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Newspaper
Emmet County Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1902
Page
8
An old newspaper fragment touts the Wall Street Journal as a guide to investments and market analysis. It notes the publication’s daily content, quotes prices and yields, and includes a testimonial for Chamberlain's Colic Diarrhoea Remedy and a local druggist's ad.
Lane offers a full range of wagon and blacksmith work with experienced help and guaranteed results. Plow and axe sharpening available. Pine carriage repairing and Moriflono on short order. Harry Ecin, successor to Peter Hansen, handles inquiries.
An unsettled freight car derailed while rounding a sharp bend. The engine and one tender jumped the track at full speed, forcing the conductor to act. the air brake was applied and the runaway was brought under control.
A business man recounts a New York Times anecdote about avoiding germs from shared cups. He describes folding a sheet of paper into a makeshift shield to drink from public fountains and water coolers, claiming he can bypass germ exposure after home experiments.
Hundreds of young girls pursue a costly pyrographic craze, paying 25 cents to 81 cents for wooden plaques and frames to burn designs with a hot iron needle. Some shop for breadboard placques, turning rough boards into richer brown designs, fueling the trend despite cost.
A garbled text on sealing crews facing perjury and theft of seals, noting moral decay and peer pressure among seafaring workers. The fragment references records from Sealle's Monthly and quotes a skipper's cynical remark about discipline and crime at sea.
A late 19th century report notes Fifth Avenue’s elite homes and hotels relying on a new breed of itinerant range cooks and inspectors. With a dense immigrant labor pool, the trade’s demand for trained, mobile range specialists grows as hotels and kitchens pursue standardized, reliable gas range operation and maintenance across diverse service venues.
A cloister lists wall tablets erected on Aldergaten Street to honor English men and women who died in the service of their country. The five tablets bear inscriptions recalling Walter Peart and Harry Bean among others who sacrificed life and safety in war.
A fragmented 19th or early 20th century item discusses candy's alleged temptations and links to habit formation, mentions physicians warning of dangers, and references experiments in vegetation, electric power, and German science. It notes French pistols in China and caps the piece with a claim of over ten million dollars tied to French pistols in China.
Long garbled passage discusses Goldmiti and The Vienrot Wake, mentions Charles Jam and essays written in an evening, references Oliver Gotes's Life of Shakespeare, autobo heir Keller, and various scattered titles and figures. The text is a jumbled bibliographic collage with many unreadable names and stray fragments.
Fragmented OCR text mentions various names, places, and topics but lacks coherent events or facts. Readable elements include references to Kor, Hokkaido, Japan, and scattered terms like shrine, death, and tribunal, but no clear incident to summarize.
A cryptic entry references a world’s fair theme and a proposed bee hive project by Qader. The notes mention vendors, bids, and a public event at a fairground, with scattered names and figures. The fragmentary text traces discussions on costs and arrangements, hinting at a community gathering and possible exhibits amid unclear context.
Fragmented OCR notes describe a naturalist’s field observations within a beehive. Mentions bees at work, brood, eggs, larvae and pupae, worker and drone roles, wax crusts, honeycomb structure, and routine hive movement. The text alludes to an expedition returning with findings and notes on bee behavior and foraging.
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