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Advertising rates and policies printed for LeGrand post office. Notices indicate second class mailing duties and wall advertisements. details appear incomplete and guidance on future arrangements is unclear.
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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1922
Page
2
Advertising rates and policies printed for LeGrand post office. Notices indicate second class mailing duties and wall advertisements. details appear incomplete and guidance on future arrangements is unclear.
Miss Bertha Devig has been entertaining the mumps of late. Andrew Medhus of Gilman was a Sunday guest at the George Iverson home. Mr. and Mrs. EB Sharp of Green Mountain were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Latham. Miss Jeanette Knudson returned to Oskaloosa to attend summer school after a week at home. W A Buchanan county agent helped organize the new elevator company at Dunbar. Pres and Mrs E McGrew of Penn College spent Sunday and Monday with Mr and Mrs J W Latham. Quite a number attended the funeral of Mrs Bent Thompson at Montour Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs Will Dougherty visited Toledo on Sunday while Edward and Leo Corrigan from Marshalltown called at the M Lunde home. Gilman residents the Shultz and the Lunde families hosted weekend gatherings with kin. Mabel Lunde left for Chicago after a three week visit with her parents. Maggie Dougherty and children moved into the Clarence Wolf house. Minnie Zednichek visited Marshalltown with her sister. Joseph Specht and Alvin Anderson joined the Andersons for a Sunday gathering.
An Advertising notice promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a two part treatment with an ointment for local use and a blood-acting tonic. It claims to strengthen the system and reduce susceptibility to colds. The ad notes the product has been carried by select druggists for over forty years and lists FP. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo, Ohio.
State of Iowa Marshall County District Court March Term 1922 To Whom It May Concern appear at the courthouse Marshalltown at 9 a m on June 27 1922 to prove and probate the last will and testament of Stephen Utley late of Marshall County Iowa deceased show cause why the will should not be admitted to probate In Testimony I Lewis D Vitek Clerk of the District Court have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the District Court this 31st day of May 1922 Deputy G W Gilbert
George M. Graham, at a highways dinner, argues education could teach chickens caution and even children. He notes hens often hesitate to cross in front of cars while roosters watch and grins, suggesting the hen’s maternal instinct prompts safer behavior and proposing lessons could transfer to people too.
The Daily Chronicle reports American astronomer Miss Annie J. Cannon revealed her gift during a lecture at Regent Street Polytechnic. She can classify star distances from spectra at a glance, cataloguing about 700,000 stars, a feat praised beside her 160 variable star discoveries and her role since 1911 as Harvard’s curator of astronomical photographs.
A vivid nature sketch describes a Florida landscape with three lizards on orange tree trunks and a surrounding hammock and pine woods. Birds such as cardinal, Carolina wren, chewinks, blackbirds, bluebirds, pine-warblers, and Maryland yellowthroat provide a chorus as the observer notices the lizards and the lush habitat.
A humorous exchange unfolds as Farmer Mash compliments Mrs Hawkins on her hair and contrasts it with his young wife whose hair is gray. Mrs Hawkins firely retorts that if Mash were her husband she would also have gray hair.
Preparations for a centennial celebration on September 14 mark the site of Cahaba on the Alabama river where the first Alabama legislature met in the state capital. Cahaba, once a bustling town, was flooded in 1626, moving the capital to Tuscaloosa. today the plantation hosts Clifton Kirkpatrick as the sole resident.
Ted O Connor of San Francisco on a motoring trip with his wife in Yuba county hills experiences a tire blowout. He dismounts to fix it and while kicking the wheel he picks up a gold mug valued at $18, proving his unusual pleasure in a blowout.
A Birmingham Age-Herald quotation questions sarutiny of hair fashion and sudden chest exposure as disease prevention. Mr Grampson doubts the sanitary claim of bobbed hair while skeptical authorities allegedly warn that exposing the chest on cold days prevents pneumonia.
A terse exchange quoted in the Birmingham Age-Herald shows a defendant asking where he picked up a man while the other party insists he was in transit toward the police station. The remark highlights tension in a courtroom or police encounter.
The government completed a 500 foot long suspension bridge 5 feet wide over a narrow canyon section to connect the north and south sides for foot passengers and burros. The $25,000 structure marks the first crossing in this area and reflects strong public support for national pleasure grounds.
A Popular Mechanics report credits a Ukrainian government engineer with a wireless privacy method enabling messages to reach a definite receiving station without interception. The inventor also reportedly devised a way to straighten and group magnetic field lines into parallel rays that can penetrate mountains, reducing antenna requirements.
The Birmingham Age Herald quotes Mr Bibbles as maintaining his usual stance of resigned inquiry toward prohibition. He believes the country will remain dry and spends his spare time studying the passport situation.
In Columbia State a man guides his partner to a park bench while she notices a painted sign on it. Their whispered exchange hints at secrecy and romance as they discuss the bench’s painted claim.
A brief exchange quotes the Louisville Courier Journal noting gender expectations. The piece highlights a shift as women gain influence, with a line about men and the so called fair sex and the need to be fair as women gain control. The remark underscores social attitudes from the era.
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