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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1918
Page
7
An Iowa appeal urges women to help with bandages socks and kits for soldiers while noting many cannot sustain household duties. It promotes Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery as cures boosting strength and treating ailments with testimonials from Ottumwa and Des Moines area women.
March 25 1918 county column lists visitors and callers in Decorah Ossian Castalia and nearby towns. Names include Hauber Sobolik Swahla Winters Lang Peyer Havkland Benson Wiltgen Meierhoffer Waters Ward Spillman Lansing Bach McKernan Bachelder Nicholson Wolke Wurley Layton Cahill Browne Fleischer Dowd Becker Becker Amli Ambli Eagan Peterson Arneson Akre Miner Krome and others with brief travel notes, weddings, illness, and local business calls.
March 25 1918 reports show autos on dry roads with residents like Kifrey Gulbro and Clarence Rolfshus driving Fords. Local visits include Andrew Gayle in Sattre, Palma Olson at J H Olson, and Ernest Thune displaying a new buggy.
Names and visits fill a Calmar area social page with residents from Conover Spillville Cresco Decorah Decorah St Paul Chicago and other places. Reports include Ed Zahasky Carl Haug Stella Phillips Mayme Smith and many others on travels calls and visits from last week.
March 25 1918 Calmar Iowa notes report Peter Meyer in Prairie du Chien Ole Flaskerud shows a new 1918 Overland Mary Schissel Ossian visiting R J Becker home Carl Wangsness heads to Garretson for summer Helen Painter White in town Ossian Ridgeway Fort Atkinson declamatory contest Ossian wins silver cup Helen Terr Calmar top finisher deaths Mrs A G Olson dies at 86 with her five daughters listed
Sreeprnnrpeteretenpetnnen and Miss Zak of Jackson Junction visited Fort On Friday. Numerous residents and visitors from New Hampton Calmar Decorah Waucoma Lawler Ossian Duncan Spirit Lake Spillville Nashua and Tilden are noted for shopping visiting or business calls. Private Frank Neuzil departed for Camp Pike Ark and Mike Zbornik left for Camp Dodge. several families moved or traveled including Joe Sattler family to Hayek house and Jacob Capp Pauline Doubek to Los Angeles with Utah stop planned.
A string of visits and travel is reported across Calmar Protivin Decorah Cresco and Ridgeway with residents such as John Benesh C Hhekal ALG Fisher James Kulish Anton Swehla and Mrs Albert Frey making trips or callers. Several residents including Jos Huber Clemence Herold and Frank Humpal are noted for business or social visits to nearby towns like Decorah Protivin Conover Fort Atkinson and St Paul. A Red Cross sewing session and a dance at Fisher's will be held in April 1918 with details circulated locally.
The column lists numerous visits and greetings among residents including J. J. Lukesh of Protivin at A. G. Fisher’s, Robt. Klimesh and H. G. Haug in Calmar, Ed Kubish and wife near Calmar, and Jos Luzum near Calmar. Also noted are operations and recoveries, shoppers from Decorah and Fort Atkinson, and Bohumil Vopava enlisting in the navy bound for Des Moines and the Great Lakes.
Ruth Bryant and William Darrington were noted as sick in the past week. Numerous Hesper residents visited nearby towns including Mabel and Newbury. A baby girl was born to Lawrence and Mrs Iverson on March 16. The community planned a Red Cross program with songs and recitations by local students.
A fragment highlights early 20th century school activities with phrases about knitters, patriotism and class events. Names such as Alvin Harris and Evelyn Burreson appear amid scattered mentions of primaries and a Bing 12 girls tableau.
Ada May Ruwe performs in Recitation Mama's Little Hired Girl as part of a program with play The Slacker. Grammar grades event titled Why We Call Our Flag Old Glory and Salute and Honor to Our Flag accompanies the recital. Proceeds total 67 dollars for Grammar Grades.
Car ad notes four years of use with Polarine in Overland with no carbon or bearing trouble. Claims from C. & A. P. Ind and S. M. Co. of Iowa endorse Polarine as the best motor oil for Oldsmobiles.
E F R of Minnesota praises Polarine oil noting two years of superior service for the National Car compared with all previous oils.
I, J. K., Minnesota, says the Cadillac has logged 196 173 miles in eight years of livery service. The engine has never been rebuilt and still uses the original bearings and piston rings, with Polarine as the sole lubricant.
A North Dakota reader reports 10 000 miles on a Chalmers engine without spark plug or cylinder cleaning and endorses Polarine carbonless oil as the only lubricant used.
No Trouble Paige. Have driven my Paige for more than 18 months. Tried several oils but Polarine is the most satisfactory and economical. No trouble and engine runs as smoothly as when I bought it. C. W. W., Mich.
A reader from Michigan reports 9000 miles of trouble free Hudson driving. After removing the cylinders the pistons show little deposit and are in very good condition, surprising the observer.
Used Polazine in my Pierce-Arrow for three years before overhauling and then found all the bearings bright and smooth. Have never had any trouble with carbon. T. B. C., So, Dak.
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