Local Happenings and Community Notes
Local notes report a 25 percent discount at Home Grocery and Pep biscuits deal. Loren Johnson hinted at CCC camp visits in Ames while a lost gold watch chain with a nail clip is sought by the Sentinel office. Several residents and visitors are mentioned with travel to Wayne Nebraska and Iowa City plans. The Aurelia area gravel road project from Clark corner southward reaches standard grade after last year’s completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sentinel Office
Clark Corner
Aurelia
Locals and Students Noted in Cherokee Area Notices
Short fragments show multiple enrollments and visits across towns. Loma Robinson and Wilmar Dukes enroll in Cedar Falls and Minneapolis colleges while Gladys Bailey, William Bates, and others visit relatives in Lytton Des Moines and Battle Creek.
Local Social Notes and Small Business Ads Compile Community
Numerous brief items report calls and visits in Perry Iowa including C E Ammons pump and plumbing, Monarch Tofflers candy at the Home, Perry. Marvin Georke to College Station Texas. Miss Edith Wright mourns mother. Goodyear dealers banquet in Sioux City. residents past and present attend schools, visits, and travels in Des Moines Cedar Falls Monticello Manchester Chicago Grand View Addition Hull Bigelow. Farm Bureau women meet in Pitcher township with 2 PM program and lunch. Diamond township ladies invited for Sept 24 gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pitcher Township Farm Bureau
Ralph Peterson
Diamond Township
Social and bridge party notes with showers in town
Mrs. Les Paulson hosted two tables of bridge with high score by Mrs. Jack Grapen and low by Mrs. Albert Stutz followed by a two course luncheon. A miscellaneous shower for Mrs. Leonard Zensen from Rock Rapids honored former Miss Marjorie Hines at the M. Hines home with guests from Pocahontas Pomeroy Cherokee Alta and others. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hines hosted a Sunday dinner for Mr. Hines daughter and her husband Leonard Zensen of Rock Rapids. Embroidery Club gathering at Mrs. Gus Kruse’s home included a business meeting and lunch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Les Paulson
Jack Grapen
Albert Stutz
Leonard Zensen
Rock Rapids
Marjorie Hines
M. Hines
Ray Hines
Wm. Booth
Fae Hines
Edith Stieneke
Chas. Niemann
Chas Niemann
Pocahontas
Margaret Hines
Pomer
Mrs
Mr. Hines
Embroidery Club
Gus Kruse
Bernard Johnson
Noisy Celebration among Australian Aborigines
An account describes a ceremonial Corroborees dance, publicly performed at night with men dancing and women providing music. It is regarded as a near national institution, a peace ratification, and a form of intercommunication, giving rise to the term for any noisy or disorderly celebration.
Formation of Natural Glass Through Lightning and Sand
The article notes natural glass forms when lightning fuses sand, with tubular friable samples found in the Arabian and other deserts. It mentions tektites from meteorite craters, historically called obsidian water chrysolite and Moldavite, terms used for gem stones cut from the material.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arabian
Jack the Ripper Not Taken in Scotland Yard Efforts
Special work by Scotland Yard and private detectives failed to yield detailed information on the Jack the Ripper case. The killer was alleged to have attacked women and children across London and linked to the Whitechapel murders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack the Ripper
Scotland Yard
London
White Chapel
Slogan and Boundary History in Oregon Dispute
The piece traces the 54 40 or Fight slogan from 1844 politics to the Webster Ashburton treaty of 1842 and the shift to a 49th parallel boundary. It notes Marcus Whitman’s role in Oregon settlement and wagon journeys including Fort Boise and Fort Hall, and the 1842–1843 overland immigration that shaped the region.
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War Party
Polk
Senate
William Allen
Detroit News
United States
Rocky Mountain
Oregon
Great Britain
Rockies
Pacific Ocean
Fort Botse
Oregon Country
Marcus Whitman
Whitman
Continent
Fort Boise
Fort Hall
Boise City
Oregon Territory
Meaning of Surtax in U S tax structure
The surtax is a special tax on certain classes or goods in addition to regular taxes. In the United States it is a graduated income tax added to the normal income tax on the portion of net income above a specific threshold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Local residents attend events and visits in Diamond area
Annetta O'Meara teaches at Sargent Bluffs and visits Diamond home over weekend. Nellie Powers of Mitchell S D returns from sister W F Lindsay visit. Streed sisters teach and substitute at Diamond No 8. Several Diamond residents attend Spencer fair. Roy O'Meara returns from Colorado with aunt Will O'Meara. Silo filling and rain relief noted. Visitors include Snyder Gustafson Haight Beckage Hickey Winter Hickey and others. free Wiener roast and Galva bank opening mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annetta O'Meara
Sargent Bluffs
Diamond
Nellie Powers
Mitchell
South Dakota
W. F. Lindsay
Alice Streed
Diamond No. 8
Louise Streed
Dorothy Linquist
Edna Linquist
Alta
Herman Linquist
Ralph Peterson
Frank
George Johns
Annetta Gordensop
Alice
Louise
Dorthy Streed
C. A. Peterson
Della
Maurice Peterson
William Haight
Margueritte
Mary
Peter
John Jr
Ella Helmsoth
Roy O’meara
Colorado
Will O‘meara
Ida Grove
Bill Ehrp
Frank Negless
Fielding
Tilden Township
Ben Galvin
A. M. Glidewell
Quimby
A. J. Beckage
Cherokee
Orville Hickey
Ivan Winter
Sioux City
Garland Hickey
Joyce
W. F. Hickey
Galva
Glava
Shoppers and Visitors Visit Local Farms and City Homes
Anderson from near Good Hope shopped in Sioux City last Saturday. Mrs. Frank Snyder of Chicago and Mrs. W. F. Lindsay visited Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. W. F. Hickey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Grashoff
Sioux City
Chas. Lockie
Improbable Adventure Narrated As True Story
A speaker recounts an improbable night adventure as a true tale. The dialogue frames a claim that a simple bill payment morphs into an eventful incident, provoking curiosity about truth versus storytelling.
Too Much to Hope For Naughter
A humorous exchange where a daughter jokes about a misheard phrase and a mother corrects her with a playful sting. The dialogue captures domestic humor and family dynamics in a single scene.
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Mother
Steking
Senator Sorghum Reflects On Press Agent Idea
In a terse exchange a wary senator rejects the notion of hiring a press agent. He recalls LT once having one, noting public reaction and suggesting it might have helped his own ideas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Sorghum
Forest Work Talk In Dialect
A brief exchange features Sam asking what Al has been doing and Al answering about releasing small wooden trees.
Big mongrel dog treated as family member draws line
During a social visit a couple’s large mongrel is described as part of the family, prompting a quip about who the dog really belongs to and highlighting a light domestic moment.
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Lady Tubbs
Will Rogers
Sally Eilers
Baby Jane
Loren Johnson
CCC
Ames
Minnie Lou Georke
National Business Training School
Fred Kruse
Storm Lake
Louise Schroeder
Margaret Johnson
Mary Fraser
L. C. Joonson
Margaret and Albert
Dorothy Fierk
Onawa
Mrs. Kaufman
Menasha
Wisconsin
B. L. Troup
Bertha Hunter
Deloris Hoffman
Wayne
Nebraska
Homer Robar
Georgia
Iowa City
State University
Ed Klockow
Monee
Illinois
Loma Robinson
Gladys Bailey
Lytton
William Bates
Battle Creek
Arthur Meier
Minneapolis
The
University of Minnesota
C. C. Hansen
Roger
Des Moines
Wilmar Dukes
State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
L. C. Johnson
Albert Johnson
Rosalia Johnson
John Kaufman
West Bend
Farmers Elevator Co
Will Kruse
Fort Dodge
O. B. East
R. B. Harrison
Ed Kohlhagen
Minnesota
Ellis Brooks
Anna Diercks
A. V. Fierk
Vernon
Mary Demarest
Roy Demarest
Vermilion, South Dakota
Interstate Livestock Auction Co
Sentinel
Alta Fair Grounds
Fred Jordan
John Mummert
K. C. Dagger
Fae Fraser
Deloris Kaskey
E. L. Rapp
Humboldt
E. C. Lighter
Selene
Frances Chandler
Dorothy Lighter
Vivian Paulson
Edward Gray
Mapleton
John Meisenhelder
T. S. Lockhart
Hartford
Will Meisenhelder
Mr. Lockhart
Buena Vista County
Legion Auxiliary
Harry Dailey and
Joy
John Holderness
Art Larson
Myra Beeghley
C. C. Beeghley
Marie Beeghley
Carl Herold
Clay Dawson
C. E. Ammons
Perry & McDeid
Edith Wright
Marvin Georke
College Station
Texas
Mrs. P. Hanson
Sumner
George and
Fred Kaskey
Goodyear
Paul Jones
State Teachers College At
Glen Fritz
Bigelow
B. B. McCarty
C. DeVries
Hull
DeVries
Gladys Johnson
Astrid Nelson
American Institute of Business School
J. C. Parrott
Monticello
Manchester
Jane Blanch
Margaret Swanson
Chicago
Michael Reese Hospital
A. A. Dingman
Grand View Addition
J. M. Whitney
J. Kaufman
West
Mildred Thomson
Alreay
Frank F. Faber
Mgr
Theatre
Bing
Hipp
Diamond Center News
Mrs. Wm. Haight
Frank and
Della Peterson
Elmer Swanson
Harry
Interstate Livestock Auction CO. County Fair Grounds
Briardale
Larson
Briardale Food
Larson’s Store
Aurelia, Iowa
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