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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1913
Page
4
A compact week in local life via World Correspondents highlights gaming and social scenes as residents and their friends enjoy community events. The page blends reports on leisure, gatherings, and everyday happenings across the county.
The Abbott Grist reports a flurry of visits and small-town happenings. Knoll family trips to Wankon and Tansing Iowa. Dr J J Miller from Ackley visits. various neighbors and relatives gather, trade chores, and note harvest progress and livestock care amid light weather and irrigation concerns.
The Eggybrond family reports their daughter from Trenton Mo. broke her leg. Henry Schneiderman of Buffalo Center visited relatives briefly Thursday. Otto Wilta family at Grundy Center Friday evening. Pete Klugist of Totonka in town Wednesday. Anna Janssen at Eldora Emergency Hospital improving with promising recovery. Fred Klaus of Illinois visiting Neessen family. H. Engelkes of Grundy Center was a business caller Monday. H. DeBuhr and DeBuhr bought a 240 acre Floyd County farm near Rockford and will move this spring. Anto Peters Moint Tupkes EH Bruns and A Rindels babies were baptized at church Sunday morning.
M H Geerke of Buckeye keeps three fine young bloodhounds being taught to track scent for law enforcement. The Western Grain and Elevator Company sells its elevators to McLaughlin and O Halloran. Henry Luttschwager suffers severe scalding from a boiler incident on a farm two miles SW of town. he is treated by Dr. Seidenberg in Alden. Fire damages a horse and harness. George Bryan loses items in the blaze. Various local visits, threshing, church events, and a city electric lighting vote in Aplington are reported among community notices and personal travels.
Hog market receipts reach 15 000 with buyers steady and prices nudging up a touch. Cattle receipts 3 000 with steers in demand and steady to higher trade. Sheep receipts 22 000 with prices steady to 10 cents higher. Lambs quoted from 86 40 to 88 80, Ackley quotations listed.
A detailed tour of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg describes its vast four story complex on the Neva, praising Empress Catherine the Great and highlighting Nicholas I s last room. The upper northeast bedroom near four doors contains the emperor s deathbed in a simple space with a plain iron bedstead and a worn chair.
Lord Whitworth, a seasoned English diplomat, was famed for wit and prompt action. Tales recount his calm response at Napoleon’s court when pressed over Egypt and Malta, and a pun with Adair at the Russian court that readers still recall as a sharp quip.
An old advertisement endorses Halls Catarrh Cure with a 100 dollar reward for uncured cattarrh and claims from National Bank of Commerce Toledo that WJ Cheney is honorable. The copy states the cure is taken internally and sold for 76 cents per bottle with testimonials free.
The excerpt contrasts the word discovery with proof in science. It cites Garke and Laveran as examples where proven evidence identifies new elements or parasites, unlike mere guesses. The note ends with an advertisement for duplicate receipt books for sale at The World olive.
A swarm of bees killed two hundred pullets owned by WooF Weems near Porterville California during orange blossom season. After the attack the bees moved along and allegedly disrupted an automobile party titled His Last Request. A jury returned a verdict of guilty in a separate dramatic courtroom moment described by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A justice questions a defendant over shooting a dog described as quiet and undisturbing. The exchange centers on motive and the animal's behavior, reflecting a courtroom dispute about a dog related incident. Names, dates, or places are not provided in the readable text.
Fragmentary misquoted text presents a dialogue about patience and money. The line suggests a man contemplating virtue and provision for his family, with garbled author attribution. The source lacks clear events, entities, or a coherent narrative to establish a proper news item.
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