Clermont Echoes in Abusy Week of News and Newsmen
Clermont's social life and nearby travels fill a week with visitors from Ossian Chicago Madison and Cedar Rapids. Local families report trips medicals goiters and surgeries at Rochester Mayo and St Marys while church events, a store sale, and a farewell for Mrs Lillian Johnson cap the schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert Hanson
Hartland
Minn
Mildred
Bernice
Carl Johnson
L. A. Kneeland
J. J. McManus
Ossian
Joseph McManus
Chicago
Karl Ritcher
Dorothy
Madison
Dak
Chew
Oskaloosa
Alfred Miller
J. W. Horan
Clermont
Lillian Johnson
Cattle Breeders Plan Fall Sales
The Guernsey breeders set October 9 for a sale at the W H Clothier farm south of Fayette with about 50 head in the consign ment including 40 to 60 females and 10 to 16 males. The Holstein sale has a history of success and is expected to be similarly strong this year though details await finalization.
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Guernsey and Holstein Breeders Association
Guernsey
W. H. Clothier
Fayette
Ito
Healthy Region Healthiest Country Claim
A fragmented report states New Zealand as the healthiest country. It cites life expectancy figures with men at 62 years and women at 65 years, though the text is incomplete and lacks full context.
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New Zealand
Wisdom Whispers From Common Parlance and Proverbized Truths
A compact collection of aphorisms and dicta on honor virtue time love and self restraint. Notable lines include warnings about pride debt caution in generosity and the value of lasting friendship over marble monuments. The voice blends humor with moral guidance in a dated reflective tone.
Palmistry Prediction Prompted by Hand Reading
A playful exchange as a suitor named George boasts of palm reading. He claims foreseeing a friend would soon gain money and that, before leaving, the friend received a useful sum. The fragment highlights a lighthearted street conversation about fortune telling.
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George
Ag Isamily
Monkeys Undergoing Dentistry At University Of California
Twelve husky grinning monkeys are in the college of dentistry at the University of California for teeth straightening. Kept to observe how diet affects teeth, their teeth resemble children’s in number and types. Unlike kids, the monkeys enjoy visits, craning their heads back and opening their mouths cheerfully as dentists work.
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Dentic
College of Dentistry
University of California
Airliner Parachute System Proposed by Institute of Patentees
The institute of patentees of England suggests life saving ideas for air travel including equipping every passenger with a parachute and designing the fuselage bottom as a hinged flap that can drop to release passengers one by one like birds from a basket when the pilot faces serious trouble.
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Institute of Patentees of England
Not Many of Them Lady to Cook Dialogue
A brief exchange between a woman and a cook about names and affection. The cook notes Timotheus as a rare sweetheart name, saying only two others shared it. The dialogue centers on flattery and social nuance in naming.
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Cook
Timotheus
College Visitor Compliments Dressing Rooms at Stadium
A visitor praises the dressing rooms attached to the football stadium while a professor corrects that the rooms belong to the college buildings, prompting a brief exchange about facility design and campus infrastructure.
Doctor finds cure for blushing, woman palett advances
Such So Fate Wifle reports in London that a physician has discovered a cure for blushing. Bobby sits out as luck turns away. Women now palett better than ever, signaling social shifts.
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Wifle
London
Bobby
Incressed Their Thirst Wife Bees Attack Run Run
A humorous Pearson's item notes a wife fleeing from bees after an attack on her husband. The quip highlights the husband scolding to stop calling him honey as the bees drive them to distraction.
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Pearson
Old Law Proved How All the Movies Can Get Over Without Dialogue
A Louisville Courier Journal item notes a maxim that actions speak louder than words, suggesting early film-makers could convey story and emotion without dialogue. The quote anchors a broader reflection on silent storytelling and audience understanding.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Sidewalks and Drives for Attractive Homes
Guidance from the Architects' Small House Service Bureau on designing home grounds. Emphasizes curved pavements, terraced fronts, and driveways with full width slabs or parallel strips with curbing. Recommends six inch slabs eight to ten feet wide, one inch crown, proper foundation, and integration with the lawn for durable, attractive results.
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Rby
Architects' Small House Service Bureau of the United States, Inc
Tree Lined Highways Worth the Cost
Cincinnati city manager urges planting and caring for trees along streets while Indianapolis trims them. The piece argues against wholesale removal and advocates shading roads with trees, noting comfort and beauty, cost considerations, and the value of urban greenery.
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Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Move to Beautify Roads Grant Boosts Highway Plantings
The act passed by Congress allows the federal government to cover half the cost of roadside planting along federal aid highways. The public impetus grows from club and social organization efforts, and improvements should appear on main interstate roads soon. Bureau of Public Roads notes 26 states lack lawn governing along highways with many of the rest offering only mediocre lane developments.
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Congress
Wotme
Bureau of Public Roads
United States Department of Agriculture
Importance of Roofing in Architectural Style
A reflection on Ruskin’s words about roofs shaping both mind and eye. The article notes a shift from viewing the roof as mere shelter to seeing it as a core element of architectural form. It highlights how structure and materials now receive greater design attention from leading architects and successful builders.
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Ruskin
Trees Replace Billboards In Hawaii By Women Group
Coconut and poinciana trees along Hawaii streets replace old billboards after a vigorous campaign by a women’s organization, the Outdoor Circle. Once billboards crowded the islands, activists pulled them down, then planted trees to beautify the landscape.
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Hawaii
It Isn't Being Done
A terse remark notes a jest about stealing silk stockings, with a line about hiding them under a skirt and a quip that the act is out of style. The exchange preserves a period voice and comic tone from the clipped fragment.
Make Home Attractive Involve lawn and flowers at show
The homely dwelling can be made appealing with a pretty lawn and attractive flowers. Join Gil for a year and enter the Gordon club's flower show while helping Oswego become the "City Beautiful."
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Gorden Club
Oswego
Western Clackating
Lutheran and West Clermont Church Notes
English divine service at 10 and Norwegian at 11 at Highland Church. Mission Society to meet at Mrs. Ole Torkelson’s Elgin home Friday. West Clermont hosts Sept 19 with Mrs. Stolle, Mrs. Anfinson, and Mrs. Anderson as hostesses. Echo and Telegraph Herald subscription deal offered at the Echo Office.
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Highland Church
The
Mission Society
Ole Torkelson
Elgin
West Clermont
Harry Stolle
Kernel Anfinson
A. C. Anderson
G. Gunsten
Earliest musical notation traced to ancient cultures
The text notes that early notation appeared among the Hindus and Chinese, with knowledge also among the Greeks. It credits the modern system to the Italian inventor Guido d Arezzo and his concept of staff notation.
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Arezzo
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Trené-Tatro
Iowa City
Esther Sampson
Lars Sampzer
John Burke
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Dan Burke
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Lew Rounds
Martin Bakken
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M. & E. Department of the Central States Power Co
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Wm. Smith
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St. Mary’s Hospital
James Boyle
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J. H. Sheehan
Nelle Cavanaugh
G. E. Dibble
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Carol and
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Herman Webb
Andy Sanders
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F. K.' . White
Louis Olson
Ella Washburn
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Maria Hoffman
Mrs. C. A. Hoffman
Luella Miller
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Grover
Upper Iowa University
East Lutherat Church
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C. H. Holm
Eagle Grove
George Smith
Hijalmar Meckelnon
Tom Cummings
Frank Fay
Margaret Clark
W. A.kneeland
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S. A. C. Larson
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Albert T. Reid
Fred
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Austor
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Lutheran Church Notes
Telegraph-Herald
Echo
Elgin Echo
Dubuque
Optometrist
Walt Apm
O. W. Heiserman
West Union, Iowa
Clermont Business Directory
DR. I. C. Jerdee
Clermont State Bank
L. L. Carr
Farmers Savings Bank
R. V. Brandt
Xray Painless Extracting Office
Farmers Savings Bnk
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N. H. Nelson
Freiburghaus & Company
G. H. Hackman
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