Local Mention Screen Doors at Whithelds
Local note mentions Hayes testing free window treatments, wallpaper updates at Cobb's, and a round of visitors from Sioux City to Akron and Vermillion. The column also records farm tools on sale, various travels, and social visits across Akron area with many names and towns cited.
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Whithelds
Hayes
Cobb's
C P. Vargason
Sioux City
Langford
Chatsworth
Akron
Will Ross
Pukwana
Rose Palm
le Mars
Annie Kirteen
E 'l’. Hofstad
Chris. Steinbeck
Hawarden
Ross
David Wistrom
Vermillion
Simeon
Canton
Sattler and Avery
M. M. Talbott
Anna Kennedy
Nebraska
Nebraska. Mrs. Jack Returned To Her Home At Worthing
M. D
Colwell
Franklin Rust
Chicago
Ida Myatt
David City
Jessie Searls
Ella Farnham
Des Moines
Iowa
Ela Allen
H. F. Hansen
Dickinson
North Dakota
I. J. Hansen
Sioux Falls
E. J. Searls
Garden Grove
Leon
Decatur
A. G. A. Palm
Great Western Manure Spreader Co
Register-Tribune
W. R. Kidd
Anna
M. W. Seamands
Edna and Pearl
Sayles
Iva Kennedy
T. L. Burnight, Jr
Ray A. Smith
Arnold’s Park
Spirit Lake
George Searls
Harrisburg
S. C
B. O. Searls
Hunt Hubbard
City
Carrie Zeller
Alton
Alton Democrat
Valin
W. C. Olson
Wm. A. Olson
Leander Manning
Yarts
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Missouri River
Union Creek
Beresford Adopts Anti Spitting Ordinance And Local Updates
Neighborhood news lists Beresford adopting an anti spitting ordinance. Postmaster John Heid of Hik Point is reappointed. Local marriages include Miss Eva Wilkison and William Dickerson of Richland D. and Miss Lizzie Kern and John Dona hue of LeMars. Several regional moves and business changes noted in LeMars Sioux City and adjacent towns. Also mentions a dividend at Sunset mines and a local mathematician John J Van Hizenga known for rapid note calculations.
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Eva Wilkison
William Dickerson
Richland
Hik Point
Lizzie Kern
John Donahue
LeMars
Sioux City
Bishop Garrigan
Orange City
John J. van Hizenga
Mr. Hizenga
Northwest Bank
First National
A Word About Binder Twine
A farmer warns locals to ignore traveling agents urging early binding twine orders under a claimed shortage. He states he has ample first class twine and can supply all local demand at the lowest price, promising honest treatment and fulfillment without canvassing broader orders.
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S. A. Waterbury
Stray Shoats Then Unnamed From Akron Farm
Estray two shoats weights 75.10.100 pounds one black and one black with white face and white spots strayed from Akron farm last Saturday reward for return or information leading to recovery M A Agnes officer notice reflects a local farm loss and reward detail with contact initials and location in brief.
Notice to Settle Accounts Urgently at Public Address
Persons knowing themselves indebted to me are urged to call within thirty days to settle accounts by cash or bankable note. Contact at the new U. C. I. Cog Agnes for settlement.
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Agnes
Burnight Stockyards Barn Hosts Weeklong Market Event
McFarland & Co. owners present weeklong sale at Burnight Stockyards Barn across Akron Bridge. Single service priced at $8, plus $15 insurance cost for live stock. Brapley and Groom listed among participants.
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Burnight Stockyards
Akron Bridge
First Air Brake Proved On Train By Westinghouse
Arthur Warren in Success recounts how Westinghouse tested his air brake on a railroad line in Pittsburg with permission to trial. Indemnity for damage was agreed. On the trial trip the brake stopped the train before a crossing obstruction, saving lives and property. The success made his fortune at age twenty two.
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Westinghouse
Pittsburg
Alr
Arthur Warren
Principles of Business Law and Partnership Responsibility
A condensed survey of legal maxims: fraud concealment binds all partners, ignorance of law offers no excuse, contracts lack consideration are void, minors or lunatics render a contract void, receipts aren’t conclusive, read pencil signatures are valid, agents liable to principals for errors, each partner bears firm debt, and a draft becomes accepted when signed.
Taylor’s Early Path to the Presidency
The passage notes Zachary Taylor, elected to lieutenancy in 1810 at age twenty two, served in the regular army until around 1848, and faced sneers that he had not voted for forty years due to years away on military duty, despite his Mexican War fame.
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Zachary Taylor
Henry Clay
Taylor
Fragmentary Ohio River boundary note in 19th century speech
The excerpt discusses Ohio's boundary with West Virginia and Kentucky as the river flows past Ohio, noting the northern margin of the river defines the border. It includes stray dialogue about laughter toward a milliner, landlord, and grocer in a bystander remark, attributed to Love, with a citation to the Houston Post.
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Ohio River
Ohio
West Virginia
Kentucky
Northwest Territory
Love
Houston” Post
Woman mocks churchgoing man claiming sobriety by water
Detroit Press notes a humorous remark about a wife asserting her husband avoids church because he is already as good as he can be. The gag hinges on the husbands and wives exchange, reflecting domestic humor in the era.
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Detroit
Yee Press
London Answers Echoes With Puzzling Pawnshop Quip
A misheard exchange features a mistress directing her new girl Hannah to soak a brown serge dress and a playful line about a favorite pawnbroker, attributed to London in a whimsical moment lingering in the text.
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Hannah
London
Slipped a Word From a School Exam Paper
A recent examination paper on religious instruction at a boys’ school quotes Punch remarking that Holy matrimony is a divine Institution for the provocation of mankind.
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Punch
Hawk and mink clash in night forest drama
Harold S. Deming describes a hawk hunting a squirrel and then fighting a mink. The hawk is wounded but drives the mink away, as other birds mob the scene and a dog gives chase amid a dawn-dark woodland backdrop. The account ends with the hawk limping toward the woods.
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Mink
Harold S. Deming
Harper’s Magazine
Persian Dramatic Illusions Draw Western Laughs
A traveler quotes Harper's Weekly on Persian theater. Native performers appear solemn while staging miracle plays with a stage ascent using a belt tied block and tackle. Viewers often weep as illusion clashes with perception, highlighting cultural contrasts in spectacle.
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Harper’s Weekly
The Gardener and the tug of perfect gardens
A meditation on gardening as a craft that never ends. The gardener savors change and growth, but when passing a garden to others, the risk of damage and gaudy display tests a creator’s patience. Only owners with artful sympathy can preserve delicate color and intent.
Child’s View of Art and the Pantry Question
A china lover’s antique collection draws a child’s gaze and a witty rebuke. In a living room scene a little girl asks the hostess if she has a pantry, revealing a humorous clash between aesthetic reverence and practical need.
Mustache cups puzzle in novelty sale
A Philadelphia Press snippet shows a salesman touting a mustache cup design asking $1.98 for cup and saucer. Mr Nurich notes the saucer doesn’t match and lacks a mustache guard, highlighting a design flaw in the item.
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Mr. Nurich
Philadelphia Press
Duelist’s Second Declares All Ready in Odd Exchange
In a Philadelphia Ledger note, the duelist’s second says all is ready and offers a handshake while the other exclaims through chattering teeth that the gesture shakes too much. The text mentions artists’ belief that the left side of faces is more beautiful than the right.
Rural water supply ignored by city funded efforts
The New York Herald notes the vast rural population about 40,000,000 drinking from wells springs and streams with unreliable sources. Typhoid rates in rural districts rival urban areas in places like central Pennsylvania. City water advances dwarf rural efforts, demanding immense funding and chemist labor to improve country sources.
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Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
City
New York Herald
Snowslides of the Rockies Threaten Miners Each Year
A vivid account of snowslides in high mountain regions describing their suddenness and deadly force. Miners face avalanches while at mine dumps and even near boarding houses. Stories recount cooks hurled 1000 feet down slopes and bodies recovered only after spring melt.
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Mttle Valley
Odd omissions alter meaning in absurd sentence set
A proofreader notes how removing a single letter from each sentence yields absurd results. Examples include conflict described as dreadful, enemy repulsed with laughter, and political or social actions twisted by missing letters. The fragmentary items reveal the fragility of meaning in edited text.
Observation and Social Perception in John Fosters View
A concise account reflecting John Foster on how a vigilant observer reads people and objects. The text discusses constant, subtle cues that reveal value and dictate the attention given to each encounter. It emphasizes experience shaping perception and recognition.
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John Foster
Tamed Poetry Defied by Editor In Comic Exchange
A timid submitter asks to publish a lyric but is shot down by a harsh editor who demands quiet, non singing verse. The exchange mocks fragile literary virtue and contrasts swift creation with drawn out editing. The tale riffs on value and reader attention.
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Raaay
Akron Milling CO
Weidentelier & Schafer
Wrante
Fl. W. Chamberlain
John B. Alexander
Akron, Towra
E Machine
Plymouth Rock
Swift Oogy Food For Poultry
Lowa Seed Co
Neighborhood News
Beresford
John Heid
Milwaukee
Sheldon
Prof Polling
Dallas
Oregon
Western Union College
Randall
H. F. Rubel
Waverly
Allen
H. P. Jensen
Elk Point
Denmark
W. W. Guillaume
Dr. Phillips
Andy Olson
Dave Goettel
Guillaume
Remsen
Sunset
Platteville
Wis
Peter John
Js, BrApLey, Groom
Bird and
the Gardener
Rural Water Supply
Rockies
Browne
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