Osceola High School history notes corrected in O P E letter
Miss Helen Newcomer of Lincoln calls attention to a correction of an Osceola High School Girl Reserve history. The piece reviews 1921 organization, key sponsors, and subsequent instructors, with comments on accuracy and community memory. It also recounts a state Girl Reserve conference and local basketball results from a recent Osceola program.
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Helen Newcomer
Lincoln
Osceola High School
Polk County
Hulda Yung
Alice Carpenter
Miss Carpenter
China
Frances Perry
Grace Grant Merrick
Esther Sherick
Louis Whitlock Breckenridge
Yung
Osceola
Merrick
Johnson
Hage
Frazier
Paul Johnson
Westminister Presbyterian Church
B EB McProud
Nebraska Wesleyan
C. A Fulmer
Stromsburg
Donophan
Miss Nuquist
Kenneth Johnson
Lois Koehler
Louise Frazier
Nadine Richmond
Marguerite Nebosis
Monument Honors Century-Old Peru Apple Tree
A 63 year old apple tree in Peru Iowa receives a monument for its long fruiting life. Last year it yielded over five bushels of sound apples. Tree surgeons maintain it by removing decayed wood and filling with concrete while steel supports reinforce the trunk. The tree’s owner prunes branches to protect nourishment, tracing to a pioneer orchardist who planted a Bellflower tree in 1864.
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Peru
Iowa
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Early Japanese cartoons rise with Toba e art form
The piece notes Japan’s long tradition of humor in art starting with the 11th century monk Kakuya of Toba. It contrasts Japan’s eight century head start with Western political cartoons and explains how Yokohama Mainichi Shimbun in 1871 marked journalism’s entry to daily papers. It adds that Toba-e has shaped Japanese cartooning for centuries.
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Japan
America
Yokohama Mainichi Shimbun
Kakuya
Toba
Kyoto
The Lecturer Sees Divorce as a Quest and Questless End
The lecturer argues divorce erodes morale describing love as a quest and marriage as a conquest. A heckler from the audience replies that divorce itself is a new quest, prompting a sharp exchange about meaning and consequence.
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Polk County Farm
J. ¥. Campbell
J. F. Campbell
Ridge St
George E. Campbell
Chas. H. Campbell
Columbus
Jay Hastings
P. A. Nelson
Alvin Merrick
Fisher
General Motors
M. & B. Motor Co., Chas. Kries, Mgr. Stromsburg
Service Auto CO
B. & M. Auto CO
Oll
Wm. Shrader
Yankee Gang
Ohio
Superior Wheat
Emerson Gang
Sect
Janesville
Fairbanks Morse
A.C. Sharritt
Farmers
Merrick & Weeden
Fem
Osceola Public Education
Kenneth Miller
Edward Green
Floyd Headlee
Robert Timm
Walter Calhoun
Carl Timm
Maurice Scholz
Richard Tyler
George Koehler
Glen DeLand
Gerald Johnson
Orlie Fineey
Wendall Beatty
Maurice Irland
Stromsburg Sophs
Burgers
Genoa H. S
Osceola H. S
Bulldogs
Genoa
Lincoln Star
Star
the Star
Associated Press
International News Service
The
Apple Tree’s Monument
O. F. Branting & Sons
Omaha
Rome
American Automobile Association
Fppley ‘Hotel
Miles
Dr. Miles Medical Company
Elkhart, Indiana
ti-Pain
Chiropractic
Howard Yates
D. C
McDonald’s Cash Store
Buick
B. Flint
Roy Hartson, Einer.swanson
R. H. Theling
Shelby Tromsburg Polk
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