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Le Grand Reporter

Location

Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 16, 1922

Page

2

LeGrand Post Ad Section Text Faded Notice

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.

SOUTH COUNTY LINE News Snips From Our Special Correspondent

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.

Bertha Devig Andrew Medhus Gilman George Iverson EB. H. Sharp Green Mountain Delmar Latham Jeanette Knudson Oskaloosa W. A. Buchanan Dunbar E. McGrew Penn College J. W. Latham Bent Thompson Montour

Local Visits and Moves Reported Across Towns

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.

Will Dougherty Toledo Edward and Leo Corrigan Marshalltown M. Lunde Jerome Lunde Ferguson Will Braskell Clarence Wolf Bildora Joseph Wolf Mabel Lunde Chicago Peter Lunde Maggie Dougherty Joseph Specht Conrad Alvin Anderson Hans Anderson

Cold in the Head and Catarrh Remedy Ad

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.

Hall Selecy FP. J. Cheney & Co Toledo

Probate Notice for Stephen Utley Will in Marshall County

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

District Court State OF Iowa Marshall County Marshalltown Ana Said Stephen Utley Marshall Lewis D. Vitek G. W. Gilbert

Chickens and humans share road wisdom say Graham

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.

George M. Graham Highways National Automobile Chamber of Commerce

Won Fame as Astronomer Miss Annie Cannon’s Rapid Stellar Classification

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.

H. H. Turner Regent Street Polytechnic Daily Chronicle London England Annie J. Cannon Cannon Harvard University

Beauty in Florida Woods by Bradford Torrey

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.

Pinery Maryland Bradford Torrey

Farmer Mash and Mrs Hawkins Exchange Quip

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.

Alabama's First Capital Centenary Plans At Cahaba Site

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.

Cahaba Alabama Tuscaloosa Clifton Kirkpatrick

Lucky blowout yields gold mug during tire repair

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.

Ted O’connor San Francisco Yuba County

Doubts on bobbed hair and health claims

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.

Up and Down Dialogue at Police Station

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.

Birminghamj Age-Herald

Suspension bridge opens across Grand Canyon for foot traffic

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.

Grand Canyon Colorado

Privacy for wireless message security claimed by engineer

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.

Popular Mechanics

Mr Bibbles Attitude on Prohibition Revealed

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.

Diplomacy in the Park Scene With Painted Bench Sign

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.

Columbia State

Fair Enough in Louisville Courier Journal

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.

Louisville Courier-Journal

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