Mt Olive News Highlights Cherokees Visits and Clergy Move
Mews from Mt Olive reports Mr and Mrs Harrison Dubes with relatives in Cherokee while Mr Dubes travels to Chicago Tracey Porter and Harlan Allen journey after furniture from the Sheridan Bros site Mrs Simmons family pleased with their new home Sawing wood for Mrs Shell and a feast for the crew Hogs hauled to Aurelia with several visitors A funeral for Mrs Freeman Wills noted and Rev Gillet returns to Mt Olive as pastor in Aurelia The Oelwein farewell honors the Gillets with gifts and praise
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Harrison Dubes
Mr. Dubes
Chicago
Tracey Porter
Harlan Allen
Sheridan Bros
Clarence Simmons
Mr. Sawwell
Raymond
Karl Crippen
Shell
Floyd Allen
Aurelia
Dan Dubea
Flora
R. A. Philson
Fort Dodge
Juber
Beryl Porter
Mt. Olive Baptist Church
Rev
Merc. Gillet
Mrs. Gillet
Freeman Wills
Silver Cemetery
Din Dubes
Rev. Gillet
Gearke
Mrs. Juber
Olive
EE. H. Gillet
Gilbert
Oelwein
E. H. Gillet
Baptist Church
Mount Olive Church
Cleworth
M. FE
Episcopal Church
Kortelling
Hoppes
Gillet
The Cheerful Exterminator Misadventure
In a honeymoon flat the narrator discovers cockroaches require an ex terminator and keeps it secret from friends. An amused kitchen demonstration ends with the line I answered the buzzer and the exterminator arrives. The bride’s ignorance turns comic as a cheerful exchange yields a sly pun.
The Bite That Failed
A Transiberian town story recalls tense scenes between Russians and Japanese soldiers. A Japanese sergeant reports a moujik tried to bite him after he offered a cigarette, prompting a cautionary note on cultural norms and behavior amid post tyranny tension.
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Siberia
Moujik
Enormous Demand Drives Up Raw Furs Prices Worldwide
The market shows enormous demand for furs with Siberian pelts shipped mainly raw. Tibetan lamb and muffinn remain rare export varieties. Global demand and competition have pushed raw fur prices to high levels as sable values rise due to limited supply and closure of Russian markets.
Port of Shanghai and China trade figures in 1918
Shanghai handles about 40 percent of China’s foreign trade and the United States supplied roughly 16 percent of Shanghai’s imports in 1918. Major Chinese prospering industries include cotton spinning shipbuilding and flour milling. Mallway projects Cemiiind attention.
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Shanghai
China
United States
Mallway
Plain Abraham McCarthy Turns Down King George
A railway scene features a hotelman calling for King George as passengers disembark. An elderly country gentleman corrects him, saying he is just Abraham McCarthy, not royalty, ending the exchange with quiet humor.
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Ing George
King George
Abraham McCarthy
Harper’s Magazine
Local State Column Says A Sale Planned This Month
A terse column notes a local seller will put an item or property up for sale this month in the territory. The brief mentions potential buyers and a community context without naming details or dates.
Most Numerous Religion Tally Across Global Faiths
The piece lists Christians at 400 million, Muslims 200 million, Buddhists 500 million, Hindus 800 million, Confucianists 260 million, and pagans around 200 million, noting Buddhists are the largest group.
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the Farmers Elevator Co. Lumber Dept
Iowa
MT. Olive
Mer. Shell
Will Hahn
Quimby
Rev. Gilletts
Edgar Johnson
Herman Hahn
Hahn
Amos
Sy Guarar
IRQS
Cibacee
Scoapr
Durham
Durham Tobacco
Jou
Homer
Wm. West
Phal
Furneces
American Steel
Wisconsin Lumber Co
Paul Kimball
Aurelia, Low
Waterloo
Wm. McLaughlin
Ag’t
Delaplane Shoe Co
Cherokee
Cherokee, Iowa
A.B. Daniels
Live Stock Commission
da. B. Daniels
di Dresser
B. J. Knoerle
Ete Clark
T. W. ‘Eeling
W. IF. Thompson
Hartford
Ned Hoher Indemnity Co
Live Stock Exchange
Nat'l Ban
Union Stock ¥ OF
Edgar F. Smith, M
X-Ray Laboratory
Storm Lake, Iowa
E. G. Bates
A. G. Connell
Weavers Tie
A. J. Tanner
Delaplane
W. C. Waddell
Baumann
H. A. Baumann
C. L. Lee
Maple Valley Mutual Insurance Association
Aurelia, Iowa
Cherokee County
Little Sioux River
Buena Vista County
B. H. Crepps
J. C. Lockin
F. H. Crepps
G. M. Dieterich
Nelsons Restaurant
L. P. Nelson
Prop
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