Slats Diary Anecdotes and Farmhouse Gossip Collide
Diary style entries recount a week of domestic squabbles with Ma and Pa, a shop visit about a book to improve a husband’s vocabulary, money troubles, and backcountry humor. Interspersed are reflections on golf, church, a gar age album, and a profane incident, plus wartime economics and fur prices from Washington early 1920s.
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Indevoring
Chrch
Ben
France
England
Northwest
Washington
Restless Fisher
End of an era in the woods and townsfolk memories
A reflective note recalls how Thanksgiving hunts used to be with flintlocks and wild turkeys. The writer laments modern times when those woods and tools have disappeared and autos now threaten the peace, evoking a bygone rural happiness and neighbors gathering to share a feast.
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Billy
Harding
Oregon
Hardings
W. T. Wolfe
True Religion and Compassion in Modern Society
A reflective piece argues that true religion calls for love toward others despite self interest. It notes humans are social and sometimes selfish, and that genuine virtue requires duty and benevolence, urging readers to examine compassion in daily life and at church.
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Louie
Iowa Territory Story and Tiny Stone Church Tale
The piece recounts Iowa’s path to statehood noting Senator Jones used his daughter Ann Calhoun to delay Calhoun and push the bill through amid southern opposition. It also describes a tiny Catholic church near Fort Alliston Winneshiek County built by M A and F Z Huber about 87 years ago with solid stone walls and seating for eight. It closes with an ad offering engraved Christmas cards from The Tribune.
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Iowa
Territory of
George Wallace Jones
State Historical Society of
Congress
John C. Calhoun
Union
Calhoun
Iowa Territory
Jones
Miss Anns
Senate
Lown
Fort Allinson
Winneshirk County
M. A
F. Z. Huber
Rain and cold rain delay tree planting in Washington
A diary style note from November 27 describes a clear sky at night and cold rain by morning, slowing neighborly tree planting. The writer notes Washington's increasing fruit tree and sour cherry plantings, with canners preferring sour cherries. Mentions Clemenceau visiting America and American politicians Hitchcock and Borah speaking bluntly about his motives.
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Washington
Perry
Clemenceau
America
Hitchcock
Borah
Bis Man
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Waseca
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C. C. Morgan
The
Hartman Bakery
Glenwood
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Hoosier
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