Clermont News Christmas Gatherings and Local Notices
Mrs Willis Gross improves as reports come in from Clermont and surrounding areas. Christmas celebrations unite families including Ferguson, Haug, Becker and Brorby clans. Ruth White marries Joseph Brorby at the Norwegian parsonage with a neat home reception. Clermont residents recall Joe and Ruth since childhood and praise local traditions.
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Ruth
I. K. White
Joseph M. Brorby
Hjortholm
Mr. Brorby
Jula
Anna Brorby
Clermont
Joe
Sloan's Liniment Promises Quick Pain Relief
An advertisement touts Sloan's Liniment as the ultimate pain killer, easy to apply without rubbing. Marvin H. Solster of Berkeley recalls using it after stiff neck and wet feet at the Panama Exposition, claiming rapid relief within hours and a return to health by morning.
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Sloan
Marvin H. Solster
Berkley
Cal
Panama Exposition
Druggists
Cheery Valley Social Roundup and Holiday Visit News
Cheery Valley notes list Yscoh Dennler entertaining guests, Gilbert Peterson hosting company on Christmas, John Meyer calling on Adolph Baumgartner, and Palsey Minniban visiting Volga City relatives. Will Chase and family visited Mrs. Rosina Meyer. A Highlands Hall dance is planned for Tuesday night January 4, 1916. John Leuehtenmacher and family host visitors from McGregor. Alfred Butikofer and family spent Christmas with his mother. Clarence Torklogon and Melvin Benson called on Thomas Hanson. Louise Christen helps Mrs Adolph Hanson this week. Friday guests at the Hanson home included Mr and Mrs Adolph Haumgartner and Willie, Clara and Freddie Yonker, Wesley Milley, Mrs Rosing Meyer and Alice Hangon.
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Yscoh Dennler
Gilbert Peterson
John Meyer
Adolph Baumegartners
Palsey Minniban
Volga City
Will Chase
Highland Hall
John Leuehtenmacher
McGregor
Alfred Butikofer
Clarence Torklogon
Melvin Benson
Thos, Hanson
Louise Christen
Adolph Hanson
Thos Hanson
Mr. and Myre
Adolph Haumgartner
Willie
Clara
Freddie Yonker
Wesley Milley
Rosing Meyer
Alice Hangon
Dr King’s New Discovery Promises Lung Health
Coughs and colds are warned as dangerous, with one third dying from lung ailments. The advertisement claims Dr King’s New Discovery has stood tests for 46 years and urges readers to get a bottle to avoid serious lung illnesses.
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Dr. King
Tisa
Illyria Items Show Ills and Holidays Amid Grippe
Local notes from Illyria report many cases of grippe and ailments with several recoveries. Families such as Medberry Reichert and Rothlisberger share Christmas gatherings, visits, and travel from Chicago and Rock Rapids. Church Christmas exercises were subdued due to illness while Fred Reichert and Foxwell homes hosted dinners. Mrs Kingman returns home after a serious operation, drawing well wishes from friends.
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Ste Ols
Ferry Medberry
Edgary Kimball
John Rothllsberger
Ralph, Reichert
Herman Bang
Volga
Guy Whitford
Johanna Minnikan
John,Rothlishberger
Fred Reichert
Walter Rothiisberger
John Probert
Jay Colgrove
Cedar Ranlds
Edith Ernst
West Union
Chas. Medberry
Wilt Wenger
Chicago
Jerome
Frank Hunsberger
Nancy Ernst
Frank Arndt
Rock Rapids
Ella Foxwell
Mabel Gehring
Wadena
Harry Gilson
Illyria
Foxwell
C. L. Kingman
Elkader
Cheney Catarrh Cure Ad and Historical Narrative Mix
An 1838 Toledo Ohio document details Frank J. Cheney claiming a one hundred dollar reward for each catarrh case cured or not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The passage blends a legal oath style with an advertisement mentioning F J Cheney & Co. and Wall's Catarrh Cure and ends with unrelated narrative fragments about English aristocracy and Ashleigh oaks.
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State of Ohio
Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Hall
A. D
W. Gleason
Wall
Ohio
Many Children Have Worms in Early Alman Supplement
Article notes worms as a common childhood ailment causing irritability and poor nourishment. It recommends Kickapoo Worm Killer as a treatment that kills worms, acts as a laxative, and expels worms and waste. For sale at druggists for 25 cents.
Cedar Rapids Fraternity Aids Forty Families For Winter
A city canvass shows 1700 Cedar Rapids residents require help to endure winter. The local Masonic fraternity has voluntarily taken on the duty of caring for forty families.
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Cedar Rapids
Masonic Fraternity
Household humor on dinner surprises for irritable workers
A humorous note from James Montgomery Flagg suggests varying dinner routines to delight tired workers Jack and Harold. It recommends surprising them with nontraditional meals and settings, from lounge tables to bathtub cutting boards, promising smiles and color in return.
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Jack
Harold
Rem
Natural History Museum
Jamesx Montgomery
Flagg
Fish Scales Once Valued In Fashion Jewelry
A London Tit-Bits note recalls that fish scales once formed personal adornments such as necklaces and earrings. Roach, bleak, dace and whitebait scales were collected after fishing, processed, and sold, sometimes fetching one to five guineas per quart. Today the craft is nearly extinct.
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Vaaty
Thames
Anid
London
Simple Barometer From a Burned Out Bulb
Instructions from Youth's Companion describe turning a damaged incandescent bulb into a barometer. Submerge the bulb in water, break the end to create an opening, and suspend it. Fine weather means no water drips. rising pressure pushes water back in. Droplets indicate falling pressure and an approaching storm. Atmospheric pressure drives the action.
Speaking English as a Standard in Associations
A Springfield Republican excerpt urges natives to use perfect English in dealings with newcomers. It frames each foreign learner’s effort to speak clearly as a real lesson for all and stresses preserving American English purity amid widespread imperfect speech. It notes improving foreigners’ accent also benefits native speakers.
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America
Springfield Republican
Efficacy of Uproar by Hon Bray Lowder
A Kansas City editorial mocks Hon Bray Lowder for arguing with anyone who admits ignorance on a topic. It praises loudness over facts and suggests Lowder quickly shuts up weaker opponents with volume rather than substance.
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Bray Lowder
Statesman
Lowder
Kansas
City
Ter
Fresh Air and Tuberculosis Open Air Theory Origin
The open air theory for tuberculosis gains focus as Dr Trudeau seeks mountain refuge near Saranac to heal. An open air colony grows from the effort, Detroit’s early lab marks a shift toward fresh air as a health value. The Pulmonary form dominates, breathing quality tied to health and disease.
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Dostord Trudeau
Saranac
Trudeau
Detroit
Faker Knew Human Nature Legend and the Calcutta Basket Trick
A Hindu faker, famed for his practical psychology, sold plain wicker baskets in Calcutta. He claimed pebbles could turn to gold if stirred for an hour while the buyer avoided thinking of a hippopotamus. Purchasers realized their losses, as the hippo idea stayed in their minds and no refunds occurred.
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Calcutta
Three Women Meet at New York Elevated Station
At a New York elevated station three women compare absent minded husbands. One explains her husband left an important letter at home and asks her to deliver it. The others joke about their own forgetful spouses as a traveling salesman returns and asks the woman his name after claiming they may have met before.
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New York
John
Candle timing device using a burning string cap
A method to dim or extinguish a candle at a set time by using a Bimal metal dome over the flame with a string attached. The string runs to the wall or screws and is tied around the candle. When the desired burn time passes, the string slips and the cap drops onto the flame, snuffing it.
Riddle of Nature by Henri Fabre
The excerpt reflects on nature as a riddle defying human knowledge. It argues that small actions like stirring sand cannot reveal ocean depths and warns that archives may erase future insight. It portrays science as a cycle of hypotheses and elusive truth, urging humility before nature’s mysteries.
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Henr
Phonograph Snafu Strains Family Finances In Kansas City Star
Jeremiah from the Kanand City Star recalls a family tale about a phonograph that promised joy but caused fear and debt. An uncle derides extravagance as the machine breaks down in a comic misadventure. The piece ends noting the family remains poor after the incident.
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Scott
Jeremiah
Kanuad City
Panther Attack F
The Madras Times recounts Rev. Father Bartley’s terrifying midnight encounter with a tame panther near Patiala. The beast pressed onto his bed and circled him, chasing into the open until it fled after a red light and a railway auditor’s tame animal explanation.
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Madras Times
Father Bartley
Patiala
Bartley
Tennyson’s Affection for America Seen in 1887 Exchange
The poet praised the United States Constitution as noble and thanked Walt Whitman for a photograph in 1887. He hoped for renewed vitality in 1888 among Americans inspired by the founders. He noted the mother country can learn from the daughter’s careful guarding of the Constitution.
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Tennyson
America
United States
Walt Whitman
Whiskers Kill Love: A Hundred-Year Court Tragedy
A sixty-two year old maid testified before a New York judge that she was ready to marry a seventy-five year old man but for his neglect to shave. She said his whiskers ruined their love and noted the court’s shared sigh at the strange tragedy.
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Balka
New York
Fallon Bought Paper Boosts Town Spirit
Elyalum editor praises Fallon’s purchase of the local paper, calling it the town’s mainstay and greatest booster. The note lauds Baldt as worth the money and expresses collective joy, with the scene ending in a humorous, exaggerated tumble as Nature took its limit.
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Elyalum
Fallon
Baldt
Nature
Altoons
Tribune
Real estate services offer for fall farm needs and abstracts
A local real estate broker urges readers to discuss buying selling and financing this fall. They offer abstracting title work, identify potential defects, and propose to arrange loans and town property on installment plans with small payments.
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Lea
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