County Hospital Forms Nurses Training Class
The county hospital is forming a new nurses training class with two applications signed and three more pending. The three year course begins in September and requires high school graduation, with weekly high school level classes and hospital experience. Awarded stipends and housing accompany the program as it expands.
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State University Hospital
Iowa City
University Hospital
Elizabeth Finley
Washington Hospital Training School For
Fkurses
Johnson to Close Royal Cafe Tonight
W. P. Johnson owner of the White House and Royal cafes will lease the Royal on South Marion Avenue this evening and merge the two businesses at the South Iowa Avenue location. He has owned the Royal for three months and recently reopened the White House Dean's former site.
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W. PD. Johnson
White House
Royal
South Marion Avenue
South Iowa Avenue
Dean
Open Large Tract for Fair Campers
Arrangements have been made to open a great 40 acre free camping tract on the Iowa State fair grounds during the fair from August 22 to 31. Visitors may stay as long as they like and tents and camping equipment can be obtained on the grounds. Thousands of travelers are expected to combine a camping trip with the State Fair outing.
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Iowa
Revival Meetings In Tent With Rev Winters This Week
Union revival meetings begin tonight at 7 30 in the tent with Rev Winters delivering strong messages from God's word each evening. Everyone is kindly invited to attend and hear him this week and next.
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Winters
Thanks for kindness after our bereavement
We express gratitude to friends and neighbors for sympathy during our loss and for the beautiful flowers sent to Mrs. John T. Chadwick and child ren, acknowledging their support.
Citizens camps attract many local volunteers for Fort Des Moines shielded training
S. J. Kellogg leads local recruitment for the August Fort Des Moines Citizens' military training camp. The program offers free instruction in all service branches, rifle marksmanship, athletics, recreation, and religious guidance, with instruction by top army instructors. General Pershing plans an inspection tour August 20. Col. H. L. Cavenaugh heads the camp with a longtime war veteran background.
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S. J. Kellogg
Fort Des Moines
Kellogg
Citizens
Ninth Field Artillery
Des Moines
J. J. Pershing
Hoping for Rain to Relieve Intense Heat
A rain is badly needed in the vicinity as roads stay dusty and dust clouds rise with traffic. Agriculturalists say corn would relish a heavy shower and wardens need it too. Official readings could not be learned but thermometers place the day’s high well over ninety degrees.
Law Enforcement Committees Urged In Iowa Communities
Des Moines reports plan to form citizens law enforcement committees in every Iowa community. Committees, active with local authorities, include prominent, trusted men and women who relay information anonymously to police. Mrs. Wise Smith and Mrs Willebrand discuss convention plans and expected speakers at Shenandoah.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Wg. T. U
Shenandoah
Mra. Ien B. Wise Smith
Mabel Willebrand
United States
Wille‘Jeandt
California
First Methodist Church
Willam Lencox
Mrs Elizabeth Rittler Dies. John Rittler's Mother
Funeral services for Elizabeth Rittler aged 83 will be held Sunday at 2 30 p m in Wayland. She died at her Wayland home yesterday and is mother of John Rittler of Washington, known to many local residents.
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Wayland
Elizabeth Rittler
John Rittler
Washington
Laties Missionary Society Meeting Announcement
Bethel Presbyterian church announces Laties Missionary Society will meet with Mrs. George Genkingee on Wednesday July 25 at 2 PM. Committ first psalmst.
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Laties Missionary Society of the Bethel Presbyterien Church
George
Genkingee
Pi M. Comitt
Army Colonel Leads 363d Infantry Campaign to France
The colonel organized trained and led the 363d Infantry in France, returned with the unit and demobilized. He graduated from the War College in 1920 and served two years directing tactics at Fort Riley Cavalry School. He will command the Des Moines camp starting August 1 through August 30.
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France
363D Infantry
The
War College
Washington
Department of Tactics
Cavalry School
Fort Riley
Kansas
Des Moines
Chautauqua Booklets In Press for Next Week
The Chautauqua program booklets will go to press next Monday and appear in the heads of the public by midweek. The twenty four page booklet will include program details lecturer and musician bios rules and prices. Camp tent orders must be placed within ten days with Frank Stewart. no extra tents will be supplied.
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Frank Stewart
Fort Madison Prison Sets Low Escapes Record in 1923
DES MOINES July 21 The Fort Madison Iowa state prison logged only one escape in the past eight months a marked drop from earlier years Warden T P Hallowell said in a board of control release The lone runner Joe Smith escaped March 31 while working outside the cell house and was returned within a day Strengths cited include returned prisoners photographed for rapid police warning and juries in Lee county ready to indict escapes resulting in extra five year sentences for offenders.
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Des Moines
Fort Madison
T. P. Hallowell
State Board of Control
Joe Smith
Sioux City
Smith
Hollowell
London
Lee County
Thought for the Day on injustice and fault
A reflective aphorism states that first injustice by a man is his fault, while a repeated offense becomes your fault. It emphasizes personal accountability and cautions against accepting repeated wrongs.
Harold Lloyd's Grandma's Boy ends with a bold laugh finale
Harold Lloyd and producer Hal Roach say four months were spent perfecting the final laugh of Grandma's Boy. Previewed in Long Beach the audience laughed so hard it delayed the next act ten minutes. The five reel comedy blends fear psychology with a bashful Blossom Bend youth and his wise grandmother.
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Harold Lloyd
Long Beach
Calif
Lloyd
Hal Roach
Blossom Bend
Sam Taylor
Jean Haver
Fred Newmeyer
Pretty Mildred Davis
Anna Townsend
Dick Sutherland
Charles Stevenson
Noah Young
Fox Theatre
Resignation Leads to New Iowa Camp School Inspector
Haz el H. Ott resigns as state mining camp school inspector and Miss Winogene Hobbs, private secretary to Attorney General Ben J. Gibson, is named to succeed her. Announcement made today by Miss May Francis, state superintendent of public instruction.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Wne
Hazel H. Ott
Winogene Hobbs
Ben J. Gibson
May . Francis
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