Zion Lutheran Church History and Anniversary Note
This brief piece celebrates 50 years with a rebuilt church and renewed spirit. It lists current membership of 250 baptized and 195 active confirmed, plus active organizations including Ladies' Aid Society Brotherhood Women's Missionary Society Luther League and youth choirs. It credits Pastor K Windecker and the church council building committee and officers.
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Zion Lutheran Church
Christ
The
Ladies’ Aid Society
Brotherhood
Women’s Missionary Society
Luther League
Sunday
Memorial Gifts for Church Organ and Windows
Memorials and gifts from Confirmation classes and families honor Calvin Haas Gerhard Mueller Henry Wachtendorf Alfred W Hildebrandt and others. Windows Nave East West North and South Wing feature in memory honors with multiple donors and the organ fund.
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Calvin Haas
Walter Haas
Wiley
Joycelyn
Gerhard Mueller
Emma Tieken
Ida Schmidt
Hulda Barring
Annie Pfeil
Theo Eoening
Ladies Aid Society
Misselstand
The
Brotherhood
J. C. Mueller
Henry Wachtendorf
Alfred W. Hildebrandt
Harry Wiedemann
K. Windecker
George Baur
E. E. Eberhard
George von Lienen
Anton Svoboda
Henry Helweg
Henry Koester
E. W. Pietsch
Frank Smothers
Lillie Etlinger
Would You Believe It? Great Hot Foot Feats and a Foolish Rent
Sailor Ernst, a Norwegian famed for a 5000 mile dash from Istanbul to Calcutta in under two months, remains a legendary hot foot. John Ha Lee, of Toppenish Washington, pays one cent a year rent for a fifteen acre fruit orchard under a quirky law.
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Ernst
Istanbul
Turkey
Calcutta
India
John Halee
Toppenish
Washington
Nose Sidekick: Smell Surpasses Taste Ten Thousandfold
Scientists claim the sense of smell is vastly more acute than taste by about ten thousand times. A curiosity notes pumpkins may grow roots extending over fifteen miles in length.
Home Sweet Home in Charleroi Bath Tub Life
A quirky local tale follows a French resident of Charleroi in northern France who endured living in a bath tub for three years, highlighting a singular home life oddity and regional character.
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Charleroi
France
In the 1500s French Law Makers Secret Rationale
A fragment notes that French law makers in the 1500s acted for reasons known only to themselves. The line hints at hidden motives shaping early statute making.
Ginger bread sold by druggists and ginger uses
The piece notes that ginger bread was once sold only by druggists and that ginger remains used for several ailments. It adds a striking aside about atomic explosions reaching 50,000,000 degrees yet compares that to the sun's core temperature.
Matter of Taste and Nice Idea In Chinese Beliefs
The text contrasts Japanese European and Chinese dining ideas, noting a Java dish of curried ant eggs in green leaves with pork shreds and suggesting Chinese view that the stomach fuels intellect, linking this to the idea that the fattest men are the wisest.
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Java
A Weighty Subject and Odd Observations
A late 1800s Austrian girl weighed 250 pounds at age five. Termite hills rival human towers in size relative to builders, suggesting houses could be mile high if scaled. The Donut Institute cuts donut hole diameter to 3 eighths of an inch from 7 eighths. In Serbia cottage windows display dolls to signal a marriageable daughter.
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Austria
The
Donut Institute
Serbia
Boston 1714 bans entertaining strangers without notice
The article notes Boston in 1714 forbade entertaining strangers without notifying local authorities and describing the visitor. It also mentions a woman fined for keeping her daughter as a guest for a week and claims cigarettes rose in popularity after the Crimean War due to soldiers using cartridge papers to roll tobacco.
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Boston
Ain't It the Truth on a Sellabundance Claim
A humorous remark notes that a man shows the most enthusiasm while trying to sell something he no longer needs. The quip reflects skepticism toward overzealous sales pitches.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Church Council and Building Committee
Rev. K. Windecker
Milton Riske
Congregational
Wm. Miculka
Wm. Wachtendorf
D. Ammermann
Otto Fisbeck Louis Pietsch
Malvin Merrem
Thomas Handsur
Tom Beale
Stanis Rothbauer
Louis Pietsch
JaNell and
Kerwyn
Herbert W. Haase
Marvin Haase
Hertha L. Scott
Herbert Roy Haase
Martha M. Bigott
James Donald Richter
Otto Urban
Helen Urban
Rud. Jaeggli
Elo Muehlstein
Westin
A. H. Falkenberg
E. A. F. Hannemann
Arnold Wiedemann
Roland
Anita
Luther League and Choir
Eilert Mueller
Ed. Boehm Jr
O. J. Brunkenhoefer
Mildred McKay
Selma Jaeggli
C. P. House
Pietsch
Moulton
Texas
William Mignes
Eng
House Committee On Agriculture
Thompson
Clark Thompson
Congress
Farmers Home Ownership
Soil Conservation and Extension Service
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Exas
Tidelands
Judge Jackson
Tidelands Committee
Clark W. Thompson
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