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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1914
Page
6
A long fragment presents a central Ohio farmhouse breakfast scene with a Quaker host and a neighbor who is refused a seat at the table. It leads into unrelated anecdotes about Victorian Queen Victoria, wartime censorship, golf club money struggles, and a dramatic stage fight anecdote.
A fragmentary overview recalls varied breads and related foods from Asia Europe and the Middle East. It mentions batbane like breads in Balkania camp kitchens and a Chinese teanor bread finished with iron. The peculiar laundry bread of China and Russia cracker customs are noted with curious details about materials and use.
An interview with Bedros Keljik humorously questions Turkish policy, suggesting business focus over political pestivity. The excerpt includes 19th century telegram mixups in Galata and a banker tale, plus assorted jokes and captions from U.S. newspapers.
Arthur Anderson, barely seventeen, runs his mother’s eighty acre farm near Council Bluffs IOWA. He supports his mother and sister, rotates crops, raises hogs potatoes corn alfalfa and oats, and plans more alfalfa. Despite leaving school, he shows enterprise and earns money from crops and stock under his mother Mrs. Mary Anderson’s pride.
Seven years ago a Tama Bohemian farmer Andrew Korik left Texas unable to start with malarial fever and little money. He moved to Tama, worked for $1.95 a day for three years, then rented farms near Brooklyn and Chelsea, and four years later bought a 240 acre farm near Irving for 175 per acre with about $5,000 down and easy terms at 5 percent interest. He kept a large family and rose from hardship to a substantial stake in farming, illustrating that a strong start is possible for healthy, ambitious young Americans.
Iowa's corn belt centers on popcorn with Sac and Ida counties leading last year, each at about 100000 bushels of popcorn. Government statistics note strong yields due to favorable weather. A young man near Correctionville earned 38 dollars 50 cents in 13 days, averaging about 100 dollars per day over the period.
The Kaiser, famed for seeking rapid information, summons experts like Professor Harnack to settle technical questions such as the antiquity of the Book of John. After a interrupted discussion, he dines with Count So-and-so and resumes the debate the next day, continuing a lengthy theological exchange.
An American Cleveland printer recounts his London stopover and plan to start a small paper in England. He visits a typefoundry and faces shopkeeper banter about where to buy country style type and the quirks of dry goods stores.
A quirky exchange unfolds in a town gates scene where a stranger doubts games of chance but a local insists the marriage license office is wide open. The excerpt hints at risk and local wit amid civic rituals.
Ackley druggist H N Schultz lists Adlerika as a simple buckthorn bark glycerine mixture with a claimed cure for appendicitis and dramatic relief from sour stomach gas and constipation after a single dose. Willie Dreyer is reported to be recovering, able to sit up part of the day.
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