Thanksgiving News From Brighton Route One
Correspondents report on Brighton Route One with visits over Thanksgiving. Several residents travel to relatives, a ball game at Mt Pleasant, a Hog sale, a funeral, and a Christmastime social planned at the Clay parsonage. Tractors prep fields for next year as rains improve ground conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brighton
Peter J. Fritz
East Filament Plain
C. EK. Savage
Halbert
Eddie Brinto
Prody Borkoski
Frank Clark
Wayland
Belle Brinton
Des Moines
M. Brinton
Hugh Gassiway
Thomas Gassaway
Lloyd Gassaway
Bryse Pringle
Stone
Edna Balderson
Washington County Hospital
Wayne Savage
Woodford
Mt. Pleasant
Charles Albert Woodford
Louise Waterhouse
Eliza Wheelock
Waterhouse
Meacham
Chase Woodford
Mr. Orr
Salina
A. L. Suppalla
Pleasant Grove Farm Bureau Ladies Club
Otto Walton
Herman Coll
Oskaloosa
Marshall Coil
K. A. Barkoski
Kansas City
Pleasant Plain News and Local Tidbits
Birth announced a son Raymond to Mr and Mrs Oscar Johnson on Saturday December 2. Pleasant Plain defeated Batavia last Friday night 17 to 16. Mrs William Farrier works at Dan Heaseltine home this week. Will Lambert and niece Edna Minneter visited over the weekend. Revival services held at Friends church this week. Mrs Tom Farrier returned from visit to J W Farrier near Rome. The tile ditcher is at work here. Nancy Johnson home from Des Moines. Philip Graves recovered from a broken leg.
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Pleasant Plain
Oscar Johnson
Raymond
Batavia
Pleasant Piain
Willam Farrier
Dan Heaseltine
Will Lambert
Edna Mineter
Friends Church
Tom Farrier
J. W. Farrier
Rome
Nancy Johnson
Des Moines
Philip Graves
Rural Visit Notes From West Chester and Columbus Junction
Rural families including Mr and Mrs Chas Kephart and Mr and Mrs Edd Simmering with three children visited the Oscar Gardner and Walter Gardner homes near West Chester and Columbus Junction on Sunday November 26. Other gatherings include Mr and Mrs Charles Adams staying with Adams' brother near Columbus Junction and Mr and Mrs Walter Gardner with two children Florence and Elwyn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas, Kephart
Edd Simmering
Oscar Gardner
West Chester
Charles Adams
Mr. Adam
Columbus Junction
Charles Kephart
Walter Gardner
Florence
Elwyn
Sam Sigafoose
Thanksgiving Visit Beside Wilbur Been Blossom Home
Three children visited Tuesday at the John Simmering Sr. home as Mr and Mrs Charles Adama who reside on the Bert Marsh farm prepare to move to a Missouri farm. They are loading their car today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilbur Been Blossom
Edd Simmering
John Simmering Sr
Charles Adama
Bert Marsh
Missouri
Railroad crews lay new steel between Wayland and Brighton
About thirty five to forty men from Brighton Noble Wayland and local workers are laying new railroad steel between Wayland and Brighton. Local residents on sick lists include Mrs EK EB Nichols and Mrs Rowland Dold and child Corrain. Rex Briar of Brighton underwent a serious operation at Washington county hospital.
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Coppock
M. and &T. L
Wayland
Brighton
Noble
EB. Nichols
Rowland Dold
Corrain
Robert
Dale Lyon
Washington
E. E. Nichols
Rex Briar
Washington County Hospital
Gleede
Frank Trump
Ruth Volger
Marjorie Lyons
Goldie Linn
Joe Rich
Burg
Lexington social and hospital notices from December
Mrs Don Mrindley visited her mother Sunday. Mrs O C Patterson returned from Mercy hospital in Iowa City. Mela Shalla and baby Phyllis visited Joe Shalla home. Bert Rittenhouse family spent Sunday with Dave Rittenhouse. E S Myall and wife visited Warren Matthess. Evart Young delivered hogs to Wellman. Huber visited West Chester. E S Bishop hauling corn to Evart Young. Wilma Anderson returned to hospital for another operation. Mrs E E Fleming spent days with Mrs Rosco Anderson.
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Lexington
Don Mrindley
O. C. Patterson
Iowa City
Mercy Hospital
Mela Shalla
Phyllis
Joe Shalla
Bert Rittenhouse
Dave Rittenhouse
E. S. Myall
Warren Matthess
Evart Young
Wellman
Huber
West Chester
E.S. Bishop
Evart Young's
Wilma Anderson
E. E. Fleming
Mra
Rosco Anderson
Rural Route Neighbors Report Weekend Visits and Harvest
Rural Route residents recount a weekend visit schedule with family and friends. Mr Chase Woodford and a daughter returned Donal from Grand pa’s, while others travel to Washington for calls and visits. Local workers husked corn with eleven teams, two per wagon, but two acres remained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chase Woodford
K. L. McCaleb
Master Donal
Grandpa
Blanche Scott Returns From Rochester Trip
Blanche Scott has returned on from her trip to Rochester Minnesota. She arrived back in Rural Route No Sux on December 7 and plans to resume local activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanche Scott
Rochester
Minn
Prairie Flower Social Attended and Local Moves Noted
The Prairie Flower social drew a large crowd. Wallace Darnell moved into the John Rittenhouse home at Prairie Flower while Mrs. Alice LeFever aided her poorly mother near Kalona and Mr. and Mrs. Geo Heil visited the Darnell residence alongside other Sunday gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mayo Brothers
Prairie Flower
Clara Fisher
Ernest
John Long
Ivan Anderson
Bil Fink
Titus
Tom MacAvoy
Charles Maoje Jr
Wallace Darnell
John Lone
John Rittenhouse
Geo. Heil
Wellston
Alice LeFever
Carter
Kalona
Meritt Booth
Franrie Flower Missionary Circle
Crawfordsville Social Notes and Christmas Exchange
The column lists visits and travels in Crawfordsville with Mrs Hazel Anwyl Mrs Will Arthaud and others visiting relatives in Washington Cedar Falls and Burlington J H Jones and Harold Ross attended a school boards meeting in Cedar Falls The Care-Away Circle met with Daisy Huber for the Christmas exchange and Lois Davidson read Christmas Day in the Morning by Grace Richmond followed by refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawfordsville
W. H. Dillon
Columbus Junction
W. E. Anwyl
Hazel Anwyl
Lisle Maxwell
Gladys Maxwell
Burlington
John Lease
Frank Fletcher
James Long
Merle White
Fred Sipe
Marion Haston
Washington
Will Arthaud
Winfield
W. H. Hagie
J. H. Jones
Harold Ross
Cedar Falls
Consolidated Schools of Iowa
Daisy Huber
Lois Davidson
Grace
Richmond
Fools First at Fox Theatre Promises Gritty Bank Robbery Tale
In a San Francisco hotel lobby a refined woman persuades a recently released man to join her in a bank robbery scheme. The couple's escapades unfold in the film Fools First from Marshall Neilan, starring Claire Windsor Richard Dix and Claude Gillingwater, opening for a two day engagement at the Fox.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Marshall Neilan
Associated First National
Fox Theatre Tonight
Claire Windsor
Richard Dix
Claude Gillingwater
Hugh McNair Kahler
Measuring Horse Height by Hands and Inches
A description explains horse height in hands, each hand being four inches, measured from shoulder top to ground, noting how height is assessed for equines.
Odd Delicacies Tasted by Explorers and Locals
A fragment notes strange regional foods including Chinese delicacies of tongue and unhatched birds, sloth on Demerara island, and a meal of a pale mole and two mice served to Livingstone's guides after crossing the Kasai river.
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Demerara
Livingstone
Kasai
Early Riser Bird Song Emerges at One on Summer Morn
The greenfinch, the earliest rising bird in the finch family, starts to sing around one o'clock on a warm summer morning.
Ideal State of Society Solon Maxim from Ancient Wisdom
A concise quotation attributed to Solon on governance stating that society flourishes when citizens obey magistrates and magistrates enforce laws, reflecting ancient views on order, law, and civic responsibility.
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Solon
Muscatine Football Team to Attend Lions Dinner
Twenty eight Muscatine high school football players and coaches will join Lions at Hotel Muscatine for a 6 o clock dinner. Honored guests include Howard Jones Glenn Miller Aubrey Devine and Leland Parkin, celebrating the team’s eight wins and one loss this season. Coach Jones will speak after the meal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine
D. H. Barber
Ployd Ebbers
Hotel Muscatine
Lions’ Club
Quceta
Howard Jones
Locke
Glenn Miller
Leland Parkin
Iowa University
Aubrey Devine
Lions
Little Muskies
Washington
Devine
Parkin
Iowa
Yale
Miller
Wil
Afier
W. R. Ogle
EB. R. Tipton
H. G. Johnson
Ferod Eats Wild Prey to Settle Hunger
The Indian of the Bragilon pacifies hunger by consuming rats snakes alligators and parrots in a stark display of survival narrative within the tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilde
Marvelous Work of Nature Wing Delicacy Noted
A concise tribute to the fly’s wing as a model of nature's precise mechanism highlighting its perfection and delicacy.
Raper Describes Car Wheel Construction in Pullman Cars
A bulletin from the standards bureau notes the Saly extent tracks wheel origins and reveals Pullman car wheels are built by gluing many cardboard plates between two metal faces, encased by a steel tire.
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Bureau of Standard
Saly
Five Million Junior Red Cross Members Help Refugee Children
The Junior Red Cross completed 4 409 Christmas boxes for Mediterranean refugee children as part of America's five million members. Illinois and other states report high junior enrollment and ongoing interschool correspondence to foster international understanding and future Red Cross membership.
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Iowa
Red Cross
Fed Cross
America
Tran Gers
Lown
Tirana
Alvania
Illinois
Michigan
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Night-Go Either
A playful word puzzle line notes how marriage status and outdoor habits blur in a party quip. It ponders whether pipe smoking signals an outdoor lifestyle or merely complements it.
Uncle Tom's Cab'n staged at Graham Theatre in grand revival
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s immortal Uncle Tom’s Cabin is presented in H Kibble’s mammoth production. The Graham Theatre offers matinee and evening shows with a historically noted abolitionist author’s work, tracing Stowe’s life from Litchfield to Cincinnati and Bowdoin College.
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Lik
Harriet Dercher Stowe
H. Kibble
Harriet Beecher Stowe
America
Graham Theatre
Schondlem
Saea
Harriet Leecher Stowe
Litchfield
Conn
Lyman Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
Calvin Stowe
Cincinnati
Brunswick
Maine
Bowdoin College
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Unclear OCR Reflects On Uncle Tom's Cabin Readership
Fragment discusses the novel's sincerity and impact, noting its noble purpose and lasting life of its characters. It cites Uncle Tom's Cabin as part of world history in freedom struggles and claims over half a million copies sold within five years and widespread readership through plays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Studebaker
Sean
Undeliverable Packages Filled Chicago Mail Warehouse
The article describes a Chicago building used to store undeliverable parcels, including shoes clothing and more. Twice yearly boxes are auctioned, with last year 10000 pairs of shoes sold due to improper addressing or poor packaging. It urges saving wrapping materials for future use.
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Chicago
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