Critics Target Taxpayer funded Municipal Lobby Groups
An Elkader Register letter argues the Iowa League of Municipalities and state coalitions lobby for legislation and higher gasoline taxes to benefit cities. It claims teachers associations and schools lobbyists push credits and approvals, reducing local control, raising taxes, and shaping curricula to taxpayers' cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa League of Municipalities
Des Moines
Charley Pye
Iowa
Teachers Association
Charlie
Charley
Association of Schools and Colleges
Elkader Register
M. E. Church Notes and Christmas Program Recap
The M. E. Church notes a welcome to new Sunday school pupils while inviting unity with God in the New Year. The Christmas program on Christmas Eve drew a large audience with pianist William Weibel and committee members Leo Schori Serene Yack and R. V. Brandt noted. The parsonage family thanks friends for gifts and Christmas cheer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snyder
Louis Klingman
Rodger W. Babson
Tne
Leo Schori
Serene Yack
R. V. Brandt
William Weibel
Baptist Church Notes New Year Schedule and Meetings
The church outlines several events from December 21 to January 4 including choir rehearsals watch night service, Ladies Aid meeting January 2, communion and Sunday activities January 4, prayer meeting January 3, and a study class starting January 4 led by teacher Benjamin Baumgartner. Pastor Ph Lauer extends New Year wishes and invites all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Hackman
Elisabeth Hadd
Edwin Bauman
Wm. Kohls
Wilma Schaer
Kathryn Kruger
Gertrude Hackman
Helen Baechler
Anna Mae Haas
Styria Church Notes New Year at Saint Sunday
J J Snyder minister La Fonda Shaffer pianist at Sunday school 10 15 a m. Morning worship 11 16. Tomorrow New Year’s Day church gathering with basket dinner election of trustees and wood sawing bee. Community invited. Happy New Year from Styria Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Snyder
la Fonda Shaffer
Piani
Leone Kerr
Dorothy Hermen
Clara Holzer
Lutheran Church Services Schedule For January
Lutheran Church invites with English services on January 1 at 11 00 in Marion and 7 30 at St Olaf Chapel. January 4 at 10 30 in Norway English communion services. You are welcome at each service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
St. Olaf Chapel
Norway
Strandford Family Seeks New Year Visit in Ludlow
Strandford Pastor Mrs. Vera Nyborg and daughter traveled to Ludlow to visit over New Year at the home of Vera Nyborg's sister Mrs Frank Miller. Nyborg awaits decision on whether to remain in Elgin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vera Nyborg
Ludlow
Frank Miller
Auction Beg Mule Driver Slur Sparks Assault Tale
In a damaged clipping from Philadelphia Public Ledger, Ted I. Sarth recounts a chaotic scene in a tavern where mule drivers clash with new recruits. The narrative describes battles with a wild, clawed animal and a tense march toward Beaumont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. B's
Slim Gibbs
Highteenth
Stim
St. Nazaire
Bar le
Beaumont
Selcheprey
Sheir Abrassaris
Ted I. Sarth
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Miscellaneous aphorisms and misprints on virtue and society
A garbled collection of quoted phrases and stray observations on virtue self reliance gratitude grammar history and social manners. The text blends mispunctuated lines about heroism popularity sympathy and racial commentary with comic misreadings and editorial slips.
Life at Gunder to Elgin man dies in Elgin area
Nyborg, lifelong resident of Gunder and later Elgin, died leaving a widow Doris Marie and a daughter, with a large family and many friends. He served in Marion Lutheran church and American Legion Post Elgin. Funeral services were held with English and Norwegian rites and burial at Marion Cemetery Gunder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gunder
Shay
Elgin
Doris Marie
Oscar
Henry
Gilman Knudson
Rennér
Elmer Osmandson
Clermont
Nyborg
Marion Lutheran Church
American Legion
Methodist Episcopal Church
J. J. Snyder
National Sport: Bullfighting Persists Across France
A London Observer correspondent notes that despite a facto bullfighting ban, Beziers drew a large crowd as six bulls were killed on a Sunday. Similar events are reported or announced in Arles, Nimes, Grasse, and Bordeaux, with discussions of a Paris area fight near Compiegne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
London Sunday Observer
The
Mid
Paria
Beziers
Artea
Nimes
Grasge
Bordeaux
Paris
Complegne
Exaggeration in Soviet Russia book praised at New York luncheon
Ivy Lee who visited Soviet Russia in Rockefeller interests was praised at a New York luncheon for his new book about the trip. He argued his work corrects exaggerations and compared Sovietism to a cockroach, describing its supposed horrors and disruptive behavior at a dinner table.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ivy Lee
Soviet Russia
New York
Lee
Pop for sale headline in every western town
A humorous note from a motor trip to California where a boy, Jimmy, sees signs in each town listing the population as Pop. with a blank for the number. He jokes that every town has pop for sale, highlighting the running gag about population.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmy
California
Superstitions Around the Third Match Fight
The article explains a deep seated superstition about the third fight in a match seen as deadly. It traces origins to wartime when a soldier cocked fired and exposed the shooter, making the third strike feared as deadly. Also notes Hawaiian fish names and a misrendered quote about a fish that got away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawaiian Islands
Fight Over Automate Drug Stores In Public Places
Medical men of London clash with BR over new automate drug stores placed in railway stations hotels and other public places. Machines dispense medicines such as pirin and bismuth raising fears that children may access drugs leading to potential fatalities, warns a pathologist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Clever boy learns to lie, says student to father
A cartoon caption notes a boy praised for cleverness yet accused of lying. The father wonders where the habit began as the mother is said not to tell him bedtime tales at home. This Karikaturen vignette highlights irony in child behavior.
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Neg
Karikaturen
Robot Flying Restrictions and Odd Inventions
A fragmented clip discusses "Robot" pilots restricting flights per a revised air convention, taste for tonal hearing tech and dream of reducing eardrum impact. It mentions lightning causing insured losses and a quirky will about marrying into a brother's fortune, sourced from a Minneap o lis Journal and Country Home.
China census methods mirror Western illiteracy estimates
The report notes illiteracy estimates in China range from 444 million to 838 million as Western techniques are considered. Humorous asides mention fashion trends and a banter about a Russian composition.
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China
Fragmentary dialogue hints at distant figures and shifts
Readable fragments show vague talk about Methuselah and Bela Asker with hints of political seating and passing remarks. No clear events or outcomes emerge from the garbled text.
Warning Tale From Tit-Bita Fragment
A fragment from Tit-Bita features a warning exchange about danger and a threat to scream for a father figure. The terse dialogue asks what was done and answers that a warning was issued, reflecting a cautionary mood in informal gossip writing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fale
Fragmented lines echo old insult and slang
OCR fragment shows partial quotes and garbled phrasing about a young person and coarse criticism. Context unclear with missing names and places. cannot identify events, entities, or a clear news item from the readable text.
The Source of Wealth The Time Asset and Its Use
The passage presents time as a universal wealth and argues that investment of time determines advantage. It urges organizing time to use every minute, delaying nothing, and cramming tasks into shorter periods to enable tackling more worthwhile work.
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All Electric Radio
the City Drug Store
Elgin, Iowa
United
Loftsgard Garage
M. E. Church Notes
Baptist Church
Lauer
Styria
Lutheran Church
Motes
Ss. Strandford
Lew Grover
Wallingford
Emerson
Dekker
Byron
Regente Bia
Minneapella Journal
Gates
Janette
Myrt
Methuselah
Bela Asker
Congrasaman Bunkum
Telles
Vass Ke
Maud
Coer 'Agua
John Fait'& Sons
Blackhawk
Morton
Quaker Melanies
Quaker
Weibel. Mill CO
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