Queen Esthers Meet with Alma Karel
The Queen Esthers held a lively first meeting of the year with Miss Alma Karel, twelve members present, and home made candy served. Also covered were a Fortnightly Music Department session at Mrs. George Mann’s hospitable home with a program on North American Indian and Negro music.
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Queen Esthers
Alma Karel
George Mann
Lewis
Thurlow Lieurance
George Masson
Cadman
Helen Harvey
Maurine Mclaughlin
Miss Hamilton
Miss McLaughlin
Hazel Smith
Lowith Miss Hunter
Shanewis
Claire Dewey
Net Trotman
Jack
Maurine
Washington
Alma Hearne Holland Missionary Soceity
Lillian Minick
Japan
Jessie Klein
Methodist bake sale and club notices announced
Delta Alpha class of the Methodist Sunday school to hold a bake sale on Saturday October 20 at South Side Square. Group 5 of the Methodist church to meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs Amos Weaver bringing thimbles and needles. EF club to meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs H Guther. 19th Century club meeting for October 20 postponed to October 27.
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Delta Alpha
Methodist Sunday School
South Side Square
The
Methodist Church
Amos Weaver
Havre Social Club to Meet Thursday Afternoon
Notice lists Havre social gathering with Mrs Will McBride and the Ladies Auxiliary Society of West Chester United Presbyterian church meeting Thursday afternoon Oct 25 in church parlors. Committee in charge named with several organizers and reception helpers.
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Cora Guffey
Irene Harrison
Havre
Will McBride
Ladies Auxiliary Society
West Chester
Woman's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church
BE. C. Carria
Ladies Aid Society
The
First United Presbyterian Church
Rural Women's Club and Bridge Club Meet Elsewhere
Notice describes social gatherings with T W Hunter and Mrs Karl Corbin hosting Thursday afternoon events at O8L2 venue.
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Notie Bridge Club
Ridge Club
Karl Corbin
Joint Knights and Pythian Ladies Social Notice
Notice of a social event by the Knights and Pythian Ladies to be held Thursday evening October 18 masked attendees invited. Special music announced.
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Pythian
Ruhr Occupation Diverts US Orders Through Germany
The Ruhr occupation has caused U S orders to be filled by wholesalers in unoccupied Germany especially for tools cutlery machinery and dress goods. German wholesalers refuse to pay export taxes amid passive resistance while shipments to U S ports continue by irregular routes. Smugglers and smugglers agents reportedly profit as seizures at frontiers strip goods destined for American wholesalers.
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Associated Press
Fessen
United States
Ruhr
Germany
Crefeld
Solingen
Four Generations of Mountains Rise in Europe
Four times since geological history began new generations of mountains have arisen in Europe, illustrating the earth’s great and repeated changes. there is reason to believe another rise may occur in the future.
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Europe
Indianapolis News
Power of a Smile in a Boston Street Tale
A young woman carelessly throws an apple core from a moving car hitting a speeding motorcyclist in the face. He stops in anger but is won over by her smile after which he grins and resumes riding.
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Tim Magistrate
Boston Transcript
Who Eros Was In Mythology Through Time
Eros in Greek myth is Cupido or Amor in Roman terms. He is Mars and Venus’s son, usually shown with golden wings and a quiver, aiming arrows to inflame love. Always near his mother, he is often depicted blindfolded. Early accounts described him as a handsome youth, later as a playful, sometimes cruel boy.
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Eros
Cupido
Amor
Mars
Venus
Alexander the Great
Frogs
World cables reach moon with historic wire length claim
A wire in cables says the total length of wire in all sheathing and core since 1SS7 would span from earth to the moon. The claim highlights the vast scale of the world cables introduced in that era.
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Earth
Moon
Harmony club special meeting noted this Thursday
Notice lists a Harmony club special meeting at Mrs. Howard McCreedy's home on October 18 with a request for attendance. It also mentions Rebekah regular meetings, Ladies Aid Methodist church business session, Presbyterian choir rehearsal, and a U. S. club gathering with Mrs. Charles Hoxworth.
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Harmony Club
Howard McCreedy
Presbyterian
Selecting Jane's Husband
In a small town Mr and Mrs Davison debate suitors for their daughter Jane who is twenty five. They consider Hiram Blake Caswell and Augustus Mallory before Mallory proves satisfactory but Jane rejects Mallory and reveals she has already accepted Hiram Blake.
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Mrs. Davison
Jane
Mr. Davison
Papa Davison
Jana
Caswell
Yards
Mallory
Beach Hotel
Silas
Davison
Augustus Mallory
Dick Whitington
Jane Davison
Pa Davison
New York
Hiram Blake
Blake
Davidson
Father
Augustus
State Vigilance Committee shoot opens at Fort Des Moines
Twenty four Iowa counties are represented in the first annual state vigilance committee shoot at Fort Des Moines. Prizes total 430 dollars. County contestants include merchants doctors bankers and farmers. Observers join to study firearms use. The event is led by Col Harry La Tone Cavenaugh with speeches at noon by Attorney General Ben J Gibson and C E B Narey.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Iowa
Fort Des Moines
Iowa Bankers Association
County Bankers’ Associations
Harry LaTone Cavenaugh
Cavenaugh
Ben J. Gibson
C. EB. Narey
Spirit Lake
State Bankers’ Association
Blackhawk
Herman T. Wagner
Waterloo
Boone County
Russell Mackey
Boone
Br. A. Gamble
Madrid
Hamilton County
J. R. Zeigler
Webster City
W. G. Wilke
Johnson County
W. H. Bender
Marshall County
BE. R. Dewey
Rhodes
O. A. Sweet
State Center
J. R. Meekings
Marshalltown
Muscatine
Henry Wilson
Charles Robinson
Wireless car listening devices era described for English cars
An English invention offers wireless sets for motor cars costing $900 for roof aerial units enabling passengers to listen while driving. A smaller $125 model uses a tree as an aerial and lets motorists listen during picnics in woodland areas.
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England
Growth of Insurance Business in Iowa Reported
Des Moines October 17 W R Kendrick state insurance commissioner reported new figures on Iowa insurance growth. He said Iowa ranks third in home companies, and Iowa life firms draw more premiums from outside Iowa than non Iowa companies take in within the state. He cited a billion and a half dollars in life in force today up from 612 million in 1912, and noted substantial gains across fire casualty and fraternal groups.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Iowa
W. R
Mississippi River
Cains
Legal Reserve Life
Kendrick
Assessment Life Associations
Towa
Towa Life
Insurance Department of
Life Companies
State Insurance Department
Penalty for private use noted in library transfer
A citizen wrote to his congressman about a patent office report. The letter was forwarded with the "Penalty for private use" notice. The congressman received a reply stating the fee was $500 and that the volume was turned over to the public library.
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Patent Office
Liverpool’s rise from slave to cotton trade power
Privateers and slave traders based in Liverpool helped build the city into a major eighteenth century port. One year boasted that ships from Liverpool carried fifty thousand enslaved Africans to the Americas. After abolition of the slave trade Liverpool pivoted to cotton, remaining a key trade hub to the present day.
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Liverpool
England
New World
Africa
Vicious Minds Quote Echoes on Anger and Forgiveness
A compact aphorism notes that small minded people revel in anger and revenge and cannot taste forgiveness, attributing the sentiment to a Chesterfieldial warning about human nature.
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Chesterfield
Almost Through Marks Drop Lower Headline
A wry note on prices slipping as markets hover near stability. The quip suggests further decline might push figures into new lows, likening it to a buoyant rise toward distant shores in China.
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China
Child prodigies in verse and music reach early fame
Bright children like Dante at nine composing a master sonnet Tasso at ten writing verses Byron by ten composing love poetry and Mozart at four learning the harpsichord show precocious talent. Macaulay in eighth year penned a Compendium of Universal Mystery.
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Dante
Tasso
Mozart
Byron
Macaulay
Bats Draw Daytime Intrusions Noted In Lighted Homes
Bats rarely seen in daylight, but may fly in when a window is open during warm months. Nature Magazine notes the best remedy is to let the bat escape unharmed as it feeds on many harmful insects.
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Nature Magazine
The Rainbow Touch Landlady Quotes on Colorful Language
A landlady describes her lodger and his speech as a rainbow of colors. The remark highlights the quirky personality and vivid word use shaping the boarding house atmosphere.
Famous Fires Across Time and Trade
A collage of fire references spans urban, rural, and dramatic scenes from Chicago blazes to forest and stove fires. The phrases evoke urgency, danger, and the varied causes and consequences of fires in society and memory.
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Chicago
Gush Warns of Being Drowned by Cynics
The passage warns that Gush faces danger from cynics who could overwhelm or silence it, suggesting a perilous dynamic between leaders and critics. The tone implies impending risk if skepticism persists.
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Uncas
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Ernie Tucker
Prickett
T. R
T. M. Beenblossom
G. Hopping
Ed Miller
Lester Beenblossom
Frank Snider
Arthur Nicola
D. G. Beenblossom
John Tucker
Charles McKay
Mra
Fred Kephart
Misses Bridges
Wilbur Knapp
Myra Jane
Sioux City
Ina Leiberknecht
Letts
Rooking Klub
S&s W
Etna Dawson
Nel! Tripp
Gertrude Kendall
Phidias
Scopas
Praxiteles
Lysippis
Henry Rath
C. 5. Timmons
Lexington
Janet Timmons
Mary Maud Timmons
C. C. Fardner of
Wellman
T. 8. EF. Club
H. Guther
P. B
Pythian Circle
Ralph Thompson
South
Iowa Avenue
Oregon
Rural Woman's Club
T. W. Hunter
Moose Lanigoe
Highland Four
Rebekah
Ladies Aid of the
Methodtist Church
U. S
Charles Hoxworth
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
State Vigilance Committee
Mistie
Kellogg’s
Star, Horseshoe and Climax Tobacco
Plug
Swift’s
Illinois
Kentucky Coal
Farmers Co-Operative Exchange
Washington, Iowa
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