Verbeckmoes and Atkinson stores feature fall goods and poultry ads
Local notes report visitors including Andrew Parsons and family near Galva and Miss Ida McIlvain of Geneseo. Verbeckmoes Department Store promotes new fall shirts and white or blue garments while Ransom's Atkinson Lumber Yard adds white pine fencing and drop siding. Community updates mention church services, births, and family visits with several Atkinson residents listed.
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Shinghorse
Verbeckmoes
Charles Cossum
Poughkeensle
N. Y
Henry L. Lyon
Leslie Atwell
Wid Catour
Charles Bumler
Ross Welch
Rock Island
Espositio
Ransom
Atkinson Jumber Yard
Toulon
Atkinson
State Street
Egent
Weaver & Moresmith
Ft & & Wood
Geneseo
Ida McIlvain
Robert Gilbraith
Olga Howlette
Quincy
May Barnes
Flora Hartman
Elmer Meyers
Town Built On Top Of A Mushroom Rock In Mexico
Acoma, three miles south of the Mesa Encantada, sits atop a giant mushroom rock overhanging the sea. The overhanging mesa covers about 70 acres and features bays and chasms. The prehistoric Pueblo town, built and fortified with labor, was known to explorers in 1540.
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Acoma
Mesa Encantada
Mexico
Illustrated Sunday Magazine
Aunt Peace Refuses Second Best Cap in Photo
Aunt Peace Lawton shields her face with a clean handkerchief during a family photo, declaring she won’t appear in a picture wearing her second best cap or a wrinkled kerchief. The scene, described by Youth's Companion, highlights modest vanity and dignity.
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Aunt Peace Lawton
Lawton
Aunt Peace
William
Seminole carved cocoa shell souvenir questioned
A Florida trip souvenir a cocoa shell with a carved human face was claimed to be Seminole made. A renowned Indian arts collector examined it and doubted the claim, suggesting the carving may not have been by a Seminole.
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Florida
Why She Couldn't Accept
A telephone mix up leads a broker to a home phone where a flirtatious conversation unfolds. The caller asks to meet downtown for lunch and a show, only to be told the wife cannot due to her husband being home and objecting, revealing a crossed line and awkward miscommunication.
A Squirrel Barometer Keeps Time For Weather
A western city merchant uses a domesticated fox squirrel as a living barometer. The squirrel stays in a paint barrel with straw and paper, entering or exiting through a hole to signal weather changes. When a change is near it plugs the hole with bed material and remains closed, never giving a false alarm according to the keeper.
Silencing Hubby and the Ten Month Cylinder
A humorous 1920s vignette shows a young mother instructing a servant to play back her husband’s baby voice on a phonograph cylinder titled At Ten Months. The scene contrasts the father’s imagined future with the mother’s calm, playful plan.
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Marie
King Bee Of Business Men Bankers Of The Day
A satirical portrait extols a banker as the king bee of finance who hoards wealth, lends at high terms, and advertises generous rates only to offer meager three percent. The piece mocks the long hours, brick vaults, brass signs, and the trade’s self serving rhetoric in a bustling business world.
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Bank
Truth in reference given
The bearer Hayashi Kishi has served four weeks in my household managing the wine cellar table and overall household duties. I commend his adaptability but discontinue his services due to diminished substance and wish him a new opportunity.
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Hayashi Kishi
Evolution as a single process in Spencerianism
Hector Macpherson explains that Spencerianism views the universe as a single fact the redistribution of matter and motion. This one evolving process unites astronomy geology biology psychology and sociology as successive integrations and differentiations from simple to complex.
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Hector Macpherson
London TV
Correct Standing Position for Posture and Breathing
The article describes a correct standing posture with chest lifted, shoulders drawn back and down, abdomen drawn in, chin in but not stiff, and weight on the balls of the feet rather than the heels. It advises practicing this position when rising from a chair until it becomes automatic.
Deep Breathing as Cure for Nervousness and Health
The article argues deep breathing cures nervousness by breathing from the waist, improves heart and circulation, leads to better posture and carriage, and provides immunity to exposure. It notes singers practice this technique and links deep breaths to overall physical health.
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Lyon & Week
Ley’ Otis
X. B. Neal's
Andrew Parsons
Galva
Mrs. Jones
Chicago
Eoors
Emmet
Roy Brooks
Yeenoadist
Glenn Tilton
Epworth
F E Gresser
Topeka
Kans
Clarence
Joseph Miller
Rossville
D. F Humphreys
Sheffield
Libby, McNeil & Libby
E. B. Neal
Celus
J. Emmons
Oneonta, NY
Hartman
Theo Millar
John W. Nowers
W A Massey
F C Zimmerman
Frank Macafee
Joe Nowers
Philip Nowers
Ora Gray
Frank Rumler
Charles Rumler
Peter Maes
Joe Verpéchmoes
Tree Higgins
Robert Ransom
Misses Hazel Higgins
Ruth Steinberger
Alma
Edna Everett
Armory
A F Butters
Islopolig
Butters
Galesburg
Knoxville
North Side
Louis Smith
Old Zimmerman Factory
Pearl
Ozark Mountains
King Bee
Litten & Roberts
National Bank
Kewanee, Ill
Russell-Miller Milling Company
Verbeekmoes Department Store
Tiscs
Rock Island Exposition
Glenn H. Curtiss
King OF the
AIR
Herr Albers
Polar Bears
Exposition Park
New
Ewing
St. Louis
Araki
Imperial
Ramza & Arnold
C.G. Hopkins
Illinois University
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