County News Roundup from Ossian Castalia November 1915
Local notes list visits and travels of residents including Mrs J B Wiltgen Miss Augusta Boyle Mrs Henry Floody Bert and M P Riggs and many others visiting Ossian Decorah Castalia Calmar Mason City and Dubuque. Community events include harvest supper parcel post sale and evangelistic meetings with Farewell party for Mr and Mrs Coughlin as they move to Decorah.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Wiltgen
Augusta Boyle
Lawler
Henry Floody
Castalia
Bert Riggs
M. P. Riggs
Cornell Riveland
Alee. Harvey
D. E. Harvey
Geo
Rock Rapids
Ossian
Frank Bohr
Fayette
Dubuque College
Frank Bothell
Oliver
Monona
Harry Bothell
M. J. Thiltgen
D. D
Mason City
Ed. Limbeck
Leslie
Trent
Andrew Mornan
Waukon
Chas. Boyle
Ray Sobolik
P. J. Friedmann
Ernestine Klein
M. E
Opera House
Louis Uebelherr
Cresco
Uebelherr
Gable Orchestra
la Crosse
Wis
Postville
Frankville
Calmar
St. Francis Church
Thiltgen
Helen Doerr
Joe Miller
Bart
Carey
Leo Timp
Dubuque
Local notes from Protivin area November 1915
November 31 1915 reports visitations and moving plans across Protivin Cresco and Decorah. Chas Wagner visited his brother. Seifert relatives in Kansas. Frey family in Cresco. Swehla moving to new residence. Shoppers and auctions noted. church services with Rev. Broz. IC B A lodge meeting. local merchants busy with poultry. Auctioneers Bush and Novak listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. Wagner
Celestine Seifert
Kansas
S. Bush
Stephan
Philip Frey
Cresco
John J. Swehla
Mary Mikesh
Protivin
Janovsky
Barbara
Haug-Heuser
John Klimesh
W. Novak
Buble
L. Novak
W. Mikota
L. Mikesh
Lawler
Jim Wagner
Ridgeway
Valenta
Rev. Broz
Protivia
Lakomy
Frank Cibuzar
Minneapolis
Mr. Lee
Chippewa Falls
Wis
Emma Mikesh
James
Hrdina
IC. B.A. Lodge
John Zoulek
Frank Soukup
Bush
A. A, Novak
Coughlin sale in Freeport today prompts local notices
Freeport residents report J A Coughlin has a sale today Tuesday. Miss Hazel Sheets spent Sunday with Decorah friends. James Wallan is on the sick list. J A Headington sold cattle in Decorah last week. Mrs G H Kirkland visited Warren Hoyt in Decorah Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Martin Clausen of Glenwood were in town Sunday. Don Blakeman and Vincent Thomas from Decorah were visitors Sunday. L A 8 sale at J A Headington home next Thursday after noon November 18. W C T A supper and short program at Yeoman hall tomorrow evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagar Delaney
Hazel Sheetz
Clay Hill
Don Blakeman
Ethel
Decorah
W. A. Leach
Arthur Crane
Walter Gross
Union Fibre Co
Consideration
Chas, Blake
Frankville
Ruby Miller
Lanark
Chicago
W. C. Erickson
Frank Malli
Rene Malli
Harold Dinger
Leona Sorenson
Beulah Netteberg
K. Graves
Minnesota
J. A. Coughlin
Vincent Thomas
Freeport
L. A
J. A Headington
Yeoman Hall
Olive Oil Remedy Grows in Nursery
An emaciated child benefits from olive oil massages and a daily teaspoonful dose. The oil provides fat for energy aids digestion acts as a mild laxative and soothes coughs and skin burns chapped lips and hands.
Gold and Iridium Used in Durable Pen Tips
Gold resists corrosion making pens durable, but softness wears tips. Iridium is fused around the gold with a blowpipe to protect the points, creating a harder tip.
Daily ration for Japanese soldier fuels anger and hunger
The Louisville Courier Journal notes a wartime depiction where a Japanese soldier receives three rice bags and one dried fruit bag daily. The rice sustains him while the prunes allegedly fuel a fierce mood, described with a sharp, tongue in cheek tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville Courier-Journal
Presenting Arms to a Cat at a Brahmanic Gate
A Bombay Times tale recalls a high English official dying in a fortress near a Brahmanic center. As news reached the sepoy guard at the main gate a black cat fled outward and the guard saluted the cat, a superstition that lingered for years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bombay Times
Mouthful Street Names Across Paris Brussels and Belgium
A French contemporary playful list of long street names highlights Rue des Prestres Saint Germain l Auxerrois in Paris and Rue de la Montagne aux Herbes Potageres in Brussels. The Belgian outskirts feature Ongeschildzilverenockernootjestraat meaning the street of the little unpicked silver nut. Old men have visions, young men have dreams. Successful farmers plow deep while sluggards sleep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rue Des Prestres-Saint-Germain
l’Auxerrois
Brussels
Berne's Oak Ghost Legend in Windsor Park Timeline
The tale recalls Hearne the Windsor park keeper hanged from an oak, haunting the site for years. Some say the tree fell in 1796, others that it stood until 1863 when a storm blew it down. Victoria planted a young oak on the old Hearne site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shakespeare
Hearne
Windsor Park
Victoria
No Teacher Like Necessity Awakens Talent
A compact aphorism asserts necessity drives human progress by awakening dormant faculties and prompting action, highlighting its formative role in development across individuals.
The Largest Restaurant at Berlin Zoo Opens to Big Crowd
The Berlin zoological garden unveils the world’s largest restaurant able to seat 10,000 indoors under one roof with a further 10,000 on summer terraces. A staff of 1,000 waiters serves a kitchen crew over 500 strong.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin Zoological Garden
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Louise Glaum
Poppea
Imperial Ballet
I@e
Coburn & Guthrie
Vaudecome
Mie
R. P. Sanford
Lepi
Graham
Sanford
Berne’s Oak
Rexall
Jno
G. Schimming
Misses’ Union
Tag Eco Union
Vellastte
Arelve
Graham’s
Graham's
S. RR. Co
Lust
Mary Pickford
Esmeralda
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Burson
Chase
Derby
Knit Skirts Co
Nashua
Roy
Byron
Oxford
Cardinal
Uae
Boe
Grahame Appt Steres
Grahams Art Stores
P. Sanford
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