Atkinson Area News And Social Items From Week
Davenport visitor Frank Camile spends Saturday in Atkinson. Local ads mention phono graphs, linoleum installation, and fall suit lines. Numerous notes cover travel, visits, land seekers, farm equipment, and social events around Atkinson, Geneseo, Prophetstown, and nearby towns.
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Frank Camile
Davenport
Atkinson
Hyman
Lyon & Weekley's
Gust Lievens
Kéwanee
Peter Goldberg
Goethals Starts Fort Construction to Guard Panama Canal
The Panama project moves forward as Colonel Goethals begins building forts and establishing garrisons to secure the canal. He aims to finish within a year if Congress funds the effort, using on site workers to accelerate cement and fort construction.
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Panama
Goethals
Congress
Uncle Sam
Aurora
Sheriffs Call for Change in Illinois Office Laws
At the national convention in Omaha Illinois sheriffs adopted resolutions condemning the ban on sheriffs succeeding themselves and urged repealing prohibitory laws. They argued a sheriff gains efficiency after a term through better knowledge of officers criminals and procedures. They also favored placing the sheriff’s office under direct control rather than supervision.
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Sheriffs of
Illinois
Omaha
Nebr
Sheriff's Office
Taki
Sunervis
History of punctuation marks and early editors
The text traces punctuation from Aristophanes and Alexandrian grammarians to Charlemagne, Warnefried, Alcuin, and Aldus Manutius. It notes the fifteenth century adoption, then universal use, and contrasts ancient manuscript spacing with later printed conventions.
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Aristophanes
Charlemagne
Warnefried
Alcuin
Aldus Manutius
What Gives A Man Honor And Dignity
A poem by George Fitch ponders what elevates a person beyond routine living. It asks what qualities, actions, and social forces grant worth, courage, and respect, from daily meals to public perception, and from honest effort to scandal.
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George Fitch
A Pointer on Canning Fruit and a Barn Death Joke
A Sterling Gazette note warns against re tightening jars after cooling as it loosens cement. Proper method fills jars to top with boiling fruit, seals, turns upside down to cool, then stores. A rural joke recalls an Iowa woman finding her husband hanged, exclaiming where her clothesline went.
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Sterling Gazette
Iowa
Reclaiming Abandoned Farms With Scientific Methods
A campaign in the East uses scientific farming to revive abandoned farms. Once barren soil now grows crops as energetic men demonstrate that ignorance rather than soil caused earlier failures.
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Shere
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Thomas Newers
Kate
Detroit
Mich
James Kay
Will Ray
Moline
R. P. Macauley
M. M. Everett
Canada
Wesley Heller
Ridgeway
Ohio
Ed Brugler
Wachs
Kate Riley
Charles Bercroft
M. Goodman
Nancy
Margaret
Katharine
Miss Bowman
Paris, Ill
Rock Island
Barnhard Wahlheim
Geneseo
E. P Sand
South Dakota
F. R. Brooks
Geneseo Collegiate Institute
Geneseo, Ill
Lee Wilson
Annawan Hardware
Lydn & Aneekleyts
Christian Science
George Murphy
Harry Frew
Prophetstown
Fannie Crouch
Dixon
Morrison
Clinton
Edward Nowers
Blue Therdter
Thomas Haugh
Ed van Hyfte
Town
van Heete
M. R. Wickins
Mary Bowman
Paris
Elizabeth Zimmerman
Nauvoo
Arch Fitzkee
Spring Valley
Minn
Fitzkee Brothers
Groote Jaarlyksche Prijs Bolling
Sears
Cornwall
P. B Ransom
Atkinson Lumberman
Ransom
Lyon
Weekley's
Lyon & Weekley
Edy Johnston
Sievens
Kewaneed Ness
Lyon & Week
Devering
Rollin Gresser
Hissaunt
Carrie Offerle
D Sommers
B.C. Green Yard
Hyman’s
Anna van Zele
Julia Parker
Annawan
Geo.ry Perkins
Rickel
Elmer Meyers
Robert Marley
Isaac Weekley
State Street
Henry Sievens
Villard
Charles and
Ohn
Peter Bercroft
Thos, Fitzgerald
Chicago
Roy Goldberry
New Mexico
Maude Bennett
Elizabeth
Janet
Kansas City Co
Topeka Kansa
John Freed
Wil Smith
Clarence E. Gress
Rossville
Kans
Gress- Gresser
John Nickerson
Westfield
Nickerson
Congregational Church
J M Finch
Margaret Nichol
Washington, D. C
Neligh
Tiskilwa
Scott
McFerren
Battery
Neiswender
Smith
Fitz
McFerrén
Woods
Barto
Henry ‘Verkruyse
Genesee Colts
Wmans
Searle
Bentley
Graham
Sebeats Dupree
Clo. Co
Human Clothing Co
M. T. Booth the Hardware Man
M. T. Booth
Panama Canal
Sheriffs
Charles Bercroft Atkinson
Ill. West of Humphreys
G.H. Hill
Atkinson, Ilinoig
Calif
Graham’s
Rumler & Newers
Rumler& Nowers
Atkinson, Illinois
Clover Leaf_Land Company
Eagle Bend
Todd County
Minnesota
Wadena
Verndale
Hewitt
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