Local notes and town concert chatter fill the week
The town buzzes with a Civic Club meeting at Mrs N G O Dougs, school board plans in motion, and a Mev Anna Shaw lecture at Opera Hall. Local bands, lectures, farm talks, and upcoming elections wrap a busy scene with civic energy and community notices.
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Sypex
Journal
Sioux County
Court House
Civic Club
N. G. O. Dougs
Register
Leader
Des Moines
Gard & Archibald
C.F. Koffman
Sheldon
Opera Hall
Mev
Anna Shaw
Shaw
Local notes mix chatter from Hull and neighbors
A collage of community items includes a Hull barber shop subscriber tale, Miss Jensen’s primary class expanding with Miss Dillion, a Heavenly Hash mix up at a tea, a Progressive Whist gathering, and local familiar faces from Omaha to Sheldon.
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Mes Robt
Schoeneman
Pete “Beckman
Schoal ‘Abard
Miss Jensen
Dillion
DeMots
Hull
Rud Stece
Hoa- Bee
Chie Wien
Stemapad
Flora Hook
Sheldon
George Moore
Omaha
Bockman Brothers
Unusual Valley Shapes Revealed by Intersecting Faults
A description from London Answers explains a valley with two intersecting PHA systems. The jointing forms salient and restraint angles creating interlocking glen sides. Water movement along open joints could widen fissures, guiding a valley with a distinctive geometry.
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Ho Cheddar Gurga
London Amswers
Remarkable Fast Train Tales From New Orleans Railmen
A group of railroad men recall their fastest rides in New Orleans. They describe crossing bayous and a Rigolets trestle where the train allegedly sucked water and caused fish to groan as the gulf spill passed. One man recalls nearly being washed overboard yet surviving, later joking about the fish on the platform.
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Fev
Agana
Hull
Henry Manden
Gérrif VerSluin
Reformed Church
Barna
Ht Folirich
Ben Tamplio
John Wodds
Manden and
VerStuia
Geo. T. Watley
Starr
New Orleans
Times-Democrat
Genemain
Rigolets
Gulf
Smallpox History Described by Rhases and Ancient Sources
The text notes Rhases, a tenth century Aralian physician, as first to accurately describe smallpox symptoms and appearance. It cites descriptions in ancient Chinese and Indian literature, mentioning the China records of the disease.
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Rhases
China
Inoculation History Tied to East Asian Dynasties
Fragmentary text indicates that inoculation has been known in the Far East since the Sing dynasty. Chinese experts suggest there is a toxic component in offerings, implying beliefs about transmission and potential development with favorable conditions. The readable items reference figures and classifications like A. BD. A528 and WU-147.
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Sioa An
Kiting Wa
Oe Sablig
Chines Haase
Far East
A.B. WU
The Marine Flag and Its Perennial Emblems
The revenue marine service flag authorized by Congress on March 2, Lig originally had sixteen perpendicular red and white stripes with the United States arms in blue on a white field. The sixteen stripes signified sixteen states then admitted. an eagle once stood in the union until 1871 when thirteen blue stars replaced it, though the eagle and stars remain part of the flag.
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Revenue Marine
United States
Slope of Rivers Feeding the Mississippi
The article notes river slopes into the Mississippi vary by region. Eastward tributaries drop about three inches per mile, western ones about six. Missouri loses about a foot per mile after leaving mountains, Des Moines about 7.3 inches from source to confluence, Ohio about five inches, and Mississippi below the Ohio to the gulf sinks 24 inches.
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Mississippi
Missouri
Des Moines
Ohio
Gulf
Mooney-Hrace Friendship Riles Brooklyn Life
In a brisk City Life note, Mooney and Hrace clash over a reservation. The exchange highlights tensions around trust and status as friends.
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Mooney
Hogan
Brooklyn
Rubbing It ta and Breakfast Dispute
A man mumbles about tough steak and coffee during breakfast while his wife tells him not to growl, assuring no one will take it away. The exchange highlights domestic tension in an otherwise ordinary morning scene.
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John
Her Old Years Read: Macge Says She Is Twenty Odd Years Old
A Newark News item comments on age estimation by noting a character is described as twenty odd, prompting the humorous line that she is over forty when counting crew years as well. The exchange ends with a prompt to read the INDEX for more.
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Macge
Newark News
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Auecal & Sale
Dani
Bbc
Wits
50 Cent
G. W. Lensink
Hill, Iowa
HULL _ EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE
E. G. Toan
Logal Laconics
Gard &Archibalds
L. C. Fie
Tuen
Shimp
Will
Gosgrove
Sley
Mayer
Cosgrove Entertainments
Forest City
Cosgroves Orchestra
Dakota City
Coscrayve
Reimann
Minnesota
Louise
Ihstead
Post Office
Ian
Atchison Globe
Kraus
Jaxan Coffee
G. W. Lensink’s
Cicar Je
Cigar de
Ladie
Daane & Handling
Hull Merchants
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