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Newspaper
Audubon County Journal
Location
Exira, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1902
Page
8
Local notes from Elkhorn and Kimballton IA report dental visits, new projects, farm updates, and social calls. A Dam project begins, Danes attend Racine convention, and a horse buggy runaway causes minor damage as communities share daily life.
A stream of short items covers Elkhorn, Indian Creek and surrounding towns. Topics include street improvements, travel plans of H P Peterson and family, health trips of Mrs Peterson, a ball game between Indian Creek and Fiscus, a pre Fifth of June celebration at Sven Madsen’s home, music gatherings near Elkhorn, land sales and bank site work, Atlantic visits by Elkhorn youths, a playful raid on the Clay township creamery, a Glivie relative’s return from Europe, a church picnic with a children’s program, and a mysterious uncashed check dated February 17, 1888 found near Kimballton.
A claim states that Fuller, Smith & Fuller, lumber, grain and live stock dealers, made a transfer to toone, Hollman, Nonikala which ended with Hollman. No one recognizes the names and the check is described as lost since the gain was never attained. A reader may trace the matter further.
A war minister in Egypt strict on officers appearing unshaven orders a lieutenant to ride to the encampment for public punishment. The officer escapes, hides in a barber shop, and returns clean shaven. The minister declares the lieutenant a captain and denounces the minister as a fool to the assembled officers.
The article argues that Elizabethan fairy size is not fixed as folklore and language show fairies ranging from tiny to gigantic. It cites examples like fairies carrying a straw or spanning a keyhole with a thread bridge, and notes that size variations reflect prehistoric conceptions of nature rather than inconsistent myth.
When trunks are opened after long storage, treasured items lose meaning as pictures, souvenirs, letters, and odds and ends prove useless. The New York Press notes many belongings become trash during renovations and moving as time unveils their true value.
By end of the seventh century needlework reached high craft in convents for church decoration and priestly robes. Artists used natural colors for embroidery patterns. A religious lady sought St Dunstan to design flowers and figures later worked in gold thread.
A quotation from a schoolmaster on clear language versus intellectual snobbery. It argues that great minds express great thoughts in simple words and condemns incomprehensible talk as signs of pretension. The piece reflects editorial interest in communication and public discourse.
Mrs. H Merrill of 100 East Seventy third street New York says her camera first focused on Mont Pelee ruins at St Pierre from the Koreana sister ship to the Roraima. She photographed ash lava and burning warehouses as ships burned and bodies floated nearby.
The article highlights long baroque pearl chains as a summer fashion for women with vivid enamel details. It describes a daisy fan accessory featuring white enamel daisies with green stems and delicate blue forget-me-nots, pink button roses, all crafted in tinted enamel and fine pilieles.
New York World lauds the boy king Alfonso III as mature beyond years. Born frail, he has been shaped by his mother into a sturdy, patriotic, religious ruler. He speaks several languages, loves athletics, and is devoted to his sisters. His upbringing included drills, walks, billiards, and disciplined plays away from the grandes.
An article discusses the earth’s interior as a focus of public interest after Martinique and other eruptions. It outlines a global belt of active volcanoes from New Zealand to Japan and across Asia, the Americas, and Europe, noting tectonic regions and a proposed rising land pattern. It also mentions a German railway car coupling and Berlin pingpong innovation.
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