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Newspaper
Audubon County Journal
Location
Exira, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1902
Page
8
Local items from Kimballton Elkhorn and surrounding towns report new houses under way and planned, sales of engines and lumber, fence work, a barn project, a tombstone purchase, a lawn tennis club formation, a hospital case clarification, and social gatherings. Notable names include Nels Jensen Hans Rasmussen Chris Hansen and many neighbors.
A travel piece recounts Mrs Alec Tweedie’s humorous welcome in Mexico during a dusty train journey from Texas toward San Antonio Sabinas. Four men in uniform greet her at junctions, each delivering assurances of hospitality from different hosts and ranches, ending with a safe escort to Sabinas.
A hungry rain soaked five year old newsboy on Twelfth and Market offers aid as a stout elderly woman hesitates at the curb. He grips her arm and assures her, then helps her across the flooded corner amid a passing procession of wagons and trolleys.
In Abyssinia political offenders are arrested and taken to Abba Salama on a perilous tableland near Adowa. Prisoners are lashed up by ropes for deportation to the rock fortress where escape is near impossible. The height yields a harsh terrain with soil for grain and water nearby, but no speakers to keep order.
The article explains assembling Roman candles by filling a cylindrical case with stars and top coating them with composition. It describes how mixing specific chemicals yields green and red lights, noting the stage tradition of green light from nitrate of barytes with sulphur, chlorate of potash, and charcoal.
A professor instructs Dulle to deliver a lecture with grace and to leave the platform on tiptoe so as not to wake the audience. Dulle asks why tiptoeing is necessary, and the professor explains the reason.
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