Books Public Library Receives International Mind Above Volumes
Estherville Public Library gains a batch of Mind Above books from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. New titles include Oil for the Lamps of China by Alice Tisdale Hobart and The Future Comes by Charles A Beard and George H E Smith.
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Lucile Peterson
Estherville Public Library
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
China
Alice Tisdale Hobart
the Vindicator and Republican
Earth
House of Exile
Scotland
H. V. Morton
B. Diebold
Beard and Smith
Charles A. Beard
George H. E. Smith
Civilian Conservation Corps
Eldora CCC Camp Quarantined Over Scarlet Fever
The CCC camp at Eldora's fairgrounds is under quarantine for scarlet fever. Two recent visitors believed to have contracted the illness away from the camp are hospitalized in Mason City. neither is seriously ill. Names include Lloyd Natterstad Estherville Ford Tudor and W H Sidles Estherville Terra plane Coach.
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CCC
Fairgrounds
Eldora
Mason City
Lloyd Natterstad
Estherville
Ford Tudor
W. H. Sidles
Creamery Man Subject of Newspaper Sketch
The Algona Upper Des Moines runs a nostalgic Thumbnail Portrait of Mads Christiansen, longtime Algona Cooperative Creamery manager and dairy leader. Born in Denmark, he sailed as a child in a brine tank, worked in Canada and Chicago before moving to Wesley, then Algona in 1915. A director of the Iowa State Brand Creameries, he is known for humor, cigars, coffee and dogs, with many friends and farm tales yet to publish.
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Algona
Upper Des Moines
Mads Christiansen
Co-Operative
Christiansen
Estherville
Towa
Mads
Denmark
Mads’ Feather
Algona Coooperative Creamery
Canada
Quebec
United States
Chicago
Wesley
Neal Smith
Algona Cooperatve Creamery
Iowa State Brand Creameries
Iowa
Solomon and Wisdom in Proverbs From an Ancient King
A reader questions Solomon and the famed monarch’s life. The essay recounts his marriages, the Queen of Sheba, and the temple, but centers on his enduring wisdom in Proverbs and the paradox of his actions regarding women.
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Solomon
Sheba
Solomon's Temple
Abyssinia
Temple
Jerusalem
Unlawful to Kill Certain Hawks Warns I T Bode
I T Bode, State Fish and Game Warden, warns the public against killing hawks and owls. He notes only six of 73 species are injurious and identifies two protected hawks. He urges proper species identification before taking action and explains trapping harms non target birds. He adds poultry protection permits destruction of pests when necessary.
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I. T. Bode
State Fish and Game Department
Fish and Game Wardin
United States
Bode
Owls Use in Iowa Game Management Discussed
A Ames led study by Dr Paul L Errington finds predatory birds cause greatest game losses where cover protection is absent. The Fish and Game Commission advocates improving cover with brush piles and natural plant growth rather than destroying birds. Data from Owls of the United States shows 56% stomachs with small mammals and 27% with insects while 34% contain poultry or game birds.
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Owls
United States
Iowa
Bode
Fish and Game Commission
Wild Life Research Division
Iowan State College At
Ames
Paul L. Errington
Eldora man Hank Shafer battles seventeenth death encounter
Hank Shafer of Eldora, 83, famed for escaping death sixteen times, is fighting his seventeenth near fatal encounter after breaking his right hip in a fall at home. He is hospitalized in good condition and expected to recover, with a long list of prior survival feats noted in Eldora.
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Hank Shafer
Eldora
United States
Eldora Hospital
Graettinger Bank Leases Ambaum Market Building
Graettinger State bank officers lease the Joe Amdahl Market building for remodeling into a new bank and plan to open mid March. Amdahl, son of Geo Amdahl and wife of Estherville, has not decided whether to move his shop or dispose of it.
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Graettinger State Bank
The
Times
Joe Amdahl
Amdahl
Mr. Amdahl
Geo. Amdahl
Estherville
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Strube’s Annual
America
E. C. Strube & Company
Corner 8Th and
Lincoln
David
C. Hart Merriam
Hank
Graettinger Bank
Amdahl Market
Fashion Hat
Squa
Maybelle Harris Wilson
the Vindicator
Republican
Emmet County
Emmet
Vindicator
Mr. Farmer
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