Hanover Area Social Notes Highlight Weekend Visits
Irene Zwemke reports a flurry of travel and home visits as residents hosted relatives from Minnesota and nearby towns. Families from Williams, Storm Lake, Cherokee, Decorah, Linn Grove, and Galva gathered for dinners, showers, and birthdays with neighbors including the Hustedt, Fahr, Larson, Johnson, and Lietz families plus many others. Holy Communion is planned in English October 4 with announcements due October 3 at the parsonage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Moschell
Minnesota
Messers
Carl
Ilenry Buman
Wm. Mark
Storm Lake
Karl Mark
Williams
Iowa
Albert Lietz
Frank Neumann
Linn Grove
Fred W. Hustedt
Herman Winterhol
Phyllis
Galva
Lorenz Lietz
Walter Miller
Marlys
August Fett
Lamerne Schuelke
Cherokee
Clarence Johnson
Decorah
John P. Johnson
Wm. Rogeon
August Roggon
Brooke Township
Henry
Emma Weiland
Frieda Otto
Lakefield
Arnold Carlson
Robert Carlson
Carl Fett
Archie Case
Alta
Anton Larson
Ed Hinkeldey
Joan
Edgar Fahr
Burdette
Elinor
John Grieme
Donald
Wm. Menke
Wilmer
Henry Schroeder
Greenville
Fred Hustedt
Stella
Leslie Millard
Richard Heimbruck
Manson
Mohair From Angora Goat and Its Textiles
Mohair is the fiber from the angora goat first found in Turkey. Asia Minor led early production, later South Africa and the United States joined. Texas dominates with about 90 percent of the national mohair clip, with Arizona New Mexico California Oregon also growing it.
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Boston Herald
Turkey
Asia Minor
British South Africa
South Africa
America
United States
Texas
Arizona
New Mexico
California
Oregon
Water purification under strict treatment for pure measurements
A Chienge Tribune writer notes water is easy to purify yet requires strong chemical reagents and careful distillation in stil or quartz to meet purity for certain physical measurements. Even then, indirect evidence suggests the water may not be absolutely pure due to atmospheric exposure and residual impurities.
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Chienge Tribune
Aurelia Consolidated School Notes First to High
The weekly notes record fourth grade spelling perfect scores for Melvern Anderson Phyllis Bjorklund Ardys Deyloff Joyce Hartwig Jane Lawniczak and Myrna Thomas. Junior high maps and geography projects accompany seventh eighth grade studies in English, history and arithmetic. High school officers named and classes oriented with literature science and business prep underway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melvern Anderson
Phyllis Bjorklund
Ardys Deyloff
Joyce Hartwig
Jane Lawniczak
Myrna Thomas
Betty Anderson
Kenneth Davis
Donald Kannenberg
Beverly Walter
John Kellogg
Washington
Sioux City
Iowa
Elaine Marcus
Orrin Sweet
Byrle Stieneke
Carrol Stieneke
United States
Louisiana
Lyle Waddell
Eleanor Blake
Joan Thomson
Celia Lewis
Merlyn Honsbruch
Phyllis Sinn Port
Jeanette Johnson
Merle Kahuda
Marvin Lehnhardt
Dale Robar
Irene Paulson
Miss Rupe
Sherwood Qhlson
Georgia Johnson
Eileen Christenson
Beam
Arthur
The Detroit River Described as Boundary and Waterway
The Detroit river runs southward forming part of the Michigan Ontario boundary and flows into Lake Erie. It is about 27 miles long and varies in width from half a mile to three miles.
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Detroit River
Michigan
Ontario
Lake Erie
Detroit
Population of Atlanta in 1800 and wartime widows noted
Old records indicate Atlanta Georgia had about 20 000 residents in 1800 and that one fourth of them were Civil War widows.
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Atlanta
Afton Vicinity Highlights From Mrs Eardwick
Local notes from Afton vicinity report kin visits in the Gaza and Hartley families. Spencer fair representation, livestock mishaps at Sleezers barn and Everhart cow loss, birthdays celebrated, 4 H demonstrations, corn and silage work, and extended visits across Cherokee Aurelia and Sioux City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Perry
Gaza
Chester Perry
Hartley
Wm. Sleezer
Henry Everhart
Everhart
F. D. Hill
Peterson
Earl and
George Zwick’s
Mr. Hill
Loma Robinson
Troy Mummert
Rochester
Minnesota
Chas
Menefee
Sioux City
Fred Kolpin
Island of Mona in the West Indies described
The Island of Mona lies in the Mona Passage between Haiti and Puerto Rico. It is a small island in the West Indies within a strait about 80 miles wide. The passage separates Hispaniola from Puerto Rico in this region.
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Island of
Mona
West Indies
Mone Passage
Haiti
Puerto Ico
Deer Show Idleness Alters Forage Habits
Observations note certain deer species prefer to feed within their limited habitat rather than migrate to areas with richer forage. This behavior suggests a strategy to conserve energy and stay within familiar territory despite available resources nearby.
Napoleon Defeat Fueled by Grass and Mud Sayings
A Farm Journal writer recounts Napoleon planned the Russian campaign in detail but mud on Russian roads and a deadly grass ate the French horses. The grass also doomed Mongol ponies and helped Europe escape a Mongol threat, ending their empire dream.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoleon
Moscow
Farm Journal
France
Europe
Presidents Wilson and Harding to Coolidge Transition
The text notes Woodrow Wilson began his first term on March 4, 1912, and served until Warren G. Harding succeeded him on March 4, 1921. After Harding's death on August 2, 1923, Calvin Coolidge became president.
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Neces
Hanover
Irene Zwemke
Alorta Om Sar
Hin Oyar
Loretta Young
Don Ameche
Kent Taylor
Pauline Frederick Jane Darwell
Aurelia Consolidated School
Viola Noble
Phyllis Engdahl
Joan Deyloff
Dexter
Frank F. Faber
Mgr
Afton
Alice Burna
Frank E. Pratt
W. E. Simonsen
Arthur Brown
Aurelia
O. K. Simonsen
T. R
Trace) Porter
Aurelia, Ia
Maple Valley Mutual Insurance Association
Aurelia, Iowa
Cherokee County
Geo. E. Blanch
H. H. Lockin
W. F. Hickey
A. H. Eddy
Dr. Winfred Moulton
W. G. Port
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