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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1909
Page
7
We are prepared to fill your wants for Xmas Presents with a fine assortment. The stock includes china glass pictures books games mirrors linens bed spreads rugs handkerchiefs mufflers neckties purses handbags fancy back comics and other suitable items.
W. J. Aproig & Sons publish local items from LeGrand Record dated Nov 6 1883. Benedict in town. Rob White builds coal house. births, repairs, land moves, and church work noted. Community news covers residents Ammi Willits Rev Isom P Wooten and others. several moved or returned from Kansas. church repairs underway. post office routines described.
The writer praises the Grand Band and its director Brown for rapid progress and strong performances. Hints at upcoming open concerts and new band members joining, expressing anticipation for future shows.
Incoherent OCR text describes questions about notices and stores of descriptions for automobiles. A man finds dynamite behind a shop and a luminous whisk is mentioned as a response. The passage reads like a distorted dialogue with fragmented phrases and references to wagons and hoboes.
A damaged passage describes a road mix near Harrisburg using copper sulfate and wintergreen oil with tar and cement to create a waterproof, disinfecting surface. It claims low dirt retention, high hardness, and resistance to freezing, despite heavy traffic, and notes a cost of 534 cents per square yard.
A Delaware College chemistry professor Dr Theodore Wolf had his state chemist fees cut as too high. A listener recalls Wolf’s lecture on a patient who drank quack medicines and the wife quoting a church verse to defend medical quackery.
In Hastings Street a makeshift market near the Polish settlement operates with live poultry sold under a high fence. A continuing ritual sees buyers pick a bird, the proprietor using a hooked wand to separate it, then the customer pays and carries the bird home, drawing neighborly envy.
A crowd chased and hurled insults at a baseball umpire after a home team loss. A stranger in the scene questioned the spectacle while onlookers debated the culprit, then a brick was thrown as the mob acted. The passage captures a chaotic scene with fierce chants and charged emotions surrounding a sport event.
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