Lexington Ladies Aid Plans Harvest Home Bazaar
The Lexington Ladies Aid met at the Vestry with two visitors from Wellman and guests from Mt. Pleasant and Titus. After devotion and a business session, plans were made for a fall Harvest Home and Bazaar, and 100 jars of fruit were to be sent to Des Moines Hospital before Thanksgiving. A mission talk by Laura Craver highlighted aid work in South America. A program featured solos, comical apron verses, and an apron song, followed by refreshments and socializing.
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Lexington ‘Ladies’ Aid Help
Gardner
Carr
Wellman
Laura Craver
Mt. Pleasant
Roscoe Anderson
Titus
W. P. Gardner
Schulty
Lexington
Mesdames Dill
Griggs and
Oldfield
Methodiat Hospital
Des Moines
Mt Pleasant
Mexico
South America
America
Committee On Entertainment
Mesdames Entesminger and
Helen Gardner
Moonshiners Start Forest Fires Across Northwest
Seattle, Aug 2 Prohibition Director Roy C Lyle reports illicit distilling causing about a quarter of forest fires in Northwest states this season Some fires were started deliberately to hide old still sites and portable stills are used to cover traces.
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Seattle
Wash
Ilicit
Northwest States
Roy C. Lyle
Washington
United States Faces Shallower Coal Share With World
Figures from the National City Bank show US output at about 40 percent of world coal production in 1921, down from 45 percent in 1920, while 1914 to 1918 war years saw sharp export increases. US coal reserves total roughly 52 percent of known world reserves. world production 1921 about 1.12 billion metric tons.
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United States
National City Bank of New York
Great Britain
Germany
France
Caecho-Slovakia
Japan
Belgium
India
China
Australia
South Africa
Bic
United Kingdom
Saar
World Geological Congress
Canada
Tues
Yosfat
Equator
Geological Congress
Geological Survey
Society Hostesses Impress Local Visitors with Dinners
Laura Graham hosts six o clock dinner for Georgia Baker and Beatrice Brown of Centerville. Mrs M R Meek hosts Laura Graham and friends. Mildred Crone honors Beatrice Brown and Georgia Baker with noon dinner. Anna Elizabeth and Etha Dawson hosted a party for Anfetta and Harriet Martin of Albia. Pythian Sisters meet at Castle hall and adjourn to September nineteenth.
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Laura Graham
Georgia Baker
Beatrice Brown
Centerville
Castle Hall
Anna
Elizabeth
Etha Dawson
Anfetta
Harriet Martin
Albia
Mildred Crone
Arthur Home
Lafe Young Embraces Swimming At 74 In Des Moines
Lafayette Young former United States senator aged 74 reports vigorous swimming after vacation at Spirit Lake with granddaughters Virginia and Marjorie Herrick of Orleans West Virginia 26 and 17 who hope to teach him rapid strokes when he returns in August Young owns the Des Moines Capital newspaper.
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Des Moines
Lafayette Young
United States
Young
Spirit Lake
Virginia
Marjorie Herrick
Oleans
WN. Va
Mr. Young
Kidnapping Attempt In Kansas City Car Ride
Miss Cora Barger 27 left home to shop when a man in a Ford coupe stopped and invited her to ride downtown. She later woke on Cure Drive with head injuries and a concussion. She escaped after jumping from the moving car during a rainstorm, suffering injuries. She identified a man, but later said the name was not the driver. Mission details point to an attempted assault and escape.
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Kansas City
Cora Barger
Brooklyn
Miss Barger
Cure Drive
Lieut
BE. Christie
General Hospital
Insects Spark Drunken Debate Among Entomologists
The passage describes entomologists' disdain for foam and hints at a festival around blooming willows. It references Linnaeus naming a creature as "cellar ty" and Kirby renaming it "cellar wine drinker" while noting larvae reportedly feed only on wine or beer.
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Linnaeus
Kirby
Indian Country Ramble Through Cass Lake Minnesota Journal
The writer travels from Cavalier North Dakota toward Banff Minnesota’s Cass Lake area near Itasca Park. He notes cool July weather overcoats and wraps, visits Bemidji and mentions Indian country life, local churches, and chautauqua activities. He observes pine forests, roadquality, deer and moose, licensing rules, and the looming move south toward Wadena and Minneapolis.
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Bro. Elder
Cavalier
N. D
Banff
Washington
Memidji
Cass Lake
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
Frank Webb
California
Muscatine
North Country
Bemidji
John Alex Young
Lake Minnetonka
Duluth
St. Paul
Leich Wallace
Wallace
South
Wadena
Twin Cities
Wisconsin municipal plants shift from private power to self generation
Records of the State Railway Commission show a trend toward municipal electric plants generating their own power. Of sixty nine publicly owned plants, thirty now generate their own energy, while seven built since 1915 contrast with seventeen sold to private companies.
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Wisconsin
State Railway Commission
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Lexington Society
Lawra Craver
Alice Goodspeed
Eve
Mia
Entsminger
Celia
Landy
Jane Gard
Ner
Alice G
May
Bess
Mandy
Margaret E
Cla
Grace
Jenn
Sed
Clara
Rene
Liz
Amy
May Flynn
Hazel Matthess
The
A. E. Putnam Co
Rkr
Lafe Young
Northland
Redpath
Paul
Corinth
Jesus
Dr. Bowers
Moberly
Vanity Fair
Cliff Cline
Fred Carney
George Crawford
Garrett
George
Welkin
Fred
Cliff
Father of Waters
Itasca Park
Mississippi
Cass County
Sally
Richmond
Noble
Manohmen
Beauleau
John Smith
Ann
Ark
Redpath Vanter
Eleanor Bailey
P E. D
Mary
Harvey Ingham
Edgar Harlan
New York
Jerusalem
Hart Shaffner & Marx
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