Local School News and Funeral Notices Hereabouts
Sunday school notes and teaching changes fill the community update. Mrs. Sam Hill and children attended their mother’s funeral in Ownsa last Monday. Nellie Strahorn begins teaching in Etna, a long-time resident, praised for her service. Mr. McCoy prepares to move to Oklahoma, while Hemptrey tutors at the sawwood school. Bugday School reorganized at wen ohatch with Mr im wan elected superintendent. A young man from Ackley to teach there summer. William Dale to entertain Eagle City schoolhouse Saturday night with Zonophone selections.
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Sam Hill
Ownsa
Nellie Strahorn
South Etna
McCoy
G Etting
Oklahoma
Hemptrey
Aawood
Het Eter
Fire near depot imperils Steamboat Rock station
Steamboat Rock reports a near miss by fire that threatened the depot after a through freight locomotive sparked flames on the platform. Local agents and workers contained the blaze, leaving some platform damage but preventing broader destruction. Other items note May 1 operations start with 8600 pounds of ami and various local improvements and visits.
Aplington Notes On Moves And Local Happenings
P F Voelker spent Saturday after poor at Ackley with Miller and wife visiting from Ackley. Voelker moved his household goods to Ackley. Wagner was taken ill Saturday but reported better now. Dreyer in Chicago this week buying for the Dreyer store. Miss Amelia Anderson came from Parkersburg to stay several days. Miss Ranny Swyter went to Eldora Wednesday to remain. A Cramer was visited by his mother from Ackley and a brother. Messrs Weiss and Dahn let contract for their store buildings and Poteptry of it Saepenselye. Work begins in the primary department of Jey schools after contract. Since then she has been elected in the Duluth schools with higher pay. The class of 1900 arranged graduation plans, to be held at Baptist church on the evening of May 31. Artistically trimmed, Anna Loos. The greatest homage is to use it.
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Wagner
Dreyer
Chicago
Misa
Amelia Anderson
Parkersburg
Misa Ranny Swyter
Eldora
Cramer
Ackley
Messra, Welss & Dahn
Saepenselye
Department of Jey
Abe'haa
Duluth
Baptist Church
Fragmented 19th Century Dialogue Fragments Parade
A garbled collage of newspaper chatter and ads opens with tavern talk about a cultured neighbor and a drink of water offered by a backstopped tonnier. It shifts to a joke about poets and editors, clerks on vacation, and a theater actress lamenting a name. Ends with a medicinal testimonial for Dr King’s New Life Pills and a drug store pitch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Koldier
Mym
Austin
Winchaster
Indigca
Wits
Dr. King
C. F. Pander
Ronee
Deafness Cure Claim and Bucklen’s Arnica Salve Ad
An advertisement touts Halls Catarrh Cure promising to cure deafness caused by catarrh and promotes a $100 reward if not cured. It also credits Bucklen’s Arnica Salve with healing a leg ulcer in five days and declares it the best salve for wounds and ulcers, urging readers to buy from C F Pfander.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dantorth
LeGrange
C.F. Pfander
Simon
Microbe march through spring and a bear’s timid tale
A collage of humorous fragments describes spring microbes set to infect the unwary man who neglects winter gear, a Buffalo style note on a doctor and pest, a short story prompt about a bear hugged by tiger policemen, and odd historical tidbits including a 1830 photographic portrait by Dr. John Draper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Draper
John Draper
Trees That Bear Men And Other Human Myths From Many Lands
An 18th or 19th century style compilation notes diverse beliefs about trees bearing humans or body parts. It cites Sioux and Aryan links, a fourteenth century Italian tale from Malabar, Arab legends of a speaking face tree, Chinese folk origins reversing birth from herbs, and a Khattles tribe claim of origin from a wooden stick. The Mahabharata reference to dwarfed forms on a fig tree is included.
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Nerrying
Malabar
Tountry
India
Pandu
Karon
Khat
Cule
Republic
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Mra
Everett Noyes
Ruby
Mra. Wardwell
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Cheney & Co
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Reet
Walter
Beesto
Ewell
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England
Lewis
Ma. J
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Delcous
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