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Newspaper
Hardin County Ledger
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1914
Page
5
At a Commercial club meeting in Alden’s hall committees were named for Memorial Day events with local clubs aiding. Town residents were noted visiting, traveling, or organizing church, school, and civic activities, including library funding and upcoming meetings and elections.
Union residents celebrated Mothers Day with church decorations and services. A church rally at Christina featured a speech on motherhood. Local transfers include Mrs. Stewart and son en route to Detroit. Students attended Hubbard High School play. numerous residents joined social visits, church duties, and community gatherings across Union and nearby towns.
S. Rogers and daughter Miss Cozzie spent Saturday at Marshalltown. Adele Rogers will close her school near Whitten Friday. Mr. Carlisle spent Sunday at home.
Point Pleasant reports Goose Creek school shut last Saturday and Center school in Plea sant township closed Wednesday. Carl Struck photographed Wasson homes with a new $40 camera. James Tritable from Racine visited his son’s family while neighbors Dean Brower and others traveled to Town Palls. Plum crop looks light. farmers finished planting. Otto Fromm Bahr children and John Sheldon’s little son have measles. Ernest Dreier bought an automobile.
New Providence reports the death of Ray Glenney of New Haven Connecticut after a serious illness. Funeral services were held at the Friends church. He leaves a wife and his father two brothers and a sister. D W Terrill retrieved the remains and Esther his daughter brought them home. Louis Broer shipped four carloads of cattle and hogs to John Campbell last week.
Whitten and surrounding towns text notes visits by Whitten residents to Marshalltown Eldora and Des Moines, church and school happenings, weddings and anniversaries, Mother’s Day observances, and upcoming community events including a Whit ten Sunday school convention and a Pekin China picnic. Several local families are mentioned with travel, entertaining guests, and hospital or home visits.
Tas latest photograph shows the battleship Arkansas of the fleet under Rear Admiral Charles Badger commanding the squadron. The image includes the vessel near the Mexican shore with capstan and the ship’s twelve inch guns in view.
A verbose tale recalls a penny press sleuth who tails a Duke of Wellington era cabinet meeting. The inquisitive observer overhears policy hints at Apsley House, drafts a sensational note for an editor, and sparks a cascade of reactions shaping a national tale. The episode blends wit, danger, and public appetite for inside information amid political maneuvering.
A garbled recounting of Persian style tales mentions Abdul Dat ex-sultan of Turkey and a tale of a peach gift to the sultan. Ahmed is jailed as “the man of the peaches” after confusion over the gift. The sultan later pardons him, and the peach tale intertwines with rumors of a palace revolt. A later note discusses Apelles and Venus Anadyomenes in art history.
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