Local news items from Aurelia and vicinity
A mosaic of notes mentions H J Arends on a Sioux City trip, Lewis store openings, family visits to Dubuque and Sioux City, and local shopping for school tablets. Several trips to Spencer, Battlecreek, and Omaha are noted along with farm building, poultry, and hardware updates. Community events include dances, sales, and club meetings.
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H. J. Arends
Sioux City
Pierce & Son
Andrew Johnson
Lydia Meinking
Carlberg Bros
W. H. Garber
Lewis
Dan Hankens
Clay County
Rapp Hardware Co
D. Hankens
Monticello
Iowa
Nellie Swanson
Fort Dodge
L. P. Nelson
Battlecreek
Felicia Hines
New Garden
Dawson & Rogers
Oscar Swanson
Aurelia
T. B. Parker
Margaret Pruitt
Glen Bell
Woman's ‘Auxiliary of the American Legion
Will.bald
Rapp Hardware Store
Helen ‘Watta
Blanch Powell
Klausen
Bridegroom's Abrupt Charge on Wedding Day
A man about twenty five, on his wedding day, opened a charge account and told the minister to charge it. He then vanished, and the minister never heard from him again.
Prehistoric dress inspires London pageant spectacle
The London Daily Graphic reports a dress show featuring a costume inspired by Altamira rock art and dated between 20 000 and 200 000 years old. A Spanish dancing frock replica and a Queen Boadicea themed wrap highlighted bold embroidery and plumage details.
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Altamira
Spain
The
Daily Graphic
Boadicea
Westminster Bridge
American trees in Greece Mrs Martineau visits Athens
Floriculture expert Mrs P Martineau returns from Athens where she advised the Greek king and queen on garden layouts. She notes drought resistant California trees suit Greek soil and cites pepper trees and the maritime pine as planted around Athens with aims to cover hills and perhaps influence rainfall.
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P. Martineau
Iingland
Athens
California
Greece
Incident Boys Calamity Averted On Rail Bridge
Two twelve year old boys trapped on a Wilkes Bar re and Hazleton rail bridge over Tessopeck creek Pa lay between the rails as a train passed. They survived unhurt after the engine signaled and the youths hid their heads and prayed, choosing the narrow space over a jump into the creek or fleeing.
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Tessopeck Creek
Wilkes-Barre and
Hazleton
Ideal Hoosier Town Mount Comfort praised by ex Hoosler
Jimmie Blue of Denver says Mount Comfort Indiana is the ideal town. A hungry tramp, stranded in bitter cold, canvassed the area to no avail. At the Big Four and Cumberland Pike intersection he confessed he had seen many towns but none as finished as Mount Comfort.
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Jimmie Blue
Hoosler
Denver
Mount Comfort
Ind
Big Four
Cumberlland Pike
Hils
Indianapolis News
For Sale Duroe Fall and Spring Boars
For Sale Duroe fall and spring boars with size and quality priced to sell. Herd numbers over 250 head. From old blood to new customers. Located 84 miles north of Alta. Phone Lith Grove 7-27 Ni-K Nelson.
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Alta
Ni-K. Nelson
Drums on Horseback in English Military History
The article traces the first horseback drums to 1542 when Henry VIII sent kettle drums to Vienna for on horse use. Mounted bands rose in the late 18th century with the life guards practicing in 1895. A Boston note recalls a dentist visit joke about two cuspids remaining in the head.
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England
Henry VIII
Vienna
Life Guards
Old Law Reset Be Sure You Are Wrong Then Apologize
A brief noted item from Woman's Home Companion signals a humorous moral about admitting error before apology. The compact caption reflects period tone and social etiquette guidance.
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Ours
First National Bank
Aurelia, Iowa
Lew
Charlie “Johnson
Carl Chris‘tensen
P. Nelson
W. A. McLaughlin
Emmett Rand
Nels Magaard
Omaha
Alfred Stieneke
Dorothy
Will Wieland
Bert Satterlee
Paullina
Dick Diercks
Rs. Diercks
A. B. Lindsay
Spencer Fair
Col. L. Ferguson
Jessie Lockin
Brandon
Wisconsin
A. A. Kuyper
Boyden
Charles Kuyper
Carmel
C. de Vries
John Hill
Merrill
Alva Hill
Ft. Dodge
Lillie Crooksdale
C. R. Kleeberger
Varina
Lloyd Scott
Baby
Clay Dawson
Lake Preston
South Dakota
Ray Howell
George Parrott
Clarence Ohlson
Points
R. A. Gustafson
Storm Lake
C. C. Coombs
Hartley
L. G. Reckoff
C. Vanderburg
C. DeVries
Frank Waddell
Henkle
H. K. Leonard
Spencer
P. Knudsen
Helen Strohm
Correctionville
Geo. Garber
Clinton Coombs
Plankington
Zoma Coombs
Bert Waddell
W. G. Whitney
Alma Steinenberger
Marc Mollie Turner
J. Spooner
M. Dahil
A. A. Dingman
A. H. Knudsen
Kingsley
A. A. Pierce
Emma Lighter
Arthur
Rolfe
Edwin Lighter
Minnie Knudsen
E. C
Herman Kruse
Fort. Dodge
Will
Ed. Kruse
W. H. Strickler
F.J. Ballard
St A
Simmers
Opera House
W. M. Booth
Cherokee Hospital
Ernest Sweet
Minneapolis
Wilbur Sweet
A. H. Eddy
G. R. Wharton
Clay County Fair
Woman’s Club
J. B. Pierce
Clara Fairfield
Frandsen
Nettleton Commercial College
Sioux Falls
S. Oak
Peter Farrow
KE. M. Johns
Fostoria
Los Angeles
Aurelia Community Club
Aaron Tolderness
Frank Anderson
C. B.ay
Fred Lingenfelter
M. L.A
Gwendolyn Coombs
Somerset
J. M. Gay
C. Waddell
Frank Parrott
A. G. Whiting
Maria Johns
Lee“Robinson
Iona” Brosius
Miss Johns
Pierce and Son A Square Deal Groceries Corrections Tobaccos
City of
London
Ideal Hoosier Town
West Bend Range
R. H. Geary
A. Holderness
Hampshire
Poland
John D. Blake
O. A. Royer
Eastman Kodak
H. H. Carroll
Boston
Boston Transcript
Army
Carlberg Rbos
Terry
Forever
Ohio River
Phineas Fletcher
Rocky Pass
New Orleans
Legrees
Red River Plantation
National
Jubilee Singers
Anne Plantation Melodies
Kline’s
Bennett’s
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