Eighth Grade Graduation At Christian School
The Christian school held its eighth grade exercises last Friday with five girls: Marvilla Groters Carrie Diekever Josephine Van Nyhuis Lillian Landhuis Henrietta Van Veldhuisen. Diplomas and Bibles were awarded. A picnic followed the program and teachers Miss Wiersma and Miss Dykema were credited for a successful year.
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Christian School
The
Marvilla Groters
Carrie Diekever
Josephine van Nyhuis
Lillian, Landhuis
Henrietta van Veldhuisen
Wiersma
Dykema
Lower Electric Rates Take Effect in Sheldon
Lower electric heating rates went into effect in Sheldon with May, offering 5c per first 50 kilowatt hours, 44c for next 50, and 4c for all over 100 kilowatt hours, with a $2.50 monthly minimum. The prior rate was 7c for the first 200 hours and 6c for the next 300, but most users stayed under 500 kilowatts, limiting benefit to about half the previous bill.
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Sheldon
Duel by billiard ball ends in death in France
An 80 year old report recalls a duel between Lenfant and Mellant in Maisonfort Seine-et-Oise France over billiards. Mellant hurled the red billiard ball and struck Lenfant’s temple, killing him. The tale connects to Cagliostro who proposed two pills in a box for a medical dispute, though no record of the pills being used exists.
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Lenfant
Mellant
Maisonfort
Seine-et-Oise
France
Cagliostro
Their Third Wife a Tree
A bizarre Indian custom allows a man to marry a tree to constitute a third spouse or to wed after losing two wives. In some districts a tree marriage precedes a fourth wife, or a widow may be wed at midnight under a mango tree to avert widowhood’s curse while the “husband” remains alive.
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India
Punjab
Talking Pure Chaucer
A critical portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer as a master storyteller and verse innovator. The passage notes his deft use of pentameter, pauses, and rhythmic structure that elevated English poetry, contrasting it with Saxon speech and praising his influence on Elizabethan tastes.
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Chaucer
Saxony
Lowell
Sioux City Boosters Visit Boyden For Prize Day
The Sioux City Boosters train arrived in Boyden on May 24 at 9 30 am. Reed's military band played as locals lined up for hundreds of souvenirs and prizes valued near $100. Winners included H S Harman cash groceries, W H Boelsma cream cans, Henry Bodewitz and Gerrit Slothauber for heavy hogs, John Reimers for bricks, and Claus Revelts for a Dodge touring car.
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Sioux City
Boyden
Reed
H. S. Harman
W. H. Boelsma
Henry Bodewitz
Gerrit Slothauber
John Reimers
Claus Revelts
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England
Agatha Christie
Stylee
Tuppence
Tommy
Mr. Brown
Orange City
Sioux County
Iowa
John Morris
District Court
A. D
Klay
T. J. Reeves
Hk 'Yten
Mane
Parorn
FISK
van Diepen
Garag
Cagilostro
Steven
Baker
Jello
Orange City Rusks
the Farmers Store
Joe Steven
Sioux City Boosters
Doc Bird
Creamery Secretaries and Managers Association
Iowa Dairy Council
NATIONAL_DAIRY COUNCIL
Farmers Co-Op
Boyden, Iowa
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