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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1902
Page
3
The town notes a mix of shopping, weddings, and social events with DeMots Jewelry displaying silverware and clocks, Victor Martin teaching in Japan, and a moving picture entertainment by The Thomas Company. Community updates include travel plans, harvest fatigue, upcoming nuptials, a band concert, and a threatening letter case under police watch.
A jumble of aphorisms and misread quotations, listing lines from various authors. The text features references to Celia Thraxter, Lowell, Horace Mann, Buxton, and others in broken form. It reads as a miscellany of maxims on candor genius charity and politeness.
Mrs. Towne admits doubt about her husband after a department store spree. She recalls he bought a new rug but took home four fancy flatirons and a porcelain kettle instead of a rug, saying one never knows what is needed until it is bought. The exchange appears in a Youth's Conflicts column fragment.
A garbled OCR style snippet hints at a bank burglary with mentions of a felters crew and competition, though details are unclear and names or places are not readable. The fragment suggests a crime report on a bank break in and suspects described loosely.
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