Local notes from Winterset and Clermont area
Community items report births travels and social events. A daughter born to Salje Holstein Springer is noted. Residents plan visits, fishing trips, and vacations in Illinois Wisconsin and Canada. Local accidents include a finger loss from a mower and a bad auto crash near Gunder with injuries but no fatalities. Senator Ed M Smith urges reduced Saturday traffic to ease parking.
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Gunder
Enoch Mark
Ellen Thompson
Miss Jeffle
Miss McNulley
Jardee
Clermont
Jeffle
Tts
Ed M. Smith
Winterset
Mrs Nash Fashion Extravagance Tabled By Judge Remarks
A British judge in a reported case rails against Mrs. Nash for excessive dress spending. Sir Henry McCardie condemns her as vain and self decorative, noting her marriages and the “shavery to fashion” driven lifestyle. He likens her to Victor Hugo’s Paris ideals and criticizes social vanity.
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Captain Nash
Captan Nash
Sifton
Henry McCardie
Onward Christian Soldiers Creator of a Famous Hymn
Rev. 5 Baring-Gould organized school feasts at Horbury Bridge around 1865. To energize long uphill strolls for fatigued children, he reportedly wrote the hymn Onward Christian Soldiers in about ten minutes, earning lasting fame for his quick creation.
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York
Exeter
Baring-Gould
Horbury Bridge
Baring- Gould
Bng
Time the Only Test Joke From an Aunt Visit
A boy at his aunt’s house eats cake and preserves then debates how to know if he overdid it. The aunt asks when he will know, he says in half an hour. If he is not sick he’ll be sorry he ate more, if he is sick he’ll be sorry he ate less. He wishes for a better method but knows none.
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Reuben Schupbach
Dail-Faculty
Gertrude Grether
Constance Hutchinson
Gertude
Bosten
Gordon Mosby
Elgin Savings Bank
U. S
Darwin and His Coffin Story From A Village Carpenter
Charles Darwin had a coffin made years before his death but was not buried in it. Two days before burial a new shell was provided and the original coffin was discarded. The village carpenter later lamented slow trade, was offered a coffin job, which Darwin assigned. It was sold after the maker’s death to a publican hoping to attract patrons.
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Darwin
Charles Darwin
Indian Chickasaw Runner Completes 300 Mile Feat
A young Chickasaw man ran 300 miles to cover the distance in 42 hours without provisions. He relied on herbs for sustenance and traveled an average of seven miles per hour with no rest, completing the arduous journey.
Irony of fate recounted by father and son
Clarence asks about fate's irony and his father retells the tale of Old Man Fogey who preferred walking to cars but was killed while walking when an automobile struck him, illustrating cruel twist of safety ideals.
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Clarence
Fogey
Kingdom Come
Cipeinoati Enaulrer
Local notes span illnesses travel and a Ku Klux Klan event
A jumble of social updates from West Union and Cedar Rapids covers health worries, visits by relatives, weddings, banking jobs, and travel. In Iowa a 2100 car convoy joined 300 initiates at Camp Dodge, with 1700 spouses watching and a 260000 candlepower cross lighting the field as Des Moines and Polk County anticipate more Klan enrollments by fall.
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Mr. Harding
Lincoln
Dubuque
Ku Klux Klan
Herrold
Camp Dodge
Funes
Des Moines
Polk County
Iowa
Year of Eighteen Hundred and Mee Weather Event
A New York newspaper notes a severe cold year with monthly snow, heavy stock losses, and crop damage across the mid Atlantic and New England. It cites widespread dust haze reducing sunlight and links to the 1912 1916 era of volcanic activity as a plausible cause.
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Bint
Thompums “Tietery
Vermont
New York Herald
Dickens and His Dogs What a prolific canine cast in his works
A recent article reviews Charles Dickens as a dog lover whose letters show his canine companions at Gads Hill. Thirteen titles appear across his novels and essays with dogs like Turk Linda Gyp Sikes’ cat and Merrylegs among the memorable pets in major works.
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Charles Dickens
L. RB. Brightwell
Dickens
Gads Bbl
Turk
Linda
Gyp
David Copperfield
Lion
Diogenes
Dombey and Son
Sikes
Boxer
Cricket
Merrylegs
Jerry
A Proud Nation And Political Stability In Hard Times
The article praises the United States for preserving constitutional government after a scare about President Harding. It argues Americans accept sorrow without abandoning the republic, noting the stability of life and property despite party changes, urging calm and appreciation of safety and order.
Auto Theft Bureau recovers 469 cars in year end August 1
Des Moines police data show 486 cars stolen in the year, with 247 arrests for auto stealing and a 30 percent recovery rate. About 291,600 dollars worth of vehicles were taken, and the bureau’s vigilance is credited for the recoveries.
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Auto Theft Bureau
Des Moines
Iowa
Raleigh
Torono
Ladysmith
H. Beving
Hawkeye
J. B. Ossman
Helen Rubyor
Winnifred Schmid
Higin
Cedar Rapids
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Salje
Holstein Springer
Harry Wenger
Robert Earle
Evanston
Illinois
Lanes’ Aid Society
Mery Skarshone
Edith Frieden
Kittie H. Grath
Viney Street
Kandt Groth
John Christ
Clayton
Bert Enos
Nick Lehman
George Vaughn
Lehman
Chas
Feller
Leslie Couley
Earie
Wisconsin
Mary Schmid
Peoria
Inois
Roanoak
Ben Benson Jeft
Saskatchewan
Canada
George Miller
Maiden Hock
George
Northern Iowa Produce Co
MrGregor
Paul Dean
Paul
American Can Company
Ae Eee
Victor Hugo
West Union Hospital
Air
Claire Mewsety
Wit Klingman
Amd
Ida Oralemarnt
McGregiar
Samay
RA Schmith
Nick Sober
Rally Letenan Beykes
Sehwrk
Itaynendae
Mieatenthaie
la Ork
Sendas
Dar
Cetar Rapids
Jobn Christ Reif
Waseca
Minnesota
Bell
Emm Mingwar
Bathy Bell
Bar
Clarence + Menteel
Volta City
Montey
George Schrampfer
George Schrasupfer Jr
Abs
Elka@er
Hadsel
Mrs. Henderson
Clermont Sanday
New ‘York
Thia
Harding
Hera
Elgin
Mel Kohler
Lowa
Citizens’ State Bank
Elgin, Iowa
Monarch
Lehman’s Hardware
Elgin, Towa
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