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Newspaper
Grand Rapids Tribune
Location
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1908
Page
5
A sprawling, fragment filled column lists numerous local people and places. It mentions Miss Ida Steisberg and family ties, church services at Bap tist and neighboring congregations, Thanksgiving visits, and community notices. The text also notes clergy appointments, social gatherings, and a mix of personal updates from Marshfield and nearby towns.
The piece discusses adoption of a student honor system at Lawrence University, highlighting the shift from external policing to self policing by a student senate chosen by classes. It notes mixed results, with rising academic honesty and stricter punishments but concerns about rising standards and the power of the student body to police peers. Princeton is cited as a success example.
Lindsey correspondent reports J. G. Smith of Lyon, four miles south of Lindsay, nearly lost an eye when a dynamite charge placed under a stump exploded as he approached. The blast severed his left eye, damaged the right eye, nose, lips and chin, and he was taken to Dane County for treatment.
Scandinavian Moravian Church announces Thursday afternoon the Ladies Aid will meet at the parsonage to elect officers for the ensuing term. Friday evening the Willing Workers meet at the parsonage for the annual election. Sunday services in English at 10:30 with Sunday school at 4:30 and C. E. at 7:00. The yearly collection for the Theological Seminary will be gathered then.
In a stream of hurried notes, a wife directs her husband to contact Sue about a afternoon meeting in the city. She asks him to arrange rides, confirm the timing, and relay that she plans a program for a day nursery while coordinating other errands and social calls.
A garbled montage cites a dramatic scene aboard a ship about farcical danger and a searchlight, followed by a divorce scene where a wife fears alimony, then a witty exchange about flattery. The text blends fictional dialogues and magazine fragments with stray names and jokes.
A mixed page combines literary snippets with a legal notice in Wood County Wisconsin. It notes a final settlement involving Ludwig Stretebs deceased and a probate hearing in Grand Rapids with an appointed administrator and required notices. The document includes court officers Conway and Leckron and lists publication in the Grand Rapids Tribune.
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