Fragmented rural notes and local notices from Elgin area
A mixed column recalls social gossip and farm life from Elgin with messages about neighbors Mrs. Greenley and Rob ert returning home, Lena Frieden starting as a cafe clerk, and stock care amid cold weather. It mentions local business moves, a Sea of Minnesota flour promo, a new snow white fountain, and regional weather with 17 below zero observed on New Year’s morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sosaomy Hood
Max Thoma
Chas. Greenley
Pon Robert
Decorak
Greenley
Lena Frieden
Evans Cafe
Springfield
Teader
Wil Lehman
Johnson
Rock Valley
Elgin
Forest Welch
Lizzie
Harry Becker
Clermont
Harry
Weibel Mill Co
American Capital
South America
Central and
General Electric Company
R. W. Muehlenthaler
Chicago
Kupper Bier
New York
California
Blackmith
J. B. Adkins
Des Moines
Town Society For the Friendless
Sabula Gazette
Mississippi
Iowa
Minnesota
Crows Purloin Golf Balls In Kobe Links Tale
A Washington letter reports Consul Dickover in Kobe Japan noting crows infest the Miko club links stealing golf balls. Japanese cad dies allegedly trade balls for food with crows while caddies attest to a working arrangement, amid four nearby courses and a mountain course accessed by porterage and bamboo aids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Washington
Brie R
Dickover
Kobe
Japan
Sys
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Kohe
Rokko
Jinvikistiae
Leopard Cults and a Paris Drug Store Wrecks
In Adventure magazine summary a Sierra Leone Leopard society is described with members raised for killing, marked by protruding foreheads and clawlike death marks. Separately, a Paris corner drug store near the Northern railroad has suffered forty wrecks in thirteen years, including a fatal motorcycle crash and a taxicab crash with substantial stock damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. Aumaury Talbot
Adventure Magazine
Sierra Leone
Leopard Society
Paris
France
Phoenician stone forgery exposed in 19th century Europe
A famous limposture titled the Phoenician stone presented a Greek and fake Phoenician inscription claimed as a Fifth century B.C. tablet. In 1824 it was sent from Malta to Raoul Roënette in Paris, who vouched for its authenticity, triggering scholarly decipherment attempts by Gesening and Hamaker before the stone was exposed as a fraud.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
California
Union
Iowa
Towa
Shers
Cedar Rapids
Malta
Raoul Roenette
Cabinet of Antiquities
Paris
Europe
Rochette
Gesening
Halle
Hamaker
Leyden
New Glaciers Found in Bitter Root Range Montade
Theodore Shoemaker and K D Swan of the forest service report three new glaciers on a ridge between Big and Kootenal creeks in Bitter Root Montade. The explorers climbed 4000 feet into a wild, little traveled area before sighting vast ice and two smaller masses. Geological signs show rapid glacier recession per Shoemaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bitter Root
Montade
Theodore Shoemaker
K. D. Swan
Forest Service
Big
Kootenal
Shoemaker
Lifting Power of Air and Gases
The article explains lifting power figures for air and gases, noting air lifting 0.165 lb per 1000 cu ft per degree F above ambient, hydrogen lifting 76.2 lb per 1000 cu ft, and bellum lifting 60.7 lb per 2000 cu ft, with unclear last references about temperatures.
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Guy Whitford
Lins
Voli City
Hess
City Drug Store
N. M. Ruckdascher
Sumner
Frank Shipton
Ake Vista
G. A. Ro
West Union
Belgium
Standard Oil Company
Moberly
Eicho
Frank Frautchy
Madfeon
South Dakota
Frautchys
Oak Park
Jack Hkanarr
Moulton
Jack
Harrison County News
Rhode Island
R. P. Stranch
Hana Winkler
Hulda Meyer
Milas Thelma Ness
Decorah
Nenine Frite
Liza Monlux
Gunder
Fred Reichert
Gus Gunderson
Don Cummings
Lizzie Jellings
Volga City
Maybelle Ludden
Independence
Leo Rothisberger
Oelwein
Schumacher
Wigin
Louis Anderson
Kern Hill
Africa
Geo. E. Sehorl & Co, G8
Kolet
I. W. Falb
Mel Kohler
Max Thoma Weibel Mill Company
Call For Real
Weibel Mill Company
Hadsel Phyaleian Galle
Spocka
Brothers Ceaters
Bayers
A. Crider
Fothergill
M. D
Orice
Bote
Schori Dray
Schori Yin
Dray Line
Elgin Savings Bank
Elgin, Lowa
Eise
L.G. Lehman Hardware
Jowa
Ea SG
A Lee
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