Akron News Briefs and Local Notices Sweep Across Town
A flood of notices, visits, sales, and personal updates fills Akron area pages. Whitfield and Whitfield advertise screen doors and hay rack clamps while Cobb's touts low prices on paints and lighting plant bargains. Local moves include Mrs Willer’s Benton county visit and Mrs Searls from Harrisburg visiting relatives. A real estate transfer involves Laura Hall trading Kendall Hotel property for farm land near Clark. Heavy rains swell the Big Sioux, flooding river bottoms and delaying mail routes.
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J. W. Sheppard
Veblen
S. D
J. C. Button
Whitfield & Whitfield
J. P. Lund
Mapleton
Iowa
Robert McCormick
Denver
A. C. Blackman
Evelyn Jones
David City
Nebraska
EH. J. Searls
B. D. Swift
Samaritan Hospital
Sioux
Hans Willer
Akron
Laura D. Hall
Kendall Hotel
L. H. Martin
Clark
St.d
Martin
Hawarden
Hall
Minnesota
South Dakota
Big Sioux
Dave Smith
Ernest Gassman
Chatsworth
Gov Hoch Praises Editors As Nation’s True Power
Governor Hoch extols country editors praising their role in shaping youth and community. He calls editors rulers of the press, notes the editor's plant ownership, office routine, and influence, portraying the editor as an ideal, self governing local leader.
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Country Press
Record-Herald Proclaims Unmatched News Service
The Chicago Record-Herald touts its daily news coverage as unparalleled, combining its own independent facilities with the New York Herald World and Associated Press services, plus popular special features for readers.
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Chicago Record- Herald
Record-Herald
New York Herald
New York World
Associated Press
United States
Strayed cows near Akron seek rightful owners reward
Estray notice for two cows from Akron, last Saturday. One black and one black with white face and spots, weighed 75 to 100 pounds. Reward offered for return or information leading to recovery. Contact M. 4.
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Akron
Train Schedules From G M & Sb Ry Show Daily Runs
Passenger train No 132 and passenger No 106 depart on Mondays and Wednesdays with freight No 02 and freight No 72. several trains run daily except Saturdays. Route details are incomplete but indicate regular departures by rail line G M and Sb.
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Tno
Habits of the Rich Reveal Extreme Expenditures
A New York interior decorator lists lavish wealth costs from antiquities to cars and yachts. Examples include eight Pompeii columns bought for 5 000 each, Aubusson carpets at 40 a yard, antique rugs at 500 to 600 a yard, ivory inlaid chairs at 500 each, a 150 000 plane, 50 000 billiard rooms, wines at 40 to 50 a bottle, 90 horsepower cars 30 000 to 40 000, a head chauffeur 4 000 to 5 000 yearly, assistants at 25 weekly, and a yacht requiring at least 25 000 annually.
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Aola
Zola
New York
Pompeii
Aubusson
Everett Shinn
Schloss Johannesberg
Prince Matternich
New York Press
Why Do Small Scraps Spell Storms and Delays
A Philadelphia Ledger quotation ponders stubborn ironies of daily life. It asks why window cleaning signals rain, why guests arrive when one is unprepared, why late people ruin dinner, why wealth spikes taste, why leaks appear on Saturday, and why better purchases tempt immediately after a buy.
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John
Philadelphia Ledger
Manchester Police Compared With American Notions
The piece contrasts English city policing with American practice. It stresses that British officers serve the public, work quietly and respectfully, and avoid overbearing conduct seen in New York. The author notes similar duties but different methods, mentioning chauffeurs and historical references to 1795.
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Manchester
London
New York
The Apache War History as Told by Curtis
A historical sketch recounts Apache resistance from 1540 to 1858 under New Spain Mexico and later the United States. It notes Mexican scalp bounties of 100 for men 50 for women and 25 for children driving Apache harshness and fear, with frontier policy cycling between peace and extermination.
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New Spain
Mexico
United States
Arizona
Sonora
Curtis
Scribner's
Quick mental feats of speed reveal piano power
A passage discussing the limits of human speed and coordination in music. It notes how Mendelssohn’s presto involves rapid finger, wrist, elbow, and arm movements, with up to seventy two movements per second when twenty four notes occur each second. The analysis cites sensory, auditory, and memory tasks, stressing the mind as a network of raised rates rather than a single unit.
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Pantie
Mendelsgoliti
Gah
Pearson'’s Weekly
Story of the Flood Across Cultures and Myths
The article surveys flood traditions from Genesis through Christian, Islamic, Persian, Armenian, and Chaldean sources. It recounts Noah and the ark, the Koran details of the voyage, Ararat, and parallels with Berosus Xisuthrus and liparis legends, noting shared themes and differences among nations.
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Adam
Abel
Lot
Noah
Mexico
South America
Africa
Canaan
Ham
Djondi
Ararat
Tabari
Arch
Arai
Josephus
Nazuana
Berosus
Xisuthrus
Kronos
Caesios
Liparis
Siparis
Legend and Reality About Napoleon Decree at Moscow
The legend claims Napoleon drafted a decree for the Theatre Francais during Moscow’s flames, but records say he was in Poland. A marginal note supposedly delays the decree until Moscow, highlighting how even small duties shape obedience and discipline in daily life as reflected in Woman's Life.
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Napoleon
Moscow
Theatre Francais
Poland
Paris
A Biography In a Nutshell of Love and War
A rambling reminiscence traces a life described as welcomed caressed fed amused reared studied examined graduated and in love. It recalls engagements quarrels reconciliations sufferings desertion and death with mournful reflection and a blunt joke about a late night and a wife’s saying.
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Orl
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Akron Milling CO
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Ioiliclini
Weidenfelier & Schater
John B. Alexander
Plymouth Rock Chick Food
Swit Co
Egg Food
Iowa Seed Co
Choice Warness
Whitfields
Cobb's
Henry Willer
Chicago
Simeon
Canton
Sattler and Avery
M. M.talbott
Fleury Willer
Benton County
George Searls
Harrisburg
Mankato Commercial College
Mankato
Minn
Mrs. Douty
Edgerton, Minnesota
G. G. Brady
George Coe
Monona County
Mrs
G. G. Douglass
Ted Lenderink
Emerson, Nebraska
J.B. Alexander
Storm Lake
Frank
E. M. Sayles
Primghar
O’brien
Allan M. Smith
Windy City
Chicago Art, Institute
Register
Gov. Hoch
Estray
G. M
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Englsh
Comuittt Redet
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