January 1905 Monticello events and deaths highlight
Twenty years ago Monticello records list births, marriages, and deaths from January 1905. Notables include the birth of a Dorrell baby, deaths of A B Harms and Peter Sweeney, and marriages such as Miss Leona Mayberry to Henry Uhr. Local banks report December assets, and figures like Joseph S Fuller die aged 62.
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The
Monticello Express
James Dorrell
A. B. Harms
Castle Grove
Herman Harms
J. M. Hofacre
Peter Sweeney
North Whitewater
Dubuque County
Elizabeth
Fred Bohlken
Scotch Grove Township
Mary White
South Bend
Indiana
Monticello
Leona Mayberry
Rachael Defley
Langworthy
Henry Uhr
Wayne Township
Monticello State Bank
Lovell State Bank
Martin Kehoe
James H. Abel
Koop
Billing
Arthur Coyle
Edith Meyer
Bert Clemon
van Horn
Ernest Cooper
Alice Fisher
Anamosa
Rudolph Winkler
Charles Rigby
Lovell Township
Kate Maurice
Ames
Des Moines
Mabel Hayes
Gerhard Ehilers
Fred Kempf
Chicago
F. C. McKean
Scotch Grove
First Presbyterian Church
Salina
Kansas
Dunshee dies from injuries in March Cedar Rapids crash
Frank C. Dunshee son of W H and Mrs Dunshee of Cedar Rapids died at Cedar Rapids on the 28th from injuries after an auto accident on the Lincoln highway. He was 33, born January 6 1891 in Cedar Rapids and worked as secretary director of Chandler Pump Co and director of Cedar Rapids National Bank. He leaves wife Marionette Mansfield and children Katherine and Billy, with funeral set for Tuesday at 2 pm from Turner chapel.
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Frank C. Dunshee
W. H. Dunshee
Cedar Rapids
Monticello
SRC
Tes
Frank Chandler Dunshee
Third Avenue
Dunshee
Lincoln Highway
Gedaur Rapids
Washington High School
Chandler Pump Company
Cedar Rapids Company
Cedar Rapids National Bank
Chandler Pump and Supply Company
Kansas City
City
Country Club
Elks Lodge
Crescent Lodge No
Walter E. Dunshee
Carl Miner
Glencoe
Turner Chapel
H. F. Milligan
First Congregational Church
Oak Hill Cemetery
Crescent Drive
Farm Bureau notes report cattle testing in Jones county
Dr. V. C. Bromwell reports 1822 cattle inspected in four weeks under the area plan in Jones county. Thirty one herds passed clean while reactors ranged from one to twenty nine in other herds. Jackson township work will finish soon and a state leaflet explains the plan. Public questions addressed include township and county petition rules, testing order, and herd testing timing.
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VC. Bromwell
Jones County
Jackson Township
Dauntiry
Bromwell
Tor
State Department of Agriculture
Paul No Smith
Parm Bureau Ofice
Anaiao
el Rave
Actuay
Sacred Heart Caps Victory Over Monticello Alumni 28 to 20
Sacred Heart cagers defeated the Monticello public schools alumni 28 to 20 last Friday night. Captain Skelley led with 19 points, Kenneth Ferring added 11, as both sides rotated lineups and substitutions throughout the game.
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Sacred Heart Cagers
Monticello
Sacred Heart
Skelley
Kenneth Ferring
Through Car to California Sleeper Service Announced
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railway will run a through tourist sleeping car from Calmar to Los Angeles via Kansas City with weekly departures on January 6 13 and 20. For details and reservations contact local agents. Cedar Rapids Transfer and Storage offers cut rates on moving household goods and automobiles to California with enclosed vans and expert packing.
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California
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Calmar
Fayette
Strawberry Point
Hopkinton
Monticello
Anamosa
Cedar Rapids
Los Angeles
Kansas City
Cedar Rapids Transfer and Storage Company
Towa
Communion service and reception for new members
The Wooster Ohio Daily Record notes next Sunday's church schedule with a Communion service and reception for new members at 1:00 a.m, a Christian Endeavor meeting at 6:45, and an evening worship at 7:00 with the topic The Guidance of God. A midweek prayer meeting is set for Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
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Iarold Wilcox
Local Market Banter Between Tourist and Farmer’s Daughter
A tourist asks how the apples are sold and the farmer’s child explains with humor the big apples go on top. The exchange, printed in Ladies’ magazines of the era, reflects playful dialogue and modest wit between rural life and visitors.
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Everybody's Magazine
New York City Bans Hive Chickens From Midwestern States
City health board orders shipment ban on hive chickens from several midwestern states amid fears of a new poultry disease. Iowa State College expert debunks the epidemic theory, noting poultry overall have low vitality due to weather and poor feed. Overcrowding and weak birds drive losses, with advice to cull sick stock and feed remaining flocks adequately.
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City Health Board of
New York City
Town
Corpbell
H. A. Bittenbender
Iowa State College
Community Voices Against Unrestricted Radio Broadcasts
A lecture attendee, Mrs. Tomkins, called for stopping widespread radio messaging saying it pollutes the air and could be unhealthy. She argues for curbing indiscriminate broadcasts as many messages fill the airwaves.
Unclear Text Notes On Wool Gatherings And Duty
The fragment suggests a speaker warns that wandering quotes the wool gathering indicates a lack of proper business or duty. It mentions a man noticing Uoaughts wandering and links behavior to suitability for work or obligation.
How OK Became OK Expressing approval in historical roots
The origin of OK traces to several theories centered on Andrew Jackson and the Choctaw word okeh meaning it is so. A rival tale links OK to Orrin Kendall and the Civil War era O KK bread crackers.
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Andrew Jackson
General Jackson
Cornelius Kendall
Chicago
Kendall
Orrin Kendall
Chicago Bourd
O. Kendall & Sons
O. KK
O. K
Walla Walla Name Origin Traced by Meany
The name Walla Walla is described as one of the most beautiful Indian names in Washington by Edmond S. Meany of the University of Washington. Early spellings include Wollah Wollah and Wollaw Wollah, with "walla" meaning running water in several languages and reduplication denoting small rapid streams. The Indians adopted the term for their land and tribe.
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Walla Walla
Washington
Edmond S. Meany
History
University of Washington
Professor Meany
Detroit News
Walla
Home Scissors Sharpener Found By Accident
A homemaker discovered that sandpaper sharpens scissors. She keeps a sheet in her machine drawer to sharpen blades without a grinder visiting.
Chairs Made of Grass
Grass furniture becomes a regional industry in parts of the Mississippi valley. Wire grass from bogs and marshes is twisted into twine and woven into matting and chairs. Cities like St. Paul and Oshkosh produce couches and chairs from the tough pliable material.
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Mississippi Valley
Ohio Valley
North West
St. Paul
Oshkosh
Birthday Record Framed By Forgotten Gift Joke
A North End couple, married a few years, joke about memory as the husband forgets a birthday. She greets him at the door with disappointment and he quips that she looks as young as last year, a line the Columbus Dispatch notes as humor.
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North End
Columbus Dispatch
The Practical Side In The Engagement
A couple discusses practical matters after an engagement is sealed with a kiss. He asks if she can cook. she answers no and asks if he will keep bringing her boubons, revealing domestic concerns in a light, playful tone.
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George
Origin of the saying Go West and Army supply reform proposal
The Terre Haute Express first used the phrase in 1851 with John L. Soule. Horace Greeley later echoed it in Hints Toward Reform and acknowledged not coining the line. The text notes U S Army supply officers spend millions yearly and proposes an Army School of Business by Col Dwight L. Davis to boost efficiency.
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Horace Greeley
John L. Soule
Terre Haute Express
Greeley
Army School of Business
United States Army
Dwight FL Davis
Minute Delay Gag From Barker Jokes Pearsons Weekly
A Pearson's Weekly quip from London jokes about a wan keeping a man waiting after she says she will be ready. Barker notes a minute often equals about half an hour in delay.
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Barker
Aoominute
Pearson's Weekly
London
Rob and Helen Confirmed Twins in Family Tale
A family story says Zoho and his cousin Helen were born the same day and started public school together. The teacher, a family friend of Helen, did not know Rob and Helen says Rob and I are twins.
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Zoho
Helen
Rob
Very Likely About South Sea Islands Appeal
A skeptical tone questions mass emigration to the South Sea Islands noting people’s indifference to tropical garlands, floral customs, and coconut diets as reasons for not traveling or settling there.
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South Sea Islands
Amazons of Uganda Claim Rights by Force
A visiting observer notes that Ugandan women are fierce in asserting their rights. They reportedly seize passersby and compel them to work the fields under threat of punishment, often punishing with a rough hoeing session after a public smoke break.
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Uganda
FOR RENT AND SALE NOTABLE LISTING OF FARMS AND HOMES
FOR RENT Good 8 room house Enquire of Mrs Witson Burkett Mrs Barbara Dondelinger FOR SALE Thoroughbred Here ford bulls Also thoroughbred Poland China stock hog J L Weber & Sons Cascade Iowa HOUSE FOR RENT Strictly mos ern house for rent newly painted and decorated inside A new coat of paint on the outside Inquire of Cecil Curtis DEAD ANIMALS REMOVED FREE All with hides on hogs horses cattle Call Anamosa Phone 24 day or night at our expense Cedar Rapids Rendering Co FARM FOR RENT In Clay township 173 acres for cash rent five miles northeast of Onslow For particulars inquire of Mrs Catherine Moran on the premises NO HUNTING The undersigned gives public notice that he will not allow hunting of any kind on the J W Hoult farm Take due notices and govern yourself accordingly David Winans CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our neighbors and friends and the American Legion who so kindly assisted us during the time of the death of our husband and father also for the beautiful floral offering Mrs John Phelps and family
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Anamosa
Cedar Rapids Rendering Co
Clay Township
Onslow
Catherine Moran
J. W. Hoult
David Winans
American Legion
John Phelps
C. E. Batchelder
H. C. Worster
Frank Worster
Wanted and For Sale Notices From Local Paper
WANTED and FOR SALE items listing straw bales, Poland China boars cholera immune, Ford coupe, Duroc Jersey breeding boars. Entries show contact names Alfred Ross G H Gerdes Mrs G Smits Shover Nagel. Also bereavement thanks from Mr and Mrs Batchelder Worster and Frank Worster.
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Alfred Ross
Poland
G. H. Gerdes
G. Smits
McDonald Hospital
Duroc Jersey
Shover & Nagel
Farmers Mutual Insurance Association meeting Castle Grove Iowa
Annual meeting of the members of the Farm ers Mutual Insurance Association of Castle Grove Iowa will be held in school house No. 2 Castle Grove township on Saturday January 10 1925 at one oclock p m for the election of directors and adjusters and the transaction of such business as may come before it. S M Hosford Secretary.
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Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Association
Castle Grove
Iowa
Castle Grove Township
S. M. Hosford
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Major
N. G. W. Winner
Joseph S. Fuller
Farm Bureau Notes
Petit Jurors
Alden
Emma Coe
Wyroming Buchotz
John
Wyoming Barrack
Louis
Broderson
Peter
Wyoming
Barnes
John Anamosa
Bading
Joe Anne
Monticio Ballou
Simeon
Olin Bancraft
Monticello Cantor
Lawrence
C. Boo Ee
Olin Dunn
Margaret
Stone City
Dorgeloh
Henry Anamosa Deischer
Howard
Center Junction
Che
Henry Jr
Page
Carrie
Monticetty
Paulsen
Harry
Podhaski
Sadie
Underwood
C. N. Rohn
Eldon Shotwell
F. Monticello
Anamosa Monticello
Martette
Skahill
Mary - Cascade
Saum
Mary
Mechanicsville
Sealls
W. BE
Stulken
Henry
Amagnosd Tebo
Raymond
Walton
A. B
Anaumosi
Anamosa Wry
James MiurteHe
Zimmerman
Bates
Wrooming Cropp
Leroy Montivetos Folkers
Anumosa Holtz
Will Onslow Hein
John Sr
Holecomb
F. Od. Martello Khihna
Wmn
Oxford Junction
Kuutsen
John Anansi Proll
Eberhardt Langworthys Porter
Frank Antiniosy ‘Taylor
Wilbur ‘ ‘ Olin Wood
Chile
Councehl
Couner
Loch
Sehmeider Rodman
Reckstad
Gard
Atieens
Cedis Comnedi
Threeoty Ceferk
Omayver
Predhire
Eter Hirsch & Col
Counecil
Peter Porseh & Coo
Peter & Vol
Peter Pirsch & Co
Cerber Hts
Alves’ Bates
Rothman
Lehustad
van Meter
Couneil
Iebtennacht
Iteler
Weil
Lowa
Bo AP Redman
Rockstad
C. L. van Meter
Isaac Sehneider
Montallo
Ray
Om Ometten CL
Hates
Onometten
Lowell State Bank
Rodman
Schneider
Rocke
van Meter Nuys
Jay Echternacht
M. H. S. Alumni
Sacred Heart Schneider
Igi
Ferring
Zubler
Rgi
McAleer
Hayden
Simmons Skelley
Schlimmer Rockstad
Hookstra
Lang
Schlimmer
Aebi
Boston ‘Transcript
Aoman
Othe
Motter
Wooster Ohig Daily Record
JEDGE
Alreddy
New Maida
Meney
Shandaken
Catskill Mountains
New York State
Shiplen
Alps
Tetessh
Gen
Boas Oy AN
Amazons
F! G. Matthiessen
Witson Burkett
Barbara Dondelinger
Fred Shover
South Cedr Street
F. G.matthiessen
Rose Comb R. I
Mayme Harms
W. A. Storm
O. A. Hubbard
Chestnut and
Third Streets
W. O F. Cochrane
China
J. L
Weber & Sons
Cascade
Cecil Curtis
Gildner Bros. & Pelton
Husman & McCrea Clothing Co
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