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Newspaper
Chariton Democrat
Location
Chariton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1903
Page
4
Correspondence notes a successful term ending Friday with a program of speaking recitations music and a general picnic. Attendees and neighbors share visits as local residents travel to nearby towns for weddings and social events.
A Brooklyn church tale recounts a couple offended by a preacher causing a comic disruption. The husband stoops for a glove, the wife rises, he stays hidden, and both stumble into a cascade of duster, ladder and window pole as the crowd dissolves into suppressed laughter.
Miss Bertha Beardsley spends a few days with friends in Lacona. Frida Brownlee departs for the Boston teachers' convention. Maud and Fred Teas travel to Bloomfield for a week with friends. Mildred Best and Ida Lavely visit Albia. Mrs. Chas Rose hosts a gathering of ladies. Martha Stuart visits Denver relatives. Will Selby and family visit Belinda from Boulder. Nellie Hanlin and Alma Law head to Boston. Homer Cresap stays a week with relatives in Mt. Pleasant. W. S. Prescott of Ketchikan spends Sunday with his aunt in this city. Col and Mrs. Fraze visit Chariton, guests of M. M. Perry. A. E. Dent and Donald return from Ottumwa. Torcie and Imogene Scott visit Burlington. Benton township school contract awarded to W. A. Corbett. Lot Curtis called to Murray by nephew’s son. Jennie Morrison, returning missionary, visits Rev. Palmer. Mrs. Jas. Biggar visits Darrah and Phillips families in Corning. Rosa Pierce and Master Baker Baker visit Humeston friends. R. Gurwell and Cres ton visit cousins L. C. Whitten. Stella Lauderback returns from a deaf school in Council Bluffs. Stella John arrives from Des Moines for a visit with Jessie Crowley.
Mrs M P Blake of Salina Kansas visited her daughter Mrs Dan Mickle in this city and left Tuesday to stay with relatives in Osceola. Mr and Mrs Frank Hasselquist and children of Ottumwa returned home after visiting Warren township at E Hasselquist's home. Curtis Electric Co advertises repair and new hone services and notes July 4 train 11 will run to Chariton to serve Ottumwa celebrations.
Cleveland Moffett notes in Century that Paris mont de piete handle thousands of watches yearly with average loans of 30 to 40 francs. He observes strict records and official documents required for loans over 15 francs, while under 15 francs only an envelope proof suffices, making concealed identities nearly impossible.
The text urges daily readiness to confront future affairs and even death. It notes the relationship between preparation and perishing, and shifts to a scientific aside on how light interference creates the prismatic colors seen in shells fish scales insect wings and bird feathers.
A Detroit Free Press anecdote recalls a traveling drummer who buys accident insurance. He explains to his wife the policy pays $5,000 for death and $25 a week for injury, as long as he is laid up. She pleads for safety as he begins his journey.
A glimpse of Rosa Bonheur's youth marked by poverty and improvisation. The family scavenged for coins hidden in every corner to stave off hunger while M. Bonheur managed finances with playful disorder. Emile the butcher protected her as she studied slaughterhouse life.
The article explains baccarat rules as two or three cards per side, aiming for nine, with tens and face cards counting zero. It notes the decision to draw when the first two cards total five is debated, cites French court rulings that the game is not purely luck, and calls for a formal probability analysis of whether drawing helps or hurts.
A schoolboy answers the teacher by proposing the Italian system of penmanship with an upward stroke heavy and a downward stroke light. This witty remark reflects classroom humor and wordplay from a past era.
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