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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1916
Page
7
Community diary records callers at Barth Ruffridge and Dehning homes, sales, dances, and family visits across Decorah, Ossian, and surrounding farms. Residents attend Thanksgiving, Leap Year dance, and a 44th birthday surprise for Mrs Lange. several moves and farm tasks noted.
December 5 1916 social roundup notes visits and gatherings around Centennial. Will Duff and wife called at George Allen's. Miss ag Lee visited Mrs Dan Weece. Allen family spent Sunday at Isaac Duff. Casitalia dance attendees cited. Mrs Charley Ginapp of Ossian visiting Amanda Ginapp. L D Burrows returned home after visit with R Raed. Youmans family hosted by Mrs Stevens. Theodore Rosa sabornel and others attended gatherings at J J Rosa’s and Rae Runkle households.
Buyers from near and far flock to Bear's Decorah shop praised as America's cheapest trade hub. The forty year retailer guarantees goods, accepts returns for refunds, and announces a Saturday sale of pure silk 4 in hand neckwear at 50 cents.
Castalia residents share Thanksgiving visits with relatives in Aurora Fayette Waukon and Te a. The town tower bell at the German Lutheran church is completed and to be dedicated. Ernest Baltz and Miss Anna Shellhammer wed at the German Lutheran parsonage and depart for a short wedding trip.
Local notes from December 4 1916 report numerous movements including J J Zoulek driving to Calmar Victor Palz headed to Jackson Minn Anton Smith Jr returning from Mason City and many visits around Protivin Calmar Decorah and Conover. The week features house improvements weddings visits church events and Thanksgiving gatherings with residents and travelers from nearby towns and farms.
Mrs J Pearson is sick. Mr and Mrs F B Thomas Decorah visited. Lizzie Gross Clay Hill visits J Pearson home. Madeline Rastetter Decorah at J Pearson home. Kroutter and children Clay will visit Freeport friends. Will Beebe Waterloo relatives. T A will meet Mrs A M Sheetz Dec 14. Misses Edwards Petersen Grinde guests. Claude Hall family to Austin for a time.
A string of brief visits and gatherings unfold across Fort Atkinson Calmar Ossian and nearby towns. Carl Meyer and others travel for business while families host relatives and attend church and social events. A Timber Lake Minnesota couple Anton Hauken Tillie Brockamp wed with Rev Dragoon officiating and guests sharing a quiet wedding breakfast.
An advertisement claims constipation worsens skin with dullness and pimples. It promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills as a mild bedtime laxative to produce a full ungriping movement by morning, targeting relief of dull, listless feelings from overloaded intestines and sluggish liver. Available at druggists for 25 cents.
An old advertisement fragment lists Dr Thomas's Eclectic Oil as a household remedy for common childhood ailments. It mentions baby croup mamma's sore throat and grandma's lameness with a price of 25 cents and 5 pence.
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