Clermont Enterprise masthead and edit notes
Clermont Enterprise publishes each Thursday from Clermont Iowa with Mrs H B Greenley as local editor. The paper lists membership in the Iowa Press Association and National Editorial Association and notes it is entered in the Clermont post office as second class mail matter.
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H. B. Greenley
Iowa Press Association
National Editorial Association
Clermont
Fayette County
Iowa
Clermont Area Social Notes and Local Visits
The two year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Raymond Drewes is ill with pneumonia. Mr and Mrs Dan Butler of Oelwein visited the Frank Pringle home. Frieda Adams of Volga spent a week in the W R Sperry home. Mr and Mrs Harry Clark of Rockford Illinois visited the Wesley Miller sr home. Mr and Mrs H R Young of Arlington called on the Franz Appelman home. Mabel Knudson went to Postville to judge flowers at the Tour County fair. Mr and Mrs George Washburn are moving to Hazelton. Louis Jacobson of Nora Springs underwent major surgery at Decorah Hospital. Mr and Mrs Harry Cline and family of West Union visited Fred Cline. George Whitmore of Los Angeles visited his grandparents the Washburns. Gretchen Pellner of Oelwein visited the Hendersons. Mrs M Dwyer returned to Oelwein after a visit.
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Harry Clark
Rockford, Ill
Wesley Miller, Sr
Oscar Lien
Anton Scholen
Louie Anderson
Ruth
Arthur Olson
Postville
Robert. Wharram
Halvor Olson
Albert
T. Helgerson
Canton
Martin Halverson
P. N. Peterson
Fern
DeAlta Baraas
Christ Nelson
Otto Warner
Weekend visitors and local notices from Clermont area
The item lists social visits to the Clermont region, including relatives from New Hampton McGregor and West Bend. weekend guests at multiple homes. a note on a social W. C. C. F. meeting October 11. a finger injury from chopping wood. and a baptism at the West Clermont Lutheran church for Doris Joan Larson. The piece mixes travel, attendance, and community events, reflecting small town life.
Edgewood Deep Well Drilling Near Bottom of Town Water Source
Edgewood’s town well work continues after almost three months with drillers at about 1150 feet. A four inch drill is being used alongside the lodged large drill, a second drill was lost briefly but mostly recovered, and a dynamite charge may be fired when the smaller drill reaches below the big one. Bottom sits just above sea level and water lies within 90 feet of the top. tests so far unsatisfactory to town officials.
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Edgewood Department
The
Strawberry Point Press-Journal
Community Socials and Visits Across Grand Meadow
Grand Meadow residents share weekend guest visits across multiple families in nearby Ossian Gunder and Canton. Numerous hosts include Olson Osmundson Landsgard Lyngaas and Sehoien families with steady church and school activity noted. A holiday fair in Postville drew teachers and pupils, while Fern Baraas and DeAlta Baraas recover from illness.
The Changing Times and Turn-of-the-Century Life
The piece contrasts power and influence with theft, recalls nostalgia for early 1900s life, and muses on social change. It cites shifts in technology, marriage norms, fashion, debt, and daily work, noting nostalgia for simpler days and asking for reasons to miss them.
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Schrier Brothers
Sehrier
Manson
Calhoun County
Sehriers
Willie
Henry
Monroe
Department of Agriculture
Congress
Chicago
Cleveland
Cincinnati
FOR A GOOD LAUGH Comic Fragments and Quick Jokes
A collage of quips and briefs from a 20th century humor column. Nonsense lines cover topics from art and future tastes to sports and daily work. Some exchanges hinge on wordplay and paradoxes, with a playful tone throughout.
Worse Than Goldenrod First Cannibal
A crypticUtterance hints at a sensational clash over cannibalism themed chaos. The chief confronts strange hunger rumors while a second figure questions a mysterious thinning event tied to a grass widow.
Actor Passenger In Quick Change Role
Paris to London Daily Telegraph reports a traveler on a Paris to west coast train stunned fellow passengers with a drastic costume change. An immaculate dresser returned in torn clothes and soiled shirt front claiming to be an acting troupe member en route to perform The Beggar at a coastal resort.
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Paris
London Daily Telegraph
Brat
Comedie Francaise
Inventions To Electrocute Insects By Vienna Doctor
A Viennese physician has developed two devices to kill insects with electric shocks. One converts a mosquito net into a harmless yet deadly contact electric belt requiring almost no current. The second attracts and electrocutes insects outdoors, targeting female mosquitoes that invade homes.
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Tropics
Dogs and cat inherit $20,000 trust fund in Chicago
Plutocrat Red a red shepherd and Peanuts a cat of uncertain lineage become beneficiaries of a $20,000 trust left by Mia Hunter to supply their needs. Upon the animals deaths the fund will go to the Anti Cruelty Society a dog refuge the Orphans of the Storm and the Home for Destitute and Crippled Children.
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Red
Peanuts
Chicago
Mia
Alice Hunter
Whale Meat Extract to Be Sold in Norway
A new process will bring whale meat extract to market in Norway. The extract, sourced from meat delivered by the Norwegian whaling fleet, is priced at eight cents per pound and intended for soups and other uses.
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Norway
Senator Sorghum Defers Money Question in Study Pause
In a brief exchange, Senator Sorghum avoids defining money terms saying he is not ready to answer and needs more study in higher mathematics and psychology. He cites ongoing research as the reason for his delay.
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Senator Sorghum
Fragmented Gus exchange over throne asks and refusals
A dialogue fragment shows Gus being urged to grant a king’s request. Daughter questions the condition and replies with a playful if uncertain challenge about whether the man must ask. The tone implies a test of authority and consent in a royal context.
Planning for Future Roads in Motor City Traffic
The article warns that growing motor car traffic in cities outpaces road design and parking rules. It calls for immediate, careful planning to build and widen streets to handle ongoing increases and avoid future congestion. It notes past city layouts ignored future needs and stresses proactive highway construction.
Arthur Brisbane Advocates Land Investment Stability
Arthur Brisbane, a noted newspaper writer, argues land remains the best and safest investment. He claims real property endures as part of the earth, whose stability is supported by scientists, with the earth existing for two thousand million years and good for as many more. Owning earth’s surface is described as the most precious heritage.
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Arthur Brisbane
Marshall editor Chesla Sherlock to speak on The New Deal and the Constitution
Chesla Sherlock of Marshall town and former Ladies' Home Journal editor will address Elkader tonight at the opera house. The talk titled The New Deal and the Constitution discusses current policies and constitutional questions.
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Chesla
Sherlock
Marshalltown
The
Ladies’ Home Journal
Elkader
Opera House
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Franz Appelman
Mabel Knudson
Tour County
George Washburn
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Louis Jacobson
Nora Springs
Decorah Hospital
Harry Cline
West Union
Fred Cline
George Whitmore
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Gretchen Pellner
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Clermont Directory
Clermont Nation’s Farm
J. A. Erickson, Sec’y-Treas
Federal Land Bank and Land Bank Commissioner’s Loans
Millard
J. O. Anderson General
Dr. R. ¥. Brandt
I. C. Jerdee
State Bank
L. L. Carr
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N. H. Nelson
G. H. Hackman
Cut Flowers
Lows
J. W. Crowe
V. F. White
Robert
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Maryan Halverson
Upper Iowa University
Mrs
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Lou Jones
Wayne Olson
Jessie Schuldt Af McGregor
E. L. Crowe Home
Mae Carlin
A.J. Priest
Nels Gilbert
Edwin Olson
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Clara Gerndi
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D. R. Cottrell
L. Lubben
Lydia
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Amos Wempen
Buffalo Center
Ervin Miller
Millard Bear
Herbie Schweinerus
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R. G. Wilson
Reuben Anliker
West Bend
Len Simek
Harold Larson
Herbert Larson
Cedar Rapids
Edwin Arnes
Conrad Arnes
Decorah
Edith Ostrander
J. C. Larson
West Clermont Lutheran Church
Doris Joan
Edgewood's Deep Well
Grand Meadow News
Sam Erickson
Florence
Lloyd Aanes
Clarence Olson
Quenton
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Anton Sehoien
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Princess Theatre
Jean Parker
James Dunn
Una Merkel
Peddies
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Irene Bentley
Will James
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