Eldon Busy Week Sees Many Visit Ottumwa and Ottumwa Trips
Ralph Pickens and daughter Miss Mary of near Lebanon pass through Eldon en route to Ottumwa to visit relatives. James Lewis of White Elm makes a business trip to Eldon. Artie Allman and family from Ottumwa visit over the holidays. Several residents, including Jacob Hamm and Samuel Lewis of White Elm, make business stops in Eldon while Griffits, Varn Shear, and others travel to Ottumwa or Fairfield. Snow delays trains by hours as the new year arrives.
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Eldon
Ralph Pickens
Mary
Near Lebanon
Ottumwa
James Lewis
White Elm
Artie Allman
Jacob Hamm
Ly Charles Dyer
Olive Branch
Charley Weber
Imory Shaffer
New Year Visits Mark Holidays in Cross Lanes
Local residents report a stretch of cold symptoms through the week. New Year's Day brought fine weather and social visits among neighbors including Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Laughlin and daughter at the Alonzo Barr home. Miss Mabel Hudges returned from Elliotts Business College in Burlington for the holidays. School resumes after a week’s vacation.
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P. R. Laughlin
Alonzo Barr
Mabel Hudges
Elliotts Business College
Uurlington
Munday
Wm.rleston
William Crawford
Guy Salts
Batavia
Pauline
Harriett Sears
Kirksville
H. B. Culbertson
C. L. Brawner
Glendale trip reports cattle cars with Damm in Chicago
M Damm traveled to Chicago last week with three cattle cars. Mesdames Qravid and William accompanied the party.
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M. Damm
Chicago
Mesdames Qravid
William
Public Farm Sale Includes Horses Cattle Hogs Implements
A public sale on the farm two miles north of the airfield on Richland road is set for Friday January 7 1910 at 10 AM. Items include 8 horses 28 cattle 20 hogs 12 tons feed and a large list of implements. Terms require a nine month credit on bankable notes over ten dollars with six percent interest. smaller amounts paid in cash. Auctioneers A Julian T B Allender with clerk O F Fryer.
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Airfield
Richland Road
McCormick
Ohio
Hayes
Surrey
Navy Reveals Plans for Battleship Fleet to Guantanamo Bay
The United States Navy completed final arrangements for the battleship fleet departure to Guantanamo Bay Cuba. The ships Connecticut Kansas Vermont Massachusetts New Hampshire Nebraska New Jersey Rhodes Island Wisconsin Missouri now at New York sail January 4. Idaho and Mississippi at Philadelphia sail January 5 to join off the Delaware capes.
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Washington, D. C
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
Navy Department
Cuban
Connecticut
Kansas
Vermont
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Nebraska
New Jersey
Rhodesand
Wisconsin
Missouri
New York City
Idaho
Mississippi
Philadelphia
New York
Delaware Capes
Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup Sells Widely
An old advertisement touts Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup as a gentle remedy that moves the bowels while stopping the cough. It is marketed as pleasant for children and sold by Frank S. Shriter.
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Kennedy
Frank S. Shriter
Jau
Miss Heaton Recovers At Ottumwa Hospital
Bush visited Miss Mary Heaton at Ottumwa hospital Friday. She is able to sit up and walk with a wheelchair and is improving. Rev. Beadine Mrs. Belle Hutton and Mrs. Jonathan Lee called Saturday. Lee has grown South Baptist church to 500 members. Ottumwa lauds its hospital for patient comfort. Rev Locke and church ladies showed sympathy visiting Miss Heaton. Neighbors surprised Mr and Mrs Rider with baskets and a silver set. They plan to move to a farm in Davis county. Mrs Howell’s illness calls Joseph Howell to Glasgow. Charles Rawlings and family visit J Howell’s home from South Dakota. Bishop begins evangelistic meetings assisted by Laird and singer. M Damm ships two carloads of hogs from Glendale this week.
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First Congregational Church
Charles Rawlings
South Dakota
J. Howell
John Bishop
Laird
M. Damm
Glendale
Lockridge
Round Prairie Socials and Visit Highlights
Round Prairie reports Elsie Sherman and Minnie Cline hosted a Friday party at Cline’s home. Ray Churchs visit Bentonsport. Star Male Quartette performed at R P Baptist Church last week. Eliza Billingsley returns from Montana to visit brothers. Fred Watkins family visiting Mrs. Watkins’ parents. George Smith visiting Robert Laurence near Mt. Pleasant. Chas Hutton visited his old home Friday. Rev Fipps conducted meetings in Glasgow during the past week.
Wedding Horses Lively Pair Slated for Bride’s Parade
A man seeks to hire a team for an afternoon but is told the livery has wedding horses. The animals tolerate the wedding custom, resisting old shoes and rice while the bays involved are reserved for a bridal procession tonight.
Impecunious Girl Reconsiders Wardrobe In Spring
In spring the poor girl buys a neat gray gown and wears the skirt through summer. She retrieves a tissue wrapped coat from the press, but the coat remains darker than the skirt after trying on in front of a mirror. She sighs that life is very hand.
Eskimos And The Telephone Amusing Anecdote From Greely
General A. W. Greely recalls an Arctic encounter where Eskimos fail to grasp a telephone. He describes progressively puzzled attempts to make sense of the device as two users try to talk, highlighting their mystification.
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Gen. A. W. Greely
The Pursuit of Independence Debate Echoes Rail Wealth
A cartoonish dialogue features Mr Sirius Barker questioning whether a railway magnate should keep expanding wealth. Barker quips that the magnate aims to stay ahead financially so he can travel by motor and skip his own trains and restaurants.
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Sirius Barker
Blood For Bread Hunger Desire in Napoleon Tale
A scene from Force depicts ten hussars and a young officer starving after two days without food. The order breaks as the loaf is torn from a woodman and snatched in a brutal melee. The officer hides the bread, then eats it amid mud and trampling hooves.
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Hussars
Nature's Handiwork Dew and Dawn on Fruit and Tree
A London Globe reflection on how night dew coats peaches plums and giant trees. The dew gathers on every leaf and feeds the tree while delicate filaments of thistle down sparkle with tiny dewdrops. The piece links the dew’s quiet rise to immense natural forces.
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London Globe
Critics clash over new words in literary club debate
A publisher’s reader jeers at novelists for coining neologisms while a defiant novelist cites authorities. The exchange cites examples like shrilling parroting glimpsing and supreme as verbs, referencing Tennyson Howells Lowell Shelley and Chapman in Washington Post coverage.
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Tennyson
Chapman
Great Chapman
Howells
Lowell
Shelley
Washington Post
The Chinese Burglar
The detective Lecoq calls the Chinese burglar the hardest to catch. He describes the thief as slippery, oil smeared, and naked, with a knot on his head set with needles and hatpins. The description notes red prick marks on oil stained skin after burgling.
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Lecoq
Pekin
Shanghai
Vegetable Suspension Bridge Across Peru Described
A remarkable suspension bridge spans the Apuramac in central Peru. Ropes made of pliable roots and vines support branch planks, and the humid Peruvian climate could see the vegetable bridge grow someday, noted by Wide World Magazine.
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Apuramac
Peru
Court’s Double: Sixty Days For Chicken Theft
A courtroom exchange features the judge pinning a repeat offender with a tougher sentence. The speaker acknowledges a prior thirty day sentence and receives sixty days this time, framed as the court’s double.
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Yassuh
Philadelphia Ledger
My Family Tree Debates In Local Dinner Table
A debate unfolds as a suitor mocks family trees while Mr. Comrox counters that regional values once measured a man by the size of his woodpile. Washington Star tone and period flavor underpin a social row.
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Comrox
Washington Star
After Old Masters. Young Wife Original Dish Exchange
A playful quotation features a wife and husband negotiating a dish as an original creation. The wife presents the meal as her own work and the husband jests that she could cook in the style of the old masters, reflecting culinary wit.
Village Minister to crofter's wife
A terse quip reflects village life as Kirstie notes her husband is similar to others: he has much to do but will not do it. The exchange, cited as London Answers, captures social restraint and shared labor among rural families.
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Kirstie
London
His Affliction Dialogue Gag in Courtroom Exchange
A courtroom exchange features a playful interrogation about a writer relative. The back-and-forth elicits a joke on scribbling as a supposed disease, provoking light laughter in the proceedings.
Island Encounter and Hidden Bible Mystery
A young woman reaches a lonely island and meets a silent, native-like man. She intends to educate him while noting his prayerful stance and incoherent speech. She later discovers a human skeleton, a dog skeleton, a Bible, and a silver box bearing John Revell Charnock’s name dated 25 years prior to her landing.
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John Revell Charnock
Desert Island Escape Sealed by Hidden John Charnock
On a sun scorched island a captive woman adapts her clothing using rope to secure power over her restrained man. She frees him then learns his name John Revell Charnock and senses a past connection. She fortifies a cave with a rope barrier and plans to uncover the crew and decayed evidence on the shore.
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John
John Revell Charnock
Labor and a Hidden Boat Under Tropic Heat
A stranded woman endures brutal sun as she and a captive man dig for a buried boat. She improvises a palm bonnet and shares toil, finding the man quicker at the task than she is, yet he pauses when commanded to continue. The scene ends with a directive moment and a continued constraint.
For Sale Plymouth Rock Cockerels Thompson Strain
Barred Plymouth Rock cockerels for sale for 20 days. Pen mating Thompson strain. One dollar each. Address or phone John L. Gillert, Perlee, Iowa.
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Thompson Strain
John L. Gillert
Perlee
Iowa
For Sale Buff Cochin Roosters
Buff Cochin cockrels available at 310 W Adams St. Call 1498 for details and pricing.
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W. Adams St
For Sale Local Properties and Livestock Listings
FOR SALE S86 acres land well fenced house and 20 acre apple or chard four years old E A Snook 201 E Broadway phone 2118 FOR SALE One extra good family horse weight 1200 lbs one bay mare road bred weight 1100 lbs age 10 years team four year old bays road bred and well broken one good registered 3 year old short horn bull eleven fine Angora goats one top buggy in good condition Jr N Snook 201 East Broadway phone 2118 625
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E. A. Snook
Broadway
Jr. N. Snook
East Broadway
Louis J Ronquest Horse Educator at Fairfield Fairgrounds
Louis J Ronquest offers horse training at the Fairfield Iowa fairgrounds. He claims to tame kickers barkers and horses with bad habits without using a whip. He invites owners of shy running or vehicle-fearing horses to call or visit.
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Louis J. Ronquest
Fair Ground
Fairfield
Iowa
Bids Sought by Lockridge Township Trustees
The Trustees of Lockridge township will meet January 8 1910 to consider all bills and receive bids for road work. Bids are requested for the entire township.
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Lockridge Township
Automatic book vending machine offers hire or purchase
An abroad devised automatic book vendor allows hiring or buying books from a machine that holds about a dozen titles. It uses two slots for price and hire, requiring payment in both, and returns the value after the book is read and returned.
Canadian Industrial Disputes Investigation Act Averted Strikes
Chief feature of the act required that public utility disputes be investigated before strikes or lockouts. From March 1907 to March 1909, 55 board applications formed 49 boards. Strikes were avoided in 25 coal and four metalliferous mines, 15 railroads, three street railways, two longshoremen groups, one teamsters group, one sailors group, and two non utilities industries. Only two cases led to strikes, permitted after investigation and publication.
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Charles W. Eliot
McClure’s
Not Always Safe To Laugh
Edward H R Green asserts in New York he is the first Texan to own an aeroplane after being known for auto ownership and warns that laughter at new ideas slows progress. He cites Carlyle and Rousseau as examples of nobles who laughed at theories before real-world change.
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Ayer
Edward H. R. Green
Texas
Hetty Green
New York
Thomas Carlyle
The Tribune Plays Paragon Role in Jefferson County
The Tribune is the real county newspaper of Jefferson County with the largest readership and a strong community presence. It serves as the primary source for local news, notices, and public interest items across the region.
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the Tribune
Jefferson County
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J. C. Ayer Co
Mass
McCall
United States
Canada
McCall’s Magazine
McCall CO
W. S7th
Carlyle
T. L. Emery & Son Produceompany
S. P. Pond & Co
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