07 Mar 1885
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Newspaper
Le Mars Evening Sentinel
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1885
Page
1
H Ragsdale appears in Le Mars Iowa reporting in the Daily Sentinel with local notes and potential business or community items. This brief item references H Ragsdale in connection to Le Mars.
The Current notes public interest in a forthcoming life of publisher CanLyL’s uncle, challenging the historian Froude. It also cites Congress backing the Hennepin Canal, the idea’s broad support, and the push to build it now or later.
A critical reflection on blame for public calamities, noting no one is held responsible for the loss of vulnerable people. It recalls Charles I’s beheading and comments on monarchs and their fate, then surveys royal marriages quoted from the Pall Mall Gazette. It highlights royal brides ages and sums their averages for Princesses and Princes.
An old legend warns against removing a ladder to avert demons when building. A modern magazine piece recounts a community effort at Miss Lane's to craft four quilts for the Children's Hospital, with mothers, townsfolk, and a harvest of toys and apples joining the act. The story emphasizes shared care, prayers for sick children, and a faith in divine guidance.
Six Sunday school girls keep a summer secret as they sew a large patchwork quilt destined for a city hospital. Ruth leads, planning bright fabrics and Kate Greenaway figures. the group grows, aided by their teacher Miss Lane, while they quietly gather wool pieces from mothers and even borrow a blue wartime coat for special motifs.
A passage of reflective quotes contrasts Victor Hugo like a stage figure with a vanishing daily meal as he attends shows. It threads through ideas on light and progress, childhood vagrancy, love, death, and the moral spectrum of human character with vivid, eclectic aphorisms.
A Boston tale recounts Judge Ottis P. Lord who after years clashed with the Supreme Judicial Court and chose to stay on the bench only to reveal he had just qualified as a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court. The anecdote highlights his wit and pride in his legal knowledge.
Joan C. Spoonan, newly elected Wisconsin Senator, born January 6, 1845 in Lawrenceburg Indiana, rose from law student to military officer and state political figure. He served as private in Fortieth Wisconsin and captain in the fiftieth Regiment, later guiding the University of Wisconsin and State legal offices before political ascent.
An Express Gazette item catalogs world towns represented in the U S with counts per country such as 1 Austria and 18 Viennas 16 Denmarks and 3 Copenhagens and notes Western papers take wheat on subscription TuERzE sixty German societies in New Haven Conn.
A Cincinnati police report describes undercover work on a crook gang. Officers followed three suspects from Sixth Avenue to Clinton Place and the Cincinnati laundry at No 183, then recovered stolen till money after a clash and detention. One crook slept in the store, and the trio planned more thefts before being chased.
A scatter of comic verses and prose reads like a late 19th century humor page. It includes snippets about a playful skeptic named Gog Picke, a domestic quarrel over a doctor’s patient, a Danbury tale of a Mrs Bellew and cranberry stew, and a village tutor returning to cause a kiss.
A fragmented regional piece contrasts Arctic rind cutting with distant cattle shipping. It notes a man slicing a fruit globe, then comparing beef quality from Montana to cattle after long journeys. Mentions Norbury, Lord Notb, and a hunter named Pepper, with a suggestion for naming a horse as Casters.
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