Happenings in Spencer and Emmetsburg area delays
A varied local record notes Spencer resident A Steigleder preparing a 24 by 100 foot brick, Ruthven visitor T J Hughes, Estherville mayor Galloway hunting poker players, and Attorney F C Davidson's recent illness. It mentions Kiowa drag road conditions, priests at Catholic Day services, and town activities from contortionists to Kiwanis events. Several local people travel to Des Moines and Chicago, with church and school news, plus notes on employment shifts, Armory talk, and a Hobson visit planned for Algona Chautauqua.
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A. Steigleder
Spencer
Sill
T. J. Hughes
Ruthven
Emmetsburg
Mayor Galloway
Estherville
F.C. Davidson
Rock Island Company
Assumption
St. Thomas
Will
L. T. Barringer
Chicago
Illinois Association of
Iowa National Guard
Pat Reidy
Mr. Flanders
Lmmetsburg
Milwaukee Company
Drinking Days Advice From a Parental Figure
A celebrated elder warned his sons that drinking slows progress and to avoid mixing liquor while recalling an era when dining rooms were locked to prevent shirking claret. The piece notes upper class excess and a London Illustration News anecdote about a coachman who was deemed too drunk for a gentleman.
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London
How Bees Introduce a New Queen Queen Bee
London Globe recounts the method to replace an unproductive queen. After one queen is removed the colony remains queenless for about twelve hours. A new queen in a wood and wire cage is placed atop the hive, taped with honey and sugar to mask scent, and the bees soon accept her once she acquires hive odor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Globe
Eccentric Editions of Books
A critic cites misprints in early editions to show how readers prize first issues for quirks. Names include Dickens American Notes, Disraeli Lothair, Burns Poems, Barker Breeches Bible, and Washington Irving Sketch Book with translator mistakes and misnamed figures.
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George Sames Dayard
Disraeli
Lothair
Mgr. Catesby
Capel
Robert Burns
Edinburgh
Duke of
Washington
Sir Walter Scott
Liskeard Court Laughter Over Drunken Prisoner Remark
A Cornish humor excerpt notes a magistrate who laughed at a police witness claim a man was drunk and locked up after refusing to leave. It recalls a Cornish councilor entangled in a debate about local dust bins declaring a bold phrase about putting his foot down with a loud voice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liskeard Polce
Fair Jury Verdict halves costs in old Indiana case
A former judge notes a case where a father and son before an Indiana justice of the peace had a sextet jury after three hours of deliberation return a verdict: judgment for neither side and that each pays half the costs. The result was considered unusually fair and satisfied both parties.
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Todiana
Year Byews Cattle Thieves in Clay County
Cattle thief report from Clay County cites farmer Henry Jalax two miles south of Sutherland where twenty two head were stolen. The herd was last seen near Yartley and appears abandoned, according to Emmetsburg Up-To-Date. A local note mentions graduation stationery inquiries by J M Glasier of Algona.
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Clay County
Henry Jalax
Sutherland
Yartley
Spencer Harald
Emmersburg
Emmetsburg
Algona
The Truth Is Not in Him and Melodramatic News
A column from the Estherville Vindicator and Algona Courier reports a dramatic line about a man rising early to disturb a household, and notes from Theodore Chrischilles in Halifax via wireless telegraphy. Additional items include a near drowning of Earl Wilcox, a masonry slide on the M and St Ry near Rambrandt, spruce seedling shipments from Rapid City, a large well-drilling plan in Buffalo township, a small cyclone in Kossuth damaging John Leigh’s property, and the Chapin family traveling to Redfield for summer care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Estherville
Theodore Chrischilles
Julius
Ocean
Halifax
Smoot
Algona
Chrischilles
Algona Courier
Geo Schuller
Buffalo Township
Wesley News
Kossuth
Sherman Township
Mur Danigpa
John Leigh
George Thompson
Tila
A Stowaway Observed at Dinner in Atlantic Story
A fragment from the London Telegraph describes a stout man at dinner whose appetite is noted as a stowaway. The brief dialogue alludes to travel by sea on the Atlantic liner and the eater’s conspicuous hunger.
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Atlantic
London Telegraph
Beg Movies executive Jud B. Vance commits suicide in Kangag City
Jud B. Vance, forty five, of Beg Movies, shot himself in his room at the Savoy hotel in Kangag City. His body lay across the bed with a bullet hole behind the right ear and a revolver at his side. He had been drinking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jud B. Vance
Beg Movies
Savoy
Honest Boy Recovers Pheasant From Poacher For Benefactor
In a New England estate tale a boy named Dickey discovers a pheasant taken by a poacher. He returns the bird to Mr. Keith, the estate owner, proving his honesty. The owner later reveals himself, praises the boy, and Dickey advances from school to a promising position in Keith’s enterprises.
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England
New Hampshire
Keith
Tom Dealy
Tom
Richard
Dicker
Dickey
Aly
Bell
Mr. Keit
Bor
Tam
Edward
Spinney
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K. P. Lodge
Mayme O'Connor
Ambrose Conway
Salem
Oregon
James F
Frank Davey
Government Land
Burns
Anna Maguire
St. Mary Academy
Ayrshire
John Maguire
Richard ¥. Hobson
Algona Chautauqua
Hobson
Merrimack
Santiago Harbor
Owen McNulty
Rochester Beennesota
Con- Sault Drs. Mayo
Migs Cella
Joseph Schenk
Fort Belle Fourche
South Dakota
Ayer
She J.C. Dyer Co
Lewell
J. ML. Glasier
Champion
Whitte
Earl Wilcox
Hear
Lost Island
Ruthven Free Press
Rambrandt
Black Hills
H. WN
Antishelter
Lash
Rapid City
Milford
Antisdel
Milford Nosseries
Hearty
Deain Weill
M. B. Chapin
Prank Clark
Redfeld
Lima
Competence
Benial
DA. Joussox
Pres
CO Mueller
V-Pres
Dw Neary
A.ugal
Powers
Fistc
Gonkley
Nailer Godden
Iowa
H. 6, Shadboly
Pris
People's Meat Market
L. Rejhsen
PROP
Eastman Studio
Louie Wolfgang
Iowa Realty Company
T. J. Duffy
Emmetsburg, Iowa
Opera House
Ramus & Coo
the Royal Lumber Company
Martin Aos
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