Local News Notes From Mummert Hardware and Area
Various small items: Mummert Hardware ads for brooms and gas stoves. Niels P Peterson visited Newell. laundry wagon service. Mrs George Wieland recovering from ruptured appendix. Mrs J Nelson and Mrs Fred Johnson toured Sioux City. M.E. Ladies Aid to meet May 2 with hostesses listed. Births, visits, and local commerce updates interspersed with farm and property ads and a public sale notice.
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Mummert Hardware
Niels P. Peterson
Newell
N. P. Petersen
R. B. Harrison
Des Moines
Geo. A. Hansen
Mrs. J. ©. Nelson
Sioux City
Fred Johnson
Cherokee
A. H. Lockin
Allen Lamm
Hayes
Mummert
Oscar Peterson
Elk Township
Bonnie Kilpatrick
Francis Torrest
Peterson
Ruby Simmers
L. P. Nelson
Community Notes From Aurelia and Nearby Areas
Local items cover social visits, church meetings, farm and home appointments, and upcoming events in Aurelia and Afton. Highlights include visits by Miss Naoma Lee, family gatherings at Lamb home, M. E. church activities, tornado insurance ad, and school staff changes.
Earliest War Office Book From 1578 Describes Soldiering and Fortifications
The British War Office library holds its earliest dated work from 1578, titled Certayne Wryes for the Ordering of Souldiers In Battlerny and Setting of Battagles. It details marching methods and includes figures of new fortification plates for towns.
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War Office
Battlerny
Harassed school marm notes two well behaved pupils
An inspector questions pupils while a harassed teacher admits two children show good manners. The exchange appears in Capper's Weekly reflecting old time education scenes and social judgments.
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Capper
Local residents visit Holstein and surrounding towns
East Afton and Elk residents, including Bill Ruebsam and Jin Merne, spent Sunday in Holstein. Several households, farms for sale, seed corn ad, and baby chicks advertised. A quarantine is noted for scarlet fever at the John Rosenbrook residence.
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Bill Ruebsam
Jin Merne
Holstein
Gus Goettsch
Roy Goettsch
Bernice Kolpin
Quentin Anderson
Fred Kolpin
Sutherland
John Booth
Bill Booth
Fami Ly
Gorge Booth
Cherokee
Shirley Sansen
Ed Erickson
John Rosenbrook
Gahlen Dyslin
Verlin
Abbo Gerrets
No-Child Theorists Asked to Train to Change Minds
Opinion bychange argues skeptics who claim expertise in childrearing but lack offspring should be given a child to train. The piece suggests experiential testing would reveal the practicality of their theories.
Weddling Rings Stir Strife Amid Heathenish Opposition
Cronmwwell and allies fought to ban wedding rings of any sort including ironic ones but the heathenish practice could not be eliminated.
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Cronmwwell
Public officials must wear proper attire say service paper
A civil service paper contends that officeholders should dress well to convey authority, arguing that robes of office require more than symbolic power and good appearance.
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Civil Service
Does your business need a tonic Try advertising
A brief promotional line asks if a business needs a tonic and suggests advertising as the remedy, framed in a classic newspaper ad tone.
Funeral Attendees from Mt Olive Visit Grandmother Simmons
Mt Olive residents attended the funeral at the Cherokee Methodist church for Grandma Simmons including Mr and Mrs Victor Frank Mr and Mrs Earl Crippen Chas Bruce Mr and Mrs John Towner Almond Thompson Mr and Mrs Harry Bengtson Mr and Mrs Earl Bruce Mrs B H Dubes Mrs Clarence Ohlson and Mrs Lloyd Ohlson. Visitors also saw Mrs Almund Thompson and a baby daughter at Sioux Valley hospital in Cherokee last Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. Robinson
Evelyn
South Dakota
Wm. Menefee
Ollie Wolverton
McKinley Menefee
Dale Sleezer
Higgins
Gilletts Grove
George Zwick
Mankato
Minnesota
American Theatre
Lyman Hotel
Emma Ware
Leon Sanborn
Geo. Melton
Lilden Township
Ruth
Grandma Simmons
Cherokee
Victor Frank
Earl Crippen
Chas. Bruce
John Towner
Almond Thompson
Harry Bengtson
Earl Bruce
B. H. Dubes
Clarence Ohlson
Lloyd Ohlson
Almund Thompson
Sioux Valley Hospital
Triggs
Forney Dubes
Aurelia
Minor
Baptist Church
Nina Ohlson
Jim Nation
Margaret Juber
Good Hope School
Good Hope Church
Floyd Allen
Mildred
Harlan Allen
Storm Lake
C. M. Jones
B. IL. Dukes Home
Clyde Minor
Telepathic Dog Meets Master at Rail Station
A dog is described as telepathic by Maj Harding Cox of the British Army. The animal always goes to the railway station to meet its master, regardless of irregular travel intervals. If the master misses a train, the dog still awaits him at the proper arrival.
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Harding Cox
German Order of Herman Sons Founded in New York
The Order of Sons of Herman founded in New York around 1840 to foster German customs and benevolence in the United States. Each branch remains entirely self governing according to the Washington Star.
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Order of Sons of Herman
Orden der Hermanssohne
New York City
United States
Washington Star
Generalizing genius and the talent for synthesis
A quotation from Lord Lytton on genius distinguishing the gifted from the merely talented. It notes that a genius generalizes many details requiring diverse aptitudes, yet unites them into a single whole by a mind with broad grasp rather than any single specialty.
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Lord Lytton
Also Mentioned on This Page
Benjamin’s . Treatment
J.C. Nelson
Marion Hale
Mummert’s
George Wieland
Bates Hospital
M. E. Ladies Aid
Carl Herald
Jay Parrott
Ella Dick
Roy Lay
John Mummert
Will
Lew Stutz
Texas
Wilcox
Canada
E. C. Lighter
Jefferson
Willie Bosc
Moses Mummert
Main Street
W. H. Bischel
Adm
A. B. Lindsay
Naoma Lee
Duncombe
Catherine Lamb
Bert Philpott
Mummert’s Hardware
W.F. Mes
M. E. Church
CG. DeVries
Tobias Ruebsam
Willie Ruebsam
Lamerne
Fred. Lemke
E .D. Snider
Kings Heralds
H H. Lockin
Congregational Church
The
Sentinel
Pitcher Farm Bureau
Charles Nelson
William Keister
Clifford Ohlson
S. Nelson
Stella Blanch
Peterson School
Tony Larks
Petersen
Model Clothing Co
H. A. Holmes
Tom Holmes
Dave Holmes
John Wallace
Holmes Boys
Alta
Spencer
Paxson
Iane Waddell
Bert Waddell
Wm. Hansbruch
Honsbruch
Cr. K. Kannenberg
Afton and Vicinity
East Afton and Elk
Yale Lock
Sentinel Office
H. H. Lockin
R. C. Rhode Island
M. Parrott
Fishman’s Garden
W. H. Heimsoth
Alta Hatchery
Iowa
Jacob Trahn
RREOE
Gardner Nursery Co
Box Sal
Ounage
MT. Olive News
Larson’s Store
General Merchandise
Webster-Ashburton
Britain
Maine
Robert Templeman
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