Chautauqua Opens With Largest Crowd in Nineteen Years
The Washington Chautauqua opened to the largest crowd in 19 years with about 1,100 season tickets sold by opening night. Manlove gave a series of characterizations to wide acclaim, while the Link Orchestra prepared a later concert and Rev. Billy Stidger fell ill. Dr. G L Robinson began daily Bible lectures on Amos with topics planned through the week.
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Washington
Manlove
W. W. Bowers
Chautauqua Association
Dr. Bowers
Monlove Cerainly
Link Orchestra
Billy” Stidger
Grinnell
Marcus Kavenagh
Chicago
Gibsonian Orchestra
Thomas R. Marshall
United States
Europe
G. L. Robinson
Amos
Robinson
McCormick Theological Seminary
Prophet of
Justice
Hosea
Prophet
Love
From Matches to Modern Comforts
A historic note recalls a 75 year old wish for matches and contrasts it with today’s conveniences. It highlights gas lights turning on automatically, electric lighting, on demand water, long distance calls, and urban to country travel with a simple step outside.
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Thor Se
MAKE ADJUSTMENT IN TAX VALUATIONS CHAUTAUQUA PROGRAM
County Auditor AL Griffith reports state action on personal property valuation adjustments for Washington county. Adjustments include increases and decreases across livestock such as cattle goats horses and swine with goats up sixty percent and cattle mostly mixed changes. Books will be completed in three to four weeks for taxes due next March.
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AL. Griffith
R. E. Johnson
State Executive Council
Washington County
Fragmented list of names and numbers from page
A damaged OCR fragment shows many names with ages and initials such as 36 Carol Forgey 38 Harold Rosschay 40 Purvis and Conner 43 Mrs Wm Blair 45 William Beal 46 Dr McConauchy 47 Miss Minnie Pal 48 Mary Hunter and Bridges 50 Sherm Welch 12 Mrs J A Harv 67 Milan Shields 68 Dr A Boice 73 Schulty and Minick 75 Mrs T T Keeley. The text ends with garbled words.
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Carol Forgey
Camp Fire
Harold Rosschay
Purvis and Conner
Wm. Blair
William Beal
Dr McConauchy
Minnie Pal
Mary Hunter
Sherm Welch
J. A. Harv
Milan Shields
Dr. ©. A. Boice
Let's go no matter where travel is Our master
The passage urges haste and speed with phrases about rushing forward and clearing the way. It proclaims no change in prices for Thursday and emphasizes rapid travel as a dominant drive. No clear event or person is named.
List of names and chaperones with remark on a mountain story
A long OCR fragment lists numerous names with numbers and two groups labeled Specials. It ends with a quoted wry aphorism about a man who can make a mountain out of a molehill and sell it as sand.
Insect Civilization Sees Tools Used by Wasp
Two naturalists describe a wasp closing a ground hole and tamping earth with a pebble to cache food. At Graya Harbor Washington wild bees raid tame hives, stealing over a third of local honey. Shared note on advancing insect tool use.
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Graya Harbor
Wash
Pueblo honors Cliff Thorne for Pueblo rail case handling
A Pueblo Chieftain special writer lauds Cliff Thorne for his handling of Pueblo's discrimination case against Colorado railroads. The piece compares the freight rate hearing to a boxing match, praising Thorne's legal blows and predicting leadership potential. It credits Thorne with a technical knockout for Pueblo and commends his courtroom poise.
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Clifford Thorne
Pueblo
Colorado Railroads
Denver
Pueblo Chieftain
Pete Gray
Bob Ellis
Cliff Thorne
Kid Pueblo
Thorne
State of
Navajo Blanket Bought From Indian in Arizona
The item description notes a Navajo blanket purchased by T from an Indian in Arizona. It states the blanket was made in New Jersey and adds that T traveled west to complete the purchase.
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New Jersey
Birmingham Age Herald
Fortune Telling Pansy Guide Predicts Destiny
A playful old note explains how pansy petal patterns foretell fate. Lines indicate outcomes from hope and fear to prosperity, marriage day, fickleness, changing heart, riches, and large fortunes, with center and side petals giving clues.
Havre Social club tea hosted by Mrs Chalupa
Mrs George Chalupa will entertain the Havre Social club Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs John Putnam. A feature explains the origin of the saying knock on wood and its Danish mythic background as a belief shielding ships from peril.
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George Chalupa
Havre
John Putnam
Rattler Three Feet Slain Near Hopkinton Farm
While picking blackberries on a Hopkinton area farm Mrs. Wilbur French stepped on a rattlesnake but was not bitten. Her husband killed the snake which measured over three feet in length and was found lurking in bushes after shedding its skin.
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Monticello
Hopkinton
Wilbur French
Famous London Street Fleet Street Heritage
Fleet Street in London stretches from Tad Gate Hill to the Strand and ties to the Thames via the Kleet sewer. Long celebrated as a hub for printers booksellers banks and coffee houses it remains the center of the London newspaper world and was a favored promenade of Dr Samuel Johnson.
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Fleet Street
London
Tadgate Hill
Strand
Thames
Blackfelare Bridge
Vleet Street
Samuel Johnson
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Dr. Robinson
America
Israel
D. Carris
Lynn Shepard
Glenn Davis
Durand Ross
Geo. Clapper
John Libe
H. E. Case
J. D. Chilcote
Lelia Adams
Esther Hay
Lois Griffith
Capitola Brindley
Jessie Rice
New York
Iowa Gas and
Kodaks
Phillips Drug Store
Kodak Store
Westinghouse
Iowa Gas & Electric Co
Harold Ross
Harold Duke
Wanda Neiswanger
Kach
Duke
Rota
Neiswanger
The
Link Orchestras
Marcus Kavanagh
Ward-Waters
Smith-Spring-Holmes
Paul “Sunshine Dietrich
Ministerial Association
DuMoulin
J. Smith Damron
the Potter Craftsman
Bohumbr Kry
Kryl
Hadley
Pany
M. H. Lichliter
Goforth
Strickland W. Gillilan
Executive Council
Griffith
Len Wylie Hris Cron
W. S. Reister & Sons
Migs
Mina
Besse Putman
O. J. Rice
R. L. Livingston
D. J. Palmer
S. R. Love
Fred Weekly
Dr. Stutsman
W. N. Lowash
Harry Shrader
Mabel Morton
Mrs. Cavendar
J. L. Brookhart
W. C. Hedges
D. C. Griggs
Milo Weaver
Chaperon
George Fulton
Murray McCreedy
Frank Stewart
Charles Thomas
D—J. S. McElhinney
E—tTripp and
Palmer H—Nicola and
Harmon O—Lewis Klein
P—Clifford Thorne
Q—M. W. Bailey
P. P. Schowalter
J. W. Enslin
Evening Journal
H. DL. Smith Electrical Shop
Tabhy
Ottumwa
Iowa
Lowa Success School
Wi Toole
Brighton
Charles Shalla
West Chester Mutual
Katt
J. W. Allen
Coneville Water
Osage
Roy Humston
Crandall
North Avenue
W. F. Fleming
A. R. Smith
John Welir
Mutual Phone
West Chester
Ames Rosen
J. ©. Wright
White Rock Baby Chicks
Chas
Caldwell
G. L. Fetters
Cliff
Savings Bank of
Rebekahs
Epworth League
Methodist Church
Alma Huppert
Empress of Canada
Vancouver
B. C
London Street
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