Annual picnic draw in Clay Township attendees noted
The 11th annual picnic was held with fine weather and numerous attendees including Mr. and Mrs. N Rosenberger and son Charles Musatine Miss Alma Sharp Keota Mrs Alvena Mann Stone and daughter Katherine Cedar and Mrs Addie Furston Martha and Mildred Edmorson Rainsworth Miss Martha Meacham Sac City Mrs T H Morgan Shenandoah and many others. A. W. Woodford hauled hogs to Chicago. Social events featured Odd Fellows Rebekahs installation at Ollie and Friends quarterly meetings at Rubio with ministers from Oskaloosa Pleasant Plain Richland and Rubio conducting services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
PB. Johnson
Oskaloosa
M. L. Sargent
Centerville
Cora Jonse Slatterly
Jack
Mary E. Hyde
G. P. Judson
Ray Parcell
Fairfield
Buelah Hafferty Massee
James
Helen
Helen Etawah Tenn.; Mr. and Mrs. N. Rosenberger and Son Charles, Musatine
Alma Sharp
Keota
Alvena Mann Stone
Katherine
Cedar
Addie Furston
Martha
Mildred Edmorson
Rainsworth
Martha Meacham
Sac City
T. H. Morgan
Shenandoah
A. W. Woodford
Chicago
A. J. Morgan
Ruth
C. D. Robinson
Ollie
Richland
Cora Slattery
J. Fray
Little
Irma Grinnell
W. O. Morgan
Rickett
E. S. Wolcott
Wolcott
Gertrude Reed
Deep River
P. J. Harken
Pauline
West
Friends Quarterly Meeting
Rubio
Whitely
Hutchin
Pleasant Plain
Hadley
Buchanan Township News Notes and Visit Highlights
Local residents report visitors from Milner Illinois and Des Moines. Families tour for the Jefferson county fair and McCormick reunion details. Elmer Davis remodels his home while Frank McCormick baling hay and several relatives plan attendance at the Hisel reunion at the Prince home. No. 5 schoolhouse receives fresh paint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kampmeir
Milner
Ill
Jefferson County
Mahlon McCormick
Elsie
Cecil Green
Chautauqua
Once McCormick
Z. E. Prince
Elmer Davis
Charlie James
Raymond Holgate
Arthur Schwarm
McCormick
John Lenhart
Des Moines
C. L. Holgate
van Buren County
J. S. Droz
Cedar Township
Prince Home
Frank McCormick
Baling
Art Burr
Batavia
Mary Parker
Paul Plum
Grinnell
No. 5
Fairfield visitors and lectures fill local social calendar
Blackhawk Miss Lida Beck of Fairfield visited friends in the neighborhood Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Summers and Mr. and Mrs. Harley Aid attended Herbert Cope’s chautauqua lecture Monday. Miss Silence of Marshalltown visits Mrs. Moyer for several days. J Bert Babcock family of Fairfield called on Mr. and Mrs. Robi King Sunday. Wm. Spencer recovering well after appendicitis surgery last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Spencer of Des Moines visit Mrs. Wm. Spencer.
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Blackhawk
Lida Beck
Fairfield
Wm. Summers
Harley Aid
Herbert Cope
Chautauqua
Miss Silence
Marshalltown
Moyer
Bert Babcock
Robi. King
Wm. Spencer
Clarence Spencer
Des Moines
Piano Tuning Services Visit Fairfield
Pianist E J Eisenhart announces piano tuning work in Fairfield from August 29 to September 6. Leave orders at Leggett House or Sheffer's Music Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairfield
Leggett House
Sheffer’s
E. J. Eisenhart
Focusing Lights Cause Annoyance and Adjustment Tips
The article explains headlight focus as a common annoyance for motorists. It describes adjustable lamp holders and lock nuts to alter bulb distance from the reflector, and notes some cars include built in adjustment while others require bending lamp supports with a wrench to correct tilt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. V. Relma
Changing Tires For Maximum Mileage In Four Way Rotation
The practice favors using a spare to rotate tires starting at the right front and moving around the car. Each tire then gains a week of rest to be inspected and vulcanized for any cuts or abrasions.
Automobile Gossip Across Nations and Education
Automobile dealers in the United States exceed 25 000. Belgium has 23 000 registered motor vehicles, fewer than Wyoming's tally. Uruguay shows growing popularity of American cars for economy and style. New York University adds automobile transportation to industrial engineering studies as a pioneering university course. In Baluchistan, remains of a giant land animal reveal a long neck like a giraffe, with bones suggesting immense size and a single enormous tooth remains.
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Belgium
Wyoming
New York University
Baluchistan
The Modern Poet in His Unlikely Portrait
A satirical sketch describes a man with long hair, a flowing necktie, baggy trousers, and dandruff on the coat collar. It mocks him as a poet by noting his unintelligible writing lacking sense or music.
Not Time Yet but Worthwhile Work Remains
The passage contrasts delaying leisure with earning worth through meaningful effort. It emphasizes that one earns the right to relax only after accomplishing something of value, urging steady progress over idle moments and suggesting discipline leads to eventual reward.
The Heart as a Mighty Engine
An excerpt explains the heart’s power using Napoleon’s measured pulse and calculations from Scientific American. It notes a heart beating 75 times a minute expels 10 cubic inches per beat, totals about 45 cubic inches per hour, over 1,000,000 per day, and roughly 7,000 tons yearly. It compares four chambers and the energy of the left ventricle to raise 90 feet and to fill a large tank with 1,700,000 gallons annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scientific American
Arab Horses Demonstrate Endurance In 1919 300 Mile Test
A 1919 300 mile endurance test from Fort Ethan Allen Vermont to Camp Devens Massachusetts saw a pure-bred Arab mare named Ramla win in 57 hours 26 minutes and 30 seconds. Kingfisher finished second, a mix of Arab and thoroughbred, followed by another pure Arab mare in third and a three quarters Arab dam of Kingfisher in fourth.
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Fort Ethan Allan
Vermont
Camp Devens
Massachusetts
Ramla
Kingfisher
H. K. Bush-Brown
Journal of Heredity
Hearst
International
Mad as a March Hare origin tied to animal fits
The Cleveland Plain Dealer explains the phrase Mad as a March Hare stems from hares’ March mating season when they have fits causing wild, irrational behavior. It notes the term refers to temporary irrationality, not permanent insanity, linked to hares in England Belgium and elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis Carroll
England
Belgium
Cleveland Plain Dealer
First Papier Mache The Invention and Spread of a Durable Paper
The piece traces papier mache from Martin of Nuremberg who made the first snuff boxes about 1740, to Lefevre who taught the method, Baskerville who popularized it in 1745, and the subsequent rise of English and American industries breaking German monopoly. It notes the craft’s global diffusion and economic impact.
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Martin
Nuremberg
Lefevre
Baskerville
Birmingham
England
America
Red Honey and Bees in Brazil
A Brazilian wasp yields red poisonous honey and a stingless bee offers sour honey from some flowers and better quality from sanitary blossoms. Honey is an ancient food tied to bee-keeping as an old global industry. Europeans used honey medicinally long before sugar rose in value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brazil
Europe
Farmyard Party Inspires a Swimming Feud of No-Shows
In the farmyard tale Sir David Duck hosts a hot weather swimming party inviting cows hens roosters chickens pigs goat and dog Dash plus ducks and Mrs Indian Runner Duck. Many refuse or delay with humorous excuses while the ducks cheerfully accept, yielding a mixed but playful event and a successful party despite refusals.
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Daddy
Nancy
Nick
David Duck
Quack
Sir David Duck
Sir David
Sir William Goat
Dash
Bowwow
Why Berlin Is Called the Most Dissipated City
The joke rests on Berlin’s constant presence on the Spree river. The quip labels the city as highly dissipated because it is always on the water, a pun linking geography to a playful trait.
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Berlin
Europe
Like a Honeysuckle
A playful rhyme compares the letter A to a honeysuckle as a bee follows it, linking letters and buzzing imagery in a light verse.
A Nice Toy for Tots Use in Kitchen Play
A short line of narrow rope or twine is strung in a corner of the kitchen or nursery. Three to four feet long, it invites children aged three or four to hang up clothes with clothespins on old fabric scraps, mimicking mother’s chores.
How to Loosen Tight Can Lids with Twine and Pencil
A quick home tactic explains tying stout twine under the can cover and twisting a pencil to lift the lid as the twine tightens. The method is described as making the lid come away readily. Also a note that Leber's offers double mesh hair nets.
Pencils Pens and Ink at Leber's Chair Silencers
In rooms where the floor lacks carpet the sound of moving chairs causes noise. A remedy is felt rounds glued to chair feet, cut from old hats or floor remnants. These tips let chairs move quietly even on hard surfaces.
Pencil Tablets at Leber's Moon Hollow Boundaries
Moon Hollow marks the tri state border point where New York Vermont and Massachusetts meet near Leber's with notes of pencil tablets and Toilet Soaps sold at the store.
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Leber’s
Moon Hollow
New York
Vermont
Massachusetts
Shell-Cracking Bird of Eastern Africa
A description of the open-bill or shell bis, a long-legged bird with a powerful beak that cannot close in the middle. It feeds on frogs and fishes, but its favorite food is freshwater molluscs whose shells it crushes with its strong bill.
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Africa
Origin of Idaho Name Tied to Gem of the Mountains
The name Idaho comes from a Shoshone word meaning The gem of the mountains. It refers to the brightness of the sun on the state’s mountain peaks.
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Idaho
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Buchanan Township
the Tribune
United States
Boston
Uruguay
Poet
Arab Horse
Daren
Zaham
Eerur
Porky Pig
Pinky Pig
Sammy Sausage
Brother Bacon
William Goat
Wiliam Goat
David
Le_ber’s
Osborn
Aronson
Teeter & John
Zillman
City Bus & Transfer
Wilson
East Burlington St
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