Probate Hearing for Estate of Isabelle Craven in Palo Alto
In district court Palo Alto County a petition by Vincent Kelly, administrator, seeks authority to sell Lot 7 8 and 9 in Block 5 First Addition Graettinger to pay debts and costs. Hearing set by Judge N J Lee for July 30 1920 at the Estherville courthouse. objections if any to be filed. Bancroft Register reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court
State OF
Iowa
Palo Alto County
Isabelle Craven
Prat Roberts
Towa
Vincent Kelly
Graettinger
Palo Alto
N. J. Lee
Court House
Estherville
Emmet County
Versailles the Great Palace of Historic Power
The palace of Versailles ranks as a historic center where nations shaped events. It witnessed Britain aiding American independence, the French Revolution’s birth, and rulers from Louis XIV to Napoleon. Legends tell of mistresses, intrigues, and dramatic escapes, while the Gallery of Mirrors recalls Europe’s grand drama through eras of power and folly.
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Palace of Versailles
Great Britain
United States
Willini I
Paria
Eurpe
Miving
Louis Nut
Lenin
Louis Niv
Marie Antoinette
Valliere
Montespan
Louis
Versailles
Pompadour
Paris
Eskimo Dance Worth Seeing
Eskimos of Alaska perform rhythmic drum dances with tom toms and seal skin drums. Women wear denim parkas while men strip to the waist, and a sequence of auscle and wall dances leads to a final collection by a magician. Young otters-hlind and downy pups are cared for by the mother who guards them, feeds them, and teaches woodcraft before bling punishments.
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Eskimos
Alaska
Jain
Saint Lucy Martyr Portrait in Classical Verse
A fragmentary verse recounts Saint Lucy born in Syracuse around 304 AD. It notes her beauty attracting suitors, her vow to religious life, a nobleman’s accusation of Christianity, persecution under Diocletian, and her martyrdom. The piece mentions her iconography of eyes on a platter as seen in art and cites Chicago Journal.
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Lucy
Syraguse
Diocletan
Chicago
Warned by Sandpaper Label Aids Poison Bottle Use
A notice describes a sandpaper wrapped label on a bottle to prevent poisoning. The rough texture wakes a user at night, signaling the bottle contains a potion or poison. The device aims to halt accidental ingestion by dazed individuals. The label warns readers of poison and identifies the bottle’s dangerous contents.
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Jabel
Preved Me MurfotStep Muddle Over Corsets
Fragmentary local item describes a confusion about corsets and a person named Murfoe-Sure. The passage suggests a humorous or domestic exchange about eating a pate of old corsets and an assertion that corsets were unhealthy.
Weighty Dowries in Early New England Marriages
A fragmentary 18th century reminiscence notes dowry legends from Massachusetts and Philadelphia. It recalls Captain John Hull’s daughter Elen a Hull married to Taide Samuel Sewall with a balance of Mingree shillings, and Joseph Richardson’s daughter Sarah valued by weight in gold. Other tales mention Nicholas Waltz and Reverend Richardson, illustrating marriage worth and coinage as social measure.
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Boston
Natory Fel Ue
John Hull
Tha Tlie
Massachusetta
Launah
Ft Sentes
Elena Hull
Samuel Sewall
Pha
New Mapland
Joseph Richardson
Philadelphia
Sarah
Nicholas Waltz
StMehardson
Twehardson
Platt
Richardson
Adventure relics sent to museums by two travelers
A Scottish collector donates a South Sea relics and arms to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver while an American Boxer flag, tied to World War I battles, is given to the Golden Gate Memorial Museum in San Francisco. The pieces celebrate wartime adventures and foreign frontiers as markers of adventurous lives.
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Pacific Coast
South Sea
University of British Columbia
Vancouver
Golden Gate Memorial Museum
San Francisco
South Fen
St. Mitel
Meuse
Argonne
Ypres
How to hang a picture with wire and paste a frame
The instructions describe pasting a paper lining, smoothing, and pressing it to a frame. It covers tightening the paper as it dries, using an invisible wire and locating hooks on the mopboard, and preventing dust by driving brass-headed tacks in each lower corner to push the frame away from the wall for air circulation.
How to Remove a Cork From a Bottle
A reader describes a method to extract a cork from a bottle. Grease the neck with linseed oil, chill the bottle, then spear the cork with a hatpin or similar object to seal the neck. Gradually heat the bottle or apply hot water to expand the air, which should pop the cork out.
Perpetual Motion Clock of 1774 by James Cox
A London jeweler James Cox built a clock in 1774 at Shoe Lane claimed to run from atmospheric pressure as a barometer motive power. It astounded scholars, with Ferguson noting it would run until its parts wore out. It was later sent as a gift to the Chinese emperor and then vanished from records.
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James Cox
Shoe Lane
London
Terguson
Tha Selenint
Fragmented OCR note on nail growth and finger biology
The readable text discusses nail growth rates and how nails on different fingers grow at varying speeds. It mentions the two middle fingers and the little finger in relation to growth, and compares growth patterns among several fingers. The passage is garbled and lacks clear context or author.
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L.E. Crim
Walkingford
Bancroft Register
Titonka
Ringsted
Ingvoldstad
Ingvolstad
Swea City Herald
Iman Paulson
Spencer
Arnolds Park
Arnold’s Park
Register
Joe
Sanitary Ice Plant
Red Oak
T D. Collins
Sherwin-Williams
Hite
YOWA
Joh Bondhus
Jorgen Anderson
V. L. O'Connor
Farmers’ Grain Co
V.L. O’connor, Yarteehem
Ginter
Versailiea
Mother Otter
Saint Lucy
Lees
Carly Pies
Graettinger Co-Operative Live Stock Shipping Assn
D. E. McCarty
Offich
Farmers Creamery CO
Spear & Hansen
Graettinger Creamery CO
Graettinger, Jowa
New Windsor
F. E. Schurmann
Prop
Overland
Chevrolet
Buick
Jhnsen
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