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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1913
Page
7
June 3 113 edition notes A R Bryant shipping hogs Monday and Memorial services held in town. Local residents attend graduation exercises and plan picnics. weather and farm work updates accompany reports on illnesses, transport, cemetery meeting, and school staffing for next year.
June 2 1913 Kendallville column reports Decorah visits and family milestones. Juliette Allyn from Garnaville visits Clifford Eddy. Max Duskam returns from Cresco for vacation. Mr and Mrs Clyde Williams welcome a son born last Tuesday. Lena Pederson ill with appendicitis. local trips for Decoration Day. Willard Todd and Lucile Culbert return from Cresco. farmers busy sowing corn amid dry weather.
Farmers mainly finished planting corn last week. Decorah relatives visited and Decoration Day gatherings occurred. Residents made social rounds at several homes on Clay Hill and nearby towns.
Lorene Meyer on sick list. multiple visits and calls in Ravena Ossian Postville area. Residents}, including Meyers, Wagners, Barthelmes, and others, attend events from Ossian baseball dance to ball games and greetings. Several locals travel to Postville and Calmar. J Meyer and family share Sunday visit.
Gene Owens and family spent Sunday in Postville. Various residents report visits, measles cases, and local social events. Decorations day at Decorah, Ossian ball game outing, and local pupils’ activities noted. Diphtheria risks, quaran tine measures, and a Rice Lake marriage are recorded.
Fort Atkinson June 3 1913 social notes list Frank Pouska a business caller at Lawler, public school vacation, Mrs Otto Bock and sons in Calmar, Joe Paylovee moving north of town, Mrs Frank Krall visiting, Mrs Joe Kudina from Cedar Rapids visiting Pavlovec home, Albert Budke returning to Cresco, Mrs Ed Humpal and baby visiting Jos Sobolik, Christ Bulgren guest at wedding of Mr and Mrs Weller.
Center Junction and nearby towns reveal a flurry of visits and events. Residents attended weddings and graduates in Decorah and Lansing, with many relatives gathering for Decoration Day activities and family visits across Ossian Winona Lansing and Waukon.
Ossian June 3 1913 residents recount visitors from Decorah Calmar Mason City and Dubuque. Notable events include weddings Helen Wagner to Joseph Dockendorf of La Crosse and numerous trips to see relatives and attend church and funerals.
A 19th century style pudding method describes combining apples butter sugar lemon zest and juice with water in four pans. The mixture is cooked until tender then eggs yolks are folded in and a pastry lined dish is filled and baked until brown. Whipped egg whites with sugar are used to top and brown the dessert.
Bergmans honors Cresco callers last week while motor traffic grows with many new Ford cars. Residents report painting, lumber hauling, and recent visitors from Cresco Ridgeway Howard Center and Golden Ridge as roads, culverts, and bridges see fixes and delays.
John Hattlestad attended Waterloo visit as the school closed for a picnic last Friday. Mr Patterson from Cresco drove through Monday. Sever Steensen came back from North Dakota last week. Miss Gladys Ellingson returned home last Saturday evening. Melvin Trattlestad works at Cunningham's now. A number from the area spent Decoration Day at Cresco. Flossie Cameron of Cresco visiting Joe McCabe’s.
Residents recount a busy week of visits and gatherings. Josie Johnson, Stella Monsen, Mrs. A Steensen, Bina Brown, and others visited Ed Wilbur, N Ellingsen, Ole Ellingson, and Hendrickson homes. A Cresco group picnicked here, and young locals shared an evening at A G Monsen's.
Ed Soukup, Jos Mikesh, Geo Nockels, Robt Klimesh, Will Hospodarsky and others are listed as callers and visitors in and around Calmar Fort Atkinson Decorah Cresco Protivin and Decorah. A Calmar picnic a marriage of Rudolph Novotny to Elenora Tupy and a wedding near town are noted.
In northern New Guinea, enormous butterflies of the Troi des chimaera species are hunted with bows and arrows. Some wingspans reach eleven and a half inches. Males are shy and appear only at specific hours atop tall flowering trees. Natives trap them with spider web nets or shoot them with four prayed arrows.
A lady asks if eggs are newly laid and the grocer insists they are. He quips that the farmer won't allow his hens to lay them any other way. The quip reflects on women and domestic assistance.
Lawrence Kansas Mrs M Zeuner describes relief from headaches backache nervousness and bloating after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Burns Montana Mrs John Francis reports backache weakness and head and eye pain improved by the remedy. The makers cite thousands of such letters as proof of the medicine's long standing effectiveness.
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