Local notes from Slippery Elm show illness and town talk
Dr Hatton and others report many sick residents including Jessie Pattee pneumonia and John Story with weeks of illness. Town updates mention paged sales, court attendance, a new baby, and a looming city election while reflecting on roads and community life in late March 1908.
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Mr. Pattee
Sidney
Wheeler
P. Cadle
Skete Lingenfelter
Pardee
Joe Beer
Will Cowger
Hierton
Wran
Cadwell
Bailiph Tuskey
Farragut
Slippery Elm
Samp. Lytle
Avenst Grove
Bart. Hess
Shenandoah
Gladstone Sunnday
New Brick Medical Office Planned By Dr Wade Sperry
A real estate transfer this week makes Dr Wade Sperry owner of the former Wanamaker office known as the old city calaboose. He will raze the structure and erect a two story brick building with the first floor for his medical office and the second story for living quarters. Hirnest Zuck is in Chicago on business this week.
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Thos
Rae
Locust Grove Township
Sidney
Marion Koons
Douglas
Neb
Spokane
Wash
Will. Langston
Buckham Place
Slippery Elm
John Wages
Bob Williams
Will Sherman
Sherman
Clint Sanderson
Fred Archer
Geo Lingenfelter
Fred Downing
Steve Jordan
Lincoln
Henry Roberts
Sheridan
Wye
Albert English
Skull Farm
Albert
Dy, Jolly
Humbug
Sykes
Barnum & Bailey
Wade Sperry
Wanamaker
Old City Calaboose
Sperry
A Horse in Battle: Pasha of Stuart's Black Horse
A writer reviews Sewell Lord's Horses Nine describing Arab hunter Pasha pressed into service in Stuart's Black Horse Cavalry. The scene follows the charge to battle with a desert memory guiding Pasha as thousands of riders clash in a fog of dust and noise.
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Stuart
Sewell Lord
Scribners
Pasha
Black Horse Cavalry
Aing Pasha
Ines
Black Horse Regiment
Youthful Pleasure Preacher Dies Young Moral
A young man who warned against aging by indulging in good company and merrymaking died in his youth. His creed urged eat sip and be merry to keep blood in motion. The New York Herald cites the moral that devotion to appetite prevents growing old.
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New York Herald
Thrift Praised Despite Street Corner Mockery
Nortonville News notes that savers face scorn from idle loafers yet remain urged to spend less and work to get ahead. critics of thrift are described as paying a high compliment to industry and self‑reliance.
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Nortonville News
What supports the sun in the heavens
A Kansas City Independent excerpt shows a country teacher asking what supports the sun in the heavens and a precocious child answering beams. The quip reflects a simple rural exchange.
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Kansas City
What does comfortable mean in economic terms
The Detroit Free Press notes the idea of being comfortable financially means not being poor or rich. It questions what constitutes true ease in living standards and reflects on social and economic balance in society.
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Detroit Free Press
Sincerity in Friendship Cited as True Foundation
A brief note asserts sincerity as the basis of all true friendship, warning that without sincerity relationships lack stability. The quote compares insincerity to a ship without ballast, implying instability and risk.
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DR. S.C. Hatton
S. C. Hatton
Anverton
David Nowling
Rf Tooley i
Ed Wire
Lady Mawher
Mick
Jimmy Lytle
Ann
Earl Hatton
Bile
Jemison
Micage
Bir
Gravenburg
Raucht
Geri Ok Down
Per- Me
Eli WiLcox
O. G.- Fisher
O. F. Ryerson
Linpa Wilcox
Rachel Wilcox
Elmer Wilcox
Hirnest Zuck
Chicago
Thrift
Hamburg
S. J. Rodda
C. W. Sturgeon
Iowa
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