Mardi Gras Excursions Offer Low Fare to New Orleans and Mobile
The North Western Line offers return excursion tickets Feb 11 to 17 for Mardi Gras travel to New Orleans and Mobile with return by March 7. Also reduced rates daily to major winter resorts in the United States and Mexico. Information from Chicago & North Western Rwy ticket agents. New five room house for sale with dry cellar, new walks, electric lights, cherry and plum trees, lot 180 by 60 feet. inquire at office. Dr Hesses stock food and poultry products by Ty J Miller & Son.
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New Orleans
Mobile
United States
Mexico
Chicago & North-Western R’y
Local Advertisements and Goods Promoted in Nevada Iowa
Classified notices announce auger and drill work at reasonable prices by Ikehorn & Barthe low, flour and peaches at local merchants, honey, canned goods, Xmas candies, breakfast Wheat 0, and a fine line of dried fruits and cases from Tilden & Loughran and C. F. Letts. Also listings for game boards and various gift items.
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Ikehorn & Barthelow
Nelson & Ikehorn
Nevada
Iowa
Spelling Bet Ends With A Trick Question
A comic exchange sees Jones challenge Brown to spell three words in 20 seconds. Brown correctly spells Believe and Receive, but falters on the third word as time runs out. The gag hinges on Brown spelling the wrong version of the trio.
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Jones
Brown
Benefits of yawning for health and throat care
A French physician states that yawning is healthy and that artificial yawning can be used for sore throat ear buzzing and catarrh. He advises combining yawning with gargling for best relief.
Moving from Yankee Street Landmark to River Bend
Ira Davis's son has been ill. Several families plan moves this month and spring. Mr. White will relocate to Idaho. Frank McCoy bought the Beck house and moves it by the river. The old Yankee Street landmark disappears as preparations begin.
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Ira Davis
Frank McCoy
Beckwith
Yankee Street
Community Notes and Local Happenings
Mr W E Peterson and family spent Sunday in Slater The talk of organizing a National Aid Society in town this week Mr and Mrs Geo Person welcome a new daughter last Monday Several locals confined with the grip Annie Johnsone was immersed at the Baptist church Rev G L McDougall preached a funeral in Slater Sunday afternoon A shooting match in Kelley drew Ames participants Mrs J W Lytle hosted the Ladies Aid Society Mrs W E Peterson hosted them last week A surprise party at Mr Andersons west of town witnessed a young crowd from town
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J. W. Lytle
Ladies’Aid Society
W. E. Peterson
Electric Bitters Restored Dallas Merchant Health, Says Buyer
Laval of Dallas recounts severe debility from overwork overcome by four bottles of Electric Bitters. He reports improved appetite, sleep, energy, and capacity to work. Describes the tonic as best on earth, health builder for weak and run-down people. 50 cents at Bosworth's Drug Store.
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JS. Laval
Dallas
Tex
Generel
Bosworth
Chapel of St Helena at Bethlehem Recalled in Thanks
The chapel at St Helena in Bethlehem lists 44 marble columns from Mount Moriah and thanks neighbors and friends for porch help and support during the sickness and death of their darling Gail. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Swank are named among contributors.
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St. Helena
Bethleem
Mount Moriah
Gail
W. H. Swank
Narrow Chinese Streets Run Along Three Feet Wide
A historical note highlights Chinese streets described as extremely narrow with some lanes measuring as little as three feet in width. The remark underscores urban design constraints and pedestrian traffic challenges in crowded city cores.
Domestic Episode of the Wife’s Decorated Drawing Room
In Life magazine Kate Masterson retells a domestic scene. A wife arrives home bandaged and proudly reveals she installed a decorative corner herself using a lead pipe and pins to avoid costly decorators. The husband admires her skill until the setup collapses in a comic crash.
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Kate Masterson
Funny Human Nature in Love and the Courage to Speak
A young man wanders in a storm to a residence where the daughter has refused him. The father, half sympathetic, half exasperated, forces him inside then urges the girl to treat him seriously. The family chides, laughs, and plans to “bring her to time” as the youth endures the awkward social comedy. Detroit Free Press.
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Detroit Free Press
Tommy's Triumph
A humorous exchange between a pupil Tommy and his teacher over the term tobacco. Tommy asserts the word bacca exists in English dictionaries, shows the entry with a definition of a fruit, and leaves the class triumphant while the teacher is floored by the apparent victory.
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Tommy
Teacher
London
Selfish Edward II and Edward III Epicurean Edict
A kingly pair, Edward II and Edward III, indulged heavily in many courses while enforcing strict limits on servants and subjects. Servants could not eat meat or fish more than once daily, and subjects faced a maximum of two courses or three dishes per course at meals under royal decree.
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Edward II
Edward III
England
Cherry tree to chestnut joke primes mock history
A humorous exchange notes how George Washington's cherry tree becomes a chestnut, playfully arguing cultivation cannot alter a tree's nature. The quip appears in Carper's Bazar as a witty cartoon caption style aside.
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Cawker
Cumso
George Washington
Carper
Seven dollars and fifty cents for a book like that
A young man balks at a book price, exclaiming it costs like sin. An elderly book agent replies that nothing costs like sin, delivering a moral wink in a Chicago Tribune style.
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Chicago Tribune
A memory of Brook Fan and Hawthorne at Brook Farm
Mrs. Gannett Sedgwick recalls Hawthorne as taciturn yet kind in a Brook Farm setting. She recounts reciting poetry to him, his quick reflexes during a cushion prank, and the steady glow of his eyes and smile behind a grave countenance.
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Hawthorne
Bra Gannett Sedgwick
Atlantic
Brook Fan
Charles A. Dana
Mr Hawthorne
Ellen Slade
Mr. Hawthorne
Wood pulp poultices offer clean simple heat method
A U S naval surgeon endorses wood pulp sheets as a substitute for flaxseed meal in poultices. Soak a sheet in hot water to soften, wring lightly, and apply. The sheet absorbs four to five times its weight in water, requires no cloths or cooking, and reduces mess and time.
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United States
Thme
Philadelphia Record
Tenth of lands granted to church by King Ethelwolfe in 854
The charter records King Ethelwolfe granting one tenth of all lands in his realm to the church and ministers of religion with free tenure and exemptions, dated Wilton in the year 854 during the feast of Easter. The act is cited as a historic example of early ecclesiastical tithes in England.
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England
Ethelwolfe
Jesus Christ
Blessed Virgin
Wilton
Ann
Laster
Ingenious engineer estimates geological time from erosion data
An engineer working on western railroads proposes a method using a Wyoming slope erosion record spanning about 300 years to date geological periods. He roughs that the pliocene and pleistocene span 1.5 million years and cenozoic about 4 million years, implying total geological time since the Cambrian near 64 million years.
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Wyoming
Ostend Question Sparks Poem Book Exchange
A playful exchange notes a romantic era tied to youth as a father recalls childhood memory while reading a book of poems. The dialogue hints at a Chicago newspaper voice and a counterpoint to age and art.
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Ostend
Chicago News
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