Local Rainy Week Delays in North Bronson
North Bronson reports continuous rain over two weeks with lingering showers on Tuesday. Residents traveled to Sidney for a gathering last Saturday while Hille’s house nears completion and plastering plus painting progress advance. Grose boys harvest wheat for W. M. Dillsaver who is due soon to oversee the harvest as W. M. Wassum assists his father-in-law.
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Sidney
Mr. Hille
Grose
W. M. Dillsaver
W. M. Wassum
Hille
Catarrhal Deafness Cure Advertised By Hall's Medicine
A medical advertisement claims catarrhal deafness cannot be cured by local means and urges a constitutional remedy. It explains inflammation of the Eustachian tube causes deafness, promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a blood-borne treatment, and offers a $100 reward for any untreatable case. The ad lists price and makers in Toledo Ohio.
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Hall
All Druggista
Cheney & CO
Toledo O
Local Notes From Around Carley to Lodgepole
Walter Wassum and cousin spent Friday at Wassum’s north of Lodgepole due to rain while Mrs S Tille’s parents were kept in east of Carley. News items mention wheat fields, a 600 acre parcel with many shacks, and several social calls. Two young women rode out Monday to sell religious literature. Agnes Kelly recovered after a health scare caused by a mishap.
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Walter Wassum
Mrs S Tille
Carley
Cousin
Wow Wassnum's
Lodgepole
Rudd
Gurley
Mr. Wassum
Elenry
Hille
Norman Saurs
Isawe Jones
Agnes Kelly
Kelley
Glenn Bales
Grose Brothers
John Engle
Rainy weekend fills SExtorp with visits and gatherings
A series of Sunday evening showers set a calm mood in Sextorp as residents shared news of visits and illness. Mrs. Ho Meee spent days at the Pete Nelson home while Pete Nelson and family traveled to Colorado. Local social rounds included home guard practice at Potter and multiple drop ins among neighbors and relatives.
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Ho Meee
Pete Nelson
John Brett
James Eckert
Denver
Kate Neimer
Colorado
Potter
Fred Trince
Wilma Nelson
Iva
Kate Heimer
Chas. McKee
Tl. Brett
Fred Prince
Harry Courtright
Charley Strawburg
Clarence
McKee
No G. Eckert
John Nelson
Ealers
Heimer
Wil Scheele
Harry Ploch
When Horses Get Pipped by Careful Drivers
The article notes that wounded army horses are kept by their drivers rather than sent to veterinary lines. Drivers feed and tend the horses by hand, nursing them back to comfort, and this close care prompts a new order requiring horses to be returned to their own units rather than transferred to new teams.
Not Like Old Days Laments Thrift Among Rising Generation
In Herald Square a pair of fiftyish men discuss income strain and loss of thrift among today’s youth. They contrast their frugal past with a modern class of small earners, noting rising living costs and altered spending norms illustrated by a bootblack scene and a quick ride by a motorcyclist. The exchange ends as they reflect on youth’s recklessness.
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Herald Square
Middle West
New York
New York Evening Telegram
Spy Rivalry and Diary Tricks Unveiled in Germany
Ex-Ambassador Gerard reveals German spy methods and the risk of private reports during the war. He recalls urging high officials to take breaks and go shooting to avoid word spreads. Spies opened bags and steamed letters, while diplomats hid publishable notes to counter surveillance. Zimmermann pressed for reports to stop.
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Germany
Gerard
London Times
Zimmermann
New Artificial Leather Advances Between Cotton and Celluloid
The new artificial leather uses cotton fabric as about three quarters of its weight, coated with a paste of nitrocellulose oil and lead coloring, finished with a cel luloid sheath to imitate grain. It costs about one third of genuine leather and is used in trunks slippers and upholstery, with shoe uppers still under development and no satisfactory results yet.
Do It With Your H o c Kitchen Door Slogan
A Collier's Weekly excerpt promotes growing produce at home and shipping none. It argues local harvests reduce terminal congestion and freight handling, urging readers to use the kitchen door as a slogan for self sufficiency and small scale distribution.
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Collier’s Weekly
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R. R. McDonald
Chas. Perry
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Oberfelder
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