Westfield Write-Ups Merit Bright New Year News
Special Correspondence covers holiday visits, local basketball victory, upcoming games, weddings, funerals, and church notices. Mrs Anna Doyle and Téaward visited from Yankton. Gilbert McDougall married Myron Olson in Garryowen. Obituary for Susie Moniger notes broad survivor list and graveside service in Sioux Rapids.
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Westfield
Anna Doyle
Téaward
Yankton
Community Hall
Liberty At
Liberty
Gilberta’ McDougall
Ted McDougall
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Garryowen
Myron Olson
Gilbert
Akronad
Vincent Conway
LeMars
Julia Slattery
J. R. Conway
John J. Baldwin
Riverside
Sioux City
Graceland Park Cemetery
Baldwin
Catherine Seyler
Riday
Gertrude Tracy
St. Joseph's Hospital
P. F. Tracy
Mary Spaulding
Caral Lilly
Patrick Dyer
Hill Point
A. Hummel
Jno
Bliss
Sioux Rapids
Iowa
Susie Moniger
Tulia Conway
Homer
Nebr
John Gronin
Dave Casael
Maxine Seyler
Harry Feltis
Vermillion
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Jacobs Moniger
Elk Point
Methodist Church
R. A. Hyde
Huron
B. Fielder
H. H. Hough
Sibley
Lutefish Dinner and Sale at St. Paul Church
No services Sunday at The Lutheran Church St Paul. Ladies Aid hosts Lutefish Dinner in South church parlors Friday with dinner from 11 30 until all served and a sale of articles starting at 2 p m. All welcome.
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Ladies’ Aid
South Church
Immanuel Lutheran Church
August Lundgren
Bualnesa
Oscar WF. Bohman
Notice of Annual Meeting of Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Assn
The annual meeting of the members of the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Association of Union county South Dakota will be held at the Town Hall in Big Springs Township on Tuesday January 8 1929 at 11 oclock a m at which time the election of three directors to serve for three years will be held. Any other business that may be brought up will be transacted. Members are requested to be present. Edw Leafstedt Secretary Alcoster MD Dec 26 1928. At The Best Ribbons for All makes of typewriters also Carbon Paper and Typewriter Paper for sale at Register Tribune office.
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Ak Head
Immanuel
Elk Point
Ladies’ Aid
Ringsrud's
Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Association
Union County
S. D
Big Springs
Edw. Leafstedt
V. Alcoster
M. D
Tramp Turns Down Pie Prank In Studio Comedy
A tramp visits a motion picture studio hungry. The director orders a staged theft of a custard pie to provoke a chase. The plan backfires as the tramp eats the pie and refuses to throw it, prompting a witty exchange about quitting after his bite.
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Pard
Merman Legend Tied to Historic Oxford Castle Auction
An odd tale from Historic Oxford Castle on the Suffolk coast claims fishermen captured a merman housed in the castle keep and tamed experiments failed before its mysterious escape. The 12th century Norman stronghold features embattled towers and ancient ruins. The piece also notes United States motto BE multorum unum from a Virgil linked poem and recounts a July 4 1776 Continental Congress seal committee invoking De Siuiiere in Philadelphia.
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Oxford
Suffolk
Ngland
United States
Pathfinder Magazine
Franklin
John Adams
Jefferson
United States of America
Eugene Lierre de Siui
Building America and the American Dream
A concise quotation attributed to Charles A. Beard reflects on how discovery and nation building depended on thousands of common people. It credits peasants, artisans, merchants, sailors and adventurers for braving oceans, clearing land, building towns, and pushing peaceful homesteads toward the Pacific, shaping United States history.
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America
United States
American
Pacific Ocean
Charles A. Beard
Australian Emblems On Blue Ensign Description
The blue ensign bears the Union Jack in the canton with a white seven point star near the fly representing the six states and territories, and five white stars forming the Southern Cross. A red flag with the same markings was used by Australian merchant shipping.
Sweden’s Ancient Rites and Language Study History
The passage notes Sweden’s rites dating to the Bronze Age and Viking era, studied to illuminate European linguistic and historical problems. It mentions Sweden’s population remaining homogeneous for millennia and Swedish being the continuous language, with Swedish literature starting no earlier than the 13th century.
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Sweden
Europe
Japanese Artwork in Yokyo Palace Shows a Crow
A noted Japanese painting in the royal Yokyo palace features four panels with three blank sections. The fourth panel depicts a crow in flight disappearing over the horizon, crafted at the end of a former emperor’s reign and valued as a masterpiece in traditional Japanese composition and movement. The single crow stands for the final flight away from the picture’s center.
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Japan
Yokyo
Commerce Boomed by Counting Methods Through History
A historical overview traces counting from tally sticks and tokens to Egyptian pictographs, Greek and Roman numerals, and the decimal system brought from India to Arabia in 778 A.D. European adoption in the twelfth century spurred teachers and a surge in trade, marking the birth of the commercial era.
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Egypt
India
Arabia
Detroit News
Porpoise Brain Surpasses Man in Size
A historical note claims the porpoise has a larger brain than humans, challenging notions of intelligence. It discusses evolutionary development from land to aquatic life, noting limb changes and a blowhole formation while researchers study brain changes to assess environmental influence.
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Mum
Min
Flood of Blood in Naga Hills Under Tyranny of Demons
The article describes the Naga hills of Assam under a system of demons called Nats. It claims constant blood offerings are required to propitiate them, with wars and self sacrifice by tribesmen and women to supply blood. Great Britain oversees the region and works to curb this practice, noting success elsewhere.
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Naga
Assam
Great Britain
Ant Traps Its Victims in a Lionlike Pitfall Trap
The Kansas City Star describes an ant with a cone shaped pit called a lion that captures unwary prey. The piece notes the insect's predator like behavior and contrasts it with the mother ant which separates eggs to keep siblings from fighting among hatchlings.
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Kansas City Star
Robby to the Rescue and the Sand Lot Mishap
Robby was sent to play with his baby brother on the sand lot with a toy shovel. When the baby cried, Robby explained a fly had been biting him on the end and he killed it with the shovel. The parent rushed to the scene to find the infant unharmed beyond the bite.
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Robby
Phay
Hawk Defends Nest Attacks Man Near Saugus
A Los Angeles gas and electric line man attempting to touch a California hawks nest on a tower near Saugus was attacked by the hawk. The bird knocked him from the tower causing a broken leg, fractured ribs, and multiple minor injuries.
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California
Los Angeles Gas and Electric Company
Saugus
Wait and See A Young Woman Delays Marriage
A young woman discusses plans to marry Mr Newcomer or wait for a proposal. Family doubts his suitability due to status age and rumors. She insists she will wait until he asks her, despite relatives urging decisive action.
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Newcomer
Jim
Hli
Iowa rules label cold stored eggs and define trash eggs
Iowa Department of Agriculture outlines that eggs stored over 30 days in artificial refrigeration must be labeled as cold. Home kept eggs until shrinkage appears cannot be called fresh. trash eggs are defined as under 14 days old with clean sound condition and specific air cell and yolk standards. Consumers should demand merchants label eggs per Iowa standards to avoid inferior products.
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Iowa
Igg
Garage business sale notice to Akron Truck Co
William Ericson announces sale of his garage business to Akron Truck Co and asks creditors to call promptly. He will continue selling Durant and Essex cars and thanks patrons, wishing a prosperous new year. Read the Register-Tribune want columns for results.
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Akron Truck Co
Clement
Durant
Essex
Wm. Ericson
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