Women's Program Planned For the Iowa State Fair
A comprehensive women's program at the Iowa State Fair runs Aug 24 to Sep 2 in the Women's and Children's Building. Led by club women, the event features public health, home economics, baby health, and traveling library exhibits with daily demonstrations, fashion shows, a Milk Fairy pageant, and a Rose pageant, plus child health activities and community singing.
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Fai
American Red Cross
O. A. Olson
Forest City
F. S. Burberry
Indianola
Charles ¥. Curtiss
Athel
W. L. Hardine
W. HA. Snider
Des Moines
W. HI. Spaulding
Grinnell
G. Warner
Atlantic
Baby Health Department
Lenna L. Means
Des Mines
Dorothy Carpenter McLaren
Miss Neale
Cora Irene Leibe
Iowa State College Extension
Feindeiies
Margaret Taker
Agriculture Extension Department
The
State College
Ethelwyn Dodson
Ames
Clifford Bloom
Des
Dheseck
Washington County Women Activities Calendar Ties August Events
A page outlines a multi day program in Washington County with speakers and events. Aug 30 features hat selection demonstrations by Miss Cora Trene Leshe and Miss Margaret Baker, a fashion line show led by Miss Ida Anders, and a library conference led by Miss Julia Robinson. Aug 31 includes a state spelling contest in Iowa and school clothes demonstrations. Sept 1 covers health games and baby events, while Sept 2 awards prizes for baby health contest.
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Hine
Margaret M. Baker
Ethelwyn Dodson
Cora Irene Lethe
Clifford Bloom
Florence Imlay
Ames College
Theresa Danshill
Des Moines
Lewis Worthington Smith
Legend of the Roses
Leon Brown
Cora Irene Lesbe
Cora Trene Leshe
Margaret Baker
Misa Ethelwyn Dodson
Thereeea Dandsill
Theresa Danedill
Lewla Worthington Smith
Ida Anders
Iowa
Esse V. Hathaway
Library Trustees
Julia Robinson
Championship of Iowa
Fitchpatrick
The
Des Moines Playground Association
Viola Schnell
Cora Irene Leibe
Mthelwyn Dodson
Fisse V. Hathaway
Conservation of Health
T. J. Edmonds
Reeception
Hotle Shockley reunion set for Sunset Park
Announcement notes a Hotle-Shockley reunion in Sunset Park on Thursday August 25. Attendees are asked to bring dinners and there is no further detail provided.
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Hotle-Shockley
Sunset Park
Insect Joke Highlights School Hallway Wit
A teacher asks which insect needs the least nourishment and a bright pupil replies with a pun about a moth eating holes. The quip showcases quick humor from students and staff.
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Gladys Kattelman
Women Establish A News Syndicate
Women form the Women’s News Service Inc to publish a women run news syndicate modeled after the AP. It plans 150000 capital with 25 director board and regional offices in major cities to serve 100 daily papers and reach small communities. Initiated by Ida Clyde Clarke after the Salt Lake City federation meeting.
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Women's News Service Inc
The
Ceneral Federation of Women's Clubs
Salt Lake City
Utah
Ida Clyde Clarke
Pictorial Review
New York City
Federation
Associated Press
Chicago
Washington
United States
Mre
Thomas J. Winter
Minneapolis
Chauncey Smith
Atlanta, Ga
Lessie Stringfellow Read
Fayetteville
Ark
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
General Federation News
Maria Thompson Davies
Tennessee
Minna Bruere
Frank Vanderlip
Central Trust Company
Miss Bruere
Community social notes highlight picnics and gatherings
Reports of gatherings at West Chester and Sunset Park include Miss Esta Freshwaters hosting a Sunday dinner for fifteen with guests from Waterloo and Oskaloosa. The Spanish American War veterans from Company F, Fifty first Iowa, enjoyed a country picnic with multiple families listed. The Madden relatives and Baker family reunions are also noted, with plans to meet again in OsKaloosa in February 1922.
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Esta Freshwaters
West Chester
H. F. Wagner
Waterloo
Marrucrite MacGugin
Carl Moore
Oskaloosa
Sunset Park
Co. F
Iowa
J. C. Wright
Keating
J. J. Ellsworth
Harry Carson
Bob
Wilbur Basa
Mary
Len Fritch
Madden
Brighton
Lydia Madden
John R
Earl
Jennie Madden
Verne Madden
Grace Huffman
Elgin
North Dakota
Myrtle Hanlon
Gunwald
Mary Bales
Sam Madden
Topeka
Kansas
George
Ella Madden
Frank Dey
Houston
Texas
Lydig Madden
Della Neal
Kodak
Baker
Henry Baker
Sumner
Plan offers 1200 shares of 7 percent stock at 50 dollars
Mrs. Clarke outlined a plan with interest from women in 20 states who have registered approval by taking stock. The offering allocates up to 1,200 shares at $50 per share, with a limit of 20 shares per purchaser and subject to prior sale.
Value of Education Emphasized for Child Growth
A Washington Bureau of Education statement shows that individuals who stay in school to eighteen earn about 50 percent more than those who leave at fourteen after four years of work. The piece urges parents to keep children in school, stressing the benefits of kindergarten and continued schooling to develop citizenship and character. It cites Superintendent H. S. Weet of Rochester, highlighting education for citizenship and the role of kindergartens in instilling honesty, loyalty, and teamwork.
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United States Bureau of Education
Washington
Joe
Department of Superintendence
National Education Association
H. 8. Weet
Rochester
New York
Reunion Brings Broad Family Together for Pleasant Day
The family gathering drew all siblings except two sisters and one brother who lived far away. A bountiful noonday meal followed by games for the young and reminiscences for the elders filled the afternoon. Watermelon marked the supper and the day concluded with shared pleasure.
Sioux City Air Crash Hurts Two Flyers
Jay Gehan of Sioux City was likely fatally injured and his brother Joan Gehan severely injured when a circus flying plane failed to recover from a tail spin and crashed 500 feet at the South Sioux City flying field at 6 36 last night. Both were taken unconscious to a Sioux City hospital.
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Sioux City
Jay
Gehan
Joan C. Gehan
South Sioux City
Pie varieties offered at lunch counter prompt movie reference
A Yonkers Statesman item notes a lunch counter offering apple pumpkin mince peach and missile pie. The man asks about missile pie and is told it is the kind used in movies, implying a humorous line about fictional pies.
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Yonkers Statesman
New York Murder Ring Linked to Immigrant Slayings
Detective reports describe the "good killers" gang allegedly responsible for sixteen killings, including seven in New York and nine in Detroit. Bartola Fontana says the group coerces youths, offering money from wealthy Italian clients, to perform murders and threats ensure silence. Fontana claims he was forced to kill Camillo Caizzo under threat of gun violence.
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New York
Bartola Fontana
Detroit
Fontana
Europe
United States
Camillo Caizzo
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Iowa State Fair
Woman's and Children’s
Iowa State
RoCo
Red Cross
Cora Irene
Miss Essex
Hathaway
Milford Bloom
Des Moines Players
George Way Williams
Little Theater” Society
Washington County
Lady Byng
Eval
Canada
Pythian Sisters of
Lexington
Methodist Church
Christian Church
Woodmen
Kalona
J. F. McNamara
J. G. Moriarty
Ladies Bible
Presbyterian Church
Clarence Hollingsworth
Dell Hollingsworth
Alex Lytle
Lytle
Male Donahey
Herbert Steifel
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Mises Eugenia Bradshaw
Kansas City
National Kindergarten
A ‘Ation
West 46Th Street
Edward N. Clopper
National Child Labor Committee
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