Epworth Methodist Youth Supper and Community News
The Epworth and Methodist church youth held a supper with a long table of sandwiches pickles fruit and cakes followed by prayer meeting and song. Mrs. Hedges and others assisted. next youth supper set for March 17. Officers for the Ladies Aid were elected. Also reports on embroidery club and several local marriages and visits.
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Epworth
Methodiat Church
Sonk
Carl Hedges
Ira Rathmel
Vera Shoemaker
Jesse Busby
Lena Lyon
Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist Church
R. G .Herry
Dent
Henry Dickersén
J. B. Kunath
Frank Kurtz
Local residents visit relatives and travel for events
Mrs Oscar Tiurham visits Mrs J dD Lockwood in Keota while many locals travel to nearby towns. Mr and Mrs Badger plan to move to a farm near Brighton. Several others, including Mr and Mrs Miller of Ainsworth and Mr and Mrs Felix from Ambia, arrive or depart for Des Moines and Rock Island. Corporal Lewis White, wounded in France, heads to Fort Sheridan for hospital care. Washington County’s daily paper notes citizens heading to events and visits.
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Lewis White
Portsmouth
Ohio
Squire
White
Fort Sheridan
Army Hospital
France
Transparent Fishes Found in Tropics
University of Iowa researchers on a Barbados and Antigua expedition report discovering transparent tropical Atlantic larvae related to eels. In water they are nearly unseen except for eyes, yet outside water they look solid. Adults are vividly colored and substantial.
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Atlantic
University of Iowa
Barbados
Tgua
University
County Churches Plan Saturday Preparatory Service and Meeting
Preparatory service is scheduled Saturday at 2 o clock followed by a congregational meeting at 2 45. Pastor B M Dobbin invites attendance and cites a biblical message for Sabbath morning. Find details in the want column.
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B. M. Dobbin
Chronic Constipation Relief with Gentle Chamberlain’s Tablet
The ad explains chronic constipation caused by mineral waters and strong cathartics. It promotes Chamberlain's Tab lets as a mild laxative tonic producing gentle bowel movement without worsening constipation, available at Lemmon's Drug Store and druggists everywhere.
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Lemmon’s
Adout
Autocracy in Schools Criticized at Education Assn Meet
Delegates at the national education association in Cleveland demand less autocracy and more democracy in public school administration. Charles B. Stillavatt, president of the American Association of Teachers, condemns a Prussian model of school rule and says educators were sent to Germany for guidance and returned with Prussian ideas.
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Cleveland
National Education Association
Charles B. Stillavatt
American Association of Teachers
Germany
Stillman
Mgn
Obituary of Bertha Hoyle the Infant Daughter of Hoyle Family
Bertha May Hoyle born near Ainsworth on December 27 1918 died February 24 at about one year one month and 28 days at the home of her grandparents near Washington where she had lived since her mother’s death. She is survived by her father a brother Dwight a sister Helen four grandparents and other relatives. Funeral services were held at the House home Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock and she was laid to rest beside her mother in the Ainsworth cemetery.
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Bertha May Hoyle
Lloyd
Luella Rutledge Hoyle
Ainsworth
Edgar Hoyle
Washington
Dwight
Helen
Iowa Ninth in Men Lost During the War
Dubuque reports that Iowa ranks ninth in total soldiers lost in the A E F and in the U S service during the war. New York leads with the highest losses, reporting seven thousand nine hundred nine men.
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Iowa
Death toll by states in United States and France uproar
The report lists state casualties with New York 7 209 and Pennsylvania 6 552 ahead of Iowa 1 958 in American deaths. It notes Iowa ranks tenth in American deaths with 1 113 and mentions five states plus the District of Columbia had more deaths in the United States than in France.
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United States
Iowa
A. KE. F
New York
Pennsylvania
Ilinois
Massachusetts
Onto
Missouri
Texas
Michigan
Minnesota
France
Arizona
Florida
Louisiana
New Mexico
South Carolina
District of Columbia
Governor Lowden Wears Old Overcoat Campaigning
Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Illinois is seen wearing his old overcoat as part of the campaign against high prices. Mrs. L. K. Bowen, head of Illinois fair price committee women division, relayed that two weeks ago in a Chicago hotel elevator Mrs. Lowden suggested a new coat, and the governor responded with another remark.
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Chicago
Frank O. Lowden
Mlinoia
L. Kek. Bowen
Women's Division
Fair Price Committee of Illinois
Lowden
Local Coat War Sparks Principle Oriented Protest
A man argues that wearing old clothing is a matter of principle and could reduce demand and prices. He contends that if everyone who can would wear old clothes, demand would fall and prices would drop.
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Pries
Pinkham Remedy Praised by Chicago Woman
Letter from Mrs. Kwakczynski of Chicago praises Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash for relief from displacement and irregularities. She reports regained health, ability to work, and three healthy children, and endorses free advice from the Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Lir
Lydia Pinkham
A. Kwakcinski
W. Oakdale Ave
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia BE
Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
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Althe
J. C. Wright
Charles Lovelett
Addie Bell Carson
William A. Kiesey
Bur
Bushy Company
W. R. Kiesey
la Grange
T. F. Barker
Mildred Maitfen
Brighton
Joseph Simmering
Fleming
Colorado
H. C. Hancher
Samuel Maiden
Washington County
Simmering
Evening Journal
Chandler
Oscar Tiurham
Keota
J. Dd. Lockwood
Coo. Dayton
Wim. Dayton
R. L. Badger
Nell, Harding
West Chester
M. L. Miller
Des Moines
Joe Felix
Ambia
Ind
Will Senity
Mrs. Perry Rutledge
New Philadelphia
Lewis Smith
J. D. Martin
Ralph Martin
Sidney Smith
E. E. Greenfield
Fairfield
Guy McClellan
Holdridge
Nebraska
C. R. McClellan
Guy
Danville
Tropics
Mgnes
Westchester United Presbyterian
WANT
Dubuque
Towa
Ruth i
United State
la CuavhTemoc
KrevTe de Txtla
Mexico
Pal
Frese
Fay Oke
Fen YE
And
the Evening Journal
Bene
Drug Sherman’s Store
Washington, Iowa
Ami
Sloan
Senin Iy
Sean
Holland
Mrs. Kwarcinski
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