Local social notes from Omaha and Hop k ine Missouri
Andy Nielsen and Junior of Omaha arrived Friday evening and stayed through Saturday. Mr and Mrs L B Harkless hosted dinner Sunday. Guests included Mr and Mrs Theo Jackson, Mr Kevin Thompson and Mrs Jeff Hall of Hopkine Missouri.
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Andy Nielsen
Junior
Omaha
Dag
L. B. Harkless
Theo Jackson
Kevin Thompson
Jeff Hall
Hopkine
Missouri
Miss Helen Kelly Visits Camas Parents Saturday
Miss Helen Kelly of Camas Washington returns home Saturday to visit her parents Mr and Mrs Elmore Ally.
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Helen Kelly
Camas
Washington
Mera Elmore Ally
Oak Hill and area residents host weekend gatherings
A series of social visits and family dinners are reported around Oak Hill Hopkins Carlisle Gravity and Villisca. Notable mentions include Dwayne Byrn leaving for the navy after a family dinner at Lester Else home and Mrs Walter Fuelbirth traveling to Excelsior Springs for two weeks of treatments. Local visits include Forrest Posten, Lloyd Hamblin, and others. Earl Jones reportedly landed overseas safely.
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Freda Byrn
Tom Byrn
Hopkins
Lyle Young
Baldwin Park
California
Helen Goodhue
Carlisle
T. C. Young
Gravity
Mark Young
Lester Else
Villisca
Dwayne
Navy
Floyd Lewis
Clarinda
Dale Foster
Ladoga
Victor Else
Laura Peters
Fred Else
Clyde Spring
Brooks
Lester Corbin
Leonard Perdew
Near Nodaway
Dave Posten
Excelsior Springs
Missouri
Forrest Posten
Alfred Imel
Mrs Scott
Emerson
Mrs Imel
Helen Mae Young
Tom Young
Jess Wilson
Elton Hall
Marion Wilson
Sim Beemer
Ivan Houchin
Robert Stearns
Bedford
Lloyd Hamblin
Earl Jones
Williwaw
Tractor Fuel Savvy for Long Engine Life
Guidance on using the correct fuel, keeping tanks clean, and maintaining parts for tractors. Emphasizes filling tanks after work, frequent sediment bowl cleaning, daily air cleaner service, weekly filter kerosene baths, and careful carburetor and valve maintenance to prevent wear, gum buildup, and improper ignition.
Farming Chief Occupation of Finland's Population
Finland depends on farming for most of its people with forests providing four fifths of export value. Timber products dominate industry while dairy and cattle farming support rural life and a strong cooperative system with over 7,000 co operatives and 900,000 members in 1939.
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Finland
Britain
Rationing Eases Textile Shortages Amid Food Cuts
A study shows food rationing reduces textile stains on restaurant linens, easing textile shortages. Juices and sauces like tomato 24.1 percent pineapple 21.6 orange 27.2 cranberry 22.4 chili 16.6 weaken fabrics, cutting stain frequency by 20 to 30 percent as less served. The report calls this a fortunate effect helping preserve dwindling textiles.
Mechanical Planetarium Rivalry Between Roemer and Huygens
Around 1680 Olaus Roemer built a mechanical planetarium challenging Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens. Huygens then created a rival device, claiming superiority. His model showed known planets orbiting the sun and is kept at Leyden Observatory. He devised continued fractions to set the proper number of teeth for the years on the device.
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Olaus Roemer
Christian Huygens
Huygens
Roemer
Leyden
Holland
Million-Seller Fiction Dominates 1900s List
The over a million best sellers of the 20th century are mostly fiction. Titles reaching the million mark since 1900 include Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, The Call of the Wild by Jack London, works by Gene Stratton Porter, H G Wells Outline of History, and The Winning of Barbara Worth by Harold Bell Wright.
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Margaret Mitchell
Ben Hur
Jack London
Gene Stratton Porter
H. G. Wells
Barbara Worth
Harold Bell Wright
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E. Semler
Wetmore Funeral Home
Iowa
DR. Albin J. Nelson
Behos Over
America
Hodgenville
Kentucky
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln's Birthplace
Europe
Asia
Kiska
Romer Ferguson
Michigan
Kiska Island
Henry Sekula
Fergiven
W. R. Williams
Ferguson
Senate
Urrman
U.S
U. S
Biloxi
Gulf of Mexico
Jefferson Davis
Beauvoir
Oak Hill
Hiro Higuchi
Hawaii
Harvard University
Knocks Wene
New Kear
O. J. Kirketeg
Bedford National Bank
Bedford, Iowa
Elmer Brown
James R. Locke
Locke
W. R. Bammer
B. E. Wycoff
Cramers West Side
J. W. Gasson
General County
Ahern’s Drug Store
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