Local notes from Maquoketa area list many visitors
Local notes show numerous residents and visitors in Ottumwa Keosauqua Libertyville Eldon and nearby towns. Mentions include Mr and Mrs B Reed Miss Mable Anderson Mrs O Corey and many others visiting relatives at the world fairs and markets. A wedding license is recorded for Everett Peele and Helen Hulet with a ceremony in Lockridge. The county supervisors meet for November session and the Rains-Wolf grocery venture purchase is noted.
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BE. KX. Baker
Ottumwa
J. D. Snider
Lucas
Everett V. Peele
Helen M. Hulet
Lockridge
Local residents attend St Louis Pair. revival meetings planned
Libertyville notes show Mrs Mason and Miss Maud Mason joining Miss Arlie Claypool and others for the St Louis Pair trip. Rosco Pollock returns to Keokuk for studies. Dr Stevenson back from St Louis Pair. Revival services start soon at the Presbyterian church with Rev Bellot Ullen assisting. several locals host visitors and attend events around town.
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Rosco Pollock
Keokuk
Keokuk Medical College
Dr Stevenson
St. Louis
Chuly Express Haves Expands Small Package Service
Small packages within four blocks are now deliverable in the city. Rock Island depot offers quick home goods moves and piano transport. Driver hours exist, and reasonable rates apply. Leave orders at Tilson's Live rs Stable or call for service.
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Oi Square
Tilson
Rumors and rail traffic forecast amid winter schedule talk
A Batavia Watchman comment questions calumny and campaign hype while a Burlington service rumor suggests No. 13 may be removed and Nos. 1 and 6 extended. Journal doubts No. 13 annulment. Railroads anticipate a passenger drop after the St Louis world’s fair ends and reduced California travel this winter.
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Burlington
Chicago
Des Moines
St. Louis
California
Batavia’s Bright Side Highlighted in Prime Location
The Batavia Watch man lauds the town’s natural advantages and strategic position. Batavia sits in prime farming country on the Burlington main line with a branch road, a trading and shipping point second to none.
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Batavia
Burlington
Bearing Slander and Silent Judge
A prisoner at the bar during his trial smiles as heavy objects are laid on him. A bystander asks why. he replies that witnesses' words matter little if the judge speaks nothing. He adds it matters little what the world says if God approves.
Woburn Abbey Duchess Known for Weak Mindedness
The Duchess of Bedford who died in 1859 was noted as weak minded and poorly educated. She dreaded clever visitors who would quiz her on Woburn Abbey’s foundation and history, once hosting historian Lord Stanhope who sought dates linked to a pope.
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Woburn Abbey
Lord Stanhope
Europe
Rome
Manchester Guardian
Elephant Stupidity and the Captive Elephant Myth
A historical critique arguing that elephants appear less intelligent due to captivity and discipline. The author cites examples from India and Siam, noting elephants are led into unlikely spaces, display obedience, and challenge common beliefs about elephant sagacity with observations from Sanderson and a young Caspar Whitney piece in Outing.
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India
Siam
Lord the Elephant
Sanderson
Biaman
Caspar Whitney
Ancient hair customs mark rites and royal symbols
The piece traces hair related practices from Greek and Egyptian funerary rites to Gaulish pride and French royal privilege. It notes mourning customs, hair offerings to gods, and shifts in hair length among rulers from Charlemagne to Capet and beyond, including ecclesiastical opposition.
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Utrecht
Women Use Twenty Dollar Bill to Clean Glasses a Novel Tale
Two women aboard a car discuss cleaning eyeglasses with a twenty dollar bill because it is the smallest money they have. The exchange, overheard by a conductor and a passenger, prompts the remark that some wonder at crime. Philadelphia Record.
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Philadelphia Record
Field Secretary L G Kent to Address Fairfield Youth Rally
L G Kent, field secretary for Iowa, will speak to the young people society at Fairfield Congregational church next Friday evening at 7 30. The event opens the Endeavor Rally and invites all to attend.
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State of
Iowa
L. G. Kent
Young People Society of Fairfield
Congregational Church
Jefferson Lodge to Meet for Westenhaver Funeral Arrangements
A calle meeting of Jefferson Lodge No. 4110.0 F at 7 o clock this evening will arrange the funeral details for Brother Westenhaver. Senior Noble Grand willspeak.
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Jefferson Lodge No. 4
Bro
Westenhaver
Wai. Senpior. Noble Grand
Lecture on Christian Science in Opera House Navy
Hon. Clarence A. Burskirk of the board of lectureship will speak at the Opera House Navy at 7 p.m. on The Provable and Practical Gospel of Love.
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Opera House
Ats P.m
Clarence A. Buskirk
The
Christian Science Church
Rocky Mountain Tea Advertises Health Tonic
Vintage ad copy touts a tonic for body and brain claiming to drive impurities from the system and keep you well. It markets Shrin er and Swayze products with a price of 36 cents for Tea or Tablets and mentions follister’s branding.
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Follister
Shriner & Swayze
Man with a memory frees accused friend from gallows
A Sydney murder suspect was acquitted after a memory expert testified he could recite Horace Walpole’s Old English Baron from memory. The witness read pages in court, astonishing lawyers, and the judge let him finish the closing scenes, leading to the prisoner's release.
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Sydney
Horace Walpole
Henry
Humphrey
Holy Land
St. James Gazette
Gardener Ants Cultivate Mushrooms In Remarkable Fashion
Professor J. R. Davis notes tropical American ants march with green leaf pieces to nests where they culture a mushroom. The leaf is chewed to spawn, then gardener ants prune and weed to produce tiny white thickenings that become the ants main food.
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J. R. Davis
Tropical
America
Mozart's Skull Display in Salisburg Birth House
In Salzburg a small birth house of Mozart preserves relics including two old pianos. A glass case in the center holds Mozart's skull, the sole remaining remnant after his body was unidentified in a Vienna pauper's grave.
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Salzburg
Mozart
Vienna
Our landlady’s clever warning over sour milk tale
A Cleveland Plain Dealer humor note where a landlady hints at survival tricks through a sour milk joke. The conversation centers on whether sour milk could prolong life and reveals the milk’s less sweet reality.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Miseries of High Life
A brief comic exchange shows a tired pair as they converse about tailoring and fittings with playful wit. The dialogue hints at social life pressure and dressmaking in a light, humorous mood.
Moment of Fortune Tests Atman, Wallace Reflects
A literary remark notes that Atman is tried not in misfortune but in a moment of excessive good fortune, as spoken by Wallace.
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Atman
Wallace
No National Russian Drama Stage Appeal Cited
An American resident in Moscow notes a lack of plays with Russian characters and says stage works rarely stir Russian sentiment, unlike popular American pieces such as the Bowery Girl or Dixie Land that resonate with U.S. audiences.
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Moscow
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