Christmas Themed Social Notes From Pacific Junction
Christmas activities and local gatherings fill Pacific Junction news as residents plan church events and celebrate holidays. Visitors from Omaha and Missouri are noted alongside moves such as the opera house project revival and Odd Fellows officer elections. Local errands include a kitchen fire scare and a telephone office relocation with operator staff updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
C W Litten
Chas Keller
Theos Nixon
Chas Abshire
Odd Fellow
Will Estes
Dean's Kidney Pills Advert from Glenwood Notice
Nature warning about kidney health in Glenwood Iowa urges use of Doan's Kidney Pills with testimonial from Mrs E C Collins of Glenwood. Pills sold by Red Cross Drug Co and Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents. Also a hunting trespass notice restricting hunting on north premises signed by Mahlon Boyer and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Doan
Glenwood
E. C. Collins
Iowa
Red Cross Drug Co
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Peril in Teaching Raises Status with Firemen and Soldiers
New York report by Secretary Lyman A. Host asserts teaching is a hazardous occupation. It cites 39 percent of teachers retired in six years suffering nervous breakdowns and many with heart disease. The study argues long hours and difficult conditions, including poor ventilation and contagious disease exposure, contribute to nervous and physical strain among teachers.
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New York
Lyman A. Host
Board of Retirement
Beat
Germany
Best
Flies Bring Six Cents Bag to Dublin Youths
London report on Dublin public health drive against flies shows bags that hold a quart of dead files, with 16 000 to 20 000 flies per quart and six cents paid for each full bag returned. Cardboard "slayer" flappers are issued. boys collect files from homes and neighbors as a sport. Medical officer Sir Charles Cameron notes his own home was cleared using formalin as an attractant and insect destroyer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Public Health Committee
Dublin Corporation
Corporation
Charles Cameron
Formalin
Judge is Expert With Needle in Hot Springs
Cook, justice of the peace aged 61, devotes daily hours to fancy work. He displays a crazy quilt at the state fair from the county. Once famous in New York as a ball player, he now gains notice for sewing. Since his wife’s death he lives alone and works daily on quilt patches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hot Springs
Emmett HB. Cook
Atate Fair
Cook
New York State
Buy Land by the Inch in Louisville for Library Site
West Louisville residents buy a 250 by 250 foot lot at about $1.25 per front inch to fund a new Louisville Free Library branch. After selling the land, proceeds totaling 3800 dollars will go to trustees as the site gift, with money in hand pending presentation.
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Loufeyville
Louisville
Louisville Free Library
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Pacific Junction Dept
Josephine Green
Omaha
C F Davis
John Reed
H ‘Winkler
Frank Shuffler
Sioux Falls
Dak
LB Gammon
Frank Hines
W P Haynie
Noble Grand
G R Johnson
W M Moore
J 5
Bacus
Mahlon Boyer
A. W. Craw
E. H. Buffington
Frank Duval
R. O. Jackson
Tome Bros
Des Moines
Golden Coftes
Public Health Committee of
D. C
S. M
Tones Bros H. S. Tobacco Star Tobacco
el Prestino
P&g
Rio
Ohio
Everett Rhoades
Glenwood, Iowa
Robinson
Silverware Books
China
L. S. Robinson
B.& Q, Watch Inspector
Florida
Cuba
Texas
Mexico
Via
Burlington
RTS Hs
Boyd
J. L. Waterman
B&q RR
Baker & Agan’s
ASB
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