Over the County and West Bend Notes Visit Cast
Curlew and Ayrshire area confirms social visits and travel from Fort Dodge to Madison and Rockwell City. Included are numerous names, community events, a M W A picnic notice, and a county public notice of an administratrix appointment for Elizabeth Welsh estate with local officials and claims process.
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Gen Fisk
Ft. Dodge
Lille Sargent
John Daley
Ayrshire
Dr. Morton
Whikiver
Te Easton
Clea Healtty
Perry
Cecil Easton
Wit Beaux
Montana
Wiley
Higging
Madison
South Dakota
Edgar
J. P. Stebbins
Emmetsburg
R. H. Paird
Alva Johnson
West Bend
B. Brown
Mike Caroll
Anna Carroll
Lowa Falls
Fisk
Alf
Pommetsburg
Rockwell City
J. E. Williams
State of Iowa
Palo Alto
Elizabeth Welsh
Pato Alu
Cha Gmer
Sid Thone
Margaret Welsa
Connor
Atoragy
Opportunity to buy established hardware business
A notice invites buyers to quit farming for a prosperous hardware business in a thriving Plinois town with about $5,000 in annual invoices. The property includes a well improved quarter section in Iowa Tand and offers exchange at cash valuation. Written inquiries to Towa Reality Co Emmeteburg Towa.
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Plinois
Iowa
Embarrassed Man Spooked by Boy in Sixth Avenue Store
A mild looking man on a Sixth Avenue balcony last Monday froze as a small boy, chased by a large woman, pleaded with him not to spit. The boy’s appeal drew a startled reaction and the man exited reddened and confused, in a scene observed by bystanders.
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Mano
New York
Sixth Avenue
New York Times
Nocturnal Banter Over Catering Charges Explored
A New Orleans Times-Democrat clipping discusses a caterer’s quip about guest types. He notes intimate friends eat more at gatherings, claiming a twenty percent premium for close company. The exchange highlights social dining dynamics and appetite differences between strangers and friends.
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Azid
Ming
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Moving Pictures as Visual Wonders of the Time
Moving picture cameras are remarkable mechanisms. Films run on reels about 800 feet long and three-quarters of an inch wide. The films are projected onto canvas at ten to twelve frames per second, producing a rapid sequence of views that the eye cannot discern as separate moments.
Author Hated Water, Burney Refused to Wash Fifteen Years
The writer Madame d Arblay known as Fanny Burney avoided washing, told physician Sir Henry Holland in the last year of her life that she had gone fifteen years without washing. The anecdote highlights a remarkable aversion noted by her medical attendant.
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d'Arblay
Miles Fanny Burney
Sir Henry Holland
Origin of Yankee Pronunciation
Historic Suffolk families carried a Suffolk pronunciation to America in the seventeenth century shaping the modern Yankee twang as noted by Loudon Spectator.
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America
Loudon Spectator
Very Sharp Teacher Now Johnny Riddle
A classroom joke where Johnny answers a teacher about the earth being hollow though empty inside. He compares it to a razor because it would be hollow ground.
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Johnny
Johnnny
The Hard Knocks as an Anvil of Life
A quotation likens life to an anvil shaped by blows from a Platonian blacksmith. It suggests the harshest pain may refine us most, framing existence as a grindstone of character and form through repeated, blunt force.
Deeply Affecting Pheasants Sing Magorizise Quote
A clipped quote from Mrs Navorcesh describes a moment when French pheasants sing Magorizise, described as deeply touching beyond words. The remark appears in Success Magazine as a vivid, if opaque, expression of emotion.
Quote on virtue and passion by La Rochefoucauld
A compact aphorism from La Rochefoucauld praising those with steadfast, ambitious designs. It asserts that true greatness lies not in fewer passions but in more deliberate resolve. The line reflects a classical moral viewpoint on virtue and determination.
My First Detective Case Ends in Elopement Trap
Chauncey Wardwell recounts a first detective assignment with a leading agency. He tailors a stakeout for a jewelry theft at the Wetmore house, but a carriage brings a couple and a maid to a station elopement scene. The pair flee the scene, a rail line mix up leads to a botched capture, 20000 dollars of jewelry recovered, and Wardwell exits the field as inexperienced.
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Billy Sweetzer
Billy
Fen
Wetmore
Tom Green
Green
Edo
Syben
Mme
Aras Wetmore
Miss Ditmar
Wetmore Place
Chauncey Wardwell
Chinese Bunko Game Ends With Lead Bar Deception
A San Francisco Chronicle tale recounts George Wilson of Los Angeles describing a Bunko scheme in Tientsin. A pawnbroker buys a 10 tael bar, discovers it is filled with lead, and the con men flee. A third man seeks revenge by exposing the ruse and demanding proper payment.
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George Wilson
Los Angeles
Tientsin
San Francisco Chronicle
Restless Animals in Parks Pace as Daily Exercise
Observations describe park animals pacing restlessly in cages while fed and exercised. Lions tigers and polar bears move ceaselessly, their activity seen as daily exercise rather than discontent. When meals approach, strides quicken and animals react eagerly behind the cages.
Satiated trout bite more than hungry ones says New York Sun
A New York Sun excerpt discusses paradoxical fishing behavior where well fed fish bite more than hungry ones. It notes anglers observe swollen fish with protruding stomachs and even pickerel lacking appetite will seize bait, suggesting satiation drives biting in some cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tan
New York Sun
Two Banknotes in a Miser's Book Sell for 20400
In Paris a thrifty but ragged old miser died leaving two worn books. A buyer discovered each page printed five pound Bank of England notes, totaling 20,400 across 820 pages. The rest of the tale includes a Turkish holy carpet and a quip about history repeating itself.
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M. Henri
Paris
Bank of England
Donkey dialogue in Luck prompts gentle humor
In Luck, Nort Jack notes relief at a safer outcome as Alamma asks if animals know their names. The pair reflects on how an animal might react to being called a name, joking that it would be unpleasant for the donkey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nort
Night Be Made Useful in Firm Question
A New York broker declares a boy unfit as an office helper saying he has no memory. The junior partner asks whether to fire him or hire him into the firm, reflecting a question of fit and utility in the Kansas City Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Perther
Kansas City Journal
A Slow Process in a Chicago Record Verse
A fragment from the Chicago Record notes a proverb on persistence and patience, contrasting slow water’s wear with idle waiting and urging steady effort to make progress.
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Chicago
Joint Drainage District No 36 Hearing in Rolfe
Joint session of Palo Alto and Pocahontas counties in Rolfe Iowa on July 23 1908 confirms public necessity of a drainage improvement for E A Morgan and others. Boards overrule protests, establish district 36, appoint T R Martin engineer, set budget and sectioning, order contract letting and adjourn to Emmetsburg for next steps.
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State of Iowa
Palo Alto County
Boards of Supervisors
Palo Alto
Pocahontas Counties
Relfe
Iowa
Pocahontas County
Rolfe
Board of Supervisors
Emrich
Reardon
Bleckwenn
Martini
Iverson
Oleson
Nolan
Dooley
Tollifsrude
Lieb
O. F. Oleson
Lita R. Stedman
E. A. Morgan
BE. A. Morgan
Pocahontas
Fle
30Th General Assembly
Auditor's
Auditor’s
Auditor’s Office
Pacahontas County
Bleekwenn
EB. A. Morgan
Andrew Runneberg
A. H. Larson
T. R. Martin
Joint Boards of Super— “Visors
Emmetsburg
Pocahona
Financial report from First National Bank Emmetsberg Iowa 1908
Balance sheet style notice from First National Bank at Emmetsberg Iowa dated 1908 shows assets including loans overdrafts bonds and specie. It lists liabilities such as capital stock surplus undivided profits deposits and circulation. Bank cashier Robt Laughlin attests to accuracy in July 1908.
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First National Bank
Emmetsberg
Towa
Tou Co Dae Soma US
Hankera
Seseersane
U.S
Pato Avra Corrig I
Laughlin
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Mrs. Strait
Hur
Fioneer
Pearl Ferguson
Therier
John Lenihan
Mallard
Fern
Floyd Lile
Humbold
Byron Lampman
Sutherland
Fred Markin
Spirit Lake
FD. Isoudy
Algona
Graettinger
Father Kelly
Dubuque
Harry Scott
Chas. Craven
T. W. Millen and
Patrick McCarty
Dr. Hennessy
Colfax
Hidla Kelh
St. Louis
Mr. Spies
Mr. Fahnestock
Philadelphia
Leishman
Min
Pat
Towa Reality Co
Emmeteburg
Turkey
Mecca
Cairo
Nelshsors
Dudley
Subbubs
Philadelphia Press
Financial Report
Wo. Yan
Fiom
Co. Trever
City Hall
Evers
A R. Mesie
Ib H. Soper Pinkuce
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