Neighbors Meet and Local Notices Around Andover
A crowded community page from Andover highlights Friday gatherings at Grace church and the Lutheran Missionary Society. Notables include Mr. and Mrs. Nels Carlson celebrating their golden wedding anniversary and multiple local visits, repairs, and farm updates around town.
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Rayal
Mary Anderson
Cambriaie
Tracy
Chiesa
Gare Wihers
M. Weaterman
Fray
Cora
Yarisy
Stenzee
Cambridge
Lawrence Sv Swanson
G. R. Holtman
Willie
Pacarsday
Trbotties
Byat
Julius Mangonson and
Swedens
N. A. Carlson
Ewil
James Mnyo
Emil Peterson
P.A. Rosberg
John Fors
C V. Larson
Nels
August Carlson
Andover
Lutheran Church
Iuniversary
Mr. Carlson
Carlson
Maine
Clara Maria Hultgren
Charles M. Hultgren
Knoxville
Knox County
Swedish Lutheran Church
Lutheran Augustana Synod of America
Morten
Louis Pecure
Hobinson
Bloomington
Peter Verbeck
Florence Ott
John Spath
Wilsey
James McCann
Charles Marine
Yorktown
Fred Berge
George Blackett
John, Charles and
Edward Branson
Sheffield
Japan Telecommunication Authority Bans Guns at Exchanges
Japanese authorities controlling telephone service announce gun use will be restricted to day and night exchanges. The move aims to enhance security in communications hubs and protect infrastructure nationwide.
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Diggs
Grace
Fack Bennett
Tilly
K. Cyi
Japan
Ordinance Regulating Dram Shop Licenses Passed 1907
An old Geneseo notice details an ordinance governing dram shop licenses, including council review by roll call, bond approval, mayoral signatures, and license revocation. It sets enforcement terms, force date upon passage, and publication proof dated March 12 1907 with mayor Hanky A Rewtenn.
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Conneils
Olug
Ind
Dod
Hanky A. Rewtenn
J.P. Liegengnecur
Ihereby
J. FL. Ligvengnecur
Lhereby
Geneseo
Ligberenecht
Should Select Good Seed Time to Grade Seed for Best Yields
The article urges farmers to grade and select seed grain, comparing seed selection to breeding livestock. It argues thorough seed sorting over multiple seasons to improve yield and quality, noting many farm bins contain ungraded wheat and garbage. emphasis on sowing heavy vigorous seed for rapid growth and well-filled heads.
Odds and Ends From Everyday Life and Oddities
A collage of curious facts and observations from daily life and world notes. Items include a Paris grease skimmer, Japan earthquake stats, cattle and sheep eating, English and American price comparisons, imperial telegraph costs, night tree transplant survival, Belgian potato pride, a centenarian turtle lore, new French pennies, German locomotive honors, room wall coverings, All Saints Church collection, searchlight reach, torpedo range, a London crest fine, and the longest word claim credited to Gladstone.
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England
United States
William
Belgius
France
Great
Britain
All Saints Church
Sheffield
London
Gladstone
Vast 19th Century Facts From Global Trivia and Inventions
A jumble of curiosities covers science, language, travel and industry. Notes include bacteria in aged wine, German navy history, Vienna accordion manufacture, population estimates, oyster consumption in London, early printing practices, and Atlantic cable activity.
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Sengland
Words of the Wise and Witty Quotes From Various Authors
A collage of maxims and proverbs attributed to Bible figures Byron Massinger Seneca Horace Augustine German Greek and Danish. It presents warnings about humility tyranny honesty and virtue as timeless guidance.
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Byron
Massinger
Seneca
Horace
St. Augustine
Mencius
Fragments Sketch Wit and Weather in Brief Gossip
A collection of quirky quotes and snippets ranges from signs and thrift talk to winter hardships. The piece references Franklin and Jefferson in a chatty, episodic collage of observations and anecdotes about money, weather, and literature.
The Pope and Doctor Lapponi Caught in a Cold Cure Fable
A Vatican audience tale recounts Pope Pius IX. The physician Lapponi urges strict treatment for a cold. The Pope covertly uses a box of tablets, prompting laughter as he prescribes for the doctor and takes one himself.
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Farieas
Vatican
Lappons
Lappont
Lapponi
Lapponf
Meade
Pope
Lappone
Factory cars bear Bible texts on rails in England
A British manufacturing firm prints Bible passages on railway cars. Other notes describe imperial racial variety in Russia, Japan ticket taxes, Barbadoes pigs as pets, an Austrian fog-dispersing device, Louis XIV and billiards, a Mexican tie shipment to New Orleans, sapota wood durability, typhoid losses in India, and anti-typhoid inoculation reducing illness in the army.
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Japan
Pola
Louis XIV
France
New Orleans
India
Long Life Facts and Novel Inventions in a Curious Era
The article notes extreme age figures and common beliefs about longevity, births by night, and seasons. It describes motor swimming devices strapped to the back for long-distance swimming, plus rough food-value comparisons of land use for meat and crops and a quip about public appeals to balance life.
Straight Talk on Work Life and Ironies of Modern Labor
A veteran speaker urges calm as a young worker contemplates quitting. He contrasts the easy, steady salary and family ease with the burdens of running a department, debts, and competition. The passage includes brief, eclectic notes on subjects from German studies to Vatican rooms.
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Brown, Smith and Jones
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Agc
Samuela & Westerl
Gumpelsom & Westerlund
Grace Church
Hopkins
Benjamin E. Diggs
M. E
Osco
Chas
T. Anderson
Chicago Tagg Co
Clow
Aube Republican Caucus
J WN
Westerlund
Geo R Smith
H. Bestor
John F. Soderberg
HH Stoughton
EE Weichen
Anderson & Co
Stoughton
Oscos
Ifan
J. J. “Hadley
Peter Johnson
Alor Bergstrom
Gore
Jayconc
Rete
Olof
Pate Johnson
Atanda
Jenkins
G. A
Geneseo UW
Workyas
Providence
Bere
Amuy
J. W. Goss
E. B. Davis
Bowane Hanoi
ALBA
James. McCann
Ed. Williams
Mrad \ettie Warner
Kewanee
Bute
Hooppole
Dingley
Theo
Berge Med
Barker
Annawan
Wolf Brothers
Arbuckles
Ariosa
Seine
Mr ‘Domain
Vienna
Adan
Iji Islands
Franklin
Penn
Maude
Parker
Wests
Guo
Mach
Thomas Jefferson
New York
Mr. Jefferson
Saxb
We Sages
Martial
Kyler
Shadi
Taylor
Socrates
Emerson
Marie Leszinskies
Demosthenes
Beiter Jn
Garfield
J. P. Richter
Goethe
Smilies
Harlitt
Aristotle
Dr.Johnson
F. W. Robert
Rochefoucauld
Drummond
mantHe
Lana
Iife
Berlin
Seminary For
Rome
New York State
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