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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1910
Page
2
Two bachelor brothers in Hull Hall recount a meal rebuking country cooking. The Kansas City Times tale contrasts home meals with urban fare, recalling family dishes, especially a famed blackberry jam and butter, and ends with the brothers feuding over a waiter’s dish as a rush of nostalgia and irony.
In Theodora Locke tale, Mrs Locke's persistent nagging contrasts with her husband William Locks life saved after a mid Atlantic steamer disaster. A aboard survivor recalls his calm response and William's vow to explain the near miss to Theodora, highlighting the tension between family strain and fate.
A fragmented passage describes the immense effort of turning acres of ground with a 72 inch plow. It imagines distances plowmen and horses would cover, comparing toil to traveling vast distances around the earth and to the moon and back.
Fragmentary dialogue from a convention shows a speaker asking if the issue is understood while a woman in a green shirt remains seated. The garbled text suggests a chaotic scene with interrupted phrases and unclear positions.
News from Paris notes Terese sends a postal card from Paris while abroad. She mentions meeting a charming chap from Arkansas and asks what is new in Paris.
Watson and Giler discuss a plan to place hay fever beyond mankind’s reach, claiming any misgivings will be forgiven if the scheme succeeds and popularity rises.
The Buckman arrived in port with Capt Wood dead in his cabin after pirates took control near Point Blanco. George Washington Wise and French West plotted to murder officers, one jumped overboard, the other about to, as crew hid in the engine room during the midnight siege.
Governor Shallenberger seeks recount affidavits from twelve counties including Douglas Madison Butler and Cass as Dahiman leads the Democratic governor race by 26 votes while Aldrich edges Talaae for the Republican nomination.
Herbert Streable, a rag sorter at a Whippany N J paper mill, earns 26.00 weekly yet last week cleared 1800 from hiding valuables found among rags and waste. Five days ago he found an old smoking containing two diamonds worth 500 dollars. Later an old handkerchief yielded a ruby and a sapphire.
Six men killed and seven injured in a head on crash between two freight trains on the Central Vermont line at Northfield Falls two miles north of here. All victims were train crew members.
Sioux City Monday live stock quotes show steers at 1.99 per cwt and hogs at 8.65 per cwt. Prices reflect market conditions in the Sioux City market area.
Lisbon protests to the Vatican over the objectionable stance of Papal Nuncio Mgr Dr T J Ponti amid ongoing tension between Portugal and the Holy See.
The Journal offers a $40,000 prize for an air race among Paris Berlin Brussels and London planned for 1911. The contest would test speed endurance and navigation in the new aviation era.
B J Jayne, a longtime friend, recalls Harry Vanderbilt a Portsmouth navy yard official who secretly raised about three hundred thousand dollars to fund Lincoln's 1864 reelection. Vanderbilt worked quietly as an appointment clerk in the treasury and never boasted of his role.
Story recalls Henry Ward Beecher missing his San Francisco lecture on July 4 due to reading about the Sullivan Ryan fight. Beecher and a Yale professor traded confessions about reading front page reports before the divinity school, with Beecher joking he might beat the professor to the punch on a morning paper.
The article recalls William M. Tweed in Greenwich Connecticut during his peak power in New York. He sought a 20 acre Mead tract to complete his country estate and, after pressing for a price, paid $55,000 in cash at a railroad station to secure the deed.
A fragmented report describes a new cold cure for sleeping sickness and mentions a vital ward in A. The text references a white rag, a舒 ber pice, a kuhie, and a trectitiens tite tor tenia. It notes a wire kept at a temperature well below freezing and describes rein de fenit with double wooden was.
A naturalist notes migratory birds often reuse nests. Swallows that pass through England may not winter in Africa. At High Halden Kent a ringed bird returned April 12 to a nest occupied last year, identified by a ring placed May 8 290. A recent year saw about 2090 British birds marked with aluminium rings and twice as many to be marked this year.
A fragment hints a Sunmimer girl desires engagement with a local young man staying two weeks and carrying about $100 in his roll. The note emphasizes financial motive and a brief romance.
In Los Angeles the famed steeplejack Miller known as the human fly died after falling from the seventh floor of the Hamburger building. He had scaled dozens of skyscrapers in major cities and never had a fall before this fatal accident.
The article notes that Pacific coast tribes, especially the Chinook, practiced head flattening using mechanical means for months. It claims flattening was once attributed to many groups but Chinooks are described as short, with a fishing and maritime livelihood and darker complexion than neighboring tribes.
Pensacola couple Mr. and Mrs. T Barberi, wed nineteen years, mother of 13 children including six sets of twins, received a state seal spoon from Governor Gilchrist. He suggested lawmakers pass a pension act for patentees.
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