Book Week emphasis on Iowa authors highlighted in Des Moines
Des Moines reports a National Book Week program featuring Charles A. Pye state teachers association Samuel Brigham and F A Welch. Welch discusses Herbert Quick and Emerson Hough, authors with Iowa roots, noting Hough’s pioneer fiction and Quick’s Vandemark’s Folly set in Grundy County with winter blizzards and prairie life.
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Courier Special Service
Des Moines
Charles A. Pye
State Teachers’ Association
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Johnson Brigham
F. A. Welch
Midland Schools
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American Library Association
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Towa
Herbert Quick
Emerson Hough
Iowa
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Writings of Herbert Quick Show Three Literary Phases
A critic divides Quick’s career into three writing phases romance patriotism and philosophy. He began late to write and balancing careers as teacher lawyer mayor editor and Washington official. his later work links historical material to broader cause and effect.
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Herbert Quick
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Herbert
Sioux City
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Outgro antiseptic for ingrown nails sold in drug stores
A pharmacist recommends Outgro as a harmless antiseptic for chiropodists. Anyone can buy a small bottle at drug stores and apply a few drops to the ingrown nail. It reduces inflammation and pain and toughens the skin so the nail tends to grow outward.
Time for Vandemark’s Folly and The Hawkeye Reignited
A note applauds a leader for finding time to devote to Vandemark's Folly, also known as The Hawkeye, highlighting the ongoing revival of the project and its local attention.
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Vandemark
Last Chance to Cruise with Fleet in Spring
Height and age rules eased for the naval drive as 62 inch minimum for under 21 and 63 inches for adults, per Cedar Rapids recruiting officer J B Burns. Enlistments occur Wednesday and Thursday in the lobby of the best office. Ionas quota set at 45 men for the drive’s final group.
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Cedar Rapids
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Ionas
Linen and Percale Sale Ad Highlights Home Textiles
Wednesday sale promotes Inch'Dress Percales 46 inch wide at 7c yard in fast colors. Turkish towels bleached with Jacquard patterns priced 49c each. Linen sets 54 in at 2.98 with napkins, damask options, green and gold borders. Dresser scarfs 59c to 1.00, 38 by 45 linen scarfs with lace. Plaid blankets 2.49 pair, 72 by 80. Hemstitched linen towels 59c, Huck towels 35c. fast color guaranteed.
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