Milford Meetings and Local Notices On October
Milford teachers attended a two day meeting, W C T U discussions at Mrs. Trowbridge home, and various local visits. Ray Swanson broke a limb and is at Birney hospital in Emmetsburg. many social visits and a planned Dakota hunting trip. officer elections for local aids announced with upcoming meetings. Republican women urged to attend a governor candidate event at Grant's Theatre.
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Milford
Trowbridge
Lamb
Spirit Lake
Ray Swanson
Birney Hospital
Estherville
Miss Pierce
Anderson
Dim Smith
Joe Prochasca
Dakota
Walter Garland
J. C. Smith
Lester
Bert Weaver
Walker
M. J. Weaver
Kruwell
Indianola
Foreign Mission
Jim Coon
H. Buckman
Webber and Hartman
E. Briggs
Ellen Duncan
Briggs
Aid
Wade
Zach
Emerson
D. M. Clump
Culture Club
Hostenses
Anna
Sarah Perkins
Emmet County
Grant's Theatre
N. E. Kendall
Town
Byron M. Coon
Republican Wommens’ Organization
V-R
Gruver Political Rally and Community Notices
A Gruver republican rally drew a good crowd with talks by Mr. Coon and Mr. Allen of Estherville and music by Mesdames Blake Goldsberry Merriot and Miss Verna Wickens. Various local events followed including a farewell for Mrs. Will Hayes, a nursing note on Mr. John Goldsberry’s illness, a R N A dance at Turtle Lake, and a hog sale that averaged $70 amid banking concerns. Community clubs met, social plans were announced, and residents returned from trips or moved to new homes.
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Gruver
and Coon
Allen
Estherville
Mesdames Blake
Goldsberry
Merriot
Verna Wickens
Wickens
Will Hayes
Center Club
John Goldsberry
Turtle Lake
Grover Lodge
Eva Nehring
Frank Taylor
Kerchner
Center Country Club
Andy Wilder
Midway Country Club
Sneckcloth
Cedar Rapids
Hienrich
George Brennan
Iva
Grover
Don Spaulding
Ilva
Alice Taylor
Geo. Staggs
Orleans
Browning
Rawleigh Medicine Co
Emery Carruthers
The Original Budget and Noon Weddings Explained
The piece notes misheard terms and historic meanings. It cites ludget as a cavalry socket and purse term linked to an Anandee statement by a chancellor. It then explains noon wedding timing arose from a sober hour tradition in England once followed.
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Becaus
England
Ironing With the Feet and Early Modern Tales
A fragmented column discusses native tailors who iron clothes with the feet using flat ironlike tools, raised ironing boards, and foot guidance on the handle. It also critiques romanticized historical writing, notes changing domestic labor norms, praises efficient home management, advocates practical vegetable prep, and describes Amazonian women in Uganda asserting rights by force when needed.
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Catro
Color and Diseases Healing Power of Ultraviolet Light
Color and diseases are linked with ultraviolet rays. A focused ultraviolet light ray on skin diseases triggers a healing process that gradually destroys the ailment. The text claims this color based ray exerts a potent curative effect.
Record Corn Crop Sets New National Yield Benchmark
The agricultural department reports a projected harvest of 3,216,192,000 bushels of corn this year, surpassing previous records by over 99,000,000 bushels. Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri share in the bumper crop, though farmers face concerns beyond mere figures.
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Agricultural Department
Kansas
Nebraska
Missouri
Corn price falls below $1 a bushel for December delivery
The mid June price of corn at $1.80 per bushel dropped to under $1 for December delivery, a first occurrence since February 1917 in Chicago. The high point was $2.36 in August 1917 as world crop production rises, per figures from the International Agricultural Institute at Rome, signaling plentiful food supplies after wartime shortages.
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Chicago
International Agricultural Institute
Rome
Mother Earth
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Cotomal Asad
Uganda
Forse
Ryder’s
Fixer
Dlatit
Eaay
Creamery
Spurbeck-Lambert Co
Apex
Apex Electric Washer
Free-Westinghouse
Free- Westinghouse
Emmet County Light & Power Co
Armstrong
Iowa
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