Boyd Entertains Atkinson Readers At Opera House
Local note: Boyd quartet from Rock Island to perform at Everett's Opera House Monday evening. A community teaser highlights past events at Verbeckmoes Department Store, local socials, and holiday travels of Atkinson residents and students.
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Jacob Sthehbl
Verbeckmoes
Boyd
Everett's
Opera House
Emma
Rock Tsimird
Rev Fool Stevens
Milan
Best Line
Deat Vantees Ramee
Elizabeth Zimmerman
Kewanee
Ralph Shearer
Peter DePauw
J M Goodman
Louis Zimmerman
Arthur Verbeckmoes
Freddie Verbeckmoes
Geneseo
F C Zimmerman
Atkinson
Robert Ransom
Oepair
Verbeckmoes’ Department Store
Fred Hays
Gladys
Alice Steiner
Ab Roland
Willard Brooks
Genesiseo
Dr Price
Chicago Dental College
Greenleaf
Kansas City
Stanley—Ransom
Beloit
Wis
Leslie Frew
Madison Wis
Chester Macauley
Oberlin
Ohio
Wm Griffin
University of
Boyds
Everetts
Mr Boyd
Paul Laurence Danbarts
R. P. Macauley
Mean Trick and Odd Anecdotes From A Dinner Club
A Joseph H Choate remark recalls a mean sneaky defense in a promissory note case and a judge’s sharp refutation of irrelevant references. The piece wanders through court anecdotes, Pearl fishing methods in Asia, Welsh loyalty tales, and a remark on admired political nerve.
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Joseph H Choate
Lawyers’ Club
New York
Far West
Lippman
Henshay
Snakes Prove Hard to Kill in Shipboard Tale
A naturalist recalls a man beating a rattlesnake to death with a club, saying you cannot kill a rattlesnake too dead. In another voyage a snake dealer’s cargo frozen by a gale was later revived and sold to museums, despite supposed death. The tale comes from Harper's Weekly.
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United States
Rio de Janeiro
Pernambuco
Harper's Weekly
Lines of Least Resistance in Youth and Character
An essay arguing that sheltering youths from effort harms character. It condemns overindulgent parenting that grants immediate pleasures and wealth, urging youths to endure struggles to build resolve and true worth. The author stresses that hardship and responsibility forge manhood and resilience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jobfi
Eudes
Jones and wife clash in a donkey joke exchange
A humorous dialogue unfolds where Mrs. Jones accuses her husband Jones of stubbornness and he retorts with a donkey analogy. After pondering the exchange, Jones asks if she knows why he is like a donkey, and she replies with a wry birth remark.
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Mes Wmn
Bertham Goodman
Roanoke
Mro
Ff Bloom
Eed Dewfoner
Miss Mars
Jones
Brillant Smith
Mrs. Jones
Uncle Ezra Says The good men do lives after them
A Boston Herald column notes that good deeds endure after the doer, while bad actions follow a person to the end. The aphorism contrasts virtue and vice in a compact moral reflection.
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Ezra
Boston Herald
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E. L. Macomber
Cornwall
Janet McMasters
Moline
Roberta Ransom
Verbech
Chapler
Robert and
Seaver
Humphrey
Rone Tarke
Lise Nindz
Theil Mans
Cleave
Ohe University of Hh News
Evelyn
Kramty
Aledo i
Dickey
I. M Cleave
Ottawa
J F Nowers
Stes
Verbekmoes Department Store
Paris
George N Taylor
Genesey
Bert Armstrong
Grace Everett
Chicago
Mr and Vis
EE Everett
Vis Edna
Morton Beagh
Fin
Pough
Lab
William Biggs
Hannibal Mo
Edward Catour
Dr Holzinger
Annawan
Paul
Hannibal
Atkinson High School Boys
Everett's Hall
Talapted Mmusitiihs
Gus. l L. Miller
I Geneseo
Miller
Geq
Nina Parker
Whuisker
Fred
Téllo McCullough
Grinnell
Town
John Maloney
Rowe
Davenport
Lumber Yard
Gil
P. D. Ransom
The
Atkinson Lumberman
M. T. Booth
Japan
Memibers
Atraha
India
Oneida County
Buffalo Courier
Remsen
Brazil
Department Store
Caries Bercra Atkinson
A. W. Wood
Creamery of
Amer
Ican Women
Goldberg-&-Creen
Cole
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