Washington Area Invests Over Million in Improvements in Two Years
Local report tallies $360 528 in two years for Washington projects including the Masonic Temple 675 000 the telephone company 38 500 and the new McLellan store 15 000 County road improvements total 726 697 42 with other enhancements across theaters stores churches and homes. overall spending surpasses one million when combined with roads.
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Washington
Masonic Temple
Telephone Company
McLellan
East Washington Street
Congress
North Side
Marie Antoinette Premiered Feathers Trend Across Europe
Marie Antoinette found benne peacock feathers on her dressing table and arranged them with ostrich plumes in her hair. The king praised her coiffure and she appeared publicly, starting a fashion that spread through France and Europe.
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Marie Antoinette
Benne
France
Europe
Boston Herald
Washington Girls Recall Grand Shipboard Trip and Europe Tour
Miss Glassburner and Miss Macon recount a shipboard voyage with dances and stowaway humor, plus a European itinerary through Dublin London Ostende Brussels Paris and back. They describe guides fast talk, crown jewels, Follies in Paris, and a wish for another voyage including a St Lawrence trip.
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Washington
Paul Jones
Potsdam
N. Y
Alabama
Glassburner
Macon
Dublin
Ireland
Elsie
Myrtle
Ben Turpin
Washington Girls
Canada
California
Boston
Travel Guild
Ostende
Paris
Crown Jewels
London Tower
Dexterton
Prince of Wales
Buckingham Palace
Westminster Abbey
Holland
Champs Elysees
le Lido
St. James Palace
Liverpool
London
Dover
Belgium
Middleburg
Brussels
Brussells
Calais
England
S. S. Duchess of York
St. Lawrence
Europe
Dick McCleery
Henry Bailey
Gary
Quebec
Montreal
Toronto
Niagara Falls
Ind
Miss Macon
Dr. F. Macon
Rural Eighth Grade Graduates Express High School Preferences
County superintendent Winnie Palmer lists rural graduates and their intended high schools. The roll includes names from Ainsworth Kalona Riverside Nichols Keota and Lockridge with numerous students names and districts noted.
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Winnie Palmer
Ainsworth
Alice Fisher
Viole Meeks
Everett Durst
Brighton
Karl Courtney
Jeat Donovan
Jean Hoover
Dorothy Kessel
Viola Morgan
Charles Wikorft
Kalona
Marguerite Vodicka
Cleola Shalla
Wayne Dunn
Nancy Sehillig
Dorothy TeBock
Ruth Johnson
William Johnson
Velma Kephart
Wilma Kerr
Donald Longer
Ruth Longer
Leo McCulley
Everette McKay
Evelyn Marek
Lawrence Miksch
Lee Moore
Lawrence Morrison
Libbie Musi
Esther Patterson
Harrison Pet
Riverside Boy Scouts Have Party At Leon Karel Home
Riverside July 11 local Boy Scouts held a party at Leon Karel home with sixteen boys. Leon's mother prepared a six o'clock feed then treasure hunt games and entertainment followed by a good time. Participants included Paul Heitzman Myron Salladay Edward Mannion Sumner Cummings Samuel Marner Donald Birka Alvin Schnoebelen Kenneth Kallaus John Bates Wilbert Kinsey Robert Frost William Dautremont Leon Kloepfer Robbie Workman Curtis Heaton.
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Riverside
Leon Karel
Leon
Paul Heitzman
Myron Salladay
Edward Mannion
Sumner Cummings
Samuel Marner
Donald Birka
Alvin Schnoebelen
Kenneth Kallaus
John Bates
Wilbert Kinsey
Robert Frost
William Dautremont
Leon Kloepfer
Robbie Workman
Curtis Heaton
Funeral services for Mrs. Kinsey at St Marys Church
Late Mrs Charles Kinsey was funeralized at 9 oclock Monday at St Marys church conducted by Rev B Jacobs Peter Rosary society members attended and casket bearers included Joseph Stephan Robert Dann Emmett Hubert Harold and Firmin Waldschmidt Burial was in Mt Olivet cemetery Out of town mourners included Sisters from Glen Ellyn and Dubuque and the Stephan family from Cedar Rapids Iowa City Meade and Dann. Henry Hahn sold his west town residence to Ernest Salladay who will move in by October 1 and plans to winter with his son in Cedar Rapids Peter Harnett of Cedar Rapids visited Michael Clancy.
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Charles Kinsey
St. Mary's Church
B. Jacobs Peter
Rosary Society
Joseph Stephan
Robert Dann
Emmett
Hubert
Harold
Firmin Waldschmidt
Mt. Olivet
Mary Calasance
Glen Ellyn
Ilinois
Mary Nevilla
Dubuque
Caroline Stephan
Leo
Cedar Rapids
James Meade
Margaret Dann
Iowa City
Henry Hahn
Ernest Salladay
Mr. Hahn
Albert
Peter Harnett
Michael Clancy
Fish Sleeps Three and a Half Years Challenges Saying
A scientific experimenter reports keeping a fish asleep for three and a half years, undermining the adage about a fish's wakefulness. The note from the New York Sun frames the paradox as a critique of the saying.
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New York
Rehearsal Periods for Pageant Cast Announced Today
Complete list of pageant group leaders and their scenes released. Names include Harry Donaldson Ellen Morrison Lioyd Augustine Ernest Simpson Charles Long Sherman Watson L. A. Jones and many others with scene assignments across 1 24. Individual group entries specify scenes each leader appears in.
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Harry Donaldson
Ellen Morrison
Lioyd Augustine
Ernest Simpson
Charles Long
Sherman Watson
L. A. Jones
Zear Hinshaw
Josephine Hull
Clarice Meek
Jane Godfrey
Petrifying Well Near Knaresborough
Description of a lime filled well that petrifies objects dropped into it including canaries flowers and baby shoes. The phenomenon is noted as a curious natural marvel near Knaresborough England.
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Knaresborough
England
Collier’s Magazine
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