Travel Journal Notes In A Korean Train Inn Doll's House
Kwangju August diary describes a railway trip in Korea and an overnight stay in a Japanese inn near Pusan. The author humorously recounts shoe removal, cramped floor sleeping, candlelight meals, mosquito nets, and awkward baths, with reactions from Dr. McCloud, Anne, Miriam, and Dan as they adapt to local customs and recall home.
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Kwangju
Korea
United States
Fusan
Japan
Anne
Miriam
Dan
Nott
North Carolina
America
Doc
Dr. McCloud
Lightning Strikes Sigourney Farm In Iowa
Lightning struck the W F Snakenberg farm three miles north and one mile east of the county farm around 6 15 p m Thursday. Rafters in the machine shed were shattered and granary boards loosened. Snakenberg rushed to the double granary, found smoke, called the Sigourney fire company, but by the time they arrived the smoke had cleared and no fire was found. He reported about 2500 bushels of oats in the granary and 60 tons of clover hay in the barn nearby. He thanked the fire company for their help.
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Sigourney Review
W. F. Snakenberg
Snakenberg
Sigourney Fire Company
Six Hurt When Ford Overturns Near Lovilla
Arthur Cooper of Hamilton loses control while passing a buggy on a steep hill and overturns a Ford sedan at the foot of Gladson hill three miles west of town. Six occupants including Mrs Cooper Chester Slyvester Doris and Carrie Dufner were treated for cuts bruises and sprains. The car was badly damaged.
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Arthur Cooper
Hamilton
Gladson Hill
Tee G
Giadaan
Nancy
Leo Dufner
Lovilla
Slyvester Cooper
Doris Dufner
Carrie Cooper
Chariton Gun Club Reclaims Stolen-Back Property
Chariton Gun Club planned to buy two stores for cabin equipment on west Iide. They learned the stores already belonged to them, having been sold months earlier by Loren Pettijohn, a Chariton youth. Pettijohn faced charges of receiving stolen property, pled guilty, and was fined $10 plus costs.
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Chariton Gun Club
West Iide
Chariton
Lucas County
Loren Pettijohn
John Plows
Justice Hickman
Pattijohn
Poultryman Kills Wolf in Defense of Hennery
Indianola Tribune reports Harry Peck killed a gray wolf at his farm five miles northeast of Indianola as it approached a prize poultry yard. Using a double barreled shotgun, he fired at seventy paces, ending the threat before the wolf could raid the chickens. The animal weighed about fifty pounds and Peck will receive a $10 bounty.
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Indianola
Harry Peck
Peck
Mr. Peck
Keota Banker's Fatal Attack Shocks Community
Keota banker and civic leader George Stevenson age 79 died Thursday evening from a heart valve clog after a car crash near Fulton and Broadway. He was president of Farmers Savings Bank of Keota and had been active in local business for years. He reportedly enjoyed good health prior to the incident and several witnesses saw his car lurch and hit a parked vehicle before he collapsed at the wheel.
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Sigourney Review
George Stevenson
Keota
Farmers Savings Bank of
Stevenson
Fulton and
Broadway
Mr. Stevenson
Five Shirts Vanish In Indianola Clothesline Raid
Carl Johnson confides his line of five shirts vanished Monday night after being laundered and hung to dry. Two Lady Pepperel sheets also disappeared in the same incident, leavingJohnson puzzled at the mysterious loss and joking about ownership of so many shirts.
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Carl Johnson
Carl
Mr. Johnson
Dontchernaw
Newton Divorcee Tries Death After Poisoning
Virginia Gould, 17, newly divorced from Harlan W. Clark, remained in Skiff Memorial Hospital after drinking poison in a Wednesday attempt at suicide. The Newton resident had eloped with Clark to Unionville, Missouri, and married there after dating. the couple separated in Grinnell due to alleged cruel treatment.
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Monroe Mirror
Virginia Gould
Newton
Skiff Memorial Hospital
Miss Gould
Harlan W. Clark
Grinnell
Thomas H. Gould
Clark
Unionville
Boy Loses Parts Of Two Fingers In Explosion
Bloomfield Democrat reports eight year old Robert Dixon son of Mr and Mrs Perley Dixon of a Savannah area farm suffered loss of parts of two fingers after a dynamite cap exploded. The incident occurred last Thursday afternoon while he and his brother were handling dynamite caps.
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Bloomfield
Robert Dixon
Perley Dixon
Savannah
Rober
Arith Hie
Boy injures from match explosion during discovery
Two boys denied the act and one touched a match to a cap triggering an explosion that severely burned Robert. Dr. Charles Fenton amputated two fingers at the second joints and part of the thumb. Robert suffered a small facial burn. Charles remained uninjured and the injured boy is reported to be recovering.
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Robert
Charles Fenton
Charles
Marion County Aims for Iowa State Fair grain prize
Marion County will bid for the grain raising championship at the 1982 Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, entry by W F Lyon of Pleasantville. Fifteen counties compete for prizes totaling thousands. events run Aug 26 through Sept 2 with exhibits by Marion farmers and a large statewide program including farm shows, apiary and fruit displays, and a 2,000-exhibit lineup.
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Des Moines
Marion County
Iowa
W. F. Lyon
Pleasantville
A. M. Lyon
Swan
B. Freely and Son
Lyon
Freel
United States Department of Agriculture
Iowa State College
United States
Big Amusement Program at Iowa State Fair
Des Moines announces the Iowa State Fair will host the largest amusements in its history from August 26 to September 2. Highlights include daily television broadcasts, horse races on August 29 to September 1 with purses totaling $14,000, the first national circuit auto races in Iowa on August 26 and September 2 featuring top drivers, a rocket car exhibited and piloted by Sig Haugdahl on August 26, motorcycle events, sensational collisions, and seventeen bands plus sixteen world famous circus acts performing day and night.
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Washington
Des Moines
Iowa
Sig Haugdahl
Kruschen Salts Promises Weight Loss Per Testimony
The nondescript testimonial from Miss Madeline Crowley of Patieck Ark claims dropping from 140 to 110 pounds in a year after using Kruschen Salts. Advertisers tout fat loss and improved health as the product’s main benefits, with directions to take half a teaspoonful in water each morning.
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Madeline Crowley
Patieck
Ark
Pella Victorious Over New Sharon Sluggers In Close Tilt
Pella won 9 to 7 against New Sharon in a tight kittenball game at Vos tourist park during the Pella Chamber of Commerce picnic. New Sharon led early with four in the first and two in the third, but Pella rallied with four in the third and three in the final inning to clinch the win.
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New Sharon
Braashart
Dingeman
Kryn Byert
Langstraat
Berry
Pete Heerema
Pella
Vos
All-Stars
Ankstraat
Garner
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