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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1918
Page
5
Decorah Iowa merchants advertise a full line of dry goods and notions with special on trimmings at the Water and Washington streets corner shop.
Ossian notes list visits from Ervin Halvorson and Mrs Ellifson, trips by Harmon DeGraff and Bernard Ellis to Camp Dodge, and numerous gatherings. Residents attend dances, embroidery meetings, and Red Cross fundraising. Also listed are trips to Decorah Prair ie du Chien and visits by Anna Becker and Miss Marjorie Gunderson.
Miss Jennie Christianson has enlisted as a Red Cross nurse. Cora Moe is home from Sanborn for a visit with her parents. Florence Meyer spends her summer at home. Local callers Art Neelings and Lewis Goite of Cresco visited Saturday. Mrs. Jos Shima from Decorah and Mary Shima hosted an overnight. Bertha Wangsness returns from Oregon. Harriet Kramer of Elkader visits Aunt Mrs. Peter Meyer. Alicia Johnstone returns to Hawkeye after completing school here. Pauline Sandager returns to camp after visiting home folks. Edith Hexom and Martha Nelson of Decorah visit the Severson home. Lena Bergeson and daughter Mabel travel to Wisconsin to visit relatives. Otto Olson of Zumbrota, Minnesota, visits his parents in Calmar. Henry Ode from Sioux Falls is employed at Winneshiek Co. Bank. A dance in Spillville honors the Red Cross drive. Many attend the Decorah band concert for Camp Dodge servicemen. Margaret Bleken returns to Saude after finishing school at Evenson grandparents. Twedell family returns to Austin Minnesota with mother Mrs Frank Uher Sr. Also noted the high school class play at the Fiana Opera House and a following performance in Postville.
Ravena reports August Peek was called at 8 Towson last Saturday. Raymond Miller called at Ben Eimers Saturday. Joe Smith spent Sunday at J Brog hammer. Farmers in this vicinity are busy cutting.
Several residents from Ossian Ravena Castalia Decorah and nearby areas visited relatives and friends last week. Names include DeCoy Lomen Johnson Brown Remke Lansing Schweinefus Nygaard Tovson and more with gatherings at homes churches and a pie social to benefit the Red Cross. Oscar Tovson underwent appendicitis surgery and is recovering.
Mrs J B Roberts of East St. Louis praises Chamberlain Cough Remedy for her child with whooping cough saying it kept the cough loose and eased coughing spells. It is also effective for colds and croup and is sold by R A Engbertson. A separate note estimates 350000 Sunday schools in the United States with 35000000 enrolled, growing by about one million annually.
Public notice style mock advertisement inviting readers to mail five cents with name and address to Foley Co for a trial package of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound and Voey Kidney and Foley Cathartic Tablets. Includes mention of Engberteon's Pharmacy and a Chicago address.
County fairs across the region will award War Savings and Thrift Stamps as premiums this year. A recent campaign urged fair associations to offer stamps, with booths and canvassers planned on fairgrounds. Eight associations have agreed, including Wright County Clarion Town County Marengo Southern Town Exposition Oskaloosa Buchanan Independence Shelby Harlan O'Brien Sutherland West Liberty.
In the Northern seas the age of fishes can be exactly determined from otolites or ear stones. These ear stones grow with the fish and form annual rings, like trees. The number of rings indicates the fish’s age, whereas size alone is unreliable for older specimens.
The article contrasts medical views on apoplexy as a pre disposed condition with court and lay opinions that it can be trauma like. Physicians focus on blood pressure heart hypertrophy and vascular degeneration while emotional stress is less causal. An exciting trigger may be minimal or even absent. A second note urges improving farm woodlands by removing inferior trees to boost fuel value.
In Italian convents up to the late 18th century nuns decorated altars and shrines with handmade artificial flowers. They crafted blooms from paper parchment and wire with careful labor and ingenuity.
A reader asks how to combat leaf blight in orchards and whether Bordeaux mixture suffices. The piece notes spraying timing, mixing steps for Bordeaux, inclusion of poison, and cautions that fire blight in apples and pears is hard to cure. It advises insect control and careful pruning and burning of diseased material to stop spread.
The export of sim sim seed from British East Africa protectorates and Uganda for the year ending March 31, 1915 totaled 3,134,320 pounds valued at $102,824. About 20 percent originated in Uganda, 80 percent on the coastal plain, with 28 percent sent to India, 22 percent to Aden, 18 percent to Italy, 15 percent to Italian Somaliland, and much of the rest to Zanzibar and France. Germany was previously the largest buyer. Local use is heavy, so production is underreported.
The piece extols Malaga as possibly the oldest Spanish city and the fairest of them all. It describes a rich, fertile landscape with semi tropical vegetation, grape vines and lush blooms, and notes rare cloudy days in a year.
The article explains that sleeping with the head bent at an acute angle harms rest, stating that long habit of this awkward pose can cause a sudden loss of sleep without a clear cause. It notes youth’s elasticity masking the issue and implies habitual posture as a factor.
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