Alfalfa prospects and local changes in the district
Route No 3 reports heavy rains ending alfalfa work after two days of wetting. Henderson hoys manage about sixty acres on Hydinger farm. Lawrence McBride becomes section president after buying Myer’s forty acres. Wheat looks promising. Jocks and Dennis farms show strong alfalfa. Grandmother Peters dies in Hamburg after a long illness. large sympathy procession follows. Yields and crops discussed amid drought worries, river levels, and a run of farm activities including hogs, corn, and fishing trips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henderson Hoys
Hydinger
Lawrence McBride
Mr. Myer
Lake Cheat
Dave Swiggatt
Miss Bush
Teland
J. F. Miller
Lon Boyd
Praying Man Critique by Henry Beecher
A biting critique of self styled praying men who begin with grand divine epithets then hurry through routines. Beecher mocks the ritual, noting daily needs and sins while performing pious acts, likening such men to mere habit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jehovah
Henry Werd Beecher
Origins of George Eliot and other pen names
The piece explains how Mary Ann Evans chose George Eliot by combining a grandmotherly surname with a familiar first name, and how other writers adopted pseudonyms such as Sydney Grier and George Egerton to mask family ties, gender ambiguity, or marital surnames. It notes Mrs Borrmann Wells addressing suffragist skeptics and a man’s quip about marriage met with her rebuttal referencing Mr Wells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Gregg
Sydney
Grier
George Egerton
Mary
Jelita Golding-Bright
Isabel George Bynon
George Bynon
Bynon
Egerton
Mary Ann Evang
George Eliot
Eliot
At the Opera Reports on a Spectator’s Witty Remark
A New York Times quote recalls an operagoer noting oddities in Samson and Delilah with a joking take on a poorly dressed Samson and a pauper child presenting a diamond ring. The anecdote highlights audience reactions to stage moments and props.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pera
Samson
Delilah
Chuld
New York Times
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Oxford
Batistes
Manchester
Percles
Swifts
Swift's Pride
Layton
California
Connor Bros
Mr. Golden
Peters
Hamburg
John Dean
Westboro
Nishnabotna
Missouri
Red Oak
ERS
Mre Harrison
Lucas
Malet
Borrmann Wells
Murphy’s Place
Murphy
BELL
Main
D Streets
Independent Phone
E. E. Richard
Merchants Exchange
North Presbyterian Church
Mark M. Coad
Fremont
Nebraska
Rover
Marcus Damoris
Robert Lee
Turc
Brillant
Coco II
Mignon
Jean-Le-Blanc
Black Hawk
Percheron Stud Book of
My Place
John, Payne Farm
D.O A. Lister
Farmers National Bank
Officens and Stockwolders
A. Hydinger
M.M Payne
H.R. Grape
Miller
D. Butterfield
B. Cunningham
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