Local Christmas shopping and visits noted at Our Way
Mrs Orville Abbey visited Rock Island today to see friends while Miss Evalyn Bales returns home to Keota from her sister C Rice. Jean Stephen also heads back to Keota after visiting B G Wilson. Mrs Ed Bambrick and two children travel to Cambridge UL to visit relatives during holidays. The opera house undergoes renovations due to no show this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evalyn Bales
C Rice
Keota
Jean Stephen
B. G. Wilson
Ed Bambrick
Cambridge
Bruce Wilson
Columbus Junction
Daisy Lewis
Cora Richardson
Ainsworth
Fred Diller
Ed Knox
Draped Town Notices From the Vienna and West Side
Local items announce sales and shop news at the Vienna and Fox and Dewey's, with Christmas gifts and razors from McElhinney. Residents travel, visit relatives, and plan holiday stops as trains and roads carry shoppers and travelers.
Daddy's Bedtime Story NCE A Wise Mother Lark
A mother lark and her nest in a cornfield live happily from spring to autumn. A bright young bird senses the farmer and kin will cut the corn, but the mother reassures him. Eventually the son reports the farmer will act alone if needed, and the mother explains self-reliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daddy
Lark
Foley Kidney Pills Promote Kidney and Bladder Health
Foley Kidney Pills are described as a tonic with quick results that restore natural kidney and bladder function and correct irregularities, advertised by Lemmon's Pharmacy and McElhinney Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley
Lemmon’s Pharmacy
McElhinney Drug Co
The Glutton Nicholas Wood Feasts at a Meal
John Taylor presents Nicholas Wood a Kentish yeoman famed for gluttony. He claims Wood ate a whole sheep at a single meal and swallowed damsons, milk, pottage, bread, cheese, and more. At Sir William Ledger's, Wood supposedly ate for thirty men and slept eight hours afterward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicholas Wood
John Taylor
Waterman
St. Savior’s
Southwark
William St. Ledger
A Light on Mothers and Fractions in a Harvard Lesson
The piece recalls William James using a mothering anecdote in a psychology lecture. A teacher asks a boy to divide a pie among seven, and the boy replies that a sixth is his portion, noting his knowledge of fractions but his respect for his mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William James
Harvard
James
Also Mentioned on This Page
Gillette
McElhinney
Fox & Dewey's
Vienna
East Side
Opera House
Jean Huysmans
New Post Office
William
Man
Glenn Burham
Verna
Leola
Dakota
Washington
William Woodhead
Edgar, Nebr
G. 8. Shkerman
KK. G. Mason
J. H. Pearson
W. A. Turner
F. Thompson
Lee Thompson
Kalona
Corning
Iowa
William Kelsey
Winfield
Winfield Keller
Beulah Eichelberger
Pasenger
Mrs. A. Bennett
Mrs. A. Kuhn
The
Maud Erdice
Helen Wilson
Cecil Rogers
Oberlin
Ohio
Oberlin College
Frank Rogers
J. M. Stevenson
East Jefferson Street
Mollie Tierney
West Chester
M. J. Gentzler
John Putman
Havre
Mr. Putman
Turner's
West Side
H. F. Masson
Iowa City
Alice Denison
Peoria, Ill
Keller & Phillips
Rae
J. L. Brookhart
Jake Bishop
Davenport
Rock Island
J. W. Dunham
This City
Gem Junior
Mrs. Caughey Southwell
Chicago
East Washington Street
Turner’s
Joe Walton
Ames
State College
Mary Walton
Conner & Schilling
St. James Parochial School
Benediction
Della Knecht
Jeannette Lemley
Des Moines College
Des Moines
J. W. Lemley
Burlington
Here
Cranfordaville
Martha Haifley
John
H. H
Nona Fialley
Alton
Kan
Cedar Chests
MckElhinney
Harry Phillips
Pella
Fox & Dewey
William Beal
L. M. Beal
Idaho
N. J. Bergland
Echo, Minn
J. W. Logue
E. S. Frey
Brighton
Harold Page
Fairfield
Parsons College
W. Cherryholmes
Wood
Loren McFarland
Fox and
Dewey's
Frederick Smith
Wilma
Kleese Hartman
Williams
Hill
McCleary
J. B. McCleary
Cleveland Thomas
Lenei Grush
Samuel H. White
Etha L. Purvis
W. A.turner
H. H. Farrier
Helen Work
J. A. Work
Anna Hughes
Glee Lark
Mamma Lark
Baby Lark
J. A. Harwood
Cook & Sherman
Pioneer Drug Store
Southwest Corner Square
Houston Post
Avai
Nills
Nyal
Nyal’s
Wielhinney
Pyriebt Hart Schaffner & Mare
Muffiers
Kiein Klothing
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Walter Wellman
Atlantic Ocean
America
Hampton’s
Wellman
Weisman
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