03 Mar 1911
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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1911
Page
1
Boonstroo home visitor G. J. Beckman returns to Ridgewood New Jersey. A March 9 1911 boxing or wrestling event is advertised at the Davidson Opera House with a planned entertaining program. Auction of athletic gear and spring clover seed sales noted. A late item laments homesick feelings and memories of home.
A notice promotes a bargain subscription for 1.50 dollars covering one year and extending Tex to 1913. It promises readers an average year and a half for the price of one year and calls in old subscribers to settle arrears in exchange for one year in advance. The ad is labeled Hen. INDEX.
The Coad family intends to enlarge their independent oil plant at this place by adding three 100 gallon tanks. Once installed a full line of oils will be offered to meet demand. A ship in lubricating oils will supply nearby towns as oil territory opens in Rangeas and Oklahoma and other western states.
The Presbyterian church will hold its annual congressional meeting next Tuesday March seventh. The Ladies Guild Rue Sthicot and BS. C. E. will be read and any other church business will be attended to at that time.
A London Tatler report recounts Sir Richard Burton visiting a reputedly haunted house once owned by poor tenants. He is locked in a room with a dog and a friend nearby, a bell rings, and he vanishes from the scene. The house is later torn down and Burton dies, leaving the event shrouded in mystery.
Mr W B Paterson recalls old Glasgow parish life from the era of witchcraft to the reign of Charles I. He notes no church pews then and parishioners brought their own stools or chairs and even candles for evening services. He mentions a city church still observing gender separation, cited by the London Globe.
The potato, introduced to England by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584, was little cultivated for years. In James I’s era it sold at 2 shillings per pound and only became common by the late 1700s. Mortimer’s Gardeners Kalendar (1108) likened potatoes to Jerusalem arichokes but not as good, and notices suggested swine use. Bretland region writers urged readers to avoid the potato as it is not in the Brote-Nondon Chronicle.
Garbled text from a music write up yields no clear event names or participants. The fragment mentions Be Semin at street paver and a drummer, with stray words like military and Paul and arrows toward an unclear scene. No verifiable facts or entities are extractable for a proper summary.
An overview of the Cape hunting dog describing its size, speed, keen scent, and strong jaws. The piece details hunting tactics from starting a buck to tearing viscera, noting rapid kill times and the dogs’ relentless appetite, with no recorded attacks on white individuals.
The article recalls how seats in parliament were bought in the past. It cites Flood paying £4000 for a Commons seat and Gatton being sold in 1792 as an “elegant constituency.” The same seat later sold for £60,000 in 1831, prompting disenfranchisement after reform.
The Bahamas hosts descendants of Georgia and South Carolina loyalists who fled after independence. Indigenous Indians were decimated or displaced by Spanish labor raids. The text notes language quirks in speech and references the London Standard description of the era.
A Wall Street lawyer, famed for recalling names, calls across the street to a friend, using the name Maloney. The friend objects, insisting his real name is I aish, prompting a brief, awkward exchange before the introduction falters.
The Rev Irl R Hicks Almanac for 1911 is advertised with a guardian angel motif and sales note. It lists price details and ordering from Word and Works Publishing Company in St Louis Missouri, indicating subscriptions at one dollar per year.
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