Births Reported During September in Washington County
Washington county clerk records list numerous September births with child and father names, residence, and birth dates such as Charles Alvin Anderson in Washington township August 17 and Mabel Arline Burger in Oregon township September 11. The long roster includes entries for Alliman Gilbert Wyse, Fern lene Crozier, Wilma Leona Danker, Wayne Wm. Duwa, and many others across Marion Crawford and Washington townships.
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Clerk of Courts
Washington County
Duwa
Jackson
Earnest
Christian W. Earnest
Marion
Edgar
Mary Irene
John Edgar
Crawford
Fox
Marjorie Hope
Abraham
Six
Furman
Gladys Irene
Ray Furman
Nira
Gerdes
Winifred
Thos
Johnson Gerdes
Washington
Wilfred
Hahn
Kenneth Lewis
Chas
L.hahn
Hoxworth
Florence F
Israel
Brighton
Hawking
Merritt F. Hawkins
Oregon
Twip
Houck
Doyle
Wayne Houck
Kenney
Mildred Mary
Frank Kenney
Riverside
Kern
Virginia M
Joe Kern
Koehler
Marion M. Gee
Ainsworth
Mayo
Edna Irene
Oral R. Mayo
Marshall
Wilma
Earl Marshall
Mathieu
Emma Fredia
Robert Mathieu
Nobile
Meyer
Wm. M
Edgar L. Meyer
Miller
Wm. Lyle
Wm. F. Miller
Norton
Jennie May
Warren Norton
Nicholson
Jasie Nicholson
Highland
Cedar
Stouffer
Peter E
Jacob Stouffer
Vernon
Miout
Ralph
Amos Stout
Kalth
Robert Wendall
Clarence Nareth
Shialla
Dolores
Shalla
Oith
Donald Perry
Geo
M. Smith
Line Creek
Thompson
Mary Lale
Bentley Thompson
van Nostrand
Myra Vivian
Emmet R. van Nostrand
Wingfield
Dessie Arline
Lee L. H Wingfield
Wittmer
Dwight D
Saml
C. Wittner
Noble
Wagner
Kenneth H
Chas. J. Wagner
Poo
Cyrus Henry, Jr
Cyrus Hacner
Elie
Ralph H
Henry John
Iowa First State to Oversubscribe Fourth Liberty Loan
Iowa surpassed its fund-raising target with subscriptions totaling 148.92 million dollars against a 147.9 million quota, claimed as the first state to exceed its goal. Washington county reports support the overage, with county pledges expected to push the total well above the quota.
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Chicago
Iowa
Seventh
Federal Reserve District
Whittoft and Zeck Families Notify Washington Birth Records
Wm Whittoft and Raymond A Henry list names including Doris Lucile Everett Young and Mary Eunice Zeck with associated locations Washington and dates Sept 25 Sept 19 Aug 1, indicating a record snippet from a notice or registry of births and family connections in Washington.
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Wm. Whittoft
Washington
Whittoft
Raymond A. Henry John
Beautiful woman and digestion advice from old ad
A nineteenth or early twentieth century advertisement promotes Chamberlain's Tablets for better digestion. It suggests light meat consumption if digestion is faulty and cites Lemmon's Drug Store as the seller. The tone is promotional and period specific.
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Lemmon’s Drug Store
Do Stones Grow Or Not
The text argues that stones do not grow like living things. It explains that stones only increase in size or amount through external additions or processes such as chipping, hardening, smoothing, or mud coatings, not by internal growth.
Definition of Good Advertising Reflects Public Wants
The advertising manager of a large store defines good advertising as a reflection of the public's wants rather than pushing what the store desires to promote. He urges avoiding ads aimed solely at correcting mistakes or forcing purchases.
Finest New Year Celebration Across Asia
A piece from Lecies' Home Journal extols a ritual in Japan and China where debts are settled before New Year. It claims no one enters the new year with unpaid bills, presenting this as a grand celebration.
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Japan
China
Lecies
Good Substitute For White Woodwork Color Choice
Guidance favors a deep old ivory as a substitute for white woodwork to maintain a clean look. The aim is a general white effect without showing wear or a tie alert.
Col William Mitchell Leads First American Field Army Air Service
Col William Mitchell, starting as a private in the Spanish American war, becomes chief of the air service for the First American field army and directs aerial operations during the St. Millet drive. Born in France thirty nine years ago.
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William Mitchell
Tle
St. Millet Drive
Colonel Mitchell
France
September Term Concludes in Washington County Court
Judge K E Willcock closes his last term in Washington county and plans retirement. November term set for November 4 with Judge Henry Silwood presiding. Probate and civil dockets feature numerous guardianships estates sales judgments and defaults across multiple cases including Havel Neiswanger McCoy Paul and Graham among others.
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K. E. Willcockson
Washington County
Henry Silwold
Newton
Washington county draw lists first hundred numbers in draft
The capitol in Washington telegraphed the first hundred draft numbers yesterday. Only 24 belonged to Washington county men while the rest were higher than 2265. The list includes Oliver F. Leppert of Brighton number 322 holder of order one and many other local names with their assigned numbers. Exemption boards will publish the full rest in coming days and next week, men who waived exemption move to class one and will be examined.
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Capitol
Washington
Washington County
Oliver F. Leppert
Brighton
Oliver Franklin Leppert
Laudie Claude Ros
James Marshal Martin
Crawfordsville
Frederick Beeson Crain
Riverside
Cuassium M. Clay Walton
West Chester
Harry H. Springman
Arthur Leander Hough
Nathaniel Green Squire
James Edwin Dean
Keota
William Milton Simpson
Ainsworth
Newton Jasper Benson
Wash
Too much silence quoted by Booth Tarkington
The remark questions silence as either reticence or emptiness noting it may signal dignity or deception. Booth Tarkington highlights how quietness can be interpreted in multiple ways.
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Booth Tarkington
Local notices from Cedar Township events and meetings
Ladies of Cedar Township plan a dressed chicken sale for Red Cross on Saturday October 5. The Kolah club meets with Mrs Minnie Knapp Wednesday at 2 PM. Boy Scouts Troop 2 meet Tuesday at 7 30 PM for important business. Metho dist Sunday school class sewing bee next Thursday 2 5 PM at Mrs M Speidell home. Red Cross auxiliary meets Oct 2 at Mrs Rolla Eckerman home. Women's Hospital Auxiliary hold quarterly social Wednesday at 2 20 PM in Baptist church parlors with silver offering. Rainbow club meets Thursday 2 PM with Mrs Ed Miller. Presbyterian ladies social Friday 3 PM at the church bring needles thimbles.
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Cedar Township
Red Cross
Delta Alpha
Methodist Sunday School
Women's Hospital Auxiliary
Baptist Church
The
Presbyterian Church
Spoiler of Harmony
An old speaker laments a powerful singer at church who often sings off key, degrading the choir and the entire congregation with his loud, off pitch voice.
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Uncle Eben
New Use for Carbonic Acid in Wall Plastering
A European invention uses carbonic acid gas in a mortar spray device to apply plaster on walls, accelerating wetting and drying. The process aims to speed construction and improve finish by enabling rapid, controlled plastering.
Sewing Club Meet for Red Cross Benefit at Moot Hart Home
The RE C B C will meet this evening at the home of Miss Nola Moot hart. All interested in sewing for the Red Cross benefit are welcome.
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RE. C. B.C
Nola Moothart
Red Cross
Not Necessary. No wife's relative ever required forcible feeding
The Ohio State Journal notes a stance that no wife’s relative ever needed forcible feeding, framing the remark as a pointed legal or moral assertion without further context.
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Ohio State Journal
Young Women’s Missionary Society Meets Tonight
The Young Women’s Missionary Society of the First Presbyterian Church will meet tonight with Miss Carolyn Hamilton attending.
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The
Young Women's Missionary Society of the
First Presbyterian Church
Carolyn Hamilton
Definition and scope of martial law
Martial law is not a law in the usual sense but an abrogation of law. It is an order that supersedes civil law used in extreme peril when normal administration cannot protect the public welfare or safety.
Prince Axel Leads Danish Navy Mission in America
Prince Axel of Denmark commander of the Danish navy travels with his staff to four principal points of naval activity in America as part of a maritime tour.
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Prince Axel
Denmark
America
Weekend Clothing Drive and Weiner Roast Notice
People with old clothes for Belgian relief should use the northeast room of the square once Crull grocery space. The B BR O class hosts a weiner roast Thursday at Clyde and Mrs. Birney’s home, rain date at the Methodist church, depart 6 p.m. autos provided for those without transport.
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Crull Grocery
B. BR. O
Clyde Birney
Methodist Women Host Guest Day at Mrs Pauls Residence
The Women’s Foreign Missionary society of the Methodist church holds its guest day at 525 West Main Street, Friday at 2 30 PM. It opens the jubilee year and invites all church women to meet their Chinese Japanese and Hindu sisters and obtain new year books.
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Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Chas. Pauls
West Main St
Local club meetings moved due to weather and venue
The Navajo club will meet Wednesday afternoon at the Red Cross rooms. The PLPLL club meeting is postponed because of bad weather and will be held all day at E. J. Page’s home in town. The Good Times club will meet Thursday at the Red Cross workroom to work in town.
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Red Cross Rooms
PLPLL
E. J. Page
Good Times
Red Cross
Lost Time Reflections on Time and Eternity
A reflective quote laments how people delay beauty and action, warning that each passing day is time lost that cannot be recovered, urging mindful living before the final hour arrives. The saying underscores the permanence of wasted time and the value of decisive living.
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Mauw Mallee
Iowa Hog Survey Aimed to Gauge Pork for War Effort
The Food Administration under I F P Deems plans a September hog census in Iowa. School children will count every hog on farms via county committees to estimate exportable pork for soldiers and allies. Data covers brood sows, weighed hogs, and total hog numbers to guide Hoover's wartime food supply.
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Lowa
United States Food Administration
I. F P. Deems
Deems
Herbert Hoover
Ford Administration
Council of National Defense
Merchants
Farm Bureau
Hoover
Pood Administration
United States
Mr. Hoover
Federal
Dees
Decus
Food Administration Aa S
Iowa
Loover
Infernal heat sparks bold exchange in club scene
A stern colonel in a sunlit club demands water from a sly accomplice. The exchange reveals the old warrior's resolve as he asserts his thirst, not his intent, testing the traitor's loyalties amid simmering danger.
Worth White Quotation From City Streets Fragment
A quoted line describes a vast solitude on city streets and an army of the Lonely Falls to drown, suggesting a literary or poetic excerpt. The readable fragment centers on urban desolation and a symbolic force or group named Lonely Falls.
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Army of the
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promoted as Internal Cure
Advert reads hall s catarrh medicine is taken internally and acts through the blood on mucous surfaces. Describes catarrh as local yet influenced by constitution, claims best physicians prescribed it, ingredients include tonics and blood purifiers, offers testimonials and free samples.
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Hall
J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
C. Aggists
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Liberty Loan
Col
Willcockson
Silwold
Frank Havel
Emma Havel
C. A. Dewey
Jasper L. Neiswanger
W.H. Butterfield
Eli Neiswanger
Thomas McCoy
Horation Hall
Frank Cruz
Ance
Thomas W. Rickey
H. T. Reynolds
Daniel Hofer
W. H. Butterfield
Marian L. Doig
Fort Sherman
Rachel Thompson
Pomeroy Mather
Christina Hunter
Mary C. Hoskins
Guardian
Star Gro, & Mar. Co
George H. Paul
Western Union Telegraph Co
Henry Austerheide
Geo. H. Paul Co
Marshal Field & Co
Ster Clothing Mfc. Co
George H. Paul Farm Co
Flaxman Dry Goods & Nation Co
H. Paul
Jane Hunter
Etta May Hunter
Mae McLaughlin
William McLaughlin
Mery Harding
J. TL. Hesseltine
W. A. Stewart
Jacob Moon
A. H. Twinam
James Rogers
Bertha Irene Cowger
Jonathan Wilson
Charles Kos
Hugh D. Downey
Sarah J. Donavan
Simon P. Teeple
John W. Davidson
John Essley
Minnie &. Elgar
Luther Hall
L. Fouchek
Melcher Staley
Sulalia Merchant Benson
Wm. S. Custer
Mary Ruth Merchant
Ilowa Savings Bank
C. C. Graham
Iowa Savings Bank
Enderes, Incorp
V. O. K Mauck
Shapleigh Hdw. Co
O. K. Mauck
Sickleigh Hdw. Co
Ington
Wilmer George Robb
Warren Cash Grocery
Kolah Club
Minnie Knapp
Boy Scouts
Rolla Eckerman
Floyd Green
Rainbow Club
Ed Miller
McCal Bros
J. L. Pearson
Journal
H. P
Iowa Gas & Electric Co
Gor
Jonathans
Ben Davis
Stout
Poland
Robert Sheetz
Towa
Phone
Jersey
Boyd Berdo
Sitfeed
South Bend Malle
Carl Combs
Ed Geret
Ainsworth Cemetery
Edmund Feichtmeir
Goonp German Heater
Call
Humble
T. L. Dodds
Duroc Jersey
F. A. Donaldson
Burr Taylor
West Washington Street
Reed
C. L. Stone
Lear
Win Smouse
Green
Modern
North Ave
G. W. Alexander
W. M. Keeley
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