Local notes and moves around Pacific Junction area
Pacific Junction community news covers residents relocating to Shenandoah Creston Hastings and Hastings moves. It notes Lincoln Sunday school officers elected C B Stout Pearl Soon Adie Lincoln Hiva Hobson E Mendenhall, a switchboard scare, a narrow escape incident involving Rankin, and city governance changes with Treas Chas Kyoon. Also reports workers, school teaching assignments, marriages, and resignations at Plattsmouth Q shops.
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eLashmutt
Burwell
Iew Bushnell
Malvern
Nan Epperson
Cripple Creek
Olc
G Epperson
Council Bluffs
Lincoln Sunday School
Superinindent
C B Stout
Pearl Soon
Adie Lincoln
Easurer
Hiva Hobson
Id Rankin
Creston
Rankin
Claude Anderson
Chas Kyoon
Tomato contracts urged for extra acres by growers
Farmers and truck growers are urged to sign contracts for more tomato acreage. Old Timers predict a big tomato year and prompt sowing is advised. New Glenwood Canning Co. offers brand new crates and favorable terms with S.1. Sawyer as manager.
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New Glenwood Canning Co. S
Sawyer
How to Avoid Appendicitis and Laxative Syrup Claim
A vintage ad-style note claims most appendicitis victims are constipated. It promotes Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup as a cure for chronic constipation by stimulating liver and bowels and restoring natural action. It asserts no nausea or gripping, and urges refusing substitutes. Howe Glenwood.
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Howe
Glenwood
World of Homer Shrinks Beside Modern Oceans
Sir Spencer Walpole notes Homer’s world was a small Greek sphere limited by the Aegean, Egypt, and northern Africa, with the Mediterranean seen as a vast, dangerous sea. He argues Homer’s geography misaligned with factual maps, yet the poet’s world felt expansive to contemporaries.
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Greece
Balkans
Levant
Aegean Sea
Africa
Egypt
Italy
Lemuel Gulliver
Swift
Australia
Mr. Gladstone
Herodotus
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Mediterranean
Tromer
Atlantic
Sir Spencer Walpole
Contemporary Review
The Lucky Bag on ships and at Annapolis and West Point
The New York Tribune explains the Lucky Bag tradition with midshipmen at Annapolis and the Iowitzer name for West Point, describing how sailors deposit assorted items left around decks into a monthly bag. The bag fills with jackknives shoes tobacco plugs sewing kits caps photos writing materials and most possessions so sailors hope to retrieve their belongings.
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Jack
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Annapolis
Corps of Cadets
West Point
New York Tribune
Deplorable Levity In College Missionary Row
A college girl recalls a missionary lecture that praised women going to spread faith. Students mocked the sermon as the speaker urged women to become “fishers of men” provoking sharp reactions and claims of levity among the audience. The note closes with a sharp quip about the era’s attitudes.
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Inday
Pulla
Felphia Ledger
Difference Between Written Chinese Characters and Speech
The article explains the vast diversity of Chinese dialects from Canton to Wujien and Shanghai to Pekin, and how written characters are recognized across China while pronunciation varies. It notes Mandarin as widespread, Wen-li as the classical written form, and that over 40,000 characters exist with literacy around one in ten due to character complexity.
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Canton
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Shanghai
Pekin
Europe
England
France
Germany
Italy
China
Yangtze
Survived the Hangings Across History and Law
A collection of cases where individuals narrowly escaped death by hanging or were revived post execution. Stories include Lnetta de Baleham pardoned after suspension, a Swiss man whose windpipe turned to bone, Half Hanged Maggie Dickson of Edinburgh, and others revived after hanging. The article also notes a 19th century will dispute in Fremont County with substantial estate shares.
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Lnetta de Baleham
Dr. Plot
Annie Greet
Oxford
Cope
Margaret Dickson
Edinhburgh
Maggie Dickson
Smith
Typarn
William Duell
London
Cork
Richard Johnson
Shrewsbury
Y Doane
Sidney
Fremont County
Grandpa Moore Becomes Grandfather in County
A fragmentary notice notes County Superintendent Moore welcoming a first child born to Mr. and Mrs. EB A, at Pacific Junction. The report mentions a frail baby and lingering fears. The text includes unrelated quotes about punishment and social tea invitations from a Washington Star excerpt.
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Pacific Junction
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