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Newspaper
Iowa Iowa Le Mars Globe Post
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1907
Page
3
LeMare Market News reports steady grain prices and rising livestock bids as traders note light summer activity. Reports show local merchants buying corn wheat and oats while cattle and hog bids edge higher amid cautious demand. The column records small-town prices and notable shifts in exchange rates and shipping costs.
A collage of items from Nico Witgen frames to afternoon clubs and college ads. Mrs J J Moore hosts I and K club. Mrs Johnson Pemberton entertains Battenburg club with luncheon. Mankato Commercial College touts business training. A surprise party honors Miss Minnie Smith, soon to wed James Atwood of Dalton. Burdock Blood Bitters endorsed as purifier. Iowa State Fair premium list distributed. secretary to mail upon request.
Merrill residents push a civic sidewalk project from town to the cemetery with substantial contributions from sponsors. J O Gillespie, new Sentinel owner from Traer, visited LeMars seeking a home but did not decide. Passenger train returned him home that evening. Pinoules for kidneys advertised by Spotts and Peat claim relief for rheumatic and kidney troubles. The White Sox were defeated by Cherokes in Sunday action, a typical outcome as local teams face occasional losses. T A Baldwin of Emmetsburg visited LeMars, long tied to local business and now invested in farming with a large ditching project by a St Paul firm including a 20 ft top width ditch and 8 ft depth linking with existing ditches.
Fresh shipment news from German American Gomes at the Street Grocery. Community notes include births, barber shop adverts, tea at golf club house, and local business changes. Upcoming Fourth of July events, wedding invitations, and school notices cap a busy local page with personalities like A. B. Funk and J. C. Gillespie noted among various town updates.
New scale services advertised for old equipment, with steel frame overhaul at reasonable prices. Merrill Record notes Joseph Juken to take charge of the local grain elevator July 1, succeeding L. H. Hodgson, who will run his own Illinois elevator. Juken and family move into the former Bryant residence. Laker previously resided in Washington township. Also, Charley Keller reports a naval promotion in Uncle Sam’s service, earning a sailor’s wage boost. The Eagle ball team defeats Struble’s recuin team 7 to 0, improving after earlier losses to the White Sox. Struble adds infielders from Alton to bolster the lineup. L. Schwartz, a sale organizer, is jailed in LeMars on a fugitive-from-justice charge tied to a receivers’ gate dispute involving Skelton and Dow building sales.
A dockworker, described as large and calloused from freight handling, is ruled not to be a kidnapper by a judge. He recalls a past child and pleads to kiss the child. the mother glowers with a mix of fear and hatred as the courtroom scene unfolds in Battery Park. The judge sends the man downstairs for a day’s restraint, while the mother clings to her child and the crowd watches.
A reflective piece on fame arguing it is the sum of a man’s advertising and perceived superiority, often arriving after death. Fame rises beyond religion and wealth, waning for the living yet growing after death, and is best achieved by relentless creation before resting in memory.
A London Chronicle correspondent recalls nineteenth century songs that mocked fashion slang. References to hats recur as insults and boasts, from does your mother know you're out to where did you geet that hat and I'll eat my hat. The hat remains a persistent symbol in evolving street talk.
Several residents and visitors are noted in brief social items. Ben Clagg, Mrs Schmidt and relatives in Onawa, Mrs P U Lulia visiting Stuart, Iowa, Miss Pavel Love visiting Wayne, Miss Hele Morton of Watne Neb. last week at Will Laux home, Mrs Rossa of Sioux City transacting business in WeMarr, Miss Marie Witers of Milwaukee visiting John Wilters, I J McDuffie Jr home for holiday from Yale, Miss Sybil Moore home for summer from Leavenworth, Irvine Foster of Des Moines visiting his uncle Johnson Pemberton in LeMars, Mr and Mrs John Aird back from Playview visit, John Mobsn home for summer vacation, Mrs George Scot of Vermilion back after a month in LeMars, R J Koehler home from Denver, Geo Campbell of Des Moines former LeMars resident on business, Miss Luella Woodke returning home after Minnesota university course.
A Kansas City Star excerpt recounts a widow who received $5,000 after her husband died in a railroad crash. Months later she learns another casualty got $7,500 for a lost leg, prompting the claim adjuster to quip that the higher sum funds a new husband, if needed.
Travel Magazine praises London theaters for lavish orchestral stalls and detailed stage settings. The usher in black, sixpence per programme, and the clear tuneful dialogue from curtain rise to close enhance the experience, making plots instantly understandable and highlighting superior European company discipline.
A curious widow’s cap is described among Aboriginal Australians near the Murray River. Widows shave their heads, apply pipe clay kneaded into a paste, cover with a net, and grease the skin to prevent sticking. A thick clay skull cap forms over the head when dry, sometimes weighing several pounds.
Fragmentary OCR text shows garbled dialogue with names Miss Critic Boreleigh and others. No clear event, date, or location. Unable to extract a coherent news item or confirm entities for a summary.
The article recounts early theater benefits, from Knipp in 1668 to Mrs Barry in 1687, detailing crowding for admissions and delays for actors. It recalls Quin at Covent Garden in 1768 and a 1828 Grimaldi benefit at Drury Lane where the clown, aged and memory faltering, was wheeled on in an armchair and sang Foot Codlins while a £1700 total set a historical record.
A Washington Herald paragraph playfully describes a scene in a floricultural setting with puns on flowers and animals. Vendors, animals, and gossip mingle in a whimsical tableau as spectators linger to admire petals and feathered adornments while a lighthearted lecture unfolds from the bloom metaphor.
Readers learn of Hall's Catarrh Cure advertised as a constitutional remedy. The notice claims it cures a chronic disease in all stages and emphasizes its internal action to destroy disease in the body. Addressed to potential customers with sales language and a request for a sample.
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