Family altar to banish divorce urged at Des Moines
Des Moines February 25. Iowa pastors at the Interchurch World Movement meeting urged every home to establish a family altar to settle marital differences without courts. Bishop Henderson will direct the Lenten evangelical campaign. Chapler to head state work. Women’s meeting notes women provide 60 percent of church gifts and form parallel conferences alongside pastors’ meetings.
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Des Moines
United States
Iowa
Interchurch World Movement
First Methodist Church
Theodore S. Henderson
Detroit
Methodist Church
Younkers Tea Rooms
Chapler
Charles BE. Chapler
First Methodist
C. Cronk
New York
Central Christian Church
Washington
Farm Institute Convene at Hudson IL
The Hudson Farm Institute meets Friday and Saturday this week with M L Bowman delivering the first address on Farming as a Business. A A Burger, county agent, outlines benefits of community clubs as experts discuss farming work. Officers to be elected Saturday.
Cornborer Appears in Two Eastern States
Iowa City reports the European cornborer may become the worst imported pest in America. Prof H F Wickham urges Iowa residents to press Congress for federal aid as the borer, now in New York and Massachusetts, torments corn, millet, hops, and hemp. The pest damages stalks ears and leaves, with up to half the crop lost. control demands burning old stalks and restarting annually. In Europe and parts of the U S the borer spreads rapidly, with April to May caterpillar phases and June moth activity.
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Iowa City
Iowa
America
H. F. Wickham
University of Iowa
New York
Massachusetts
Europe
United States
New England
Jolly boistering friends jail groom just for a joke
Des Moines report describes a playful scene at the police station where newlyweds Mr and Mrs Lawrence Hammond were greeted by parade of singers and promptly fined for marrying without informing health officials. They were held briefly, then housed at Fort Des Moines hotel for breakfast before release.
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Health Department
Hammond
Des Moines
Lawrence Hammond
Ottumwa Woman Indicted for Assault with Intent to Murder
Ottumwa Iowa, Feb 25 Mrs A R Swartz of this city indicted by the Wapello county grand jury on a charge of assault with intent to murder. She shot and wounded Mrs Nora Springer when found in her husband s office. Bullet entered Springer s left eye. She is recovering.
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Ottumwa
AR. Swartz
Wapello County
Grand Jury
Bargain Quilting Fabrics and Linens Sale on Thursday
On the second floor a sale offers Ginghams 27 and 82 inches wide with about 40 pieces priced to 50 cents per yard. Seamless Bleached Sheets 81 by 90 inches are 89 cents each. Bleached Shaker Flannel 24 inch wide is 18 cents per yard. Bleached Muslin yard wide at 25 cents tomorrow. Green Ticket Lonsdale Muslin 47 cents per yard Thursday.
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Farm Institute
Hudson
B. Bolas
Jennie S. Bird
Waterloo
Waterloo Bank & Trust Company
Rednanced
Sayer
Bayer
Coats
Senil
Hardwick Magee
Oakdale
Whittall
Royal Worcester
Percales
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