O7VPnnor families hold third annual reunion in Iowa City
The O7VPnnor families held their third annual reunion Sunday August 12 at Manville Park Iowa City with about thirty attendees. A noon dinner featured fried chicken salad and cakes followed by a short business meeting electing officers for the next year. Many relatives listed as present and guests from distant towns attended.
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Manvilles Park
Iowa City
Earl O’connor
Bruce Gibson
John O
Lloyd Hoyding
Hazel
Edna
Mae
Haskins
Will O'Connor
Community Club Announcements Schedule Meetings and Reunion
The 4H Peppers meet Thursday at 1 30 with Elsie and Irene Wagner. Bring linen and embroidery floss. Rebekah's regular meeting Friday at 8. The Hesseltine reunion in Sunset Park Sunday August 19. The Ww R C regular meeting next Saturday after noon at 2 30.
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Elsie
Irene Wagner
Rebekah
Sunset Park
Ww. R. C
French aviator ready for trans Atlantic flight
Paris August 15 The Breguet monoplane of W Dieu Gonde Castes sits at Le Bourget field four-fifths loaded as Castes checks weather reports. He plans a direct New York flight via the Azores, following last year’s world circumnavigation by Joseph Leblieux.
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Paris
W Dieu Gonde Castes
New York
LeBourset Field
Castes
Costes
LeBourget
Joseph Lebriex
Azores
Many Peculiar Types of Medical Healers
A historical survey traces medicine from priestcraft to modern science, noting thirteen folk doctor types in southern Harépe including peasant, hereditary women, midwives, bone setters, surgeons, tooth pullers, blacksmiths, slayers and praying men. Hygeia Magazine says the United States hosts the most varied array of healers, with thirty seven religious healers among them, while scientific medicine remains focused on proven facts.
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Dan McKenzie
Harépe
United States
Hygeia Magazine
Dorothy Deflects a Stranger in a Sharp Exchange
A visitor compliments Dorothy on her hair lighting. she denies it is red and bluntly warns the guest to leave, accusing them of displaying a contemptible side of their nature. Dorothy's cool rebuke ends the encounter and prompts departure.
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Dorothy
Borothy
New York Evening Post
Lemmon’s
Emerson on motion rest and the single stuff of nature
The excerpt presents a meditation on motion and rest as fundamental natural truths. Emerson argues all phenomena arise from a single material essence with two ends, expressing how simple rotational motion in water explains shells and how matter accumulates complexity over time.
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Emerson
Reassessment of Christ Birth Date Alters Centuries
The article notes Dionysius of Rome set a birth date for Christ in the sixth century that modern study finds at least four years too late. A clash between Rome’s historical records and Scripture’s census data during Herod's era, under Quirinius, suggests Christ was born earlier than Dionysius claimed.
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Christ
Dionysius
Rome
Herod
Araguatus
Quirinius
Cyrenius
Syria
Athis
Plane tests suggest long Azores flight possible
An aeronautics report states the Breguet plane completed a two hour test flight near the Azores with a take off speed around 125 miles per hour. Costes said the craft could be fueled for a 69 hour journey.
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Pitious
Azores
Breguet
Costes
On Long Island Porch Shaving and Abridged Tales
A letter from a Long Island reader recounts an evening with a prominent citizen and his barber shaving the narrator on the porch with ice water. The piece shifts to a bridge game featuring Jules Schwob, then to a comical charade about Elsie Ferguson, and ends with a Tennis finals remark and light homey observations.
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Acct
Long's Island
Paper Angels
Iam
Jules Schwob
Florence Moore
Elsie Ferguson
Frank Craven
Forest Hills
Emile Cove
el Paso
Natchey
By the Bell Syndicate, Inc
Youth and Freedom Define The Spirit Of Youth
A bold reflection on youth describing it as freedom strength and courage driving curiosity action and growth. The essay links youth to cultural creation human immortality and enduring happiness, arguing happiness resides in perpetual youth.
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George A. Dorsey
Y M A Boys Treasure Hunt and Pool Meet Highlights
More than fifty boys participated in a treasure hunt at the Y M C A with a water meet at the pool. Homer Richardson won the treasure race, followed by Junior Boice and Roger Wilson, as others solved clues across town amid cheering crowds and ice cream credits.
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Y.M
Lester Glick
James
Norman Sage
Cife
Staten Browning
Junior Boice
Deci
Richardson
Bolte
Don Stutsman
Boice
Roger Wilson
Tester
Glick
Jack Gibson
Miles Wright
Staten
Hays
Vouneer Hava
Rod Sorrel
Grant Nevis
Curtis Wells
Claire Norton
Hayes
Wilson
Tabssel Haney
Rob Stutsman
Homer Richardson
Thursday's Five Best Radio Features
Radio feature list from 1929 United Press with items across networks. Notable entries include Shades of Don Juan on WOR, a gold man band on WEAF, Detroit Symphony Orchestra on WGHP and WEAF, Ada dress and Silas H Strawn on WRC, plus Navy band segments from WJZ WBZ.
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United Press
WOR
WEAF
Adadress
Silas H. Strawn
WRC
Washinston
WJZ
WBZ
Bat-Inspired Folding Fan Idea From Japan's Seventh Century
An ancient folding fan design traces back to a Japanese artist in the seventh century who conceived the idea by watching a bat fold its wings. The story links a simple natural motion to a lasting craft innovation.
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Japan
Viola Found in Edinburgh Attributed to Amati Makers
A viola discovered in Edinburgh Scotland measures 17 to 24 inches longer than typical, and is attributed to Hieronymous Amati, a master linked to Stradivarius. The find highlights a rare instrument with historic maker association and unusual size.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Hieronymous Amati
Stradivarius
Proverbs Verse on Honor and Riches
A reflective proverb noting that a gracious woman preserves honor while strong men retain riches. It contrasts mercy with cruelty, suggesting kindness benefits the soul and cruel acts harm the person who commits them.
Wanted Ice Box Size and Dick's Mohair Suite Ad
Classified note lists a small or medium ice box wanted with contact 292 ped. 15512. It also advertises new suites at Dick's Furniture Store highlighting a mohair pillow-arm piece and a special price offer.
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Dick’s
Advertising Campaign Aims to Spend 16 Million for Newspapers
Eight leaders of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association oversee a four year national effort to spend 16 to 25 million dollars on advertising, largely through newspapers. The plan supports a Build Your Own Home campaign urging home construction and repairs, tying the push to local lumber dealers and targeting the everyday citizen.
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Chicago
National Retail Lumber Dealers Association
Yawley Wilbur
West Albs Wie
Laundryowners National Association
California Fruit Growers Exchange
John Clancy
National Retail Lumber Sealers Association
Hawley Wilbur
West Allis
Wis
L. P. Lewin
Cincinnati
Fred Millis
Indianapolis
Thornton Estes
Birmingham
Ala
Fred H. Ludwig
Reading
Adolph Pfund
Charles J. Pettinger
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Hiteman
Edward Mahoney
Chariton
Esther Stevens
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Earl Dawson
Ottumwa
Washington, D.C
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Iowa Success School
Ring
WGHP
Detroit
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Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Big Viola
A Department For Ladies
Lowe Brothers
Whitman
Whitman’s
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Nippon Importing Company
Fountain Service
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