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Newspaper
Emmetsburg Democrat
Location
Emmetsburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1908
Page
6
Local notes record Travel by Consigny Ressell Fleming and other residents to West Bend Graettinger Milwaukee and Des Moines. Jail escape attempt at Clarion and community visits to Mallard Ayrshire Estherville and Ames. A column also critiques freight rate propaganda warning against penny-rate rationales.
A newspaper item notes that seventy dollars covers one year of tuition for the combified course in bookkeeping and shorthand at Valdez Business College in Decorah Iowa.
Help wanted ad from the Waverly Hotel in Emmetsburg seeking a girl for laundry duties with wages of 18 dollars per month. The notice notes location in Emmetsburg Town.
For sale for a short time 23 head of steers coming three years old. Call on or address D W Mccreary Curlew Iowa.
The line notes that quarrels arise from mutual fault as Puck reflects on human nature and conflict. It presents a wry, aphoristic view typical of the source's tone without additional context or names.
A description of a very long freight train eastbound on the Iowa and Dakota division, with 59 standard freight cars plus two cabooses, all empty aside from the engine, estimated at about 2,490 feet long. Also notes local celebrations, weather events, an accident, and various community items from multiple towns.
The article explains vegetable ivory derived from the puytelephas tree nuts found in northern South America and Panama. It describes plant appearance, flowering clusters, burs holding seeds, and the process to extract the hard inner kernel for button making. It notes grain varies by origin, with Ecuador producing the finest nuts.
In October eighteen eighty three, Lady A laments 3599 francs stolen. Police question servants, including a nineteen year old valet nicknamed Le Petit. Rumors link a clairvoyant Demoiselle E to the case. Two years later the trusted servant Marcheandon surfaces as the noted assassin.
A city man tired of evening attire hires a guide and paddles from Kineo into Chesuncook Lake and Mud Pond in Maine. They camp at a farmhouse and cabin, enjoying roughing it while the guide handles provisions and routes. After a week he returns to Kinso, leaves unused supplies and fishing tackle, and tells tales of his woodland adventures.
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