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Newspaper
Emmetsburg Democrat
Location
Emmetsburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1914
Page
4
County correspondence lists residents visiting and traveling for business and school. Several residents attend events in Emmetsburg and Cedar Falls. updates include deaths, visits, and teaching assignments. A death is recorded for S E Masters with funeral details. community sympathy extended.
Curlew guests are invited to a Prairie View church Sunday school Institute on Friday June 19. An all day session begins at 2:00 p m with basket dinners and attendance welcome. Also notes include local movements such as Geo Flesner purchasing a Maxwell car through A A Whitmer and various family visits and moves among Curlew residents.
Mrs Dooley returned to her St Anthony home Saturday after a few days with Mr and Mrs Roy Hagedon. Mrs Higgins and her children arrived from Sioux City Friday for a visit with her parents Mr and Mrs Mike Fleming. Miss Mabel Hughes left Monday for Ames for a normal course. Miss Marion Williams of St Paul visited the Hanley Meek home a couple of days. Mrs Churchill of Mason City spent…
Stockholders in this city press for a receiver as John Stuart company of Manchester files a bill for a joint receiver. The firm holds over 3 million of the defendant's obligations and has loaned about 8 million on farms across South Dakota Nebraska Wyoming Washington Oregon and Texas.
London Truth notes a Englishman’s critique of post dinner speaking as a widespread habit in modern societies. It contrasts dining rituals with primitive appetite and questions decorum, suggesting after dinner discourse can turn dull and pompous as guests are fed and conversed to near fatigue.
The commencement exercises at Buena Vista College began last Friday and are due to conclude today.
The piece describes tango slippers made from lavish materials like silver tissue and lace with tango lacings and rhinestone clasps, noting the sandal slipper as a practical dance option and dismissing furtrimmed slippers as impractical. It then surveys winter undergarments, praising pride as warmth, with knitted silk undershirts and bloomers replacing heavier lingerie, and mentions high quality woolen gloves and elasticized garments for insulation.
Americans who have never abroad may be surprised to learn that bathrooms are just starting to be installed in buses for well off Parisians. Twenty years ago hotels had few baths. baths were movable, with carts stopping at curbside, a man sliding into a tub, rinsing with a hose, then moving on to haul the tub away.
A brief note urges laying multiple newspaper sheets on a sink board to catch drips and protect the board. By placing skillets and dirty dishes on the paper, the board stays cleaner and lasts longer, reducing scrubbing and wear.
A Lace Novelty unveils a new collar and cuff set featuring a Cupit's head woven in venisc Ince. The design centers on the head motif with the regulation pattern extending to the collar and cuff edges.
A sensational tale claims a whale’s tail thrust propelled the Dutch ship Groote Marle toward Cape Town, inspiring Captain Van der Broeck to conceive a screw propeller. Origin story notes lack of merchant interest to patent the invention.
The article explains that the king shapes his own views and speeches, guiding every major question of the day. Officials in the private secretary's office draft the speeches in formal language, which the king rewrites two or three times before approval. He is noted as a capable impromptu speaker with notable unplanned utterances.
A young man traveling with a party asks a hotel for rates in an attractive mountain stop. He negotiates seven dollars a day, extra for parlor floor, fireplace, and a bed with a batt. He then queries the cost to leave the hotel unchanged.
The passage reflects on the greeting Good Morning as more than words, a flood of meaning from our energies and gratitude. It speaks to how simple salutation channels love playfulness and hope, reaching across distance to unseen depths in others and ourselves.
A schoolboy writes a playful essay on soap, describing it as a cakelike substance you cannot eat. He notes soap sticks, tastes odd, and stings the eyes, and he imagines being Eskimo to avoid using it. Father cautions against soap use.
A fragment describes one man urging another to stop writing letters he might regret, with a line about a wife and how he signed as “Your obedient servant” in early correspondence. It hints at regret and personal responsibility in past flirtations.
A Kansas City Journal squib notes a tense exchange where one speaker asserts a wife introduction and the other dismisses it. The other calls the first a fraud and a scapegoat, highlighting distrust and personal accusation in a brief, sharp dialogue.
A young writer asked which magazine offers quickest ascent. He was advised that a powder magazine would grant a fiery article contributor a fast path to rank.
The account recounts William Tripp in a rough camp of 300 miscreants where he shoots an old woman in a peaceful emigrant valley. His mother recognizes him in the act, uttering his name as she dies, leaving the camp to confront the horror and a judge condemning wickedness.
A fragment from Aniant Monthly recalls San Francisco’s 1906 catastrophe. It depicts survivors sharing bread and milk, sheltering the young in a park, and strangers becoming a united, almost familial brotherhood amid shared danger.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer anecdote contrasts modern photography with past experiences. An elder narrator recalls the old head clamps and awkward poses, facing relief at a quick session, while doubting the photographer’s care and suspecting a hurried job.
Cord Milner staged a cheeky cap scam for Transvaal legislators. With only four silk hats in town, he refused sales and rented hats by the tenth of an hour for 10 shillings, forcing a rotating quartet to swap hats every ten minutes. He defended the stunt as fair to customers and himself.
The article discusses lingering anger in Italy over Napoleonic losses attributed to the Corsican Bandit nickname for Napoleon. It notes a harsh Franco-Italian sentiment and cites Maltese looting claims tied to Napoleon, including a notorious shipwreck near Alessandria bay.
The text links Wat Tyler's rebellion to England's wage disputes for agricultural labor after the Black Death. It suggests landowners tried restoring preplague wages, but the manor ford overshot, aiming to keep day wages at six cents. If six cents had been set, the rebellion might not have occurred.
A brief exchange shows a courteous drive home described as the most delightful experience by the speaker and the in-law, highlighting mutual kindness and easy travel.
A compact reflection on choosing work as the meaningful path. The quote by William Paley contrasts prudent conduct with folly, asserting employment as the worthy mode of living.
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