Methodist Church Notice and Home Missionary Convention Details
The notice invites all to Methodist church services in Fairfield with a program including sermons and league meetings. It highlights a performance by cartoonist Barkley, references praise from Vienna News, and outlines the Iowa Conference Home Missionary Convention program in Fairfield on December 14 and 15 with sessions led by Bishop Spellmeyer and others.
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Il A
Epworth
Barkley
James Robert Barkley
Iowa
Nation
Maude Muller
Vienna
Fairfield
Henry Spellmeyer
LL. D
Henry J. Coker
D. D
Claudius B. Spencer
Kansas City
W. E. Doughty
New York City
D. D. Vaughn
Chicago
Delia L. Williams
M. Boswell
Philadelphia
D. Vaughn
James Rowe
Edwin A. Schell
Shop Early For Christmas Joy And The Weather Man
Advice to shop early as key to easy selections and cheerful service at Christmastime. Notes weather can worsen shopping, urging readers to act now. Describes sessions with speakers on missions and church work, signaling a community event schedule.
Hidden Cities Capital Hunt in Puzzle Verse
A vintage puzzle lists sentences each concealing a state capital. Examples include Madison in a line about anger and a son, with other lines hinting at capitals through wordplay and names while noting Lake Erie proximity and German word hints. Aimed at readers of Youth’s Companion.
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Union
Madison
Nix
Lem
Jack
Jeff
Frank
Leigh
Day
Mother
Lake Erie
Double Acrostic No 461 Suggests Cake and Pies Theme
Puzzle lines describe eight clues whose initials and finals form two related words. The first word is linked to King Edward's hand and a later command, the second to a sea floater shellfish and a frequent need for you. Additional clues point to a fighting capable state, an eastern wisdom, a common acid, and a familiar number used by players.
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Edward
Sharp bulge in grain fuels strong Chicago market
Light receipts and a sharp bulge in coarse grains gave the wheat market a strong close with gains of 1 to 4 1 4 cents. Corn and oats rose 1 4 to 1 4 1 2 cents as pork and lard also closed higher. Cash prices show No 2 hard wheat at 1 11 and various yellow oats and white oats in the 66 to 44 cent range. South Omaha cattle hogs and sheep receipts moved, with mixed price ranges across categories.
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Chicago
Igher
Chicago Live Stock market reports mixed gains and lows
Chicago market notes show cattle receipts around 4,000 with weak demand and prices mostly in the low five to seven dollar range. Hogs receipts near 16,000 gain about 10 cents, top at 8.67 dollars, the year's high and limit since 1898. Sheep receipts 10,000 with lambs and sheep selling around five dollars and up to six dollars.
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Chicago
Roosevelt Returns to Nairobi After Safari
Colonel Roosevelt arrives in Nairobi as the American hunting expedition has collected and prepared about 6,683 mammals and birds for preservation. He will attend several dinners next week including one hosted by the governor.
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Roosevelt
Nairobi
British East Africa
Author's Puzzle and Clues in a Humble Home Riddle
A puzzle from No. 462 invites solvers to match numbers to clues. It hints that 12 483 names a Bible character while 567 asks a repeated method question. 18 12 9 10 refers to household findings and 11 15 14 to the puzzle’s making. The tone urges patience over speed, noting no one can expect first place.
St Nicholas Poem Riddle
A riddle about a familiar person and a famed name, hinting at Saint Nicholas and the message he brings to people everywhere. The verses play with word parts and a call to readers to guess the overall figure.
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St. Nicholas
Hidden Parts of a Tree
A brief vignette describes settling a small affair with John and mentions his three sons Jethro Otto and Sambo. Kate grows pale as they cross the bar and a bear cub flees from a crowd while a cat hisses and wags its tail when teased.
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John
Jethro
Otto
Sambo
Kate
Puzzledom Puzzles and Word Play Pack No 451–458
A compact listing of weekly puzzles including Hidden Months March May April, Charades windlass caravan, Carpenter’s Puzzle Greek cross cut, Geographical Acrostic with multiple places, Easy Beheadings, Riddle plane plain, Pictured Word Ax cell ar accelerate, Central Change with mixed letters and endings.
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Hamburg
Germany
Harrisburg
Adrianoplk
Madagascar
Belgium
Utica
Raritan
Galway
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Tovon Bruggists
Ota
Gines
Studebaker
Mason Transfer & Storage Comp'y
Windsor
M. E. Church
Wheaton Temperance Chautauqua
Wheaton
Chicago, Il
Delaware
Board of Home Missions and Church Extension
Chas. M. Boswell
C. L. Stafford
America
Wm. F. Anderson
Chattanooga
Tenn
Sol Rich & Co
AOA
Arej
South Omaha
Washington
Stuart & Son
Postoffice
Hobson & Gove's
Jewelry
Patten & McElhinney
Vicinity
Mutual
Pauls Lumber Co
Charley
Uhre
Eee Moore
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