Pear Folks reminisce on Veterans Day activities and small town events
Frances Craig recalls a busy Veterans Day weekend with a modest parade and a successful poppy sale raising about 3000 dollars. She notes volunteers like Emily Baumbach and Emily’s cookie batch, plus office bowling and Chamber survey efforts. City council and new building plans loom, while two local “guinea pigs” on a 14 day survival diet spark humor.
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Emily Baumbach
At&t
Office
Bev
Jimmy
Chamber of Commerce
Gordon Tobin
Moore
Old City
New Council
New City
Ward
Jane
Tree House Tips and Home Maintenance Hints
A vintage home advice piece covers building a lightweight cleaning stool with storage, using a latex foam padded seat, ceiling tile installation with 12 inch on center furring, gutter protection and periodic checks, and remedies for water hammer with steps to drain the system and possible shock absorbers.
Scotch Men Form Out Club To Bar Women In Dumfries
In Dumfries Scotland a new Oot Club aims to keep women out of male spaces. Founder Dick Brown a bachelor says the club is expanding as more men join and seek a haven to meet and talk without female company. He argues men’s traditional rights are being eroded by women’s presence in clubs and committees.
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Dumfries
Scotland
Dick Brown
Old Nebraska Steamboat Wrecks On Missouri River Trails
Nebraska steamboats along the Missouri River were cheered as frontier arteries but were treacherous due to snags sandbars and ice. Corps of Engineers records claim sixty wrecks between Rule and the South Dakota line with explosions fires and heavy insurance costs. The Bertrand sank in 1865 with cargo valued over 100000 including quicksilver and whiskey. Treasure hunters seek the sunken cargo near Bertrand Bend Portage La Force Nebraska. Trees in sandy soils show lightning strikes more than those in clay soils.
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Platte Valley
Nebraska
Missouri River
Corps of Engineers
United States Army
Rule
South Dakota Line
Oakton City Herald
Ulusumn
St. Louis
Missouri
Fort Benton
Montana
Council Bluffs
Corps of
Bertrand Bend
Portage la Force
Bertrand
Thrift Season Term Highlighted By Development Official
G Raymond Wood executive director of the Southern New Jersey Development Council told a civic group that the phrase off season wrongly implies inactivity. He urged using thrift season or economy season to reflect a summer resort's potential.
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Atlantic City
G. Raymond Wood
Southern New Jersy Development Council
Telegraph Want Ads Invite Buyers and Sellers
Readable fragment shows classified style notice urging readers to use Telegraph Want Ads to sell or trade items. Advertisers are encouraged to place notices for goods services or personal sales through the local telegraph publication.
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Frances Craig
Tree House
Andy Ylang
AP News
Old
Coe
Itar Lg He CO
ULL
Fairmont
Carton
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