Scattered Town Notes From Sioux City Area
Local items report Bad Brown and wife in Sioux City on Tuesday, Frank Cach and Albert Peterson in business in Sioux City. A G A R encampment news from Pierre with Hon Geo Snow attending. Weather brings rain with heavy showers. a long stretch of damp days followed by fresh starts. Marriage news notes Miss Minnie Mount of this city wed Mr Paul Newcomer of Lanark at Rockford on May 20. Newcomer formerly at Mt Morris College and Camp Grant. wedding details and future plans outlined. Jewelry shop promotion at Zimmerman Mann’s urged with line about attire and branding.
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Minnie Alice Mount
Paul Newcomer
Lanark
Rockford
Smith
E. N. Mount
Mount Morria College
Camp Grant
Newcomer
Samuel Newcomer
Laws
Arly
United States
Mt. Morris College
Mt To
Rebe
Springfield Plans July 4th Celebration for Returning Soldiers
A field report notes Springfield arranging a grand Fourth of July celebration. The featured event will be a welcome to all county returned soldiers and marines. The program is not final, but Mr. Stephens will send details later, and residents are urged to plan to attend and greet the veterans.
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Seeotce
Springfield
Stephens
Notice to Former Members of Parker Veterans Unit
Former members who left Parker South Dakota and who served in Company D Fourth South Dakota Infantry are summoned to a meeting in Parker City Hall basement after the parade on June 11. The gathering aims to form a social World War Veterans group and discuss other important business.
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Parker
S. D
Parker City Hall
Letter from Newell Brown of Brest France May 1919
Newell Brown writes from Brest France on May 22 1919 detailing a Navy voyage from New York to the Azores with four destroyers Four crew members fell ill delaying the voyage to Halifax and then Azores The group assisted in locating and returning the NC 1 plane after it was lost and then proceeded to Brest after a Bay of Biscay wait The narrative notes rough seas meal disruption and ship life before orders to await the Transatlantic flight completion.
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France
New York
Azores
Halifax
New Foundland
NC-1
Harding
Brest
Bay of Biscay
Newell
Aging Mr Chamberlain Fails to Rally After Illness
D W Chamberlain has been very low for two days and has been unconscious since Tuesday evening. Due to his age and frail health, officials fear he may not recover. Meanwhile overseas service for Novak Tate arrived home Wednesday.
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Oyeesytnovak Te Tate Overseas Service
D. W. Chamberlain
Making Citizens of Aliens
The citizenship classes conducted by the Bureau of Naturalization in public schools prepare aliens for US citizenship. Courses aim to raise standards and help applicants meet state and naturalization court requirements, smoothing the path for those willing to fit themselves for citizenship.
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Bureau of Naturalization
Department of Labor
Naturalization Court
Shaving Under Fire A Youth In A Shell Hole Keeps Clean
Walter Ehrman of the Kansas City inn reports a lone youth in a shell hole near No Man's Land shaving between bursts. A medic found hair clippers and styled another doughboy’s hair as enemy bombardments paused, then the man returned to the trench looking changed.
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Walter Ehrman
Kansas City
Argonne Front
Ehrman
Me Corps
No Man's Land
Buddie
Tim Healy Quits Parliament Wit Forces Loss Felt
Tim Healy resigns from Parliament erasing one of its sharpest wits. His quips include calling a bill “a headache of the Irish office” and mocking the Campbell-Bannerman appointment as Ireland governed by Scotch jokes. He once quipped during a divorce case that a witness’s tears were “the greatest miracle” since Moses drew water.
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Tim Healy
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Ireland
Tim
Moses
Canvassing committee sells stock in hospital association
The canvassing committee for the hospital association began last Monday and quickly took orders for stock, signaling strong community support. A touring show was delayed by rain and tents could not be pitched, but the troupe planned to perform in Tripp next.
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Hospital Association
Tripp
Wilnot
Scotland
Anais
Gamaland
Sog
Leon
Ethel Moore
Patarning
Sioux
Ministry of Knitters Veterans and Gratitude Grow
The Congregationalist Advance notes with regret that many women pause knitting though their industry supplied soldiers with sweaters helmets and other gear of vast wartime output. The piece recalls the knitters lifelong devotion and hopes they will seek new ways of thoughtful ministry.
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Ministry of Knitters
Mrs Vanderbilt Surprised by Two Dough Boys in New York
Mrs William K Vanderbilt, home on furlough after four years in France as Red Cross canteen directress, was greeted by two former convalescent home dough boys in a New York shop. They recalled helping her nurse them back to health and expressed warm, rough nostalgia for old friends.
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William K. Vanderbilt
France
Red Cross
New York
Vanderbilt
Folly of hereditary monarchy, Paine argues against succession
Thomas Paine declares hereditary rule absurd as government needs talents not birth and asserts monarchies thrive only where people are ignorant. He contends belief in hereditary descent rests on willful blindness and cannot be justified by reason.
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Thomas Paine
Not Really Sardines Across Atlantic Coast
A large share of so called sardines along the Atlantic coast of this country and Canada are actually the young of herring and menhadden. They are prepared similarly to true sardines and would puzzle even seasoned epicures to tell the spurioya from the genuine article.
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Canada
Desk of William Penn and Longs Sword Donated by Will
The will of William Foulke Johnes of New York leaves a desk once owned by William Penn to his widow with a stipulation that it pass to Independence Hall in Philadelphia after her death. A sword carried by Major Long, part of early Rocky Mountain survey efforts, is bequeathed to the Smithsonian Institution.
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Penn
Long
William Penn
Major Long
United States Engineers
Rocky Mountains
William Foulke Johnes
New York
Johnes
Independence Hall
Philadelphia
Smithsonian Institution
Largest Volcanic Crater Measured at Haleakala
The largest volcano crater is Haleakala in Hawaii and spans 1820 miles across with depths up to 2000 feet. The vast caldera could swallow New York City and hiding the entire city beyond the rim.
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Haleakala
Hawaii
New York City
People’s Home Journal
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