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Newspaper
Emmetsburg Democrat
Location
Emmetsburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1900
Page
3
A weary wife endures her husband Blakey’s plan to micromanage kitchen service with a floor button signaling code for Nora. The scheme, framed as masculine wit and efficiency, flounders as Nora ignores it and Mrs. Blakey feels the room close in with unspoken friction.
A long dinner unfolds as Mrs Blakey tries to please her husband David with a coded signaling system during the meal. Nora the maid signals for courses, misreads cause finger bowls and coffee, and the table drama ends with Mrs Blakey's hysterical laughter over masculine brains and business methods.
The Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway highlights expansion across Minnesota and Iowa with new townsites at Reading Wilmont Lismore Kenneth and previews extensive dairy country along Freeborn Steele counties. It promotes opportunities for work, land purchase, and town development while listing special excursion trains to Sioux City and Riverside Park and milk cow feeds advertised by Homeseekers’ Excursions.
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