Local Society and Sales Notices From Cedar Rapids Region
Local notes report guests and visitors across Cedar Rapids and nearby towns, with social calls, weddings, and trips. Entries include Miss Clara Luberger, Miss Irene Reid, Edith Rown, Dr Luella Shaw, 127age New York Store clearance sale, and various travels to Davenport Keokuk and Chicago.
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Clara Luberger
Cedar Rapids
Irene Reid
Beaumont
Texas
Helen Wilson
New York
Star Theatre Features Good Vitagraph With John Bunny
Local story lists multiple residents visiting or returning home from trips. Notables include W Shanafelt from Chicago with grandson Virgil Smith at Pitner Light Co and Miss Grace Jones from Chicago after attending the National Educational convention. Other items note visits to Keota Oskaloosa and Ottumwa with brief travel details.
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W. Shanafelt
Chicago
Virgil Smith
The
Pitner Light Co
Grace Jones
Mrs Welch Visits Creston After Omaha Visit
Mrs George Welch of Omaha Nebraska leaves for Creston Iowa after spending weeks in town with her sister Miss Ora Henderson.
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George Welch
Omaha, Neb
Creston
Ora Henderson
Marriage License Issued to Frank Embree and Dorothy Godlove
A marriage license was issued today to Frank Embree and Dorothy Godlove of Gladwin.
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Frank Embree
Dorothy Godlove
Gladwin
Ladies' League to Sew Rags for Hospital at Baptist Church
Announcement says the Ladies' League of the Baptist church meets tomorrow afternoon in the lecture room to sew rags for the hospital. They ask all members with rags at home to bring them to the church.
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Ladies’ League of the Baptist Church
Chamberlains Liniment for Sore Muscles and Rheumatic Pain
For soreness the muscles whether from violent exercise or injury there is nothing better than Chamberlains Liniment. This liniment also relieves rheumatic pains. For sale by Lemmon's Pharmacy.
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Chamberlain
Lemmon
Pa's Check Book Delivers a Marriage Dilemma
In a dialogue from a Pa's Check Book piece Miss Rocksey pleads for George as a match. Old Rocksey declares the suitor must earn money without work, framing a comic yet pointed obstacle to a betrothal.
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Rocksey
Pepa
George
Daily outdoors key to health and beauty says ad
If you are a housewife you cannot reasonably hope to be healthy or beautiful by washing dishes sweeping and doing housework all day and crawling into bed tired at night. You must get out into the open air and sunlight daily and keep your stomach and bowels in good order by taking Chamberlains Tablets when needed. For sale by Lemmon's Pharmacy.
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Lemmon
Stool of Repentance in Scottish Churches
The stool of repentance arose from long pewside censure in Scottish churches where offenders sat during services and later stood to receive public rebuke after the sermon. This practice evolved into a visible penalty used to shame and reform wrongdoers in the parish.
Mothers urged to watch for diarrhea in young children
During the summer months mothers of young children should watch for any unnatural looseness of the bowels. When given prompt attention at this time serious trouble may be avoided. Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy can always be depended upon. For sale by Lemmon's Pharmacy.
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Chamberlain
Lemmon’'s
Pleasant social rounds and a city picnic day
Mrs. J T Risk hosted the May club at her North Marion home with piano selections by Miss Helen Risk and refreshments. Miss Edith Rowne hosted young ladies in compliment to Cedar Rapids guests, with luncheon. A Maxwell family reunion marked Mrs. Maxwell’s sixty third birthday with relatives from Des Moines and Greensburg, Kansas. A postal shower sent one hundred fifty cards. Chapter PEO hosted an all day picnic at Sunset Park for Sigourney and Keota visitors, with yellow and white decorations and a hat activity. The day featured a short program and a nearby hospital visit. Visitors planned to return by this evening’s train.
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J. T. Risk
North Marion Avenue
Helen Risk
Miss Helen
Risk
Edith Rowne
Florence Williams
Gertrude Bachman
Cedar Rapids
Winogene Anderson
LaPorte City
Iowa
Pulaski Maxwell
Mrs. Maxwell
Ralph Keller
Harold
Joe Maxwell
Lioyd
C. Mayhew
Ira Sickles
Miss Pratt
Ainsworth
Norman Vorse
Des Moines
Vorse
Maxwell
Daisy Smouse
D. H. Goble
Florence
Des’ Moines
J. A. Gardner
Greensburg
Kansas
Sigourney
Keota
Sunset Park
New County Hospital
Gee
H. Paul
J. B. Crooks
Gertrude Smith
Nena Wilson
Homer Stephen
Uncle Sam's New Banner Adds Arizona and New Mexico
The 1912 flag change marks July 4 as the birth of a new banner after Arizona and New Mexico join the Union. The 48 star flag forms an even block across six rows with eight stars per row, replacing the previous irregular pattern.
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Arizona
New Mexico
Uncle Sam
Timothy T. Ansberry
Ohio
Congress
Oklahoma
United States
Bernstein Named Paris Dandy Chief Denier
Henry Bernstein becomes Paris’s chief denier amid a scandal sparked by a valet’s indiscretion. Reports say the playwright owns 147 pairs of trousers and has a dedicated room for them, reflecting his extravagant wardrobe.
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Paris
Henry Bernstein
M. Bernstein
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Fred Neiswanger
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Theatre Tonight
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Waterloo
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Tina Patton
Yellowstone Park
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Anna Scott
New York City
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Selden L. Stewart's
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Peter Fritz
John McConahey
Mt. Union
Washington
Bert Walter
Southern Iowa Editorial Association
Keokuk
Government Dam
Howard Sitler
Crawfordsville
Grace Cunningham
Dottie
Jessie Williams
Jennie Williams
Esther Hay
Wyman
J. K. Dunn
Will Mannusster
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Muscatine
Nebraska
Ed Brigham
G. K. McFarland
A. J. Gordon
Marjorie Maxwell
Rock Island
W. D. Shearer
Edwin Griffith
Will E. Jones
J. A. Jones
Cotter
William Anwyl
G. G. Ebner
Ottumwa
Mr. Ebner
ROYAL
Stuart
the Royal
Royal Market Mutual
John Bunny
Star Theatre Tonight
Frank L. Wilson
Iowa City
Iowa Retail Shoe Dealers’ Association
D. M. Bridges
Grandview
W. A. Stephen
Jean Stephen
City
Addie Carson
Dow Mehaffy
A. E. Crim
Frank Barden
Maxine
John Simpson
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Young People’s Christian Union
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Monmouth
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Monmouth College
Roy Reed
Montezuma
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Kalona
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Minneapolis
George Potter
Addy
Jack
Evelyn
Daddy
Mia
Biddy
Oderty
Mhatty
Alice Larue
Kansas City
W. R. Mount
J. A. Harwood & Son
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Uncle Sam's New Banner
New States
General Supply Committee
Commission On Uniformity
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Lole
Revenue Marine Service
H. F. Steck
Ollows
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Webster's Dictionary
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Iowa Gas & Electric Company
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