Cold Week Bites County Sidelamps and Sick List Grows
County residents report rising illness with Mrs. Mike Kratz and Miss Elsie Vopava on the sick list. Measles strike Mrs. Fred Falck near Ridgeway, and a snow storm disrupts telephone lines and travel. Dr. Byron Lewis visits Ridgeway, a new mail carrier arrives, and Fred Koch's home nears completion amid frigid January weather.
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Mike Kratz
Elsie Vopava
Fred Falck
Ridgeway
Rollie Kratz
Byron Lewis
Cresco
Evangelical Church
Mary Kratz
Theo
Kratz
Rollie
Deno
Albert Mzik
J. J. Kreitzer
M. C. Libbey
Emma Reinhart
Oscar Moe
Robert Vopava
Precious
Jim Riha
Will Nesseth
Will
Henderson
Watkins
Sadie Koch
Sumner Township
Mor
Fred Koch
Fred
Local Notes From Clay Hill Farm District 1915
Local items report Simeon Broghammer on a Cresco trip and Marie Malli visiting Decorah relatives. Decorah residents Helmer Hendrickson and Dr Daly are mentioned with visits and work, plus weather and a blizzard. Groundhog Day is noted with six more weeks of winter if the shadow appears.
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Simeon Broghammer
Cresco
Marie Malli
Pat Hogan
Decorah
Helmer Hendrickson
Will Kreutzer
Bolken
Grand
J. 4. Daly
Will Morris
Will Moon
J.C. Pearson
John Kraby
Lizzie Kraby
Hans Sorenson
Franklin Prairie
James Stortz
Pat Delaney
Chester
Leona Sorenson
Freeport
Sam Sorenson
Willie Williams
J. J. Walsh
Ed, Belsen
Frank Malli
Pred Gross
Oscar Anderson
Marriages of the Chinese Move Toward Modernity
A Strand writer notes a shift in Chinese marriage customs since 1911 toward consent and romance. Families no longer bind girls from childhood to unnamed husbands, as veils lift after ceremonies and couples wed with awareness. Chinese courting and Europeanized customs grow more common.
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Strand
China
The United States Leads World Wealth Growth Says Crane
Dr. Frank Crane argues wealth has surged worldwide in the last century driven by invention and transport. He notes the United States far outpaces Britain France and Germany in wealth and population gains, with US wealth rising about 850 percent and income about 6500 percent.
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Frank Crane
United States of America
United States
George Paish
London
Great Britain
Cormany
England
France
Germany
United Germany
Europe
Electric Sparks Show Global and Local Power Advances
Reports from England indicate China will build many wireless stations inland and on the coast. A Grand Falls Maine hydro plant powers St. Croix Paper in Woodland. Vancouver plans seven portcullis gates for crossings. Dallas electrifies homes with one user per five residents. Europe adopts ultraviolet disinfection in water works. Booth Kelly mill in Oregon contracts power from Oregon Power Company. Electric vans grow as gasoline trucks are scarce in the war zone. American firms push electric cars in England amid favorable conditions.
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England
China
Interior
St. Croix River
Grand Falls
St. Croix
Dallas
Europe
Booth-Kelly Lumber
Springfield
Ore
Oregon Power Company
London
Man 200 000 Years Old Reveals Long Human Continuity
The article argues that humans existed in western Europe during the glacial epoch and that interglacial periods were warmer. It cites Penck’s view of early man in the first part of the last glacial epoch and suggests 20 000 years since the last glaciation with a jawbone found near Heidelberg indicating a 200 000 year age.
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Europe
Alps
Penck
Heidelberg
New Microbe Species Reported By Bacteriologist
Mme Victor Henri, a bacteriologist, developed a new microbe form by exposing anthrax bacilli to ultraviolet rays. The altered bacilli were injected into guinea pigs, producing a slowly developing disease distinct from anthrax. Henri suggests bacteria may evolve under light, giving rise to diverse germ varieties.
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Mme
Victor Henri
Henri
Jones Enters Beneficial Group. Hospital Cot Becomes Home
A street conversation reveals Jim Jones joined a benevolent lodge and has been sick for three weeks. Asked about his address, the second man says Jones gave up his house and now rents a hospital cot after joining the lodge in the Culebra cut proposal context.
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Jones
Jim
Court injunction delivered during a Thames swim
In a rare legal anecdote Vice Chancellor Shadwell grants an injunction during a morning swim. The Duke of Newcastle faced a suit from his eldest son Lord Lincoln over rapid timber felling and sought relief. the judge, mid-swim, heard affidavits and granted the injunction, then resumed his aquatic activity.
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Shadwell
Duke of Newcastle
Chamber
Lord Lincoln
Thames
Egg Handling and Economics through the Hen’s Year
A humorous look at egg production cycles, storage, and price swings. It notes hens halt production during fall and winter to exploit bankruptcy rules, resume in spring, and contrasts farm and city egg prices, plus quirky uses from kitchen to nog.
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Mercury
Roseleaf
Galahad
Head
Jim Jones
Blotting Paper: Many Everyday Household Uses
The article lists diverse household uses for blotting paper such as removing grease from fabric by pressing with a warm iron, cleaning grease from walls, drying velvet collars by sandwiching between blotting sheets with a weight, and using blotting paper rings in place of rubber rings during canning. Aimed at practical tips for homemakers.
Center of British Industry Hull England Industries Featured
Center of British Industry notes Hull England's rail links to the Humber and canal network. It states 12 to 14 million people work mainly in manufacturing and mining, exporting products and importing raw materials and food. Hull specializes in seed crushing flour milling oil refining and paint goods using oils.
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Humber
Hull
England
French Coffee Preparation Steps
Boil two ounces of finely ground coffee in one pint of milk. Add half a pint cream as it boils. Stir in the yolks of three eggs beaten with a quarter pound sugar, reduce by half, strain clear, and serve when cool.
Household hints for cleaning, baking, and kitchen care
Practical tips cover cake and bread making in cold weather and sugar warming, cleaning smoked rooms with fresh bread, honey storage in glass or tin, and whitening with blue, plus whipping cream with egg white and steam in the oven to keep crusts tender. It also notes ammonia use, laundry bleaching, and simple remedies for colds, curtains, and foot warmth.
Resourceful rangers build 115 foot fire lookout tower in Sitgraves forest
In Sitgraves National Forest Arizona a small team of eight, later four, rangers erected a 115 foot lookout tower using 300 feet of rope two blocks and a single sheave with basic tools. Despite limited gear and a 75 mile supply gap they completed the tall wooden frame for fire season readiness.
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United States Forest Ranger
Sitgraves National Forest
Arizona
Duel Ends Without Shots In Moscow Tram Altercation
In Moscow a young lieutenant challenged a retired general to a duel after a tramway quarrel. In a wood the firing signal came and neither man fired. The general said he could not risk ending a young life over a trivial matter, and the lieutenant agreed an opponent who had not raised his arm could not be fired upon. No reconciliation followed.
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Moscow
Local druggist praises Adlerika like remedy
A local druggist, R A Engbertson, lauds quick relief from sour stomach gas and constipation with a simple bowel and stomach remedy called Adlerika, noting that just one dose often suffices.
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Adlerika
R.A. Engbertson
College of Hard Knocks and the value of training
The text argues that a graduate from the College of Hard Knocks plus postgraduate study can compare well with any institution’s graduates. Difficulties shape training and home study enhances the outcome, but it asserts colleges are valuable yet not indispensable.
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College of Hard Knocks
Study Camp University
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Clay Hill
Mme, Louise Colet
St. Louis
Globe-Democrat
Culebra
Baillard
Center of British Industry
Forest Fire Watch
Parker
Balsam
Ante
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Pleasant Ridge
John Harter
Locust, Iowa
F. W. Fitch
F. W. Fitch Co
Boone
Iowa
Pitch CO. Boone
F. Ww. CH CO
of. A. Stockdale Winneshiek Hotel
B. A. Stockdale
Stockdale
B. A
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