Community Notes Show Local Moves and Travels
A flurry of visits and travels across towns as residents return from Alberta and South Dakota, new hires at the post office, and local shoppers and racers enjoy weekend outings. Ed De Flongh attends his daughter's Rochester operation while others plan summer trips to Sheldon Matlock Sioux City and Hull. Local business and school improvements continue with paint, awnings, and a planned garage addition.
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de Flongh
Rochester
Minn
Holding plow work shown as better than office
A column notes that steady work with a plow offers independence and lifetime security, contrasting it with political office. It cites a publisher affadavit case, a petit larceny arrest after a supreme court decision, and a new postal law on theft of papers. Missing man in Alena area prompts police inquiry. Maude Thompson leaves Alden after successful year. A publishing scam claim is debunked in Iowa Falls. Explorer Perry gains praise for progress and experience.
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Supreme Court
Hord
Family notices and anecdotes from Orange City area
Local items describe visits and illnesses in Orange City and Perkins households, travel by Mrs Yping and others, and carpenters at work on a big bridge. A Sioux Falls resident, Fred Steinberg, recovers after a blood poisoning, with other vignettes about Kipling, Simla, and a dramatic tramp speech at a saloon.
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Barty
Fred Steinberg
Hull
Sioux Falls
Perkins' Pointers Visit by Mrs Mitchell in Wyoming
Mrs Bertha Lincoln Mitchell of Riverton Wyoming visited cousins Mr and Mrs Wil Cable last week. She returned from a visit with her brother Mr Arthur Lincoln and wife at Verdi Minnesota. Mrs Mitchell likes the
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Bertha Lincoln Mitchell
Rivietten
Wyoming
Wil Cable
Arthur Lincoln
Verdi, Minn
Mitchell
Tramp vanished as doors swung open in Des Moines
Des Moines Tribune reports the group looked up to find the tramp gone as swinging doors were pushed open, leaving no trace of the stranger in the scene.
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Des Moines
Tribune
Local notes from Sheldon and surrounds a busy exchange
A mix of social news and small notices from Sheldon and nearby towns. travel of residents to LeMars Orange City and Doon, visits by Misses Royce and Colia Ver Steeg, relatives in Michigan, and a discussion of cemetery cement walks. community happenings include printing tasks, church and family movements, and fashion chatter reflecting the era.
Evolution of headgear from cocked hat to beaver
The piece traces fashion from cocked hats to the beaver and crescent styles, noting the French Revolution era and the decline of beaver due to material shortages. It mentions how the cocked hat faded as the beaver and later designs rose, with London Answers cited on beaver scarcity.
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London
Soap Tree of Algeria Yields Versatile Fruit and Oil
An Algerian soap tree grows to about fifty feet and bears fruit at six years old. The fruit contains a seed and yields an oil comparable to olive oil, usable as soap, powder, or liquid for cleaning, with the wood valued for fine furniture.
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Algeria
Battymore Ateri¢an
A Chingse Superstition About Sleeping Babies
A Chinese belief holds that a baby’s nap invites danger if the mother fears separation. If the child wanders, the soul may stray and never awaken. People call the baby’s name aloud to guide the spirit home, likening the soul to a bird following along.
A Fox's Stratagem Reveals Foxes as Thieving Masters
The passage tells of a tame fox chained in a yard who learns to bait a target and steal. By placing food at the far limit of his tether he lures fowl into reach, then hides and ambushes the poultry, reducing the larder stock with each plan.
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Gava London
When Not to Smoke Guidance on Tobacco Etiquette
The notice advises avoiding smoking on an empty stomach and avoiding smoking before dinner or late at night. It warns against chewing the teeth with a clear substance, stressing personal hygiene to reduce tobacco amblyopia.
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Hospital
Teak Astronomer Seeks Celestial Calculations Role
Applicant replies with cosmology oriented skills including eclipse prediction and orbital fixes. The response notes last year service as equipment keeper for a women's bridge club, illustrating a mix of formal science and quirky experience.
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Pramtrf
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