Memorial Day Service Honors Nation's Heroes in Humeston
Beautiful Exercises marked Memorial Day as soldiers and veterans gathered at the Opera House of American where Rev Putnam Rev Ross and Rev Heicke delivered invocations memorial address and benediction. The glee club performed multiple numbers between readings and Miss Fay Garton recited Gettysburg address. The audience stayed attentive through the hour and a quarter address and later graves were decorated at the cemetery with notable music enhancing the event.
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Huz
Ston
Oyu
Apeni
Opera House
American
Exere
Glee Club
Putnam
Ross
Methodis
Grace Downs
Heicke
Church of Christ
Humeston
Lincoln
Fay Garton
Great Day For Old and Young At Coulter & Clark Show
Coulter and Clark present a dog and pony show with a famed exhibit of dogs and equestrian feats. They boast large expenditures to enlarge the display, featuring hippo dotae and chariot rides. Night tents shine with ten thousand candle power lighting. two acts at 2 and 8, parade at one.
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Coulter & Clark
Tang
Secretary Wilson Speaks to Small Opera House Audience
A cabinet member, Secretary Wilson, spoke at the Opera House last Thursday afternoon. Muddy roads and threatening weather kept many away, but the audience enjoyed a forty five minute talk praising the department's work for farmers fruit growers and stock raisers.
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Secretary Wilson
Opera House
Wilson
Did It Stick Tight A Hameston Youth Comic Postal Card
A Hameston youth receives a decorated postal card from Garden Grove area. After examination he notices an under stamp instruction hint. He carefully removes the stamp over fifteen minutes hoping to reveal a hidden message. The prank joke unfolds with mixed amusement.
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Hameston
Garden Grove
Love
Boy Wins Prize for Writing Postal Card Puzzles
Thirteen year old Ralph Wolfe of Seymour won an 8350 piano from Richardson Music Co for writing a postal card sentence 1895 times. The stunt echoed a Fairfield teacher’s earlier feat writing 4000 words on a postal card about E. B. Baker and the Krutzman piano, mostly without a magnifying glass.
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Wolfe
Ralph Wolfe
del Boy
Seymour
Richardson Music Company
Ole Reliable Kingsbury
Fairfield
E. B. Baker
Krutzman
Children’s Day Exercises Planned at Local Churches
Children s day exercises will be held next Sunday at the Christian and Methodist churches and also at the Congregational church on Sunday June 14.
Firemen's Box Supper Set For June 12 In Park
Firemen announce a box supper to be held in the park on Friday evening June 12. Proceeds support department activities and community projects.
Busy man August Fey Receives Multiple Nominations
Franklin correspondence notes August Fey named at Thursday caucus for township clerk and justice. If elected next year he would oversee secretary of the school town clerk and other roles including Modern Woodman clerk constable insurance agent undertaker financier and town barber among many duties.
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Franklin Correspondence
Donnelson Review
Lee County
August Fey
Eight Year Old Boy Drowned at Seymour Pond
Eight year old Jimmy Ambry, son of Mrs. Ambry of Seymour, drowned last Wednesday afternoon after leaping from a spring board into about fifteen feet of water. Help was summoned, his body found some twenty feet from the jump. The widow mother was left in distress over the loss of her child.
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Jimmy Ambry
Silk for Ten Yards Scam in West Virginia
A West Virginia firm advertised ten yards of silk for two dollars but sent only ten yards of silk thread instead after a land office probe. The Davenport Times urges customers to prefer local merchants over such schemes and warns of the improper trade practice.
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Davenport Times
West Virginia
Towa City Commencement Invitation
The New Era notes the forty-eighth annual commencement of the State University in Iowa City. The event runs June 12 to 17 with 327 candidates for graduation.
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Univer
Iowa City
Newspaper Ads Are Cheapest
Advertising analysis touts newspapers as the most economical way to reach a broad audience, claiming print ads deliver greater reach per dollar than any other medium and remain the best value for advertisers.
Humeston Team Beats Garden Grove 6 3 In Tight Contest
Humeston, the second high school baseball team, defeated Garden Grove 6 to 3 in a Tuesday game at Garden Grove. The outcome improves Humeston's record with a solid victory on the road.
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Humeston
Garden Grove
Athletic mishap shows value of training amid pasture comedy
A man named McClure attempted a creek jump to impress Fred Taylor. He cleared the bank but momentum pulled him into the water and mud. The episode ends with a humorous note on athletic training and home beautification ads urging improvements for farm value and community health.
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McClure
Fred Taylor
Fred
Mac
Big Supper Friday Evening at Congregational Church
The ladies of the Congregational church south section will serve a big general supper next Friday at 3:30 PM. The menu includes Beef Loaf Bread and Butter Deviled Eggs Pickles Lettuce with Mayonnaise Dressing Coffee Cake Ike Cream Potato Salad. Tickets are 25 cents.
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the Congregational Church
Fisher Goes to Centerville
John W. Fisher has left Hawkeye Lumber Co. here after three years to manage a Centerville yard for the same company. His family will follow in two weeks. Mr. J. E. Frane becomes the new manager, an experienced businessman described as pleasant and a booster. The New Era welcomes Mr. Frane to Humeston.
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John W. Fisher
Hawkeye Lumber Co
Centerville
J. E. Frane
Frane
Humeston
June Days in a Heathland Dream by Howitt
Poem excerpt describing a sunlit heath scene and peaceful nature. The speaker recalls a nostalgic, blissful noon with a comrade, hearing birds and insects, scent of broom and gorse, and a tranquil, almost dreamlike solitude.
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William Howitt
What a Relief For the Boys at End of School
A long desultory note reflecting a student’s view on the end of the school term. It laments exams and heavy lessons, contrasting the strict routine with the freedom of summer. The writer yearns for outdoor play, fishing, and ball, describing bare feet, shirt sleeves, and the joyous prospect of unbounded leisure.
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Atornet
Hota Lee
Raising Poultry on a Large Scale
A Wallaces Farmer article advises novices to start small with poultry enterprises, keeping exact records of feed and care, credit every penny earned, and balance accounts next year. It counsels building the business gradually within farming, expanding only as experience proves profitable.
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Wallaces
Bermond Youth Reworks Auto For Garden Plowing
A Bermond youth turns his automobile into a garden plow using a wooden plank and gearing to pull tools. The Morhelstown Times-Republican notes he replaces animal labor with motor power, mowing and turning soil while conserving gasoline, a curious homegrown innovation.
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Bermond
Morhelstown
Read the Ads As Well As News This Week
A call to readers to study newspaper ads alongside news columns to stay informed about community happenings and to save money. It urges not to overlook advertising sections as a source of timely purchases and cost cutting tips.
Twenty Years Ago Items From The New Era This Week
A recap of social visits and local happenings from two decades ago includes trips to Omaha and Kirksville, farm improvements, new residences and barns, a cheese factory start, a well attended Uncle Tom Cabin show, and multiple visits by friends and relatives. Excessive rains have halted farm work and washed out several bridges.
Extraordinary Duck Egg Report From Washington Township
George P L Sherawood of Washington township brought to the Fort Madison Democrat office a duck egg claimed to be the smallest seen. He notes the egg measures about 2. inches long and weighs four pounds with an estimated diameter of about inches and a circumference of 14 inches. The family has kept ducks fifteen years, producing average eggs around 21 inches long and 1 inches in diameter. The egg is on display at the Democrat office in Fort Madison.
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George PL Sherawood
Washington Township
Democrat
Fort Madison
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