Fifteenth Annual County Convention Held at Trivoli
The fifteenth annual convention of the county gathering met at Trivoli Iowa Central railroad June 13 14 in the M E church with Mies Lina Jordan and the secretary Elizabeth Purwell re elected. Attendees from abroad were few yet interest and animation made the meeting successful. Weather was fine and picnic dinners enjoyed. Thursday afternoon a hammering scene accompanied the new hall. Morning crowds small. afternoon and evening audiences large especially the contest evening. Several papers by Mrs Faville Mrs McFadden Mrs Auten Mrs Stouffer Mrs George and Mrs Attea drew interest and discussion. Mrs Stouffer demonstrated a mouse trap at a children’s meeting. Evening entertainments pleased. Stouffer awarded medals. Thirty one dollars were received. Ladies commended for the undertaking. Thursday evening Rev. Stouffer gave a stereoptican show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eerer
Swere
Faville
Peoria
McFadden
Hamne City
E. Auten
Princeville
Stouffer
Knox College graduates are noted at commencement
Miss Blanche Pursell daughter of Mr and Mrs J J Pursell graduated from Knox College Galesburg at the commencement exercises last week Mr Pursell and Miss Rosa Pursell attended Thursday's exercises The Brimfield friends read of Knox's 1900 class in the new Central church The day included boat races on Lake George with Miss Pursell and Miss Bowman racing in violet colors alongside other graduates Mrs Pursell attended with family to mark the milestone
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Blanche Pursell
J.J. Pursell
Knox College
Galesburg
Pursell
Rosa Pursell
Miss Pursell
Gertrude Bowman
Brimfield
Thomas R. Willard
B. L
Mavel Cox
Table Grove
Elsa
Elsa 5. Brstad, Quincy; Fanny E. Fahnstock; Agleburg; Lucy B. Finley
Oneida
Mendota
Anche L. Pursell
Mary C. Winn
Osaka
Japan
Whiting Hall
Take George
Club
Awas
Knox Knox
Shuck
Tohl
King
Misees Pursell
Bowman
Boggs
Fitch
Boat Races Feature Knox Birthday Crowd
A listed racing event describes boats No. 3 and 4 tied at the club house with No. 4 surging ahead to win by a boat length. In finals Miss Pursell Bowman Boggs boat No. 4 beat Miss Doty Aspham Bly boat No. 3 and 5 with a close second. Big crowd enjoyed the novel Knox birthday race.
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Finley
Steet Awoman
Ofa
Mit Ésés Pursell
Bowman
Boggs
Doty
Lapham
Ely
Epworth League and Church Plans At Glaceford
Pastor J E Mercer delivered an address at the Epworth League Convention in Glaceford. Building plans for a new church are advancing with estimates from the committee and contractors. The Epworth League meets Sunday at 6 30 PM at the M E church on Our Eternal Destiny. A memory meeting follows. A Sunday School picnic and Young People’s convention are planned at Oak Hill camp ground next Friday June 22 with shade trees water and a tabernacle for rain or shine attendees.
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E.’ Mercer
Epworth ‘League
Glaceford
Epworth League
M.E
Jennie Goudy
Oak Hill Camp Ground
Tabernacle
Baptist Notes Youth Services At Local Church
Myrtle Pursell will lead B Y P U services at the Baptist church next Sunday at 7 pm with the topic Our eternal Destiny. Pastor Cox spoke on The Divine Christ and will discuss Patient continuance in Well Doing next Sunday morning. A sociable at Janie Marshall’s home is planned for Wednesday evening June 27 with refreshments 10 cents. Wagons will leave church at 7:30 to bring those without transport. Junior B Y P U was hosted by Grace Longden Tuesday. about thirty attended with lawn games and ice cream and cake. The Junior Union, led by Grace Longden and Stella Culbertson, meets Sundays at 3 pm. parents are urged to send children.
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Myrtle Pursell
Baptist Church
Pastor Cox
Christ
Janie Marshall
Grace Longden
Stella Culbertson
Death of Mr. Jay father of Mrs. Rebecca Cullen
Aged Mr. Jay died at his daughter Rebecca Cullen’s home near Laura on Tuesday night. Brief funeral services were held at the house by Father Mainville of St. Joseph's Brimfield. The remains were taken to his former Iowa home for interment.
Pension ruling expands benefits for soldiers over 65
The pension department issues a ruling allowing all soldiers over 65 to qualify for a pension. It states that those aged 75 or more who are wholly disabled for manual labor are entitled to the maximum rating under the 1890 act. Those aged 65 and over receive at least the minimum rate unless evidence shows sufficient vigor for work.
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Pension Department
Fragmentary verse tease mentions a beauty and Rocky Mountain Tea
The readable lines praise a woman’s beauty with red lips and bright eyes. A stray slogan hints at Rocky Mountain Tea as a nighttime remedy, though the source is garbled and fragmentary.
Monster Devil Type Constipation Doctor King Pills
Fragmentary notice promotes Dr Kings Life Pills for constipation also claimed to aid stomach liver kidneys and bowels. Advertises at Wm. Robinson Co drug store for 25 cents with dramatic language about relief and healing.
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Wm. Robinson& Co's Drug
Imagination Heals a Letter Misread in India Tale
A tale from Youth's Companion recounts a young civil servant in India who is told his left lung is gone and to adjust his affairs. Misreading a doctor’s letter leads him to recover, while another man in the hills benefits from the mistaken prognosis.
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Frank ¥. Moore
India
T.maatters
Hspcormatl
Mpentleman
Hye
Buzzard Bell Linked to Civil War Buzzard Tale Recalled
Athens Ga Special: R C McAllister of Ft Gaines captured a belled buzzard and newspapers traced a story from 1863. Echols Light Artillery men Smith Davis and Jarrell from Tallahassee and nearby area trapped a buzzard with spoiled meat, fitted a bronze bell on its neck, and later kept correspondence about the bird.
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Athens
Atlanta Constitution
R. C. McAllister
Ft. Gaines
Cobb Davis
Jesse L. Jarrell
George T. Smith
Echols Light Artillery
Oglethorpe County
Camp Leon
Tallahaseee
Fla
Messrs. Smith
Davis
Mr. McAllister
Sir William Harcourt Private Letters Said to Shine
Report notes that Sir William Harcourt’s private letters are fresh and witty. Most go to his eldest son and are kept in neat packets, with Harcourt openly expressing political views to a wide circle of correspondents. He once joked that a person changes every seven years, so earlier letters reflect a different self.
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Sir William Harcourt
Lord Salisbury
Sir William
Baroness Burdett Coutts 86th Birthday Celebrated in Health
The Baroness Burdett Coutts marked her eighty sixth birthday in excellent health and spirits. She is described as fifty years older than her husband, an Englishman by alliance, once possibly Italian or Russian by birth. The couple’s wealth supports vast charity and church-building. John Hamilton, newly chosen bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is noted as a temperance advocate and defender of women’s rights. The Boston Globe cites him as a devout minister of mixed race background.
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Burdett-Coutts
New- Bedford
Great” Britain
Carnegie
Johns
Hamilton
Boston Globe
Fake wood heats with sea water glow
A fragment describes a New Bedford dealer shipping large quantities of a weed from distant regions to all parts of the country and Europe. It notes attempts to imitate the wood with artificial processes but fails, claiming long sea water submersion creates brilliant flames.
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Bedford
Europe
Finland's peasants read political papers widely says new book
A Russian author notes in a recent Finnish study that not one peasant hut in Finland is without a political paper. Finns memorize works by Runeberg and Topelius. Of 35 smaller villages, all but five have at least one periodical, totaling 136 publications.
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O. R.popov
St. Petersburg
Finland
Runeberg
Topelius
Londen Jewelers Sees Record Jewel Offers From Women
The jeweler notes a weak season with few orders yet reports many jewels offered for sale by women. Wives of men going to the front have sold valuables to fund necessary kit, while wedding presents and steady demand linger as the market stagnates.
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Peer S._son
Londen Jewelers
Geld in Rings Persists in African Trade
An earlier Bayptian custom of paying geld as rings persists in Africa. English merchants trading with the Kengo are still accustomed to receiving geld in ring form, often adorned with zodiac signs in relief.
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Africa
Riens and Sesh described in color and texture notes
The Riens are medium to large in size and yellowish with a pink lash. The Sesh is white and crisp.
Exhibition marks five hundredth anniversary of Johannes i birth
A Gothenburg display will celebrate five hundred years of Johannes i birth and Sweden's book trade. The summer exhibition shows the evolution of printing from its invention to modern book manufacture.
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Johannes
Gothenberg
Stable to House 270 Horses and 300 Vehicles
A planned royal stable costing £400,000 will hold 270 horses and 300 vehicles. It features two tall riding rings and is set to take three years to complete, described as finer than any other reigning monarch’s stable.
Hat Support Wall Hook in New Coat Rack Design
A new hat and coat holder features a wall mounted loop of spring wire inserted in sockets on the upper side of the hook. The loop presses against the wall and surrounds the hat brim, holding it above the coats.
Kansas church seeks tall preacher for perverse pursuit
Trustees advertise for a preacher over six feet tall to oversee the congregation. The notice asks for a dominie who can see over the hats of the sisters and watch chronic sleepers who use them as slumber blinds.
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Kansas
Dominie
Denver Post
Drums for Lawyers Highlight Ethics and Drumming Practice
A New Orleans lawyer tells the Times-Democrat that attorney drumming for clients is rising. A man described as a drummer for one firm lures workmen injured in mills with promises of shared fees, sometimes taking 50 to 75 percent, using false pretexts and feigned fault to push clients toward specific lawyers. The practice, though condemned, is reportedly widespread in the city.
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New Orleans
Times-Democrat
Dodge
Young Vanderbilt Keeps Low Social Profile
The engagement of Alfred G Vanderbilt has been announced but he has seen little of society. He was a steady student at St Pauls School Concord New Hampshire and at Yale and rarely ventured out during vacations.
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Alfred G. Vanderbilt
St. Paul’s School
Concord
President Eliot Proves Keen Rider Amid Harvard Gossip
The text notes that President Eliot of Harvard is a skilled horseman and often spends time riding, while also mentioning President Hideson in passing without further detail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sident Hideson
Eliot
Harvard
Mount Vesuvius Road Travel SUSPENDED by Lava Eruption
St Louis transit halted on Mount Vesuvius road due to a profuse eruption of lava. The St. Louis Star reports travel disruptions affecting the area as authorities address the hazard.
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Ned
St. Louis Street
Mount Vesuvius
Louis Star
Palestine Mosques and Homes Open to Swallows
A fragment discusses swallows nesting freely in Palestine, claiming access to houses, living rooms, mosques, and sacred tombs where they build nests and rear young, reflecting a claim of universal freedom for the birds.
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Palestine
American Lice Destroyer boosts poultry profits claims
An advertisement proclaims American Lice Destroyer kills mites and lice within twenty four hours in coops. It promises protection for 250 fowls for a year per package and offers money back if unsatisfied. Makers from Terre Haute Indiana claim long market history and nationwide poultry use.
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American Mig . Co
Terre Haute
Ind
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