Eee Mr Barnes Iowa Elopement Program Story
A fragmented OCR item mentions Mr Barnes and an Iowa program tied to elopement or marriage efforts. Details are unclear but indicate involvement with a local event or outreach in a Midwestern setting.
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Newspaper
Humeston New Era
Location
Humeston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1908
Page
9
A fragmented OCR item mentions Mr Barnes and an Iowa program tied to elopement or marriage efforts. Details are unclear but indicate involvement with a local event or outreach in a Midwestern setting.
Barnes and Edwin Anstruther chase Marina across Corsica to intercept Saliceti's schemes and recover the wife, racing from Corte through Vivario to Bastia. They rally locals, learn telegraph and horse stables, and press toward Hotel de France as the search continues. The tale follows vendetta, intrigue, and mounting danger in the heat of election turmoil.
Edwin and Burton ride toward a perilous pass with life on the line and field glasses in hand. A precipice looms as they navigate toward Del Oro, then descend into the forest of Vizzavona in pursuit and pondering wives, with a hint of Behacuscia territory.
A scrambled Frontier Yellow Scoop recounts Stice and Vinton, Linville editors chasing a fresh story. A masked stagecoach robbery ends with the highwayman dead by a uniformed rescuer revealed as Vinton’s printer, then a moral twist. Also notes Yukon Klondike output forecast at 29 million dollars a year within five years.
An explanation of white lead as a pigment and a cautionary note on purer brands, plus a dramatic account of two officers in Servia who used a cord bound descent to save one man from a snowbound death after losing their way in a fog.
The piece notes the elevator's origin in Central Europe with the first reference in a letter from Napoleon to Archduchess Maria Louise about a chaise volante at Schoenbrunn built for Empress Maria Theresa. It describes a square, richly furnished chair device hoisted by ropes in a purpose dug shaft around £760 and tested for reliability. It then shifts to a brief seance anecdote and a joke about a druggist offering other daughters.
Shenard Kollock of Red Bank New Jersey, aged 88, narrates his decades long kidney illness. Doctors said cure was unlikely yet a tonic named Luan produced relief after nightly awakenings and pain. Advertisement claims 50 cents per bottle, sold by Foster-William Co Buffalo and other dealers. Two anecdotes conclude with a humorous exchanged line about a suitor.
A Newark Delaware man reports seven years of eczema on his hands cured after using Cuticura Ointment and Soap. He says a slate pencil could not touch the cracks and credits two boxes of ointment and one cake of soap for the full recovery.
Domestic sheep endure weeks buried in snow and cold. The discussion notes sheep as hardiest livestock, citing Wall Street as a humorous aside about animals surviving freezing conditions.
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