Curlew and Emmetsburg Social Notes Cross Paths
Curlew residents joined in the Emmetsburg campival weekend while locals, including Mike Brennan Gen Fisk Lille Sargent and Tom Wells, traveled to nearby towns for visits. About 60 children will enter Ayrshire on August 9, with Hattie Easton and James Mahoney among the class.
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Mike Brennan
Gen Fisk
Lille Sargent
Tom Wells
Eimetshire
Eimmetsburg
Ayrshire
Hattie Easton
James Mahoney
West Bend Social Notices from Last Week
Miss Lacey Markin returned from Cedar Falls Friday. Mrs Hortheins and son liffard visited relatives in Humboldt yesterday. Dr. Bishop left for Peoria Saturday. Mr Mikes was at Emmetsburg and Osgood Saturday. Leslie Minger and Joe Mikes visited Emmetsburg Saturday. Mrs L Q Eaton and children stayed Thursday and Friday. Mr and Mrs Timothy Slavin and Miss Anna Battimore visited relatives at Humboldt and Fort Dodge recently. Wm Phillips and family went to Emmetsburg Friday for a few days. Mrs Max Hanke and Miss Ruth Reilly visited here this week. G D Clevenger leaves today for Story City. Mrs Harry Peck went to Emmetsburg Saturday.
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Lacey Markin
Cedar Falls
Hortheins
Liffard
Hianboldt
Bishop
Peoria
Ilinois
Mr. Mikes
Emmetsburg
Osgood
Leslie” Minger
Joe Mikes
L. Q. Eaton
Timothy Slavin
Anna Battimore
Humboldt
Ft. Dodge
Wmn
Phillips
Max Hanke
Ruth Reilly
G. D. Clevenger
Harry Peck
Em Metsburg
Local notes from Graettinger and surrounding towns
Graettinger E H Soper and Joseph Murre visited on business Friday and last week respectively while Lucile Lambe traveled to Lammetsburg. Father Kelly returned from Colfax. Tom Larsen plans to move to Colorado. M Alyward came up from Emmetsburg Monday. A Spies made a business visit to Emmetsburg Friday. Graettinger and Jack Creek played a game, Graettinger winning 4 to 3. T D B Collins moved his drag stock to his own building. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Geo Bradley on August 2.
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E. H. Soper
Joseph Murre
Carrell
Lucile Lambe
Lammetsburg
Father Kelly
Colfax
Tom Larsen
Colorado
M. Alyward
Emmetsburg
A. Spies
Graettinger
Jack Creek
T. DB. Collins
Robins Avenue
Cedar Street
Geo. Bradley
Hicks-Duus Wed in Sheldon After Surprise Announcement
Delbert Hicke and Hannah Duus tied at Sheldon on Thursday July 17 in a quick ceremony. The bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs Dous, resides west of town and is noted for sterling qualities. The groom is described as worthy of his chosen companion by local observers. The Times-Graniter Times extends best wishes for happiness and prosperity.
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Delbert Hicke
Hannah Duus
Sheldon
Aid a Worthy Cause Voters urged to fund Bryan White campaign
At a Des Moines meeting of the Democratic State Central Committee on July 21, voters in Iowa were urged to donate one dollar to N. Reed, treasurer, to fund a popular campaign. The note emphasizes no corporate aid and urges fast remittance to Ottumwa, Iowa, with careful accounting and vigorous organizing. The Walder Business College ad notes it placed more students in banks than any other U.S. college and invites catalog requests.
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Iowa
Democratic State Central
Des Moines
Lowe
Wm. J. Bryan
Fred FP. White
Elie
Lawa
N. 1
Reed
Ottumwe
Bryan
N. FL Reed
Ottumwa
Clint L. Price
Chio
J. F. Dalton
Walder_ Business College
Degorah
Les
Hanks
United States
Catalouge
Bargain Offer From Merry-Go-Round Music Writer
A playful ad notes an abundance of merry-go-round music in the writer’s brain, offered for fifteen cents. An instrument heard outside the window daily for a week is part of the selling claim. The piece touts a fall term at Mankato Commercial College in Minnesota with enrollment incentives and two months free.
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Mankato Commercial College
Mankato
Minnerota
Ratilonge
Emmetsburg National Bank Report of Condition
Emmetsburg Iowa bank report dated July 25 shows loans and discounts, U S bonds, banking house value, deposits, and capital stock details. Brown as cashier swears the statement true. notary public and directors attest to accuracy. totals include circulation funds and reserve figures.
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Emmetsburg National Bank
Emametsburg
Iowa
Weaee
Low
Palo Alto
J. Brown
Brown
McNally
Atene
Notary Public
Thomas Kirby
Ae. Brow
E.P. McEv
District Court Clerk E M Carnes Named
E M Carnes serves as Clerk of the District Court, overseeing court records, filing, and administration for the upcoming term. The appointment reflects standard procedural duties and local judicial administration.
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E. M. Carnes
Lechom Hens Put Up For Sale By Seymour Inquiry
It isn not safe to set a title without surveyor levels. Seymour offers money and a phone contact 315 to arrange sale of pure bred R C White Leghorn hens at 60 cents each. Contact Mrs Mra McEvoy by phone B3 for details.
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Seymour
R. C
No Wonder He Fled: A Bashful Stranger at the Restaurant
A tall solemn young man seeks solitude in a restaurant as a crowd gathers around his table. He blushes and offers to leave, while others stare and comment on his youth versus his companions, creating a tense dining room scene. The incident unfolds with onlookers debating the man's age and nerves.
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Brest
Alan
Divasene
London Telegraph
Wasted Opportunity on a Democratic Campaign Trail
A humorous San Francisco Cal tale recalls Ole Foote and Ole English as weary traveling Democrats who could not find lodging in southern California. They slept in chairs at a farmhouse as dawn arrived, while the farmer revealed he saved beds for two Democrats who never showed up.
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Ole Biw" Foote
Ole Bu Englishe
California
Los Angeles
Foote
English
Napoleon
Grant
Washington
Walter Forge
Feds
Therm
San Francisco
Cal
The King Had Rights. A Theater Prank Gone Darkly Wrong
A Moblie Alabama theater rehearsal ends in a dramatic onstage assault as a local actor, a native American of pure Western type, counteracts his rival by staging a disruptive fatal pose. The usurper staggers forward and collapses in Hamlet’s death scene. A shouted order echoes to die farther up stage as the crowd watches a final, unscrupulous finish. The incident ends with the prince proclaiming his own demise wherever he chooses.
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Macreary
Mobile
Ala
Claudius
Hamle
Hamlet
Comic courtroom clash and a brutal tragedy
A Philadelphia Ledger item recalls Judge Norton and Judge Nelson jousting over decorum with a sharp exchange about a lightning protected tree during a Wisconsin circuit ride. It also notes a snow hurricane in the Pamirs and a Bohemian magazine tale of a brutal assault where a man strikes a woman until she dies, described as a match.
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Norton
Nelson
Judge Norton
Wisconsin
Philadelpha Ledger
Pamirs
Zanuarr
Wrong Way Around. Turstington on debts and travel backward
Mr Turstington says he believes a man should pay as he does. Judging by the way he gets in debt he must be accustomed to traveling backward. Washington Star snippet.
It Couldn't Be Denham Exchange Teasers
A snippet captures a humorous exchange where Mrs Denham complains about the baby’s English while the other pursues a playful jab about baseball English. The dialogue hints at domestic language quirks and light family banter.
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Denham
Mrs. Denham
A Man of Nerve on the Bonny Castle Voyage
On the steamer Bonny Castle bound for Cape Town a lord high commissioner faces a string of onboard robberies. A passenger claims to identify the thefter by watching Lord Monson pocket a package during a piano moment. The crew and passengers grow wary as more staterooms are looted before the ship reaches Cape Town.
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JT. C. McClure
Bonny Castle
Catenttu
Lord Monton
British Burma
Mstead
4Onson
Rodbery
Cape Town
Monson
England
Ake
Lord Monson
M. Quad
The Left Twin and Beliefs in Twin Powers
Folklore suggests survivors of twins inherit healing powers or second sight. Texsex England notes a child born with a twin may cure by blowing into a patient’s mouth, opposite sex. Beliefs about twins misstate intelligence but imply greater physical strength.
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Texsex
England
W. G. Black
Name Confusion In Cramton Village School
A village schoolmaster Dr Bigwig confronts a pupil Bates over a reported thrashing. Bates denies striking, claiming another boy Beauchamp did it, but a mistaken father’s letter leads to a tense dispute and questions of accountability and truth.
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Bates
Dr. Bige
Cramton Village
Johnson
Sekeat
Dr. Bigwig
Neriigsion
Billy Beauchamp
Speel Beauchamp
London
Reform Talk With A Dutch Student And A Dog
In a humorous exchange from the FV Arlington Star, Van Eeden’s reform zeal is cited as a student’s plan to reform via a lecture joke. A fellow mocks reform by suggesting a dog named Wilhelm will decide, based on a sausage, whether to reform or rot, illustrating campus banter on social change.
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van Eeden
Chum
Helm
Wilhelm
Aington Star
Landster's Persistent Water and a Bachelor Artist
A fragment recounts Charles Landster, brother of Sir Edwin, and his long gone bachelor fate. An eccentric woman obsessed with him sent grand romantic gestures and invitations to weddings, including breakfast and a cake, even arriving by carriage. Her friends intervened, ending the pursuit, leaving Landseer a lifelong bachelor.
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Landster
Charles Landster
Edwin
Tandseer
Landseer
Forest of Strange Trees near West Africa coast
A remarkable coastal forest between 300 and 460 feet above sea level spans about six miles. Trees show trunks up to four feet in diameter but reach only one foot in height. Leaves are sparse with broad crimson clusters described by the Gowers, making the scene strikingly unusual.
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Africa
Navy Career Daydreams and Uncle Sam Sailor Talk
A fragment shows a chat about joining the navy. One speaker recalls writing to the secretary of the navy seeking an admiral post, but there is no clear response. The dialogue mentions an uncle and sailors. The tone hints at a casual, bygone newspaper snippet.
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Sam
Chally
Navy
Secretary of the Navy
Literature's Last Legion and the Unwritten Books
Book Monthly surveys a literary region that never was listed among books and men, a realm of contemplative but unwritten works. It extols a register of wraiths and ghosts, a phantom legion guiding literary imagination.
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Wraiths and
Book Monthly
Impulsive talk on marriage and parental consent in Atchison Globe
In a fragmentary exchange the speakers discuss calling attention to assault and manslaughter statutes and whether Ti Toan should ask his forty year old intended bride’s father for consent. The dialogue references family approval and legal limits in a dated newspaper voice.
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Papa
Toan
Yomas
Atchison Globe
Renowned Cure Specialist Advertises Vast Practice
The text touts Dr. J. F. Shallenberger as a universal healer who treats chronic and incurable diseases across many systems. It claims free consultation, rapid diagnoses, and surgeries plus claims of certain cures without delay. Also mentions R. E. Harrison of Dunlap Indiana introducing an electric rural mail delivery prototype with automated switches and baskets on wires to speed delivery, seeking state fair demonstration and potential government adoption.
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Shallendorper
Bright
J. F. Shallenberger
Flold Fenivent
Prexel Stain Bank
R. E. Harrison
Dunlap In
Harrison
Simpson
Omaha
Brother Mayne Wins Fame in Pulpit Oration
Brother Mayne gains statewide reputation as a pulpit orator. Des Moines Register notes his Sunday address at Eshierville by L. E H Mayne editor of Emmetsburg Reporter Gillet. It praised his exhortation to sinners and suggested editors can influence both press and pulpit. Fellow workers invited to follow.
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Brother Mayne
Des Moines Register and Leader
L. E H. Mayne
Emmetsburg
Gillet
Eshierville
Mayne
Polit
For Sale Hardware Business Opportunity in Ilindig Town
Opportunity to quit farming and take over a prosperous hardware business in Ilindig town. Invoices around 35 000 and a government improved quarter section Iowa land. Exchange considered if cash price. Contact Towa Reality Co Emmetsburg Iowa. Two work horses and a good young milch cow offered by Frank Ilingworth.
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Ilindig
Iowa Land
Frank Ilingworth
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