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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1914
Page
5
Miss Leora Letchford and Chris Waters figures in local notes as sick list and Decorah trip. Various residents travel, visit relatives, and attend events including a Masonic hall dance August 8. D. Y. N. T. meeting and church renovation planned.
The new pipe organ at the German Presbyterian church in Waukon is noted. The W C T U will meet with Mrs Nellie Spaun on Thursday evening August 6. A musical program with Miss Mabel Waters and Mrs Mason will lead. An ice cream social by the Improvement society at the M E church basement netted 21 dollars. Mrs Helen Hawes visited her sister Mrs Emily McNair and returned to Decorah. Rev and Mrs Mason plan Chicago soon and offer their household goods for sale for inspection.
West of Cresco town farmers and residents are noted visiting relatives and engaging in threshing work. Many names appear including Aegerter Haakenson Kuntz Hornberger Schild Falck Ramseyer and Kratz with travel to Decorah Ridgeway Cresco and Calmar for family visits and business. Weather rain slowed stacking and crews prepared threshing rigs for the season while roads receive culvert work and a Northern Iowa Telephone crew addressed line trouble.
The Nokomis mine in Tl is fully electric, using 28 mile transmission at 34 000 volts from Kincaid. A 1500 hp hoist runs at 550 volts, with 30 electric mining machines, ten 5 ton electric locomotives and two 1 ton haulage locomotives. A 150 hp fan drives ventilation. all auxiliaries are electric. At full capacity it outputs 8000 tons daily.
Oscar Anderson returns home from Wisconsin while neighbors and friends in Decorah join in various calls visits and picnics. The report lists numerous family gatherings rural visits from Postville Ridgeway Ossian Canoe township Franklin Prairie Pleasant and Washington Prairie with car trips and a moonlight picnic hosting sixty guests at the Bolson home.
Daily life notes from Pleasant Township record visits by Iverson, Foss, Severson, Narveson, and Steine families. Emma Iverson returns from Decorah, local church service attendance noted, and gatherings with Anderson, Lennon, and Halvorson families described.
The article explains that the term cabinet derives from Hanoverian times when George L. could not join deliberations of his privy council due to language barriers. Ministers met in the king’s private room, a cabinet or little room, and later reported outcomes to the king. The cabinet came to denote the group favored by the monarch.
A 1914 Woman's Home Companion guide by Anna Steele Richardson addresses mothers' questions on feeding babies in heat. It covers pasteurized milk, home pasteurization steps, when to boil milk, travel feeding tips with condensed milk, diet adjustments during summer, and warming bottle milk for young babies.
Representatives Donahoe Logue and Lee stage a mock motion picture on the Capitol steps. Lee leads the heated dry dock dialogue while Donahoe and Logue ham it up as spectators tease and actors direct the fake scene.
An overheard park bench exchange reveals a string of xenophobic generalizations targeting Japs Chinamen Dagos Jews Catholics Swedes and Germans. The speakers mock diverse communities while lamenting perceived national dilution, ending with casual identity banter.
A Stroud, British skim milk factory, known as syrolit, converts thousands of gallons daily into a durable hard substance used as ivory substitute for piano keys. The product, also sold for umbrella handles and photo frames, is nonflammable, can resemble horn, and meets growing global demand as natural ivory dwindles. A final note quips that brains count little if one lacks them.
Erasmus notes English kindliness in greetings while observers discuss contrasts in social norms. A report on China says 10 000 to 200 000 workers in modern industry with roughly one third women and children earning five cents for twelve hours. Women and children dominate cotton and silk mills. In the United States about 20 percent of females aged 10 plus are employed versus higher male wage earner rates.
The passage praises the rat for fierce behavior and strong growth, noting its formidable nature. It highlights the animal’s intelligence and the difficulty of catching rats as they outsmart traps and bait, a reality familiar to every housekeeper.
The Khyber Pass, dating to Alexander the Great era, is described as the major military and trade gateway from eastern Asiatic regions into India. It starts near Jamrud in India about 100 miles west of Peshawar and runs 35 miles northwest to Dakka in Afghanistan.
A minister reports from the pulpit that a lady's watch was found in an aisle and can be claimed at the vestry. The sermon continues with hymn 117, "Lord, Her Watch Thy Church is Keeping."
An old text notes nettles as evidence of human activity with a Roman link in Romney Kent where Julius Caesar supposedly landed. It cites Coles explaining Roman soldiers sowed seeds to ease cold-battered limbs. The piece closes by recommending Barker's Remedy for coughs and rheumatism available at drug stores.
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