I talked to my mom this morning, and she solved one family puzzle and inadvertently created another. After doing some cursory searching and getting nowhere, I thought I’d poke around in some online newspaper archives. Boy, is that ever entertaining!
Wright County Monitor (Clarion, Iowa), 11 January 1951, Page 4
Pretty much everything in this particular paper seems to be comprised of chatty nosypantsing. I’ve gotten through about 1/3 of the 370 pages containing the name Meineke, and so far, every single reference has been about someone having dinner at someone else’s house, or someone joining or hosting some variety of social club.
red paper boat 