Kaiser Wilhelm's Joke That Embarrassed the Czar
In 1902 at Reval the German Kaiser joked about titles admiral of the Atlantic and admiral of the Pacific. Czar Nicholas looked embarrassed, and the kaiser pressed the joke at table. They parted with a formal embrace and a terse farewell from the Russian emperor.
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Reval
Wiliam
Nicholas
Pacific
Atlantic
Prince von Bulow
Russias
Kronstadt
Kaiser William
Fashion and machinery notes in a bound page mix
The piece contrasts men and women spending on clothing with women buying multiple dresses while men buy one suit. It notes a writer’s quip on dress aims and discusses a pneumatic wrench for stubborn nuts. It also reports the US surpassing London as a fur center, with domestic fur values estimated at 45 to 70 million dollars and Muskrat opossum skunk and raccoon as top furs.
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Toledo Blade
United States
London
Mississippi Valley
Russia
Canada
Remarkable Carving Of a Wood Frigate Constitution Model
Portland resident Mowritz Peterson carved a wood model of the frigate Constitution with a pocket knife and glass. The ship features 87 sails shaved to an eighth of an inch from a three inch thick block, taking four days per sail and a year to complete. Hull uses western red cedar. sails Idaho white pine. smaller parts aged from Port Orford cedar and California sugar pine.
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Mowritz Peterson
Portland
Constitution
Idaho
Port Orford
California
Irascible superintendent confronts wandering visitors
The irascible public building superintendent watches two women roam the lobby and retreat. He chides them for not asking directions and asks what they seek. One replies quietly that they seek politeness.
Spades and a Neighbor's Card Game Incident
Ted visits a neighbor to borrow a spade for his father. The neighbor has none, but Ted spots an ongoing card game and grabs an ace declaring it a spade. The moment ends there.
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Ted
Iburg Bright-Lights and School Christmas Traditions
The issue prints the names of first grade pupils with perfect six week attendance and lists honor roll for each grade. It reports grade projects a sand table Santa scene and Christmas poems, plus a seventh grade arithmetic contest win, a high school Christmas program, and a basketball game recap between McCallsburg and Hubbard with scores and key players.
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Bonnie Rae Morris
Daniel Nelson
Junior Ruckman
Jarl Strum
James Sampson
Donald Springer
Harlan Tjelmeland
Dorothy Tweet
Virgil Wester
Joel Chelsing
Bernice Dillin
Paul Egenes
Inez Knudson
Junior Buckman
Marcella Egenes
George Knaphus
Wilma Osheim
Viola Britson
Wright Thompson
Burda Faye Norman
Raymond Aasheim
Dwight Baumgardner
Aaron Braathan
Alice Thompson
Ruth Andre
Marie Rosburg
Gordon Wester
Ruth Ritland
Hazel Britson
Craig Conley
Harold Egenes
Raymond Hovick
Edna Fae Mulanix
Jean Nail
Iane Osheim
Oma Wierson
Gladys Arnold
Aneta Cowan
David Nelson
Carmelia Malmin
Milo Helland
Margaret Thomas
Samuel Nelson
Cora Osheim
Birdella Larson
Raymond Ritland
Sarah Britson
Virginia Thompson
Santa
Wendell Christiansen
Roland
Wendell
Sammy
Geneva Holland
McCallsburg
Hubbard
Burg
Arnold
F. Helland
Skartvedt
M. Olson
H. Tett
G. Strum
Sampson
Neubauer
L. Tjkarks
Robertson
F. Faust
A. Tjkarks
M. Faust
H. Faust
Shearer and
Osheim
Duen
Mills
R. Olson
Shearer
Duea
Cox
R. Faust
Knowles
Shade
Mohlar
Miller
Zearing Basketeers
Zearing
Hi-Bred corn tests compare yields in Story County plots
During 1981 the Story County Farm Bureau conducted seven Hi-Bred corn tests versus local varieties on farms including O'Donnell Collins An drew Anderson Moses Britten Swandahl. Hi-Bred yielded 80.21 bushels per acre on average versus Krug 71.08 and other varieties 63.58, moisture adjusted to 15 percent and corrected for stand.
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Stony County
Pathology Department
Iowa State College
Henry Birkeland
Milford Township
Val Racek
Huxley
Marko
Semesan Jr
Sturdidust
Story County
Worth knowing about Harry and local paper subscriptions
The text praises Harry as good company and humorously suggests he can distract from a rumble seat. It urges readers not to send money to other papers, and to prioritize paying for the home paper which costs little each year.
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Harry
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Kaiser Wilhelm
Czar
United States Fur Center
Iburg
Charlotte Rutland
Arlotte Hill
Santa Claus
Ting-a-ling
Williiam Brekke
Emma Caltvedt
Bernice Chance
Parent-Teacher Association
Horace
Gladys Britson
Whittle
Popular Mechanica Magazine
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Ontario Street
Chicago, Ill
Lutefisk
Josendal
Roland, Ilona
Frank G.warden
Partnagle
Tbs
Holm Howe
Congoleum
Holm Hardware
Story City
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