Local clubs report Civil War relic, graves marker plans
The D A and club members recount meetings at Mrs S Williamson home. A roster from Company I Regiment 18 is kept as a keepsake. Plans include placing a grave marker for Mrs Ann Kendall, Revolutionary War granddaughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. A
Hela
S. Wilivingston
J. von Kurtz
Regiment 18
Ann Kendall
R. G. King
Wag
Iplodkee
Grace Gibson
Vic
Lona Boice
Katherine Null
Susie Edgington
Reasoner
Iean Dawson
Egistrar
M. E. Dicken
M D. C. Kilgore
Weaith Miller
Libraran
Sseps Conger
Flower contests and club notes from local meetings
The entertainment committee hosted several flower contests with each lady answering a favorite quotation. New members include Mrs Frank Scranton and Mrs Frank Dittmer. A pink and white luncheon was served by the hostess and her daughter Ellen with Minnie Koehler assisting. Guests included Mrs Harry Campbell and daughter Jeanne. Next meeting May 23 with Mrs Edna Ruebsam. Mrs Orville Spencer and Mrs Carl Zeiglesky in charge of entertainment. The Linger Longer club met with Miss Mable Dill. seven members attended. Refreshments were served by the hostess and her mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gus Strum
New Haven Social Union
Kupka
Edgar ‘Engle
Moses Robertson
Himmelreich
Ovas
Engle
Plano
New House
Strum
Alvin
Alvin Strum
Nettie Swanson
Cuddeback
Frank Scranton
Frank Dittmer
Ellen
Minnie Koehler
Harry Campbell
Jeanne
Edna Ruebsam
Orville Spencer
Carl Zeiglesky
Mable Dill
Charles Bush
Women's Relief Corps to meet Saturday afternoon May seventh
Local notices list upcoming events including the Women's Relief Corps regular meeting on May 7. The Young Women's Missionary Society of the Baptist church holds its program Monday at 7 30 with Miss Dorothy Chance in charge. The Presbyterian ladies social gathers Friday at 2 30 with Mrs Will Matucha at 306 E Main. The Jolly Fifty club dances Friday May 4 at Moose hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women's Relief Corps
Young Women's Missionary Society of the Baptist Church
Dorothy Chance
the Presbyterian Church
Jolly Fifty Club
Moose Hall
Park Washington
Packertang
Thomas Cats
Pmion “Prombone
Warren Boileau Volker
Black Forest
Sousa
Romberg
de Luca Stig
No Possibility Homes Vanish As People Embrace Hotels
A Montreal Family Herald writer critiques a British professor who predicts no homes in fifty years. The writer argues love creates and sustains homes, noting that even primitive cliff dwellings or wigwams were homes, and that true home persists despite evolving customs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Montreal
Family Herald
Spectacular School Concert Program Highlights
The program lists multiple choirs and ensembles led by Mrs Shields and Mrs Dickerson. It features soloists, duets, and bands including junior high quartette, high school girls and boys glee clubs, and band selections with composers Mendelssohn Bairstow Stainer and Gounod.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuddy
Masson
Kupka
Thompson
Venice Waters
Roeder
Rosary
Nevin
Woodland Echoes
Cornet
Clifford Reinert
Edith Boileau
Hartley
von Fielitz
Moffat
Cadman
Thora Warner
My Dear Soul
Sanderson G Boys Glee Club
de Koven
Turner
Gibson H Boys Quartet
Barnhouse
Buglers
Greene Bennett
Fox Tree
Bennett J
Margaret and
Nita Corbin
The Seven Seas Origin and History
The seven seas denote all world waters and vary by culture. Early Hindus Persians Romans Hebrews used different bodies of water for the term. Romans called lagoons near Venice septem maria while Kipling popularized the phrase in 1896.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
Oxus
Punjab
Venice
Italy
Rudyard Kipling
Kirksville Resident Claims 125 Year Old Ham
A Kirksville resident alleges eating a ham fragment believed aged 125 years. The ham was found in a chimney in England and reportedly shrank about 60 percent since discovery.
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Kirksville
Dearborn
England
Turkish Towns Hold Fast To Old Death News Traditions
In remote parts of Turkey many quaint customs remain. The town crier still goes shouting the news through the streets when a death occurs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey
Old English midsummer rose kept unseen until Christmas
An English midsummer eve custom had a girl walk backward into a garden to pick a rose. The rose was placed in a clean sheet of paper and not looked at until Christmas Day, when it was believed to stay fresh as in June.
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England
Barbarians Play Chess in Malay Islands Huts
The Dearborn Independent notes chess as a favorite pastime among Malay island villagers, played on carved floor boards in village meeting huts. The account highlights the simple, communal setting and traditional nature of the game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dearborn
Fakir Shrouds and Mecca Pilgrimage in Damascus Streets
A Damascus street scene describes a pale dervishlike figure measuring cloth for shrouds as merchants fear bankruptcy. Ali Bey notes shrouds are worn by pilgrims not the dead, and fakir robes are seen as the trendy poor garment. The piece shifts to plaster of Paris tips for home repairs with milk as a water-resistant additive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Damascus
Ali Bey
Mecca
Nureddin
Saladin
Sibars
Myriam Harry
le Temps
Paris
Presidential Mayflower Yacht as Four Presidents' Summer White House
The Mayflower yacht first served presidential needs under Roosevelt in 1902 after congressional permission. She hosted Russian and Japanese commissioners at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, helping forge peace. Since then four more presidents used her as a part time summer White House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Congress
Portsmouth
N. H
White House
Erosion Carved Virginia Natural Bridge
The Natural Bridge in Virginia was formed by stream erosion. The present structure resulted from the collapse of the roof after water percolated through a fissure across the tide around a bedding plane and emptied beneath a fall, gradually enlarging the channel and diverting the stream.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Cleland
The Body Corporate and the Engineer's Communicative Role
The spoken word and electrical intercommunication connect each unit of society, linking nervous systems into a vast organism. Engineers extend communication systems to unify society, seen as essential to future evolution.
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Na Lub
Edgar ‘Wilson
East Main Street
Pleasant Plains Missionary Society
Boyd Foster
Glen Wilson
Nordica Duke
Lloyd Foster
John Genkinger
Bert Dill
Corrine Cherry
Washington, D. C
Charles Wolfe
Sunshine Community Club
E. M. Bridges
National Music Week
Washington
Presbyterian Church
Minnie Nelson
A. Dickerson
H. Shields
Shields
Little
Russia
Zimbatist Curran Curran
the Sun
Mr. Piper
Miss Nelson
Mrs. Dickerson
Largo
Caprice
Mrs, Shields
Spirit of God
My Redeemer
My Lord
The
Plains of Peace
Kreister
Cox Morris Curran
Wooler Neidlinger
Rolfe
Dawes
Such Barnard
Nelson
Tri City Acapella
Augustana School of Music
Rock Island
First Methodist Church
M. EB
Fletcher
Miss Hunter
Schnecker
Mary Hunter
Jenkins _ Pietro Von Alice
Hobins
Frimi di Capua
Nevin Jenkins
United Presbyterian Church
Carolyn Hamilton
Piper of Love
Esther McC
Carew
Everette Griffith
Lewis Warren
Prombone
Trio
Mendelssohn
Plumly
Williams
Schuster
Babylon
Gounod Choir
Bairstow
Creation
Buone Notte
Methodist Church
Wellman High School
Sigourney
Alice Baltz
Dorothy Durian
Margaret Wilma McIntosh
Barnard Barnhard Jones
Urban Milton Wehrle
Clarine
Sehon Rosmarin
Kriester
Hubert Coffey
the Seekers
Tyson
As the
Wind
Wilson
Dale Jones
Lowell Dodds
Milton Wehrle
Wilma McIntosh
Clarke
Brooks
Hume
Fred Perrin
Barnett
Willeby
Nora Warner
Priscilla Morrison
Lohr del Riego
Wells Campbell-Tipton Curran
Margae
M'Arg Harvey
Corbin
Corbin, Helen
P. m. Baptist Church
Lester J. T
Hompson
Edward Batiste
Verdi
Drdla Nevin Schubert
St. Clair
Paul B
Dorothy Masson
G. F. Masson
Tschaikowsky
A. Simon
Galloway
New Hartford
Myers
Bagley
Gampus
Band
Brockenshire Meyerleer
Seven Seas
Homer Stephen
Lord Sydezham
Fakir
S. A. Dickerson
Henry Shields
Phoenix
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