Local News Notes From Winfield Area
Euelah Custer reunites with relatives near Winfield this morning. Lloyd Schoonover and wife travel to Powersville Missouri to visit her parents Mr and Mrs Tom Starr. Umbrella repairs noted as specialty by E V Simons. Mrs Frank Hamilton of Crawfordsville spends day with Dodds family. Mrs C L McGugin visits Burlington for celebration. Mrs M Snider returns home to Mt Union after visiting Trenton Missouri.
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Lloyd Schoonover
Powersville, Mo
Tom Starr
Frank Hamilton
Crawfordsville
Mrs. C. Dodds
Washington weekend notes and local notices
Local residents visited Washington and nearby towns on weekend trips, including Mrs W Boyer of West Chester and Marian Smith of Oskaloosa. Auctioneers announced sales in Washington and West Chester, with relatives traveling to Muscatine, Fairfield, Kirksville and Grace Hill for family matters.
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W. 8. Boyer
West Chester
Washington
Mises
Marian Smith
Oskaloosa
Bessie Busby
Helen Wallace
Hopkinton
Lois Bauer
Local visitors and travelers listed in daily notes
Names and brief trips of residents and guests from Columbus Junction, Des Moines, Chicago, Moline, Cedar Falls, What Cheer, and Washington with mentions of year, places such as Waterville Minnesota, Garden City Kansas, Mt Pleasant, and upcoming events and transports.
Never Quite Forgotten
A compact reflection on memory by De Quincey noting traces once imprinted endure beyond erasure. The passage emphasizes memory as durable and resistant to ultimate fading.
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de Quincey
Harvard Fogg Museum to Send Three Men to Study Ancient Chinese Culture
Cambridge Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum plans an eight month survey in central and western China led by Langdon Warner along with Il H F Jayne and Duncan McDougall. They aim to photograph rubbings and monuments, measure early architecture, and study Buddhist art while awaiting government consent for possible excavations.
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Mass
Fogg Art Museum
Harvard
China
Langdon Warner
Pennsylvania Museum
Il. H. F. Jayne
Duncan McDougall
William McDougall
Warner
Fogg
Manchuria
Fogg Museum
Europe
America
Peking
Viarvard
Blind Man Leads Topeka Beauty Campaign
A. E. Van Petten, newly elected president of the Topeka Chamber of Commerce who has been blind for 14 years, launches a city beautification drive. The plan creates ward and precinct committees with engaged sponsors and includes school children pledged to preserve lawns and nature.
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Topeka
Kans
A. E. van Petten
Chamber of Commerce
van Petten
Synthetic camphor promising cheaper, useful in industry
Adolph Ketcham a New York chemist recently back from Germany reports samples of synthetic camphor perfected by German chemists. He says it can be produced at a fraction of the cost of genuine camphor and serves medicinal and industrial uses including celluloid manufacture.
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New York
Adolph Ketcham
Germany
The Test of Acquaintance
Excerpt from Janet Maltland's The Incoming Tide speaks on how true connection rests not in long acquaintance but in sudden tests and shared language. It notes that years of dialogue can fail if real thoughts are not voiced and understood.
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Janet Maltland
Candy on Desk Fades After Newcomer Arrives
A fifth grade girl recalls a boy who left her candy each morning. After Christmas a new girl joined the class and the candy disappeared from her desk, immediately shifting to the newcomer. The account reflects childhood schoolyard dynamics from the Chicago Journal.
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Chicago Journal
Poet Interpreter and Prophet in Henry van Dyke’s View
The poet is an interpreter guided by emotion and wisdom. Van Dyke equates poet and prophet with a universal function, noting that among the Brethren the poet’s function was central and that women today are more infidels than those who deny the poets window.
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Henry van Dyke
Privilege in Friendship by Harry Emerson Fosdick
A philosophical reflection on privilege as essential to genuine roles. The speaker argues that true physicians, teachers, and friends must view their vocation as a privilege. Without privilege, one is not a real member of that role or relationship. The idea elevates serving others as a honored duty.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
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