City in Brief Amid Busy Local Happenings
Local society notes report helmet lodge No 89 K P meeting this Monday evening with a large class to receive the rank of esquire. Miss Leta Marquis, Miss Pauline and Kenneth Robinson visit Cedar Rapids for a few days. County Treasurer Bentley plans a trip to Grundy Center to see ill County Treasurer Pepperman. Mrs Ada Phipps returns from Missouri. Wymore recovering well after surgery at Presbyterian hospital. J H Woods and daughter receive buff rock chickens from Elle nsburg. Preliminary hearing for A Johnson and wife on liquor charges postponed to Monday 10 am. J T Riordan returns from Cedar Rapids after three weeks with in laws. Daughters Nina and Freda in Cedar Rapids for bookkeeping positions. Sproul family rents out home for Cedar Rapids stay. Mrs A J Fairburn returns from St Lawrence trip via Thousand Islands to Montreal then New York visits.
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Bentley
Grundy Center
Vislt
Pepperman
Ada Phipps
Missouri
Co. E. Wymore
Presbyterian Hospital
J. H. Woods
Bluff Street
B. O. Bucklin
Ellensburg
Wash
A. Johnson
F. F. Knapp
J. T. Riordan
Cedar Rapids
Nina
Freda
Alexander Sproul
Baltimore Street
A. J. Fairburn
St. Lawrence River
Thousand Islands
Montreal
New York
Henry
Mr. Gregg
Polly
Henry Gregg
Mrs. Gregg
Gregg
Hem
Will Somers
Somers
Greg
Amd
Molle
Snow
Crop report from Black Hawk township foresees 80 bushels per acre
Burton E. Wilson reports farmers in Black Hawk township expect corn yields above average this season. He notes the dry spell did not hurt soil moisture as a mellow, moisture-retaining soil helped the crop. On a Wilson brothers farm operated by Clarence A. Boehmler, corn stalks are nearly matured and Mr. Wilson predicts an average of eighty bushels per acre husked this fall.
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Black Hawk Township
Burton E. Wilson
Fourth Street Weet
Wilson Brothers
Clarence A. Boehmler
Pleasant Hill Wesleyan Church Chartered in Spring Creek
Articles of incorporation filed for The Pleasant Hill church of the Wesleyan connection in Spring Creek township Black Hawk County Iowa name incorporators W J Williams P Williams and HL Yarrington first board of trustees. Object to aid public worship of God according to Wesleyan Methodist faith. Church maintained in Spring Creek township for some time.
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Pleasant Hill
Wesleyan Connection
Spring Creek Township
Black Hawk County
Iowa
W. J. Williams
P. Williams
HL. Yarrington
World's Largest Stone Statue in Japan
A report notes the world's largest stone statue stands in Japan, a figure forty four feet high.
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Japan
Missouri volunteers pressed into road work in state campaign
Jefferson City August 23 The good roads push in Missouri has stirred strong volunteer involvement. In Jackson county volunteers asked to keep using donated tools until all planned road work is finished. Gov Major granted similar requests from other counties and said organized road gangs will continue indefinitely to upgrade highways.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Many famous phrases traced to origin and history
Anna Hird Stewart surveys how common sayings origin from Cicero to Tacitus and Franklin. The piece notes phrases like while there’s life there’s hope, we are in the same boat, and mind your p s and q s, linking them to historical authors, rulers, and events while highlighting the enduring echo of earlier texts.
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Cicero
Atticus
Clement 1
Rome
Corinth
Lord Chesterfield
Cox
Order of the Garter
Edward Iit
England
Round Table
Arthur
Windsor Castle
Arma
Philip
France
Edward
Lord Eldon
Henry Brougham
Brougham
Broffam
Eldon
Mme. du Cormel
Plutarch
Hermodotus
Antigonous J
Sparta
Diogenes
Duke of Wellington
Dickens
Micawber
David Copperfield
Tacitus
Julia
Cato
Brutus
Cassius
Benjamin Franklin
United States
James J
Duke of Buckingham
Louis XIV
Wallace Irwin
Anna Hird Stewart
Minneapolis Journal
An Answered Prayer Over Polly's Courtship
Mrs. Gregg frets over Polly's suitors and asks the minister for help. Henry Gregg proposes scheming to block Will Somers while Polly's mother plans to push the match. After a fall and a church visit, Polly and Somers become engaged, and Mrs. Gregg credits prayer for the outcome.
Final Session of Believers Camp Meeting Draws 6000
Waterloo welcomes about 6000 visitors for the Evangelical church camp meeting at Chau tauqua park. Missions day featured speeches on missions and home-church support. Bishop Breyfogel and Rev Schwab spoke on foreign missions and revival themes.
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Waterloo
Evangelical Church
Colygeun
Chautauqua Park
Anna Theirman
Schwab
Jie
Breyfogel
Firen
Foran Missiony
Othose
Yagen
Des Veines
Breviosel
Ves
Mother Learns of Wedding of Children
In Joliet Illinois on August 23 1912 Howard Connors aged 17 and Electa Dustin aged 16 from Dwight were married last December in secret. The marriage was arranged with Electa’s parents approval after threats to elope. The families are strangers. Electa’s father W J Dustin is Dwight postmaster and Dwight Herald proprietor.
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W. J. Dustin
Dwight
Dwight Herald
Kor Rent Modern Furnished Room and Board Offer
Rental ad for a furnished room at 414 East Tenth Street with optional board. Contact via phone 816 Black.
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Kor
East Tenth, Street
Black
East Side
West Side
Locust St
Lafayette St
Reverend M L Herr to Speak on From Aden to Paradine
Pastor Modtorr of New York City is advertised to give a feature talk at 8 PM in the Assembly Hall Public Library Mast. He is described as a man of strong convictions who faces ridicule rather than palliate principle in his address From Aden to Paradine.
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Pastor Modtorr
New York City
Embly Hall
Prbtie Library
Aden
Paradine
Navy Recruiting Station Waterloo ad urges enlistment info
Call at Navy Recruiting Station 4th and Lafayette 8ts Waterloo Ja Year what enlisted men say about life in the Navy Send for free booklet The Making of a Man O Waraman Full description Address Huratu of Navigation Box 256 Navy Department Washington D C
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Navy
4Th
Lafayette
Waterloo
Navy Department
Washington, D
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J. J. Nagle
Dubmars, Ta
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