Death of Emperor Francis Joseph marks major historical moment
Emperor Francis Joseph I died at Schoenbrunn Castle Vienna at nine o'clock Tuesday night. The long reigning ruler aged and frail in recent months faced death with defiance of physicians. Cyclone of uncertainty surrounds the war era as to who will inherit and uphold Austrian prestige. In local finance October receipts totaled 14 751 35 and disbursements 82 863 34 leaving 64 650 99 in the treasury. Major payments included school and teachers state funds and various county and township road funds plus payments to Decorah Castalia Ossian Fort Atkinson Calmar Spillville Ridgeway and other towns totaling 10 869 37 to corporations.
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Francis Joseph of
Austria
Schoenbrunn Castle
Vienna
Conan Wool County
Decorah
Castalia
Ossian
Fort Atkinson
Calmar
Spillville
Ridgeway
Jackson Junction
Sock Robbery Spreads as Toe Sock Heist Reported
Marshalltown police investigate a new crime called sock robbing. Herbert A. Stryker of Kansas City woke to find 16 dollars hidden in his sock had vanished after a thief cut a hole in the sock. A young French Canadian guest who was sheltered by Stryker also disappeared and is believed to have boarded a 2 am train to Mason City where he was arrested.
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Marshalltown
Herbert A. Stryker
Kansas City
Stryker
Mason City
Wolf Hunter Elmer Pullen Returns With Trophies
McGregor farmer Elmer Pullen, famed as a wolf hunter in northeastern Town, came home from Fort Atkinson with two wolf hides and a fox after a short hunt. Local farms near Fort Atkinson and Calmar have reported losses of turkeys chickens and pigs to wolves this fall. Pullen went to Fort Atkinson with two of his wolf hounds a week ago.
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Elmer Pullen
Fort Atkinson
Calmar
Mr. Pullen
Election Expenses and Costs in This Country
The passage discusses the necessity of elections and notes three events this year the presidential primary in April the June primary and the general election. It lists approximate costs 1500 for the presidential primary 2000 for the June primary and 92500 for the general election totaling about 6000.
Farmer Killed Near Aurelia In Cherokee County
Joe Pruitt a farmer living four miles south of Aurelia was shot by Jim Elmore as he hauled hay near his home. Elmore stepped in front of the team and fired five shots, three taking effect. Pruitt died about three hours later in Aurelia.
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Joe Pruitt
Aurelia
Cherokee County
Jim Elmore
Elmore
Pruitt
Hold-up at Stark restaurant in Cedar Rapids
Four masked men entered the Stark restaurant in Cedar Rapids Monday evening after supper, threatened staff with a revolver, robbed the proprietor his daughter and the cashier of 165, then fled. The ad for fur coats claims prices similar to last year with coats from 20 to 25 dollars, urging shoppers to Bear's Clothier. A Bohemian Girl matinee is planned at Grand Opera House on Saturday November 25 at 2 15 p m.
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Stark
Cedar Rapids
America
Bear's
Bohemian Girl Matinee Grand Opera House
Newsboy Buck Rose Makes Fortunes From War Boom
Charles Buck Rose, a 22 year old Bridgeport Connecticut newsboy, has turned a $100 stake into a growing fortune. He owns a land plot near Avon Park that has become highly valuable as munitions plants expand. Offers from a real estate operator and the British government rose to 20000 dollars yearly if leased, plus half profits from a forthcoming factory, a proposal he countered.
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Charles
Buck”) Rose
Bridgeport
Buck
Great Britain
Double Photography Trick in Films Shows Two Parts Same Scene
Pearson's explains how actors play two parts in one scene. The camera operator masks the frame to hide the second role while one part is filmed, then rewinds to expose the blank portion for the other part as the actor performs.
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Pearson
Witches Transformed to Cats in Medieval Legend
A medieval legend describes witches and sorcerers taking feline form. A miller’s assistant strikes a large cat in his mill and a bruised arm reveals his wife as a witch in Grimalkin form, echoing werewolf myths cited by Petronius.
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Grimalkin
Petronius
Chalmers’ Journal
Greatest Storage Dam of the World at Elephant Butte
Popular Science Monthly notes Uncle Sam’s Elephant Butte Dam in New Mexico as the world’s largest storage dam. It cost about 5 million dollars and holds enough water to inundate Connecticut to ten inches deep. If the Washington Monument were placed at the dam’s outlet base it would rise only 200 feet above it.
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Elephant Butte
N. M
Connecticut
Washington Monument
Popular Science Monthly
Iceberg instability from detritus load shifts
Icebergs tilt and turn due to heavy detritus in their bases. As they travel south from Greenland the detritus sheds off, shifting the center of gravity and causing the berg to settle in new orientations, a dangerous propensity observed in their movement.
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Greenland
Recruiting drive to enlist soldiers in Winneshiek county
A federal notice states a recruiting agent will be at the post office on the 24th 25th and 26th to enlist volunteers. This follows troops passing through and aims to fill units with local men.
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Sam
Winneshiek County
Federal Post Office
Special Election In Ossian To Vote Bonds For Water Works
Ossian will hold a special election December 1 to vote eight thousand dollars in bonds to extend the water works. The measure aims to improve municipal water service and public utilities for residents.
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Ossian
South
Woolen Shrouds Once Required by English Law
England once mandated woolen shrouds for burying the dead to promote domestic wool production and support the textile industry. The rule aimed to sustain cloth manufacture within the realm and shaped burial customs.
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England
Card of Thanks from Newcomer and Family
We express our thanks to Hesper friends for their sympathy and assistance in our recent bereavement from M. V. Newcomer and family and Mrs. Mary Fe Nelson. Pinch Back overcoats priced at 15.00 offered by Bear's promise unmatched value and invites customers to visit.
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M. V. Newcomer
Mary FE
Nelson
America
Bear
Potash Coming to America and California Prospects
An editorial argues that domestic potash production in California could curb German monopoly, lower fertilizer costs, and boost American labor under protectionist policy. It recounts German syndicate control, past price manipulation, and warns that free trade would allow renewed price rises if the U S industry withers.
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California
Germany
Reichstag
Baby Rescued From Mississippi River Turned Out To Be Granddaughter
Michael Sweeney spotted an infant floating along the Mississippi near the riverbank and rescued her from the water. The child was Mary Sweeney, his granddaughter, whose dress kept her face above the surface. The scene highlighted Sweeney as a brave neighbor amid a chaotic day. nearby listings note Lot 5130 best all wool blue serge ull offered at Bear's.
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Michael Sweeney
Mississippi
Michael
Mary Sweeney
America
Bear's
How Range Finder Works on Warships
The range finder uses two object glasses at each end of the tube to project images through mirrors and prisms to the eye. By aligning the upper and lower halves of the target, the observer adjusts a prism via a thumb screw to bring images together and read the distance in yards.
Match Making Methods Describe Varied Shaving Techniques
The excerpt outlines diverse methods for producing matches from sawed blocks. It notes grain shaving, bidirectional cuts, boiling to ease cutting, and machines that rotate logs to shave, trim, and split sticks. It also mentions round matches produced by forcing material through dies. It ends with a proverb about good intentions leading to success.
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Harper’s
Mercury lamp use allows day and night film work on coast studio
A Pacific coast studio now uses mercury tube lamps with nitrogen lamps to light sets independently of sun and weather. The system enables all day and night production, cutting wages and capital costs by about 20,000 dollars annually.
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Pacific Coast
Lighting of Our Streets
Municipal engineers face renewal of city lighting contracts amid rapid changes in illuminants. A highly efficient practical lamp for moderate units emerges. Nitrogen lamps are rapidly supplanting tungsten incandescent and may displace most arc lighting in time.
Dean's Kidney Pills Promised Remedy Endorsed by Decorah Resident
A Decorah statement touts Dean's Kidney Pills as a proven remedy for kidney trouble with Mrs. D. B. Tuttle detailing backache, fatigue, and dizziness she relieved after using four boxes from Wangler's Pharmacy. Price 50 cents at all dealers. FosterMilburn Co. Buffalo NY.
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Dean
Decorah
D. B. Tuttle
Main St
Wangler
The Mestizo and Other Mixed Races in Mexico
The article outlines the ancestry of the Mexican mestizo and explains three common mixed-race types: chinco from Indian father and negro mother, zambo from negro father and Indian mother, and the ordinary mulatto. It notes these groups plus the general population comprise a large share of Mexico’s people.
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Mexico
The Giant's Staircase of Cork Cliffs
A famous Cork geological feature shows sixteen cliff knobs forming a regular, stair like ascent. Time honored as a unique natural stairway, the series of protruding steps has long attracted attention from locals and visitors alike.
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Cork
The Tribunes of Rome and Liberty’s Guard
The Tribune represented the people like the English Commons. Plebeians gained tribunes ending aristocratic tyranny. Tribunes held veto power to block laws, securing liberty for Romans.
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Rome
House of Commons
England
House of Representatives
New York American
Largest bloom Rafflesia Schadenbergia found on Mindanao
The bo o, the largest bloom known to botanists, is native to Mindanao Philippines. Discovered in January 1889 by Dr Alexander Schadenberg's expedition. Flower weighs eighteen to twenty pounds. Man is often known by the poetry he attempts to write.
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Mindanao
Philippine
Alexander Schadenberg
Mankinds Three Lives Reflects on Youth to Age
In a quip attributed to Professor Pate and echoed by a judge, the saying frames a man’s life in three stages youth, manhood, and age with sharp self regard. Youth is the rising sun, manhood its full meridian, and age the setting sun as one brags about past prowess.
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Professor Pate
Bermuda Becomes Oldest British Colony
Bermuda is noted as Britain's oldest colony with the English flag raised in 1612 by colonists from the Virginia Company who briefly stopped at the islands on their voyage to Virginia. The island carries its name from explorer Juan de Bermudez.
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Bermuda
Britain
Virginia Company
Virginia
Juan de Bermudez
Mica mining history in New Hampshire and North Carolina
The text explains Mica mining began in 1803 with the Ruggles mine in Grafton County New Hampshire and that New Hampshire supplied the US mica output until North Carolina surpassed it around 1867. It notes New Hampshire still extracts mica from old mine dumps and that large dumps remain to be mined. It adds a separate line on how patriot or traitor labels for spies vary with the language used in biographies.
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United States
Ruggles
Grafton County
N. H
North Carolina
New Hampshire
Hampshire
Prominent Women Endorse Our Statements
Harlan Iowa advert promotes Doctor Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for nervousness irregularity claiming natural roots, no alcohol or narcotics, and quick relief. Includes Miss Mary Grave testimonial from Harlan and urges readers to obtain from druggists.
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Harlan
Iowa
Pierce
Mary Grave
Pisces
Common Sense Medical Adviser advertisement
An advertisement promotes the Common Sense Medical Adviser by Dr. W. M. Pierce offering a 1008 page book on self knowledge physiology hygiene and home cures. It invites sending 3 dimes or 30 cents plus stamps for a cloth bound copy and mentions Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for stomach liver and bowels.
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W. M. Pierce
Bio
N. Y
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