Newspaper Surveys Boost Local Advertising Insights
The Journal cites a Washington Iowa survey of 2,500 questionnaires with 15 percent returns. Readers valued editorials, local items, and ads. ads in classifieds scored high in rural areas. Shown are store priorities, belief in honesty, and reader reactions guiding future paper improvements.
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Washington
Iowa
Daily Journal
Spencer
News-Herald
Canova
S. D
Mil
Pleasant Main Missionary Society Meets in July Announcements
Community notices list July meetings for area churches and groups including Pleasant Main Missionary Society, West Chester Baptist, Prairie Flower Baptist, and Methodist classes. Events include picnics, communion services, Legion delegate election, choir rehearsals, and a July 4th picnic with fireworks. Also calls for host families for fresh air children and an bake sale at Wilson’s Heating Co.
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Delta Alpha
M. EB. Church
Wilson's Heating Co
No Excitement In Commons Over Indoor Recreation
A Brooklyn Eagle note remarks on the British house of commons tradition, noting no excitement about indoor recreations such as cards or billiards. Members are advised to content themselves with chess or Craughta.
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House of Commons
Brooklyn Eagle
Eruptions of Kilauea on Hawaii Island
The record notes major eruptions of Kilauea in 1780 1828 1832 1840 and 1868. The companion crater Kilauecatki a mile from the main crater is now extinct.
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Kilauea
Island of
Hawaii
Kilauecatki
Quality Appreciated
A Chicago American brief notes a person asking a girl named Rose to walk on an elevated curb. Rose replies that the man is a good asker, indicating a polite interaction during a sidewalk stroll. The item reads as a casual social snapshot from a newspaper column.
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Rose
Chicago
Public worship and Bible study schedule announced
Public worship will be held at 11 00 a m and 7 30 p m with preaching by the Rev A M Malcolm of Albia Bible class at 10 00 in the morning and a meeting for Bible study at 7 30 o clock
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A. M. Malcolm
Albia
Sabbath worship and midweek prayer services announced
Public worship at 11:00 a m with preaching by the pastor Sabbath echol at 10 00 a m Mid week prayer mee Wednesday evening at 7 30 All are invited to these services Pastor W G Robb conducted the duties
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W. G. Robb
A. M. E. Class Meeting and Sunday School Schedule
The notice lists church activities with times: class at 11, Sunday school at 2 30, and Christian Endeavor society program at 7 in the evening.
Sabbath services paused at Second United Presbyterian
There will be no Sabbath seh nor any service held at the bar until further notice.
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Second United Presbyter
Sunday church schedule announced with events
Sunday school at 9 45 am. Sermon at 11 am titled Tithes That Please Not the Lord. Cradle Roll graduation at 4 pm in the edhtuch with Home Dept seats reserved. Christian Endeavor at 6 30 pm. Evening worship at 7 30 pm with Does Ambassador Harvey Know What He Is Talking About. All welcome. Music and ventilated auditorium. Pastor Arthur R Oates. Chorister Wanda Neiswanger. Organist Mrs C B Dougherty.
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Harvey
Arthur R. Oates
Wanda Neiswanger
C. B. Dougherty
Sandwich Station Sparks Train Car Antics
A traveler on a Chicago to Kenneween line joked with a conductor about Sandwich station, mistaking the announcement for sandwich sales as he demanded two Chicago American newspapers amid a playful in-car moment on the C B Q line.
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Chicago
Kenaween
Services All Day With Dr Bowers Address At 7:30
Regular church services continue throughout the day with Sunday school at 9 30 and a 11 oclock preaching service including the Lord s Supper. Epworth League at 6 30 and evening services at 7 30 when Dr Bowers speaks on The hour and the man. Morning music includes A Song of Sorrow by Gorden B Nevins and The Word of the Lord is Right. Evening offerings feature A Sea Song by MacDowell and Praise the name of God.
MacDowell Peoples meeting announces offertory pieces
The MacDowell Peoples group holds a meeting at 7:30 Wednesday evening. The offertory includes To a Wild Rose and Ni Domine. Dr. W. W. Bowers is minister with Alma Huppert as music director and Mary Hunter on organ.
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MacDowell
W. W. Bowers
Alma Huppert
Mary Hunter
Regular Sunday Communion Service At Local Church
Sunday morning service expectations high with a full attendance forecast. The church calendar lists Sunday School 9 20, morning worship 10 55, B Y B U 6 30, evening service 7 30, and Wednesday prayer meeting 7 30. Carol Forgey leads B Y B U with Thy Will Be Done and With My Strength themes. J W Baker leads prayer meeting on Saul the Pharisee. Pastor M R Regan invites all to attend in all weathers.
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Carol Forgey
P. U
J. W. Baker
Saul
M. RR. Regan
Missionary Dr C A Owen to speak at Ausuit First United Presby
Dr C A Owen missionary of the First United Presbyterian Church in Ausuit Egypt will preach at 11:00 am and 7:30 pm on Sabbath with 9:45 am Sunday School and 6:30 pm Christian Endeavor. Special music includes organ preludes anthems and solos performed by Doris Chamers Hamilton McCleery Livingston and Louise Livingston with Benson directorship and Helen Harvey as organist.
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First United Presbyterian
C. A. Owen
Ausuit
Egypt
Christian Endeavor
Seeee Faulkes
Lorenzo
Doris Chalmers
de Mie
Covenete Jerome
Miss Hamilton
McCleery
Louise Livingston
Diggle
Carolyn Hamilton
Ee Benson
Becker
Dudley Buck
Helen Harvey
Ancient Egyptian Money and Currency Standards
Ancient Egyptians used gold and silver standards in currency valued by weight. Money appeared as ornaments rings and nuggets whose value depended on their mass and metal content.
Alleviate That and the Pretty Curse Offer
A Louisville Courier-Journal line suggests a medical or humorous exchange about easing a broken heart and offering a so called pretty curse. The dialogue portrays a clinician or healer promising comfort and a fate altering charm as a remedy.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Trade Is Dead Says Cape Colony Paper in Cape Town Quote
A Cape colony newspaper declares trade is dead and worsening daily, echoing a harsh assessment from the Boston Transcript that commerce is collapsing and cannot recover.
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Cape Colony
Boston Transcript
Damascus Shrine Meeting Reports and Local Notices
The last Damascus Shrine Number Ten meeting before vacation time was held with a report on the Supreme Shrine Convention in Chicago. Announcements from Washington state marriage Madeline Nisbet to Arthur Dickinson note their Washington home after September. The fifteenth annual B E O Class banquet at the Methodist church featured decor by Owen Hayes and a program of speeches titled stray-proof with participants including W B Hender Dr EE B Stuteman Leale Ficher and L B Lupton.
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Damascus Shrine
Jerusalem
T. W. Harwood
Supreme Shrine
Chicago
Richland
Washington
Madeline Nairn Nisbet
Arthur Donald Dickinson
Cedar Falls
Iowa
Washington High School
Owen Hayes
Ladies’ Aid
W. B. Hender
Dr. EE
B. Stuteman
Leale Ficher
L. B. Lupton
Evening program praised for humor, music and unity
Explanations and Echoes remarks closed the program with W. W. Bowers. Alma Huppert sang twice and the B E O Auxiliary quartet impressed the audience. Ralphannon hosted as toastmaster as the Miss Rownd led B E O class grew for fifteen years through fellowship and cooperation. Next Monday a class picnic and fireworks loom. Mrs Minick hosted Just Us club with guests and an afternoon plan for Sunset Park picnic on July seventh.
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Alice Rownd
W. W. Bowers
Alma Huppert
Cora Rathmel
Inez Bicher
Ethel Davis
Jack Whil
Ralphannon
T B. BE. O
Misa Alice Rownd
Wagner
Henry Minick
Just Us Club
Ray Minick
Ivan Rehmel
Sunset Park
Hout
Ray Mtaick
Venezuela to name park for Henry Clay
The Boston Transcript notes that while few in the United States recall Henry Clay’s push for recognizing the Spanish American republics a century ago, Venezuela remembers and will name a park in his honor.
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Venezuela
United States
Henry Clay
Boston Transcript
Peculiar Quote Cited by Portland Oregonian
A humorous remark from the Portland Oregonian notes reporters meet and trade terse opinions with a wry takeaway about the next morning’s news. The quip highlights media banter and the gap between talk and headlines.
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Portland Oregonian
No Best Excuse for Moods in Family Life
A quotation urges stern view of moods used as excuses for daily duties. It argues that in sound health there is no moral right to indulge moodiness, calling moods the most inexcusable behavior. The line reflects J. G. Holland’s admonition on self-control.
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J. G. Holland
Washington Man Is Called to Capital
Col. W. Brookhart of Washington has been chosen to present the farmers’ case before a joint House Senate hearing in Washington D C set to begin July 11. He opened the national board’s inquiry last April and will cover railway rates farmer credit marketing systems and related agricultural issues.
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8. W. Brookhart
Washington
Farmers of the Nation
Washington, D. C
House
Senate
Lenroot
Wisconsin
Brookhart
National Board of Farmers’ Organizations
United States
National Board
Flora Fleming Named New London First Grade Teacher
A Burlington Hawkeye dispatch reports Flora May Fleming of Washington elected to teach first grade in New London for the coming school year. The decision follows election of teachers for the district.
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New London
Burlington Hawkeye
Flora May Fleming
Washington
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