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Newspaper
Correctionville News
Location
Correctionville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1913
Page
7
In a comic Christmas caper, Jane and Molly recount a turkey theft involving a girl, a boy, and a police chase through city streets. TheTurkish bird is recovered and linked to a local charity effort, highlighting themes of generosity and restraint amid holiday drama.
From the New York Evening Sun, Spox sparks a trend as the Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving popularizes trimming Christmas lists. The piece blends playful coinages with quirky shopper chatter and a sample Santa scene, noting quirky terms like spuxeiys and soug while musing on gadgets and gifts.
In Fair Haven a two story house known as the house of mystery becomes a magnet for strange events. A woman and a boy occupy it while fearing crowds. grocer Phineas Green is assaulted at his shop, and shoemaker Means Jackson aids the woman, who later kicks him. Rumors spread as a pastor is confronted, the constable investigates, and two visitors arrive seeking answers. The tale grows with disappearances, fights, and a mounting sense of danger in the village.
The U S government opens reservations and thousands rush to homesteads in Western Canada in Manitoba Saskatchewan or Alberta. 160 acre grants require a ten dollar entrance fee and three years of residence. Lands offer grain crops mixed farming, cattle, dairying, timber and water access with affordable terms and tree rich park districts.
A Lancet correspondent recalls a man who visited a quack after wristing on damp ground and using a lead pencil. The healer claimed plambism lead poisoning, then joked about plumbago. The patient learns the quack’s pills are bread while pencils remove marks.
An old advertisement promotes Caticura Ointment and Caticura Soap for pimples and blackheads. It claims quick results with bathing and explains how to obtain samples by postcard to Caticura Department L Boston. The piece also mentions Miss Gladys Zaveescroft and a golf anecdote from Wilmington with a crusty caddie remark.
A doctor, dubbed the ugliest man to four counties, savors irony about his facial flaws. He recalls a late arrival to a factory death where a woman was injured, noting the newspaper’s ambiguous report and the grim moment when his presence marked the patient’s decline and death.
Sir Robert Ball, aged seventy three, renowned for making astronomy accessible through works like The Story of the Heavens and Starland, died. He earned government and academic recognition in Britain, with strong but steadier appreciation in the United States where his writings sold well. His effort helped popularize astronomy for a generation.
Fred Poor of the supply department at the post office rode a winter train between his town and a site north of Lawrence. Exhausted from a late engagement he dozed and slept through a bridge sighting of the falls at Lawrence. A fellow passenger awakened him to witness the splash, though Poor had seen the falls many times before.
At the American Electric Railway association convention in Atlantic City John Morse Rogers, Omaha statistician, comments on the three cent fare. The text includes garbled phrases and disjointed humor about Gobsa Golde and a writer, with stray allusions and unfamiliar names.
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A garbled excerpt shows a child asking Auntie why Mr Dick cannot smell like his perfume while a speaker named Joan Rockefeller Jr addresses a Cleveland meeting. The dialogue touches on cough drops, teething remedies, and a skeptical remark about a “well on” future, ending with a quip about finances and an unknown quantity.
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