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Newspaper
Audubon County Journal
Location
Exira, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1902
Page
5
Brayton and Oakfield column covers Sunday school hours local sermons and church notices. It reports personal updates on residents including illnesses travels and family milestones, names teachers and local officials, plus bridge and road work, livestock sales, a new Danish schoolhouse dedication and a Memorial Day observance.
A old household belief claims setting a poker across the top bar of the grate placates gnomes believed to guard underground coal. The croas charm is said to drive them away but using a shovel would make the fire go out.
A readable recounting of Cuban history from Columbus and the early Spanish administration through 1898, noting Velasquez, slavery, revolts, and brief English control, leading to the Spanish–American War and the US occupation reforms in sanitation, policing, and economy.
In Isabela on Mindanao, marines at the new southern Philippines naval station near Zamboanga helped a Moro by volunteering skin grafts after a shark bite. An American officer recounts Dr Guthrie performing the skin graft on the thigh of a native, drawing broad interest back home.
In Isabela, Marines offered portions of their own skin to save a Moro fisherman in need. The operation succeeded, leaving the man grateful yet marked by a white thigh among a dark brown body. The hospital and harbor fortify a colonial past as Moros plundered the Spanish governor’s palace before American troops arrived.
A fashion expert argues that a shiny shoe finish is out of style and that the dull look is preferred. He notes the laundryman favors dullness, but bootblacks face resistance to changing tastes as they try to persuade customers.
A voluble prophet of woe asks if rivers might dry up soon, prompting a patient response from local men who urge action with the cryptic phrase go thou and do Ikeywise. The fragment suggests a cautionary dialogue about impending disaster and civic resolve.
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