Dan Wilkes Road Horse Enters County Standards
Dan Wilkes is a 15.3 hand 1250 pound road horse named for excellence shown with 2:40 gait though never tracked. Sire Garnet Wilkes 3101 by On ward git, dam Nettie T. by Grey John. Garnet Wilkes sire of 30+ standard performers with 2:082 to 2:30 records. Dam Ola Layde by Darwin 587. 1906 colt won first premium at Jefferson County Fair. TERMS: 160 dollars to insure to stand and suck. Removing mares forfeits insurance. Will not be responsible for accidents.
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Z. W
Ganzoo
Gambetta Wilkes
Hion
Herod
Maude S
Firefly
South Third Street
A.C. Wisercarver
Dan Wilkes
Garnet Wilkes
Onward Git
Harold
Pilot Jr
Nettie T
Grey John
Grey Dick
Stonewall Jackson
Ola Layde
Darwin
Green
Bushaw
Jefferson County
Jumbo Nos 16925 27767 Pedigree Recorded in Draft Books
Record notes Jumbo horses listed as 16925 27767 recorded in New Percheron and French Draft books. Pedigree available on application.
Pioneer Rail Anchor Company Incorporation Notice
Notice states The Pioneer Rail Anchor Company is incorporated in Fairfield Iowa to manufacture and sell rail anchors and related devices. Capital stock $10 000, term 20 years, four directors, max debt $6666 66, stockholders private property exempt from corporate debts. Signed by William Louden E A Howard RK B Louden D T Kilfoy.
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Pioneer Rail Anchor Company
Fairfield
Iowa
Board of Directors
Seeds Filled With Weeds In Iowa Seed Trade
A Des Moines to Omaha Bee letter reports Iowa officials study weed prevalence and seed purity. The state seed law bans sale of seed with quack grass Canadian thistle wild oats dodders or corn cockle with labels showing impurity percentages and a $100 penalty for violations. Samples show weed content up to 50 percent. buyers should demand guarantees.
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Des Moines
Omaha Bee
State Board of Agriculture
State Food and Dairy Commissioner's Department
H. R. Wright
State Food and Dairy Commissioner's Office
Iowa
Packard
Marshalltown
True Wisdom in Plain Garb Ends in Chelmsford Marriage
Bishop Spalding, a septuagenarian inmate of Chelmsford workhouse in Essex, has proposed to a fellow inmate nine years her junior. They plan to leave the institution to marry, a quiet tale of love and restraint amid hardship.
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Bishop Spalding
Love
Chelmsford
Essex
England
Desperate Remedies in Gymnastic Dancing Class
In a car conversation Miss Heron and Ida discuss joining a gymnastic dancing class to counter aging and infirmities. They recall awkward first lessons and humorous floor figures, noting improved flexibility, vanity, and playful plans to invite a reluctant friend to try a drill before joining.
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Miss Heron
St. Vitus
Ida
Julia
Helen
Cosmopolitan New York as Irish and Jewish metropolis
The article markets New York as the world’s first Irish city with about 600,000 and the Jewish metropolis with 725,000, noting its German, Austrian, Swedish, Norwegian, Italian, and Russian populations. It compares New York’s size to Belfast and Warsaw and lists global city rankings for several national groups.
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New York
New York i
Belfast
Ireland
Warsaw
Berlin
Hamburg
Water quality of Des Moines area streams and wells
The United States Geological Survey surveys Des Moines river area waters for boiler use. Of tested waters 22 percent good 21 fair 17 poor 40 bad for boiler use while surface supplies are generally good and deep wells mostly bad. Turbidity and mineral content vary with geology. Des Moines carries over 2.5 million tons of mineral matter to the Mississippi yearly.
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United States Geological Survey
Des Moines
Des Moines River
East Fork
Keosauqua
United States Geological Survey Laboratory
Iowa City
Mississippi
Personal Reflections on Courage Pride and Time
A reflective meditation on self reliance equality and mortality. The speaker urges trust in oneself while noting the limits of grand deeds and the value of appreciating others. It contrasts ambition greed and chance with moments of genuine success and hints at social observances like leap year and marriage. Byron Williams signs the passage.
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Byron Williams
The One Reality Idea Quote by Wendell Phillips
A concise reflection cites Wendell Phillips on reality as mere idea over marble gold and granite, asserting perception shapes truth and existence is mental rather than material.
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Wendell Phillips
There is Always There. Trouble Always Finds the Way
A reflective note on how trouble seems to appear wherever one searches for it, suggesting a recurring pattern of inconvenient outcomes and the persistence of difficulty in daily life. It hints at a universal human experience of facing unforeseen challenges.
Brave Men React to Dark Cloud Sighting
A historical note observes that many courageous individuals become perturbed when confronted with a black cloud, a metaphor for looming trouble or danger. The remark hints at public fear and resilience in the face of ominous signs.
Life's Best Path in the Sea of Life
A meditation on navigating life like a voyage with the sea of human life and the wind of the spirit. The text urges setting a steady course and catching the breath of life to reach a peaceful, safe haven.
Where They Were at Home Bishop Cognac Tale
A Gallican bishop dining in Rome reveals his see by misnaming his diocese. He first says Angouleme then Charente and finally Cognac, prompting amused exclamations from the guests who realize Cognac resembles a bishopric.
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Rome
Angouleme
Department
the Charente
Cognac
New Professor for Columbia University 1908 09
Dr Max Verwern, physiology professor and director of the physiological institute at the University of Gottingen, appointed Kaiser Wilhelm Professor at Columbia for 1908 09. Recommended by the Prussian minister of education, Verwern will arrive in New York late in August. He is among Germanys most distinguished physiologists with notable honors.
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Max Verwern
Physiological Institute
University of Gottingen
Kaiser Wilhelm
Columbia University
Verwern
New York
Germany
International Marriage Institute for Wealthy Heiresses
A Munich joke paper launches the International Marriage Institute for Wealthy American Heiresses. It suggests New York heiresses marry aristocrats offered for sale, with princes and counts listed to be shipped via Hamburg on remittance covering travel expenses.
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Poes
Nueste Nachrichten
Munich
International Marriage Institute
New York
Hamburg
Cats and Flowers Inquiry Interest for Ennui
A Boston man seeks to know if cats like flowers, proposing a simple investigative challenge. The piece suggests women bored with little to occupy thoughts could pursue such curious inquiries to entertain themselves.
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Boston
Optimists Club sign marks sad sign of the times
A New Yorker back from Chicago notes a fine old house facing the lake on Clark Street with a large Opt imists Club sign above the door and To Let placards, as Harper's Weekly calls a sad sign of the times.
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Times
Chicago
Lake Front
Clark Street
Optimists’ Club
The
Harper’s Weekly
Austrian inventor builds coin counting machine
An Austrian inventor develops a device that sorts and counts coins by sending them through a funnel into a spiral track. The track has slits sized for each denomination. as coins roll along they pass through the appropriate slit and drop into a basket.
Blind College Student Receives State Reader Support
A Barnard College blind student uses a reader who takes lecture notes and reads them aloud, while the student transcribes them on a raised typewriter for later study. The state provides the reader a $300 annual stipend, under a law guaranteeing blind students access to such assistance.
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Barnard College
Moon surface changes noted near Linnaeus crater
Observers Pickering and Barnard report lunar changes including a shrinking white patch attributed to hoar frost melting at sunrise. They conclude frost deposition and melting occur in other lunar regions as well.
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Linnaeus
Pickering
Barnard
Making Long Lasting Bubbles With Simple Kitchen Mix
A simple bubble recipe uses a walnut sized piece of pure white soap dissolved in warm water with a teaspoon of glycerine. Stir well and blow bubbles through a small pipe. Strawberry juice yields pink bubbles while orange juice makes yellow bubbles.
Black Fox Farms Raise Animals for Skins near Atherton
Three black fox farms near Atherton PEI raise foxes for skins. Farm counts are 20, 25, and 30 foxes. Skins sell in London for 500 to 1800 dollars each, based on quality.
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Atherton
Prince Edward Island
London
Church of England Waifs and Strays aids thousands of children
The Church of England Waifs and Strays society reports it has cared for 13 476 children over 26 years of operation.
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Church of England Waifs and Strays Society
Man of Moderate Means Finds Happiness in Less Wealth
A New York Sun interview quotes a man who prefers moderate means over great wealth. He notes that trimming expenses mitigates losses, avoids public displays of wealth, and allows simpler comforts amid financial reversals while valuing steadier happiness over rich ups and downs.
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New York
Terrapin
Turkey
Voice of Despair Ad Sought by Douma Wife
In a St. Petersburg newspaper a fragmentary advertisement is shown where the wife of a present member of the Douma seeks a chambermaid. The note claims she has given up all hope of getting intel through official channels.
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St. Petersburg
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