Local Neighbors Report Bazaars Sales Club Activities
Fonda Catholic ladies raise 240 for charity through bazaar and supper. Fonds businessmen form an athletic club with a winter basketball plan. Gilmore City outlets host free holiday movie showings while local trades update meat prices and a Portland Cement Co shifts offices. Residents move, trade stores, and patch town life with humor and hardship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradgate Observer
Rutland
Bradgate
Catholic Ladies of Fonda
Thankful
Fonds
Portland Cement Co
Fort Dodge
Gilmore City
Gilmore City Enterprise
Messrs. Gardner and Armstrong
Welter
Mies
On the Road to War and Peace Voices from the era
A Wartime letter column argues about the costs and legitimacy of war, recalling the Civil War and Revolutionary era. The writer contrasts antiwar sentiment with memories of American conflicts and calls for reflection on national defense and peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abe
Ding
Anti-Defense League
Earth
Glass of Salts If Your Kidneys Hurt
A historic health blurb promotes Jad Salts as a kidney and bladder aid. It advises regular meat eaters to flush acids and waste with four ounces of the preparation in water before breakfast for a few days, claiming it cleanses sluggish kidneys and eases pains. The mix is described as grape and lemon acid with lithia, said to be inexpensive and harmless.
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Wha Brown
David Harum
Manson
Fonda
Mo A. Townsend
Obeydian
Fonds Journal
Ponda
Laurens Sun
Washington
Hiw
Dickene
Geo. Sahuelle
Gus Doeringsfeld
Wisconsin
Henry Boem
Thos, McMahon
Will E ¥Iiott
Altho
Lake Township
Geo. Henry
Laurens
Nevada
Henry
The
Christian Church
Ft. Sumter
Speedilly
Lincoln
Gethsemane
A. B. Funk
Register & Leader
Chicago
Alabama
Henry Ford
District Court
Iowa
Pocahontas County
D. B. Cady
Mary Wengart
Marple & Kent
Wilson & Hamilton
W. Wengart
Ed Anderson
Mary. Wengart
Marple
Kent
Wilson
Hamilton
H. Anderson
W. S. Simpson
Rolfe
Holfe
W. 3. Simpson
Sid
Simpson
Wengart
Pocahontas
Arrow
Bruce
Plaintif
Toyland
Santa Claus
AMC Rnge
Geo. R. Cook
P. A. McCray
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