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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1913
Page
2
A consular report notes Chinese cooks excel in serving and cooking but lack Western stoves. In Tientsin towns, Chinese households use primitive open kettles and simple furnaces for boiling and stewing. Small cooking stoves patterned after imported models emerge, with German and American ranges sold in local stores.
The article discusses the historic claim of Golgotha in Christian tradition, noting two competing sites. It highlights the Crusades era pilgrimages and the shift from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to Gordon's Calvary as identified by Gen Gordon and Yale professor Harlan P. Beach. The passage ends with a character’s note about finding another passage near a fence.
An old figure nicknamed Jimmy wears a policeman's uniform and guards property around a county farm in Illinois. He protects motorcycles baby carriages and threshing engines when owners are away. During a Chautauqua session he barred boys from slipping through a fence hole.
The readable lines celebrate citizen initiative that made the assembly possible and invites continued support for the ongoing good work.
Mr Thomas J Dawson of Lower Sloane Street reports that bullfinches trained in Germany by cobblers can sing with accuracy arias from Carmen and Faust, a hymn, and the Toreador song. The birds begin lessons after birth and may fetch up to £10 in England.
A man leaped from the government bridge into the Mississippi and drowned. Two men in a skiff saw the jump and searched the water, finding his hat but not his identity.
Excerpts from temperance lines and quotations open a column on religious reflections. A new Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene is organized in Webster City, extending a call to Rev. S. B. Gowland of Waterloo to lead the congregation.
Massena Township notes a sequence of Sunday visits and gatherings in Anita. Frank Perry, a resident visitor, comes from Massachusetts? no, over Sunday guest. Everett Lyman and family call. A L Turner and family spend day with Ralph Biggs. Leah Watson visits McCosh families. Frank Garside and Florida visitors travel to see friends. Linderman and Atlantic visitors at parental home. Wilbur Jemming visits Frank Wilburn family. Mrs. Ralph Biggs attends Shine Club with Linderman. Lincoln Center Aid Society meets with Mrs Joy. S H Wilson family visiting with Robi and Chas Wilson and Mrs Frank Howard. Ladies Aid meets with Mrs J M Garside. next meeting July 2 with Mrs Everett Hansen. L W Stone returns south after pleasant visit.
Retired Methodist minister Rev. J. H. Sanders sold his 169 acre Iowa farm in Jackson Township. He bought it years ago for 3 an acre and sold to Homer B. Foutz for 131.75 per acre, realizing a substantial profit on the deal.
In the New York Medical Journal Dr Maverick warns American students who waste time and money abroad. He cites a future eye specialist who studies eyeball diseases three hours weekly and billiard ball quirks six hours daily.
A London Chronicle observation notes a girl on a motor omnibus knitting while reading fiction and heading to Brompton Oratory. The conductor labels her foreign, prompting reflection on English girls who travel hatless and busy fingers.
Mrs J L Strong and her son Kenneth from Clarinda are in town for a few days. Mrs Strong visits a longtime friend Mrs J M Briggs while Kenneth attends to their free interests purchased from Mr Scarlett by Mr Strong and Mr Pellett.
Mrs Harry Suplee and her children from Kansas are visiting at the home of Rev and Mrs P A Ricke in an informal social visit.
W K Carey visits Omaha Thursday and Atlantic visitors Mrs Jesse Davis and Mrs F H Knowlton attend a special sale on hats. Anita hosts Fourth of July events with free exhibitions and lemonade. Visiting families include Mrs Rev B F Boyle and daughters en route to Boise. Jim Bruce plans return visit from Chicago. Mrs W M Dudley guests at Methodist church next Sunday with a ladies meeting. A barn fire at Peter Scott’s property Sunday destroys the structure. wind kept damage from spreading and cause unclear likely matches.
Last Call Offer promotes a five foot American flag free with a paid subscription to the Daily Register and Leader or the Evening Tribune. Over 3000 flags distributed in 30 days with 346 left in stock. First come, first served. mail orders to Des Moines Iowa paper offices.
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