Local notes on visitors and goods at The Fair and Dougherty Bros
Readable items list visits by Miss Maud Ferguson Miss Bertha Brown Miss Helen Palmgren and others returning home from the normal institute. Ads mention straw hats at Dougherty Bros The Fair silent on July fireworks and sign making. Several local residents travel to Crawfordsville Havre Keota West Chester and Dav enport with daily errands and social plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertha Brown
Keota
City
Blanche Wallace
West Chester
Normal Institute
Oklahoma’s Odd Laws and Colonel Jack Love Rule
A traveler notes Oklahoma’s unusual statutes from cracked restaurant plates to bedbug inspector salaries. Colonel Jack Love, Guthrie native and head of the state corporation commission, confronts eastern magnates and proclaims Oklahoma enforces its laws as rigorously as New York or Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Love
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Colonel Love
J. E. Love
Jack
State Corporation Commission
Little Guthrie
Love
Great Eastern Railroad
New York
Massachusetts
Uncle Walt the Poet Philosopher in Town Haunts
A 1910 critique of the writer Walt Mason describing his nonfictiony poems as laborious and colorless. The piece praises his diligence but mocks tiresome facts and journal diction, noting he seeks urban textures over traditional plots.
Grand Concert at Air Dome with Kids and Vaudeville Acts
The Mock Sad Ali Troubadour company presents a grand concert at the Air Dome featuring ten year old Herthyl Watts as a coon song shouter Miss Mattie Glover reciter Reecer and Robinson in a funny sketch Uncle Tom and Littl Eva a real quartet and a free concert in front of the Air Dome at 8 p.m. Admission 10 and 20 cents.
Father Defender: Senator Dubois’s Wife Stirs PTA Congress
Mrs. Fred T. Dubois, wife of Idaho Senator, addressed Denver's fourteenth annual PTA congress claiming the man is the real homemaker. She asserted that fathers pay rent and buy provisions, handling the needs of mother and child, while women push for more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred T. Dubois
United States
Idaho
Congress of Mother and Parent Teachers’ Association
Denver
America
Country Life In America Featured At City Library
An article in Country Life In America highlights a June feature with Estelle Cavender's photography of a woodpile and peas. It notes May illustrations of the Breese estate near Southhampton and mentions librarians and instructors tied to Illinois State University and the Iowa Library Commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merle McCahon
Kansas City
Estelle Cavender
Kodak
Breese
Southhampton
Alberta Wagner
Edna Lyman
Normal
Oak Park
State of
Iowa
Also Mentioned on This Page
Dougherty Bros
S. W. Neal
Crawfordsville
Marion Neal
Baird
Stun CO
Jay Groves
Merle Kirkpatrick
Effie van Sickle
Baird Slenco
Helen Palmgren
Davyenport
Earnest Palmgren
Ralph Stephen
G. Wilson
Keola
Malva Hall
Cumberland Ohio
Ainsworth
Delia Pletcher
Crawfordsvile
Haskins
James McFadden
Dr. S. Dings
Florence McCleary
Alice Williams
Nina Moorehead
Lois Cannon
Thomas Eden
Washington
Franklin Center
Arlene Gardner
Morning Sun
E. H. Faris
Lola Faris
E. G. Gardner
Harvey & Warfel’s
Charles Startsman
Iowa City
Jessie Jeffrey
St. Louis
Vienna
Mrs. C. Bruty
Rev. A
Baird Sign CO
J. H. Ramsey
Rock Island
Katharine Clarahan
Harper
Holman
the Fair
D. J. Peltz
Davenport
Des Moines
Order of Eagles
Ethel Dodson
Ernest Dean
J. D. Hanniwalt
Carthage
Ills
F.C. Shinabarger
Gene
Muscatine
J. T. Matthews
Celestine Fetes
Lowe City
Joseph Wolf
Mercy
R. D. McFarlane
Blanche
Maxburg
Mrs. H. W. Brown
Elsie Henderson
Walter Wilson
Newton
Iowa Points
East Main Street
R. D. Collins
Palmgreen
First National Bank
Rock Island Depot
Journal Office
Lagerbund
Earth
Angel Fool
Devils Foods
The
East Washington Street
Vienna Bakery
J. A. Work
West Washington Street
George Edwards
Carl Fisher
Great Falls
Mont
M. BD. Work
J. P. Hennon
David Fisher
Cowboy Ropes
Kansas
Legislative Experiment Station
Nebraska
Congress
Stuart & Son
P. O
Uncle Walt
Pen
Walt Mason
George Matthew Adama
Senator Dubois
City Library Notes
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My&kays
Oxfords
J. A. Work & CO
Sinden
Cation
the Outfitters
U.S. Mint
Studebaker
Studebaker Vehicle
Stupy- Bakers
Studebaker, Mason Transfer and Storage Co
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