Local Notices from Riverton and Nearby Communities
Sunday visits swing through Riverton as Hatch and family call on friends. Mrs. Elmer Massey trends to Chicago with her sister while Will Alberson plans a Kansas City visit. A wedding bell tease hints a bachelor becomes a benedict next week. Local trio John Clayton Pearl Hazelett Bruce Reeves attend a Nebraska City circus. Charley Golden’s Park Street remodel gains city attention. Olney Music Co promotes piano sales with $10 home delivery. Various product pitches and home care ads fill the page alongside routine family visits and travel notes.
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Chas. Hatch
Riverton
Elmer Massey
Chicago
Will Alberson
Kansas City
Benedict
John Clayton
Pearl Hazelett
Bruce Reeves
Nebraska City
W. &. Hinze
Charley Golden
Park Street
Open Jone
Olney Music Co
Hamburg
Lows
Dredging Record Sparks Old Foreman’s Quiet Pride
An army officer recalls Laurent Roquebert once master of Pacific dredging. After 20 years at the canal entrance, he lay critically injured in Ancon hospital. When told a new record surpassed the old, he whispered about the Gopher holding the thrust by 3000 yards and smiled with quiet happiness.
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Panaing
Laurent Roquebert
Pacific Entrance
Ancon Hospital
Roquebert
Fair Exchange No Robbery In Sweet Corn Trade
An American minister Horace G Knowles to Romania travels to Nicaragua and trades Romania s tiny watermelons for American sweet corn seeds. He sends seed to the agriculture department and teaches Rumanians to grow corn while noting the novelty of the fruit. The piece also mentions a warning Europe will dry up, citing German Russian lakes shrinking and many bodies of water vanishing across Europe and western Asia.
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America
Rumania
Horace G. Knowles
Nicaragua
Knowles
Carpathian
Department of Agriculture
Rumentia
Philadelphia Inquirer
Europe
Herr Walser
Canton
Zurich
Western
Asia
Opal Wins Change With Pudding Power at Dinner
In a rural family scene Opal appeals for a new dress to attend a picnic. Her father, cautious about money, relents after a comforting rice pudding eases tensions. He finally gives Opal three dollars to buy a thin white dress, a scene reflecting frugal hope amid hard times.
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Jule
Opal
Jed
Bessie R. Hoover
Glass bricks gain ground in German and European buildings
Reports describe glass bricks used in Berlin villas and Hamburg walls to admit light while meeting fire and cleanliness standards. Milan and Turin also adopt bricks for floors and partitions to improve light, hygiene, and temperature control. Netherlands uses glass bricks mainly for sighting in machine shops and conservatories.
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Germany
Berlin
Hamburg
Milan
Italy
Turin
Netherlands
When and Why He Quit
Frank Nelson former state superintendent of public instruction in Kansas and Cap Gibson longtime audit office clerk are close friends. Nelson now leads a Minnesota college. A past talk about teaching reveals Gibson saying he taught 13 years before quitting when teachers had to qualify.
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Frank Nelson
Kansas
Gibson
Auditor Nation
Nelson
Minnesota
Can
Kangag City Journal
Removing Skin Blotches by Cold Carbonic Acid
New barbers employ a high pressure cylinder of carbonic acid gas costing 2.50. They apply it to blemishes using chamois skin, forming a cold ball that supposedly removes the spot after five or ten minutes per session. Three to four weekly treatments are suggested.
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New York Press
Travel Reflections Highlight Nations and Values
The Prague Prager-Tagblatt notes that travel reveals cultural contrasts. It portrays the light-headed Frenchman as a good father and thrifty person, while describing perfidious Albion as a nation of pious idealists and fanatics, embodying righteousness and liberty.
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Albion
Prague
Brave Nurse Saves Patients At Sierra Leone Fire
Miss Sophie Macpherson, a nurse at St Andrew’s, received the Ambulance association of Scotland gold medal for bravery after risking smoke and flames to evacuate seven patients from the Princess Christian mission in Freetown. She alerted the hospital, led patients down stairs, and ensured all were safe before help arrived.
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St .Andrew
Ambulance Association of Scotland
Sophie Macpherson
Princess Christian Mission
Freetown
Sierra Leone
Miss Macpherson
The Bank of VeniceFirst Bank in World History
The Bank of Venice, established in 1157, was the first great bank guiding Europe Asia trade. Venice, a merchant led autocratic republic, funded by merchants, built a government guaranteed bank known for high credit across major trade cities. The term bank derives from the Italian banco meaning bench.
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Is World
Bank of
Venice
Adriatic
Europe
Asia
Persian Gulf
Red Sea
Alexandria
Egypt
Mediterranean Sea
Mrs. Lange Takes Command On Arrival In America
An immigrant couple from Hamburg arrives in Philadelphia with their child. Rudolph Lange loses $80 to a pocket pick at Washington Avenue wharf, sparking distress until his wife retrieves $28 and insists she will manage finances as they begin life in America. An immigrant officer endorses the decision as proper.
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Rudolph Lange
Hamburg
Allentown
Washington Avenue
Lange
America
Meyer
Philadelphia
Backward Dance and Supper Amaze Pittsburg Crowd
A recent Pittsburg event featured a freak dance and supper all done backwards. Hundreds of guests wore name tags written in reverse and danced with partners to banqueting tables where meals were served on chairs. Waiters wore false faces and walked backward as the program began with the home waltz and ended with a grand merch.
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Pittsburg
Abused Confidence and Engaged Bridesmaids Gossip
A narrator recalls a scene of a young woman newly engaged, watching her from a piazza with a friend. The couple’s dynamics are observed through a window, revealing tension and secrecy. The bride-to-be recounts a former proposal while a hidden listener notes subtle signs of unease. The piece ends with the narrator doubting her role as maid of honor.
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Bob
Women in the Postal Service Through History
The article notes early female postal leaders in Europe and America. Alexandrine de Rue led major European routes during the Thirty Years War. Elizabeth Harvey and Lydia Hill held early American post office roles in Portsmouth New Hampshire and Salem Massachusetts. It also mentions ancient origins of checkers dating back about 6,000 years in Egypt.
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America
Bralne le Comte
France
Europe
Alexandrine de Rue
German Empire
Netherlands
Burgundy
Lorraine
Elizabeth Harvey
The Philosopher of Folly Observes Echo in Voice
A quip from the Philosopher of Folly on fortune and a girl with a wonderful voice. He notes her mouth is so large that an echo diminishes the impact of her singing, a wry comment on talent and perception.
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Philosopher of Folly
Temper Cure Tip From Parisian Cure
The Pittsburg Dispatch notes a Parisian tip advising room decor changes to affect a spouse mood. It suggests using blue to calm a wife with a bad temper and red wallpaper to provoke a reaction.
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Pittsburg
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