Local Afton Social Notes and Visits Report
Afton residents attend Farm Bureau training in Cherokee and a funeral in Aurelia. Visitors include Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Lewis and La Venne from near Newell, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Clow and family near Paullina, and Willie Sleezer group to Sioux City to see Major Bowes. Mary Dreyer of Aurelia dies. Loma Robinson hosts a visit. Litirabee couple welcomes a son. Zwick and Parks families travel. Card party hosted by Walter Radke. carnival at Brooke.
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Afton
Farm Bureau
Nicholson
Cherokee
Oscar Lewis
la Venne
Newell
Victor Swanson
Isaac Clow
Eric Stark
Paullina
Frank Scott
Aurelia
Chas. Menefee and Sons
McKinley Menefee
Wm. Sleezer
Glenn and
Dale
Leaf Cave
Mildred
Cave
Troy Mummert
Bert Mummert
Walter Radke
Sioux City
Ida Grove
Glenn Loucks
Emma Loucks
Glenn
Dade
Raymond Zwick
Sions City
Loma Robinson
Knox Montgomery
Litirabee
Navy weighs resuming large airship program after Akron and Macon
Washington reports the bureau of aeronautics backs a new construction program for dirigibles despite earlier disasters. Rear Admiral Cook's annual report follows Admiral King and scientists urging careful, continued airship development with co operation in the commercial field under study for policy finalization.
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Washington
Akron
Macon
Navy High Command
Bureau of Aeronautics
A. B. Cook
Bureau
Navy
Cook
E. J. King
Hnd
Claude A. Swanson
Secretary of the Navy
Naval High Command
Scientist Committee
United States
Admiral King
Ice Bugs Found by Montana Student Entomologist
Bozeman Montana Professor G Allen Mail mourns the death of another Grylloblatta or Alpine Rock Crawler from his ammonia refrigerator room collection. Fred Skoog an entomology student found them in Gallatin valley and more were located by faculty.
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Bozeman
Mont
G. Allen Mail
Montana State College
Gallatin Valley
Fred Skoog
Mail
Paid in Full After Victory Narrative
A tavernkeeper in Stokes County North Carolina wrote paid in full on a old bill owed him for lodging after Andrew Jackson defeated the British at New Orleans. The note reflects frontier judgment and popular sentiment following the battle.
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Stokes County
North Carolina
Andrew Jackson
New Orleans
Ambergris Definition and Source in Whales
Ambergris is a concretion formed in the intestines of whales and used in perfumery. The note explains its natural origin and traditional applications in fragrance making.
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Whales
Aurelian Consolidated School Notes Highlights
The bulletin details multiple grades from freshman to sixth, covering algebra factoring and quadratic work, English paragraph development, science light concepts, and social studies topics. It notes Shakespeare readings, Latin constructions, geography progress, and ongoing arts, shorthand, and typing activities, with student achievements in spelling and tests.
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Ecumonics
Europe
Netherlands
England
Germany
Switzerland
Birds listed as cleaners in nature study motivation
A school nature study outlines bird themed groups such as carpet cleaners sparrows robins and hawks to compare home tasks with mother nature. First grade spelling honor rolls are noted along with drawings of robins and a reading stories dramatization at Edmund Otto home.
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Lord Byron
Shelley
Keats
Lamb
DeQuincey
Walter Scott
Donald Beeghley
Gloria Coombs
John Dunn
Darlene Lindsay
Howard Nelson
Harold Niles
Doris Noble
Betty Pruitt
Evelyn Rydstrom
Iowa
Samuel Morse
Telegraph
Black Rapids
Alaska
Betty Anderson
Myrna Grienke
Gloria Harden
La-Vonne Harden
Elaine Marcus
Beverly Walter
Helen Paulson
Baltimore
Pauline Dryer
Frances Fassler
Galen Gilbert
Betty Grienke
Filmore Nelson
Maxine Nielsen
Gretchen Wieland
Arthur Daniels
Charles Rapp
Lapps
Atlantic
Baffin Island
Doris Nelson
Marjorie Cornwall
Melvern Anderson
Lois Galvin
Myrna Thomas
Harold Larson
Sherr Nelson
Gerald Gerrets
Joyce Hartwig
Byron Preul
Jane Lawniczak
Phyllis
Melvern
Myrna
Melba
Frances
Harry Rudisill
Joann Deyloff
Betty Phillips
Phyllis Engdahl
Ray Thomas
Dareld Gerjets
Berniece Schmidt
Norma Nelson
Mildred Paulson
Gene Kline
Roger Gluwe
Dale Peterson
Loraine
Preul
Lois Dachman
Jean Bengtson
Patty Clark
Elizabeth Eddy
Clayton Johnson
Shirley Nielsen
Ruby Niles
Harriet Ohlson
Gerald Peterson
Margaret Pruitt
Harold Rice
Jeanette Langwin
Hanover News social notes from across Alta area
Irene Zwemke reports a string of visits and family gatherings in and around Alta Iowa. Highlights include birthdays celebrated in Galva and north of Alta, relatives from Albert City and Holstein visiting, and a farewell for Rev Steincamp moving to Seymour Indiana.
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LL. C. Moy
Ute
Mapleton
A. J. Ludwig
Schafer
Rockwell City
Professor Ludwig
Fort Dodge
Dick Grieme
Galva
Charles Zwemke
Fred Wogahn
Aurelia
Ervin Radke
John Holtz
Harold
Marvin
Adelene
Holstein
Walter Holtz
Alta
Gilbert Garberding
Albert City
Herman Wrede
Wayne
Lorene
Joan Huseman
Albert Lietz
Walter Miller
Marlys
Anton Larson
Leroy
Fred Larson
Gust Magnuson
Delores Magnuson
Wanpinge and the Historic Wapping Docks
Wanpinge notes London Wapping as the old docklands beneath the Tower. The area is famed historically for piracy and maritime activity in ages past.
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Wanpinge
London
Wapping
Tower
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Faber
Mgr
Earl Zwick
George Zwick
Russell Parks
Larrabee
Theatre
Grace Moore
Minnie the Moocher
Montana
Aurelia Consolidated School
Cleveland
Free Silver Company
U. S
Caesar
Ariovistus
Shay
James Fenimore Cooper
Stock Saving Bank
Mutual Savings Bank
Postal Savings Bank
Mutual Savings Banks
Postal Savings
South America
Aileen Erlandson
Sens Ost
Aurelia, IA
Edmund Otto
Center
Glen Leber
Oscar Peterson
Hanover
Irene Zwemke
Carlson’s Dairy
W. E. Simonsen
Arthur Brown
O. St. Simonsen
Winfred Moulton
Aurelia, Iowa
A. H. Eddy
W. G. Port
Maple Valley Mutual Insurance Association of
Cherokee County
Geo. KE. Blanch
H. H. Lockin
Geo. Fe, Blanch
W. F. Hickey
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