Eyestone Family Reunion At Mount Vernon Hawkeye Club
Mount Vernon hosts the Eyestone family reunion bringing together thirty nine members from four sons and five daughters. Captain J W Eyestone elder statesman of the community turns ninety, as Rev J B Eyestone recounts China experiences. Festivities include music speeches stunts and toasts led by multiple toastmasters with programs by the children.
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MT. Vernon Hawkeye
Mount Vernon
J. W. Eyestone
J. B. Evestone
China
Evestone
Altoona
John L. Brin
Stewartsville
Minnesota
Dell Loughead
Des Moines
A. R. Watland
Wichita Falls
Texas
R. H H. Bowman
W. H. Eyestone
Dallas
Captain Eyestone
Ralph
Groton
South Dakota
R. B. Spencer
Fort Morgan
Colorado
Dell Laughead
Alice Spencer
J. B. Eyestone
Ralph Eyestone
Carrie KE. Spencer
Alice
Robert
Martin
Marian
Nelda
Brighton Social Notes Highlight Local Visits and Travel
Mrs Warnock and daughter Miriar arrived from Speke Washington to spend six weeks with Rev. and Mrs Ward. Numerous visitors from Fairfield, Des Moines and Iowa City join gatherings at Brighton homes while others journey to Chicago and Oskaloosa for work and family events.
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Brighton
Mr. Warnock
Miriar
Speke
Washington
Hh. Ward
Ward
Roanoke
Virginia
Marjorie Kientz
John Kients
Howard Johnson
Clifford
Burlington
Former Washington Girl Maude Gorham Leaves Holcomb School
In Garden City Kansas a tribute notes Maude Gorham daughter of Mr and Mrs Chas D Gorham will not return as Holcomb Consolidated School District leader next year. For fifteen years she shaped the district as principal and superintendent guiding faculty and students with notable devotion. She departs to further studies and summer teaching at Mays College with best wishes from friends and pupils.
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Garden City
Kansas
Maude Gorham
Miss Gorham
Chas. D. Gorham
Washington
Holcomb Consolidated School District
Miss Maude Gorham
Holcomb
Finhey County
Eastern University
Chip
Kaunsis
Yorky Road
Gorscam
Mays College
Dermrest
Pathos in Display of Oldtime Photos
A New York Times feature surveys a second hand bookshop table filled with old photographs. Costumes, names, and theatrical pasts reveal faded ambition and vanity as fair women in wide sleeves and men in whiskers confront memory.
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Onte
Trocadero
Paradise Gardens
Elizabeth Berry
Ebert
Duluth
New York Times
Highest Tributes to Value of Friendship
Seneca the Roman praised friendship as the sweetest comfort and sovereign antidote to calamities including fear of death. Euripides echoed that being beloved by many friends ranks among life’s great goods beyond riches or strength.
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Seneca
Euripides
Nagging described as a social plague in antiquity
The passage argues nagging resists definition and cure across ages from Socrates to Xan tippe. It claims prayers and threats fail while soft words worsen its force, turning domestic peace into a battleground that drives both rich and poor to vice, eroding life’s joys and labor’s fruits. Justice Hil, In West's Docket.
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Socrates
Xantippe
Justice Hil
West
Tommy’s Manners The Tart First Lesson
A child eagerly chooses tart over pudding at a family meal. The father recalls shaping good manners through patient instruction amid the meal setting. Tommy answers tart first, showing the moment’s learning impact in manners education.
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Tommy
Forming Habits and Early Education Advice
The text explains how habits form through nerve pathways and suggests early life education. It notes that thoughts follow established paths, and advises using left-handed actions to break habits. It stresses preventing bad habits before age six to ease lifelong control.
Socrates Eloquence Moves Souls Through Words
The fragment cites Alethiades from The Symposium praising Socrates as more powerful than other speakers. It notes that even imperfect fragments of his words deeply affect listeners, causing the speaker’s heart to leap and tears to fall, a sentiment echoed by others.
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Jowett
Few of World's Great Est Hours of Sleep
A Scientific Monthly piece notes that many famed figures thrived on little sleep while a minority required longer rest. It cites Napoleon Goethe Descartes and Dvorak among four hour or short sleep advocates, and contrasts with others who slept deeply and irregularly before resuming work.
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Tin Hheir
Alexander von
Lamberdt
Linnkens
Cuvier
Cc Eee
Mnarel
Dvorak
Skeyers
Tradbmes
Dunas
Scientific Monthly
Thanksgiving Motive Beyond Words
A short exhortation urges that true thanks come from the heart, not just spoken. It emphasizes inner gratitude rather than mere verbalized phrasing.
Fail of Fame Project Delayed by Quarrel in New York
A discussion of a proposed Hall of Fame for New York sculptor John Browere and others stalled by disputes and a congressional omission. The piece notes Browere's early 19th century recognition and failed bid for an appropriation, with Dunlap and William Duttap referenced as contemporaries.
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Fioll of Fame
New Vere Valten
Joht Browere
New York
Congress
Browere
William Duttap
Dunlap
Birds Warn With Alarm Calls Across Wildlife
The blue jay and the crow emit distinctive alarms that many wildlife species recognize. Ducks, deer, foxes, rabbits, and others respond by seeking shelter when they hear these calls.
Hearingta Apparatus Leg Reference In Adjective Context
A concise note discusses the hearing apparatus of adjectives often appearing in leg related usage. It highlights how descriptive terms attach to body parts in phrasing and grammar.
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Marjorie
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Helen
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Frances and
Bernice
W. H. Evestone
John and
Richar
Washington County
Ezra Gardner
Laura Lonewell
Clarence Timmins
Harry Eyestone
Alia Thomas
F. M. Fleming
Khua Helimick
Clarence Kessel
George
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George Drish
Lee Huston
Columbus Jet
Ellen Prizer
Mr. Huston
Amett Darcett
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A. BR
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Chicago
Rhua Mann
Town City
Frank Gertz
Viola
Nellie
Fred
Muscatine
Allie Shafer
Hher
Peoria
Leland Horton
Cedar Rapids
Vinton
Walter Garrard
Edith
Clarence
North of Washington
George Kern
Emma Brim
Tracy Fenner
Ed Drive
Calla Woodford
Iowa City
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Jesse Berry
Mediapolis
Frank Berry
Jesse
Berry
Henry Lechner
Jake Courtney
Stockport
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Malcolm Griffith
Chas Mumper
Robert Griffith
Albert Shaw
Corning
Iowa
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Hr. W. Helmieck
Raymond Kessel
Otto Macy
Albert Saunders
Ira Saunders
Waller Fiehiner
Dora Saunders
G. J. Saunders
Wire Hiaibert Savage
Baby
Sindy
A. Edwards
O. H. Mark
Orvie
Wapello
John Davis
Newton
Crace Gordon
Lucille Mann
Oskaloora
Wich
Corbin & Barrett Bootery
Cream and Eyres
Miers
W. 5S. Reister & Sons
Eggs & Poultry
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Warren
Valuce
H. I Ward & Co
Frank Bo Wilson
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