Local Visitors and Notable Arrivals In County Areas
Over the County reports a string of visits and social moves. Cullen of Stuart spent Sunday with brother John, while Mrs. Melvin and Mrs Ali Fisk were Bometsburg visitors who will remain. Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Follett took charge of the infant Coburn child. John Deley Sunday at Ayrshire. John Ferguson visited Gilmore City last week. Lena Vedder stayed at the Wilhite home. Mr. Butler of Ayrshire was a Corlew visitor Sunday. O B Fisk visited Emmetsburg last week. Mrs. Baird and daughter Helen returned from Chicago after consulting a specialist for Miss Helen. Miss Lucy Makin was a Ruthven visitor Friday. Grace Wilcox of Emmetsburg visited Dave McQuire’s home. James Whitmer, studying in Des Moines, spent Sunday at home. Bert Low of Mallard was a recent visitor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melvin
Ali Fisk
Bometsburg
Will and
Wight
Blake
Oitc Alborn
Baird
Helen
Chicago
Lucy Makin
Grace Wilcox
Emmetsburg
Dave McQuire
James Whitmer
Des Moines
Bert Low
Mallard
Graettinger and Maple Grove face off in baseball action
Local notes from Graettinger mention bankers, residents visiting, and a Woodmen meeting planned for June 3. The Graettinger and Maple Grove teams crossed bats on the Graettinger diamond with a 6 to 7 score at the 12th inning. Also listed are high school events, a vaudeville program, probate notice, contractor bids, and city notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graettinger
Maple Grove
Grasttingel
Millie Mahan, Jr
Round Lake
Minnesota
Chref Fy
Bona
Zaic Connect
Minersburg
Lowy
District Court In Session Opens Under Judge Dodge Cole
District court convened yesterday with Judge Dodge Cole presiding. Sheriff Coakley notes he has never before handled the preparatory work for a term of court, suggesting a quiet session ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dodge Cole
Coakley
Bank Opens in Weiser Idaho by A Kellar
A. Keller opens a bank in Weiser Idaho bringing years of experience and shrewd business sense. Local Emmetsburg friends wish him success as jurors are discharged in court and the Grethen case is dismissed. The Schols ter case is continued to the next term. A note from the depot lists a new C M and St Pay company line between Chicago and Rapid City. Credit: gold watch lost on Emmeteburg streets May 19 with initials L A A.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keller
Weiser
Idaho
Emmetsburg
Emmeteburg
Peter Grethen, Jr
Chicago
Rapid City
South Dakota
Losay
Market Report and Local Political Note
Market reports list hogs at 4.50 to 4.75, corn 6.02, eggs 1.21, butter 0.20, and potatoes 0.60. A help-wanted ad seeks a salesman for shirts and workwear in an exclusive Ermulletsburg territory. Campaign note announces TI Flynn and Wese Benil seeking Democratic primary action for district 1 supervisor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ermulletsburg
Hugo Avon
Market St
Chicago
Super
TI Flynn
Wese Benil
Piano Tuning Visit and Stallion For Sale Notice
Piano tuning offered in Eumetsburg from May 20 for two weeks with orders at Stratemeyer drug store. Experienced tuner, previously in Rimietsburg. Also sale notice for a two year old spotted stallion breeding horse price 110 dollars, dam is a spotted driving mare, sired by Lord Rene. Contact E. S. George, Guaertingert Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eumetsburg
Rimietsburg
Williake
Lord Rene
A Singer's Avarice and Contemporary Tales
A collection of quips and anecdotes from the era, contrasting famed singers like Mrs Tofts with queries into money, vanity, and patronage. It recalls Pope’s satire on avarice, a Persian envoy anecdote about Lady Drummond Wolfe, and a sharp remark from a self made man about forgery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen Anne
Tofts
Pope
London Standard
Foresight Quotations From The Kansas City Journal
A curious excerpt notes the phrase foresight with a dialogue about Ola Gotrox leaving a thousand tons of coal to be held in trust until the youngest child reaches adulthood. The note reflects period rhetoric and a warning about delayed access to wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ola Gotrox
Kansas City Journal
How to Be Strong in Union and Peace
A compact moral exhortation cites Comte de Mirabeau on strength through unity and peace, urging firmness without obstinacy and courage without turbulence, then quotes Cowper on dismissing friends who harm a worm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comte de Mirabeau
A Story of Henry Clay on a Stormy Night Ride
An anecdote recounts Henry Clay traveling toward Washington on the National Road after his presidential nomination. In a stage coach, two Kentuckians discuss his political aims and wealth. Clay, recognizing the blunt talk, decides to switch coaches to avoid embarrassment, illustrating his pride and restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Clay
Washington
Harry Clay
Ike
Impertinent Lady Holland in a Family Chronicle
The gossip sketches Lady Holland at Lord Radnor's, where attempts to avoid her fail. She longs for prayers, is carried downstairs, demands more cloaks, and praises a recent prayer, then questions who wrote it in a clash of wit and impertinence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland
Lord Radner
Dray
Eight Points of the Law Explained
A London Standard correspondent explains the eight points that give a party a sporting chance in court. These are a good cause, a good purse, an honest and skilled solicitor, good evidence, able counsel, a fair judge, an intelligent jury, and good luck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Standard
Bonaparte as a Deadhead in Early Theatre Memoir
Frederic Felivre in Paris Gaulois cites a Theatre Francais archive about Bonaparte as a Lieutenant reportedly asking for theater seats. He supposedly waited in the Palais Royal galleries for Talma, who would whisper guidance to avoid the future ruler’s demand for tickets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonaparte
Frederic Felivre
Paris Gaulois
Theatre Francais
Maniius
Talma
Napoleon
M. Febvre
France
Evidence Against Him Exchange
A dialog excerpt features a loud voiced man declaring pride in never making mistakes, while a mild, scholarly man counters that a serious error has occurred. The exchange touches on self perception, authority, and the notion of viewing oneself as others see him.
The Marvelous Resistance of Water
A Strand Magazine passage imagines water attaining immense thickness to stop bomb shells, likening its resistance to the steel armor of the innermost modern battleship and describing a hypothetical Inchan thickness that halts projectiles on impact.
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Strand Magazine
The Law's Delay Challenge in London Opinion
A dialogue about legal delay and waiting for a young barrister to propose. Cis admits being absentminded and frustrated while noting the six month wait for action, reflecting press commentary on the legal process in London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty
Cissie
London
His Loss Our Gain Poem Lost to Ink at Editor’s Gaffe
A fragment from the New York Press notes that a poem was ruined by spilled ink, leaving the editor to remark that it is a loss for the writer and a gain for the editor who must improvise. The snippet captures a playful exchange over a missing verse.
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New York Press
A Quick Switch
Jack asks what a strait is as his father reads Harper’s Weekly. The father defines it as a narrow strip of water connecting two larger bodies.
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Jack
Harper's Weekly
How I Secured My Literary Assistant
A narrator describes advertising for a literary assistant and testing three female candidates with a writing exercise about a missing ring at a dinner party. One candidate’s analysis of three possible denouements reveals the value of perspective in storytelling, leading to hiring the author’s wife as assistant under a salary system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ble
T. Anthony Twining
Rags to Riches at the Races and a Naval Spelling Gaffe
A rocky club official recalls a broke group trying to enter a race gate with staged roles for Starlight. A Navy lieutenant named Jack sends Florida navel oranges to his mother who jokes about his spelling of naval. The anecdotes mix horse racing pretense and a home front misspelling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tam
Starlight
Fist
Navy
Florida
Jack
New York
Morning Tub Tale From Lincolnshire Cottage
A sister recalls an elderly Lincolnshire woman who, in conversation, mentions a cold sponge every morning. The old lady jokes that her mother knows and that she never washed all over since infancy. She lived to the age of ninety three.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincolnshire
Cor
London
Love and Death in a Sparrow Hawk's Courtship Tale
A sparrow hawk is killed while feeding her young. Four days later the nest reveals the male, a devoted widower, brought home forty eight birds: six larks nine swallows one goldfinch seven... feeding the brood. The piece contrasts tender love with savage parental selfishness, noting nature’s cruel mysteries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North
Maptonshire
Londor
The First Test of Baby's Mind in Growth and Appetite
A Victorian era assertion that a child's mind grows with its body. It claims mind emerges from muscular vigor and appetite, likening grip tests at ten days to future intelligence, citing Woods McLutchingon and a Latin proverb about jesters and broth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woods Nlutchingon, M. D
Wormann
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John
Banker Dutton
Nevada
Basiveas
Jebos Lynch
Emmetsborg
Jon Gabrielson
S. J. Guerdet
Father Kelly
J. H. Gammon
the Lakes
Herman Marks
Graettinger Woodmen
Iowa
Frorgam
Miss Maude DeSmyth
Jessie Baiguin
Mrs. DeSmythe
Florence Underwood
Ms. DeSmythe
Leo Shea
Jack Hamilton
Haslon Refeett
Matilde Hoppenhoey
Sybil Gibson
Bliss Valeria Reynolds
Alice Warnke
Madame Sateene
Her Kean
Baby Smith
May Atkinson Brin
Kent
Chinese Balbus
Charles Joynr “Frof
Grindem
Katherine
Anna Hahls
Martin Greenan
Pearl Taylor
Atate
loWwa
Palo Alto County
District Court
ACL
David Fini
E.M. Carey
Herapy
Emmecyburg
Jonaarts
T.F. Rutledge
Tutledes
W. OL. Losey
District Court In Session
Emmetebure
Ray Agnew
Market Reports
E. S. George
Guaertingert
A. Scott Ormsby
Opera
Town
Persia
Drummond Wolfe
Ad Atte
Drybread & Laughlin
F. G. McMahon
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