Infant dies at age seven in Fairfield Township
Herbert Willard Miller son of Adrian and Eva Spores Milley, born October 18 1929 in Fayette county Town, died April 8 1937 in Mercy hospital Oebhwein at seven years five months and fifteen days. He lived on the Fairfield township farm, attended Esone schoolhouse. Survived by parents siblings and grandmothers. Funeral Monday at 2 pm Presbyterian church Rev Curnnk officiating. Interment Taylorsville cemetery. Many local relatives and friends are listed as guests and visitors surrounding the funeral and family events.
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Herbert Willard Miller
Adrian
Eva Spores Milley
Fayette County
Mercy Hospital
Oebhwein
Fairfield Township
Esone
Wadena
Herbert
Ada
George
LaVerne
Mary Elizabeth
Julia Miter
Spar Rf Oebwein
Presbyterian Church
V. Curnnk
Flower
Roy Leonhart
W. F. Moore
Volga
Bert Erickson
Luman Fox
Elkader
Walter Zupke
Sumner
Lawrence Welsh
Adolph Weber
Robert Whittenbaugh
Maggie Whittenbaugh
John Hansen
Irene Shover
Virginia Madsen
George Fay
Alice Corkery
Oelwein
Wm. Corkery
Noor
Ed Meskel
West Union
Ed Raftis
Zella Duncan
Gerald
Marcia Marie Knutson
Mason City
Clear Lake Las
Francis Walters
Thad Walters
Don Crandall
Luther Crandall
Jim Corkery
Wro
Corkery
Nina Davis
Dewey
Chudren
Dubuque
Ray Herwig
Rth
Opinion
Inez
Flega Patterson
Movies Shape Child Learning Says Town Study
A Town study from the University of Town’s Child Welfare Research Station argues motion pictures influence child life and behavior. It notes children learn quickly from films and retain information, with accuracy of content affecting attitudes health sleep and delinquency concerns.
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Towa Child Welfare Research Station
University of Town
The Origin of Khaki in British Army Uniforms
The Origin of Khaki explains khaki became common due to practicality and low cost. Irregular Indian Army units wore it for ease of sourcing, and tea-stained drill tunics during the Indian Mutiny produced khaki tones.
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London
Farm Bureau News Letter Will Map Farms for Demonstrations
The Soil Conservation Service at McGregor will lend technical personnel to a few farmers per county to build a coordinated program of erosion control and fertility improvement. Soil Improvement Committees in Allamakee Clayton Fayette and Winneshiek counties will nominate three to five farmers for contour strip cropping terracing grassed waterways demonstrations. Fayetters should contact the royal Farm Bureau office.
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Soil Conservation Service
McGregor
Allamakee
Clayton
Fayette
Winneshiek
Fayette County
Royal Farm Bureaur Office
Sheep and Wool Meet in West Union Invitation
Fayette county sheep and wool growers are invited to a meeting at the Assembly Room in West Union on Thursday April 15 at 1 00 p m Extension Specialist W McDonald of Town State College will speak Swiss Breeders Meet Brown Swiss breeders of northeast Iowa met at the assembly room in West Union on Monday April 12 at 10 30 am Plans were made for a parish show to be held late this summer From the show a group of 20 animals will be selected to be taken to the all Iowa show at Cedar Rapids this fall
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Fayette County
West Union
Cc. W. McDonald
Town State College
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Poultry Committee Begins Weekly Price Tracking
County poultry and egg marketing committee started a weekly record of egg and poultry prices on April 7 in their territory. The price report, comparing local markets with county state and eastern markets, aims to reveal returns for poultry and eggs. Achievement Day committees in Elgin arrange luncheon for May 28 in Fayette. Mrs. Max Medberry serves on the six member committee and Mrs. Max Saltsgiver chairs.
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County
Poultry and Egg Marketing Committee
Max Medberry
Elgin
Fayette
Max Saltsgiver
Leaders Meet Second 4-H Training School in Fayette
Thirty 4-H club leaders assistants and county committee members gathered in Fayette on April 6 for the second leaders training school in the Food Preservation project. Miss Swinney demonstrated pantry shelving for winter fruits and vegetables while the plan covered school lunch scoring garden value and body minerals related to anemia. All organized clubs except one attended. the final training will be held on May 18.
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Fayette
Jury Gone With Wind in March Trial
The Argo Gazette reports Judge HL EB Taylor presiding over the Wininger versus Fockler case. Court reporter Emmet Dougherty predicted a two week continuation, noting a female juror reading Gone With the Wind and that Thursday was April 1. The trial ended that evening.
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HL. EB. Taylor
Wininger
Emmett
Argo- Gazette
August Brause Aids Maple Sugar Since Childhood
August Brause said in West Union he assists in maple sugar manufacture for the sixtieth season. He began at ten in his parents camp, worked during his brother George Brause's era, and now helps Aubrey Guyer to keep old times alive. The Larrabee farm camp, four miles east, is famed in the region.
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August Brause
West Union
Argo-Guzette
Alchemy's Ancient Transmutation Traced Across Eras
An authority in the New York Herald Tribune says alchemy emerged among Arabs in Herepe in the eighth century A D. It was practiced in China by the third century B C and spread westward via Persia to Arabs and Latin Europe. Evidence links Chinese and European alchemy through Ming illustrations of the Pill of Immortality.
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New York Herald-Tribune
China
Persia
Latin
Europe
First Paper Factory Origins in Roxborough 1793
The Keystone state claims the first paper mill at Roxborough now Philadelphia in 1793. David Rittenhouse established the mill and produced paper from rags by hand, marking early experiments with the sulphite process and soda pulp production.
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Keystone State
Roxborough
Philadelphia
David Rittenhouse
Moors at Madrid's Gates in Modern History Gap
A fragment notes Moors at Madrid and references a long historical gap since their last appearance nearly nine centuries ago. The text is incomplete and lacks clear details on event, date, or source.
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Madrid
Ravens in the Tower of London Legend
The passage describes ravens larger than crows yet smaller than vultures, about two feet long with glossy black plumage, inky beaks, and jet eyes. It notes their long tenure at the London Tower, whose origin stories place ravens arriving after William the Conqueror founded the fortress.
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London Tower
William the Conqueror
Rattlesnakes Used For Food Oil And Skins In Southwest
In the American Southwest rattlesnakes are used for multiple purposes by native folk. Rattlesnake barbecues are common as the roasted flesh is eaten with relish. Snakes are raised on farms for their skins oil and venom.
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American Southwest
Oldest Spring Pavilion at White Sulphur Springs
The oldest spring pavilion in the United States was erected around 1818 at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, over one of the famous springs.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Franklin originator of the word caira linked to Franklin
A claim ties the French revolutionary watchword caira to Benjamin Franklin. It purports that Franklin answered a question about the new republic’s chances during the War of the Revolution with the cheerful word caira. The note reflects a colorful attribution from period discourse.
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Franklin
Caira
Benjamin Franklin
New Republic
Fiddlers Green Imagined Haven of Sailors and Craftsmen
A poetic depiction of Fiddlers Green as the imagined Elysian harbor where sailors and vagabond workers find good credit a steady lass a glass and a song, an ideal harbor of merriment and fellowship.
If You Were Half a Man and the Circus Tomorrow
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