Daily Jottings Fr iday to Tuesday notes local visits
A fragment from a local diary recounts Mrs Bertha Kindig returning from Davenport and visits by Beatrice Bauch Deving Lott and Miss Bess Joiner. It lists numerous Saturday and Sunday social mentions in Maquoketa Preston Weston Bellevue Lost Nation and Clinton with travels, birthdays, picnics and church solos amid weather notes and a railroad wreck sighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertha Kindig
Will Taylor
Aby Davenport
Beatrice Bauch
Deving
Lott
Bess Joiner
Allen Schirmer
Bellevue
Congregational Church
C. E. Tilton
W. A. Schrader
Oubuque
W. C. Rutenbeck
Lost Nation
Paul Skelley
C. G. Palmer
Loyal
Harris Penrose
Elwood
Chris Lund
Herman Henningson
Eileen
Gus Moeller
Della Moeller
Anna Rugger
Will Miller
Birs
Earl Farr
Dubuque
P. Beaver
Kurk Landis
Chas. Welch
Dewitt
Joseph Budde
Local Social News From Lost Nation and Maquoketa
Miss Margaret O Grady of Delmar shopped locally while Mrs Lyman Buchner hosted the O O Club dinner. A cyclone anniversary is noted as twenty three years past. many residents visit Davenport and Los Angeles guests attend dinners and theatre parties as local social life continues in warm to summer like days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. E. Guck
Lost
Nation
A. L. Cookente
J. Murray Hoag
Los Angeles
Howard Harrison
Delmar
Emily Goodman
Bob
Oxford Junction
Minnie Shepherd
Margaret O'Grady
del’ Mar
Lyman Buchner
O. D. O. Club
Pearl Correll
Lost Nation
Gene Davis
J. M. Hoag
Calif
Huge Staack
Onal Ringlep
San Jose
Sarah Ruddy
Katherine , Gahill
Clinton
Wm. Lockard
J. W. Doneley
A.W. Kendal
Harry Geisler
Davenport
Carol
St. Luke’s Hospital
Esther Fredrickson
Detmar
Cornelius Brown
Barris Penrose
O. McCaffrey
Mabel Seamonds
Geo, Dunlap
Agnes Sidle
James McAndrews
M. H. Dake
M. W. Burnett
Art Gard_ nur
Last Nation
Maquoketa
Playing Cards Origins and Early Use in Europe
The note discusses the origins of playing cards, noting popular claims of invention in France around 1292 to divert Chertes 7, with reference to D Als France, D'Allemagne, and mentions of their use in Belgium. It describes discs or counters as early markers and hints at historical debates over their beginnings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
D'Allemagne
Belgium
Signer or Singer Motrimaniut Ad Fragment
Fragmentary OCR reads odd phrasing about a hus bral and a goal signer. It hints at a riddle or cryptic plea where duty and payment of bulls appear, mentioning the Waersper and a woman in tension, but the readable text is garbled with no clear event or人物.
Hoary Old Asia and Lost Lines of History
In the long sweep of Asia’s past the temple of Byi at Nippur in 6600 BC marks one of the earliest events. The Age of Glass and Egyptian craft are touched upon while Britain’s rise as a world center is traced to the Sixteenth century. The piece notes an annual 30 000 missing persons in London and anecdotes of long vanished individuals returning after months or years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Asia
Asia
Byi
Nippur
Phi
Hete Ts
Britain
Miny
London
Bronklyn Eagle
Also Mentioned on This Page
Our City
Tom Connors
Frank
Curve
Bernard
Henry Busch
Dick Busch
Baldwin
Fred Eckelberg
Preston
Paul Shelley
C. B. Palmer
Alberta Williams
Nolan Williams
Williams
Levie Field
Wil Field
Fred Neiser
Henry Landt
Wil Hendrickson
Weston
Nettie Blake
Nell Dice
Faunt Shelley
Welton
Mary Coakley
Otter Cree
O. W. Krumviede & Co
FORD
Vesta
Riepe Bros. Machine CO
E. Pleasant St
Enarco Oils and Compounds
Willard Service Station
Ant
Sentinel Office
Fletcher
Macuoketa
J. F. Hieber, Jr
Jackson Co
Axminsters
Brussels
Codling’s Rug and Music Store
Mann’s Jewelry Store
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