High School Weekly Chapels and Student Activities
High school reports Monday chapel opened with Onward Christian Soldiers and Deuteronomy read by Principal Williamson. Music director Miss Ruillard led singing after a strong game against Ottumwa and prospects for a top southeastern Iowa team next year. U W meeting discussed Washington without Christ. Senior class organized with officers Burrell Keck, Jean Hay, Myrtle Morrow and plans for two class plays. A Friday debate favored agriculture over mercantile lines and a geometry reminder capped the week.
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Williamson
Miss Ruillard
Ottumwa
Iowa
Burrell Keck
Jean Hay
Myrtle Morrow
Iowa Feeble Minded Need More Institutional Care
Iowa officials demand added room for feeble minded residents. State Board of Control says 1,500 should be in care, Glenwood institution is full, and experts estimate 1 in 500 Iowa citizens are feeble minded, potentially 5,000 statewide. J. W. Strief urges action by the thirty-eighth General Assembly.
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Des Moines
Mar
Iowa
State Board of Control
General Assembly
Glenwood
Control Board
J. W. Strief
Board of Control
Movement to end British titles for Canadians gains support
Winnipeg march 7 a campaign to petition King George to abandon conferring titles on Canadian subjects draws support from western papers and prominent figures. Returned soldiers adopt tithes must go as the slogan while Ottawa reports MPs plan to raise the issue next session amid expected opposition from eastern members.
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Winnipeg
Man
George
Ottawa
Newton to Organize Community Y M C A
Newton forms a community Y M C A with a nine member board including D. P. Mayne O. F. Ecklund A. F Hindorff W. H. Jasper Frank Seliman C. E. Lauterbach Sayer J. Miles H. B. Allfree and T. Daizell. The group plans immediate incorporation and a paid secretary within about a month.
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Newton
Congregational Church
DP. KB. Mayne
O. F. Ecklund
A. F E. Hindorff
New Presbyterian Church 18 Plan Progress Report
Williamsburg March 7 A called meeting at the Presbyterian church reviewed the building committee report led by Dixon Jones. Pledges total $27 500 with a goal to reach $30 000 for a new church plant. The report was accepted by the meeting.
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Y.Y. W
Lester Duke
C.J. Smith
Herbert Gass
Clarence Logan
Williamsburg
Mar
Presbyterian Church
Dixon Jones
New Presbyterian Church for Williamsburg by Christmas 1919
Congregation instructs committee to obtain plans and specifications for a new church building and submit them to the members for consideration at the earliest date. The slogan proclaims a church for Williamsburg by Christmas 1919.
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Williamsburg
Kidney Pills Help Daisy Bell Says Work Possible Now
Daisy Bell of Savannah Georgia reports eight years of back pain and weakness until taking Foley Kidney Pills. She says she can now do all her work. Sold by Lemmon's Drug Store.
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Daisy Bell
Savannah
Foley
Lemmon
Advt
County Officers Meet In Muscatine For Iowa Group
County officers from Iowa plan a summer meeting in Muscatine. Representatives from sheriff auditors treasurers recorders and supervisors will attend with tentative programs outlined and a convention date set at Hotel Muscatine.
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Muscatine
Iowa draft boards rank fifth in speed and efficiency
Iowa is fifth among states in draft board operation speed and efficiency, and first among states by population. A message from Provost Marshal General Crow to Adjutant General Lasher notes Utah Vermont Delaware and New Hampshire as states advancing more in winding up reports.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Crowder
L. G. Lasher
Utah
Vermont
Delaware
New Hampshire
Dressmaker Endorses Mayr's Wonderful Remedy
A dressmaker says chronic stomach trouble and gas attacks were cured by Mayr's Wonderful Remedy after temporary relief from doctors. The ad claims the remedy clears catarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract and reduces inflammation, addressing stomach liver and intestinal ailments. One dose convinces or money back. Lemmon's Pharmacy and druggists everywhere carry it.
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Mayr
Lemmon
Adyt
Letter From Slim to the Journal from France 1919
Sergt G F Kuilema writes from St. Aignan France to The Evening Journal describing duty, transfers, and life with the 126th division. He notes no mail for four months, mild winter, travel from Verdun to Bordeaux, and longing for home while joking about insurance and the “gang plank itch.”
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Sergt
Garrett Kuilema
St. Aignan
France
G. F. Kuilema
Evening Journal Force
States
Iowa
Fairfield
Washington
Peck
Verdun
Bordeaux
Doe
Slim
Belgian in defense of relief workers
Emile Franqui a Belgian cabinet member and former Bel gian relief committee head sent a letter to US Senator William Calder denying reports that American food to Belgium and northern France was poisoned. He cites seven million Belgians and 9.5 million in northern France as alive and well, praising relief workers and denying any blame on the American relief commission.
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Paris
Emile Franqui
Belgian National Relief Committee
United States
William Calder
Washington
Belgium
France
American Relief Commission
Commission For Relief
America
Calder
Relief Commission
M. Franqui
French Visitor Secures Large Hart-Parr Tractor Order
Angers France visited Hart-Parr works as the French representative. The order followed that visit and calls for five tractors to be crated at once for shipment to France. The value of the order is alleged to exceed $300000.
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Angers
France
Hart-Parr
Y M C A Figures Show Wartime Huts Aid
Des Moines reports from March 7. Y M C A huts in U S military camps housed soldiers sailors and civilians totaling about three times the nation's population during May 1917 to December 31 1918. Over 4 000 workers supported 1 000 huts and overseas staff exceeded 8 000.
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Phice Times
Des Moines
United Sates
United States
United War Work Campaign
Faust
National War Work Council
Association
Physical Department
Distilleries to Convert Plants for Food Stuff Production
Distillers' Securities Corp plans to convert major Peoria plants including Majestic Great Western Atlas and Pekin Globe to manufacture foodstuffs and by products such as cereal foods oils yeast vinegar and beets molasses. The firm holds grain and by-product supplies valued at 2,260,811 dollars amid prohibition era changes.
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Illinois
Distillers’ Securities Corporation
United States
Majestic
Great Western
Atlas
Peoria
Globe of
Pekin
Iowa dental graduates top national exam rankings
S. U. S. dentists lead as Iowa City reports that dental college graduates from the University of Iowa ranked higher than all others in the country in the examinations for commissions in the armed forces.
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Iowa City
Dental College
University of Iowa
Hart-Parr Lands 200 Tractor Export Order for France
Hart-Parr company receives a contract to supply 200 tractors for France marking a return to export business for the Iowa firm after about five years since the war began. E R Verhaeghe, rep for Beauvais and Robin, agricultural machinery importers, announces the deal in Charles City.
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Hart-Parr Company
Charles City
France
E. RR. Verhaeghe
Beauvais and Robin Company
Iowa Doctors Receive Individual Honors in War Department Examinations
The Army during the war reports examinations by the War Department show Iowa physicians Dr. John Richards Dr. J R Wikeen and Dr. Clinton T Brann earning individual honors in the assessments.
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Army
War Department
John Richards
J. R. Wikeen
Clinton T. Brann
Iowa
Parade planned in Washington for Rainbow division return
Washington local officials and business leaders plan a large parade and reception for the Rainbow division upon its return. Many congress members back the effort as the Rainbows are expected to arrive around the start of the new extra session of Congress.
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Washington, D. C
Washington
Rainbow Division
Congress
Rainbows
Dead Flies Fill Irish Kitchen After Powdered Prompt
An Irish mistress uses insect powder around the kitchen to kill flies. The next morning the servant reports many dead flies, saying the room is alive with them.
Punctuation Ends in Chinese Writing Says Scholar
A scholar argues that Chinese characters can replace punctuation with their own marks and that modern Chinese text may not require periods commas or other symbols in writing The claim suggests characters carry sentence and pause cues inherently without added marks
Fathoms Vary By Vessel Type On Sea Journeys
On warships a fathom equals six feet while merchant ships use five and a half feet and fishing vessels five feet, reflecting differing traditional measurements used at sea.
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Salora
Royal golf held in esteem by monarchs and nobles
The term royal golf stems from its historic popularity among Scottish and English royalty and nobility. Kings Charles and James I VI, Queen Mary of Scots, and numerous dukes and earls are noted as avid followers of the game through ancient times.
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Scotland
England
Charles
James I
Ti, VI
Mary of Scots
Capable of Anything
A cryptic note from the Louis Globe-Democrat hints at unpredictable outcomes linked to a phrase about disease and murder. The fragment emphasizes the tension between warning and consequence in a puzzling line.
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Louis Globe-Democrat
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