Family travel plans and service disruption update
Mr and Mrs Win Zentner and family make travel plans to Chillizouhe Mw with Darlene at college and Helwin Smith joining a business course. The group later visits Alfred James in Hollywood and contemplates Oregon or Washington work. Freight train delays push weekly paper delivery. farm cooperative meeting postponed due to heavy snow and blocked roads.
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Win
Zentner
Chillizouhe
Darlene
Beeiesa College
Helwin Smith
Chen
Wiht
Ala
Ancre College
Cathenet
Lloyd Block
California
Renwick
Farmers’ Co-operative Company
Thirty Below Zero Weather Rages Through Territory
Old Man Winter dominates the region with a blizzard and deep cold. Temperatures plunged to 30 below zero at times, with 24 below tied for a night reading and winds driving drifting snow. Trains halted on the G. N. branch, schools closed, and plows struggled to keep up as authorities warned of continuing severe cold before a brief reprieve toward Thursday.
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Winter
Acre
Vernon
Wawkle
Vernon School Installs Electric Score Board
Vernon consolidated unveils an electric scoreboard for basketball games. The device, funded largely by the girls athletic association, is powered via the officials table switchboard and displays score and time remaining each quarter, enhancing game excitement.
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Vernon Consolidated
Behnd
Girls’ Athletic Association
Tuble
North Western Railway Marks 100th Birthday
The Galena and Chicago Union railroad, now part of Chicago and North Western, celebrated its 100th charter anniversary on Thursday January 16. The line, destined to connect Chicago with the west and reach toward the Mississippi, had a charter allowing a toll turnpike along the route and winter sleigh tolls. Construction began in 1847 with a daily engineer salary of 2.50 dollars and the first locomotive placed in October 1848. today the system covers over 10,000 miles of road across three plates.
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Galena & Chicago Union Railroad
Chicago & North Western Railway
Chicago
Prairie Country
Mississippi River
Dubuque
Iowa
Gulana
Otto Baby Wins Prizes for Parents and Self
A baby boy born to Mr and Mrs Lewis Otto of Liberty township Wright county on January 16 2a m is the first baby born in Clarion territory this year earning prizes for the child and parents. Prizes include a hat for the father baby sweater coal butter canned baby food shoes powder soap a baby book jacket a year subscription to the Wright County Monitor and Wright County Tribune.
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Ajx
Lewis Otto
Liberty Township
Wright County
Fort Dodge
Clarion Territory
Clarion Merchants
Clarion
Winour
Wright County Monitor
Wright County Tribune
Renwick Girl Appears In College Vaudeville
Anna G. Blesie of Renwick will perform four parts in Tutor Ticklers at Lawn State Teachers College Cedar Falls. The annual college vaudeville show runs January 30 31 with profits to the Student Loan Fund. Historical Quirks is this year’s theme directed by Raymond Pedersen and Rutherford Rogers.
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Anna G. Blesie
Renwick
L College
Lawn State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Raymond Pedersen
Cedar Walls
Rutherford Rogers
Jeans
Acta
Miss Blesie
Bel Canto Gles Club
Renwick Twenty One Years Ago News Highlights
Items copied from the Renwick Vimes dated January 21 1916 recount local happenings including Mr and Mrs Julie Kerr returning from Ohio trips Carroll Richardson visiting Allison G S Peters traveling to Minneapolis for a lumbermen convention Hana Bannick buying fine horses Ara Walker Phipps visiting Ceylon Minnesota Ice harvest begins with good weather Pearl Harvey ill with pneumonia Mrs B D Lassen and daughter Katherine travel to Rochester for health consult Lon Overbaugh farmstead near Lawn, Ray Overbaugh Olaf Anderson building a modern farmhouse at Lon Overbaugh’s farm Vernon township school consolidation meeting Renwick civic changes Census talk Humboldt city ward reorganization Walter Phipps visiting Ceylon and Sask Griffin Miss Muriel and Fred Christenson wed in Omaha and reside with Overbaugh family Electrical wiring work advancing in Renwick residences and businesses, 1915 census note.
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G. S. Peters
Minneapolia
Hana Bannick
Breck
Hornea Pt
Sale
Corwith
Ara. Walker Phipps
Ceylon
Minn
Wills
Pearl Harvey
B.D. Lassen
Katherine
Rochester
Jena Sehneider
Houston
Texas
Humboldt
Walter Phipps
Griffin
Sask
Canada
Renwick
Dee~ Tricity
Miss Muirep
Chris Resmussen
Fred Christenson
Omaha
Neb
Ten Overbaugh
Death of King George V Shocks World
All of Great Britain mourns the death of King George V who died late last Monday, a shock to the nation and the world as a great monarch passes.
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Great Britain
George V
Iowa Supreme Court ruling frees theatre bank night promotions
Assistant Attorney General Walter Maley states operators may resume bank night shows after a recent Iowa supreme court decision. The ruling cancels county attorneys guidance to halt bank night operations, allowing theatres to proceed with promotions.
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Walter Maley
Iowa Supreme Court
We Have Become a Great Nation of Fearless Individuals
The piece extols American individualism and self made success, praising height of speed records by Agelio Wood and Campbell, and condemning railroad funding as a threat from lawmaking bodies. It notes over a billion dollars spent on rivers and harbors highways and airways, with railroads facing $379.5 million added annual costs.
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Enlid
United States
Thiglaour
America
Attock
Mystery of Lava Liquor Seal Theft Cleared
The published Lehantr. Ryan report to Governor Herring states thousands of lava liquor seals were stolen by a deceased employee whose name is withheld. The case links to Hauptmann's defense and the jury rejected his claims.
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Lehan Tr. Ryan
Peéperal
Herring
Hauptmann
Governor Herring Announces Only Candidacy for Senate
Iowa Governor Herring says he enters a true term campaign for the United States Senate. The remark notes his current record as governor and expresses doubt the record alone will carry him to the Senate.
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Herring
United States Senate
Iowa
Senate
Federal payroll surpasses nine million workers
Report notes more than 9,000,000 people on the federal payroll drawing salaries totaling over 350,000,000 per year. It argues taxpayers bear the burden, calling citizens the nation’s largest contributors to government spending.
Mussolini Faces Slow Progress in Ethiopian Campaign
The report notes a sluggish Italian advance under Mussolini and a lack of immediate alarm among Ethiopian leaders as the conquest unfolds, with both sides displaying cautious posture amid the conflict.
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Otto Baby
Vimes
Julie Kerr
Ohio
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Allison
S. L. Huntley
Renwick Theatre
Joe E. Brown
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Jack Holt
Antonio Morens
Gene Lockhart
Elis
Noveda
Diamond Jim
the Crusaders
Renwick Times
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L. W. Miller
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Italy
Garfield A. Wood
Malcolm Campbell
England
Jblotter
Mussolini
Ethiopia
News Review
Edward W. Pickard
Itpen
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