Local and Personal For Sale And Visits In Regional Towns
Local and personal notes list two full blood Duroc Jersey brood sows for sale through W. C. Fuller. Numerous brief visits and travels are logged including Mrs. Ralph Douglass in Lucas, Carl Johnson to Molving Illinois, La Verne Gitzey to St. Charles, and Mamie Boehner from Salt Lake City staying with J. G. Foulks. Several residents travel or visit relatives, with business and health notes from Ottumwa to Des Moines and Moscow Idaho.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Johnson
Molving
Illinois
la Verne Gitzey
St. Charles
L. M. Gow
Russell
Mamie Boehner
Salt Lake City
J. G. Foulks
Florence Larrington
O. E. Combs
E. W. Gray
Humeston
John VanDerley
R. P. Hollingshead
Ottumwa
Glenn Peasley
McCollough
Charles Smith
Kansas City
Lucas
Mamie O’conner
Des Moines
Mutual Telephone Office
Myrtle Wallace
Norwood
F. E. Hendrickson
Origin of the word filibuster from freebooters
The term arose from English adventurers on the coast who used buconaneer while French practitioners favored flibustier. The word later corrupted to flibuster and is said to derive from the French pronunciation of freebooters, a label long used for dependent robbers.
Mean Thing. College convo on independence and hours
A fragment from the Philadelphia Press Independent includes a dialogue between two college girls about restrictions, complexion, and independence. One argues for early bedtime while the other jokes about preserved ideals and buying adequacy.
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Philadelphia Press
Very Stupid Village Schoolmaster Explains Bi Ped And Quadruped
A London Opinion cartoon features a schoolmaster asking Jones for the difference between himself and a pig. Jones cannot answer. The caption plays on absurd dialogue as Avman and Aaugh add garbled interjections.
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Jones
London
Market prices for flour and staples in New York
The ad lists cream flour per sack, patent flour per sack, extra flour per 10 lb sack, buckwheat 10 lb sack, corn meal per sack, table salt 10c, a box of Barlow Blue soap, and other kitchen staples with unit prices. Prices are shown in small cents ranges and the text resembles a newspaper market column.
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Eeee
New York
Barlow Blue
Derby School honor roll for March 1908
Primary division pupils ranking first include Fay Sower, with 97 percent, Dwight Kirk 91 in second grade, Harry Winslow 96 in first grade, and Twila Lugar 96 in primer. Absent or tardy none of Pay Sutton, Raymond Sutton, Twila Lugar, Harley Lugar, Renee Pollard, Waldo Pollard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Derby School
Fay Sowder
Dwight Kirk
Harry Winslow
Twila Lugar
Pay
Raymond Sutton
Twila
Harley Lugar
Renee
Waldo
Pollard
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Mrs. Goodbaker
Mrs. Henry
Whittlesey’s
Stranger
Chariton
Meadows Barber Shop
Lucas County
Elijah
California
L. J. Maple
Wright
L. F. Maple & Co
Smyth
Northwest Corner
AAAS
G. W. Ensley
West Side Square
Jersey
W. C. Fuller
Hall’s
G. W. Bauley
Patriot Shop
Mrs
Ralph Douglass
J. H. Roberts
Whitebreast Township
Josephine Cowan
John Hollingshead
Moscow Idaho
Wm. Baldwin
Verner James
Fairfield
J. G. Browning
Leo Leinen
Painters’ Trade
N. Leinen
James Brown
Depot Hotel
Chicago
Will Moncrief
Hooper Produce Co
Ethel Maple
Holdrege
Nebraska
L. F. Maple
Isaac Rolls
Carmen
Oklahoma
P. C. van Benthuysen
Albia
J. D. Hardin
J. P. Hardin
Independent
Meggendorfer Blatter
Avman
Price
Old Grimes
U & I Tobacco
Yankee Girl Tobacco
Square Deal
Nal
Rising Sun
Lewis Lye
Merry War
Enue
Arm & Hammer Soda Ees
Michigan
W. E. Lewis
Foley
Storie & Patton
West Side Sq
School Report
Chariton Markets
Enezeee
Fagnavese
Sees Et Endesens Cone
McElveen & Elkenberry
Gray-Von Behren Co
Theo
Lise
Sogtang
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