Wadena News Highlights Local Social and Obituary Notices
Items from the Sparkler page note Floy Jennings in a white suit at the Mineral Food plant, local visits and events, Scouts meeting, nursing badges, and numerous social calls. The obituary for Hattie Deming Richards reports a six day illness before death, with funeral in Arlington and burial at Taylorville, followed by a family card of thanks from the Richards family.
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Frank Everetts
Leonard Corbin
Hattis Deming Richards
Amos Eckhart
Richards
Hattie Deming
Arlington
Will Foster
Algona
M. E. Church
Royal Neighbor Lodge
M. BE
Taylorville
United Brethren Church Holds First Quarterly Conference
The first quarterly meeting of the conference year is set for December 3 and 4 at the church. Rev. W. Elliott from Lehigh will preside and lead services. A business meeting is planned for 2 PM Saturday. The Harvester Band meets at 1 PM Saturday December 3. The W B C BE meets at the W F Moore home Sunday evening November 27. Prayer meeting at the Fred Ernst home Thursday evening.
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Elliott
Lehigh
Harvester Band
Belsekthere
W. F. Moore
Fred Ernst
Wadena School Notes Highlight Book Week and Class Projects
Second grade pupils earned perfect spelling by John Murray Blanche Johnson Betty Ruth Johnson Maxine Bond and Lee Aeschliman. Teachers visited and sick lists included Delmar Hinkle and Maxine Bond. Students studied Pilgrims, Book Week activities featured three read books poems and bookmarks. Third grade made Indian headbands and blankets while fifth and sixth grades shared book reports and a banking project with Dor othy Minihan as bookkeeper and Arlene Welsh as teller. Sand table project produced Pilgrim Scene dioramas. A stray dog incident yielded two wild fox pups found near the river and reported to their owner.
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John Murray
Blanche Johnson
Betty Ruth Johnson
Maxine Bond
Lee Aesch-liman
H. J. Aeschliman
Delmar Hinkle
Aso
Dorothy Minihan
Arlene Welsh
Melbourne
Lesegran
Dawson Clark
Suior Saffin
Arthur Weber
Old Fort at San Pedro Springs Preserved in Texas
The oldest complete structure in Texas is the stone fort at San Pedro Springs, San Antonio. Plans to preserve it are well advanced as construction dates range from 1600s to 1710. The fort stood at a cedar stockade site and defensive decay spurred by loss of adjacent buildings.
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Texas
San Pedro Springs
San Antonio
Erosion's Heavy Coat Changes Earth Surface
The USDA says erosion has reshaped the Earth more than volcanoes earthquakes tides and human digging combined since history began. Though slow it wears away land in thin layers, accelerated by humans over long periods, worsening hunger and impoverishment. A Hoosier miss at dinner hears few compliments on her dress and her hungry date mocks her vocabulary.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Auctioneer Frustrated By Low Bid In 1953 Sale
Fragmented OCR notes describe an auction where a Lone 2 United Suites item sold for several shillings, about $1.75 at par, amid a shouted bid of five shillings. The auctioneer laments the low bids and remarks on perceived value.
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Afancue
United Suites
Senator Sorgham on public speech missteps and aims
Raspen asks what inspired your public gesture and Sorgham replies that he expected wider support and likens his motion to the pull of a movie star, revealing his hopes and misgivings about public reception.
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Raspen
Sorgham
Subtle Sex Dear Daughter Page Fragment
Fragmented OCR reads as a troubled page with garbled lines about leaving, marriage, and wind. Names and clear facts are obscured. no coherent events or entities can be confirmed from the fragment.
Toews Hell Tonight Faqutred Yorick Hamm of Hamlet
A fragmentary dialogue voice references Yorick and Hamlet with odd spellings. The readable lines hint at a nightly event and the town noticing performances. The text preserves a noisy, experimental feel with cryptic comments about the mesk grees and grapefruit.
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Yorick Hamm
Vearby Belles Estion On Butter and Cheese Consumption
Readable lines report butter and cheese consumption with figures showing percentage shares and pounds per person. It notes higher cheese intake and compares to earlier data, referencing averages and per person amounts.
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Vearby
Local notes from Elgin and West Union area
Ruby and Zella Boyle spent the week end in Walter Kohis home. Various residents report illnesses visits and family news. A ten pound girl Lydia Marie was born November 8 to Ole Reierson and wife. John Jr. Falk operated for appendicitis. Fred Matthys returned from Milwaukee after seven weeks in hospital. several residents traveled to Oelwe for a victory dinner and to Chicago for family matters.
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Ruby
Zella Boyle
Walter Kohis
Alfred Ruckdaschel
Geo. N. Schori
Ed C. Olsen
West Union
John Etter
Balts Kamm
Ole Reierson
Lydia Marie
Celia Rennison
Louise Sehori
Eliza Habeger
Louise Schock
Gander
Fred Reichert
Irvin Etter
Wadena
Elgin
Jacob Schaer
Rock Valley
R. W. Muehlenthaler
Charles Capper
Nella J. Capper
Oelwe
Democratic
John Jr. Falk
West Union Hospital
Wolf
Ella Lehman
A. M. Weibel and Sons
Chicago
Ray Heins
Fred Matthys
Milwaukee
Wis
B. J., Baumgartner
Sy Alberkj Sehori
Minneapolis
Danger in Size in Beating Back Threats with Shotgun
A fragment from the Washington Star quotes Uncle Eben urging restraint and warning against overreaching, saying danger lies in becoming too big to avoid risking confrontation as he cautions about using force to chase away intruders.
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Eben
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Tom Baldwin
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