Fortnightly Club Meeting Highlights Materialism and Conservatism
The Fortnightly Club gathered at the public library with Attorney J. 53. Tuthill presiding and Miss Georgiella Lay secretary. Carleton Sias argued how materialistic growth affects government while Judge F.C. Platt traced constitutional evolution and three branches strength, and W. F. Parrott discussed the Conservation Congress and lasting moral conservation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Library West
Tuthill
Georgiella Lay
Woodruff
Duren
Brainard
Carleton Sias
F.C. Platt
Confederation
Union of States
Missionary meeting honors five women and Nellie Merwin
The First Congregational church mission group met at Mrs. M. Storm’s home with Mrs. Storm and Mrs. Martha Bedford hosting. Alvs. Z. Mack highlighted five missionary women and Nel lie Chestnut, also known as Nellie Merwin, remembered as a Waterloo native who sacrificed years for mission work in China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Storm
Nelle Chestnut
China
Nellie Chestnut
Nellie Merwin
Waterloo
Merwins
First Congregational Church
Chicago Bible Institute
Chicago Medical College
Baker
East
Far East
Mack
Della O'Neill
Leavitt
Grace Friend
Friend
Nes Moines
Lois Storm
Elizabeth Bedfor
Storm
Bedford
Grace Williams
The Quickest Simplest Cough Cure Recipe
A home cough remedy promising fast relief costs less than store bought syrup. Mix one pint granulated sugar with 14 pint warm water, then add 21g ounces of Pines per pint bottle, cover and shake. Take a teaspoonful every one to three hours. Pine is described as a strong throat healer with healing elements. The ad notes money back guarantee and directs readers to The Pinex Co. for pine extract.
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Norway
United States
Canada
The
Pinex Co
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Sisterhood Farewell Meeting At Calvary Baptist
Forty members of the former Sisterhood of the Calvary Baptist Church met at Mrs. W. A. Snyder’s home for a farewell gathering. The two year old group shared strong ties, cheerful memories, and plans for final reports and distribution of funds after Sunday meetings. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Cornwell and Mrs. Fenson.
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Sisterhood
The
Calvary Raptist Church
Wf. A. Snyder
Cornwell
Fenson
Universalist Social Union
Ladies’ Social Union
the Universalist Church
J. A. Utter
Columbia Street
Earl Potter
Harry Sargent
Reading at Public Library Shares Romola Interest
Miss Len McCutcheon of LaPorte City will give a thirty minute reading from George Eliot’s Romola at the public library as part of the Ladies' Literary society program. She is a graduate of the State Teachers College dramatic art course and the Illinois Woman’s College.
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L. L
Ladies’ Literary Society
Liibrary East
Len McCutcheon
LaPorte City
George Eliot
Romola
McCutcheon
State Teachers’ College
Illinois Woman's College
Ingenious Lunatic Makes Balloon Escape at Dixmont
Pittsburg November 3 An escaped attempt by Henri Dupre an aeronaut and patient at the Pennsylvania state insane asylum in Dixmont ended with guards capturing him after a rooftop balloon rose only about one hundred feet. Dupre had stitched scraps of silk into a fifteen foot balloon treated with wax to make it nearly airtight and filled it with gas from a hospital pipe before dropping back to the yard where he was jailed.
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania State Insane Asylum
Dixmont
Henri Dupre
Dupre
Monsieurs
First Baptist Ladies Host All Day Meeting and Dinner
The First Baptist church ladies held an all day meeting with a 7 o’clock dinner served at three large tables by Mrs. Winn Miss Mildred Winn and Mrs J B Knowles. Out of town guests included Miss Jessia Bolton and Charles Connell of Cedar Falls and Mrs A R Eads of Dubuque.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. E. Thimble
Sacred Heart Altar Society
S. P. Moreland
Denver
Chesterman
Connerty
Armstrong
Schemmel
Dyersville
Keppler
Dubu
Winn
Mildred Winn
J. B. Knowles
Jessia Bolton
Charles Connell
Cedar Falls
First Baptist
First Baptist Church
Foreign Mission Department
J. H. Easley
Arthur Vaughan
J. R. Vaughan
Women's Missionary Department
State Convention
Des Moines
Baker Edwards
H. O. Douglass
W. A. Braniger
AI Society
W. A
Home Mission Department
Cooper
Detroit
Mich
Henry Austin
Walnut Stree Baptist Church
William Moo
Kansas City
A. R. Eads O
Dubuque
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Royal Society
Japan
Billy Sunday
Conservation Congress
Roosevelt
Taft
Pinchot
Straets
Garfield
Will
Mr. Parrott
Ioneer
East Waterloo High School
Eme McCullom Jones
Abia
Olander
Ferguson
W. J. Griffith
Hallowe'en
A.W. Chamberlin
Worth H. Hillman
Franklin Street
W. B. Howell
Walnut Street Baptist Sunday School
W. S. Catlin
Webster Street
Hl. G. Beeman
B. J. Howrey
Tion
M. B.A. Hallowe'en
Modern Brotherhood of America of
West Waterloo
Union Congregational
Industrial Society of the Union Congrésazional Church
Christ Church Choir
Christ Episcopal Church Choir
Florence Lichty
Dunkerton
Bank Hall
Fern
Zola Hostetler
United Presbyteria
Missionary Society of the
United Presbyterian Church
Belie Harper
Independence Avenue
Joseph Way
Our
India Missions
Girls’ Friendly Society
Girls’ Friendly Society of
Christ Episcopal Church
A. J. Busby
Woods Bros
Gene Bell
Florence Street
Smith Seeley
Mariow
Herbert Wood
Victor Zellhoefer
H. B. Crawford
Seeley
Alice
Lillian Dunford
Linden Avenue
Edith Kenyon
Thomas Utterback
Phyllis Club
Frank King
King’s Korner
Cedar River Park
Kilpatrick
Sam Scott
Locust Street
Edith Winn
Cascaden Place
Union Pacific
Turtle, T. P.A
Union Pacific R. R. Co
Fifth Street
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