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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1915
Page
5
A health warning urges housekeepers to choose between pure cream of tartar baking powder and alum baking powder. Laws require ingredient labels. consult a family doctor if unsure and stick to the decision regardless of advertiser pressure.
County News for May 31 1915 notes frequent rain and a flurry of moves and visits across Postville Decorah and nearby towns. residents such as C H Waters Will Snitker John Snitker and family travel or purchase cars while others attend church visits and social events. a long obituary details Elizabeth Wagner born 1844 Ontario died 1870 with survivors and funeral rites.
Weather effects dominate the week with high water and sold rain. Local life covers visits, illnesses, church events, auto purchases, school and road work, a fatal garage fire in Cresco, farm resowing, and a well attended Western Ranger show in town.
Mrs. France Lempeke collapsed and died last week Wednesday while attending a Frauen Verein meeting at Representative Becker's Elkader home. Reports say she was stricken with death in front of the Becker residence.
Local notes from Clay Hill include Grace Mall hosting company, Oscar Anderson working, and a new cream separator. Various residents listed with sewing, carpentry, visits, and farm activities. The Clay Hill school to close June 11 with a picnic. Weather noted as ideal.
A collection of local social updates lists Ridgeway callers including John Ask and John Fulsons and visits by Mrs K Hovden to Anton Hovden. Y P S meetings at Halver Ska deland and Mrs Anna Holstad's house. Residents Gilbert Melans Hovden, Albert Fulsaos and others noted. German towns reported women acting as scavengers.
Judge Emlin McClain aged 64 a former chief justice of the Iowa supreme court and late dean of the Iowa State University law school was found dead in bed at his home. Apoplexy is believed the cause. He served on the Iowa supreme court 1901 to 1913 and later led the state university law department until his death.
Local notes recount many wild flowers still seen near Decorah despite pioneer days. Public school grades prize early spring blooms with sixty seven varieties listed including anemone trillium hepatica wild cherry violet dogtooth violet and wild strawberry among others.
Letter argues Fort Atkinson postmaster appointment ignores civil service and is political. It claims the Postmaster General seeks bluntly to carry out Wilson era orders, bypassing merit and civil service rules, questioning Democratic control and patronage in fourth class offices.
A collage of old ads warning worms in children for Kickapoo Worm Killer and Allen's Foot-Ease for tired feet, followed by a dissolution notice for Western Textile Company of Decorah dated May 18 1915 signed by President E G Boynton and Secretary Ed W Hoyt. The text includes a dissolution announcement citing unanimous stockholder consent on December 31 1915 and urges readers to buy the products.
A boy named Billy Be By Bo Bum receives a compass from his father and learns how magnetism makes the needle point north. He experiments with a knife, a copper kettle hat elf Tinker Teedle Tee explains Earth's magnetism and the compass's behavior.
A storyteller explains how a compass guides travel at sea and how travelers find the North Star using the Big Dipper. Billy learns the method to locate the North Star by following the handle’s direction, then heads home at supper bell.
Mrs Mary E McMullen of Phelps New York credited Chamberlains Tablets with curing years of indigestion and constipation after a course of use lasting several weeks. Sold at Engbretsons Pharmacy Ady.
Instructions describe lining a glass bowl with sliced sponge cake then folding whipped cream with powdered sugar and vanilla. Chill the assembled dessert in the ice chest until ready to serve.
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