a social with yellow and white decorations and a new refreshment committee. About forty attended with several missing due to sickness. Next month’s event planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bone
Mra
Job Park
Vsalen
Farm Bureau
Miss Nor Walker
Elma Zimmerman
Grace Hill
Jadah
Mise Zimmer
Gnaden Hutton
Ohio
West Chester
Everett Denison
Roy Gardner
Florence
Bernice
Pauline
Kswendolen Givens
F. BC
The
Baptist Church
al Fields
Harvey Howe
Floyd Ellis
Arthur Browning
Mrs Ostrus and Baby Return From Virginia Visit
Mrs R B Ostrus and infant return to Des Moines after visiting her parents, Rev and Mrs W H Hampton. Rev Hampton accompanied them and will travel back to Des Moines. Mrs Peter Lahr visited in the Talleyrand neighborhood with her daughter Mrs John W Greiner and sister Mrs Katherine Singmaster before returning to East Pleasant Plain.
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Peter Lahr
Talleyrand
John W. Greiner
Tast
Katherine Singmaster
East Pleagant Plain
The Hope of the World and Women’s Health Promise
The passage speaks of 1914 war devastation and the rising generation as the world’s hope. It endorses Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a helpful medicine for mothers and future mothers, noting fifty years of use in women’s non fertility health.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Easter and Eastertime announcements from local clubs
Local church and club notices list bake sales and eatable stalls at venues such as Mannhardt rooms Wilson Heating Co store and McAvoy s meat market with times starting 9 20 am 9 30 am 7 30 pm Also meetings for Fortnightly club Nineteenth Century club Wednesday and Monday events plus a request for new church members to meet after Sunday shop and a social Easter event in Woodman hall with baskets and supper at 7 30 pm
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Yeonan
Woodman Hall
Mixs Northwest Adventure at Fox Theatre
Tom Mix brings Up and Going to the Fox Theatre for showings Saturday and Monday. The film by William Fox follows an English lad raised in the Northwest who learns of family fortune in England and returns home for romance, danger, and a dramatic rescue amid an underwater battle. Easter services noted in Grace Hill with Sunday School, preaching, and Communion followed by a Confirmation Class. Miss Jeannette Lemley visits Brighton during her Easter vacation as Waverly school resumes April 24.
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Tom Mix
Fox Theatre
William Fox
Canadian Northwest
Mix
Lynn F. Reynolds
Northwest
England
Grace Hill
Grace Hillchurch
Co. L. Miller
B. Yinmerman
Jeannette Lemley
Waverly
Iowa
J. W. Lemley
Brighton
Ruth Lemley
Muscatine
Church Notes at NGEM ENE Rabaty School Services
Morning worship at 11 a.m. Evening service at 7 30 p.m. Christian Endeavor at 6 30 p.m. Topic Citizens of Two Worlds Romans 12 1 2 and Philippians 3 15 20 Easter Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 30 p.m. Next Sabbath services led by Rev Kimmelshue of Des Moines.
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Christian Endeavor
Sunday Church Activities at West Chester Baptist
The entry lists Sunday School at 10 a m and B Y P U at 11 a m at West Chester Baptist with Walter Leet as superintendent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Chester Baptist Sunday School
Walter Leet
Pleasant Hill church to hold faster services on April 16
The Pleasant Hill Christian church will observe Faster services next Sunday April 16. Rev Pettit preaches at 11 a.m. and 7 30 p.m. All are urged to bring gifts for the orphan home and contribute to Southeast District work. Let us make it a great day for missions and the Kingdom.
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Pleasant Hill
Sunday services and cantata at the church
Sunday school at 10:00 a.m. Morning worship at 11:00 a.m. with Rev Hal Norton of Des Moines preaching. At 7:30 p.m. a cantata titled The Lily Garden will be presented by the Sunday school. Public invitation extended.
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Hal Norton
Des Moines
Lily Garden
Easter services announced for rural church program
At 2 00 p m a special Faster program will be given by the Sunday School. At 3 00 p m an Easter sermon will be preached by the Rev Nash of east Chester. Everyone is cordially invited to the worship and work of this rural community church. H J Mangold Supt Miss Marie Churchill Sec
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Nash
East Chester
H. J. Mangold
Miss
Marie Churchill
Fragmentary note on early education and manuscript access
A brief excerpt recalls how before printing, education relied on oral transmission and masters' lips for knowledge. Scholars hoped to access manuscripts only in collegiate or monastic libraries, a rare privilege in Suarius.
Sunrise at Evening Easter Message for April Sunday
An Easter lesson reflects dawn after dark and the resurrection hope. The sermon contrasts the evening of fear with the morning light, notes Thomas’s doubt and faith seen by witnesses, and urges renewed church life and worship inspired by the risen Christ. The Church stands as both publisher and product of the Gospel, guiding believers toward new life and eternal hope.
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Magdalene
Peter
Emmaus
Thomas
Christ
Joash
Judah
House of the Lord
Rock Island Lines to Plant Memorial Trees on Anniversary
Chicago April 14 The Rock Island Lines plan memorial tree plantings across division points to mark seventy years since the first Chicago Joliet train in October 1852. Trees will honor years of operation in each state with a national honor roll entry while Old Timers recall the America No. 109 engine and Little Mary Quaid the first woman passenger.
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Chicago
Rock Island
Joliet
Agricultural Department of the Railroad
American Forestry Association
Illinois
el Reno
Okla
Kansas
Iowa
Missouri
America
Mary Quaid
Farman
Xenosha
Wis
Not So Bad Speaking Out Church Weddings
Fragmentary verse on church weddings and an old saying about an organist. The jumbled text mentions a Boston newspaper style phrase and a likely misspelled quote, reflecting a garbled OCR snippet with limited readable names or events.
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Vrites J. Mlc
Boston
Burglar Attacks Cedar Rapids Executive in Home Hold Up
Chas Marousek secretary of the Security Investment Company was badly wounded when a Black intruder entered the Marousek home at 4:30 a m Saturday. The burglar escaped with 270 and a gold watch after a struggle in which Marousek was struck with a revolver butt and clawed. Police have no clues.
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Cedar Rapids
Chas. Marousek
The
Security Investment Company
Marousek
Mr. Marousek
Friend and Enemy
A fragmentary quotation discusses faults and follies, contrasting a friend with an enemy and noting how one’s faults may be amplified by the other’s influence. The text preserves dialect and unclear attribution.
Stock Exchange Scene Ignites Balcony Spectators
An excerpt recalls a Boston theater screening of a stock exchange, where frantic traders aboard the screen drew gasps from two balcony watchers. One asks why they don’t sit. the reply notes a seat on the stock exchange costs thousands of dollars.
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Boston
Stock Exchange
Harper’s Magazine
Remedy Claims Quick Relief for Stomach Ailments
A reader reports dramatic relief after using Mayer’s Wonderful Remedy borrowed from her father. The ad promotes a simple preparation said to remove catarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract and ease inflammations causing stomach liver and intestinal issues including appendicitis. Lemmon’s Pharmacy and major druggists stock the product.
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Mayer
Lemmon
Advt
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Frank de. Wilson
Mannhardt Rooms
South Side Square
New Haven
George Mann
Eop Hammer
Homer Darbyshire
Women's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Wilson Heating Co
Dr. Bowers
Methodist Church
Ladies of
Bert Dill
Everette Soorth
Cal Griges
Lexington Aid Society
Church Hall
Mary Maple
Mable Timmons
Mary Timmons
Morovian
B. W. Pettit
West Chester Baptist
Parsons College
Fairfield
Normining
Glenn Devine
J. Blt. Saur
Music Conservatory
Bulletin of Information
Howard McDonald
Lowa
Rock Island System
C. M. & F. Clothing Co
Society Brand
Fuiporiver
Washington, Low
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