Busy social and business week in Silver Township
Last week brought strong farm activity with corn to market as elevators filled. Social events included the Good Hope M E Ladies Aid bazaar netting about 80 dollars and the Diamond Center group raising around 104 dollars. Mt Olive church plans late December gatherings and a Christmas Eve program with recitations music and a chicken shipment to Council Bluffs for the Christian Children's Home.
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Ladies’ Aid Society of Good Hope M. E. Church
M. P. Peterson
Diamond Center Ladies’ Aid Society
Mra. J Thomas Hall
Ladies of
Mt. Olive
Sentinel
Fish
Cherokee
Alderson
Alta
Mt. Olive Church
Parcel Post Limits Raised for 1914
Postmaster Marsh announces parcel post limits updated after January 1 1914. First two zones allow up to fifty pounds, distant zones to twenty pounds. current first two zone rate stays 5 cents for the first pound plus 1 cent for each extra pound. Rates to other zones reduced.
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Parcel Post
Marsh
Hawks Nursery Co Employment Ad in Wisconsin
Local want ad recruiting for sales agents in Wauwatosa Wisconsin promises weekly cash pay and expense coverage with no experience required under its plan. Advertises home territory and potential earnings starting at $20 per week with growth.
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Hawks Nursery Co
Wauwatosa
Wisconsin
Women as a Power Quote by Matthew Arnold
Quote reflecting on women uniting for mankind's benefit. It envisions a future where female solidarity becomes a transformative global force. The line emphasizes purity of purpose and collective strength as a societal catalyst.
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Hill
Matthew Arnold
Barkless Dogs Reported In Three Varieties
A quirky note describes three breeds of dogs that never bark the Australian dog the Egyptian shepherd dog and the dion headed dog of Tibet. This unusual listing presents a curious zoological aside from historical text.
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Tibet
Voting In Switzerland
In Switzerland every citizen at age twenty is entitled to vote, regardless of homeowner status. The text notes universal suffrage for adults, applying to all households and non householder residents alike.
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Switzerland
Bishop Pontopidan
Norway
Captain de Ferry
Protests in Congress Over Michigan Seat Move and Wilson Navy Plan
Debates rage as Michigan Democrats travel to Washington to press Claude Carney’s seating over J. M. C. Smith. Frear calls for an inquiry into partisan lobbying. House backs a 317 to 11 vote approving a naval holiday proposal urging Wilson and Churchill to suspend naval building for a year. Volstead criticizes presidential primary reform as unconstitutional. Also noted are cotton market findings in Oklahoma, Whitlock’s Belgium post, and Panama Canal tourist cruises from New Orleans on the Fuerst Bismarck and Hamburg American Line with Kingston, Havana calls.
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Michigan
Winston Churchill
Congress
National Congress
Volstead
House Committee On the Judiciary
Minnesota
Wilson
Gray
Panama Canal
Pacific
Atlantic
Panama
Washington
Great Ditch
Canal Zone
South
Middle West
Far Western
New Orleans
Hamburg American Line
West Indies
Isthmus
Havana
Pearl Venice Dyslin Marries Earl William Johnson
Pearl Venice Dyslin wed Earl William Johnson at the Dyslin farm home on December 17 with Rev. Earl Hoon officiating. The ceremony featured pink decor, a wedding arch, and a music trio, followed by a wedding dinner and a trip toward Minneapolis before settling on a Peterson area farm.
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F B. Dyslin
Pearl Venice
Earl William Johnson
Earl Hoon
Mary Alice Dyslin
Violet Weitherall
Robert Whiting
Myrtle Johnson
Marvel Johannason
Estella Johannason
Storm Lake
Auto
Minneapolis
Johnson
Peterson
Zooma Coombs
The
Sentinel
Waking From Sleep and Morning Health Habits
The text discusses waking health as a test of robust health and how rising from bed reflects restfulness. It notes that natural awakening signals refreshed body and that mental activity often peaks in early waking moments, with poets and authors conceiving ideas during this state of repose.
Know Him as Well Cantankerous Owner Seeks Local Coachman
An old gentleman advertised for a coachman needing intimate knowledge of the neighborhood. No applicants arrived. An ostler explains that those who know the neighborhood well know the employer too, given the cantankerous owner's reputation.
Pride as the Virtues in Dickensian Thought
A reflection on pride as a vice yet not in motherhood, where pride in children blends faith and hope. Dickens contrasts moral danger with virtuous affection, noting maternal pride as a positive compound of cardinal virtues guiding parental love.
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Dickens
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Silver Township
the Sentinel
Alfred Johnson
Ladies Ald Society
Lutheran Church
Ernest Peterson
Luther League
J Lome
Green
Iowa
Underwood
Hawkeye
Alabama
Columbia
United States
Bryan
Southern Republic
Republic of
Chamberlain
Oregon
Oklahoma
Department of Agriculture
Galveston
Ohio
Brand Whitlock
Toledo
John Sharp Williams
Whitlock
Belgium
Democrats of
Senate
Williams
Pindell
Page
New York
Court of St. James
Erncie Elgin
Jewel
Waltham Or
Elgin
Waltham Or Elgin
Hamilton
Hampden
South Bend
Elgin Or
Waltham
Kate
Itrebeac
Eell
Ingersol
Ingergol Junior
Uti
Illinois
Lord Elgin
C. A. Royer
Aurelia
Lowa
Gupid
Pearl
Venice
Dyslin
Sues
Zoe Ips
the City
Waterloo Laundry
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