05 Feb 1904
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Newspaper
Le Mars Sentinel
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1904
Page
1
Special correspondence reports Benny Meninen and Ben Borchera shipping cattle to Sioux City last Saturday. Ernest Ostrom attended a well publicized event. Local business and social activity include sales, salesmen, and movers to LeMars and Dalton. Notices of illness and farming moves intermingle with church events and revival plans.
Union residents report Charles Tripp moving to LeMara and buying a home on West Brodwey Wr. Toa om expects to relocate to California. Mr. and Mrs. Geo Hoyt return from an extended eastern trip. Will and Peter Bege sold cattle to Hector Camp. John and David Manxell of Kingsley visited Hugh Maxell and family. Loulis Jacobs of Freeport Ill. staying with sister Mrs. Feber uring her husband’s absence in Germany. Andrew Paulson shelling corn for Noah Carpenter. Miss Minnie Kohl returned from shark's duration visit with sister Mrs. James Oawald near Cleghorn. Dan Keezan shelling care for George Steele. A basket social will be held at School House No. 1 on Friday evening Feb 5 with program by Miss Katie Barnable. Fern Maxwell has been sick again. Miss Lesh Schrooten of Stanton staying with Mrs. Chas Eyres. Earle Inglett home from Western Union College. Rob Chattsworth gone to Oklahoma and Indian Territory. George Steele sold considerable shelled corn to Hector Camp Barry Lee of LeMars works for Harry Hast. Wail Scott caring for stock in Stanton township for Ed Scott in South Dakota. Enmor says he will bring home a wife. Allez Steele from Western Union College visiting home. Wesley and Charles Eyres on business in Stanton. Willie McCartney staying with grandfather Wm. McCartney.
M A Moore of LeMars attended business here early this week. Mrs Dan McArthur and son Miler of Sheldon visited relatives here recently. Miss Lizzie Lancaster hosted a china shower for Cora Perry with a chocolate set gift and a supper. Miss Johnson of Minnesota visiting Uncle Wm Jackson. Jessie March ill with a cold. Lions and Ladies Aid met at Mrs Arthur Reves home with a meal. Local folks involved in farm and transport trades. Woodchuck notes and Jack Frost jokes appear. Married Feb 2 in Sioux City Fred Briggs and Marie Strobel of Milnerville. plans for home after March 1 on George Millner’s farm. Several cattle transactions recorded with Jefferson and Sioux City, plus LsMars horse sale. Sossier Corresponderes notes continued with Hawarden line work and World lodge organization. Alice McDougall still ill. prospects of phone lines into Strubtle and a new harness shop this season. Continuous local business activity and social visits noted.
Community notes from Yeomans describe visits, illnesses, and notable events. Frank Hibbart, seriously ill with pneumonia, improves under care from a Jefferson, SD doctor. Frank McDonald hauls hay to Sioux City. Gregory Brothers entertain at Yeomans school with moving pictures and a talking machine. Miss Kate Millard, Miss Josie White attend literary events. revival meetings continue at the M E Church led by Rev. Green. A revival, school attendance woes due to colds, and upcoming missionary society meetings are noted along with several moves and family news.
Special Correspondence reports numerous visitors and residents in Sioux City and Plymouth County. James Shumate secured a hotel job in Garrettson. Irvin Woolworth returned from Sioux City. Misses Libbia Finnegar and Jessie Schneiner attended events. various residents reported illness, social gatherings, church attendance, and upcoming ice harvesting. A few entries note property hunts in Onawa and Dakota land plans.
The text reports that consumption of earth as food is common among Yellow races in China, New Caledonia, New Guinea, and the Malay archipelago. Travelers note Java and Sumatra prepare clay into a paste to remove sand and hard substances, form it into pencil-thick tablets baked until dry, resembling dried pork. Javanese also make clay figures shaped like animals or urns sold in pastry shops.
The article notes the early locomotive built by Decr Stephenson for the Stockton and Dartington railway. It describes the Sept 27 1825 test with a six-axle train of 450 passengers, engine red hot yet safely completed, and Stephensons himself as engineer. It also mentions a Glasgow evangelistic service where a speaker urged heavenbound attendees to rise, a Scotsman replying with humorous defiance.
A collage of clipped quips from Philadelphia Press and others reports quirky remarks about marriages trust and jealousy. Snippets touch on trap schemes mice in the house smokers temperance matches and a joke about counting kisses reflecting lighthearted social gossip of the era.
A big French car with two men and two women visits the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument on Riverside Drive and Ninetieth Street at night. A tenor, a Wall Street millionaire, and a famed operatic coach witness the remarkable echo inside the monument, likened to Pisa’s baptistery. The party’s audible experiment and aria draw astonished admiration from the witnesses, with reflections on New York’s hidden marvels and local awareness.
A London Globe report surveys ongoing wife selling in England, noting Yorkshire and Sheffield as especially active. It cites 1887 Sheffield records of selling Clara for 5 shillings at the Royal Oak, plus later cases in Leeds and Stockport, showing the practice as a quasi legal divorce method with nominal sums, and claims similar sales persist, including in London's East End.
A humorous exchange where Little Henry asks if Romans lit houses with Roman candles and if Athenians cooked with Greek fire. The father dismisses further questions, and the piece ends with brief caption lines from Household Ledger and Cincinnati Times.
Naturalists note animal phosphorescence depends on insect motion and nervous action. Lanternflies and beetles emit light, while glowworms and certain worms glow in bogs and seas. Decayed matter glows under specific atmospheric conditions, and plants show light by absorption and reemission from leaves.
A fragment cites a Chicago Post remark on a man who courts danger and opens courtships with widows. It contrasts daring energy with talent, quoting Goethe on effort and consequence.
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