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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1916
Page
5
Will McMullen and many neighbors exchange notes on trips and visitors across Jerico Ossian Decorah Postville and Waukon. A week of calls school moves and outings features guests, sick lists, fairs, picnics, and community events.
Pleasant Township reports a busy week with political activity and everyday tasks. Residents attend sales, shop in Cresco, preserve fruits, and discuss seed corn harvest amid local harvest optimism. Community visits, church repairs, and farm work keep residents engaged as weather shifts.
A shopper asks a floorwalker for the linen department. The floorwalker directs her. She replies that even with all the linen in the shop for free she could not walk that way.
A cake exposed for sale in Philadelphia was found to contain sand and coal dust, disintegrated bran fragments, human hair, wood fragments, colored straw, cobwebs, pine fragments, and iron rust. The item was analyzed after sale.
The classic apology is recounted as a celebrated statesman admits in calmer moments that he erred in calling the opposite man a dishonest adventurer. The misstep is highlighted as a rare private moment of contrition.
Winneshiek County Sunday School convention to be held at Ridgeway M. E. church next Monday and Tuesday September 11 and 12 offers instruction and inspiration for all Sunday School workers. Rev W A Scholer presides with sessions on training officers, temperance, graded lessons and missionary instruction plus committee meetings and prayers. Ridgeway hosts as Mrs Shoemaker S ecretary treasurer. Hutchinson Growers distributor advert reads fruit peaches for salads.
Poem fragment praising America as a beacon of freedom and universal welcome. Although incomplete, it extols America as a emerging global nation, inviting exiles and proclaiming its foundational role and divine providence in shaping a new world.
A collection of fruit conserve recipes detailing mixtures and steps for plums and raisins with oranges, grape and raisin conserve, quince and cranberry conserve, and a pineapple strawberry conserve. Each method covers preparation of fruit, sugar amounts, simmer times, and sealing tips.
The column advises removing broody hens to bottomed coops and overactive cockerels to a separate yard. It stresses fresh dirt to prevent leg weakness in chicks, mixing bran shorts and corn meal with grain, and replacing hens aged three years. It covers feeding, avoiding moldy food, saving green feed for winter, and tracking pullet ages with leg bands or hog rings.
A four year old boy named Harold struggles on a long walk with his father to Sunday school. The father asks if he is walking too fast and Harold replies it is he who is tired, not the father. The tale is recorded in The Christian Herald.
A teacher asks students for the longest English word. Johnny answers smiles, noting it has six letters. He adds the longest word is a mile between the first and last letters, a playful riddle cited by the Christian Herald.
Ruth Laughlin reports from Quirigua on Guatemala's giant leaning stele and thirteen nearby monoliths carved with low relief human figures and hieroglyph panels. The site, cleared from jungle, reveals a Mayan mystery with earthquakes shaping the leaning stone and a queen sculpture among jade facades and animal altars.
A blunt Expo on the sea sponge describing its life from egg to three feet, its mouth downward, and how fishermen harvest and clean sponges for sale. The piece uses plain language to reveal the animal’s nature and the process from sea bed to shore.
In a friendly town message residents wish everyone well and especially the local doctor. The note embodies warm community spirit and shared goodwill.
The sun emits in a year heat equal to burning a coal layer seventeen miles deep over its surface. Earth receives only two hundred and thirty millionth part of that vast heat, illustrating the minuscule solar energy reaching our planet.
Changing seasons bring colds with stuffed-up head sore throat and tight chest. A dose of Dr King’s New Discovery antiseptic balsams soothes irritated membranes clears the head loosens phlegm and helps you breathe easier until the cold is gone. Available at your druggist for 5Ye.
A humorous note observes that male wasps do not sting while females do. Since males and females resemble each other in their shared polonaise fashion, the only reliable distinction is catching a wasp to see if it stings. If it does, the wasp is female. if not, a gentleman wasp.
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