Jelly contest winners highlighted at Dairy Cattle Congress
Mrs Tannreuther led with three firsts in preserves and jellies at the Dairy Cattle Congress grounds women’s building. Awards honored red currants raspberry tame grape wild grape gooseberry and other fruit entries across Cedar Falls Ames Waterloo Charles City and Gladbrook participants.
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Orville
Tannreuther
Orange Township
Congress Grounds
Lloyd Church
Ames
Yola Davis
Waterloo
W. PD. Johnston
Max Westphal
Cedar Falls
Arnold Fomney
M. B. Howe
O. M. McGregor
H. D. Brown
Gladbrook
J. YF. Walton
Marian Katcher
Charles City
Russians Discover Greek Theatre Ruins in Fanagorte Excavation
The Moscow fine arts museum expedition reports traces of a large Attic theatre at the site of Fanagorte, the former Greek colony. It marks the second summer of work among Scythian ruins, yielding ancient Greek, Hebrew and Muslim tombs, old ramparts, and monuments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smnpheropol
Moscow Fine Arts Museum
Fanagorte
Scythia
Hava
O Ld
Panhandle Exhibit at Dairy Cattle Congress Showcases Progress
Dr Loyd and Frank L Brown head the Panhandle display in the Dairy Cattle Congress, backed by the Lone Star chambers. The booth Peace, run by Linn county Friends church, dispenses peace literature. George Corey from Iowa State Fair praises the cattle and exhibits as crowds admire horses and poultry. A water wagon recalls early days, and Miss Jessie Parker discusses educational equality. Four county project booths were omitted in a prior article. health tests on babies proceed with 32 shown and more expected. awards will follow after judging.
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H. Loyd
Vega
Frank L. Brown
Plainview
Texas
Panhandle
Dairy Cattle Congress
Chambers of Commerce
Lone Star State
Friends Church of
Linn County
Catherine Williams
Marvin Taber
Miss Williams
Whittier
Butler County
Clayton County
Floyd County
Marathon spellbinder vows to speak 130 hours
A Berlin showman known as Herr Pariilatus or Elsenberger claimed at 10:30 AM to have spoken for 43 12 hours after a physician exam he would continue until 130 hours. He speaks 57 minutes of each hour and plans to carry on.
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Berlin
Herr Pariilatus
Elsenberger
Patiatus
New York
Bert Hassel
Parker Cramer
Plana
Plana Greater Rockford, When They Arrive In This Country. Grover A. Whalen
Tirana
Alvania
John J. Raskob
National Hotel to Be Torn Down in Washington D C
The National Hotel in Washington is set to be demolished to make way for a new hostelry on the mall area from the Capitol to Lincoln Memorial. The lobby and historic rooms recall past power as figures like Henry Clay and John Bell once stayed there, but modern progress ends its storied era.
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Washington, D. C
National Hotel
National
National Capitol
Lincoln, Memorial
Washington
Henry Clay
John Bell
Tennessee
John P. Hale
New Hampshire
Sam Houston
Texas
David Davis
National Hotel history and early party festivities tale
The piece traces the National Hotel's origins from the Calvert estate in 1827 built on the Gadsby house, opened on Washington's birthday with a congressional parade and banquet. It notes occupancy by A H Stephens and a later 1850 renaming, with an interior fire causing extensive damage on October 21.
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Clay
Alexander H
National Hotel
Saints Conference Approves Exhuming of Martyrs Bones
Independence Mo Oct 4 Approval of President Frederick M. Smith action of the general conference of the reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in exhuming and reinterring the bones of the martyrs Joseph Smith and Hyrum Smith at Nauvoo last winter was reported here yesterday. A suitable monument will be erected over the martyrs graves in Carthage Ill and the conference will reconvene April 6 1930 the hundredth anniversary of the churchs organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independence
Frederick M. Smith
Reorganized Church of Jesus ‘Christ
Latter Day Saints
Joseph Smith
Church
Hyrum Smith
Hauvas
General Conference
Carthage
Ill
Nystrom Family Reunion Binds Near Century of Minnesota Roots
In Worthington Minnesota on October 4 a 100 member Nystrom family reunion gathered at P. H. Nystrom’s Bigelow county home. The group traces to Sweden settlers Hans and Olof Nystrom who arrived in 1871 and founded homesteads with siblings and parents. Four brothers still reside on the original Bigelow homestead while most descendants live in the Twin Cities or California.
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Worthington
Minn
Nystrom
P. H. Nystrom
Hans Nystrom
Bigelow
Hans and
Olof” Nystrom
Sweden
Minnesota Prairies
Twin Cities
California
Peter
Nystroms
Hans
Olof
John
Gust
Sill
Opera Singer Turns to Musical Revue for Vacation
Berlin born baritone Michael Bohnen from the Metropolitan Opera and Berlin State Opera tops a musical revue as Casanova night after night. He argues operatic forms are rigid and stifle acting, preferring revues where performers express personality and broaden dramatic range.
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Berlin
Michael “Bohnen
Metropolitan Opera
New York
State Opera
Ae Musical
Casanova
Legion Post Chooses Woman as Commander in Italy
Rome reports the American Legion post in Italy elected Mrs. Julia Wheelock as commander. A former yeoman in the navy, she will represent the post at International federation conferences in Luxemburg and Bucharest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
American Legion
Italy
Julia Wheelock
Legion Post
International Federation of
Luxemburg
Bucharest
Indians Protest Chine to Cut Wild Rice Harvest Devices
Park Rapids, Minnesota reports Indians protesting Missouri river white men using a Scow powered rice harvester on northern lakes and streams. They contend machines take too much of the crop seen as a heritage of the red man. Past attempts with harvesting gear were demolished under mysterious circumstances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park
Rapids
Min
Miotor
Bermuda to Erect New $2 Million Tourist Hotel
The Princess Hole! company announces May 1929 start on a $2,000,000 structure replacing the Princess Hotel in Hamilton Bermuda. Architects Whit cher & Co of Manchester New Hampshire design a Bermuda coral stone building in Bermudian style, replacing a four decade old hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton
Bermuda
Princess Hole! Company
Princess Hotel
Whitcher &Co., al
Manchester
N. H
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George A. Corey
Towa State Fair Association
A. W. Brown
E. 8. Estes
Jessie M. Parker
Agnes Samuelsen
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Women’s and Children's
J. W. Rowntree
Waterloo Medical Society
Ghosts OF Glory
Capital Hotel
Henry, Clay
Old Washington
Houston
Iowa
Tangney-McGinn Hotels Company Co
Sheldon
Saints Conference
Walter “Nystrom
East Fourth St
JC Penn Institution
Waterloo, Iowa
Coats
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