Community Notes Highlight Wadena Area Visits and Meetings
The Wadena community reports numerous social visits and local events. The American Legion Auxiliary met at Mrs. Pearl Johnsons with Mrs. Mildred Minihan assisting. Residents traveled to Lehigh and Livingston Wisconsin for conferences and family visits. Many households hosted guests from West Union Arlington Janesville and Minneapolis, with church and presbytery plans noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
American Legion Auxiliary
Pearl Johnson
Mildred Minihan
C. C. Corbin
West Union
Ella Jennings
Clarence Randall
A. A. Randall
Vera Fish
Lehigh
Livingston
Wis
Sherman Ward
Minneapolis
Minn
H. E. Johnson
Esther
Oelwein
Clyde Bond
Leo Schriver
Grover Davis
Arlington
T. Johnson
Robert Bond
Robert Bigler
Knut Evenson
Clermont
Irvin Etter
Coleen
Janesville
Geo. Jones
Lea Metcalf
Stanley
Julia Miller
Adrian Miller
H. C. Rundell
Littleton
Otterville
Archie Brooks
Fox
Roy Cline
H. H. Whitcher
Myr
D. B. Jellings
Cedar Rapids
Lyle Jones
Joe O'Hara
Matt Frey
George Lewis
Will Follensbee
Will Dempster
Dubuque
Katie Rittenhouse
C. L. Klingman
Carroll Klingman
W. F. Moore
Ira Moore
Volga City
F. J. Schroeder
A. H. Mitchell
Elgin
Mission Society of the U. B. Church
Anna Wilcox
Tom Baldwin
Katherine
Morrie Dwyer
Matt
Bloomington
Wadena School Notes Highlight Student Achievements
Primary room shows three weeks of perfect attendance while the traveling library from Des Moines adds new titles. Several students across grades achieve 100 percent in spelling and geography lessons progress with an Africa trip concept. Sophomore officers elected Kathryn Baldwin president Lois Matthys vice president and Gertrude Frey secretary treasurer.
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Des Moines
Lee Ruschliman
Maxine Bond
Betty Ruth Johnson
Blanche Johnson
Lucy Jones
Mary Jennings
Neema Weber
Phyllis Roberts
Vivian Minihan
Mary Kennedy
Africa
Ayers
Kathryn Baldwin
Lois Matthys
Gertrude Frey
Siamese Twins of Industry and Labor Phrase Harmony
A quotation likens capital and labor to Siamese twins. if one is sick both die. It stresses mutual dependence and urges a balanced view, noting industry and labor rely on each other as a newborn babe on its mother for sustenance.
Unclear Eye Contact Recounts in Local Prose
The Washington Star quote describes Uncle Eben contrasting a man who merely looks you in the eye with a meaner figure who stares to hypnotize you away from the danger he is presenting. It captures a dialectal voice and a cautionary frame about deception and attention.
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Eben
Uncle Eben
Washington Star
Bloodless Revolution in Germany Ends Monarchy
The German republic was established after a largely peaceful change in government, though some street fighting occurred in Berlin and other cities. The overhaul is noted as bloodless due to minimal armed conflict.
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German Republic
Berlin
Painful Ailments In Newsprint Style From The Kansas City Star
A brief humorously grim note cites dwindling cases of knee ailment due to household labor savers while highlighting frequent reports of check writer's cramp fallen palms and installment book thumb in everyday life.
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Noousenaid
Kansas City Star
First Beefsteak Club Linked to Queen Anne Era
The early eighteenth century founding of a Beefsteak Club is cited as the first such society. It gathered the nation’s chief wits and great men, bearing a gridiron badge as its emblem.
Picturesque Spot Delaware Water Gap North of Philadelphia
Picturesque Spot Delaware Water Gap lies about 108 miles north of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. The summer resort is named for its scenic gorge noted for picturesque scenery. In winter the river often piles up ice to a height of about 20 feet.
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Delaware Water Gap
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Classified Some People Are Born Failures
A brief classified item notes differing outlooks on success including misfortune and beliefs about beating Wall Street, reflecting a column from the Atlanta Constitution with opinion tone and local newspaper cadence.
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Wall Street
Atlanta Constitution
Hope Hope: A Guide Through Night’s Deepest Grief
The excerpt presents Hope Hope as a steadfast guide through grief, contrasting practical care with sorrow and prayer. It frames resilience amid darkness, suggesting supportive paths through loss as a theme. The tone resembles reflective magazine prose from mid-tone literary essays.
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Hope Hope
Porous Skin Factoid Report Misprint
A truncated science blurb discusses human skin pores. It states adults have about seven million pores and that their combined length would reach twenty seven miles if laid end to end.
Shape Your Own Destiny Dietetics Motto
A brief line notes a magazine motto arguing you cannot eat cake and have it all. the aphorism reflects a lifestyle counseling stance from Path Onder Magazine. The snippet frames dietary balance as a personal choice impacting outcomes.
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Onder Magasine
Gathered Jokes and Quips from Campus Laughs and Driving Bits
A patchwork of humorous lines and playful wordplays from college life and everyday items. Jokes touch on dentists driving bargains and the season’s maple sugar chatter, with quips about missing neighbors and a sick man in Europe finding humor in illness.
Backfiring in Warfare Invents Rear-Firing Aiming Device
A twenty year old Oxford engineer has devised a system allowing single seat fighters to fire rearward. Reflex mirror sights and a rear gun enable the pilot to aim by looking into a cockpit mirror. A series of reflections, heated and wiped, transmits the image to the sight mirror for firing.
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Oxford
Electric Global Phenomenon Attributed to Earth Charge
Dr. C. H. Gish of the Carnegie Institution reports to the American Geophysical Union on a world spanning electrical phenomenon occurring between 6 and 8 p m eastern time. The event relates to the earths electrical charge which peaks during these hours though the exact cause remains unknown. Atmospheric electricity studies reveal a fluctuating charge and suggest a universal time pattern for these changes.
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American Geophysical Union
C. H. Gish
Carnegie Institution
Doctor Gish
Floral wedding decor uses twenty three thousand blooms in Carlisle
The wedding of Miss Angela Scott-Nicholson and Thomas Strong lit St. Cuthbert's church Carlisle with 23000 blooms including 20000 daffodils and 3000 tulips plus hundreds of white crocuses. The bridal party wore honey and pale topaz gowns to match the floral scheme.
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St. Cuthbert’s Church
Carlisle
England
An-gela Scott-Nicholson
Thomas Strong
Citizens' Kindly Deed Aided Northcliffe in Michigan
Joseph Northcliffe, 24, of Menominee Michigan received more than 450 dollars in a community drive to fund artificial feet clothing and a homeward ticket to Coarne wold California. His feet were frozen during a cross country hike and doctors reported recovery hampered by despondency after his relatives could not help.
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Joseph Northcliffe
Menominee
Mich
Coarnewold
Calif
Unclear dialogue about a dentist and a press agent
A fragmentary exchange discusses Doctor Howler, a criticized dentist, and Mr Platter defending someone who collects debts. The conversation shifts to a press agent described as an idealist rather than a realist, with mentions of an unidentified star and the notion of an “Unhindered Imagination.”
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Spiittz
Doctor Howler
Mr. Platter
Preas
Presa
Courtship Card Talk By Hoyla Explains The Game
Hoyla asserts courtship is a game of cards with a girl holding a heart, a man adopting it with a diamond, and then claiming her hand as the prize. The lines imply transactional charm in romance and the symbolic use of gems in pledges.
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Hoyla
Signe of Dinner Reflects Odd Dinner Alignments
A fragment from the Chicago Daily News presents a quirky dialogue about dinner alignment. A speaker notes no eyeing of dinner, while another stands with a can opener as the grocer’s boy rings the back-door bell.
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Chicago Daily News
City denizens thrill in blasts for new skyscraper
Curious New Yorkers watch as workmen drill through rocky subsurface to prepare foundations for a new skyscraper. Dynamite is placed into holes, a steam shovel covers the hole with a steel carpet, a cloud of dust rises, and a blast shakes nearby buildings as the carpet lifts the debris.
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New York Times
Heard in the Crowd Wiseadages and social fables mix
A fragmented column of aphorisms and quips on life, publicity, trust, and manners. It strings together maxims about marriage, ambition, patience, language, and human foibles, labeling social behavior with humorous observations. The piece reads as a late night prevalent voice of advice and satire.
Luxuries for Hunters Johnny Jones Guides Wealthy Tours
Johnny Jones, a Yukon big game guide based in Skagway, carries a bathtub and a French book among gear for wealthy tourists. He runs 30 to 60 day trips, with a string of forty horses at headquarters, and emphasizes top camp comfort including a stove, bath tub, French cooks, and a slang helper.
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Johnny Jones
Yukon
Jones
Wilds
Skagway
New Year's party resolutions reveal a man
In an interview Governor Rolph advised a cub reporter that listening to a man’s New Year’s resolutions at a party reveals his true character and what to expect from him, a tip humorously noted in the Los Angeles Times.
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Rolph
Cub
Gitla
Chen
Los Angeles
Feeding the Feline Hostess and Gambler’s Wife Exchange
A lighthearted exchange from the Boston Transcript features a cat joke about a cat in the household and a quip about a spouse's attention. The dialogue includes a farmer remarking on a hired man as an invention and a play on words about inventions and abundance.
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Bill
Boston Transcript
Corntessel
British Undertakers official criticized for upbeat business forecast
An official of the British Undertakers association faced press criticism after a speech predicting brighter business prospects. The remark sparked debate about industry outlook and market conditions.
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Bad Bresk
The
British Undertakers Association
Fraidy Cate And The New Lolly Ways Impasse
A brief note from The Country Home notes a quirky tale titled Fraidy Cate facing a challenge. the piece hints at whimsical folly and evolving remedies for a faint heart amid curious modern lollipop trends.
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