Season ticket pledges near 500 on first day for 1920 Chautauqua
Canvass for next year's Chautauqua season tickets opened with nearly 500 pledges on day one. Washington assembly funds prize incentives, price remains two dollars, and organizers expect 1,504 tickets to secure a strong 1920 program featuring Dr. Bunton Bertha Farner Garner Jubilee Singers and Chicago Ladies Quartet.
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Chautauqua
Altho
Keesey
North Dakota
Washington
Ripon College President to Lecture at Chautauqua Event
Dr. Henry Coe Culbertson president of Ripon College Wisconsin scheduled to lecture tomorrow afternoon at the Chautauqua with an unlisted program aside from the expected talk. He has traveled widely and was in Europe when World War I began in 1914. The Garner Justice Singers will give a brief afternoon concert. Adam Bede former congressman and prominent platform speaker will lecture Wednesday evening preceded by the Jubilee Singers.
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Bunton
Deyton
Ohio
Bertha Farner
Columbus
Washington
Miss Farner
Chicago Ladies
Chicago Girls
H. C. Culberteen
Adam Bede
Garner Jubilee Singers
Henry Coe Culbertson
Ripon College
Wisconsin
Chautauqua
Europe
Garner Justice
Congress
America
Jubilee Singers
Norman Hall to Speak at Chautauqua Thursday
Capt James Norman Hall, Rhodes scholar and war veteran, will lecture Thursday afternoon as part of the Washington chautauqua program. Admission is five cents, same as other days, with a Prelude in the afternoon and a fall concert in the evening by the Volunteers of America musicians and entertainers.
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Washington
Capt
James Norman Hall
Norman Mall
Norman Dial
Grinnell
Oxford
Kingland
Norman Hall
Captain Hall
Waterloo
Loin Alex Young
Mrn
HS. Young
America
Chautauqua Notes Describe Watermelon Feat Toward Week’s End
Last evening about six oclock the boys found the so called Black people paradise was a watermelon feast. Fifty eight boys hiked three miles to artesian well on David McLaughlin farm where melons were planted. A 15 cent charge left a 5 dollar deficiency covered by Secretary Sluxford and Donald Ross. One boy too young was carried the rest of the way. They returned by 730 for a music program. A gold wrist watch was lost on the grounds with a monogram. a reward is offered.
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David McLaughlin
MccCreedy
Dowell
Sluxford
Donald Ross
Murray McCreedy
Huxford
Flowers Loved by Ali and the Covenant of Peace
A reflective quotation about flowers serving ordinary humanity and children, describing flowers as the cottager’s treasure. It likens them to a fragment of rainbow in workers’ windows, symbolizing a covenant of peace in the crowded town.
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Ali
Ruskin
The Camel's Swiftness Proverb Echoes Desert Speed
A public proverb is cited describing the camel’s swiftness on its native lands. It contrasts the animal’s rapid travel with an Arab horse and notes a saying that meeting a camel rider yields the camel quickly disappearing as if blown by the wind.
Dear little girl with curly hair admires train stop remark
Regularly Acquired notes a traveler sees a girl with tight curls near a country train stop. She responds to a question about her curls with a witty retort about how they came to be. The anecdote captures a moment of humor at a small station.
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Chicago Tribune
Two Famous Brogues and Broken English
The text discusses how broken English is the imperfection of an individual foreigner. It cites Mdgin lish and the English of Hans Brietmagn bellads and of the comedy Freed man as examples. It notes that Create English and Pennsylvania Totch are brogues.
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Noes
Hans Brietmagn Bellads
Freedman
Pennsylvania
First Night in a Sleeper Berth Notable for Small Flats
Little Jack recalls his first night aboard a Yullman sleeper noting the flats were small and separating family members. He mentions Mamma and JT in the first flat and Luddy in the second flat, while Grand Ma listens.
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Jack
Yullman
Mamma
Miners Entombed After Oakview Mine Explosion Near Laveto
Forty coal miners are entombed after an explosion at the Oakview mine of Oakdale Coal near Laveto in Huerfano county Colorado. Rescue teams are gathering helmet men and crews from Walsen and Trinidad districts to assist. William A Mare of Chicago is nominated by President Wilson to be collector of customs for the port of Chicago to succeed Rivers McNeill who has died.
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Trinidad
Colo
Oakview
Oakdale Coal Company
Laveto
Huerfano County
Walsenbure
Washington
William, A. Mare
Chicago
Wilson
Port of
Chicage
Rivers McNeill
Clare
Customs Department
America
Washington area brides and a summer wedding round up
Announcements report Edith Mae Corette and Henry Sherwin Shields marrying in August 1919 in Hartford Michigan with plans to live in Washington after September. Shields is a local businessman and active in John Shields and Sons. Also noted are Roy Humston marrying Faetta Harbison of Gladwin in Macon Missouri with travel to La Plata Missouri for part of the honeymoon.
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Henry Sherwin Shields
Hartford
Michigan
Shields
Washington
West Chester
Chicago
Charles Corette
School of Music
John Shields and Sons
Missouri
Humston
J. A. Harbison
Gladwin
Clay Humston
Brighton
Columbus Junction
Bandits Take $4000 Pay Roll in Meveland Hold-Up
Two armed bandits stopped Miss Augusta K. Limack at a fruit company in Meveland Ohio and escaped with a $4,000 payroll she carried.
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Meveland
Ores
Augusta K. Limack
Nature and principles shape fruit through a single master
A reflection on how nature mirrors itself where a grain sown in a good soil yields fruit and a principle sown in a good mind bears fruit. The author attributes creation and guidance to one master, linking root branch and consequence in a unified source.
Youth Seeks Fortune Overseas From Japan to Brazil
A ninety year old patriarch leads forty four descendants to Brazil in search of new adventures and a fresh fortune, carrying a handsome competence already saved.
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Brazil
South America
Terrible plant causes blindness on contact
The Asclepias gigantea, widespread in Abyssinia and also found in Ceylon, exudes milky sap from cut stems and leaves. Even a single drop can cause total blindness if the sap touches the eyes.
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Abyssinia
Ceylon
Hit It Right That Time
A humorous Boston Tran script line shows Mrs Blunderby marveling at a lavish dinner and questioning how the Blots could pay for it. The exchange highlights praiseworthy yet perplexing abundance.
Women’s tailors perform miracles in fit crowds
A Kansas City Star observation notes tailors often fail to fit men while women’s tailors succeed. The piece asserts women’s tailors perform miracles in fitting garments, contrasting with men’s tailoring challenges.
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Kansas City Star
Woman's Way and the Value of a Wey
A Calveston News item notes a woman choosing anxiety over losing her own Wey, reflecting a social stance on personal possessions and status in the community. The prose hints at gender norms and individual pride within a local context.
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Calveston
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad Offers One Hundred Dollars
An old classified ad claims Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh by cleansing the blood for thirty five years. It promises a one hundred dollar reward for any case it cannot cure and urges readers to start now to expel polson from the blood and heal affected mucous surfaces. It cites testimonials from Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio and wide drugstore distribution.
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Hall
Cheney & CO
Toledo
Ohio
Don Salvador Sol M United States minister nominee profile
Don Salvador Sol M. is identified as the newly appointed minister of Salvador to the United States. He has studied his country’s political life, traveled extensively, and focused on the U.S. economic and political scene, knowing many prominent people in the United States.
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Senor Don Salvador Sol M
Salvador
United States
Kolah Club Postponed to September 3
The Kolah club announces a delay with events rescheduled to September 3. Members are advised to update calendars and await further details from organizers.
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Kolah
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Chicago Ladies’ Quartet
G. W. Bunton
Bertha
Farner
George W. Bunton
Bertha Farmer Company
Dr. Ball
Garner
Henry Coe
Culbertson
J. Adam Bede
Dr. Rall
Volunteers of America
The
Ball
Brotherhood
Nations
League of Nations
Jan Smuts
British Commission
Japan
China
Dr. Ralls
Colorado
Edward Corette
Edith Mae
Roy Humston
Lloyd Humston
Amelia Gould
Esther Kahre
Burlington
Helen Anderson
Miss Gould
Grant Humston
Nature’s Method
Don Salvador Sol M
WANT
Wirthmor
New York
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