Lowden Quits Chicken Raising For Percheron Horses
Colonel Frank O. Lowden abandons poultry farming in Ogle county to breed Percheron horses. He leases out the chicken farm to an Iowa man friend of a republican national committeeman and shifts his business to horse breeding after costly care and low returns from scientifically bred poultry. The Iowa buyer takes over buildings and birds while Lowden pursues horses with new purchases already made.
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Frank O. Lowden
Ogle County
Iowa
Colonel Lowden
Pullican National
Towa
Colonel
Lowden
Farrand Good Walker
Judge R. S. Farrand, noted for even temperament, enjoys a vacation and daily town walks. He kept a pedometer, logging fifty eight miles in six days, averaging about nine and a half miles daily. He plans the address for the Old Settlers picnic at Compton on Wednesday August 30 and remains busy at his office.
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Dixon Telegraph
R. S. Farrand
Compton
The Robin and the Maiden Bind by William Dean Howells
A capricious maiden hides a suitor using stage trust and a dancing robin as a lure. The window cage, songs, and pleas lead to a quiet romance that ends with a kiss she tries to resist. The poem unfolds love, temptation, and fate through intimate scenes and symbolic imagery.
Apparition Brings Down Brown in Harvard Tale
A Harvard tale recalls a youth who dressed as a ghost to scare an infidel friend. The plan fails as Brown remains unfazed, warns the specter, and finally fires after three minutes. He collapses and dies, crippled by the belief in the ghost.
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Harvard
Brown
Belief in Strange Sicilian Superstitions and Odd Tests
The article surveys Sicilian beliefs including a double tailed lizard predicting lottery numbers and misfortune tied to Tuesdays and Fridays. It notes amulets, Virgil as a magician, sorcerers, and prophecies tied to Fridays and June 29. It also mentions mosquito malaria tests in New Jersey and a wartime lint shortage blamed on rats in St. Petersburg.
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Siily
Virgil
St. Paul
New Jersey
St. Petersburg
Counterfeit Money Pervades Korea’s Economy Says Author
Mr. Hamilton notes Korea’s finance suffer from widespread counterfeiting in Chemulpo with four classes of nickels in use. Government nickels and various counterfeit tiers circulate, with some only passing after dark, illustrating severe monetary strain.
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Hamilton
Korea
Chemulpo
Numerous residents visit Galena and surrounding towns
City notes mention Mrs S A Stump Hanover in town Monday Harry Gill Dubuque visiting Galena Miss Marie Sprowl Chicago visiting her parents and other locals as Labor Day plans and travel move through the area including Dooling Dewey Ave and East Dubuque events.
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S.A. Stump
Hanover
Harry Gill
Dubuque
Galena
Michael Malarkey
South Street
J.G. Schmohl
Elizabeth
D. Spillane
Vinegar Hill
Sam Brunner
The
Joseph Pilfner
Clara Singer
Chicago
Simon Singer
Dora
Lottie Sievers
Joseph
Charles McDermott
St. Paul
Dr. Taylor
Dewey Avenue
Mary Ward
Elgin
Thomas Ward
Cora Albert
Constance Anglin
M. Gallager
East Dubuque
Dooling
Dewey Ave
Elizabeth Mahoney
Kansas City
M. H. Cleary
A.W. Glessner
Herbert
New England States
C. M. Barnes
South Church
Apple River
H. Rouse
Ray
Bellevue
J. W. Coatsworth
E. Morse
Freeport
Nora
J. McGee
Waterloo
J. Davis
James Ryan
Savanna
Ryan
John Dwyer
KE. W.kempter
Anna Hagins
James Glasgow
Guilford
J.R. Berryman
Seales Mound
Galeria
Henry Niemeyer
Stockton
J. R. Sampson and Son
Shullsbury
Carl Allendorf
A. H. Eisenhower
Free
Fred Sutherland
Claude Roth
Philip Guggenheim
Council Hill
Esther Gaffney
Siniger
Linenfelser
Church Members in the United States Reach 29 Million
The Church Economist reports 29 million members in the United States, 36 percent of the population, up 29 percent since 1809. Salvation Army data show 49 countries with 7,590 societies, 14,000 paid officers, 451,730 unpaid officers, and 17,170 bandmen. Consular notices arise from the Sahara empire hoax in Europe. Cripple Creek miners share $550,000 in wages at an average of $3.44 daily.
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United States
Salvation Army
Cripple Creek
Colorado
East
Japan expands rail system with native labor power
Japan now operates more than 3000 miles of railway and 1500 miles of telegraph lines. Twenty five years ago no railways existed. Locomotives must be imported. maintenance and construction rely entirely on native workers from top to bottom.
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Japan
Harry Pinkham
Nevada
Mr. Pinkham
Overworked humor in a Christmas package scene
A comic vignette shows Smith returning home with a box of chocolates and beefsteak for his dog, jokingly hiding his courtship as he plans to visit his girl. The fragment hints at strain and miscommunication in domestic life and playful social exchanges.
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Smith
Brown
Lanyon family defies smelter trust to fuel home smelting
Carthage report recounts how Kansas Missouri Lanyons resisted a growing smelter trust over zinc ore from the Joplin district. They opened a Nevada plant, then with promised free gas for Iola operations, sparked the Lola smelters shifting refining away from coal. Gas pipelines and local smelting cut eastern shipment and freight costs.
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Carthage
Kansas
Galena
Joplin
Lanyons
Lanyon
Nevada
Robert Lanyon
Sola
Iola
Lola
Trust
Galena-Joplin
Last Big Day At Lena Camp Meeting Ends Aug 21
Sunday at Oakdale Camp Grounds capped Lena Camp meeting with a large crowd. Sunrise prayer at 6 10, Dr Dubs led sermons in English and German, 1 30 Sunday school, 2 30 powerful sermon on Credentials of Christianity, baptismal day and member reception to be completed by noon.
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Oakdale Camp Grounds
Lena
Dubs
Dr. Dubs
Adjudged Insane in Franklin Street Case
County Judge Rippin ruled Mrs. Nellie Brown of Franklin Street insane and committed her to the Illinois Western Hospital for the Insane at Watertown. She was conveyed at 3:25 by Sheriff Whitmore. she is Henry Brown’s wife and mother to several children. The illness recently appeared, with hope for recovery.
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Rippin
Nellie Brown
Franklin Street
Illinois Western Hospital For
Watertown
Whitmore
Henry Brown
Mearley
Mitton
Henthorn
Coldcoates
Tyviston
Worston
England
Clitheroe
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Germany
France
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Topel
Claude Street
Dr. Grassau
Miss Oster
Frank Levins
Ellsworth
Minn
Mary
Catherine Childs
City
George Young
Bert Young
Emil Bader
Benton
Ted Miller
Horace McConnell
Zeininger
Milwaukee
Mr. Morehouse
Capt
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Internal Revenue Service
Davenport
A. White
Louis Homrich
Ben Martin
Michael McMannus
Leslie Ward
St. Louis
Jeffery
Freeman Kittoe
Will Callahan
J.J. Gehlen
le Mars
John A. Shultz
Julia Leekly
William Hanna
Osta Plord
Platteville
Mary Bergman
Ki.w. Montgomery
Fred
Avery
Cuba
P H. Nelson
Duluth, Minn
DeSoto
Reed
Aver
Viola Bastian
V Isit
Bart Donovan
Galena Iron Works
Isador Linenfelser
Keokui
William Swing
Edmund
Wis
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Chas. Zimmerman
John
Frankland
Charles Melville
Carbondale
Julius C. Kaemple
Winona
John Hardy
Minneapolis
Stella Ward
Sara Swing
Louisa Reifsteck
Bert Gifford
Savannua
W. N. Cronkrite
Dime Zoological Museum
Commerce
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Jennie Young
Joseph Hengen
Frank Curry
Mike Schildehammer
Nicholas Casserly
Walter Casserly
Teddy Childs
Virden
Kelly
Obye
Davis
Bancroft
Collis
Freeport Standard
Henrietta Heron
Salt Lake
Mrs. Schriener
Kemler
Menominee
Francis Leader
Matt Beaton
Josie Weiss
Illinois Central
Tri State Fair
Galena Junction
Great Western
Eagles
Denver
Anton Kirschbaum
Galenas
Jacques Lebaudy
Sahara
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Agence du Consulat de
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Goose
Nome
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