Curious regalia tale and ancient messaging methods recounted
The Advance Iowa reviews a curious account from Selangore about a sacred trumpet touched only by the sultan and heir apparent, and a Malay rite offering gratitude. It also recalls Herodotus on Persian couriers, Barnardo anecdotes, elk drives near Bakersfield, automatic billiards, and odd eggs in Kansas, with other assorted notes from distant lands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. W. Skeat
Selangore
Sul
Himelf
Editorial Association Meet Promises Large Attendance
Upper Des Moines Editors to Iowa City for the January 18 and 19 gathering. The program includes multiple discussions on advertising, editorials, women’s influence, mail order business, rural routes, press morals, publicity, and circulation. A banquet is planned and Iowa City prepares for guests with sightseeing after sessions.
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Upper Des Moines
Iowa City
Fort Dodge
Upper Des ‘Moines Editorial Association
Iowa ‘City
John F .Dalton
The
Manson Democrat
Sam FE. Carrell
Jaws
City State Press
H. A Burrell
Washington Press
Mr. Searle
Lon G. Hardin
Ames Intelligencer
G. L. Cenwell
Denison Bulletin
Elmer &. Johnson
Rockwell City Advocate
W. C. Wilcox
Ralph Robinson
Newton Journal
Ebe Taylor
Traer Star-Clipper
Paul Trigg
Grinnell Register
Emory Rolfe
Dayton Review
David Brant
Iowa City Republican
Harvey Ingham
Des Moines Register and Leader
A. H. Barnes
Eagle Grove Leader
D. W. Norris
Marshalltown Times-Republican
J. O. Hull
Leon Reporter
Heirs To A Fortune In Iowa Cigar Maker Seeks Legacy
Robert M. Metzger of Cedar Rapids, a local cigar dealer, is named as a heir to the Metzger fortune from 17th century Holland. Reports say 122 heirs exist, about half in the United States, with Holland offering to settle around 128 million dollars. Metzger will attend a heirs’ meeting representing his branch and has traced lineage to George Metzger who settled in Baltimore.
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Robert M. Metzger
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Mr. Metzger
Thiebaud Metzger
Breda
Metzger
Holland
Hol Iand
United States
George Metzger
Barbara Metzger
Baltimore
Germany
John Wilam Metzger
Jacob Metzger
State Fish and Game Warden Works to Pass Hunters License Law
George A. Lincoln, state fish and game warden, will travel to Des Moines for several weeks to lobby the legislature for a resident hunters license. He estimates the law would raise about $20,000 annually for the department to fund deputies and improve enforcement.
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George A. Lincoln
Medar Rapids
Hedon
A. Lincoln
Des Moines
Lincoln
State Fish and Game Department
Inws
Novelties of the News and Court Actions Across States
read fragments mention arrests and insolvency actions in Wisconsin and Indiana, a marriage pledge tied to a senator from Frankton, Ind, a Pittsburgh dentist’s foodless day celebration, a life sentence in Kansas City for a murder, and unsettled court proceedings involving a white man and a white death suspect.
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Lesington
Sarah Williams
Carrie Taylor
Boston Suffered Fire Scare Hits Five-Story Warehouse
A blaze disrupted a five story warehouse mass on a Boston street. Fire crews battled flames and smoke as crews evacuated workers and secured adjacent buildings. No injuries were immediately reported and investigations continued into the fire’s origin.
The Master of Appleby Chapter L Continued
Captain Ireton recovers from a sword wound in Appleby Hundred as Margery shows calm support. A night of peril ends with Pennarbin's absence, and Father Mutthier offers counsel while Stair plots estate dealings and hints at a brewing political shift.
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Jin
Old Anthony
Ireten
Margery
Ireton
Richard Jennifer
Anthony
Toun
Father Mutthier
Coreridor
Lis
John
Father Mautthieu
Rick
Realm of dreams and waking sense in a shadowed frontier
A poetic prose fragment reflects on dream and reality as the narrator wanders a frontier of shadows. Evioueness regains sway as the speaker sighs that it was only a dream after all.
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Joe
Never Too Late in January at the Singing School
William McClurey confronts Ellen as years of distance and regret surface. He insists on a future built on shared days not years, urging a life together just as Ellen recalls their youth and signals a tentative acceptance. The scene unfolds with restrained passion and a plan to measure life by days rather than ages.
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Sarawak
Charles Brooks
Milanaus
Herodotus
Miller & Lux
Buttonswillow
Bakers
Ireton
Eld
Mr. Stair
Towl
Congress
Mr. Atair
Lord Cornwallis
Wilmington
Star
Alice Brown
McClurey
Willam
Eilen
Ellen
William
Willian
Wiliam
Silk Mads From Wood New York Tribune Silk Substitute In Germany
A plant near Sydowsaua Germany turns out fifty pounds of shell silk daily from wood pulp. The fine thread, made of eighteen strands, resembles real silk when woven. The pulp undergoes a chemical process and is pressed through fine tubes by hydraulic pressure to form the strands.
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New York Tribune
Sydowsaua
Germany
Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery Promoted for Digestive Ailments
A historical advertisement touts Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a non alcoholic remedy for weak stomach indigestion and related liver and intestinal disorders. It claims glycerine based composition, lists herbal ingredients with endorsements from prominent medical professors and notes pleasant pellets for constipation as a companion remedy.
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Dr. Pierce
Finley
Hingwood
M. D
Bennett Medical College
Chicago
Peres
Pierca
R. Bartholow
Jefferson Medical College
Scago
Hobart A. Hare
Medical Department
University of
Laurence Johnson
Medical Dovertment
University of New York
Edwin M. Hale
Hahnemann Medical College
John M. Scudder
John King
Pierce
Tempers and Jewels From Puck
A witty sketch notes that a fashionable crowd is alas often ill tempered. It contrasts bad temper with vanity as fashionable people wear paste jewels, and comments on reactions to losses among those with frail dispositions. The exchange underscores social pretense and temper in urban society.
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Puck
Meeting of Society to Rescue Chinese Women from Cruelty
Fragmentary report notes a wife unable to attend a meeting because the cook was out and no one strong enough to face her court. The husband explains plans to attend, citing misgivings about dressing and transportation. The item reflects social reform themes in a domestic context.
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Society
Call of the Canadian West bids fair to surpass 1905 wheat
The western Canada crop year is praised for a near 100,600,000 bushel wheat yield while higher yields in spring and winter wheat, rye, barley, peas, and flax are noted. The text highlights American settlement interest in Saskatchewan and Alberta, railway expansion enabling access to vast free homesteading lands, and a rising rush to the prairies in 1906. A poem excerpt celebrates Canada as a rising prairie giant.
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Canada
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Dominion
Canadian Prairies
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