Four County News World Correspondents Review
Community brief notes on local gaming and social scenes with highlights of people and their friends. Weekly review summarizes notable activities, gatherings, and conversations across the district.
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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1913
Page
4
Community brief notes on local gaming and social scenes with highlights of people and their friends. Weekly review summarizes notable activities, gatherings, and conversations across the district.
The Abbott Grist notes visitors andcomings and goings around Abbott Iowa Falls region. Families including Gulicks Kugels Knoll Shindell Gimer Fouts Glasser and Laipple share Christmas with relatives. several travel for work or to visit kin. A church supper is planned for January 5 1914. several locals plan trips to Ohio and New Jersey after holidays.
Grant Townento. George Baurer of Ackley was a guest at the Al H Kramer home. John Buttier and wife and Mra Ed Caton were business callers at Iowa Palla Thursday. Fred and Henry Thies Wayne Meyer and Quentin Ryan were calling at the Henry Snater home Imat Wednesday evening. Henry Holvig of Hampton spent a few days last week visiting his brother E G Helvig. John Ellenbaugh and slater, who have been visiting at the James King home past week returned to Holy Cross Friday. Mr and Mrs Woodley of Alexander spent a few days last week at the Ed Caton home visiting the latter's
Local column lists names visiting relatives and friends in Ackley Geneva and German township during the holidays. Mentions Mr and Mrs John Buttier and Meyer of Hawarden visiting Ed Fisons home, Sophia Sailer, the Ladies Aid Society, cemetery society officers, college students home for Christmas, several travel rosters, and village social happenings with multiple names and places. Also reports births, deaths, and medical or funeral notes including Mina Mary Pyle’s death in Pittsburg and Lincoln Beachey’s aviation feat in Fresno. Includes tidbits on property moves, sickness, and New Year greetings.
Chan ter of Community News Notes for Rapid Reading covers farm sales near Buffalo Center at 120 dollars per acre, two marriage licenses issued, livestock shipments from Omaha to Chicago with profit, local people involved in business and politics, and upcoming elections.
The Ackley Market entity has sold its plant due to ill health. Alden Hardin reports assurance from the Carnegie library corporation that funds for a new building will be forthcoming once the contract is let. A resident visiting Buffalo Center on business, Adam Rummel of Radcliffe, died suddenly.
A New York Tribune report quotes a fur dealer and a manicurist on otter and sable fashion. It describes the brutal tanning process where hides are treaded in a tub by barefoot workers, then restretched to achieve supple fur. The piece contrasts expectations of sables as fluffy with the hard, flattened reality.
Two Paris regimental twins, almost indistinguishable in appearance, swapped caps to exit barracks. The colonel ordered the even numbered soldier to keep hair long and shave his beard, while the odd numbered man grows beard and mustache and gets hair cut closely by the barber to prevent impersonation.
A collage of a melodramatic romantic verse ending with a surprised father, followed by an advertisement offering a cash reward for cold remedies and a testimonial from a Toledo bank. The mixed text shows sensational lines, embedded product pitches, and an endorsement from a local financial institution.
An advertisement touts Beat Palin Killer Bucklen’s Arnica Salve claiming immediate pain relief for brui ses cuts burns and scalds and other skin injuries. It asserts the remedy’s equal for healing and names E. E. Chamber of Clinton as an advocate or claimant. The price is listed as 350.
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