Churches Meet in Cedar Falls Prominent Denominations Gather
Cedar Falls hosts three major religious gatherings next week. The Danish Baptist church of America boards convene Tuesday for a two day session on church welfare and missionary work. The Town Danish Baptist society holds a four day convention with about 250 delegates from multiple towns. The Evangelical association Iowa conference meets Monday for a 10 day session at River View park led by Rev. L. H. Seager with sermons by Rev. J. H. Bauernfeind and morning watch meetings. Bishop Seager will address the crowd and Dr. Edward Rael, Naperville college head, attends.
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Cedar Falls
General Conference
The
Danish Baptist Church of America
Danish Baptist Church
America
Baptist Society
Danish Baptist Society
New 1
Council Bluffs
Des Moines
Burlan
Merrill Grove
Pine Creek
Cuppy Grove
Humbolt
Gilmore
Evangelical Safity
Iowa Conference of the Evangelical, Association
River View Park
L. H. Seager
Naperville
J. H. Bauernfeind
L. N. Day
Will Schmidt
Pn Tee Sarl Millar
SU Uy Uaeaa
Elock
Seager
Edward Rael
Ill
Montana Soldiers Deal Pronto With One Disloyalist
Montana soldiers in Camp Dodge handle a disloyal incident as Lewis Rivens of Sioux City is roughed and tossed in a blanket by selectives after a protracted clash over a flag salute. An official inquiry follows amid hazing practices and a tense aftermath in the tent city near the cantonment.
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Camp Dodge
George Ade
Montana
Sioux City
Rivens
Dp. A. R
Riven
Wrigan
Altho
Freight Sailing Schedule Set for Aug 26
A sailing schedule for freight shipments will be adopted August 26 following a joint meeting of the Waterloo Commercial Club traffic committee and the freight committee. The plan aims to standardize departure days and improve shipment reliability for local businesses.
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Iowa
Waterloo
J. A. Wagner
State Council of Defense
Waterloo Commercial Club
Boys in Hospitals Want Home Papers From Red Cross
London August 17 American soldiers in British hospitals appeal for more home newspapers. Red Cross library committee serves over 25 000 men monthly with about 25 000 books and many magazines from its Pall Mall HQ. They favor cheap editions 15 to 30 cents and concentrate on fiction for patients while supplying broader works to hospital staffs and naval stations.
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London
American Red Cross
Great Britain
Pall Mail East
America
Freak Housing to Most Dangerous: A New Industrial Vision
Noble Foster Hoggson calls for cautious housing policy for workers, arguing against freak permanent developments and tenement styles. He cites London failures, urges well planned community houses built with high standards, led by Otto Bidlitz and government-backed guidance, to keep workers at home with families and stable wages. The piece cites industry insight from C. Stanley Taylor and a Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph anecdote, ending noting Pribolof bone deposits.
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Noble Foster Hoggson
Hoggson Bros
New York
Atlanta
Chicago
Patent Office
England
White
America
London
Otto Bidlitz
C. Stanley Taylor
Hoggson
Middlewest
Ammunitions
Women Time Work to Fall of Shells in Lorraine
In Lorraine, August 3, American troops receive morale boosting aid as three women Mrs W G Hammond of New York City Miss Helga Ramsey of Goodrich Minnesota and Miss Lulu Sawyer of Schenectady New York produce donuts pies cake and chocolate for hungry doughboys in a Bombardment hut. While shells fall their methodical schedule keeps ovens hot and biscuits baking between explosions, sustaining troops as they relocate to another town for continued service.
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Lorraine
W. G. Hammeond
New York City
Helga Ramsey
Goodrich
Minn
Lulu Sawyer
Schenectady
Bowie
Auctioneers Back Red Cross Benefit Bid to Aid War Efforts
Iowa auctioneers at Hotel Ellis adopt resolutions pledging to run Red Cross auction sales without pay and assist in war activities including liberty loan and Red Cross drives. Officers elected include H A Dunlap as president and H A Murray as secretary treasurer. Next convention set for Mason City August 21 22.
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Iowa
Hotel Ellis
Red Cross
C. G. Mason
H. A. Dunlap
Williamsburg
H. A. Murray
Waverly
H. W. Tromanhauser
Waterloo
M. A. Wroten
R. B. Tripp
Mr. Kendall
Marshalltown
Jesup
Mason City
Women as pilots may aid war effort in Britain
United Press dispatch from London reports English women urging a place in aviation. They stress the flying temperament, good eyesight and nerves, and desire to assist by locating wounded, transporting cases, and supporting the army without bloodshed, seeking training for emergency use.
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United Press
London
Uge
Wise Young German Boy Speaks in French Hospital
Inside a French village hospital near the Marne an injured 19 year old German youth, chatting in English, offers a blunt verdict to a doctor. He says the people are through, but the state fights on, then comments on Argentine women breaking into professions like engineering and law.
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United Press
France
Marne
Germany
Rotary club hears Houser on the Call of the Red Triangle
John T Houser general secretary of the YMCA will address the Rotary Club Monday on the Call of the Red Triangle to the Business Men of the Nation. A. E Haswell secretary notes a Burma grandfather's compound once had a huge iron triangle whose echoes once urged prayer or arms and now signal war’s hammer.
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John T. Houser
Y. BM. GC. AL
Rotary Club
Red Triangle
A. E. Haswell
Burma
Beetles and clay used as food in global traditions
The article notes varied practices using insects and clay as sustenance. It describes eating large bug larvae with rays of color, making cakes, and consuming mayflies and mosquitoes in Nyasaland. It also mentions a tiger beetle infused drink and natives chewing ant hill clay as "sweet earth" in Africa, Turkey, Lombardy, and beyond, highlighting claimed nutrition and fattening effects.
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Assam
Nyasaland
Anthill Tobacco Scientific American
Lake Region
Central Africa
Nije
Turkey
Lombardy
Moldavia
Java
Peru
Valachia
Central America
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Cedar Falls Daily News
Rael
Teachers’ College
State University of Town
Yale
Ugar
Evangelical Conference
Cedar Valley
State Sugar Commission
Edward C. Dahl
Clear Lake
James W. Ford
Cerro Corde County Fair
Alpert A. Hintz, Chamberlain
Louie Olsen
Nashua
Charles KB. Hearst
Milwaukee
Ida G. Schell
Ju. S Alexander
Minneapolis
Kent Hecht
Floyd Wiler
Clarence Showers
Maynard
Follin Stevens
Eleanor Gray
State Normal School
Bellingham
Wash
Harry B. Turnipseed
William Schnable
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph
Finnigan
Pat Donahue
Ohio
Pribolof Islands
KODAK
Hamilton
Bridge Street
Gunny Sacks
B. Schultz
the Rotary Club
Big Bugs
Peterman
Nichols
Nichol
Wolf
el Vampiro
Stearns
East Fourth St
Viscount Murono
Tokyo
Japan
Velie
West Fifth Street
Hileman Motor CO
Henry and
William Allen White
Mark Twain
Evening Courier
Daily Reporter
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