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Newspaper
Hardin County Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1924
Page
2
Mrs. H. C. Shurson of Minneapolis and Mrs. A. B. Narland visited her parents in Jewell last week Tuesday for a family gathering.
Fair View reports visits and family events across Clint Martin, Joseph Harkett, and Rubottom households plus several small social errands. The Hardin County docket lists multiple foreclosure actions, divorces, partitions, and lawsuits including cases like Donaldson vs Donaldson and Fauske vs Fauske with monetary amounts and property descriptions.
The Detroit News notes diverse royal adornments from floral to metal crowns. It traces uses by leaders priests athletes and citizens and details specific crowns proudly awarded for sieges victories bravery and seafaring feats.
A burlesque actress boasts of having the most beautiful back in America, while her manager quips that this is why the audience is always glad to see her leave the stage.
A large green frog in New South Wales was found strangling an 18 inch brown snake in a post, the pair held their positions for an hour and a half. The frog’s grip and the snake’s torn remains were preserved and shown in spirits. In another item, P L Prestretie was rescued from a gas-filled 60 foot well after clinging to a rope with his teeth as coworkers pulled him out unconscious. A 91-year-old Robert Joseph retires from a Bart-on-Trent brewer after 30 years, ending a long contest with a centenarian rival still employed nearby.
The North London railway begun by Robert Stephenson has carried one billion passengers with no passenger fatalities in its operation. The feat is hailed as a model record for railroads worldwide. An audience in Hull disrupted Oliver Cromwell with an alarm clock, prompting the actor to remark on awake attendees. A Washington family named Yout reports three members born on Holy Days all on April 18 across different years.
Hardin County Board of Supervisors meets in Eldora with all members present. Minutes from March 3 approved with corrections. Widows Pension for Audrey St John and Ida Willama approved. Millet tax remission hearing set for March 24 at 9 a.m. Auditors to correct Hubbard Town assessment per Assessor. Claims list includes payments to Amundson A C, Ackley Electric, Buckeye Auto, Bartless Shepherd Oil, and many local patrolmen, shoveling snow, supplies, and freight charges.
A quirky, fragmentary proclamation from the Suburban Rage laments unhappiness at home and mocks the urge to seek happiness for nothing. Countertelt Trouble calls out the pattern of chasing fleeting fixes rather than fueling resilience amid dreary days.
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