Birthday news and social visits fill Elgin area items
A long birthday dinner honors Sage Po and friends at J M Frey home with numerous Arlington Oelwein and Volga residents visiting kin. The list includes Adams Kuntaman Kuhnes Erickson Frey and others. Visits to hospitals, trips to Cedar Rapids and Minneapolis noted. Daily Bible school begins July 9 with about thirty enrolled.
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Richard Adams
Lindy Frey
J. M. Frey
Clarence Adams
Arlington
Elmer Kuntaman
Dale Kuhnes
Gon Derry
William
John Erickson
Harley
Martin Frey
Chester Adams
Richard
Will Frey
Mamie Heiden
Esther Raftis
J. D. Molumby
Oehvein
Willerton
Cedar Rapids
John Thiele
Oelwein
Will Whittenbaugh
Robert Whittenbaugh
Stella
Roy Heyer
Randalia
Ed Gehring
Mary Dick Leonhart
B. D. Stockwell
Fremont Clark
Gretna
Nebr
Phyllis June Clark
G. P. Clark
Myra Sargent
Bess Vogelsang
Charles Wiligh
Omaha
J. H. Wilson
Robert Ernst
Marjorie
Elgin
Mary Henrich
Clermont
Bess Techantz
Warren’ Willerton
Oelwein Hospital
Wood
Esther Swale
Garden Prairie
Rev. C.L. Randall
Amelia Fay
Inhalator Saves Many Lives in City Rescue Work
The invention touted as the most valuable tool in urban rescue is the inhalator. It is a portable machine delivering oxygen in any required amount and forms the core of life saving efforts during emergencies.
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Big City Rescue Aquada
Social rounds in Grand Meadow area guests and visits
Grand Meadow residents hosted and visited many relatives and friends. Gilbert Halverson Esther Clarice Lien Nels Lyngaas and Arthur Olson families figure prominently among callers and dinners. Several neighbors from Le Crosse Kenseth and Waukon joined at multiple homes across the weekend.
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Gilbert Halverson
Esther
Martin Halverson
Clarice Lien
Alphie Thorson
Nels Lyngaas
Immanuel Larson
Robert Wharram
Arthur Olson
Chicago
Floyd Thompson
Wadena
Orvin
Oscar Lion
Walter Martie
Charloine
Ed Johnson
Barney Iverson
Arthur
Waukon
Nels Lyngans
Sam Erickson
Florence and Selmer
Mellien Loftsgard
Esther Thoen
Kenseth
Town
Alfred Burnas
Andrew Anderson
Henry Amundson
Almer Johnson
Willard Martin
Clermont
Kenneth
Elkader
T. Moaby
Laverne, Minn
Halvor Olson
North Dakota
A Corner in My Heart Poem Fragment
A short sentimental fragment describes a private corner in the speaker's heart once bright with a loved one. References to a sunny space, garden fragrance, brown wrens, moonlight, and trumpet vines convey the loss felt after the beloved is gone. The closing lines note a dull dusty heart and a missing star.
Ancient Meaning of Brawl in Old Dictionary Definition
The entry defines brawl as an early ball dance where couples join hands in a ring and continually pull and shake each other as the dance begins. It reflects older linguistic usage tying a brawl to social initiation in ballrooms and similar gatherings.
Names for Wall-eyed Pike On the Great Lakes
The wall-eyed pike is known by several names including wall-eyed pike white-eye jack-salmon blowfish low pike and pikeperch in the Great Lakes region. In other locales it may be called a river trout jack or blue pike.
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Great Lakes
Through A Womans Eyes By Jean Newton
A San Francisco news wire quotes Mrs. Leo nore Ewald filing for divorce from Thomas Ewald. She claims he insulted the United States as a rotten country and accused the laws and people of being no good, even threatening to take their children back to his homeland. He also mocked her petticoats, drawing a lighthearted jab at domestic life amid deeper marital strife.
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Leonore Ewald
Thomas Ewald
Mitter Halls
San Francisco
Balt Syndicate
WNU Korvia
Short Snaps of Wit and Worldly Musings from 19th Century Observations
A compact collection of aphorisms on friendship courage and society. It ponders history repetition justice and reform with sharp wry humor. The tone resembles a newspaper quip page offering reflective, epigrammatic maxims.
Evidence of lightning and high voltage shocks killing through brain damage
Pathfinder Magazine reports London expert Dr. McDonald Critchley links fatalities from lightning and powerful electrical shocks to internal brain and blood vessel rupture. Shredded tissue, ballooned nerves, burst brain vessels, and hollow brain spaces suggest internal explosions, with burns rarely seen in nerves.
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McDonald Critchley
London
Pathfinder Magazine
Five Homing Terns Return After Long Voyage
Five terns captured at a Florida rookery were transported by steamship and released off Cape Hatteras. Five days later three were found back on their nesting grounds, identified by metal bands. The straightline Cape Hatteras to Bird Keys distance is about 850 miles, coast line flight about 1,081 miles, exceeding the trained pigeon record of 1,010 miles.
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Florida Peninsula
Cape Hatteras
Bird Keys
Ban Marxist Goat Breeder
A Munich radio broadcast announced by the German state government dissolves the Ebenhausen goat breeders association due to Marxist membership. The rabbit breeders association at the same location was likewise ordered dissolved for the same reason.
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Munich
New York
Transatlantic Information Service
Goat Breeders’ Association
Ebenhausen
Ingolstadt
Bird Lives in Fish Globe For Canary And Goldfish
A north Wales woman devises a special bird apartment that sits in the fish bowl center to keep the canary happy while goldfish swim around. The quirky contraption keeps water out and lets the feathered pet live with the fish.
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North
Wales
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