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Newspaper
Jackson Sentinel
Location
Maquoketa, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1919
Page
8
Miss Bessie Hurlburt wed James Huffman in a Wyoming area ceremony read by Rev H J Bowder of the M E Church. The bride wore white satin and georgette crepe with a bouquet of pink and white Killarney roses. groom attire details incomplete.
The report details a rural wedding with attendants Ruth Hurlburt and Everett Edwards, followed by a supper and travels to Des Moines. It notes Captain C L Van Patten’s furlough return, visits by numerous locals to relatives, a teacher resuming duties in Denver, school openings, and community birthday and fair events, highlighting many names and local ties.
A note lists four to eight year old children to be drafted for the South with details of from where and how to arrange. The address Sale Barn Olive Street and Red 57 appear, with mentions of Eastern mars.
A baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Bender on August 27. The couple already have three boys and are happy over the arrival. Several local items note church meetings, visits, illnesses, and social events in Andrew and surrounding areas, with mentions of V. Graff from Davenport visiting relatives, Mrs. Mary O’Neil’s recovery, and the death of Mr. Joseph King with funeral services in Andrew.
Local mentions include visits and moves of residents such as J. M. Bing in the city, Dr. Boswell opening an office over the People's Savings Bank, and various trips by Misses Ruth Estey Alma and friends. Plans for schooling, hospitalities, and social calls are noted along with real estate and farm movements around Delmar and nearby towns.
Saturday events include Mrs E L Bar ingtor's retirement visit from Davenport and Moline and guests from Jesse Carpenter families. News of the death of Mrs Bert Slopnicki in North Dakota aged about seventy, survived by husband son and siblings. Locals Mrs Charles Chanman and son Lewis visit family, Matt Freese of Matnoken stops by, and picnics at Mrs J W Donley home. Evergreen Cemetery meeting held. Davenport residents Dell Michael and daughter Evelyn guests of T U Harrington.
The first Maine post offices at Rennchint Falmouth and Buh began in 2175. Mails were carried by horse or foot riders with small weekly letter counts. Rates were high with 123 to 3735 cents per letter and double the charge for letters on more than one sheet.
Fragmentary note discusses a vase damaged by heat or force and the inability to reliably restore it to its original state. It mentions chain-like or chaise-stone imagery and suggests that once fractured, precious pieces cannot be safely renewed.
A reflective note on dangerous moments in life when people overvalorize history at the expense of the present. It warns against religious controversies, ancestor worship, and exalting one group while excluding others, urging restraint and open teaching.
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