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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1905
Page
4
A Hull Iowa weekly notes Bro. Bowers joking about the editor kicked by his own shadow. The piece mirrors a light clash between publications and hints at awaiting the Town Supreme court ruling on an election amendment.
A reader defends Congressman Hepburn from attacks by Des Moines Register and Leader and Wallace supporters. The letter condemns bombastic charges about Henry Wallace and praises Hepburn for work on railroad abuses, agri policy, and public service, noting Leyburn's limited achievements and referencing the Interstate Commerce Commission creation.
A speaker criticizes Congress and Hepburn for seven years of inaction on a rate regulation law. The piece cites a commission with power to judge rate reasonableness, now weakened, and argues relief has been repeatedly demanded by the people. It calls for swift amendments and accountability.
Advertises positions for ten men in each state to travel tack signs and distribute circulars. Salary listed as 75.00 per month plus 5.00 daily expenses. From Kualman Co. Dept. Atlas building Chicago. Also notes subscription price for The InpEx and Twice a Week Journal at 82.00 per year.
An old newspaper ad touts The New-York Tribune Farmer with pages on cattle sheep swine poultry dairy and more. It promotes a yearly subscription including a bargain price and a partnership with a second paper, urging readers to order and mail payment.
A summary of church decrees across Mortola and Toledo councils forbidding mutilation of church servants and serfs. It notes fines and penalties for bishops and abbots who violated these acts, including deposition and excommunication. The 794 Frankfort council forbade abbots from mutilating monks regardless of offense.
The excerpt describes a fishing frog burying in mud and luring prey with a hinged mouth and tail spines, then snapping shut to eat a fish. It contrasts with the archer fish, which shoots a stream of water to dislodge a leaf- resting fly and catches it.
Fragmentary description notes the origin of masked miming from Spanish miming and Saturnalia and recalls early English yuletide revelry. It mentions festive buresque sports after dinner on Christmas day with masked performers entertaining guests, a custom kept in parts of England including Northamptonshire during holidays.
A brief dialogue shows Lottie and Jet settling duties after a disagreement. Lottie agrees to perform the kissing while Evans handles the other part, reflecting a light domestic exchange reported by the Cleveland Leader.
A Strand Magazine article describes German mothers as the hardest working in Europe and their babies as tightly swaddled ornaments. It notes narrow pillows, ribbons, and the habit of placing the child on beds, dressers, or tables, with depictions in picture books, dolls, and even Easter dough treats for babies to eat.
The article highlights how a major Chicago bank saves mail costs by grouping stamped postal cards and routine letters into one envelope each day. It avoids single stamps on every item, charging only two cents per ounce or card and saving from 25 to 200 dollars daily.
A talkative barber claims a lead pipe kept with a leather strop can sharpen razors by rubbing the pipe along the strop. He describes applying the pipe and stropping the blade with several passes to obtain a sharp edge. The piece ends noting Philadelphia as the source context and a request for science behind the method.
An experienced Alpine guide notes the varied reactions of travelers at high peaks. He observes a Garrisan asks for exact heights, a French tourist admires scenery and attire, and an English climber after summiting opens his provisions and requests food.
The phrase length of the law comes from the vast parchment rolls of old English statutes. The master of the rolls title recalls this. A single act, the fraud tax commissioners Act, from George II’s reign, measured over 1000 feet when spread vertically.
A Thsen letter recalls a tale of a writer with an empty ale glass and a scorpion on Tris desk in New Run. The scorpion grows sick and the animal is fed soft fruit to revive it, symbolizing how nature's laws apply to the realm of the spirit as well.
A long sentence built from the six letters in maiden yields wordplay about Ida a maiden and Ned Dean. The clever arrangement forms lines like a mad dame and a mentally mapped maze of words. The playful linguistic feat centers on rearranging names and objects in a den-like maze.
A mixed report suggests Caser or Kearney suffered a severe leg injury. Some say doctors considered removing the leg from ankle to knee, while others indicate a partial amputation might have been required.
Fragmentary dialogue shows a father accusing a daughter of being a bad girl and claiming his partner once warned against marrying her. The exchange reveals parental strictness and tensions within the household.
Fragmentary dialogue explores belief in an undeveloped sixth sense and whether time will reveal it.
The article explains the marble sculpture process where a model is made first and finished by highly skilled artisans. It notes sculptors supervise finishing touches and sometimes cut faces and hands, while professional marble cutters rough shape blocks and carve outlines. The carving relies on a hole grid to define external points before removing perforated portions.
The tale records that after Sir Thomas More was beheaded his head was displayed on London Bridge for fourteen days. His daughter Margaret Roper later retrieved the head, claiming it as hers and preserving it in a leaden casket before placing it in her tomb at St Dunstan's Canter bury.
A fragment from the New Orleans Times Democrat reflects on laughter and its ties to success and social harmony. The speaker muses whether loving humor helps people get along better or if laughter is simply a universal trait lacking deep impact.
In Branawick a man named Abts converses with a friend and recounts a curious, fragmented exchange about a companion and a tippler. The joke hints at misheard praise and a simple dinner scene with two people at a table.
A reflective passage contrasts diverse beard styles from long untrimmed beards to thick infant-like looks. It ponders how facial hair shapes character and public perception, imagining a Venetian doge minus a beard and the mind unsettled by shaving.
A London Telegraph note recalls the fashion evolution of guild attire in the early fifteenth century with ements of scarlet green and later scarlet black. It mentions funeral processions attended by civic officials in purple as described through Sir Philip Sidney's funeral account.
A clerk informs Mrs. Siuode that her husband’s account is overdrawn and the check cannot be cashed. The moment prompts emotional reaction as she realizes the financial trouble tied to the signature.
Irate wife accuses her husband of fifty two lies this week as a newspaper cartoon mocks the phrase a pack of lies. The dialogue reflects a sharp exchange on truth and deceit in a serialized humor column.
A Chicago women's club leader asks the provocative question Why should women be cooks in a head of anthora It features a sharply ironic remark by Well and a remark attributed to Tea and Washington Tost noting women’s roles and profitability in labor debates.
In Penesla the price of medicine rises toward the state line as a new price list is refined each year. The effort aims to standardize costs and ensure fair access across regions amidst mounting demand.
In a brass‑tinted office Bradford hires a stenographer after a "male preferred" ad picture. Marjorie Henderson persuades him to form a business partnership over love. The couple navigates gender norms, salary, and a growing office rapport before a final hint of a personal shift.
A Western hotel clerk in a rustic dining room story becomes entangled with a nervous Nebraska youth serving as assistant. The tale depicts disguise in Parisian garb and a tension between station timing and orders with a mysterious disappearance after a late dinner, concluding with the young man fading from view.
An unclear OCR fragment presents a garbled tale about fishers and promises, mentioning first fruits, a friend, and vague events. Names, places, and dates are unreadable, but the text hints at a local story or notice with disrupted wording and nonsensical phrases.
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