Higher culture comes to Podunk at hometown music festival
Washington Iowa readers get an anonymous editor’s note as a guest columnist reviews a high school Fall Music Festival. He critiques three acts Sophisticated Mikado style satire and Primitive Haitian themed dance and a Jazz finale, calling the night confusing and inept while praising some amateur effort and the Messiah performance. He laments modesty and warns against vulgarity in the performances.
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Paw
Maw and I
Alpha Club hostesses mark Lincoln birthday theme
Mrs. Strain of Kalona hosted the Alpha Club with twenty-one members and guests including cohostess Mrs. Gilbert Christiansen. Jeanette Schaefer named as a candidate for the State Federations Merit Scholarship while plans for Meals On Wheels-Tea and Not Sympathy were discussed. New officers elected: Hickman president, James also VP, Smith secretary, Yoder treasurer, Jackson historian. Recaps include ABC club gathering, Rock game prizes, quilting day hosting, and several domestic visits and trips among Kalona residents and visitors.
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Eugene Way Kalona
John Strain
Wellman
Alpha Club
Gilbert Christiansen
Meredith Maas Jr
Calvin Hickman
Jeanette Schaefer
August Dickman
G.F.M.C
Good Ship Hope
A.A. Jackson
Strain
Lincoln
United Christian and Baptist Church
Tom Russell
ABC Club
Lt. Strickler
Fay W. Boone
Vernon Hartzler
Reese Trusler
Willis W. Gingerich
Hartzler
Jack Guengerich
Louise Kallaus
Trusler
Paul E. Yoder
Near
Kalona
Frank Yoder
John B. Yoder
William E. Miller
Fred Nisly
Clarence Artzendruber
Mose P. Yoder
Mary Bender
Lena R. Yoder
Mary Yotty
Sears Blay Becer Gereer South dealer
The fragment shows a bridge bidding scene with names Sears Blay Becer Gereer South dealer and notes both sides vulnerable. The text is incomplete, offering only hints of the contract discussion and player positions rather than a full auction or outcome.
Solitary bridge bid leads to wreckage and regrets
In a late-day rubber East West faced a brutal run of bad luck. A player laments missed chances and poor line of play after a club opening lead and subsequent diamond sequence. He reflects on hearts and diamonds and concludes down one, catching 7:15.
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West
Bill
Fellas
Love and War and the Bold Worlds of Women
A collage of curiosities and social observations from LM Boyd touching on gender dynamics, animal facts, and everyday habits. It cites a study on how men and women mingle in classrooms and juries, notes blue whale gestation contrasts with elephants, and ends with a reader Q and A on bowling, marriage, and car ownership.
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University of Minnesota
Dear Abby column letters reveal reader tempers and calls for compassion
A long reader letter set discusses a critic who objects to Abby’s advice about illegitimate children and the Bible, urging forgiveness over judgment. A physician writers group shares concerns about policing and perceived drunkenness, urging medical verification over quick labels, with a call to follow Abby for more on the issue.
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Abby
Little Rock, Ark
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