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Newspaper
Benton County Times
Location
Vinton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1906
Page
1
Local notes report live poultry demands at Hall's feed store and numerous holiday visits around Eldora Garner Shellsburg Waverly Cedar Rapids Maquoketa Vinton St. Paul Chadron and further. Entries include sales ads for fine Brown Ferretts Black Langshan cockerels and B P Rock cockerels, bees wax wanted 1000 pounds, gasoline cans sale, and various family Christmas and visiting updates.
The Times summarizes holiday movements and visits across towns including Clinton Shockley in Vinton, Roy Hulse and wife with La Porte friends, and J. Lorenz in Cedar Rapids. It notes community events like the WCTU meeting in the library and lists several local residents spending holidays away or returning home.
J E Marietta and Bickel offer 5 percent money for farm loans with optional payments. The lowest rate ever offered in the county. MARIETTA & BICKEL through agents advertise secure terms for farmers seeking credit.
Chicago Daily Inter Ocean and Benton County Times sold as a one year package for 3.00 dollars. Subscriptions available to readers seeking both papers at a discounted rate.
Harpers Magazine notes that in the shattered Inca realm every man and boy becomes an adept on reed flutes and Pandean pipes. The article details a music culture with seasonal songs, oral tradition, and three national instruments: a flute, Pandean pipes, and the drum. It mentions the pipes’ length, double row arrangement, and tribal use of canassa to intoxicate players before battle.
The piece recounts Musa the Muslim general famed for conquering vast Christian realms in 3.5 years, noting vanity from dyeing his beard, a chastisement, and his later recall by the caliph, with historians asserting his potential impact at Tours on Europe’s fate.
A Philadelphia visitor here asked for breakfast items "half smokes and flitch," later clarified as frankfurters and bacon. The exchange highlights regional naming differences and a humorous miscommunication observed in the city.
Women novelists are often thought to outnumber men, yet a recent prize competition showed the counts nearly equal, with the number of male and female authors almost exactly balanced.
President Fallieres of France kissed retiring President Loubet after Loubet’s election and was kissed back by Loubet’s friends, reflecting a customary gesture of farewell among officials.
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