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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1913
Page
3
Community notes outline gaming, social goings on, theft reports, and weekly review from local correspondents. Highlights include local events, neighborhood sightings, and miscellaneous incidents gathered from readers and reporters.
A long list of local visits and travel appears with residents such as Dan Petrie and wife, Ray Gimer, James Steenberg, Stacey Krominga, W. A. Whitaker, Rev Knoll, George Humphrey, and others visiting relatives, attending events, or traveling to nearby towns like Ackley Albion and Geneva. Minor incidents include a baby born to Claude Ressler and wife and a few health notes. a road project and community preparations for the Fourth of July are mentioned.
Rural row of short items recounts local chores including Beams ley contract work on county highway, J Spieker residence repainting, and Chas Willeke cementing near Ralph Wessels place. Rev. Sandford to speak at Fourth July, Lucile Gerhardt visiting Big Stone, W G Austin treated for eye cancer, and a special election planned for electric lights and waterworks. Wedding of Miss Kramer and Charley Baurer in Waterloo noted amid other updates on neighbors and family travel.
The article explains kerosene production from crude oil through distillation and acid washing to produce a clear refined product. It then contrasts elephant weights in Malay producing districts with Lao states, noting a tusker carrying about nine hundredweight and a female bearing around eight hundredweight, with values around 280.
The passage lists a scalloped apples recipe with layered crumbs and lemon rind, butter, sugar, and apples and offers a substitute using berries. It shifts to veal cutlets prep tips with breadcrumbs, frying bath, and garnish, then includes a few humor quotes about romance and manners from period newspapers.
A scrambled quotation fragment shows an unreliable speaker claiming a shared experience with a chauffeur and a friend, followed by a confused exchange about always bailing him out. The text appears as a stray, nonsensical line without clear context or verifiable attribution.
Jack explains why he wears gloves while learning whist and aside remarks about betting. The quirky excerpt features Weshtagina style phrasing and surreal exchanges.
HOGS Receipts 15000 market steady and shade up Bulk of sales 8.40 to 8.45. CATTLE Receipts 4000 market steady to 10 cents higher steers 7.10 to 8.20, she es 5.75 to 6.90 native, lambs 6.40 to 8.10. Sheep receipts 20000 market steady and 10 cents higher. Also includes miscellaneous notes on feed, hay, grain and other farm items. Historic anecdote about Edwin Forrest and a joke about a Spartacus painting.
Odd clipped passage questions a woman about speech parts and a boy asks if he is a baseball player. The dialogue mixes terms like sister, brother, and a reference to G14 and “woman’s part” in a puzzling, likely OCR damaged excerpt.
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