Wadena area notices and travels span Iowa towns
Wadena residents report visits and travels as Fremont Clark heads to Omaha with his mother, while Don Henry undergoes appendectomy at Mercy Hospital. Funeral attendances, illness notes, and social gatherings fill local life with clubs, school, and village movements across West Union Oelwein Hartley and surrounding areas. Dated events include travel to Waterloo and Lima area moves, reflecting a close-knit community scene.
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Fremont Clark
Omaha
Neb
G. Clark
Carl Cox
Don Henry
Mercy Hospital
Odhyein
Wood
Watson
Roy Leonhart
Dyersville
J. H. Denkhoff
Town Telephone and Telegraph Company
A. GC. Cline
Lea Clair
Alden Gell
la Fonda
West Union
Maggie Whittenbaugh
W. D. Mattocks
Doress Society
Lawrence Whitcher
Loretta Mattocks
Hartley
Esther Raftis
Francys
Mayme Molumby
P. D. Glennon
Volga
Marjorie Ernst
Colesburg
Robert Ernst
Gertrude Frey
Elkader
Robert Frey
A. G. Herrling
Mike Tynan
Iowa City
Zella Duncan
Gerald
Marcia Marie Knutson
Oelwein
A. H. Mitchell
Wadena
M. A. Klingman
Gordon Fay
Waterloo
Geo
Fay
Arthur Herrling
Blackhawk
Earlville
Toby
Darlene Greenough
Ilon Mae
Donna Johnson
Wm. Christeleit
Ralph Gage
Lima
Frank
Bert Erickeon
William
Tohn
Ray. Klingman
Bikader
Pleasant ‘Ridge
Milo Oldfather
Will Follensbee
Will Thompson
Fayette
Hints on Outdoor Life and Iowa Conservation Facts
The article notes 700 million dollars annual loss to insects in agriculture and how birds mitigate it. It lists Iowa lake counts and acreage changes since 1899, streams under Conservation Commission, and privately owned woodlands. It advises continued bird feeding through snowmelt and into nesting season for healthy stock and young, with a brief odd mention of two grass eating Filipino nudists found in a cave in Hawaii.
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Hawaii
Sumner Institute Farmers Institute Postponed
The Farmers Institute, to be held this week, is postponed to March 18 and 19. Residents of Fayette, Bremer, and Chickasaw counties may enter exhibits. The committee seeks many entries, including 30 ear samples of corn judged by individuality and germination. Want ads are effective sales tools.
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Farmers Institute
Fayette, Bremer
Chic W
Jeered First Umbrella in Seventeenth Century
A history of the umbrella tracing its origins from ancient Persia India and Assyria to England in the seventeenth century. It notes early fashion among elites and a London debut by Jonas Danways, with later mentions of Edinburgh physician Spens and Glasgow surgeon John Jameson and their reactions to sheltering under umbrellas.
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India
Rome
England
Britain
Ab Windrells
Edinburgh
Spens
Glasgow
John Jameson
Paris
A Plan Advanced To Use Elevators And Roads For Farm Aid
A Strawberry Point Press item outlines a plan proposed after the death of the AAA. It calls for half the OCC.boys to build government elevators to store rain-fed grain, with free storage in overproduction years. It also suggests halting new irrigation projects until demand exists and using the other half to build rural roads to keep farmers on their land.
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AAA
OCC
CCG
Strawberry Point Press
Birds Hatched Fully Feathered in Australian Isles
A mound builder, part of a family found in Australia and the South Sea Islands, hatches young that are fully feathered and able to fly. They emerge ready to live independently from birth.
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Australia
South Sea Islands
SUGGEST CROP ROTATION FOR Fayette COUNTY PROGRAM
Warm Bureau News Letter reports Fayette county soil building program details. County committee, delayed by weather, discusses four tentative crop rotations and plans to tailor them to soil types. Emphasizes soil conservation, livestock feed, and broader Iowa land use policy.
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Warm Bureau
County Agricultural Planning Committee
Fayette County
State Committee
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Rainer Sehickele
Economic Department
Englehorn
Soils
Iowa
Method of Obtaining Seed Samples from Corn Crib
A Farm Bureau News Letter notes practical methods to obtain a representative corn crib sample for seed testing. Select about 200 ears evenly from sides ends top bottom center, discard mouldy or damaged ears, remove six kernels from each ear, and combine to test 100 to 200 kernels in a rag doll or sand tray. If germination falls below ninety percent, test individual ears.
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Farm Bureau
Red Hot Cures Used by Chinese to End Disease
In China near the Yangtze Kiang, Nashi people use a ritual to expel disease. Tombas priests stage mock fights with the demon of sickness, offer a dead chicken, heat a plowshare, and perform barefoot fire dances. A priest touches hot metal with his tongue, then sweeps through the sick house spraying fire and ash to drive out the demon. The three hour ceremony, reportedly used even for toothache, ends with the afflicted deemed cured.
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China
Yangtze Kiang
Pearson’s Weekly
Chasing the raccoon thrills hunters seek dogs’ chase
A Detroit Free Press note says raccoon pelts hold value, but hunters chase the thrill of the chase and the dogs’ wit more. Inexperienced raccoons are easy to catch, while seasoned ones outfox hunters, making an all night pursuit likely with dogs baying through fields and valleys.
Township Officers Meeting Of Fayette County Farm Bureau
Fayette County Farm Bureau hosts a meeting for township directors and officers and women project officers on Saturday Feb 29 at 10 30 AM at the Farm Bureau office. Men and women meet separately in the morning then join for a noon basket dinner. Women plan Achievement Day in May and discuss township organization to strengthen work while men cover regular business and future membership drives.
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Farm Bureau
Fayette County Farm Bureau
First Movies Evidence of Motion Pictures in 1889
Brief note recalls Edison's 1889 introduction of the kinetoscope as a peep show, using a one ton camera and 50 foot films. The device could not project images for a crowd and allowed viewing by a single person at a time.
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Edison
Composite City Stockholm Described From Scenic Wheatstone
Composite City Stockholm has been described as a blend of Scottish lake scenery the Bay of Naples and Aegean lands. It sits on a singular peninsula and islands with hundreds of boats and mail steamers operating its waterways carrying residents to their island homes.
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Stockholm
Bay of
Naples
Aegean
Sounds Familiar to Elizabethan Poor Law Restrictions
The passage notes that about 850 years ago under Queen Elizabeth the parishes were required to provide the able-bodied unemployed with various raw materials for woven trades and crafts, including flax, hemp, wool, iron, timber, and even land for cultivation, to support work.
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Queen Elizabeth
Ship Cote Water Refracts Views on Hull Resistance
The statement challenges common belief that the ship’s bow cuts water to move forward. It notes that seven-tenths of total resistance arises from friction on the wetted surface, skin friction, a topic also studied in aeronautics.
Mademoiselle de Armentieres Tune Origins
The tune Mademoiselle de Armentieres derives from a Sixteenth century folk song Die Drei Stelter. Its lyrics trace to an English army ditty Ski boo popular around the Franco Prussian era.
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Mademoiselle de
Marble-Faced Dam of Marathon Plains Watering Athens
Marble-faced dam on the Marathon plains, the only one of its kind, built from ancient quarry stone. It channels water to Athens, linking historical battlefield sites with modern infrastructure.
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Marathon
Ancient
Greece
Athens
Want Ads Offer Convenience for Buyers and Sellers
Classifieds invite readers to place Want Ads for buying selling or renting items. The notice emphasizes easy placements and broad reach for those seeking to trade or find goods and services.
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