Wadena Echoes Local Notes and Missionary News
Local items report Cedar Rapids trip and livestock for a Los Angeles opening, a Dubuque doctor urges diet focus, and family visits. An Iowa well contractor restores water supply, a severe leg amputation follows infection, and a writer discusses editing Bolitudes. Des Moines hosts a Women’s Foreign Missionary meeting with 35 young women commissioned to nine countries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. 8
Hutchinson
Feller'’s Hardware
Nora
Ida Oleson
Cedar Rapids
A. & Kelly
Wadena
Iowa
Dubuque
C. W. Doty
Hartford
Michigan
P. Turnbull
Wyrna
John Berndt
Farmersburg
John Schade
Schade
Rinegolé County
Biltmore
Los Angeles
Harry Tremain
Algona Hotel
Bolitudes
Rosenbaum
China Moser
Farlville
Chris
Serene Yack
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
First Methodist Church
Des Moines
Foreign Missionary Convention
India
China
Korea
Mexico
Maylasia
Bulgaria
Dutch West Indies
Philippines
Japan
A Newspaperless City Shocks New York
New York endured three days without daily papers affecting 6,000,000 residents. Shopping fell across the board with 10, 30, and over 50 percent declines, theatres lost about 20 percent attendance, and commission wages for department store staff slumped toward a million dollars daily. The piece argues a newspaperless city means vast losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Gift of the Desert serial thrill in The Echo
Randall Parrish, noted for romance mystery and adventure, teams western and detective fiction in Gift of the Desert. An army officer plays a keen detective against dangerous outlaws in the Southwest with a strong love story woven through the plot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
Westy
Randall Parrish
Echo i Sedo
Beamer Tire Shop Ad in West Union Iowa
Auto top repairing and side curtain repair. Radiator repairing and vulcanizing tin tubes boots and overshoes. New auto tops installed. Beamer Tire Shop, West Union, Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beamer Tire
West Union
Towa
Masonic Lodge and Popcorn Industry Highlight Rural Iowa
A rural Iowa article notes a well built Masonic lodge in Potawattamie County between Oakland and Council Bluffs with 132 members and community events. It also details a 200 acre popcorn patch on Frank Parkinson’s Lake View farm, a major regional crop. Plus crime, egg trade, and a minstrel show plan in Cresco and Decorah.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Pole
Pottawattamie
Oakland
Council Bluffs
Masonic Fraternity
Frank Parkinson
Lake View
Sac County
Sac J
Ida
Qporld
Cresco
Philadelphia
Decorah
Winneshiek County
Charles Dickens
Cregco
Women’s Auxiliary
Campaign against cheek to cheek dancing in Mason City
Jay Marshall a Mason City welfare worker launches a campaign against cheek to cheek dancing there. The town sees community notes on local travel, car purchases, Big Dollar Day spending, and football game results as rural life continues with mixed humor and concern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wests Lowa City
Jay Marshall
Mason City
Ben Dennier
Maxwell
Mitchell
Monona
Christ
Prof
Green
Iowa City
Raymond Heins
Leo Schori
Michigan
J. M. Thoma
Mercury
Postville Herald
Irvin Etter
Janesville
Wisconsin
Chevrolet Automobile Factory
Irvin
Alton
The
Arrow
Rolfe
California
Samuel Kimpson
Richard
Thomas
Elgin
Mr. Kinpson
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Thursdar Hughesay
Wmgin
Sas
Pelican Rapids Press
Reb Latimer
Fayette
H. S. Hadsel
Henderson
Jack Kanar
Berndt
Echo
Industrial Progress
United Mine Workers of ‘America
Remington Portable
F. H. Hoyt
Clermont
Fellers’ Hardware
Hamilton Brown Security
Mel Kohler Elgin
Colonial Pipelss Furnace
Elgin Savings Bank
Igin, Jowa
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