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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1918
Page
7
January 1 1918 news notes list Christmas guests and travel among Reed Morrison Headington and Gibson families and other Decorah area residents. Many visits to Cresco Ossian and Canton. health updates and Red Cross plans mark the season.
December 31 1917 Calmar notes list Dena Winger visiting home folks Meyer of Cresco at R Becker home Friday Clara Johnson of Minneapolis with parents Bertram Walker from Dubuque on vacation Zephie Fisher acting in local moving picture show Clotlile Humnker of Dubuque visiting Martin Moe family from Sanbury Town Otilla Kapinos of Mason City visiting parents Hazel Gunderson and other brief town reflections
In Clay Hill Iowa on December 31 1917 the local school resumes after a one week break. The column lists social visits church activity and holiday gatherings including Mrs Sam Tolstad visiting at Ed Andersons and Andrew Anderson visiting from Decorah. Several residents are noted as ill and many family visits and Christmas observances are recorded with names and places such as Canoe Ridge Decorah Riverbend and Rush City Minn.
Fifty years ago Hardick and Patterson occupy the ground floor of the new Dickerman block while Payne and Rollin insure. The post office undergoes improvements and a news depot opens. Anundsen of La Crosse establishes a Decorah printing office, issuing Ved Arnen a monthly Norwegian magazine and a semi monthly Lutheran church paper. Francis and Howard packing house reports large business with 4,000 home and shoulders stored along with meats and lard.
Notice announces the annual meeting of Winneshiek Co operative Telephone Company at the court house in the small court room on January 19 at 1 p m for officer elections and business. H. T. RAMIA, President. Also includes a testimonial for Chamberlains Cough Remedy and wartime shoddy material caution.
The county treasurer reports total taxes to be collected in Winneshiek County this year at 448141 37, up 35484 10 from last year due to state and county increases. The consolidated levy details include General state capital extension county court house bond soldiers relief county road building bridge bonds and road taxes totaling 239129 12, with municipal and school taxes making up the remainder.
Acoma, the sky city near Laguna New Mexico, is described as the most wonderful aboriginal city in the world. It sits on a 400 foot rock eminence with three long rows of houses rising in terraces four and five stories high. Builders transported materials over vast distances and cliffs by carrying them on human backs. The graveyard took forty years to build due to material transport, and the church walls reach sixty feet high and ten feet thick with timbers forty feet long and fourteen inches square.
A Detroit Free Press quotation quotes a breeder declaring the greyhound likely the swiftest mover on earth. It cites a record where a greyhound allegedly beat the famed race horse Flying Childers and notes the difficulty of a strict horse versus greyhound trial, given starting gaps and running pace.
One hundred eleven Apache Indians walked into the Globe chapter auxiliary on the Indian reservation and handed $222 in bills to the secretary. Their spokesman Arthur Johns, a Carlisle alumnus known as Flying Fox, said they want to join the Red Cross, with "two hundred more" to follow during the week.
Congress reconvenes after a holiday break amid an unsettled House. Total membership 435 with 211 Democrats, 200 Republicans, 6 independents, and 9 vacancies due to resignations of Fitzgerald Griffin and Bruckner of New York and Adamson of Georgia, deaths of Bathrick of Ohio and Martin of Illinois, and absences for military service of Johnson of South Dakota Laguardia of New York and Heintz of Ohio.
State of Oman in southeastern Arabia stretches along the coast nearly 1000 miles from the Gulf of Oman to inland deserts. Area 8,009 square miles with about 500,000 people, mostly Arabs. Capital Maskat about 24,000 residents. Reigning sultan Seyyid Talmur bin Beysil since October 5, 1914. Inland authority is nominal. Oman effectively a British dependency.
The Palazzo San Giorgio on Piazza Caricamento in Genoa is regarded as the world’s oldest bank. Built in 1260 by Guglielmo Boccanegra the structure began as his residence and later became the headquarters of Genoa’s historic bank and trading company.
A 1914 Shortstory Publishing Company tale explores the instrument’s mystery through a narrator’s reflections on music, sound, and fate, weaving personal emotion with artistic craft and the violin’s haunting presence across scenes.
Paul Rassiner arrives to construct a dangerous Big Gorge bridge after a fevered pursuit of a skilled man. He proves unmatched with a calm confidence and a violin for solace, winning respect from workers and the wary manager alike as he scouts the chasm and encounters a young mountain girl near a lonely cabin.
A husky man carries a heavy pail up to a cabin where a girl follows, pausing to note a shabby interior and an old fiddle on a chair. The scene ends with the promise of continuation next week.
Sever Olson of Maple Ave reports years of backache from hard work and kidney issues. He used Doan's Kidney Pills from Engbertson's Pharmacy and recovered fully. Price 60 cents at all dealers. Do not accept other remedies. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo, N.Y. Ad.
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