Community Events and Local News Digest
Community dance planned for Tuesday invites families. Subscriptions offered at the Drug Store. Arthur Buddenhagen ages 14 injured in fodder mishap. A Chicago bound bridge on the Illinois Central burned, routing evening trains. Frances Chandler visits from Sioux City for Thanksgiving. Legion Hall hosts luncheon for Auxiliary members on Dec 4. wedding of Elsie Swanson to Ralph McKenzie noted with Swanson and East families in attendance. Florence DeVries attends wedding from Audubon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois Central
Manson
Storm Lake
Rockwell City
John Peterson
Frances Chandler
Sioux City
J. Shank
Dan Whitney
Hawarden
The
Legion Hall
C. W. Person
O. A. Roger
Estherville
Mr. Person
C. B. East
Alta
Elsie Swanson
Ralph McKenzie
Des Moines
John Swanson
Florence DeVries
Audubon
East Home
Christmas cards and community events in town
Vivid notices promote cheap Christmas cards at the drug store, a December 4 community dance, and a Kings Herald Sunday school meeting at Marjorie Porson’s home. Items report residents traveling, sales pitches for shoe repairs, and a Congregational Ladies Aid bazaar with chicken pie meals and bake goods.
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Mary Thiessen
Johnson
Sutherland
Kings Herald
Marjorie
Porson
D. P. Mahoney
Sioux City
W. B. Reeve
Mahoney
Bernard Paulson
Anna
Gladys
Gena Paulson
State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
H. J. Schmidt
Harness and Shoe Hospital
Congregational Ladies Aid
Public farm sale notices around Aurelia schedule December auctions
Public sale ads list Helmer Paulson near Aurelia on December 11 with horses cattle hogs sheep and machinery. Tyner announces a sale near Aurelia on December 6 with horses cattle hogs and farm machinery. Jim W Brown closing out sale on December 18 at the Frank Lewis farm northwest of Aurelia. Full property lists to follow in The Sentinel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helmer Paulson
Aurelia
Hughes
Tyner
Jim W. Brown
Frank Lewis
Sentinel
Community Dance Promises Festive Night in New Hall
Mrs E G Bates returns from Rochester hospital and plans a week long stay. A community dance is set for Tuesday December 4 in the new hall with square dances waltzes and circle one steps. Admission 75 cents. Visitors Mrs Spencer of Lake View and Mrs Wm McCauley of Council Bluffs called on Aurelia friends recently.
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E. G. Bates
Rochester
Minnesota
Spencer
Lake View
Beyfere
C. EE. Day
Wm. McCauley
Council Bluffs
Aurelia
Local residents visit and a hunting accident in Afton area
Afton and vicinity reports several visits by Troy Mummert Frank Mummert Emmet Ammons and family Galen Dyslin and others in Aurelia Marcus Cherokee Buena Vista Sutherland Wagner and Richland SD. Otis Coupe died after an accidental Sunday hunting incident prompting community sympathy.
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George Gramer
Marcus and Eurnstine
Donald Groff
Cherokee
Guy Robinson
John Dyslin
Harvey Dyslin
Galen Dyslin
Gladys Dyslin
Olga Pierson
Glenn Dyslin
Roy Geary
Alta
Verlin
Herbert Grieneke
Frank Lewis
Walter Lewis
Spring Township
Mesdames
John
Harvey
Miss Glayds Dyslin
Gerrets
Buena Vista County
Salem Synder
Walter Mienking
Baby
Robt Sitz
Peterson
Messrs Clark
McKinley Menefee
Glenn Sleezer
Wagner
South. Dakota
Karl Zwick
Sutherland
Otis Coupe
Diamond Center News Notes From Storm Lake To Aurelia
Local residents and visitors share events across multiple towns. Mr and Mrs Ernest Rasche and Vera visited Storm Lake. teachers attended Cherokee meeting. Farm Bureau training at Emmet Ammon near Aurelia. Rasche family hosted relatives. Streed anniversary gathering. Goettsch and Swanson work shifts. Irving Carlson injured in corn husking accident in the field and taken to Holstein. Diamond Ladies Aid met with a covered dish lunch. Richard Peterson and Frank Fritz seen in the area. Rasche and Peterson families noted in Cherokee and Alta visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Rasehe
Vera
Storm Lake
Maria O’meara
Rena Swanson
Melva Peterson
Cherokee
Mesdames Theo
Nordstrom
Roy Ohlson
Wilson
Lloyd Ohlson
B. H. Dubes
William Haight
Esther Swanson
Farm Bureau
Emmet Ammons
Aurelia
Ernest Rasche
Irving Carlson
Holstein
Diamond Ladies Aid
Richard Peterson
Frank Fritz
Silver Township
Conspicuous Goodness and The Plea for Public Effort
A fragmentless observation attributes social virtue to visible acts and laments sparse deliberate goodness. The note suggests that obvious benevolence could gain wider appeal if more people aimed to display it publicly.
Duty of Leaders To Inform Minds and Follow Will
Statement attributed to Thomas Jefferson stressing that informing the minds of the people and following their will is the chief duty of leaders.
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Thomas Jefferson
Fragmentary Quote on Hope and Despair
A garbled excerpt discusses doubt versus despair and the burden of misery, with unclear attribution and several corrupted characters. The readable bits convey a philosophical reflection rather than a concrete event or news item.
Civil War Battles Named In Civil War History
The Civil War had about 2400 military engagements identified by specific names in historical records indicating the scale of named battles and engagements during the conflict.
Short Zanzibar War Ended in Forty Minutes
The sultan of Zanzibar declared war on Great Britain in 1893 and the conflict lasted only forty minutes before British forces achieved victory.
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Zanzibar
Great Britain
Man Craves a Den at Home Says Atlanta Constitution
A brief aphorism from the Atlanta Constitution notes that many men desire a private space in their home, suggesting they already have a keeper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta Constitution
Fragment on Genius and Generalization by Lord Lytton
A quoted reflection distinguishes genius from ordinary talent, arguing that true genius lies in the faculty to generalize diverse phenomena into a single understanding. It notes that such aptitude is not tied to any special talent and depends on a mind capable of grasping a unified whole.
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Lord Lytton
Autobiographical Files Literature on Women Cited
A reflection from American Magazine notes autobiographies about women are engaging yet unreliable since all autobiography is fiction, underscoring the tension between memoir and invention in self-representation.
First Military Book from British War Office Dated 1578
The earliest military treatise in the British War Office library is dated 1578. It is titled Certayne Wayes for t Mrarbane tenand, beth Deere and includes methods of fortification and marching, with illustrations of new plans for town fortifications.
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War Office
Wirary
Beth Deere
Early English Comedy Ralph Royster Doyster at Eton
Nicholas Udall wrote Ralph Royster Doyster the earliest English comedy. The exact appearance date is uncertain but predates 1541. It was written for performance by the boys of Eton College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Royster Doyster
Nicholas Udall
Eton College
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Lenore Tedrow
Dorothy Perkins
Facial
J. C. Nelson
Herman Kruse
Fort Dodge
Sentinel Office
W. F
M. E. Church
Mike Dick
Arthur Buddenhagen
Will Buddenhagen
Catterson
Christian Endeavor
Walter Petersen
Floyd Glawe
Pitcher Farm Bureau
Glane Home
Jess and
Raymond Anderson
Andrew Anderson
Comfrey
Afton and Vicinity
Messrs
Troy
Frank Mummert
Fred Plagman
Richland
South Dakota
Diamond Center News
RAPP
Iowa
Muassinger
Toyland
Santa Claus
Fea Tore
Larson Brothers
General Merchandise
Veeste
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