Lace Craft Across Empires From Cobweb Threads to Valen dientes
The article traces lace making from Italy and Europe to the Orient, noting the preciousness of fine cobweb thread used in needlepoint and Valenciennes lace. It describes how patterns were drawn on parchment, work done in damp underground rooms with little light, and mentions church altar cloths, Irish crochet, and the harsh conditions endured by some lace makers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Beynt
Orient
Italy
Jess
Valenciennes
Matie Antoinette
France
Beefeaters At St James Palace Through The Ages
The Montreal Family Herald notes Beefeaters have worn beards on state occasions since Henry VII and must report for beard inspection. Medieval duties included tasting and cooking royal food and even making the king's bed. Yoemen Bedhangers and Bedgoers helped with bed arrangements, while the Y. B. A. and B. G. initials remain on rolls. The Beefeatery costume has changed little, with a large ruff still central.
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St. James’ Palace
Henry VII
Iim
Montreal
Family Herald
Holmes Pine Estate Restricts Tree Cutting at Holmesdale
The Pittsfield record notes the purchase of Holmesdale, the Oliver Wendell Holmes summer home, with a deed restriction protecting the Holmes pine in Canoe Meadows. The clause binds the grantee and successors to keep the tree standing while nature permits, never to be cut or moved while alive and healthy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsfield
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Holmesdale
Canoe Meadows
Oston
Seward Visit Shocks St Anthony Escort Gibe
In 1860 William H. Seward with Charles Francis Adams and Senator James Nye visited Minnesota. A St Anthony committee intended to escort him into town but learned he arrived by another route. The hotel reception dissolved into a witty quip as they left.
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Willian H. Seward
Minnesota
Charles Francis Adams
James W. Nye
St. Anthony
Seward
Plate
All in Italy here is history in stone and word
A fragmentary travel prose praises Italy as a cradle of culture. It cites Rome Assisi Dante Petrarch Byron and Renaissance figures. extols Italy as Europe's heart in art literature and landscapes with Italian cities and gardens as sublime destinations.
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Italy
Stona
Canvas
Rome
Assisi
Dante
Peninsula
Renan
Gallleo
Michaelangelo
Gaphael
Collin
Europe
Easy Settlement Opens With Crowd of Seven Applicants
The senior partner arrives to find seven men in the outer office all seeking a clerk job. He asks his junior what the scene means and is told the firm advertised for an efficient and capable clerk. The junior predicts the brightest applicant will find a way to rid the rest.
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H'm
Candy Industry Roots Traced to Hippocrates Origins
The article notes candy making traces back to Hippocrates in the fifth century B C. Doctors used honey to sweeten remedies and coated pills to please patients, a practice seen as a seed of modern candy. The piece highlights how candy evolved into a global industry employing diverse transport and labor.
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Hippocrates
Alppocrates
Idea of Human Flight Long in Minds of Men
A late 17th century Royal Society note recounts Hooke describing Mons Besnier’s four wing contrivance that a man could fly from a high place to cross a river. Skepticism follows, with Henshawe suggesting a spring or wheeled machine to be powered by one or more men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Society
London
Hooke
Mons
Besnier
Cald
Henshawe
Chrysanthemum origins and symbolic journey through time
The article explains chrysanthemum etymology from Greek roots meaning gold and flower, links its Christian Christmas tie to the wise men, notes Chinese origins, and its adoption as Japan’s official flower in the fourteenth century. It also mentions the flower’s symbolic perfection and the existence of over ten thousand varieties, including a rare $10,000 paid for a fresh form of the Japanese flower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chrysanthamum
Chrysos
Anthethom
Japan
Etymology of the Woodchuck Name in Hudson Bay Trade
The word woodchuck derives from Indian terms such as wejack or woodschoock used by hunters in the Hudson Bay region. Some sources link it to Cree otchel or Chippewa otchig, once applied to the fisher but later transferred to the groundhog by whites. The Bureau of American Ethnology notes fur nomenclature long used by the Hudson’s Bay Company called groundhog skins woodchucks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudson Bay
Bureau of American Ethnology
Hudson's Bay Company
Plumbers Found Reading Paper While In House
A householder called for plumbers after trouble with a bathroom shower. After an hour, he found the plumber and assistant seated on the bath, reading the evening paper. The pair claimed to be busy and mentioned having a couple of winners this afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
From bare office to carpeted desk in Navy clerical rise
A junior clerk in the British navy starts with a sparse workspace a collapsible shelf and no carpet. He climbs the ladder to a proper desk with drawers only after earning a salary surpassing £300. carpets are reserved for officials earning at least £1,000 a year.
Cathedral Lengths Compared Among Historic Cathedrals
The cathedral of St John the Divine in New York measures 601 feet, longer than Amteis at 521 feet, Cologne at 511 feet, Chartres at 507 feet, and Milan at 800 feet in the tallied comparison.
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St. John the Divine
New York
Amteis
Cologne
Chartres
Milan
Akron Ohio Newspaper Subscription Rates
The Hegister-Tribone lists subscription prices in 1801 with yearly $2.6 months $1.30 months pattern, noting publication every Thursday in Akron Ohio and entry as second class mail matter at the post office valid Sept 38 1801.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
Towa
Westfield Notes Christmas Cheer and Local Ills
Special correspondence from Milnerville reports Christmas gatherings in the country eased by favorable weather. Sympathies go to Mrs. John Baldwin of Sioux City on her husband’s death before Christmas. John Baldwin, a pneumonia victim, was laid to rest after a Monday funeral with many Westfield residents attending. Various local families are noted visiting relatives in Vermillion South Dakota and Sioux City. Flu hits the area with Alfred Fry and Waldan’s girls among early cases. several residents including Miss Gertha Knapp miss school. A Liberty consolidated school alumni meeting in Sioux City formed an association with Josephine Burkett elected president.
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Milnerville
Ceilley
John Baldwin
Edith Ceilley
Sioux City
Baldwin
Westfield
Sloux Ty
Stanley Lilly
O. B. Lilly
Son Olin
Olin
Mrs
Clair Lily
Ms. Lilly
Vermillion
Warnock
Lucile Harris
Kari-Keen Company
Thomas Taylor
Geneval Taylor
C. A. Briggs
Grace
C. P. Knapp
Hrsie Fry
Clyde James
Rapid City
S. D
Wallace Lilly
Sunnyside
Grace Mable
Mable
Jessie Hathaway
Richard Milner
Hiram Smith
Wisconsin
Smith
Jetiiletrometer
Bernard Keaulieu
Anna Mahaney
Burkett
Ames
Plymouth County
Dick O'Brian
O'Brian
Paul Shoberg
Givens
Pearl Warren
Chester
Hancock Township
Q. L. Weber
Alfred Fry
Waldan
Gertha
Knapp O
Gerd
Luken
Alston
Wedding Bells Reach Merrill as Tul lig Weds Ora Woodly
In a Sioux City ceremony last week Willis Tullig and Ora Woodly, both Merrill youths, wed in a notable local event. Also noted: residents Harold and Mrs Cooper plan winter in Sydney apartments at Tenth and Pierce. Earlier, Bethel church Christmas Eve program drew a large crowd with Santa, tree, and Silent Night.
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Sioux City
Bethelehhurch
Santa Claus
Eva Harding
Vance Hunter
Inlaw
Harold Cooper
Little Lee Cooper
New Sydney
Ccorner
Tenth
Pierce Streets
Mesdamen C. L
Knapp
J. J. Mansfield
Kenneth Poston
Hancocl
Sthel Taylor
Pelletier
Willis Tullig
Ora Woodly
Merrill
Julia Johnson
Anois D. Cramer
Isabel Wilson
Joseph
Sioux
Union Creek Church New Year Wake and Meetings
Union Creek special correspondence notes a New Year wake at Luther Hall on Monday December 31 with oyster stew and program. Services at Union Creek church Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. Annual church business meeting set for Friday at 1 30 o'clock at Luther Hall. Numerous local residents are listed with Christmas visits and family gatherings in Union Creek and Akron, including Ericsons, Johnsons, Hultgrens, and others.
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Union Creek
Luther Leagues of
Luther Hall
John Hultgren
Albertson
Andrew Hampusan
Mary Larson
Sioux
City
Hannah Sellbegg
Larson
Lawrence Ericson
Clifford Johnson
Childran
Orlan Maxson
John A. Johnson
Albert Anderson
Lawrance Ericson
Orlun Maxson
Milton Bricgon
Lloyd Fickbohm
Sioux City
Lloyd Johnson
Cora
Andrey Jean
Wr. Ericson
Akron
Muriel Bradley
Amy Anderson
Irene Carr
Walfred Forslund
Oscar Johnson
John Winfield
John Johnson
B.A. Hultgren
Olof Ericson
Erlcson
Plymouth County Corn Show Planned in LeMars
The Plymouth County Farm Bureau and LeMars Commercial Club plan the second annual Plymouth County Corn and Grain Show in LeMars at the Armory on January 24 25 and 26. Exhibits are limited to Plymouth county residents with products from the 1928 crop. A professional class for prior county and state winners is added, with judging on Friday morning and entertainment including vaudeville and music across the event. The state corn show will be held at the same venue.
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LeMars
Plymouth County
Plymouth County Farm Bureau
Plymouth County Soil Survey Copies Distributed Free
County Agent M. D. Monroe received several hundred copies of the Soil Survey of Plymouth County a U S Department of Agriculture public document. Extra copies came via United States Senator Daniel F Steck Iowa and will be distributed free to Plymouth County citizens by the Farm Bureau office.
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M. D. Monroe
Soil Survey
Plymouth County
Bureau of Sofia
United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Daniel F. Steck
Iowa
Farm Bureau Office
Farm seeds must comply with state law
Early purchasers should watch for proper seed labels listing dealer name and address, variety, purity, germination, and origin as required by Iowa law. In 1923 Iowa analyzed 1,815 official seed samples and 452 private analyses. Canada thistle and other weeds in excess of limits ban sale. Farmers may sell unlabeled seed on farms if no noxious weeds exceed limits, but carrier delivery requires full compliance. For details contact M. G. Thornburg, Secretary of Agriculture, Des Moines. Local notes: Liberty Local 1066 met December 27 in Johnson township. officers elected for 1929 and discussions on renaming the local to Perry Creek Local 1066. Pat Gorman now handles Farmers' Union Mutual life insurance. next meeting January 21, 1925.
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Iowa Department of Agriculture
Iowa Department
Department
M. G. Thornburg
Des Moines
Iowa
Liberty Farers' Union
Liberty Local
J. W. Hoffmann
Johnson Township
Peter Hecht
John Mertes
I. W. Hoffmann
BP. Hecht
Liberty
Perry Creek
Pat Gorman
Farmers’ Union Mutual Hife Insurance
Gorman
Nelson White Leghorns bred and fed to lay and pay
Nelson Harry B. Nelson offers White Leghorn baby chicks from hens with trap nest records of 590 eggs in two years. Chicks $11.60 per hundred with 1 cent deposit, orders due January 20, 1928. First hatch March 4 and weekly thereafter. Hatching eggs $8.00 per hundred with 50 percent fertility guaranteed. Akron, lows Route 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry B. Nelson
Akron
Adaville School Notes Reflect December Achievements
December brought strong attendance with no tardies or absences in primary and advanced groups. Awards include perfect spellings for multiple pupils, a half year exam schedule with exemptions for 90 percent averages, a Sixth grade student excused from all tests, and a Christmas program on December 20 followed by a two week vacation.
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Adaville School
Wilma Heasley
Delores Markison
Kenneth Brown
Everette’ Heasley
Robert Markison
Ada Campbell
Wazel Markison
Evelyn Campbell
Delores Ikison
Dorothy Husman
Darline Attrill
Marvin Dreeszen
Esther Kamradt
Armond Brown
Joy Morehead
Christina Husman
Vance Erickson
Richard Bean
Akron
Pupiils
Administrator's Notice in Plymouth County Probate
On December 15 1928 the District Court of Plymouth County appointed Henning Shoulberg administrator of Reese Harris deceased. All debts to the estate should be paid to the administrator and all claims presented for allowance. Dated December 7 1928. Jepson Struble & Sifford attorneys. Publication dates Dec 20 27 1928 and Jan 8 1929.
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District Court of
Plymouth
Reese Harris
Henning Shoulberg
Jepson, Struble & Si
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McCormick - Deering
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Akron Truck Co. Garage
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