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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1913
Page
7
County News reports a warm spell with temperatures hitting 102 and a looming Fourth of July. Local visits include P J Bidne at Henry Akre and Clara Peterson with the Schjeldahl sisters. A severe storm caused damage across Highlandville and nearby farms, toppling windmills, tearing sheds, breaking windows, and snapping trees, with varying impacts on many homes and barns.
Frankville notes from June 30 1918 record Ossian visitors and residents at social events and errands. Mentions Ole Samuelson Gene Birdsell Mike Fitzpatrick and others. District residents travel to Decorah Ossian Postville Castalia Sheldon Detroit Mich and Cedar Rapids with church meetings and agricultural activities noted.
DeWitt Van Wey and Sam Waters Sr. visit Castalia today while Chris Waters hauls gravel for a new barn. Grace Chewning and Mrs. Roy Kneeskern host visitors. Rachel Birdsell returns from Montana. Geo A Waters and others visit Waukon. A baby boy arrives to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brandt. a baby girl to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Redward. An unusually hot week reaches 100 degrees. Presbyterian Sunday school to hold a picnic July 4. Local residents from Decorah and Minneapolis stop by. Presbyterian S S officers chosen for late 1913. Ames agricultural college party tours the state. one speaker talks silos. Mrs. Isaac Birdsell injured by a cow. News of Joe Cirele’s death in Cedar Rapids in a car accident.
Miss Mabel Bancroft and D Whitney travel to Decorah on business. Burr Oak ball team to play Harmony on July 4. Numerous locals visit Decorah and family gatherings noted. Bowery dance planned for July 4 with Yates orchestra. Ball game Prosper vs Burr Oak ends Burr Oak 3-1. Medical news and travel updates among residents. An eastern divine says the world grows better daily.
Hesper diary for July 1 1913 reports improved Lutheran church exterior after repainting. Visitors include Dr Gertrude Wellington of Centuria Ida Stenger from Idaho and Mrs D B Haines with others. Local goings on include streets and homes trimmed in white and green, new bicycle for Johnnie Jacobson, a two week vacation for Dr Lannin, a Mabel marriage of Conrad Rolfshus, and a horse rescue tale ending with a boast about a Hawkeye.
The column recounts social visits, church services, and school affairs in the Ridgeway area. It notes a stormy sea of life metaphor, parish activities in Decorah and Howard Center, youngsters attending a children's day program, a river picnic, a funeral in Howard County, and messages about road weed cutting and parental respect amid weather mishaps and travels with families and friends.
Mark Sheridan in Strand Magazine recalls a winter provincial hall mishap where a backstage miscue left him visible to an audience. The moment sparked laughter and a humorous chorus about his accidental publicity and a proposed sprinting record in the next theatrics sports season.
Last Saturday reached 108 degrees in shade. Mrs. Jacob Hornberger visited daughter Mrs. Chas. Kuntz. Bert Du Wallie from Cresco drove through in an International. Crops look well. corn knee high, small grain near maturity. Schilds visited Decorah for pleasure and at T. Hogewell’s home. McArthur of Cresco canvassed for insurance. Mr. and Mrs. John Aegerter host Sumner visitors for an indefinite period. Mail carrier from Cresco swapped a horse for motorized work. Teachers went to Decorah to discuss new school law. Cresco Chautauqua next week expected to draw a large crowd. Rev. L. N. Day preached at Evangelical church. visited Aegerter home. Bute and Griswold investigated a faulty gasoline engine. Highways dragged and graded. roads now smooth. Geo. Kratz and wife visited from Sumner. Marriage announcements: Ena Mackenzie to Clement Bertosan, Chicago. groom a known local printer. bride from Chicago, high hope for union.
A poem by Colonel Toyce warns that no wealth travels with you after death and urges generosity as a lasting virtue. It contrasts fame with final fate and mentions the vanity of riches and the vanity of pride before earthly records fade. The excerpt ends with a humorous aside about cures for a cold and dairy production quips.
The piece notes how a well organized scout system aided both sides, detailing a Civil War anecdote where a Union captain delivers a message to General Lee under a flag of truce. Lee replies with humor about Grant’s knowledge of breakfast versus his own dinner, illustrating mutual wit and rivalry.
The London Standard notes that Norway allows divorce without proving fault, requiring a year of separation after an application and a magistrate’s referral to a conciliation board. If reconciliation fails, a separation order is issued and, after a year, the Ministry of Justice must grant the divorce upon request. Total costs are cited as about $1.25 to $25.
Clouds are water visible as air cools and condenses. Each cloud marks a hidden warm air column pushing into colder air. Estimating altitude uses shape, shadow, movement, illumination, and duration after sunset. some clouds may lie at least ten miles above Earth.
The excerpt argues teachers should view child lying as a phase to be cured through dialogue, comparing juvenile deception with adult deceit and noting behaviors like playing with fire and gang formation as racial traits. It warns against punishing childhood lies and urges understanding and guidance instead.
A historic note questions who invented the doll as a timeless toy. Edward Lovett, a doll collector, possesses a fragmentary relic from around five centuries before Christ, a battered stick-like figure identified as a doll. The piece underscores enduring parallels between ancient and modern children.
The piece notes that ancient Greek and Egyptian philosophers held a spherical Earth long before Columbus and understood eclipses and lunar motions. It asserts Columbus’s idea was anticipated by over sixteen centuries, reflecting on historical astronomy and geography.
An English burglar, fond of a talisman, pins faith to a lump of coal. He breaks one piece to adapt another, trusting the charm even when captured with it. In court, the coal token later appears as part of the prisoner's pocket contents.
Dr Marcel Boudouin reports to the Academy of Sciences that prehistoric Parisians mixed clay with food and ate earth when scarce. He cites Montmartre clay and Seine sand as nutritive, noting teeth wear in infants and parallels to geophagous peoples in Africa and the Pacific. He stops short of recommending clay dishes today.
A colossal Baalbec stone, sixty nine feet long, fourteen wide and seventeen deep, weighs about 1500 tons and likely adorned the Temple of the Sun. Nearby walls reveal sixty three by thirteen foot slabs set nineteen feet high, squared and polished with flawless joints, and no cementing material evident. The precision remains a mystery to scientists, noted by Wide World Magazine.
The North American Journal of Homeopathy warns that medical advisers bear some blame for drug habits as careless doctors supply morphine to distant patients. It argues medicine profits from opioid prescriptions, urging caution while noting the hypodermic long-term risks.
A West Indies note describes the sunest bird called jumbie bird whose cry of Soleil coucher signals danger and death if killed. It also mentions the Soufriere bird feared by locals with a belief that the first sighting brings death and the killer faces torment. A New York patriot urges using American to elevate the language, asking what’s wrong with talking United States.
The piece discusses motherhood as a major life change, stressing unprepared women face nerve strain and health shocks. It promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a tonic to strengthen the female system, claiming it helps women become healthy and capable mothers. It invites confidential letters for advice from the Lydia Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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