Local News Highlights From Velien and Nearby Areas
Albert Ulstad and crew wired the town as power upgrades complete. Numerous residents and families, including the Vollmers, Beling, and Osteraas clans, are noted in social calls, visits, and Thanksgiving gatherings amid smallpox quarantines and mumps illnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lars Larson
Silvia
Agness
Pal- Inter
Vebl
Albert Ulstad
Veblen
William Krause
Lidgerwood
Albert Schiski
Frank Wenschlag
Sisset
John Brandel
August Hoefs
Lid
Otto
Nate Manley
Sam Clifford
Rats and pests threaten grain and health in old ad copy
A fragmentary ad warns of rats stealing millions of dollars in grain, eggs, and poultry losses and promotes RAT-SNAP as a guaranteed solution unavailable to cats or jogs. It notes a Red Cross Drug Store and Thos Thompson as distributors in a dated small-town circular.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ayzog
Abe
Bse
SANE
Red Cross Drug Store
Thos, Thompson
Petroleum in Vicinity of Geddes First South Dakota crude oil found
Crude petroleum discovered near Geddes in Dakota Territory marks the first known east of the Missouri River. Oil seeped from ground near the Blair and Riverside ranches, samples confirmed by Iowa City chemists. No gas nearby yet. blasting may test for underground pools. a geologist will study the find.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Dakota
Blair
Riverside
Missouri River
Here
University At
Iowa City
Sioux City
Sioux Falls
Blunt
Pierre
Geddes
Mixed Humor and Tragedy From Ireland Revolt Recount
The piece blends satire with tragedy as Dorothea Sanyers recalls a Sinn Fein uprising in Ireland with a humorous misadventure on a bridge. It contrasts grim revolt scenes with light moments such as a cart dispute at Thomond bridge and a sentry’s courteous guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treland
Dow
Indy
Yrother Ridge
Thomond Bridge
Historic Penns Park estate offers historic grave marker monument
The Stike Park estate, once home to the Penn family, is up for sale. A monument erected in 1790 by John Penn honors the poet Gray with lines from the Elegy. Three sides bear quotations. an inscription notes Gray’s interment and a hoped preservation against ruin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stike Park
Penns
John Penn
Gray
London ‘Times
Wartime Lumber Consumption Totals by Government Agencies
Wartime lumber use reached about 6.0 hundred million feet in holrd measure. Government departments bought most of it, with near 5.5 billion feet for general needs and 120 million feet for the Navy. Emergency Fleet Corp used about 800 million feet for shipbuilding. Crates required around 2.0 billion feet, while structures for quarters, mails, and warehouses used about 3.0 billion feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Forestry Service
Navy
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Novel Wireless Experiments Reported Near Philadelphia
An account describes wireless experiments using a submarine listener aboard an abandoned battleship in the Delaware Bay near Philadelphia. Signals from an oscillating device are said to control a town’s engines and helm, with insulated wires installed to extend range.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Feang
Ohio
T le
Towa
Delaware Tay
Philadelphia
Ustener
Oso
Shetlands Return to Ancient Industry
A Central News correspondent notes the whaling season near the Shetland Isles has been active. Twenty nine large and valuable whales were landed last week at Cloutirth station, lifting the season total there to 260. Collafieth station reports 130 whales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shetland Isles
Cloutirth
Collafieth
Westminster Gazette
Oldest Industry in the World Near Brandon Park Sale
The Brandon Park estate of 2000 acres on the Norfolk Suffolk borders faces sale. It recalls the world’s oldest industry, flint working. A small colony still makes gun flints exporting to Northern and Central Africa. The workers are said to be descendants of early Neolithic laborers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brandon Park
Norfolk-Suffolk
Eng
Brandon
Africa
Slowing Down Production in Farm Tale
Farmer Corntessel frets over keeping a new hired hand who captivates workers with talk of political economy, causing him to worry about affording labor as interest in work wanes. The dialogue highlights tension between productivity and intellectual chatter on the farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mar
Corntessel
Tye
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Velien
Ben Vollmer
Bill
Ned
Albert Misear Hammmer
Percy Garlock
Clarence Hextell
Hessey
John Guo
Minneapolis
Sisseton
Dahl
Hammer
Frank Ersink
Russell Gunnierson
Robert
Alfred
Sadie Beling
Linda Amback
Great Bend
Olaf Aadland
Clarence Walstad
Olaf Railers
Albert Wenschlag
Leslie Birdsall
Ruth Elesworth
Minnesota
R. H. Gunderson
J. Price
Alfred Rustad
Wheaton
Agness Twite
Hffington
Hans Twite
Tore Lien
Fargo
N. C
Lillie Lien
Clem Sebeck
Leonard Osteraas
Roland Matley
Esther Gorsuch
Leslie Gauper
Gust Berndt
Arnold
Mildred
Henry Kahl
Elfreda Berndt
John Vollmer
R. O. Gauper
Everett
Clarence Geedees
Prody Schumacher
Camel
Nushawa
Minn
Louie Vollmer
Lampert Launher Co
Esther Brande
George Osteraas
Ludwig
Alfred Larson
J. J. Osteraas
John Brande
Louis Matheison
August Otto
John Olson
Daugther Mavel
Auto
Bird Island
Chris Gedeos
Dr. Sanscall
Sophia Schafta
Grareville
Dr. Peterson
Sissetun
Pred Schlee
Rudolph Sebeck
Sam Satre
Iona
Clarence Satre
August Vollmers
George Oetken
Henry Vollmer
Hayimer
Charley (Luge
Mankinson
Joe Soulah
Hd. Sebeck
Tom Prohoda
Carl Langfeld
R. H. Guilderson
Carl Langfeldt
J. Knees
Andrews
Mr. O'treip
Art Ahrens
Fred Nordquist
Brother
Efington
Jim Flaws
Chas
Herman
Matheison
John Bendit
Bell Berndt
Hankinson
Claus Kalil
Tom Larson
Hull
Pativish
Olio Trittin
Hanmer
John Osteraas
Rather Brandel
Siger ‘Johnson
Ear Haiminer
Olga Olson
Effington
Odel Olson
Minerva Johnson
Les Birdsall
Jerbro
Frank Wensbhlug
New ‘Ifington
Wolf
Cialty
Joe Smith
Pennsylvania
Claire City Garage
Claire City
Palace Cafe
Tom Lee
Sisseton, S. D
Bughias
Ireland
Arthur Rumley
Brights
Gaston
Gunderson
Butt
Aberdeen
Presbyterian Church
Christianson
Watertown
Hugo Ride
N. D
Nick Klein
Everett Gauper
Alvin Johnson
Lelen Vollmer
Esther Braudel
Mrs
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Standard Oil Company (Indiana) Laboratories
St. Michigan Ave
Chicago
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