Steering wheel loosens in crash near Washington
A Ford driven by H C Hotle rolled into a ditch as the steering wheel came loose on the White Way near Has king. Passenger Frank Macon, a popular auctioneer, injured his right ankle with a cracked bone. Hotle halted the car and both driver and vehicle escaped further harm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Way
Washington
Frank Macon
Macon
H. C. Hotle
Colonel Macon
Taylor Sale
Hasking
Hotle
Mr. Hotle
W. P. Rawn
Ills of a Motor Car with Polites to Helats
A humorous verse about car trouble from a dead battery to a failed start. The speaker endures the search for a solution, visits a service man, buys a PREST-O-LITE battery, and reflects on the prior joy of owning the car. The piece closes with a mix of relief and lingering regret.
Young Girl Hurt in Accident Improves at Hospital
Hedrick eleven year old Helen Umbaugh remains steadily improving after an east of town collision Sunday. Doctors report a skull fracture with no brain pressure, blood clots absorbing and facial paralysis easing. Aunt Mia Bert Deselm, also injured, shows improvement from a serious elbow fracture. Bert Deselm of Hedrick, killed in the same crash, burial today in Hedrick Baptist church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Umbaugh
Hedrick
Altho
Mia
Bert Deselm
Hedrick Baptist Church
Play Day Planned at Chester Next Tuesday
Next Tuesday will feature a play day at Chester with West Chester and surrounding schools taking part. Invited teams include Center No. 6 Prairie Flower Westminster in Seventy Six township Bethel Center Lexington Cedar Enterprise New Havre No. 2 Dutch Creek Center Pleasant Franklin township No. 5 Washington. Activities listed cover volley ball races base ball and other games for children plus a 2 15 p m basketball game between West Chester and Crawfordsville and possibly a football match with another school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Chester
Center
No. 6
Prairie Flower
Westminster
Seventy-Six Township
Bethel Center
Lexington Cedar Township
Enterprise
New
Havre
Dutch Creek
Pleasant
Franklin Township
Washington
Crawfordsville
Blue Door House Painting Study in Gray and Blue Green
A low gray house with blue green doors and window frames sits on an emerald lawn. Delphinium borders line the gravel path, giving a serene scene that the painting seems to convey as softly wistful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ceetly Weepsing
Poem Prompt Sparks Odd Student Line in Class
A pupil submitted a sentence containing coot and hern from Onatys's Ten nyson poem task. The line reads in part about a girl with an awful Coot dell and mentions it wasn’t bern, leaving teachers to interpret its meaning and intent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Onatys
Wee Tennyson
Built goodwill in business urged by Cedar Rapids executive
G A Shores of Cedar Rapids told the Washington Act club that you cannot saw wood with a hammer and urged business leaders to build goodwill among customers and rivals. He said the best way to gain new business is to grow it in the community, advocated truth in advertising, and urged prompt correction of defects. The Shores-Mueller company, capitalized at half a million, promotes community spirit and congenial competition during the ad course kickoff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. A. Shores
Cedar Rapids
Washington Act Club
Shores
Shores-Mueller Company of
Middle West
J. S. McElhinney
Tracy Phillips
Ralph Shannon
Roy Means
Lesiie Dunlap
Books as opium and dream to the reader
The quote compares readers to hashish users, claiming books corrupt perception and invite phantoms. It warns that in time everyone becomes a keeper of libraries, signaling civilization's end as books enslave minds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anatole
France
S. A. Black Civil War Veteran Dies in Rock Island
Rock Island mourns S. A. Black Civil War veteran of Company C nineteen Iowa who died at home after a lingering illness. Survived by wife formerly Misa Alice Abraham two sons Frank and Will and daughter Mrs Ross Vanes all of Rock Island. Born in Pennsylvania moved to Dutch Creek township then Rock Island. Lifelong United Presbyterian.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Black
Company C
Iowa
Rock Island
Misa Alice Abraham
Frank
Will
Ross Vanes
Black
Dutch Creek Township
Pennsylvania
United Presbyterian Church
Junior High Pupils and Patrons Meet
Parents visited the eighth grade circle at the junior high school to meet teachers Miss Iveta Pauls and Miss Eleanor Walker. Short programs included piano solos and readings with light refreshments after. The meetings run on Monday and Tuesday evenings for four weeks to foster teacher-parent acquaintance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iveta Pauls
Eleanor Walker
Alice Brock
Wanelta Tucker
Ruth Finney
Edna Fetters
Helen Tucker
Frank Langworthby
Hiawatha
Frysinger Delivers Splendid Pipe Organ Recital
J Frank Frysinger, noted pipe organist, gave an excellent program at the Methodist church in Washington despite a small audience. The concert, arranged by the church choir, featured Macfarlane Spring Song and Kinder Caprice, with three of Frysinger's own compositions closing a strong recital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Altho
J. Frank Frysinger
Methodist Church
Frysinger
Washington
Macfarlane
Ralph Kinder
Value of Greek in modern education debated
Two Columbia graduates discuss the value of studying Greek. One asks if Greek has any use today and the other replies that the Greek alphabet helps a person know what group he belongs to.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Hoover Seeks Nationwide Co operation to Limit Winter Hardship
Secretary of Commerce Hoover urged nationwide cooperation to implement the emergency unemployment program and said the country could endure the winter with no acute suffering. He cited 10 to 20 percent of unemployment as necessities needing emergency measures, and pressed tax and tariff action to aid recovery and stabilize business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Commerce Hoover
Hoover
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mannhardt Bros
W. Fe, Hender
South Town Ave
Napshots
Phillips Drug Store
Kodak
Chester
GAS and Electric
Reisters
Washington Street
Raisters
Beulah Miksch
W. S. Reister & Sons
Miss Miksch
S. A. Black
J. F. Frysinger
MW. FE
Evening Journal
W. L. Helle
Rubio
Carl Libe
McElhinney'’s
Elfvator
M. D. Atkinson
Boyd Berdo
Care of Journal
P. J. Hanley
Journal
Poland
T. W
Clifford Hunter
W. F. Shockley
Noble
J. E. Phone
Frank H. Gray
Lennox
Christian Church
W. W. McFarland
Rubio Line
Frank R. Feltz
Keota
Call
Beliel
K. Jefterson
Blue
DODGE
L. D. Robinson
Alliman Bros
Sthead
Kansas Land
Washington, la
George Mann
Redios
N. 7Th Ave
Howard Kerr
Iowa’ Lunch Room
PROM
Iowa City
Chas. Denison
Milwaukee Ford
South 4Th Ave
N. Town Ave
Frederick Kurn
Walnut St
Philadelphia
Columbus Institute
Columbus
Herbert Hoover
Germany
Congress
United States
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Organization Committee
Lewis
Joseph H. Defrees
Chamber of Commerce of the
Europe
Department of Labor
National Industrial Conference Board
Minneapolis
New York
Chicago
U. S. Steel Corporation
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!