Surprise party honors Lee Klingman on weekend
Community notes recount social calls and visits across families including Yearous, Hanson, Rothlisberger, and various neighbors. Local events include a cemetery meeting, Highland-Ilyria Telephone Co. gathering, and a sequence of visits to relatives in Volga City Elgin and Arlington. Tea School sub district report lists 17 pupils and 335.5 total attendance days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myé
Nonney Ernst
Grace Medberry
Jakle Yearous
Will Yearous
Adolph Hanson
Martin Hanson
Fred Butikofer
Gotired
Frieden
Lola Hanson
Bertha Hofer
Lee Klingman
Hisie Yearous
Harvey Howard
Leonard Humphry
West Union
Fred Rothlisberger
Volgar Elty Thureday
Goodwin
Jazon Bailey
Marion Township
Jerome
Jerome Yearous Home, Mr. and Mr. Jacob Yearous Sr
Gladys
Tueeday
Jerome Yearous
Walter Rothisberger
John Probert
Hpi
Volga City
Biss
Gh Wenday
Jakie Yearous
Max Guyer
Rom Sear
Wkader
Alta
Arlington
Earl
Leo
Helen
Hazel
LaRoy Rothisberger
Howard Shaffer
Anna Erliwin
Cornelius Yearous
Council Proceedings Elgin Iowa January 2 1922
Council met in regular session called to order by Mayor Hughes with Councilmen Harrington Phillips and Schori present. Minutes of prior meeting read and approved while bills totaling several items including pump repairs and wood sawing were allowed and ordered paid. Motion to adjourn carried with Samuel Mosby as town clerk.
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Elgin
Iowa
Reil
Hughes
Bamuel Mosby
Bilgin
Feller
Grether
Harrington
Phillips
Schori
Harrington Philliy
Schor
Samuel Mosby
Feudal pomp and Bali life under Dutch rule
A Cleveland Plain Dealer extract describes Bali under Dutch influence with Bali island’s grandeur and Balinese customs. It notes feudal magnificence, serf-like farmers, and rites such as ear piercing and ear-cylinder changes from bone to metal as women become wives and mothers.
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Malayain
Sumatra
Tadla
Bali
India
Clevaland Plain Dealer
Leather Vessels For Water And Wine In Eighteenth Century England
In past dega England scarce native pottery and costly imports led to leather bottles and related vessels. The leather water bag and water tight pairs served as containers with varied forms, including stamped and plain leather. The leather bottle appeared late in the eighteenth century and lingered in harvest fields, while foreign bottles used lighter leathers from goats, pigs, or sheep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Parrot Fish Rumination Claim Revisited
A fragment explains that the parrot fish, native to the Eastern Mediterranean, chews food in large bites then stores it to chew thoroughly before pulping it. Ancient writers such as Aristotle and Pliny claimed it as a ruminant, a view later treated with skepticism by modern naturalists.
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Mediterranean
Arlatote
Pilny
Alnee
Torn Bill Tip Brought Results
A Chicago businessman tore a five dollar bill in half in a New York restaurant and gave half to a waiter promising the other half on departure. He kept his promise, and the waiter reported good service during the stay.
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Walter
Chicago
New York
Sun
Yasar
Ancient Tattooing Across Cultures
A Detroit News excerpt notes tattooing as an ancient form of adornment. It highlights Polynesian mastery and ongoing appeal through history, mentioning varied styles including plain black work and more elaborate forms. It also describes the gash method using cuts filled with clay to create the design.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit Newa
Stereotypes Across Nations Exposed In Jumbled Rhetoric
A fragmented London essay mocks national stereotypes by listing clichés about English, Scottish, Irish, French, Turk, Dutch, Yankee, Welsh, Spaniard, and Italian temperaments. It condemns slander while highlighting how bias permeates humor, sport, and empire talk, ending with a note on pervasive prejudice.
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London
Trmus
Yankea
Melba Yields To Youth In 5th Melbourne Concert
The article notes Dame Melba must yield space to younger singers after a final Melbourne concert. It recalls her early Melbourne debut as a child and her later rise in grand opera. It mentions a London debut on May 24, 1884 with Lucia and claims her wealth, including jewelry valued at 51 million.
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Melba
Mme
Australia
Melbourne
Patch
London
Lucia
Carries Aid to Miners in California Mines
Congress provides a special rescue truck for inaccessible California mines. The vehicle seats ten men and carries oxygen equipment, six cylinders totaling 600 cubic feet, two tabulators, safety lavas, army stretchers, regenerating materials, caustic soda, a high pressure oxygen pump, a first aid kit, Gel masks unused due to ineffectiveness, and a 1,000 foot fire line.
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California
Congress
Popular Mechanica Bagazine
Sleeping car passenger reports ruby pin theft in transit
Passengers in a Hot Springs to St Louis sleeping car were awakened by a claim a 11 carat ruby sickpin worth over 10000 dollars was lost. A porter found the pin in an upper berth near a Little Rock traveler, who then admitted the mistake and rewarded the porter with a quarter. Police were notified at Union Station.
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Hot Springs
St. Louie Po
Union Station
Bockman
St. Laula Post-Dispatch
That Settles It Colored Parson Dispute
In a Nashville Tennesseean excerpt a colored parson and a deacon clash over soliciting funds for church needs. The parson insists the church must run and fly, while the deacon urges it to walk, with exhortations and amen corner affirmation.
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Parson
Bruddera
Amen
Brudder
Bruddear
Patsen
Bruddern
T'A Gwinter
Faney
Dia Charch
Deacon
Nashville
Tennesseean
Sunflower State Reflection on Roads Ahead
A Manhattan Mercury reader laments the prospect of future generations enjoying good roads after our era ends, noting the unsettling immortality of highway quality as a defining legacy. The reflection captures mid twentieth century skepticism about progress and infrastructure priorities in Kansas.
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Manhattan Mercury
Edge of the new peace dollar and canal traffic noted
The Knoxville Journal laments indecision as farmers refuse to build and statesmen seek resolutions amid a widening debate. Across Atlantic coast charts, 42,495,507 feet of range moved through the Pagama canal, highlighting shifting logistics and economic themes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rangi
Pagama Canal
Atlantic Coast
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Towa
MEG
Oates Stoenir & “Company
H.G. Hadsel
Citteens
Tate
Sohori Brothers
Elst
Tam
Sdward
Kricke Rye
Towa Suytens Bank Bldg
Orlwein
Rowa
C. A. Rinsel
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