Crawfordsville News Seen Quiet Weekend as Bonds Sold
The local school board sold bonds Saturday for a new school building with bids from several firms. Burlington visitors, on weekend trips, included Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Gannon and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rhea with kin. Organ and choir events were noted at Olds and Mercy Hospital visits occurred in Iowa City.
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Crawfordsville
Marshall Gannon
Burlington
E. B Franklin
Robert Rhea
Lawrence
Everette Rhea
Burington
Leland Maxwell
bState
Cedar Falls
Clarence Moorhead
Milton Davidson
Washington
Presbyterian
Olds
W. M. Keeley
Patricia
Joan
T. T. Keeley
John Strain
W. J. Brown
Wellman
Bert Olsen
Rally Day Program Shines At M E Church West Chester
West Chester brings strong Sunday school program with good speaking and music. Mrs. Morris Crayne sings Oh Heart of Mine, praised as strong as premier Lec ture Course acts. Local events include basketball space in upper room and garage use in lower room. Football result West Chester 18 Ainsworth 13. Church bazaar and chicken pie supper planned for Nov 8 in church basement.
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West Chester
M. KE
Morris Crayne
Randall
McFarlane
Brumback
M. E. Church
Sabbath Standpoints Clash Over Sunday Joy
Dr. William C Covert of Chicago urges preserving the Christian Sabbath as a physical and spiritual necessity. He warns against Puritan rigidity while opposing commercialized excess and a universal day of rest that benefits society and the soul. Communities must resist greed that profits from leisure without spiritual meaning.
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Pittsburgh
William Chalmers Covert
First Presbyterian Church of Chicago
Worlds Alliance of Presbyterian and Reformed Churches
Covert
United Churches of Christ
Local Visitors Noted Around Ainsworth Community
Mrs Levis and daughter Miss Helen Levis of Ailer ton and Mrs Hamilton of Penn visit Dr W L Alcorn home. Nettie Haverson of Austin Colo arrives for extended stay with relatives. Bobce Kurtz visits Ainsworth. Wm Marsh home from Des Moines for weekend with parents. Wm Stotts of Gibbs Mo reports his mother Minerva Stotts is ill and with him this winter. R D Bodeman and daughter Lotta Bodeman of Muscatine visit J A Marsh family. Mr Underwood of Fairfield and Mr Schlichting of Columbus June-
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Nettie Haverson
Austin
Colo
Minerva Stotts
R. D. Bodeman
Lotta Bodeman
Muscatine
J. A. Marsh
Underwood
Fairfield
Mr. Schlichting
Columbus
Sitting on The World comes to Fox with new lead
Amusement feature presents a rural comedy in the vein of The Old Homestead and Way Down East at the Fox on Wednesday. David Butler stars as the hero with Lilian Hall as the child friend, as rival schemes and a war record deception unfold into a climactic reckoning and a final fadeout. Photoplay fans are invited to guess the ending.
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America
The
Fox
David Butler
Lillian Hall
Protest rhetoric and greed in blue law debates
The passage argues that protests against blue laws and the defense of personal liberty are driven mainly by financial greed. It claims that greed for gain and selfish ends are tempered by respect for the Sabbath, fueling the campaign against blue laws.
Farmers Hope for Better Times in Des Moines
Des Moines reports a hopeful shift as freight rates trend downward and the War Finance Corporation funds reach Iowa bankers to finance farm operations. Farmers expect a return to normal activity, while land owners and tenants pursue conciliatory talks to adjust leases toward shared risk and benefit.
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Des Moines
War Finance Corporation
Iowa
Awkward Youth Reassures Stranger at Station
A traveler insults a local youth as awkward and lazy but learns the boy is the insulted man’s son. The father finally reveals the kinship, ending the exchange with a muted lesson on judgment.
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American Legion Weekly
Notable Musicians Die in Recent Times and Nearby Plans
Two prominent figures in music have died recently. American artist David Bispham passed away October 2 in New York, leaving a void in master classes nationwide. Berlin and American figures like Humperdinck and dIndy are noted for upcoming performances and international tours. The article also mentions Mary Garden and Gior Giorgio Polacco, who are vacationing in Paris, and Vasa Prihoda preparing for a North American tour with a Prague accompanist. Leo Sowerby receives the Prix de Rome and sails for Naples. The piece covers new works, premieres, and ongoing tours across key cities and institutions.
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David Bispham
New York
Bispham
Sneerbert Humperdinck
Hansel and Gretel
Berlin
Richard Wagner
Siegfried Wagner
Eos
Hansel and
Gretel
Army Band Master and Composer Archle Shearley
Archle Shearley, who entered the army in 1917 as band master, produced works heard publicly by major ensembles. His Set of Your with the Chicago Symphony, Three Folk Tune Lettices with Minneapolis Symphony, a piano concerto performed by Sowerby, and other pieces for string quartet and woodwinds were noted alongside a Plymouth pageant chorus and a violin piano trio.
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Chicago Symphony
Minneapolis Symphony
Sowerby
Plymouth
Iowa State University
Archle Shearley
Des Moines
Dead Bluffs Bandit Identified in San Francisco Heist
The gun battle near Council Bluffs left two dead and two wounded. James Landers, alias King and Lane, a San Francisco felon, was identified as the bandit killed. Landers faced warrants in Kansas City and St Joseph and is linked to the Mrs. Alice King case. Police pursue two other fugitives: Chris Bowlin and W A Bennett.
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Council Bluffs
Here
James Thompson
James Landers
San Francisco
Landers
King and
Lane
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Ward
W. A. Bennett
Not Safe De Young Man Quelled Drowning
Ikey asks if the young man saved his boy from drowning. Pat replies he did his duty and requests not to mention it. Ikey questions the missing cap as the scene shifts to Stanford Chaparral.
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Ikey
Pat
Stanford Chaparral
Snow hid farm misrepresentation case in Des Moines
J B Hubbard sold a Dallas county farm to H T Houk in January last year. Snow was a foot deep on the farm when sold. Houk proved Hubbard misrepresented the farm as good. A jury in Judge Wallingford's court awarded Houk $1500 damages.
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Des Moines
Dallas County
J. B. Hubbard
Ht. B. Houk
Hubbard
Houk
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