Oakfield Brayton First Baptist Services And Notices
Oakfield and Brayton church services listed with Sunday preaching at 10 45 a m Sabbath School at noon and youth group meetings. Local notices record people traveling to Omaha Atlantic Exira and Shelby for business and visits. A social for the Baptist Ladies Aid is announced and various town happenings including births, marriages, and market reports are noted.
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Junior League
Baptist
Youth People’s Association
Charles Sloan
Geo. Hough
Nels P. Hough
Grandpa
Brayton
Molly Miller
Mollie Miller
Han Hansen
Atlantic
Ladies’ Aid Society of the Baptist Church
Bendixon
Hans Hansen
Shelby
M. P. Petersen
A. C. Hansen
Lauritz Petersen
Chris Nelson
Schuyler Walker
H.C. Nelson
Asmus Nissen
Southern Europe idle spectator customs described
A traveler notes crowds in Paris Naples Rome Madrid and Seville observing and participating in outdoor viewing and social contrasts. He describes Grand Prix crowds at Longchamp, Divino Annexe feasts on the Campagna, Appian Way spectators, Puerta del Sol idlers, and Seville’s Sierpes clubs where rich and poor watch each other.
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Europe
Paris
Longchamps
Rome
Madrid
Puerta del Sol
Seville
Sierpes
Reading the Bible in Six Months to Two Months
The piece compares reading times for the Old and New Testaments based on word counts and reading speeds. It concludes that at a slow 60 words per minute for one hour daily, the Old Testament would take under six months and the New Testament under two months. It also includes a separate note on bog shooting and safety.
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Joseph
Egypt
Herodotus
A Horse's Strength and Working Limits
The article explains a horse’s weight about 1,000 pounds equating to five men in power. A horse mill at three feet per second on a twenty five foot diameter track yields the effort of four and a half horses. A horse can pass at most four pounds horizontally, though only briefly, and in sustained effort likely half that amount.
Stableman's Plan and Edam Cheese History
A Kansas City Independent excerpt recalls a stableman named Thomas who argues for adapting parish work to workingmen by “bindingfolding and backing them in.” It then recounts Edam cheeses’ fame, tracing Dutch origins to 1631 and a tale of Edam sent to the Delaware region and a later clash with Indigenous peoples.
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Thomas
Horie
Kansas City
Mynbeer Peter Heys
Edam
Holland
Delaware River
Sardonic Irish Wit and Fish Shop Parody
A fragment notes mordant Irish wit about Peel and a sardonic image of a smile as a silver plate on a coffin. It then recounts a fish shop anecdote where a customer questions every fish and the shopwoman sighs to seek information, reflecting humorous social barbs from London Answers.
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O'Connell
Peel
London
Babies Crying At Birth And Definition Of A Baby
A historic text discusses how newborns cry as a natural lung expansion and not pain, noting strong cries in healthy babies and weaker cries in weaker ones. It explains crying declines as tear ducts develop and outlines a quirky, lengthy definition of a baby with curious imagery.
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Jess
Measuring Hides by Automated Gauge Reads Both Metric and Standard
An old timer paid experts to estimate hide contents by measure. Now an unskilled worker places irregular hides on a table like double-top device. The machine quickly computes square footage in metric and standard systems with exactness.
Hera the Credit Silent Marriage Joke
A humorous exchange about marital idiosyncrasies features Hera noting her husband never hurries her. She retorts that she hides his hat or gloves to force him to search while she finishes getting ready, revealing playful domestic banter.
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Hera
Chamberlain's Choice Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
An advertisement proclaims Chamberlain's Choice as a reliable, pleasant remedy for summer diarrhoea in children and credits it with saving many young lives each year. Sold by Nick Doffing & Co.
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Chamberlain
Nick Doffing & Co
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Oakfield
First Baptist Church Services
Qwen Ide
Nels Hansen
Tic McGovern
Frank Heath
Wm. Hines
Co. L. Bisom
Omaha
Bud Heath
Extra
Frank Nelson
Audubon
Gus Schrader
Jens P. Juhi
South Omaha
C. C. Dimick
Exira
Edith Leagan
Mrs. Lona
Heath
Wm. Delahoyde
Charley Bisom
Q. L. Bisom
Lafe Simpson
Alfred Miller
North Street
Robert Oldout
Opal Cannon
Frank
Hans Haneen
L. Simpson
Ernest Cotton
Oregon
Marion Jenkins
Shenandoah
Sam Crane
Sarah
W. E. Edmondson
Roscoe Clark
Cedar Rapids
James Barhau
Highland Church
Jenkins & McGovern
Hansen
Chris Christensen
Johnson & Thompson Hardware
N. L
John Hansen
Chris Thompson
Peter Nelson
Hang Marquesen
Audubon Township
Chamberiain
Nick Coffing & Co
Scott
Mother
Ghito
Semil
Scott & Bowne
Pearl Street
Green Bay Lumber Company
Nels Sorensen
Brayton, Iowa
Lapland
Jim Dumps
California
Los Angles
San Francisco
el Paso
Colorado
Rock Island
L. M. Allen
G. P. & Tkt Agt
Chicago, Ul
Kinloch Painting CO
ST. Louis
Dakota
MTC Hon
United States
Hot Springs
J. Francis
Gerwal
Omeha
Neb
Smiths
Iowa
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