Local and Personal Notes Plus Retail Ad Highlights
Local items list residents visiting relatives in Burlington Pleasant Plain and Wyman, and departures for Chicago Cedar Rapids and Keokuk. McNamara Furniture advertises rugs lace curtains and a cost sale on jewelry and silverware at Bradley’s. bios note Misses Al ice Dempsey Mildred Griffith Maude Swan and Bernice Pettit among locals returning or traveling with short visits. The Wizard of Wiseland musical comedy opens at the Graham tonight with a strong chorus and many performers.
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Graham Tonight
The Match Girl Tale Told By Daddy At Bedtime
Evelyn and Jack learn the match girl story in which a famous opera singer, moved by charity, helps a poor street seller. The singer buys the girl’s matches and uses her voice to attract crowds, raising money for the girl and mother as people donate gold and silver to buy the matches.
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Daddy
Evelyn
Jack
America
Gir
Opera House
Dreamlike Studio Session Ends With Chopin Collapse
A narrator recalls Chopin in his studio with a skeleton draped in a white cloth. He places the skeleton on the piano and plays, linking life and death through music. The scene ends as Chopin collapses unconscious and the skeleton is destroyed, though the music lingers.
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Ziem
Chopin
Colt Show at McElwain's Barn Next Saturday Oct 8
Martin Swift will hold his annual colt show at McElwain's barn a week from next Saturday afternoon October 8 at 1 30. He invites all to attend and expects a splendid showing of colts sired by Puck-inup Prince Harold and Gypsy Chief. Four prizes will be awarded for colts from each of the stallions. The shows have been popular and bring out mighty pretty animals.
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Martin Swift
McElwain's Barn
Mr. Swift
Puck-inup
Prince Harold
Gypsy Chief
Borrowed Smiles and Quick Wits in Newspaper Snippets
A collage of humorous vignettes features Eugene Walter’s wry remarks on human nature, a witty exchange with a charming girl, a New Jersey maid’s model husband, a dinner table quip about drinking, and a doctor’s joke about a quarter sized hole in a stocking.
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Eugene Walter
Mr. Walter
Tommy
McCaulley Hosts Two Dinners for Smiley and Gatlin
Mr. and Mrs. V. P. McCaulley entertained a group of seventeen at their home three miles southeast of the city with a six o'clock dinner for Mr. and Mrs. Joe Smiley Mrs. 8. M. Gatlin and Harve McCaulley of Lebanon Kansas. A twelve o'clock dinner followed for the same guests yesterday. The event concluded with a social and refreshments. A county Rebekah lodge convention was organized in the city with Mrs. Laura Kent present and officers elected for next year including President Mrs. Anna Crandall Brighton Vice President Mrs. Eardley Bell Wellman Secretary Mrs. Marie Bittler Washington Treasurer Miss Anne Houdek Washington. Kent gave degree-work instructions and Brighton will host the next convention.
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V. P. McCaulley
City
Joe Smiley
8. M. Gatlin
Harve McCaulley
Lebanon
Kansas
Rebekah
I. O. O. F. Hall
Laura Kent
Brighton and Wellman
Anna Crandall
Brighton
Eardley Bell
Wellman
Marie Bittler
Announcement notes from Muscatine group meeting
Full attendance requested Wednesday evening as Bro. Fred Walton DGMW of Muscatine attends. There will be a special meeting of Section 1 Junior Queen Esther Circle with Mrs. J A Harwood tomorrow at 4 PM. This is an important meeting.
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U. W
Fred Walton
D.G.M.W
Muscatine
N. H. Jones
Esther
J. A. Harwood
Mrs Jacob Wilmert Recovers Health After Kidney Pills
Lincoln resident Mrs. Jacob Wilmert reports kidney trouble and backache with poor appetite improving after a fair trial of Poley Kidney Pills. She says she is now in perfect health and credits the remedy, distributed by Lemmon's Pharmacy and McElhinney Drug Co.
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Jacob Wilmert
Lincoln
Til
Lemmon
McElhinney Drug Co
Skating Rink to Open Season Friday Night
The skating rink will be open for the season this Friday night signaling the start of winter recreation. Local officials expect steady attendance as residents gear up for public skating hours and special events through the weekend.
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Oli
True Road to Happiness
A sermonish meditation asserts happiness comes when unselfish love motivates actions. It argues joy grows from benefiting others, pleasing parents, siblings, spouses, children, and friends, and from sharing rather than hoarding personal gains.
Lizzie Reported Talking of Marriage Again
Stella and Bella discuss a rumor that Lizzie plans marriage again, noting she has not been married before.
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Stella
Lizzie
Bella
It Saved His Leg Says Watertown Man
It saved his leg writes J. A. Swensen of Watertown Wisconsin after ten years of eczema eluded 15 doctors. Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured the eruption leaving him sound and well. Effective for skin eruptions eczema salt rheum boils fever sores burns scalds cuts and piles. 2f at J E Lemmon Lemmon's Pharmacy.
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J. A. Swensen
Watertown
Wis
Bucklen
J. E. Lemmon
Lemmon
Will Speak at Wellman From Socialist Candidate John M Work
John M Work son of J in this city will speak October 7 at Wellman addressing party supporters He is a candidate for governor on the Socialist ticket and regarded as one of the party’s most able speakers in the region Everyone is invited to hear the address
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John M. Work
Priday
Work
City boys urged to learn trades in schools
A letter argues city youths face limited OW trades opportunities and face pressure to move to the country. The writer urges practical use of manual training in schools to teach useful trades instead of clerical roles.
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Gan City
Courrieres Mine Disaster Death Toll Context
A historic note recalls that prior to the 1906 Courrieres mine disaster there were multiple fatal explosions in France. It states more than nine men were killed in earlier incidents and nearly 1,200 died in the Courrieres explosion.
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France
Courrieres
Rexall Hair Tonic Promised At Your Rexall Store
Promoting Rexall Hair Tonic as a cleansing antiseptic preparation that stimulates scalp circulation nourishes hair and fights dandruff. Two sizes offered at 1.00 with a money back satisfaction guarantee at this store.
Cure for Sleeping Sickness Cold Cure Ward
A new treatment named the cold cure uses a hospital ward inside a refrigerator. The white room measures 12 by 9 feet with double wooden walls filled with cotton. Patients sit for hours in a ward kept 10 to 20 degrees below the point, furnished with a table a deck chair and electric light.
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Popular Mechanics
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