Hastings News Briefs and Local Society Notes
Hastings happenings cover a Homecoming plan and a member roll call for Testings Judge No. 397 with a hint of a humorous Rebekahs program. A bazaar and chicken pie supper are planned at the church on December 11 and 17, with refreshments and welcome to transient members. Local visits include Fred Martin and family, and Mrs. F H Priest’s Omaha trip.
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Rebekahs
Fred Martin
Lawrence Martin
Quinsy
Christy
Medical Association
Greeawood
Alvin Piurkney
Hartington
Net
Hastings
A. C. Hodges
Glenwoor
Pearl Cary
Summers
Randolph
Rebekah Lodge
Aid
F. H. Priest
Omaha
Balfour
James Sawyers
Berry
Winchester, Jr
Ed Hathaway
Joe
Bessie Hatfield
Council Bluffs
Main Street
Hillsdale church series draws crowds as evangelist preaches
East Center notes say W. F. A. S. met with Mrs Culver last Thursday. Dora Borene returned home from starting school at Falsom. Hillsdale ladies report a $90 bazaar and supper with goods still for sale. Special Hillsdale church meetings progress with Rev Johnston from University Place as evangelist. Strong interest shown. all urged to attend.
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Culver
Dora Borene
Falsom
Hillsdale
Hillsdale Church
Johnston
University Place
Cooperative commission houses and public purse concerns
A critical piece accuses cooperative commission rhetoric as a European idea transplanted for dubious activity. It claims bureaucratic parasitism in private and public spheres, urging organization to block treasuries and distill power from wartime outgrowths, with fear of biased asset control and altered positions.
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Cooperative Commission
Watts
The Bureaucratic Tendency in Government Policy
J Ralph Pickell editor of The Round Up argues in the November 12 2021 issue that bureaucratic control of private business is the gravest international economic problem. He contends government meddling in finance transportation prices and labor surpasses other issues and warns it raises taxes and trouble while urging vigorous rebellion against it.
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J. Ralph Pickell
Australia
Canada
England
France
Italy
Capitol at Burlington Burns in Early Iowa Turmoil
The Burlington capitol burned in 1837 damaging the territory seat long used by the Wisconsin period government. Major Jeremiah Smith had built the capitol for legislative use at a cost of about 7000 dollars. The council met in the west room of the upper story of the paper's building and the House in Webber and Remey's new building due to the loss.
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Burlington
Lowa
Perrit
Wisconsin
Bpalup
State Highal Society
Capitol
Wisconsin Territorial Gazette
Jeremiah Smith
Council For Want
House of Representatives
Webber and Remey
Christmas seal drive funds Tuberculosis fight in Iowa town
Governor Kendall signs certificates for every town school pupil who sells two dollars of Christmas seals. The seals fund the campaign against tuberculosis in town. Kendall urges broad town support for the Christmas seal drive and its charitable aims.
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N. K. Kendall
Towa
Imus
Tawa
Kendall
Iowa
Tubsren i Losix
Ays
You Cannot Bind Free Thought Poem by Cooke
A short poem by Edmund Vance Cooke condemns gagging ideas and suppressing truth. It argues that truth cannot be crushed by force nor confined by punishment and calls for the freedom of thought and expression across lands and seas.
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Thoreht
Truth
Edmund Vance Cooke
Winter Scale and Tax Burdens Drawn From Farm Commentary
A rural column laments scarce floor space for corn storage and predicts modest success in reducing next year’s corn acreage. It notes beef and pork demand, cattle on feed down, and discusses taxes rising from war spending while urging restraint and disarmament to lower future tax burdens.
Renunciation of allegiance to Zululand royal prerogatives
A satirical passage mocks a citizen’s pledge to renounce allegiance to King Boge of Zululand, describing encounters with a "very dark gentleman" and his peculiar ear holes. The piece lampoons royal privilege and colonial attitudes through exaggerated dialogue and comic misnaming.
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Boge
Zululand
South Africa
New York
Natution Chork J. Ktugetad
Gakchind
Agius
Adel
Linda
Zullens
Microscopic Leaves Keep Earth in Balance Between Air and Life
Solita Sclune explains in an article on the microscope how leaves absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen, noting lilac leaf pores amount to 160,000 per square inch and that plants maintain a natural equilibrium by converting CO2 to carbon and returning oxygen, underscoring our dependence on trees and plants.
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Solita Sclune
American Bay
Radio-enthusiast Boy Hears Episcopal Church Choir
Carroll Wickmire a Charter Oak high school student operates a wireless station at his grandparents home and records distant broadcasts. He heard music cadences that shaped into a church sermon with violin closing. The evening service at Philadelphia First Episcopal Church followed by an orchestra in Denver. He receives daily market reports and is excused from school while serving the community.
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Carroll Wickmire
Charter Oak
Crawford County
Ely's Cream Balm heals stuffed heads and catarrh
An advertisement promises instant relief from nasal congestion and sore throats by applying Ely's Cream Balm inside the nostrils. It claims quick opening of passages, reduced hawking and snuffling, and relief from colds and catarrh. A small bottle is sold by druggists with the claim that colds yield like magic.
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Ely
Jad Salts Promoted For Kidney Cleaning And Health
An old Tribune item touts Jad Salts as a remedy to flush and stimulate kidneys, prevent backache and bladder issues, and reduce urinary irritation. It stresses taking four ounces in water before breakfast for several days, claiming safety and acid neutralization.
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Sayang
When the Flesh “Creeps” and Fear Arouses Body
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes fear triggers brain impulses that tense muscles and hairs, slows skin blood flow, and stimulates sweat glands. This produces the cold sensation and trembling seen in fright, with a racing heart and throat tension as nerves react to danger.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Dollar With Two Heads Coin Mystery In New Orleans Mint
A southern man owns a silver dollar with a head on each side. The coin bears 1906 on one side and 1009 on the other. An New Orleans mint employee swapped in a current dollar after stamping the obverse, then later stamped the reverse, enabling the fraud to escape detection for years.
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New Orleans
What It Costs to Stop a Train
An ordinary passenger locomotive consumes a pound of coal for every 52 feet it travels. Each unnecessary stop with a heavy train wastes 500 to 750 pounds of coal. A 50 freight cut air leak can lose up to 2,540 pounds in ten hours. A locomotive stopping five minutes costs about 75 pounds of coal. Saving a shovelful per ton could cut nearly 1 percent of total coal usage.
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Floyd W. Parsons
Birds migrate to eastern Siberia from distant lands
The autumn migration brings birds from Britain to Africa and Ny from Australia to eastern Siberia. As snow melts in Siberia, the region becomes a haven with ponds crowded by birds and food like cranberries and crowberries. Australian birds travel the longest distance about 6,000 miles.
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Siberia
Britain
Africa
Australia
Tower
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