South Dakota women urged for hall of fame
A reader asks if South Dakota should name 12 famous women in a hall of fame. Ida Tarbell’s criteria categorize achievements into service, business, arts, and sports. Readers are invited to suggest women and outline their accomplishments for a weekly life and work review in the Aberdeen American News.
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South Dakota
Walt
Good Housekeeping
United States
Ida M. Tarbell
Tarbell
Mester Farm
Hornet
Aberdeen American News
Warren Z. Green
Slec
Jong
Axe
Caps
Capitol
Grace Coolidge
Huronite
Christmas lights brighten Camp bells park streets
Festive scenes along Da kota avenue show Christmas decorations in Camp bells park. Night displays glow from living trees and home windows as residents welcome visitors with bright lights and a warm, inviting atmosphere evoke memories of home and the season.
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Padre
Campbells Park
Dakota Avenue
Coronet epic romance spans centuries by Komroff
The Coronet traces the jeweled heirloom through the Burin family from 1600 to 1913 with episodes starting in the Italian Renaissance and moving through Napoleon’s Russia, World War I, and the Russian Revolution, ending in Chicago with purchase by a hog butcher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caroline Urvil
Manuel Komroff
Burin
Russia
Sally
Belen Perry Curtis
Women Plan Extension Banquet for Beadle County Club
Beadle County women extend plans for the annual extension banquet at the Huron NE church on January 13 at noon. Miss Sera L. Dewing announces club menus featuring fried chicken creamed potatoes baked beans and more with each club bringing dishes. Husbands are invited as special guests. A special program follows dinner with Mrs N E Harper Wolsey reading selections and a principal speaker yet unnamed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beadle County Women's Extension Club
Huron
Sera L. Dewing
Tome
Miss Dewing
Beauty Of Cut Glass Preservation Tips
Preserve the prisms of cut glass by careful washing. Use a soft brush with soap and hot water to restore sparkle. Avoid contact between pieces to prevent edge-mars. Clean interior of tall vases with soft paper and warm water, rinse, and air dry. Avoid hard substances that scratch delicate edges.
North Huron Women Share Holiday Party
The North Huron Home Extension club gathered at Mrs. R. Bard's home for a Christmas party last week. Entertainment by Mrs. Daum included a netting stocking game and memory riddles. A decorated tree with gifts, two assistants to Santa, and a potluck supper concluded the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Huron
North Huron Home Extension Club
R. Bard
Dakota Avenue North
Daum
Santa
Putbuck
Radiator Covers Use Fabric Draping With Cautions
An article notes attractive radiator covers made from fabric matching window drapes using heavy weave and bright patterns to enhance room decor. Professor Kratz warns cloth should not hang over edges, citing the homemaker's towel as a common obstruction when it hangs four to six inches below the top.
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A. P. Dratz
University of Illinois
Kratz
Hormewife
Christmas Seals Help Talented Iowa Boy Win
Iowa TB sanatorium patient William Lee Burton, a radio fan, gains national attention after writing "The Headline Hunter" for the Stethoscope and receiving a greeting from Freyd Gibbons on a national hookup. The Christmas Seals drive supports his battle against tuberculosis while highlighting the struggles of ex-service members and others in sanatoriums. Burton’s path from high school to Washington, D.C., and back to Iowa illustrates the hopeful, grueling fight against the Great White Plague.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Hazel Christoffersen
Willian Lee Burton
Iowa State Sanatorium
Dwight S. Anderson
National Tuberculosis Association
Burton
Treaatorium
Freyd Gibbons
Senatorium Magaine
Gibbons
Bill
Nat
Wally
The Watchers By William Lee Burton
A wartime inspired profile of William Lee Burton detailing his struggle with illness, recovery, and his rise as a writer. It notes his return to work in Washington, experiments at Iowa and Oskaloosa, two operations, and his subsequent editorial and writing work. The piece highlights Burton as a beacon for other patients and his poem The Watchers gaining wide newspaper pickup. It also mentions praise from John T. Frederick and Floyd Gibbons and links to the National Tuberculosis Association efforts.
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Washington
Edward Livingston Trodeau
United States
Iowa
Oskdsle
Burton
Wester
John T. Frederick
Midland
Chicago
Frederick
Senatorium
Ceder Rapids
Geretta
Manitorium
Poe
National Tuberculosis Association
Floyd Gibbons
Burion
Othen
Christmas Dinner Menu Second Prize Winner in National Contest
Christmas dinner menu by Mise Bernice Rinker of Grand Ridge wins $25 in the National Wide Bureau Farmex contest. The menu includes fruit cocktail roast turkey with dressing and candied sweet potatoes, creamed cauliflower, cranberry salad, cloverleaf rolls, lemon milk sherbet, and sponge cake. Detailed recipes describe a full holiday meal and decoration ideas.
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Mise Bernice Rinker
Grand Ridge
Ams
Nation Wide Bureau
Farmex
Service Department
The
American Farm Bureau
Federal
Miss Rinker
Imperial Palace Tops Week Best Seller List
The latest weekly best sellers include fiction titles Imperial Palace by Amos Bennett Philippa by Anne Douglas Sedgwick The Water Gipsies by A P Herbert Twenty Four Hours by Louis Brom Held Cakes and Ale by W Somerset Maugham Staying With Relations by Rose Macaulay In non fiction Little America by Richard E Bird The Lives of a Bengal Lancer by F Yeats Brown Memories and Vagaries by Axel Munthe Frederick The Great by Victor Thaddeus The Sins of New York by Edward Van Every Peter Arno Hullabaloo by Peter Arno
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Imperial Palace
Amos Bennett
Philippa
Anne Douglas Sedgwick
A. P. Herbert
F. Yeats Brown
Axel Munthe
Frederick the Great
Victor Thaddeus
New York
Edward van Every
Peter Arnos Hullabaloo
Peter Arno
Christmas pudding recipes win honors in Huronite contest
Mrs. O D Dunbar of 1252 Hinds Avenue Southwest offers a Christmas pudding recipe with suet raw carrot and potatoes plus currants and molasses, steamed for three hours and served with rich brown sauce. Mrs. R Deyo of 225 Simmons provides an Old English plum pudding using suet currants raisins eggs milk spices and a two and a half hour boil, served with white sauce.
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0. D. Dunbar
R. Deyo
Old Home
O. D. Dunbar
Hinds Avenue
Dunbar
Simmons
England
Spare Excitement and Endowment Aid Mentioned
A cautionary note urges guardians to shield young children from crowds and excess stimulation after a holiday. The piece also notes the Duke Endowment contributed 53167 to support Methodist churches in the South in 5B.
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Duke
South
Grandma Nabor Reflects On Christmas Traditions And Values
Grandma Nabor speaks of a trimmed Christmas tree and family effort to prepare it. She recalls home memories of church bells, modest celebrations, and the balance between giving and heartfelt care over consumer excess. She notes Christmas as a time to heal faults and spread love, despite commerce.
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Hazel
Christoffersen
Grandma Nabor
Henry
Mother's
Huron Club Wins Free Brookings Farm Trip
The Huron Extension club, led by Mrs. Ed Stitt, earns a free trip to Farm and Home Week in Brookings as the top club for the 1931 project based on membership gains. Transportation costs for one member from the largest club were funded by the county organization. Second place goes to Mrs. Roy Du Bois’ Wolsey club with six new members. third to Mrs. J. J. Miller’s club.
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Huron Club
Brookings
Huron Extension Club
Ed Stitt
Sara L. Dewing
Roy du Bois
Wolsey
Mra. J. J. Miller
Beadle Women To Attend 4-H Meet
Local leaders from 4H clubs in Central South Dakota plan to attend the Seventh Annual Junior Short Course at State College December 26 to 31. About 500 or more club members and local leaders are expected to participate with committees forming on aims, standards, camps, exhibits, prizes, meetings, and trips.
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South Dakota
State College
H. ML ‘Jones
Dees i
Hazel Christoffersen
Huvonite
Spink County
Hazel Grayce Tollefson
Wesley Platte
Om Hand County
Mable Crossman
Beadle County
Bert,Marks
Huron
N. E. Harper
Wolsey
R. J. Merry
Moody County
P. Brassfield
Hamlin County
Huron club adds five members to reach thirty nine
Bonilla announces five new members joining the Huron club bringing total to 39. The group will vote for the delegate who will receive the trip.
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Bonilla
Huron Club
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