Local Editor Named in Iowa Post Office Records
Elizabeth Priest of Towa Press Association is listed as a local editor in Fayette County Iowa postal records. The notice notes second class mail status for Clérmont, detailing the post office designation under ordinary administrative procedures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Priest
Towa Press Association
National Editorial Association
Clérmont
Fayette County
Iowa
Gana Matter
Clermont Community Notes Start of Spring Activities
Clermont locals recount weekend visits and guests from Dan Sutter and St Olaf households. Ed Olson returns from St Olaf, while Mira Griebenow stays with Cum anings. Farm bureau ladies plan a March 19 meeting hosted by Mrs Roy Tatro with bread making lesson by Miss Lewin. Mrs Frank Calahan returns from her Fay family visit after a fire accident. Richard Stolle offers income tax help at Farmers Savings Bank March 18 to 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm ‘Bureau
Roy Tatroam
Frank Calahan
Herome
Mrs
Frank Fay
George Fay
Richard Stolle
Farmers’ Savings Bank
Clermont
Towa
Kapok Trade Noted In United States Imports
Kapok, the silky down from ceiba pentandra, is not commercially grown here. Experiments have been tried in California. Imports come from the Federated Malay States, Java, and Ecuador, with some export from Ceylon and very small amounts from the Philippine Islands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Federated Malay States
Java
Ecuador
Ceyton
Philippine Islands
Rear Feet Hit Ahead in Animal Running Fact
Maurice Sagoff of Boston explains in Col .8 that only grayhounds cheetahs and hares land rear feet ahead of their fore feet when running rapidly, detailing a curious note on gait and speed.
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Maurice Sagoff
Boston
Mass
Quotations and aphorisms on life and society
A selection of brief maxims and opinions on manners money and marriage quoting Emerson Mussolini Monroe and others. The items reflect social critique humor and contrasts between wealth power and personal behavior.
Citizens urged to back hometown’s progress and growth
The piece calls on every resident to join business leaders in building a larger, better city. It emphasizes persistent, conscientious effort, permanency in development, and staying busy to unlock resources and ensure enduring growth for the home city.
Cartoonish Column Left Bits From Sabula Gazette
Satirical notes spoof a typographical slip in a Kansas paper, The old evangelist drunkard tale, a Swede witness to a train bull murder joke, and a joke about alfalfa. Also a line about Italian army radio on horseback and field communications gear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sabula Gazette
Kansas
Hull
Saya Popular Mechanica
Castle of Romance in Adana and Its Ancient Bridge
The castle at Adana near Tarsus in southern Turkey dates to 782 and was built by Haroun Al Rashid. A magnificent stone bridge in the town was constructed in the era of Justinian.
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Adana
Tarsus
Turkey
Haroun al Rashid
Justinian
Imitation Fortress at Sintra Near Cape Roca Portugal
An ornate fortress overlooking the Atlantic dominates the western Portuguese promontory near Cape Roca. The Palacio de Pena, built on a Hieronymite convent site by Prince Consort Ferdinand, evokes medieval fortifications. The structure reflects eras spanning Maximilian and Napoleon, with ties to the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club founded in Washington in 1927 to build the Appalachian Trail and promote Shenandoah National Park.
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Ta Cintra
Cape de Roca
Portugal
Palacio de Pena
Palacio
Ferdinand of
Saxe-Coburg
Maximilan
Napoleon
Potomac Appalachian Trail Club
Washington, D. C
Rice Ridge
Virginia
Shenandoah National Park
Primitive birth rite Courads Couradeé described in travel lore
An anthropologist cites Courads Couradeé as a custom where new fathers imitate the birth by abstaining from certain foods and acting similarly to the mother. Observed among Guiana peoples, Afghan tribes, parts of China and Borneo, with ancient mentions in Corsica and Celtiberia during invasions.
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Guiana
South America
Chins
Borneo
British Possessions in the West Indies List
The British possessions in the West Indies include Bermuda Jamaica Barbados Trinidad and Tobago the Leeward and Windward Islands and British Guiana covering about 12 227 square miles. The archipelago lies between North and South America near Central America and the Yucatán region of Mexico.
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West Indies
Bermudas
Bahamas
Jamaica
Turka and Caicos
Cayman Islands
Trinidad and Tobago
Barbados
Leeward
Welands
Antigua
St Kitts-Nevis
Dominica
Montserrat
British Guiana
Windward Islands
Granada
the Grenadines
St. Lucia
St Vintcent
British Honduras
North
South America
Central America
Yucatan
Mexico
Ancient royal straw inspires modern ice cream misuse
Reference to Queen Shubard sipping 000 years ago with a golden drinking tube, now exhibited at the University of Pennsylvania museum. Many believe it to be the ancestor of today’s ice cream soda straw, linking ancient drinkware to a popular modern utensil.
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Shubard
University of Pennayvania Museum
Australia Size Compared To United States
Article notes that Australia is the island continent about a dust smaller than the United States with roughly three million square miles each and similar width. The comparison emphasizes their comparable footprints in land area.
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Australia
United States
Avocado Tops Meat in Digestive Value and Vitamins
The avocado is 8.3 percent digestible and richer in food value than meat fruit except bananas. It supplies twice as much vitamin A as the apple and provides a large amount of vitamin B.
Payday Timetable For U S Officials
Minor government employees receive pay on the fifteenth and last days of each month. Members of congress and top officials like the President and vice president are paid on the last day of the month.
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U. S
Congress
Also Mentioned on This Page
Clermont Enterprise
Clermont, Iowa
William Burrow
Dan Sutter
Ed Olson
St. Olaf
Mira
Herman Griebenow
Thos. Cumanings
R. V. Brandt
L. le ‘Carr
Wilma Steinmetz
Oelwein
Clermont Directory
Clermont Nation’s Farm
J. A. Erickson, Sec’y-Treag
Federal Land Bank and Land Bank Commissioner's Loans
Kray
L. L. Carr
I. C. Jerdee
Clermont State Bank
Millard
G. H. Hackman
N. H. Nelson
Emerson
Mussolini
James Monroe
Atlantic Monthly
the Atlantic
America
the Atlantic Monthly
Adington St
Geo
Benne
New York
N. Y
Herrick
U. B.C
Monette
Swift’s
B. F. Douglas
Sean
Vate
A. B.C
van Camp
Nelson Meat Market
Steeler’s
Elgin
Brick City Pharmacy
Bigler’s
Wadena
Eds and Enterprises
Westinghouse Electric
Streamline Iron
Westingehouse
Central States Power & Light Corporation
Princess Theatre
West Union
Ramon Navarro
Evelyn Laye
Una Merkel
Tim McCoy
Alice Dahl
Pat O’malley
Tim
Kay Francis
George Brent
Warren William
Velvet
Janet Gaynor
Warner Baxter
Stepin Fetchit
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