Missionary Meeting Highlights Fifty Year Jubilee in Des Moines
The Des Moines Branch W F M S of the M E church held its 36th annual meeting in Union Church Des Moines Iowa Oct 9 to Oct 12. Officers included Mrs Oner S Dow president and Mrs J M Gray of Kansas City vice president. Reports show all ten conferences met pledges amid jubilee celebrations with speakers Bishop Quayle and Rev Benj Young. The banquet drew 500+ attendees at the Y M C A with updates from Lydia Trimble and Miss Simonds on China India and Italy missions. New officers include Elsie Will Frances Will Burling ton Mrs W R Keesey and J M M Gray as college secretary.
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ST. Louis
Evening Journal
Des Moines
M. E
Union Church
Delmar Hall
Oner S
Boston
Iowa
Benjamin Young
Quayle
James M. Thoburn
India
Fremont St
Isabelle Thoburn
Clara A. Swain
Benson Baker
Mildred Sirmonds
Daisy Dean Wood van Sant
Dr Osborne
Baker
Centenary Commission
Columbus
Vilagens
Osborne
Frances Miller
Denver
Emma P. Anderson
Sedalia
Fisher
Waterloolow
Osborne Ting
Miss Trimble
China
Japan
Simonds
Edythe Huff
Avia Proctor
Hazel Rogers
Leona Puppel
Trimble
Ruth
Ortha Lane
Italy
J. M. M. Gray
Grace Currier
Garibaldi
Rome
R. S. Beall
Dow
Indianola
Elsie Will
Muscatine
Frances Will
Burlington
W.R. Keesey
Pleasant
H. F. Gilbert
Oskaloosa
Mabel Gibson
Ottumwa
van Seholack
Y. P. Work
Mabel Johnson
Children Work
Marion
Cheney
Best Cough Remedy Proclaimed By Frankfort Reader
Mrs Walter Oram of Frankfort New York praises Chamberlains Cough Remedy as the best medicine for coughs and colds. She recalls its quick relief for her son Carl nine during a croup attack and says she always keeps it at home with satisfactory results. Lemmons Drug Store advertises the product.
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Chamberlain
Walter Oram
Frankfort
N. Y
Carl
Lemmon
Advt
Monona County plans 2 million dollar master drainage system
Onawa October 16 the Monona County board of supervisors authorized Sioux City engineer C Moriarty to survey and estimate a county wide drainage project. The plan covers 116000 acres and includes straightening sections of the Little Sioux River West Fork and Maple River with a main ditch about 25 miles long linking roughly 100 miles of laterals.
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Onawa
Moenona County
Board of Supervisors
Moriarty
Sioux City
Little Sioux
West Fork
Ordinance defines duties and pay for Washington policemen
Ordinance No 137 establishes police duties under the City Marshal authority and fixes compensation at forty cents per hour. It states the ordinance becomes effective after passage and publication. Passed and approved October 6, 1919. Mayor J. E. Bovee. City Clerk S. Kellogg.
Five Years For Auto Thief In Atlantic
Chris Sorensen a 20 year old pleaded guilty to grand larceny in Atlantic and received five years in the state reformatory at Anamosa. He stole an automobile belonging to Assistant Postmaster John J. Rapp, took the car from in front of a Baptist church, and drove it to Council Bluffs. The defendant is the son of farmer Chris Sorensen Sr. north of Walnut.
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Atlantic
Anamosa
Chris Sorensen
John J. Rapp
Sorensen
Walnut
Baptist Church
Council Bluffs
State Teachers To Meet November 6 8
The annual meeting of the Iowa State Teachers Association will be held in Des Moines on November 6 7 and 8. It promises to address organization and educational needs during reconstruction with over fifty group meetings and messages from educational leaders inside and outside the state.
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Iowa State Teachers’ Association
Des Moines
Association
Berlin finance minister eyed as Cerviman ambassador to U S
Dr Albert Suedekum once Berlin finance minister, rumored to be favored for Cerviman ambassador to the United States. He has visited Albenie several times and is familiar with our institutions.
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Albert Suedehuin
Berlin
Menion
Cerviman
United States
Albenie
Highest beefsteak price paid in Circle City Alaska
The first beefsteak to reach Circle City during the Klondike boom sold for 48 dollars a pound. Surge of demand led to raffling slices for hospital funds with tickets priced from five hundred cents to two dollars fifty.
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Circle City
Alaska
Klondike
Georgia Local Option Suppressed Liquor Traffic 1859
Georgia enacted the first local option law to suppress liquor traffic in 1859. The measure marked a milestone in state level efforts toward alcohol restrictions and influenced subsequent reforms in the region.
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Georgia
My Sammy Girl at the Graham Tonight
Kilroy and Britton present a new military musical comedy My Sammy Girl featuring Billie Robinson in the title role. Parker writes the book and lyrics with Williams composing the music in a production praised for ensemble singing and coordinated dance.
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Kilroy and
Britton
Simmy
Billie
Pep) Robinson
L. B. Parker
W. R. Williams
Cowboy Girl
Sammy Girl
the Graham
Too Much to Bear
A witty exchange unfolds as Mr Binderton asks Amelia to relay a message to her young man about staying the night. He jokes that he does not mind the extra gas bill but objects to his leaving with the morning paper.
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Amelia
Towboat with dual propellers powered by battery or wire
A historical electric towboat operates on a shallow Preeneh canal with propellers at both ends. It can be driven by storage batteries or by power drawn from an overhead wire, enabling versatile navigation in constrained waterways.
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Preeneh Canal
Parsons College Receives Presbyterian Aid Share
Parsons college in Iowa is chosen by the Presbyterian board of education as the first beneficiary of the $2,000,000 raised yearly over five years. The college aims to raise $410,000 by March 31, 1921, with the General Church Board contributing 5 percent of funds via the New Era movement in 1920-21, about $100,000.
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Fairfield
Parsons College
Presbyterian Board of Education
General Church Board
Iowa
Burleson Defends Postal Policy At Hardware Meeting
Postmaster General Burleson, in his first public speech since joining the cabinet, denounced critics before the National Hardware Manufacturers Association. He praised the postal service as rapidly developing and highly organized, asserting the administration’s efficiency is near perfection and that the record will not be altered.
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Atlantic Clery
Burleson
National Hardware Manuufacturers’ Assorciation
Postal Administration
Carpenters' Struck and Westminster Tower Details
The Victoria tower at Westminster’s Houses of Parliament took about twenty years to build. From base to summit the tower houses 140 spacious rooms, each fireproof and packed with state papers and centuries of English records.
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Houses of Parliament
Westminster
Breed of Men on Screen Starring William S Hart at Graham Theatre
Review notes William S Hart stars in Breed of Men set in a Western boom town Chloride. Wesley B Prentice cons settlers while Carmody the beer-pushing sheriff hopeful is drawn in. A love rescue and fraud expose lead to pursuit and justice with Leena Owen as lead woman.
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William
S. Hart
Carmody
Chloride
Prentice
Carmon
Prentie
Rascal
Chicago
Justice
Leena Owen
Chamberlains Tablets Praise From Auburn Woman
Mrs B Hooper of Auburn New York declares stomach trouble and constipation relieved by Chamberlains Tablets Lemmons Drug Store endorses the remedy in an Auburn advertisement promising relief and satisfaction for readers.
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Chamberlain
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