Hamburgers and town notes from Hamburg Iowa Aug 1909
Bartlett resident William Egler and several visitors are noted in town. Local social items mention Pauline Clayton in Omaha, Fannie Bell visiting Shenandoah for the fair, and Rev Gee leaving the Free Methodist charge for Council Bluffs. Weather remarks, dry conditions affecting corn, church events, and a town letter list round out a typical weekly column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gee, Bocton
Free Methodist Church
Council Bluffs
How High Will Land Go
The piece discusses rising Iowa land prices driven by strong crop yields and intensified farming. It argues land values will climb until production limits are reached, noting continued improvements in farming science and yields. It urges moneyed readers to consider Iowa land as an investment, implying future value growth. It also includes an unrelated recruitment and a testimonial about a health product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Iowaland
Tedar Rapids
Remember the Churches Services and Preaching Itinerary
Reminder of church services with Sunday School at 10, Bible School at 9 or 16 a.m., preaching at 8 p.m. by Rev. C. A. Mattox from Hiawatha Kan. Next Sunday both morning and evening sermons. Motto, 100 present, $5.00 collection. Officers invite all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bible School
C. A. Mattox
Hiawatha Kan
Christian Church
Baptist Church Sunday School and Preaching Schedule
Readable fragments show a Baptist church Bible study at 10 A M with Sunday School and BYU. Prayer meeting and preaching planned for Saturday night and Sunday morning at the Island. Hamburg services Sunday evening and other local locations are noted. All invited.
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Byu
Island
Hamburg
Making antiques to order copies flood European markets
A British authority says no famous English pottery is immune to large scale imitations in Europe. Continental factories, notably Hungary and France, produce convincing copies of Worcester and Derby porcelain. Even trusted Chelsea marks can be faked with a label, as a London case showed, leaving collectors often deceived.
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Hungary
Europe
Worcester
Derby
Chelsea
Austen House
Germany
London
How to Detect the Sailor
A visitor with pride in nautical knowledge disputes with a friend outside the Flatiron building about identifying a man by his walk. The New Yorker with him asserts the man is a sailor or mariner, noting his hands and suggesting landsmen cannot tell him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tron
Sian
Nin
Sitor
Overcoming Physical Handicaps and Great Minds
A discussion on how body limits rarely define achievement. It cites sailors’ postures as a mystery, then profiles famous figures like Paul, Caesar, Pascal, Alexander Pope, Milton, Parkman, Beethoven and others who conquered illness or disability to become great. Each example underscores endurance, willpower and triumph over fate.
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Paul
Julius Caesar
Pascal
Alexander Pope
Milton
Parkman
Beethoven
Women’s Earned Power Surges Across U S Jobs
A recent report shows women in the United States earning more than twice as much as three years ago. Women have invaded at least ninety percent of occupations, making it hard to find any type of job without female presence.
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United States
Not engaged yet but women indispensable in telegraph work
The passage argues that while not all women are engaged as telegraph linemen, women already play crucial roles in other branches of the same field. It notes there are nearly as many money telegram operators as men and that Central relies on women. It emphasizes that most women can earn a living, and that past poverty-era options like washtub work are gone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everyidte
United States
Breaking Things at a Congressman's Home
A famous congressman's visitor insults a servant Sally Ann at a Weal ington house. The servant, bearing a cut glass dish, is pressed to admit breaking none of the commandments, replying humbly that she has not broken the Fourth Commandment.
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Congress
Wealington
Sally Ann
Early Reflections on Classic Poets and Modern Motifs
Fragmentary dialogue references poets and authors like Macaulay and Poe, noting themes of air density and automobile imagery. A playful, partially garbled exchange touches on romance and dual lives, hinting at literary parodies and editorial irony.
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Macaulay
Lars Parsess
Poe
Notice of Ditch and Drainage District in Fremont County Iowa
A petition filed with the Fremont County Auditor seeks location and construction of a drainage ditch named WHITE LAKE. The engineer Seth Dean reports the route from the NE corner of Sec 21 to the Missouri River, with lands within the district listed for potential assessments. Objections or claims for damages must be filed by noon September 9, 1909, and Fremont County Supervisors will hold a session September 15, 1909 at Sidney for petition consideration.
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Fremont County
Board of Supervisors
White Lake
Seth Dean
Sec. 21
B & Q. Railroad
Thistzer General Assembly
the Auditor
Iowa
Sidney
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Izetta Miller
Farragut
Hayes Lawn
Bessie Ives Danforth
Baptist Sunday School
Wyitore
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Pension Department
W. G. Allen
Boysit
Flossie Bagger
Maude Countryman
Jaanita Strader
Minnie Swiney
Bessia Taylor
Lewis Covert
Evans
Wm Hicks
W.R. Harris
P. M
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J. H. Walker
Sunburry
Ohio
Presbyterian Church
Sunday School
Bruce West
Bransstay
Butterseids, and & Square Deal Ton
Old Pottery
England
State OF Iowa
John Horsley
T. Mead
Jacob Payne
M.S. Baldwin
Missouri River
Lows
G. C. Coleman
County Anditex
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John Dailey
Hills
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Snyder Se Ae
John Arsley
Horsley
King
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Ann Hackett
Ann Hacket
Atin Hackett
John Borstesse
O'Briien
O’brien Hese
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Sarah Payne
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John Sorsley
Sy Mead
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I Payne
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