Blockton News highlights and local incidents
Selma Patrick visits with Mrs Fernando Siemil l as her baby remains frail. A cutting affray on a No 1 streetcar led to a butcher knife attack, a waiter treated by Dr Miller. Rev Liverett leads a park basket meeting and evangelistic plans for a camp meeting August 23. Numerous local visits, illnesses, sidewalk projects, and a fourth of July baseball match are noted along with family reunions and property purchases.
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Ellen Williams
Dr. Watson
Knowlton
Joe Minour
Freeland
Ira
Randolph Hibbs
Amy Blakemore
Des Moines
No. 1
Gonal
B. H. Miller
Liverett
Tabernacle
Charlie Graham
C. F. Langford
Rex
Mountain Grove
Estella Wood
Council Bluffs
Jake Miller
The
Hathaway Produce Company
Great Western
Ed Hoover
Hathaway Company
Emma Wininger
Sam Laugh
Maloy
Andy Fullwider
Athelstan and
Maud Snyder
Emmet Williams
Grant City
Olive Dutton
W. N. Harmison
Luther Wininger
Mary Trusler
Diagonal
Taylor Grimes
Redding
Charles Fullerton
John Whitten Jr
W. E. Stubbs
Mound City
Clarinda
M. B. O'Neil
Bert Wolfe
Proof of Dr A W Chase nerve pills cure claims
A long testimonial heavy ad claims nervous exhaustion and frotion are cured by Dr A W Chase’s Nerve Pills. It asserts benefit from each dose, cites testimonials from Mrs James Squires and A L Bibbins, and references Mother Gray's TRALIAN-LEAF as a female regulator. It lists Buffalo NY as company base and 50c price with free sample offer.
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A. W. Chase
Yieter
Ian
M. D
A.W. Chase
A. L. Bibbins
Mother Gray
New Th
Dress
Ley
N.Y
Local residents and plans noted in Maloy area news
The column lists residents moving in and out, visits by Miss Selma Patrick, Wiburn Melton and family, and others. It mentions property purchases, upcoming Fourth of July preparations by band members, wool shipments, and a hosted church event. Also reported are a broken glaze front, a needle removed by X ray, a baby girl born, and Grandma Wright’s eighty fifth birthday party.
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Selma Patrick
Mt. Ayr
Delphos
Margaerett Roach
Malay
Clara
Ottawaa
Day Carter
Maloy
Wibiur Melton
Adama
James Driver
Frank Harlow
A. E. King
Mary Hobbs
Cline
Lucy Green
Fredrick
Lee Brown
John Goldizens
Dave Smith
Conway
Hart Crouch
John Minor
Blockton Bands
Mackey’s
David Cox
Pearl Ledgerwood
Oe Presbyterian Church
Sharpsburg
Prairie Chapel
Hinkhonee
Presbyterian Church
Chaple
Ralston Henderson
College Springs
Dan Rica
Chas. Underwood
Clarinda
George Wilcoxson
McConaughery
Otias
Neb
Denser
W. H. Cavener
Missen Hursta
Tarkio
Lester Johnson
Fort, Morgan, Colo
The Choice and Curious Echoes of Antiquity
A fragmented historical piece surveys a 18th century advertisement for haunted houses and exorcism, a windowpane inscription from 1706, Alexander the Great’s curious escape at a Macedonian banquet, a digression on London’s earliest pawnbroking via Bishop Michael de Northbury, and notes on Pearsons Weekly.
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Alexander the Great
Pella
Macedonia
Philip
Alexander
Europe
Asia
London
England
Michael de Northbury
Edward III
Dugdale
St. Paul's Cross
Pearson's Weekly
The Servant Quote Sparks Public Office Duty
A Washington Star passage contrasts a veteran patriot’s reminder that officeholders are servants of the people with a suburban resident who jokes about taking holidays after election. The exchange underlines duties, humility, and public service in a civic context.
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Scott
Washington Star
Cement in men and extended notes in Chicago humor
A wry remark about human composition cites a Chicago Record-Herald quip. The speaker notes that many men seem made of cement, linking it to recent efforts to extend notes, reflecting humorous absurdity of the era.
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Tye
Chicago Record-Herald
Women as Dramatists a critic's pointed remark
Max Beerbohm contends women dramatists have yet to write male roles with real vitality, arguing that men hold an advantage portraying a sex not their own and questioning authenticity in male characters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max Beerbohm
Ethel Denies Crying as Winds Shift at Etrawa Show
A fragmentary note reads Did you cry Ethel doubtingly N yes ma am Are you sure It booed but I didn t hop Puck comments on Etrawa hinting at changing winds. The line suggests a mood shift at a show with lingering uncertainty about future trends.
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Ethel
Puck
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