August Market Report Warm Tomatoes Plums and Watermelons
The late August market notes large plum receipts at the public market with prices around one dollar per bushel for peaches and a dime for watermelons. tomatoes and apples are abundant with good quality but drought affects crops. Fields of Southerlows Des Moines notes hot days, cool nights, little rainfall, and mixed corn yields. binders at work and drought hurts apples pastures and late potatoes. GEO M CHAPPEL reports on the week ending August 31 with conditions across Iowa.
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Des Moines
Geo
M. Chappel
Enjoyment at Courier Picnic
Fifty members of the Evening Courier staff enjoyed a Prospect Park picnic. The highlight was a ball game between the married and single men of the post office and Courier forces, won 7 to by the benedicts.
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Evening Courier
Sorres
Prospect Park
Post Ofice and Courier Forces
Benedicts
Link Brothers
Leon
Emmet
Reese
Metcalf
Country Club Horse
Elvin Willey
United Brethren Church
Adenoids Warned as a Menace to Children
The article explains adenoids arise from repeated colds in infants and young children and harm mental and physical development. It urges parents to prevent adenoids by curing colds and throat irritation with Foley's Hovey and Tar Compound.
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Morgallo Hiv
Caso Net
Foley
Heartbreakers Delights Audiences At Majestic Theatre
Labor Day crowds attended three performances of The Heartbreakers by the Western Extravaganza company. The musical comedy draws steady business since Sunday with favorable remarks on the cleverness of the company. Hit songs include My Honolulu Honey Lou and Somewhere She's Flirting With Someone. The Heartbreakers play today and tomorrow with daily matinee.
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Labor Day
Heartbreakers
the Majestic
Mrs. L C Newcomb Dies in Wichita After Illness
Mrs. Maria Newcomb widow of L C Newcomb died after a long illness in Wichita at 65. Born in 1848 in Michigan she had lived in Waterloo Iowa and later moved to Wichita five years ago. Survived by husband two daughters Mrs Arthur Stratford and Miss Caroline Newcomb of Wichita and son Charles Newcomb of St Louis. Funeral planned near her girlhood home in Michigan. burial in Waterloo.
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Wichita
Kan
L. C. Newcomb
Waterloo
Maria Newcomb
South Hanley Avenue
Ponca Tent and Awning Company
Woman discards box as car nears city limits
Deputy Horner in Connell Bluff Iowa on a Sunday night found a box tossed from a Lake Manawa bound car. Inside was the body of a prematurely born infant. Coroner Cutler has taken charge of the case.
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Conneil Bluffs
Lake Manawa
Horner
Cutler
Message From England Highlights Law and Sittlichkeit
Lord Chancellor delivers King George’s message to the Montreal lawyers meeting. He discusses conscience in law and the Anglo American bond, citing Wilson and Lincoln, and stresses the legal profession’s duty to uphold international duties within the Great Britain and United States sphere. The section closes with Foley’s Honey and Tar advertisement and a Prospect Park church picnic report.
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American Bar Association
Montreal
George V
King George
Lord Haldane
United States
Canada
United Kingdom
Wilson
Great Britain
Lincoln
Jerusalem
Nominations Named for Grace Methodist Officers and Committees
Grace Methodist church holds quarterly conference and names officers for the coming year. Stewards include S. M. Bentley and W. W. Wyant. trustees list C. F. Fowler and J. W. Arbuckle. class leader is George H Cheever. Committees cover missions, Sunday schools, temperance, education, Freedmen's aid, hospital, records, and auditing.
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Grace Methodist Church
Albert J. Northrup
S. M. Bentley
W. Cotton
QO. B. Courtright
H. M. Cowles
George Dunn
H. T. Fisher
J. O C. Gates
William Horton
George W. Huntley
W. R. Jameson
G. W. Norton
L. E B. Park
C. R. Rohde
Fred C. Sage
W. Y. Sanford
W. B. Small
H. H. Steely
Charles Wasson
F. Wichmann
W. W. Wyant
C. F. Fowler
J. W. Arbuckle
F L. Benedict
C. H. Bingham
F. T. Hartman
H. D. Lamb
P. H. Paulsen
E. ©. Peek
Joseph Shirley
George H Cheever
Foreign Missions
Wiliam Horton
Charles Ferguson
Harry Gates
C. E. Frederick
George Wentland
F. J. Bightey
F.L. Benedict
L. B. Park
J. C. Gates
Temperance
J. E. Bates
James Register
Charles Stickman
Walter Harquist
A. G. McCalm
Freedmen’s Aid
Charles Eighmey
Local Clergy and Community Notices
Parsonage and furniture listed for several members including Mrs Reed and Mrs Cowin. Church music staff named with S M Bentley and others. Ministerial support contributors include J C Gates and Paulsen. Local preachers examined: Arbuckle Gates Park. Delegates to laymen’s association named Rohde Wyant. Mrs E B Smith and son Merritt plan to depart for California after visiting relatives this summer.
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Frank Sylvester
B. Reed
BE. T. Cowin
Charles Wasson
F. J. Bightey
S M. Bentley
F. B. Dietrick
C. F. Fowler
H. M. Cowles
P. H. Paulsen
J. C. Gates
J. W. Arbuckle
C. R. Robde
F. L. Benedict
W. R. Jameson
Charles Wasgon
W. Arbuckle
L. E. Park
E. B. Smith
Merritt
California
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