Professor Wilcox Delivers Lecture at Institute
Professor W C Wilcox delivered a lecture yesterday afternoon at the institute. The talk covered recent developments in the field and attracted a sizeable audience of students and faculty.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1907
Page
2
The Crisis in the Struggle for Race Supremacy Lecture
Prof. W. C. Wilcox delivered the normal institute address on The Crisis in the Struggle for Race Supremacy. He compared colonial competition to a dog and cat in a barn to explain why nations failed to share America. He outlined six European powers and highlighted Spanish advantages as a basis of early prowess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Normal Institute
W. C. Wilcox
Wilcox
America
Europe
New World
Mr. Wilcox
Spaniards’ decline in America traced by Mr Wilcox lecture
Mr Wilcox outlines why Spain failed to maintain leadership in American colonization. He cites intermarriage with Indians, harsh treatment of natives, wrong coastal focus, religious exclusivity, weak colonial capacity, and European decline as 17th century momentum shifts. He argues the audience gains deeper insight beyond surface history. Ice cream cones at Hays. 4-11
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spain
Mr. Wilcox
Europe
America
Wilcox
Mrs. McKinley Guided His Duty Through Love and Speech
Mrs Myron Herrick says former President McKinley relied on his wife William McKinley for guidance while governor and president. She recalls frequent consultations before appointments and notes his habit of reading speeches to Mrs McKinley for her input. The couple’s devotion persisted after the tragedy that darkened her life.
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Mrs. Herrick
William MckKinley
Myron T. Herrick
McWkinley
Cleveland
New York World
McKinley
Ohio
Mrs. McKinley
Boston
Ife
Practical Hints For Reusing Old Knit Underwear And Salt Bags
Old knit underwear can be repurposed into wash cloths and bath cloths by crocheting tidy yarn edges. Salt bags can be saved to make jelly bags or stitched into dish cloths. The text also suggests using fabric pieces for self wringing mops, floor cloths, and garden or dish gloves.
West Chester U P church pie sale planned
The ladies of the United Presbyterian church at West Chester announce a sale of pies and cakes Saturday afternoon in the J. D. Smith rooms. Proceeds support church activities and community outreach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. P
West Chester
J. D. Smith
Practical Household Tips and Remedies Summary
The article mixes a medicinal note for Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with a series of housekeeping tips. It includes guidance on stain removal, fabric care, cleaning, and ironing, plus a brief mention of political campaign support and a spouse’s influence. It lists home cures, laundry tricks, and maintenance using common household compounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cook & Sherman
Blouse Holder for Safe Suitcase Transport
A simple pattern guides making a fabric and coutil blouse holder to keep shirt waists neat in a suitcase. Cut cardboard panels, sew coutil and sateen coverings, stitch boards in, add cinching straps and ribbon holds for secure placement of garments.
Piles Relief Ad Promises Quick Cure with Ointment
Dr. Shoop's Magnetic Ointment offers relief for piles with claims of positive, certain action. It targets itching, pain, protruding or blind piles and promises disappearance. Sold in large nickel capped glass jars for 50 cents by J. H. Stewart.
Laundry Notes on Ironing Knit Underwear
Folded smooth from the line, these garments require no ironing. An ordinary telegraph wire makes a…
Ice Cream Social At Walnut School House
An ice cream and strawberry social is planned at the Walnut school house six miles west of the city on the Brighton road Sahar evening June 22. Proceeds go to the hitching rack fund and all are invited. The Broomstick Club also hosts an ice cream and cake event on the church lawn Saturday evening with Baptist ladies serving and a local band providing music.
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Walnut School House
Brighton Road
Sahar
Broomstick Club
To Keep Your Violets
Those who wear violets and desire them to last as long as possible should keep them in glasses of water slightly tinctured with salt and the glasses enclosed in air tight pails or jars.
Deafness and catarrh cure claims in 19th century ad
A medical advertisement claims deafness from inflamed Eustachian tubes can be cured only by constitutional remedies and offers a hundred dollar reward for any catarrh deafness not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation and lists Toledo, F J Cheney & Co as sellers. A classroom joke about Plymouth Rock follows, featuring a student confusion over drawing a hen or a rooster.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
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Katherine Stichter
Hays
Cora Porter
Washington High School
MR S. M'Kinley
Miriam W. Brooks
Cedar Falls
Ethel Grace Pike
R. D. Daugherty
Mathematics
Ice Cream Social
Bill Nye
Lucy Meacham
Hattie Moore Mitchell
Plymouth Rock
Leagt
Willie
Rose
Florence Ward
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