Birthday and bridge party brighten afternoon social
RQOCIETY marks a forty fourth birthday with informal home gathering from two thirty to five thirty. Mrs AWE Lretle hosts an Afternoon Bridge Club event at East Main Street with five tables and a lunch. Out of town guests include Miss Downey New London Ohio Miss Jones Boston Mrs Radenoch Chicago and Mrs Roy Tripp Sioux City. Mrs Charley Donaldson throws a surprise party for Mr Will Powell on his forty sixth birthday. Neighbors bake cakes and ice cream then join in at Powell home. Powell plays fiddle while guests enjoy a jolly time and return home delighted.
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East Main Offer
Awe Lretle
Fast Main Street
F. B. Appleby
F. L. Wilson
Roy Tripp
Sioux City
Charley Donaldson
Will Powell
Mrs. Powell
Laague of the Baptists Meeting Friday Night
A fragment notes a Friday gathering of a Baptist league or group after a deep soup event. Details are garbled but indicate a religious meeting scheduled for Friday evening at an unspecified location.
Rainfall Report Sums Up Light Weathery Day
Rain record notes a light shower continuing from morning with total rainfall about 0.26 inches. Temperature details indicate yesterday’s high near 41 degrees and today’s activity remains steady through the afternoon in the area.
City Churches Bible School Sessions at New Church
The Bible School and Christian Endeavor plan sessions in the new church on Sunday. Officers and teachers meet Friday at 7 40 p m at the new church to arrange Sunday services. Everyone is invited to attend Sunday's services. W H Hampton Minister 3912.
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The
Bible School & Christian Endeavor Society
New Schurch
Bible School
New Church
Evrybody
W. H. Hampton
Hog cholera spreads near Sioux City farms
Hog cholera appears around Sioux City with thousands of hogs afflicted and hundreds of deaths reported in ten days. In Webster county the disease has not appeared yet. Bureau urges immediate vaccination and permits farmers to vaccinate their own stock after satisfactory exam and instruction from an animal industry representative.
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Sioux City
Dodge
Iowa
Webster County
Bronson
Bureau of Animal
Ins
General Assembly
Real Optimist Witnesses Fire With Quiet Humor
A woman in a fire marked community with no fire protection and weak water remarked she was glad she went to the movies yesterday instead of washing by windows. Her calm reaction highlights resilience amid disaster in a town lacking adequate fire services.
Book News on Paul Life for Sunday School Readers
Sunday school lessons focus on the Life of Paul with supportive books from Chilcote Library. Reviews praise Conybeare Howson Farrar and Stalker for clear, engaging histories and readable editions. Other aids include Geikie Hours with the Bible and the Christian Workers' Commentary with concise Acts notes.
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Librae
Paul
Apostle
Chilcote
Conybeare
Hoween
Farrar
Stalker
Christian Workers’ Commentary
Sunday School Times
Christian Advocate
Methodiat
Presbyterian
Moody Bible Institute Christian Herald
Oldest National Park Hot Springs Reservation
The oldest national park is the Hot Springs reservation in Arkansas, established in 18 percent. Its square mile area contains hot and cold springs long valued since Indian days for medicinal properties and lies a short distance from Little Rock.
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Hot Springs Reservation
Arkansas
Little Rock
Play the Game Emphasizes Courage Over Outsized Wins
The passage urges men to perform a man’s part regardless of outcome, arguing that effort and bravery define success more than external achievements. It frames happiness as a by product of pursuing life’s work with resolve to the end.
Shrine districts in Iowa to be changed
Iowa to be redistricted by four Shrine temples following a recommendation from the committee on charters and dispensations at the imperial Conclave in Des Moines. Potentate Claude Fisher of Za-Ga-Zie temple has consulted with other temples and they will meet in Des Moines in the fall to address the change.
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AS Moines
Iowa
Des Moines
Claude Fisher
Davenport
Cedar Rapids
Poe
Des Moine
Camp Acceptance for Wartime Training Reported
Omaha dispatch notes July 28 approval of Citizens Military Training camps at Fort Snelling Minnesota and Camp Pike Arkansas for midwest youths. State tallies show Nebraska 32 approved 301 awaiting. Dakota 33 approved 163 awaiting. North Dakota 22 approved 143 awaiting. Iowa 130 approved 709 awaiting. Minnesota 33 approved 169 awaiting. Total 290 approved 1,485 awaiting. Summaries by states Kansas 36 approved 263 awaiting, Arkansas 34 approved 204 awaiting, Missouri 192 approved 9090 awaiting. Overall totals: 552 approved, 2,852 awaiting.
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Omaha
Middle West
Fort Snelling
Minn
Camp Pike
Ark
Majori Lemmon
Cort Crooks
Nebr
Nebraska
S. Dakota
North Dakota
Iowa
Minnesota
Kansas
Arkansas
Missouri
Attempted Hanging Case Shocks Webster City
William Ankrum was arrested after allegedly trying to hang his ex wife in her home. He entered the room during her absence and tried a rope around her neck, then repeated the attempt when she returned. The woman fled to the street, police were notified, and Ankrum remained jailed before county officials took over.
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Webster City
Wwilly Ankrum
Ankrum
Blurred Words Spark Debate on Marriage Terms
A misquoted exchange from a Malaysian schoolgirl features the phrase the masculine of spinster and leads to a discussion of marriage roles. Another girl mistakenly uses the word opposite, prompting critics to call the statement a genuine truth about wives as husbands’ upset.
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Boeston Transcript
Glass Workers in Venice Face Rising Blindness
Glass workers in Venice factories suffer progressive vision loss after age forty. Heat and glare from glass furnaces damage their sight, leading many to become totally blind as their years of working continue.
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Venice
Weather shaping Alaska winds drive U S climate study
A National Geographic Society bulletin explains how Alaska sources most weather systems entering the United States. It details low and high pressure patterns, the Aleutian Gulf of Alaska warm water, and how North Pacific storms travel southeast toward the St Lawrence valley.
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Washin Mere
Theneh
National Geographic Society
U.S. A
Gulf of Mexico
South Atlantic
Atlantic
Cape Hatteras
United States
America
Alaska
North Pacific
Aleutian Islands
Hawaii
United States Weather Bureau
Gulf of Alaska
Japan
To & i
Panhandle
British Columbia
Alberta
Puget Sound
California
Texas
Rocky Mountains
Central
Gulf States
Aleutians
St. Lawrence
North Atlantic
North
South Pacific
Hudson Bay
Great Lakes
Hall to Return to Southern Seas for Harper Articles
Des Moines reports James Norman Hall will depart Colfax for the south seas after a year and a half abroad. He plans further study of native life and writing new Harper's articles, with Nordhoff, to be published as a book this fall. Hall recalls traversing 6,000 to 7,000 miles on trading schooners and living in island huts.
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Des Moines
South Seas
James Norman Hall
Colfax
Iowa
Hall
Harper's
Charles ‘Nordhoff
Harper’s
Faery Islands of the Seas
Tahiti
Society Islands
France
Low Archipelago
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Oaid
James Norman Halt
Journal
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Palm Beach
Ikiein Klomine Kompany
Washington
Narmacy
U.S.S. Battery Station
South Side Square
Penn
Telmo
Can Cove
Wisconsin
the Farmers Union
Southwest Corner Square
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