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Newspaper
Emmetsburg Democrat
Location
Emmetsburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1916
Page
3
A Tuesday Educational Committee meeting outlined plans to organize a night school for local youth and adults in Algona. If enough interest exists, post holiday instruction will cover spelling arithmetic penmanship business correspondence and salesmanship.
Lew Heffelfinger, longtime Armstrong clerk of courts, buys the C Ogilvie grocery in Armstrong and will operate it in person. He moved from Armstrong to Estherville and brings a host of friends from there.
The Congregational church ladies bazaar and chicken pie supper last Friday drew over 450 dollars in receipts with goods remaining unsold. Sibley Tribune notes the strong turnout and record earnings for the event.
An elderly city resident, speaking to a reporter under anonymity, offers guidance on beauty. She praises looks as assets, warns against artificial enhancements, and promotes natural routines and fresh foods. She notes mirrors distort self-perception and that fatigue creates wrinkles.
A Pocahontas Democrat warns a young man that alcohol and gambling do not grow wealth. He urges the man to quit and let his wife manage the stake, arguing that integrity yields greater, lasting gains than social approval.
President Arthur Hunter of the Actuary Society of America told the Association of Life Insurance Presidents in New York that cancer is not contagious nor hereditary. After years of study and examining thousands of cases, he expressed cautious optimism for families affected by the disease.
Dr. T. L. Long of Winnebago Wisconsin and three doctors sue Webster county for $600 for services in the John Butler murder trial. Butler was adjudged insane and confined in the asylum. The physicians claim $100 daily each plus expenses. supervisors are not to blame for denying payment.
A Jefferson boy bragged he could drink 42 bottles of orangeade from seven in the morning to eight in the evening. Each bottle held seven ounces and he kept refreshments under control at 4 15 pm. He consumed 21 pints, a feat suggesting he should not run a refreshment stand.
The Interstate Commerce Commission adopts strict rules for unloading freight cars. After the third day the demurrage charge rises to five dollars per day. The regulation aims to address the ongoing car shortage and result in quicker freight handling.
Announcement lists one day only with hours from 8 30 a m to 4 30 p m each 28 days letters to be addressed to Dr I F Shallenberger 6B Oakwood Biva Chicago TLL办
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