The Prophecy of Numbers in Dallas News History
A Dallas News excerpt recounts a 1891 reader note linking presidential deaths to numeric coincidences, listing nine, twelve, sixteen, and twenty as fatal numbers derived from squares and products. It notes party affiliations of several presidents, with a final hint toward the twenty fourth and twenty fifth presidents and a Democratic lineage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Texas
B. M. Burgher
Burgher
Offce
W. H. Harrison
Zachary Taylor
Abraham Lincoln
James A. Garfield
James K. Poli
James Buchanan
S. J. Tilden
J. A. Garfield
Strong
Ben Harrison
Starving wages and education clash in distant notes
The piece discusses political forecasts about succession and a future central government, alongside a catalog of New York garment prices. It also presents a simple air quality test, local notices about nearby towns, comments on education, late-19th century dance trends, a medical anecdote praising Dr King’s New Discovery, and local ads mentioning rooms for rent and a city laundry offering garment repairs.
Don’t Eat Soup with Your Fingers And Other Cautions
A humorous collage of cautionary sayings and jokes from various papers. The items range from moral decrees to light humor about milkmen and misadventures at the poker table. Prominent quips include avoid walking upstairs backward, resist balancing work with obligation, and a quip about a Virginia man and poker, ending with a magazine author finally getting an order to quit submitting pieces.
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Pitt & Websters
Virginia
Nevada
Arizona
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Dolliver Gossip Highlights Local News In Brief
Dolliver neighbors report W H Foote visiting, improvements on Estherville farm, the box social raising twenty dollars, Rev Robinson returning from his wedding tour, and townsfolk traveling to Estherville. C A Williams returns from Minneapolis and Jay Mier tends R I Miner’s separator as road work season arrives. HALIA revival meetings progress with Rev Ferguson and Hartman driving effort. Mrs Richmond visiting Webster City.
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Dolliver
W .H. Foote
Estherville
Robinson
M. E
Thomas Rockman
Fred
Dakota
C. A. Williams
Minneapolis
Jay Mier
R. IF. Miner
Halia
Reve. Ferguson
Hartman
Ernest
Richmond
Webster City
Writing tablets and school supplies sale notice
Local advert promotes line of writing tablets at 15 cents each, higher than usual 10 cent price. Includes regular ruled and unruled tablets, bond and featherweight varieties, drawings paper tablets, pencils, rulers, inks, and other school supplies. Call to view advertised stock and trust in advertised deals.
Route to next week fleet noted in report
Local notes describe a busy period with visits from relatives across Maple Hill Hoping Carroll Chicago and Minnesota. Halfa and nearby farms sell for 350 per acre while Iverson Morrison sell their holdings and Lerdall family history is recounted alongside early Emmet county homesteading trials and a community bereavement.
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Campbell
Messrs
Mast and
Barfoot
Maple Hill
Halfa
M. Jordan
Iverson
Morrison
Booth
Carroll
Chicago
Patterson
A. T. Lerdall
Ossian
Iowa
Harry Haven
Miller
N. D
O. N. Beyer
Lake Preston
S. D
Ole Hanson
Spencer
M. Wolcutt
Olof Johnson
T. T. Lerdall
T. Lerdall
Stearns
Inman
James Brady
Gus. Hauze
Osborn
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Russell Palmer
Wm. A. Burch
Dr. Burch
Hungarian Orchestra
Hungarian Court Orchestra
Budapest
Best Concert Co
H.W.J. Ham
New York
Health Bulletin
Sentinel
David Wright
Illinois
Mr. Wright
Mt. Vernon
Mrs. Wright
Odds and
Au Boy
Croup
Mia
J. C. Snider
Crittenden
Dr. Kibg
Williams & Anderson
N. Y
Willie Williams
Willie
Harriet
Brooklyn
Atlanta Constitution
Ular
Dean Drug Co
Oak Sale
Geo. B. Newbery
United States
Newbery Mercantile Company
Roas
Capes
Miolesale
Newbery Mercantile
Estherville, Iowa
T. Hobern Eagle Clothing Store
H.C. Coon & Sam Kropp Drug Store
Estherville Hardware & Implement Co
Estherville Furniture Co
Richtmyer & Abernathy
Esherville Merchans Syndicat
Klopp's Drug Store
J. H. Wilson
South Sixth Street
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