Christian Encouragement At Local Church Service
The union Sunday school and church service at the Chautauqua tent drew 275 attendees. Offering totaled 16 dollars 42 cents for the regular fund. Next Sunday services at the Methodist church include Sunday school at 10 a.m. and preaching at 11 a.m. Epworth League resumes Sept 11 with Brother Cavett leading. Mrs. Iva M. Innis, pastor.
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Union
Chautauqua
Methodist Church
Epworth League
Brother Cavett
Iva M. Innis
Woman's Club Social Evening at City Hall
The Woman's Club hosts a mock banquet September 13 at 8 p m in City Hall. Meeting place is Mrs Geo Myers with roll call and a guest of honor. Refreshments 15c per plate or 2 for 25. Members and prospective members to hand names to secretary Mrs Geo Myers by September 12.
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City Hall
Geo. Myers
Deshler Area Social and School News
Mr and Mrs Henry Polfus and daughter Azel attended the Deshler fair. Beatrice visitors Mr and Mrs Hintz and Marten Mudrow spent Sunday at the Mudrow home. Russel Campbell family returned from a two week trip in Western Nebraska and Colorado. School opened Sept 6 with teachers Miss Waggoner and Miss Jessie Kurtz from Fairbury. Baptist Sunday School picnic a success at Sandman grove. Several local families attended events in Powell Ohio Norton Kansas and a railroad picnic at Norton.
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Henry Polfus
Azel
The
Baptist Sunday School
Sandman’s Grove
Pete
Henry
Jake Walter
Wm. Pingle
Geo. Arnold
Laverne
Dale
Carl Sandman
Henry Arnolt
Lottman
Willems
Loreny
Powell
Schroeder
Free Logan
Norton
Kan
Bud Lottman Returns Home From Shea Summer
Bud Lottman came back to his residence Monday after spending the summer at Shea. He return marks the end of his seasonal stay and resumption of home routines.
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Bud Lottman
Shea
Obituary of Maggie G Wellman Miller of Diller Neb
Maggie G Wellman Miller born June 26 1850 in Osteel Ostfreisland Norden Germany married to John W Miller December 23 1876. They moved to Nebraska in 1883 resided on a farm near Diller then in Diller where she died August 30 1921 aged 71 years 2 months 4 days. Survived by husband son George Miller and three grandchildren. Funeral from the house to Federated Community church conducted by Rev Knauer. Burial Prairie Home cemetery.
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Maggie G. Wellman
Osteel
Ostfreisland
Norden Co
Germany
John W. Miller
Nebraska
Diller
Lutheran Church
Presbyterian Church
George Miller
Diller, Nebr
Federated Community Church
Knauer
Steele City
Prairie Home Cemetery
Gold Mine Lure for 300 Years in Mexican Peaks
Records in Mexico City recount a legendary gold mine hidden in the Sierra Madre of Sonora and Chihuahua. Prospector tales cite ruins seen by Jack Dunn and others, but no party has reached the mine, amid centuries of raids and peril in the Old Tuopa region.
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Mexico City
Recorda
Prospectore
Bisbee
Ariz
Sierra Madre
Sonora
Chihuahua
Mexico
Tyopa
Jack Dunn
Warren
Old Tuopa
Mystery of the Old Tyopa Mine and the Lost Camp
The tale centers on a Mexican family and a priest’s map to a legendary gold camp. Prospects risk fatal desertion as bands of outlaws and hostile conditions deter explorers. Max Covita and Bert Grover sought the ruins near Casa Blanca and Old Tuopa, but failed to reach the mine.
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Alshard-hipa
Max Covita
Naco
Casa Blanca
Old
Tuopa
Bert Grover
Tycpa
Early Almanacs of Clay Resting on Saint Symbols
The clay almanac, used in England and Denmark, was a square eight inch box or stick hung on walls or carried as a cane. Each corner and side marked three months with saintly symbols. Christmas used a horn and St. Clement's day on November 28 featured ale for the poor. The Greeks of Alexandria produced early calendars in 150 A. D. Solomon Jardhus and Petrus de Dacia offered others around 1150 and 1300 respectively.
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England
Denmark
Alexandria
Solomon Jardhus
Petrus de Dacia
Okimanacs
First European Almanacs and Their Prints in the Fifteenth Century
The Kalendarium Novum by Regionmon tanus marks the first printed European almanac issued in 1475 and reissued in 1494 and 1513. It sold across Hungary Germany Italy France and England where England’s Shepherds kalendar appeared in 1497. Each month began with a fitting poem.
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Europe
Regionmontanus
Hungary
Germany
Italy
France
England
Auto press runs during power cut in Rock River
With the city light plant off in Rock River, Wisconsin, Royal A. Worthg printed an edition of the Rock River Review by jacking an automobile and using a belt to drive the cylinder press. The machine produced 1700 copies per hour.
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Auto Motor
Rock River
Wryo
Roral A. Yorthg
Roeck
River Review
Wedding Rings Demand Gold for Brides Across Year
The article notes that more than 7,000 pounds of pure gold are required annually to supply wedding rings for brides, indicating a substantial gold use by the industry and its authorities.
Lines to Be Remembered and the Call to Generosity
A short aphorism echoes the value of cheerful, prompt giving with no delays. It emphasizes the virtue of generosity and the danger of hoarding charity, invoking Seneca to underline timely benevolence.
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Seneca
Palace Hotel Visitor Confrontation In Southern Town
A traveler steps off a train in a small Southern town where a colored porter grabs his suitcase and shouts. The porter offers the Palace hotel, boss, as the traveler questions if the hotel is American or European. The porter replies he is unsure but suspects the hotel’s attendants are Irish.
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Palace Hotel
Rastus
San Francisco Chronicle
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Jesus Christ
Methodist
Womans Club
Waggoner
Jessie Kurtz
Fairbury
Sierra Madre Mountains
Milton Coffman
Fairbury, Nebraska
Co. C
O. R. Jones
Fordson
Detroit
Fordson Tractor
C. G. Catlin Company
Ford and Fordson Sales and Service
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