Cheery Valley Notes Last Week and This Week
Local notes recount visits and gatherings around Cheery Valley. Names include Ole Benson Adolph Burroden and families, with many Sunday and Monday calls at homes of Hofer Odegard Hanson Dennler and Dennier. A number attend a West Union Fair and celebrate Tommy Ogre’s birthday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ole Benson
Adolph Burroden
Frank Christen
Ben Hofer
John, Lantz
Red Dennler
Alta Dennler
George Frederick
Willie
Ernst
Mimer Baumegartner
Tom Hanson
Fred Yunker
Rock Valley
Jos, Frieden
Christen Bros
K. Odegard
Charles Odegard
Martin Hanson
Alice
Hllen Hanson
Bert Chapman
F. Ogle
Tommy Ogre
Bertha Dennier
Ellen Hanson
Ida Benson
Ben Frieden
Elizabeth
Christen
Edna Hanson
Wlliam Larson
Jack Dennler
Red Cross Circle
Jack Christen
Fred Nydeggar
Sophia Lunsgard
Rose
Will Meyer
Maynard
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Offers $100 Cure Guarantee
A Victorian era advertisement proclaims Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh at all stages by acting on the blood and mucous surfaces. The makers, F. J. Cheney & Co, Toledo, offer $100 to any case it cannot cure, urging readers to send for testimonials and buy from local druggists at 75 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Ohio
Soldier Ration List for A Year of Feed
A wartime guide details per soldier rations to sustain a year of service. It lists quantities of beef or bacon, flour, potatoes, beans, prunes, coffee, sugar, condensed milk, butter, lard, vinegar, and salt in pounds, underscoring the effort to keep troops fed during active duty.
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U. S
Boles Capper receives second lieutenant stripes at Camp Pike
Elgin friends hail Boles Capper now in the U S service. After fifteen months of training he was made instructor in bayonet drill at Camp Pike Arkansas and ordered to Toledo Ohio for a course of special training before overseas deployment. Also notes on Red Cross fundraiser and local war news from Fayette County and surrounding communities.
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Boles Capper
Pike
Arkansas
Boles
Camp Pike
Toledo
Ohio
Elgin
U. S
Bigin Red Cross
A. M. Weibel
Alex Baumgartner
Deems
Bhaffer
Nebraska
Seward County Tribune
St. Andrews Bay
Florida
Chicago
John Bower
Helen
Camp Lee
Virginia
J. H. Bower
Iona City Caning Company
Brownell
Retz
Andrew Benson
Strawberry Point
Benson
Harvey Cornell
Camp Dodge
CG. W. Nicklaus
Postville
Argentine
South America
Clem Schmid
Harley Steele
Harry Keiser
George Falk
Des Moines
Harry
Pharmacy
House
Senate
Knudtgon
Helen Nelson
Waterloo
Adolph Frederick
Delwein
Robert Wilson
Cedar Rapids
Fayette County
E. Mathys
Dakota
Billous Attacks and Wartime Notices in Old Paper
A mix of health advice praising Chamberlain’s tablets, a 1918 feed restriction order for barley rye and wheat, weed-seed control notes, Methodist fundraising intentions, remarks on Alsace potash mines, and reflections on wartime dentistry and a summer shower.
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Germany
Alsace
Cure For Dysentery In Ashland Kansas Remedy Story
William White of Des Moines Iowa recounts hearing a man claim Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy saved his dying daughter with violent dysentery. The neighbor urged use, and both child and father reportedly benefited. For sale at Stoopr Drug.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashland
Kansas
Stoopr
West Union Iowa Promotes Ideal Town Living
The piece extols West Union as a prosperous northeastern Iowa town with a top high school, strong water and sewer systems, ample shade trees, Linden Park, and a large park square. It highlights rich property values, supporting churches, a major county fair, a prominent newspaper, and a big hospital. The ad touts four main highways, a well equipped garage, and urges readers to visit for farm or house transactions and abstract or loan services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Union
Iowa
Court House
Also Mentioned on This Page
Cheery Valley Notes
Red Cross Kultters
Soldier Echo
Hlmer Houg
360Th Infantry
Iowan
John C. Cowger
160Th Infantry
Camp Shelby
Mississippi
Theodore D. Hangon
Nels Olaon
4038Th
Camp Pr
Bar
Arkongag
Albert W. Baldwin
Jefferson Barracks
Misgouri
Lewis A. Steel
56Th Infantry
Camp Mearthur
Texas
Clarence B. Schori
Camp Perry
Great Lakes
John H. Bower
Delbert Bakeman
Gist Company
6Th Br
Camp Lewis
Washington
Con
W. Strauch
First Army
Amer
New York
Walter P. Kobla
I “Ya
Gist Infantry
Capperak
Camp McArthur
Charles Hader
M. G
Carle Dummermuth
147Th F. A
American Expeditionary Forces
Walter C. Follett
Aero Squad
Benbrook
Rob ‘C. Gehring
43Rd Infantry
Pensacola
William F. Miller
Kelley No. 1
San Antonio
Earnest L. Bauder
Aviation
Garden City
Walter T. Vinton
Raymond
Washington Corp
Benj, Baumgartner
Richmond College
Julius C. Freiburghaus
4Th Motor Machine Regt
Aero Production Center No
Forest Welsh
Company B
38Rd Engineers
Earl Greenley
Hdagrs
Casual Co
Regu
Camp Humphreys
Hart W. Kiple
Aero Service Squadron
Charles J. Habeger
Kelley Field
Fleet Stanton
Aero Service
Harry A. Stoll
New Jersey
Maurice Goldsman
Camp Upton
Dan Sutter
Olavus Holm
326Th Infantry
Enoch EH. Mark
349Th Infantry
Thomas S. Cloworth
Camp Gordon
Georgia
Will von Deest
New Rec
Camp Wheeler
Julius Scholen
Company F
65Th Infantry
Sete H
N. Stoehr
Det
A. P
Forces
France
William H. Brabham
Hoare
369Th Infantry
New ‘York
Adine Fn
Connor Bros
Oelwein
Chamberlain
Steeler’s
Chamberlain's
Blanche Bower
Indiana
Stoehr
J. P
A. M. Wribel
Boston
Whitmanii
Ing Jew
Wandere
Darwin
Cottage
Ozen
E. T. Scott
Clermont, Ia
Britt Tribune
H. S. Hadsel, M.D
C. O. Fothergill, M.D
Dificant
Mgin Hotel
Calla
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