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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1894
Page
10
A door to door handbill scheme ends with a quarrel as a boy refuses to leave leaflets at Mr Billus home and offers a silver dollar to quit. The boy accepts and moves on, while other odd anecdotes follow about misread notices and a curious bank plank tale and a cautioned fishers’ tale.
Mr. Medhurst recalls a Chinese incident where a young, wealthy woman sent invitations to witness her voluntary suicide. On a staged platform she hanged herself after embracing a boy, in front of thousands. Immolation is described as voluntary and occasionally rewarded with monuments in certain districts.
On a Sixth Avenue elevated car, three attractive girls are pestered by two young men. The girls sit together to look unconcerned while one sketches a flirtatious admirer. He grows uncomfortable, shifts seats, and eventually flees to the next car, leaving the pencil only a leadless fragment.
A lively scene formed in front of the California building during the state celebration as a free fruit distribution drew crowds. Carloads of peaches plums pears nectarines and white Muscat grapes fed a vociferous eager crowd for seven hours. California booth attendants handed out fruit while large fruits flew through the air and grape bunches were shared among visitors from far parts of the grounds.
A strange discovery at a farm seven miles from Alarysville reveals a wood‑duck nest inside a hollow tree along Feather River. Honey weighing about eighty pounds was found with eleven duckties and two dead ducks after the tree was cut. Bees fled with comb while the bird incubated, and the duck died on the nest. The event is reported by Redlug Democrat Cul.
The article decries ethnic criminal influence, blaming Romanians Bulgarians Russians and Galicians for pickpocketing and vice. It argues socialistic currents erode morals and public order while education would gradually reduce crime in future centuries.
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