Local notes cover war, enlistments and town events
Local items report Dr. Mattison and J. Kerr enlisting as surgeons in Sioux City, a large draft medical corps forming, and Akron residents visiting Sioux City. News mentions trips to LeMars and Gayville, family health scares, waterworks and jewelry upgrades, plus preparations for county school commencements and Liberty Bond drives at the First National Bank.
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Lue Parker
Mary Popkin
Henry Popkin
Akron Hospital
Geo. O. Strom
Akron
Milwaukee Grain Commission
Sioux City
Fields & Slaughter Grain Co
Fields
J. H. Kerr
George Mattison
C. EB. Frotvnk
Des Moines
Frederick Roost
Ambujsance Service
Akronea
Walter Baldwin
Lowell Burrill
P. A. Foley
Arkie
Mah‘Ton Hauck
Fred Koch
Arden Toss
Harold Strong
Eimer Welch
Freeman Tt. White
J. M. Vreiweiler
J. M. Davey
J. J. Reeder
van Buyen Knott
Fie Shoatbanig’ Waitn
District Court
Clint Strong
Harold
Hombach
F. J. Gorge
Remsen
Henry Willey
Gayville
Masonic Hall
McCarly
Sheldon
Bridget Dunn
Ohiweh
Register-Tribune
Akron-Westfeld ‘Exchange
Mya
A. Armstrong
Lillian
Lake View
Mesdames
TF. Root
Chas. Wise
Messrs
R. R
J. H. Pollock
Henry Ruble
Vieur ‘LeMars
Mrs. Way
John W. Ruble
Ruble
Jo. H. Huehn
Grand Island
Nebr
M. Hilliker
Huehn
Hilliker
Beloit
L. M. Dorveen
Christink
Iowa
Missouri
Atutc
Iowa Odd Fellows
Dorveen
Plymouth County
LeMars
First National Bank
Investment Property for Sale in Akron
Property on Lot 2 Block 7 Akron now occupied by implement house and tailor shop owned by H. P. Anderson Estate is for sale. Offers a rental return over 16 percent annually. For terms inquire at once of B. H. Youngstrom or W. Anderson, Administrators.
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Akron
Implement House
H. P. Anderson
B. H. Youngstrom
W. (. Anderson
Priest joins U S Army to serve as officer in war
Father E T McNally pastor at St Andrew's Catholic Church in Sibley Virginia will leave the priesthood to train as an army officer at Fort Snelling Minnesota. He will serve as a priest and an officer and expects a two year war. The Sioux City diocese approves his enlistment and notes a priest shortage.
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E. T. McNally
St. Andrew's Catholic Church
Sibley
Maurice
United States Army
Fort Snelling
Minn
Sioux City
P. J. Garrigan
Father McNally
Army of the
Ishes
Boston
Army Reserve
Iowa blue laws to spread statewide enforcement
A Des Moines dispatch says Iowa blue laws begun last Sunday in Des Moines will go statewide next Sunday. Attorney General Hayner will soon send letters to all county attorneys ordering closing of Sunday theatres and baseball games, shining parlors, fountain liquor outlets, and drug stores, and to enforce Prohibition except for charity and necessary work.
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DeMoines
Iowa
Des Moines
Hayner
Immanuel Lutheran Church Announces Sunday Services
The Lutheran Immanuel Church schedules Swedish service at 10 80 a m and English service at 4 p m next Sunday. Sunday school begins at 12 o'clock with Ladies Aid meeting in the church parlors Thursday afternoon. Paator Dy A Knock.
Methodist Church Notes Sunday Schedule and Events
Sunday School at 10:00 a m. Preaching service at 11 a m. Epworth League 7:00 p m. Song Service and preaching 8:00 p m. Prayer meeting Thursday 8:00 p m. Walstein W Tyrrell Akron stores open Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 6 o'clock.
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Methodist Church Notes
Akron
Raccoons Wash Their Food and Shape Frontier Lore
Raccoons, widespread across North America, eat a varied diet from clams to corn. They wash food near water, a habit noted in frontier literature with Coonskin caps and coonskins as barter. Despite habitat loss, these intelligent animals persist in much of their original range.
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Patta
North America
Canada
Panama
Angea
Public Health Message Urges Parents to Curb Child Illness Spread
The New York Medical Journal warns the public, especially the uneducated, about dangerous childhood diseases and the need to keep sick children away from others. It calls for educating both parents and children to avoid concealing illnesses and prevent school and Sunday school outbreaks.
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New York Medical Journal
Lebas Courageous Lift of Egyptian Obelisk to Paris
In 1836 engineer Lebas risked his life to guide an obelisk from Luxor to the Place de la Concorde. Straining cables nearly broke during ascent. he stood beneath the stone to prove his calculations and avoid public dishonor, amid civic pride and controversy in Paris.
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Rameses I
Luxor
Morehhan
Parla
Place de la ‘Concorde
Egypt
Lebas
Toulon
I Nile
Seine
Dog Lebus
Hardihood Lebas
le Oil de Paris
Constitutionel
Aea Serpent
Windows That Light and Room Expansion by Bays
The article argues that grouped windows let in more light than scattered ones of equal size. It suggests remodeling dark rooms by joining two windows into a bay or creating a continuous line of windows to improve light and visually extend the room.
Farmer laments crops and middleman drain in Kansas era
In a satirical city column Mordecai Morose laments losses from hog shipments to Kansag alty and alfalfa fads. He decries taxes mortgages chinch bugs and middlemen as robbing farmers, while a Kansag City Star reply notes his likely six hundred dollar debt and history of losses.
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Agriculturial
Mordecai
Kansagalty
Agere
Mord
Bansag City Star
Food Producers Enlistment Push in Iowa Farms
A wartime plea urges Iowa farmers and citizens to join the Volunteer Food Producers effort. President Wilson calls all able bodied people to aid in supplying food and necessities, urging enlistment via the Agricultural Extension Department in Ames Iowa and promising a free enlistment button and information.
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Iowa
Agricultural Extension Department
Ames
Elopement sparks suspension at Morningside College
Former Akron girl Maria Mahood eloped with Don Van Horne, a Morningside College senior. An order suspends him temporarily while the faculty decides full action. Mahood, a sophomore, married Van Horne at LeMars Methodist parsonage. The discipline committee may recommend further steps as the college seeks to balance rules with personal ties.
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Akron
A. DE. Craig
Morningside College
Sioux City
St. Joseph's Hospital
Don van Horne
Maria Mahood
Mahood
Siso
Morningside
Methodist Parsonage
LeMars
Order of Sispension
van Horne
W. C. Hilmer
Brof. C. A. Marsh
Lilien M. Dimmitt
van ‘Horne
Br. Viator
Bourbonnais
Ill
Marsh
H. W. L. Mahood
Charter Oak
Sentinel
Town Improvement Groups and Their Purpose
The article discusses local town improvement organizations such as Boards of Trade and Chamber of Commerce. It notes their elaborate constitutions and committees, often failing to act, yet their practical value rests on providing a tangible economic basis for cooperative civic efforts and town beautification.
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United States
Board of Trade
Chamber of Condnerce
Business Men’s Association
Commercial’ Club
Improvement Society
Boards of Trade
Business Men
For Sale Farm Water Stock and Land Package
For sale on this farm there are water resources, many buildings, several hundred acres of alfalfa land and excellent land for general farming. A real stock and grain farm with 564 price and easy terms. Address Lock Box 276 Bronx Falls So Cal Try.4. Register Teihune Want ads.
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Pam
Prica
Lock Box
Bronx Falls
Cal
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