Ackley World and Journal prospectus helps local growth
The World announces weekly publication every Wednesday in Ackley Hardin County Iowa. It highlights a broad service lineup including job printing poster pamphlet book work with first class facilities and ample shipping. The paper touts Ackley as a garden spot with churches creameries mills and rail access and invites world correspondence and society news submissions.
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Keepeising
Thelley
Ackley
Tre Syonun
Iowa
Serenade and Field Note From Fractured Prose and Farming
A fragmentary piece blends a comic strain of a stuttering serenade with agricultural notes on pea harvesting. It mentions a San Francisco Call line and describes a pea harvester attachment for a mower, detailing how it cuts peas into swaths and is operated by three men and horses.
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Cantlan
Grat
Fragmentary Exchange on Marriage and Fee in Philadelphia Press
A clipped excerpt shows a gossiping exchange about Mrs. Galley and a prior fiancé. The dialogue references a beauty, an uncle’s betrothal, a clone remark, and a pastor named Ity Wacle, with cryptic notes about a fee and jilt.
A Tight Ring Removed With Silk Friction Method
A historic instruction describes using a long silk thread to free a tight ring. One end is threaded under the ring and drawn through several inches while held by the thumb. The long end is wound tightly around the finger to the palm, then the short end is twisted toward the finger to unwind and withdraw the ring safely.
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Wacoln
Panhandle Jack to Circle World by Train and Sea
Panhandle Jack the famed Pennsylvania Railroad fox terrier will tour the world from Chicago. He will carry a parchment letter with his life story and a tag with his home. The voyage includes Santa Fe to San Francisco, Pacific routes to Hawaii Japan India and Europe ending with Liverpool to New York.
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Panhandle
Jack
Fox Tettler
Pennsylvania Railroad
Chicago
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Globe
Cuengo
San Francisco
Santa Fe
Expresa
Orient
Honolulu
Japan
Philippines
Hongkong
Calcutta
India
Bombay
Tiedsen
Buez Canal
Port Said
Ponhandra
Mediterranean
Naples
Austria
Germany
France
Bordeaux
England
Liverpool
New York City
Richmord
Reading
Cincinnati
Union Station
Heccy Ganter
Freman
Richmond
Ind
Brog
Columbtus
Sack
Hoe
Pert Miss Tottin Auntie and Johnny Quit Mean Talk
Aunt Louie Mercy scolds both children for arguing and bad temper. Miss Tottie-He complains Johnny has a worse temper, with exchanges highlighting ongoing friction between the kids.
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Miss Tottin
Johnny
Louie
Mercy
Miss Tottie
Curious Laughing Owl Sparked Night Fear in Campers
Reading like a quirky nature note the piece describes the laughing owl of Florida and similar southern birds with eerie ho-ha calls that unnerved campers. It then shifts to a quirky science aside detailing skin pores and perspiration tubes with playful misstatements about their length and drainage, ending on a tangent about bodily anatomy.
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Laughing Owl
Florida
Tess
Chesapeake
Coronation Banquet in Norway Hosts Visiting Dignitaries
The June coronation event in Tronthjem included the United States envoy Mr J. Ravan and Mrs Ravan among ten guests at the king and queen’s ceremony. Special Ambassador Graves and Mrs Graves received silver medals. A stately dinner at night gathered princes, princesses, and diplomatic delegations, as King Haakon responded to toasts from Premier Michelsen. Crowds lined the palace to greet arrivals and departures.
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Tronthjem
Norway
United States
Wil Ham J. Ravan
Vaolivd States
Cit
Ing Haaron Vix
Queen Maud
Mmeluded Ames
Marshall Fleid
Eddy
Wddy
Chicago
William Wheatley
K. Hope Slater
Gwynn
Washington
Khig Franken
Ammassador ‘Graves
Graves
Sinfe
Hight
Left Home To Meet Death Explosive Gasoline Stove Fatal
Sprinfield, Im. Mac Adkingon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Adkingon, recently disappeared from 514 College Street. She was buried by a gasoline stove explosion at 10014 North Eighth Street and died at St. John’s Hospital. She heated water when the blast ignited her dress, the fire enveloped her body, and her arms and upper body were severely burned. Her parents, distraught, had been unable to locate her prior to the tragedy.
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Sprinfield
For Love of Another Rochester Man Confesses Wife Murder
William Brasch of Rochester New York confessed to killing his wife after being found with his alleged mistress Mary Gilmore. Brasch and Gilmore were arrested in Cleveland Ohio as rumors spread of an elopement. The wife’s body was recovered from a canal near Rochester on Tuesday prompting immediate suspicion toward Brasch. Brasch admitted the crime to police claiming it stemmed from love for Gilmore.
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Rochester
Cleveland
William Braseh
Brasch
Mary Gilmore
Jnst
Gilmore
Timekeeping Through Ages Candle Clocks and Sundials
The article surveys ancient timekeeping devices from candles and candles clocks to sundials born in Babylon and later medieval sandglasses. It notes candle clocks misrating hours due to burn rate, wind shielding, and sunken reliability, with references to the spread of such devices in England and Europe. It mentions Pacific candlenut timers and elaborate medieval sandglasses used in courts, churches, and monasteries for prayer durations and ceremonial timing. It also includes a humorous aside about a man’s nerve in a brief dialogue.
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Alfred
Babylon
Jersalem
Suikthsoulan Institution
Washington
England
Europe
South Pacific
Nuremberg
Unclear Lecture on Food Labels From Fragmented Transcript
A mangled report shows Mann and Breveng of Minnesota presenting items to an audience. The speaker questions expertise, cites Maraschino cherries dyed with anniline dye, honey from glue factory, and meat preservative sulphite of soda, criticizing weight standards and consumer fairness amid garbled dialogue.
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Mann
Breveng
Minnesota
Gaines
Tennessee
Manu
Goctor
University of the Prouse
Miran
Vet
New York
Philadelphia
Chietzo
Washington
Manr
Pit
Standart
Minit
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