Taft Sculptor Delights Chautauqua Crowd At Eight
Lorado Taft the famed sculptor wowed the audience with live clay work transforming a lump into a human face while discussing beauty, habit, and community building. Lectures by Dr. Alexander and performances by Maude Stevens and Charlotte Chamberlain also highlighted the program.
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Lorado Taft
Chautauqua
Mr. Taft
Leonard Crumele
Taft
Chautauqua Management
France
America
Tatt
Oregon
Ill
Maude Stevens
Edith Welch
Charlotte Chamberlain
Miss Stevens
Miss Chamberlain
Miss Welch
Lorenzo Zwickey
J. A. Earl
Des Moines College
Ministerial Association
Next Week's Program Schedule at Local Club
The notice lists daily events from Monday to Thursday featuring platform managers, lectures, children and Bible hours, and performances. Highlights include lectures by Senator Harold C. Kessencer and Charles Benjamin Griffith, and a full concert by the Crawford Adams Company.
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Asman
Dr. Alexander
Metropolitan Glee Club
Mrs. Asman
Mr. Ross
W. M. Keeley
Hruby
Harold __C. Kessencer
Rhaby Orchestra
M. W. Bailey
Crawford Adams Company
Children’s Hour
Banks to Close for Private Peat Chautauqua Talk
Washington banks will close at noon next Thursday August 22 to allow employees to attend the Chautauqua program featuring "Private Peat" at the event venue.
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Washington
Chautauqua
Human bones found seven feet deep along sewer trench
Workmen digging for a sewer along South Second avenue near Clara Barton street unearthed crumbled human bones. A heel bone and part of an arm indicated a fairly tall person. The bones, possibly from an old Indian burial, lay with cave-in earth, not in the ditch path, and no burial ground is known at the site.
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South Second Avenue
New Clara Barton Street
County Hospital
Cedar township Red Cross meets for tea towel project
Cedar women gathered Thursday afternoon at Mrs Will Booth home to hem twenty four tea towels for Camp Dodge workers and collect charity funds including one dollar for war relief and five dollars for yarn. The next meeting will be a basket dinner at Mrs John Genkinger home on Wednesday August 21 with members bringing baskets and families to share a day together.
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Cedar Township Red Cross
Will Booth
Camp Dodge
Cedar
John Genkinger
Jess Bishop
Lulu Crawford
Joe Wolfe
N. W. Noacker
B. J. Holmes
John Rittenhouse
Clyde Fishburn
G. H. MacAtlin
Charles Faulkner
Ed Jackson
Abigail Bishop
Christa Jackson
Ella Booth
Library hours altered for chautauqua week
The Jane A. Chilcote Library closes for chautauqua this week except Saturday open after the afternoon lecture until 6 pm and in the evening from 7 to 8. The Havre Red Cross auxiliary meets Wednesday at the Witting shop and requests dark fabric scraps for quilts. Red Cross Knitters host a basket dinner at Mrs John Genkinger's near Ainsworth on Wednesday August 21 inviting all members and families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane A. Chilcote
Chautauqua
Havre
The Safety Curtain at Fox Theatre Stuns With Intrigue
Norma Talmadge stars in The Safety Curtain a Select Picture shown at the Fox Theatre Monday. Puck a London dancer flees an abusive past with a man she loves finds the safety curtain of silence, fears a false death report, and faces a perilous road to India where truth and loyalty collide.
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India
Puck
London
Merryon
Vulcan
Norma Talmadge
Fox Theatre
Pratt
UNCLE SAM CALLS COLLEGE STUDENTS FOR ARMY TRAINING
Iowa colleges join the Students Army Training Corps to train officer candidates. Four thousand Iowa youths aged 18 to 21 are sought by September. Grinnell President Dr. John H. T. Main directs the state campaign. Enlisted students serve inactive during the year and gain full private status with summer training.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Sam
College Army
War Department
National Council On Education
John H. T.main
Grinnell
Union
United States
Army Training Corps
Illinois
Monmouth
Knox
Augustana
Lombard
Main
Roose
National Army
Student Army Training Corps
Bakery Fined 200 For Violating Food Law
The report notes a fine of 200 dollars imposed on a bakery for breach of food laws. The item also includes a casual update about a New London traffic accident near Mt Pleasant involving Mrs Shelva Gibson of Atlanta Iowa her seven month old daughter Dorothy and her brother Ole Cline. They sustained cuts and bruises and were treated by Dr Mehler.
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New London
Shelva Gibson
Atlanta
Dorothy
Ole Cline
Mt. Pleasant
Gibson
Ola Cline
Mehler
Mr. Gibson
Atlantic
Corydon
Ind
Only Today Shapes Our Shared Moment
A reflection on living in the present and embracing action driven by love and helpfulness. The author argues today is the only day we truly have to contribute and avoid decay from cynicism, citing lessons learned from painful experiences.
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David Star Jordan
Bakery Fined and Closed Over Wheat Flour Shortage
Federal Food Administrator J F Deems fined the City Bakery of Iowa City owned by Ostdick and Tennyson two hundred dollars and ordered a one week closure from August 16 to 23 for exceeding the 85 percent wheat flour limit. Owner Ostdiek testified before Commissioner Deems and credibility likely prevented a harsher penalty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Iowa
J. F. Deems
Burlington
City Bakery
Ostdick
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M. R. Regan
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Hoddy
Donald Ross
Silas Ross
Columbus
Duffield
W. H. Dean
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Four Earls
Wille Brothers
Latona
the Great
Sankus
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Claude A. Flynn
Riverside
Ethel A. Bailey
W. F. Bailey
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Washington and Vicinity
J. W. Miller & Son
Cook's Bakery
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Frank Flaherty
Lews
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I. K. Beal
Chas
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R 5
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Uncle Sam
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