Ruth Bassett Wins Chicago Scholarship in Voice
Miss Ruth Bassett daughter of Mrs. P. A. Bassett of Chicago has won a one year voice scholarship with Albert Borroff at the Gunn School, under Mme Luella Melins. The award, open to young professional singers, followed her June appearance as Mercedes in Carmen with the Studebaker Theatre production and Chicago Civic Opera Company support.
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Ruth Bassett
P. A. Bassett
Chicago
Mme
Luella Melins
Invinia
Albert Borroff
Gunny School
Bassett
Gunn School
Carmen
Miss Bassett
Mercedes
Studebaker Theatre
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Civile Opera Company
Luncheon Hosts Honor Out-Of-Town Guests At Autumn Gathering
Mrs J A Foote and Mrs Glenn Morrison hosted a luncheon at their home with autumn decor. Out-of-town guests Mrs W A Bryant and Mrs Ze Smith of Los Angeles attended. Attending were numerous local and visiting figures, with naturalization and music programs planned by civic groups. A forthcoming Halloween event and a wedding trip noted for Grace Foote Neelans.
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J. A. Foote
Glenn Morrison
W. A. Bryant
Ze Smith
Los Angeles
L. W. Bryant
F. C. Robertson
A. M. Place
F. W. Chamberlain
PF. L. Bryant
F. J. Eighmey
A. Mathes
Grace
Cresce
Oscar Neelans
Church Women Run Meals at Cattle Congress
First Methodist Episcopal church shifts to fundraising meals with women in charge of dining hall and transportation. Chairs assign daily kitchen duties, inviting volunteers. Universalist Ladies Society plans 12 30 luncheon Tuesday at parish house with hostesses Mrs Fay and Mrs Walker and a 230 business meeting.
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First Methodist Episcopal Church
Mies
Hattie Eason
C. D. Ingols
Paul Wilson
F. c. Lindsey
R. 4. Tarpy
G. Wright
Church
L. B. Powers
A. H. Holt
Ladies’ Society of the Universalist Church
Charles Fay
B. Walker
P T A Council Plans Year Ahead At Saturday Meeting
The Parent- Teacher council met Saturday afternoon at the YWCA to outline the year’s program. Mrs. D H Wick chaired, with Mrs. J Morris recounting the movement’s goals to improve child welfare through home, school, church, and community cooperation.
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Parent-Teacher Council
Young Women's Christian Associa Fion Wilding
D. H. Wick
J. Morris
Parent‘teacher Association
Morris
F.C. Liffring
Humane Education Committee
Edison
Dwight Bower
Sloane Wallace
Perry Cowles
Emerson
C. R. Hoxt W
Washington Irving
Alcott
Roosevelt
McKinley
Lafayette
Lincoln
Central Schools
St Marks Church to Offer Teacher Training Courses
St Mark's Episcopal Church opens a Teacher Training program meeting the second and fourth Tuesdays monthly. Rev. C. W. Baxter leads two 20 lesson terms on the prayer book and the bible with a 30 minute faculty meeting and a 40 minute lesson. Credit toward a diploma is available through the national council, with two units offered this year.
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St. Mark's Episcopal Church
C. W. Baxter
Church School
National Council
Hints in Beauty Care by Edna Kent Forbes
Edna Kent Forbes outlines home manicure basics with professional tips and gear lists. Emphasizes cutting cuticles reluctantly, selecting quality scissors, emery boards, files, and polishes, plus exercises for arm and body posture to aid nail care and overall polish.
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Edna Kent Forbes
Reverend George Woodall to Lead St Pauls Church
Rav George Woodall, former pastor at Grundy Center Cedar Rapids and Decorah, will assume pastorship of St Pauls Methodist Episcopal in Davenport at the start of the new conference year, succeeding Rev V Williams. Other appointments read include Dr R E Hurlburt moving to Toledo Cedar Rapids district and Frank A Court named at Miles Gallery, with Bishop Hughes presiding.
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George Woodall
Grundy Center
Cedar Rapids
Decorah
Dubuqua
West Branch Church
Davenport
St. Pauil's Methodial Episcopal Church
V. Williams
Williams
Shell Tock Church
C. G. Fort
Vesey Foundation
Iowa City
I. Q. Brown
St. Paul's Church
This City
Epworth Military Academy
Brid
Aa. Young
First Church
Sars A. Rondon
Grace
C. W. Harrap
Linden
Waterloo
R. E. Hurlburt
Flrst Church
Srimpton
Toledo
Cedar Jinpids
Frank W. Court
Firstchurch
St. Jobs Davenport
Miles
Frank A. Court
Court
Upper Iowa
Edwinolt Hughes
F.C. Witzlgman
D. S. Ackley
Wiliam Crossley
Allison
A. Lang
Aredale
O. G. Casper
Brownville
M. C
Qedar
Paris
Culver
Charles City
K. T. Gough
Clarksvile
Shaffer, Dumont
H. H. Dil. Duthkerton
J. H. Pritchard
Janesville
H. HH
Barton
Elma
G. Ti. Mitchell
Floyd
B. Gable
Redericksburg
E. ©. Presentt
Frederika
St. Coover
Mason City
J.’ P. Bouge
Oliver
C. D. James
Antrim
Plainfield
S. FP
Keirterdine
Pleasant Tidge-Bradford
G. Shear
Plymouth
William Galbraith
Iaymond
F. J. Baldwin
Riceville
O. J. Felter
Rudd
G. W. Turner
Rockford
F. JH. Weed
Rockwell
T. J. Zeke
St.Ansger
Otis Moore
Sheffield
F. P. Shaffer
Center Point
F. C. Grien
Chelsea
G. G. Booton
Conrad—Fe
E. Clemend
Dike
A. B. Chamberlain
F. Mercur
F. E
Fairfax
Garrison
Dott Whitmore
Gilman
Gladbrook
KL. C. Smith
F. GO
Winsimy
Iowa Falls
Eugene Allen
Kenwood Park
H. W. Singer
Lakeview-Pierce
Charles Oxley
Laurel
F. G. Young
Pale-Lewis Bottom
Leslie Faris
Marshalltown
W. C. Cleworth
Melbourne
C. Jerrell
O. A. Bishop
Monteur
S. C. Bretnalt
Mount Auburmm
Urtana
Scott
Vinton
W. G. Rowley
Walker
J. W. Kearse
Whitton
Samuel Kupor
C. Lemmon
Alburnett
W. A. Shupp
Anamas
Joson
Kennett TY. Sill
Rock Creek CO
Welch
Calamus
W. Cass
Camanche
Janet Central
Clarence Davenper M
Elrenlt
J. S. Danke
Marion
F. AL Baker
Monticelin
A. B. Gop
Morley
Farl Modgekin
RMU
Mingw
C. F. Titlel
W. A. Hanscom
Preston
W. A. Trwin
Rochester
M. Ty
Vin. Ryan
Sand Creex
Jnsse Smith
Sahila
wWale
Relon
W. F Slacht
Ssuth
Bethel
Spring
Joseph Yates
Waubeck
Dubl 2 Diatrict
Wil S. Kipwin
Arlington
Robert Davis
Local names listed by Davenport area voters
A long OCR fragment lists numerous towns and voters across Iowa linked to individuals with initials and surnames, suggesting a voter or registration roll. Names include Decorah, Dubuque, Garners Ferry, Independence, Manchester, Oelwein, Waukon, Winthrop, and many others alongside initials like J. Cleveland, A. Watson, J. H. Verr, and P. Hoffman.
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Randalia
H. Hawn
Rowley
Oelfec
Strawberry Point
P. J. Hoffman
Summer
Afitetet
Waukon
T. J. Selden
Waucoma
K. Davies
Weat Union
A. L. Bulingsley
Winthrop
J. J. Kidder
Local Librarian to Attend American Library Association Meet
Miss Callie Wieder head of Whattoo Public Library leaves the city Wednesday for the forty eighth annual meeting and fiftieth anniversary of the American Library Association in Atlantic City and Philadelphia October 4 to 9. Delta FF Noerthey, now with the Indiana Library and Historical Department, will lead a county librarians and mobile schools round table on Friday October 8. FOCHUMSEN PLAYS WILLARD in Cedar Falls tournament finals after recent results.
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Callie Wieder
Whattoo
City in Brief and Local Notices Opened by Mixed Updates
City in Brief compiles scattered notices from residents and visitors. Entries include address updates private visits to relatives and travel notes across St. Paul Waterloo Des Moines Evanston and Riverton plus business shifts at local firms and a report on Y Mc’s club convention. Thirty-one car registrations and 197 transfers were recorded in Black Hawk Hawk county. Rath Packing hosts a field trip for eighth graders. Meeting notices announce Sons of Union Veterans activities at Memorial Hall with prep for inspection and a special session announced by Root L. Bag.
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Automobile Department
Black Hawk Hawk County
W. F. Jet-frey
J. E. Shelton
U. S
Rath Packing Company
A. Whittler
Ruth Undegraff
Brockway
F. Willis Jenks
Grace Newkirk
St. Joseph
Mich
Jenks
Cooper, Wells & Co
C. M. Arnold
Bristow
Michigan
Ilineix
Sons of Union Veterans of the
Aunxiliary
William Snodgrass A B A Member Dies at 83
William Snodgrass 83 Civil War veteran died at 1:35 p.m. Sunday at his daughter's home in Waterloo of complications after years in poor health. Born October 24, 1842 in Marietta Ohio, he served three years in the Thirty-first Iowa infantry and belonged to G A R. Survived by his widow three sons and two daughters, nineteen grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements pending at Kistner Mortuary.
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William Snodgrass
R. L Snodgrass
Chicago Street
Marietta
Laura Johnson
Jackson County
Green Island
Bellevue
Waterloo
Snodgrass
Canning Plant at Reinbeck Runs Under Handicaps
Weather handicapping the local corn canning factory during the season caused an early shutdown. Farmers received 35 per ton for corn, keep the corn for feed, and most settlements were satisfactory. Pack totals near last year’s, with 59,276 cases last year and about 46,000 so far this year. Plaehn settled at 5 dollars per ton for about four tons per acre. Factory enlarging as Albert Porter & Son begin a new machine shop building on East Main Street. Walter Musser carpenter.
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W. T. White
Peter Plaehn
Plaehn
Bell People
Reinbeck
Albert Porter & Son
P. J. Bigum
East Main Street
Walter Musser
Opened paving links Dubuque to Galena along a new road
A newly paved route connects Dubuque to Galena and provides Waterloo drivers with a continuous surfaced highway toward Chicago and Hazel Green. With paving still underway, motorists are urged to drive carefully to avoid interference with work and to minimize the risk of accidents.
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Dubuque
Galena
Waterloo
Hazel Green
Wis
Bottles in Garden Linked to Moonshine Bootlegging
Officers found half pints and several gallons of alleged moonshine hidden in ground holes at Levi Wrights Garden 66 Fourteenth Street. Wright, a Black man, was arrested on bootlegging charges after an extensive search by Officers Aaron Davis and Warren Buckley. Police reported multiple pays on Wright in addition to the seized evidence.
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Levi Wright
Fourteenth Street
Levi
Heiga
Aaron Davis
Warren Buckley
Wright
Directed Verdict Denied Delesio on Murder Trial
Judge Carl Reed denied defense motion for a directed verdict in the Carmine Delesio murder case. The state rested after opening and the trial adjourned to afternoon to allow defense witnesses. Delesio, recently separated from his wife, is accused of driving from Chicago to Oelwein on March 14 and strangling his wife with a cloth rope. He claims he was not near Oelwein that night.
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West Union
Carl Reed
Carmine Delesio
Oelwein
Delesio
Chicago
Waiters to be examined after 50 at banquet poisoned
In Chicago 50 members of the Florists Telegraph and Delivery association fell ill after a hotel banquet at Edgewater Beach. Waiters and kitchen staff will be examined by physicians today to trace the mysterious poisoning, doctors have yet to classify the illness and investigators note only 50 of 1600 diners were affected, suggesting the cause may not be the food.
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Chicago
Edgewater Beach
Florists Telegraph and Delivery Association
Jase
Student rewarded for top freshman scholastic standing
Wendell P. Munro from Marshalltown, a sophomore at Iowa University, received a chemical engineering handbook for attaining the highest scholastic standing in the freshman class last year. Tau Beta Pi, the honorary engineering fraternity, presented the award in Iowa City on September 27.
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Iowa
City
Wendell P. Munro
Marshalltown
Iowa University
Tau Beta Pi
Lonely Iowan Takes Poison in Chicago Mystery
Chicago report from September 27 describes 25 year old Ben Meyerson of Council Bluffs Iowa who ingested poison on a Loop Street corner. He claimed loneliness and an inability to make friends with Chicagoans. He may die from the poisoning.
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Chicago
Ben Meyerson
Council Bluffs
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Pythian Sisterhood
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T. E. Scott
B Natural Music Club
Martha’ Thommeson
Viola MacGregor
Mary Jane Howard
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Fae Collins
Hallowe'en
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St. Mark’s Church
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Arthur Zelmer
Albert Kistner
Harry Ritchie
Harry Nauman
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Elmer Hansen
St. Paul
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Sixth Street West
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Evanston, I
Riverton
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I. van Metre
Wyoming Tie & Timber Co
E. E. Clermont
E. F. Rediingshafer
Des Moines
Bir
E. B. Petrie
Flome Park Boulevard
Frank Amusement Company
Caward
Plaza Theatre
Insurance Frm
Innes & Innes
Root L. Bag
WM. Snodgrass
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Smith, Lichty & Hillman CO
Waterloo Evening Courice
Fashion Department
Evening Courier
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Stanmipa
Reeve Nena
Felts
East Fourth Street
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