Dayton Grove News Highlights Social and School Events
Correspondents report Thanksgiving visits and football travel to Columbus Junction. Ruth Leet, Margaret Smylie, and Owen Proomback traveled from Monmouth, NL to watch the game then returned to school. Will Embree dined with his mother. Eugene Owen visited from Davenport. The Sew and So club met with Mrs. Bruce Moore and planned exchanges. Walter Leet children have measles.
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Dayton Grove
A. J. Puvall
Bruce Moore
Ruth Leet
Margaret Smylie
W. EE
Rubio Rubio Thanksgiving Week Recaps Family Losses and Local News
In Rubio on November 29, residents recount a week of gloomy weather followed by sun. J Blakely attended his mother’s funeral in Newton. Jim Stein Jim Gatten and others mourn mothers in Illinois. Allison family learns of Mrs Allison’s mother’s death. Ed Singleton visits Waterloo relatives after forty years. Joe Augustine returns from visiting Basie. Van Gabby rails at kitchen addition. Tobias Laithly tour Rosehill Oskaloosa for Thanksgiving. Ronald Benn returns from Des Moines Seed Co. work. father Raymond accompanies him to Keota. Local farming activity includes corn husking for Lester Van Dyke and new neighbor Mr Moore. Corn prices drop from $2.00 to 6 ½ cents per bushel. School vacation interrupted by limited hunting. Glenn Singleton plans a Christmas opening for a new restaurant. A break-in damages Henry Sarreant’s home during husking. sheriff alerted. Gladys Ireland hosts Washington High students for a weekend dance. Oliver Leppert visits Charley Leppert. family news continues.
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Rubio
J. Blakely
Newton
Jim Stein
Jim Gatten
Miscouni
Allison
Timiele
Illinois
Nordyke
Rosehill
Oskaloosa
Mr. Strinefellow
Oliver Leppert
Ronald Benn
Des Moines Seed Co
Raymond Benn
Keota
Joe Augustine
Jacob Rudolph
Lester van Dyke
Mr. Moore
Hrooks
Reille Eeety
Ralph Beliel
Glenn Singleton
Thanksgiving Gatherings Reach Across Relatives and Towns
Havre on November 29 reports Mrs Ode Ferguson and Mrs Sam Witting visiting Fort Madison and Moline for work and visits. A Thanksgiving dinner at Will Stafford home drew 36 relatives as men hunted rabbits. Other notes include Mr and Mrs Tom Schilling with relatives near Brighton and Mr and Mrs Howard McBride visiting Will McBride. Peter Witrie of Washington observed business in town. Louis Baker moved to Washington. Charley Zieglowsky's infant son improves while Mrs Joe McGinnis and Leeter cope with measles.
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Havre
Ode Ferguson
Sam Witting
Fort Madison
Edith McBride
Moline
Will Stafford
Tom Schilling
Brighton
Howard McBride
Will McBrride
Peter Wittrie
Washington
Our City
Louis Baker
Charley Zieglowsky
Joe McGinnis
Leeter
Golia Millerse Oecar Card Ner Gather This Week
Golia Millerse Oecar Card returns to the arena this week as organizers plan a regional gathering. Details on venue and schedule are being finalized, with fans awaiting official announcements.
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Golia Millerse Oecar
Stringtown Thanksgiving Notes and Local Updates
Farmers finish shucking corn as the crop yields average. No school on Thanksgiving. Wilber Schants ill with cold pneumonia and measles but improving. The Wittria family enjoyed Thanksgiving at George Herzog’s. A coal carload from Pershing mines reached Noble Saturday. David and Ira Graber visiting relatives in Milford. J W Hesseltine ill last week. Ethan Brooks and family went to Burlington for son’s eye treatment by Dr. Francis Mises. Ella Shantz teaching at Camanche spent Thanksgiving with Rev L L Miller and wife. Mere and Mrs J J Rich and children also spent Thanksgiving with Joe W Rich.
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Stringtown
Wilber Schants
Wittria
George Herzogome
Sehants
Noble
Pershing
Tracy
Iowa
David
Ira Graber
Milford
Net
J. W. Hesseltine
Ethan Hrooks
Burlington
Francs Mises
Ella Shantz
Camanche
Rev. L. L. Miller
B. EB. Richer
Mere
J. J. Rich
Joe W. Rich
Crawfordsville News Briefs and Social Notes
Elwyn Davidson returned to Iowa City to resume college work after a siege of tonsillitis. A E Davis spent several days in Chicago visiting his daughter Miss Nelle Davis and attending a live stock show. Cecil Lease returned to Ft. Madison after a Sabbath at home. Miss Irene Holmes left for Cedar Falls to attend the State Teachers College. Mrs. Arthur Griffith of Washington visited on Saturday with relatives.
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Crawfordsville
Elwyn Davidson
Iowa City
A. BE. Davis
Chicago
Nelle Davis
Cecil Lease
Ft. Madison
Irene Holmes
Cedar Falla
State Teachers’ College
Arthur Griffith
Washington
Thanksgiving visitors and family events in Haskins
Thanksgiving week happenings in Haskins include Mrs. Ethel Booth visiting, relatives gathering for meals, Lola Welliver returning for the holiday with guests at her home, and several trips to Washington. Various residents attended games, visits, and a dentist appointment, with church meetings scheduled for December 5 and ongoing for two weeks.
Durham County Custom of Fruit Cake and Cheese Gift
In Durham England an old custom gives fruit cake and cheese to the first person met on the way to church by a Christian party. The practice reflects historic local hospitality and religious observance in the county.
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Durham
England
Who Wrote Gray's Elegy Name Revealed
A Philadelphia periodical plays with the line with apologies to the author of Gray's Elegy. The piece hints at the author’s identity, inviting readers to guess who penned the famous work.
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Philadelphia
Gray
Poston Transcript
Sunny South Minstrels Prepare Lively Graham Theatre Show
The J C Rockwell Sunny South Company brings a twenty member all colored cast to Graham Theatre on Thursday December 2 for a high class musical comedy with new features, vibrant olio, and a strong concert band. The parade “Koon town” marks a noon hour street event along Mount Vernon cutoff road as paving nears completion on the Lincoln highway project at about 50 000 dollars per mile.
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J. C. Rockwell
Sunny South
Graham Theatre
Mount Vernon
Newry Horst Construction Company
Mmoetner
Gradips
AWE
Road to open December first in Linn County race segment
Cedar Rapids reports the first lap of the six mile Linn County race is near completion. The leg covers a mile and three quarters with finish expected soon, marking progress on the paved road project opening December first.
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Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Man Killed in Corn Sheller Near Shell Rock
Ralph Gibson 48 or 43 was fatally injured when his clothing fouled a line shaft on a gas powered corn sheller at his farm near town. Death occurred between 7 and 9 p.m. Relatives found the body around 8 p.m. A World War I veteran, he served at Camp Dodge. He is survived by his widow a son three brothers one sister Mrs Verne Apfel and his parents Mr and Mrs James Gibson.
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Ralph Gibson
Hig Farm
Gibson
Dodge
Verne ‘Apfel
James Gibson
Toledo Without Water After Well Cave-In
Toledo faces a water crisis as a 60 foot deep eight foot diameter well caved in Sunday morning near the pumping station. The loss strands one electric pump in the abyss and the other saved by a nearby tree support. Meager water is being pumped from the camming factory to the mains, raising fire risk.
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Toledo
Mansions for the Soul
Prominent quotation about forming inner sanctuaries of thought and memory as houses built without hands for the soul to inhabit, offered in Ruskin’s reflective exhortation on peaceful, noble mental landscapes.
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John Ruskin
Increases in Air Fleet of America Worry Japanese
Tokyo reports Japan fears American air force growth as the United States expands its air fleet and experimental aircraft. An editorial notes Japan plans to build a 15 corps air force with 280 planes by 1923 and to hire 30 British instructors.
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America
Tokio
Japan
United States
Navy
Yorodzu
Pacific
Atlantic
Vaudeville Exchange Largely Unclear Banter
A vaudeville bit features Gardner and Hart trading quirky lines about appearances and cognomens. They riff on humor about sugar bowls, granulated eyelids, and a monkey as a punchline, with playful banter about musical family background.
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