Local notes from Lacona and surroundings
County correspondence lists visits and travel among residents and relatives. Mentions include Lou Snuggs and wife at Mrs A M Snuggs, Miss Maude Throckmorton’s vacation, Rev Bingaman officiating at a Mills McFarland wedding, Ada McFarland’s wedding, and many villagers visiting relatives in Chariton Milo Liberty Center Norwood Des Moines and Scottsbluff. Several church events, holidays, and holiday travel patterns are noted along with school activities and a broken wagon on route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lou Snuggs
Homse
A. M. Snuggs
Maude Throckmorten
J. A. Cleveland
Julius Beeman
Rev. Bingaman
Mills-McFarland
Liberty Center
J. C. Shape
Ada McFarland
G. E. Hatfield
Dot Gray
Maud Kirkhart
Clem Shupe
Arlie Gray
Norwood
Josie Waddle
Milo
Virgil Gibbon
George Starr
Ralph Fogle
Chariton
Harvey Bliss
Daisy
Ross
Des Moines
John Hadley
Musselman
Ada Baugh
Lacona
M. EB
Christian
Musa Jenkins
Scottsbluff
Neb
J. W. Peterson
Ottumwa
Maud Rodgers
Harry Burres
Wyoming
Randall Kessler
J. W. Starr
Marvin Clevenger
Myrtle Atler
Leah McLennan
Abe Best
Elsie Hendrickson
Kansas
George Eaton
Cedar Falls
J. G. Brodt
Beeman
Julius West
Leon
R. F. Throckmorton
Chariton Area Notes and Travel Visits Aggregate Local News
Derby and Chariton visitors noted with multiple residents traveling to Cambria Leon and Missouri. Drake University student George Newsome returns home for holidays. Local church rummage sale raises about 95 dollars while an infant dies and a brakeman Bert Rose suffers a serious accident at the depot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. V. Canfield
Missouri
Belle Grimes
Merl Davis
Chariton
D. S. Wing
Chanute
Kansas
Dora Irwin
St. Charles
M. G. Irwin
Sherman McKnight
A. M. Troutman
Chicago
The
Presbyterian Church
Walter McCoy
Bert Rose
Local Lucas Notes Include Visits and Christmas Plans
Frank Starkey visits his sister in Des Moines for the holidays. Families from University Place and Chariton gather in Lucas for Christmas. The public school closes for a two week vacation. A residential fire on Tuesday caused by a bad flue damaged the Petty home but goods were saved. Funeral services conducted at home for a four month old child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Starkey
Maggie
Des Moines
Tirzy Hood
University Place
Neb
H. C. Campbell
Murray
Chas. DeWitt
Glenwood
Lucas
Fannie
Stella Snuggs
Hamilton
Kan
Dora Irwin
Truro
Iowa
John Davis
Esta Snedaker
Mt. Ayr
Marion Irwin
Union Township
Lincoln Neb
E. P. Nichols
Rev. Harvey
Local notes from Pleasantville to White City move and family news
Chas. Rogers and family spend the week at Pleasantville with Mrs. R. parents. Warner-Byers Co. packing to move to White City next week. Dr. George Croston returns from Chicago medical college for two weeks. Born to George Taylor and wife, twin girls weighing eighteen pounds Saturday morning. R. S. Gray goes to Green Mountain, Wyoming, for a month’s absence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. Rogers
Pleasantville
Chariton Markets Shows Prices for Seeds Livestock
Prices from Chariton on December 18 1902 list per ewt hogs cattle and calves with oats corn and wheat per bushel also Timothy and Clover seeds and hay. A separate quote discusses Chinese laundries and a handwrit ing expert notes disguises reveal social status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McElveen & Eikenberry
Chariton
Visual memory and musical memory cited in anecdotes
The text highlights Horace Vernet as a model of visual memory able to paint life size portraits after one viewing. It notes Mozart’s superior musical memory after hearing the Miserere twice, then transcribing it. It also mentions soloists who can perform masters’ works without missing a note in a single day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace Vernet
Mozart
Sistine Chapel
Actors and ships clash in a wry quip
Hamlett Egg muses that actors resemble ships not in danger of rocks but in being stranded by a lack of them. Brutus De Trick asks for the meaning, and Egg clarifies that ships are stranded on rocks while actors are stranded for lack of rocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamlett Egg
Brutus de Trick
Egg
New York Times
Nervous Parent-Stop That Exasperated Warning
A Los Angeles Herald item quotes a tense exchange in which a nervous parent admonishes a child for repeated misbehavior and corrections, underscoring ongoing household tensions and a strained family moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles Herald
Bees Not As Smart As Houseflies, Scientist Concludes
A scientist reports findings from multiple experiments suggesting bees are less intelligent than houseflies. The study notes problem solving and learning tests, hinting at species differences in cognitive abilities. Further research is planned to verify these surprising results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
America
Baltimore Sun
Letters From Longhurst on the Sea Social News
A serialized set of letters from Longhurst-on-the-Sea recounts summer romances and social intrigues. Patty Douglas, Nell Taylor, and Ned Goodfellow navigate engagements, golf fame, and rooftop diversions in a coastal town, with headlines of romance and crossed affections shaping the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Platt
Wall Street
New York
Patty
Old Ladies’ Journal
Ned
Roof Gardens
Mother
Manhattan Beach
Longhurst-on-the- Sea
Nell
Patricia Douglas
Ned Goodfellow
Nellie Taylor
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Guy Pogue
Virgil Gibbons
E. M. Press
Lee Myers
B. F. Rodgers
Sam Myers
Sadie Oxenrider
Angie Kline
Chas. Hadley
George Sargent
Mrs. Sargent
Derby
H. A. Churchill
Garden Grove
Evan Lewis
Childden
Penniwell
O. Canfield
Cambria
Charlie Canfield
Anna Barnett
Cleveland
J B. Wyatt
Ann. Grimes
George Newsome
Drake University
Lafayette Miller
Warren Township
W. H. Decker
W. H. Conner
St. Joseph
Mrs
Nellie Vice
Mrs. Austin Erb
Smyrna
L. Six
Allie Hartshorn
Avery
Anna Reese
Hamilton of
Nellie Fuller
Matilda Woodard
Decatur
Margaret Jackson
Osceola
Canterberry
Cassie Yent
Mrs. Hamilton
Chariton Markets
Philadelphia Record
Geo. von Behren
Ceceseeneas
Ccceseseensee Panow
A. 8. Richardson
Longhurst-on-the-Sea
Jimmy Barton
Jack Ferris
Jack
Bowling Green
Patty Douglas
Longhurst
Miss Douglas
Aleman Compidé
Atleman
Jasper
Peng
Agnes Repplier
Lippincove
Eikenberry & CO
Phoenix Mills
Chariton, Iowa
Vy Fed
Hiles
Rotherfort
Sre
Dhes
USA
Knox College Glee Clu
Miss Atwood
Knox College Quartette
G. Hopper
Mallocy’s Opera House
Otwell
Dewitt & Co
Red Fox
F.e.oakes&co Chariton
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