Local notes highlight ads and visits around town
Fox and Dewey for shoes and a Butter fat price of 40 cents are noted. Mrs H Richards visits Cotter. Loy McElhinney preaches in Andrews. Mrs Robert Gormley travels from Fairfield to Crawfordsville. Shuberts perform at Mt Union and a Phidelphian dance in Iowa City. Overland Washington Co sells cars to several buyers. Mrs W J Dooley and daughter Beatrice travel to Eldon with Mr Dooley returning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Gormley
Fairfield
Crawfordsville
Shuberts
Mt. Union
Iowa City
Local residents listed in Muscatine area notes
Mrs L R Green and Derwin plan trips to Muscatine with return slated for Sunday. Several residents visit Davenport Davenport connections and visits to Columbus Junction Ames and Cedar Rapids noted. Events include May Festival on Patterson lawn and graduation in Ainsworth with various family and social updates.
Deans Candy Ads Highlight Local Errand Parlor
The notice section promotes Deans candy offers and sundae specials while listing local visits. It mentions Mrs. M R Rowan traveling to Fremont Iowa and Miss Alice Atchison visiting Fairfield to see her sister Mrs Bruce Gobble.
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Alice Atchison
Fairfield
Bruce Gobble
Local Mischief Ends In Extended Prison Term
A juvenile prank at Splitdort Spark plugs led to a life sentence extended to four years. The court ordered added time as punishment for the offender, citing reckless harm caused to the community.
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Hein
Romance Gone By Ruth Dunbar in Red Cross Sock Machine Era
In New York County Red Cross workrooms nearly seventy five sock machines speed wartime knitting. Eight operate in the model room at 20 East Thirty eighth Street with others delayed by traffic. Complete socks take 24 minutes on the machine. Private clubs and families also own machines and donate socks.
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Grandfather
Renance
Red Cross
New York County
Eust Thirty-eighth Street
Global postal mail chiefly read by English speakers
An estimate suggests about two thirds of the world’s letters are written sent and read by people who use English. The figure highlights the influence of English in international correspondence and communication.
Forty four leave for Camp Dodge May 28
The exemption board orders Washington county to send forty four men to Camp Dodge on Tuesday May 28. The group travels by Rock Island train at 9 40 AM and marks the largest county draft contingent. Charles Kearby moves to class two, John Knotek cannot go due to a broken leg, replaced by Albert J. Rose and Harold I. Godwin in sequence.
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Exemption Board
Washingon County
Camp Dodge
Rock Island
National Army
Charles Kearby
Washington
John Knotek
Riverside
Albert J. Rose
Harold I. Godwin
Knotek
Kearby
City Briefs Receives Recognition for Invention
Dan W Mannhardt has been named a member of the Portable Engine Committee of the Saturnal Institute of Inventors in New York City. He was appointed without solicitation or expense, following recent patent grant for his portable engine. Mannhardt expects broad use of the machine and is arranging to build a model.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan W. Mannhardt
Satincal Institute of Inventors
New York City
Mannhardt
Rifle Club Notice for Regular Practice
Members of the American Rifle Association are reminded of regular practice at the Armory Monday evening. All members are urged to attend and participate at 8012.
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American Rifle Association
Brigh ton Faculty Member Visits Aunt in Ainsworth
James Hawthorne buys the G. W. Hobson home on Fast Main Street. Miss Alma Johnston of the Brigh ton high school faculty passes through this morning en route to Ainsworth to visit her aunt, Mrs. Clegg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Hawthorne
G. W. Hobson
Fast Main Street
Alma Johnston
Brighton High School
Ainsworth
Clegg
Rain Benefits Fields Ahead of May Festival
Yesterday and last night brought showers totaling 0.89 inches, reviving parched fields and gardens. Tonight at eight the May festival hosted by high school girls will unfold on East Washington Street pending no more rain before seven. The baccalaureate for the graduating class meets Sunday at the Methodist church with Dr Za Glendinning delivering the sermon. Father Hay and Henry Batley invested their $4 prize money in war savings stamps after the McKee school contest.
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Patterson Lawn
East Washington Street
Methodist Church
Za Glendinning
Methodist
Hay
Henry Batley
Mckee
Mrs Richardson and daughter visit Davenport for weekend
Mrs L H Richardson and her daughter Miss Valma traveled to Davenport this morning for a weekend visit with friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genevieve Benda
Davenport
Miss Valma
Red Cross Aid Supports Soldiers in France Front
A letter describes Billy Jones wounded on the front lines in France and evacuated through trenches to a base hospital. Red Cross nurses and volunteers tirelessly tend to him and other soldiers, with millions of Americans supporting through donations to keep Red Cross services in operation overseas.
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Billy Jones
France
No Man's Land
Red Cross
Revival Converts Reluctant Worker In Church
A lazy black man in a revival is urged by fellow church members to change. He attends a meeting and offers a prayer asking to be used by the Lord in an advisory capacity.
Gulls Kept as Domestic Fowls by Newfound land Fishermen
Newfoundland fishermen capture young seagulls and rear them on fish in pens, creating a curious custom. The birds lay eggs and are fattened for Christmas meals when no turkey or goose is available.
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Newfoundland
Observing how beauty influences expectations in behavior
A Memphis Commercial Appeal item notes the stereotype that attractive girls are presumed silly, then challenges the assumption as the subject acts beyond those expectations.
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Memphis
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Thedabara
Norma Talmadge
Roy Stewart
the Medicine Man
ALL Star Triangle
Brindley’s Sanitary Grocery
Fox & Dewey
Carl Combs
White Way
Page &. Soto
Mason
Deans
Mrs. H. Richards
Cotter
Loy McElhinney
Andrews
The
Overland Washington Co
Fred Kephart
Harry Heeseltine
Jesse Nicola
W. Hi Stafford
R. L. McGugin
Dr. Bateman
Evening Journal
McElhinney’s
A. B. Adams
Muscatine
A. W. Clow
J. W. Martin
Alex Nelson
Ralph
Columbus Junction
Aliee Wolf
Keota
A. N. McElwain
Ralph Scott
Wellman
Kh. L. Conner
Duroe Bulletin
Ernest Carlon
Fred Bartholomew
Ames
Iowa
Bruce Crozier
Lulu Klenmier
Cedar Rapida
C.N Stryker
W. R. Stryker
FP. A. Heingman
Marjorie
Vinton
J. R. van Pelt
Mt. Vernon
J. R. van Pelt, Jr
Pred Franklin
Donald
Daimy
Ainsworth High School
L. S. Patterson
A. R. Dewey
A. R. Miller
Centerville
Patterson
Steed
Cloyd Willits
Afton
Katheryn Baxter
Cecil Rogers
Cedar. Rapids
D. Glasgow
Emma Green
Fred Jordon, Jr
Mary
Frederick
Atlantic
W. D. Ash
John Mallenix
George Burham
Ernest Swanson
Camp Harrison
Indiana
Ernest
Gertrude Gargus
Leo. T. Lewis
Seattle, Wash
J. H. Runyon
Lena Townley
Beloit
Wis
Geo. R. Shaw
Des Moines
St.Clair Lewis
Gareus
Runyon
Oskaloosa
Everett Burham
Fort Sill
Oklahoma
Camp Cody
United States
Boice Wagner
Laramie
Wyo
Mr. Wagner
Geo. Morrison
George
H.D. Smith Garage
Marion Avenue
John Shields & Sons
Congress Hotel
Detoch
Ruth Dunbar
McNamara
Florence
Tles
First’ Store
Wolfe
White Way Garage Co
Washington, Iowa
Audrey Redfern
Harper
Miss Redfern
McFeuhinney
William
Hte
Willard
Eldridge Battery Co
Nelsawanger Building
Aterch
Tam
City Feed Yard
Mutual
I Cohn
Wright A. Patterson
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