Hendersons Face Silver City In Week's Local Game
George Parker ships cattle to Chicago with Parker & Co. A notable week in Henderson includes children’s accident at Parker farm, town folks traveling to Chicago and Exposition, a July baseball tournament plan, and a hard storm that killed five hogs near Thurman. Local notables Prince of the Santee Agency, Mrs Riggs, and others noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Parker
Chicago
Triplett
Henderson
Emerson
Silver City
I D Redman
Elsworth Plumb
Craic
Lem Roush
Harry Davis
Sheldon
New
Davis
Phillips
Parker & Co
DT Evans
Dent R McClelland
Dr. Cole
Thurman
W H Shirley
Oscar York
Tabor
Hamburg
Fremont County
Sunnyside
Tabor Baseball Association
Robert Marathon
CL Hall
Charles Laird
Randolph
Imogene
Sidney
Malvern Folks Take Trips and Visit Relatives
Malvern people travel to Nebraska and Iowa for visits and business. Christy and Ada Durbin Johnson accompany family members. Dr Scott begins calls in a new Cadillac auto. Mr Bingaman trades his business for land with BT Baker of Mason City Nebraska, with possession set for March 1 1906. Grandchildren visit from South Dakota and Nebraska as a thriving family scene unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott
Omaha
H L Donner
Council
Hendricks
Malvern
Priday
Perry
Raritan
Niagara Falls
Buffalo
Elks
W G Bingaman
BT Baker
Mason City
Neb
St Mary Township
Baker
Bingaman
RL Johnson
McPaul
Denise Shanks
South Dakota
Nebraska
George Wyant
Ge Las
Silver City
Tabor Topics and Sidewalks Update on Main Street
Fragmentary OCR notes describe sidewalk work on Main Street with mentions of weekly meetings or events. The text references Wednesday and Thursday activities, a school timetable, and local civic topics including Leigh and PSuiday schools. The legibility is poor and key details are uncertain.
Hastings Town News Roundup Sees Visits and Activities
Hastings notes Howard Greiner from Pioneer visits uncle LK Mason in Hastings while J F Martin and family travel. Haying prospers with promised ample crop. A 12-car cattle shipment to Chicago leaves with Robbins, Martin, Wilson, Chapman. A local hayrack party surprises Miss Mary Jones with games and a berry feast at her farm south of town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J F Martin
Chicago
Howard Greiner
Pioneer
LK Mason
Hamaker’s Mill
J D Robbins
George and
Perry Wilson
Messrs Robbins
Martin
Wilson
George Chapman
Mary Jones
Snakes Invade School House in Cass County
A blacksnake and a rattlesnake slithered into a rural Cass County school through a rat hole. A passing rural mail carrier was called to help, and the reptiles were killed. The teacher and pupils sought safety by climbing onto desks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cass County
Tribune Maps Now Half Dollar for Mills County Farmers
The Tribune offers Mills county maps at 50 cents to Tribune subscribers only. Limited supply. purchase quickly to avoid missing this special low price for farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Mills County
Population and land value in North Carolina and peers
The excerpt compares North Carolina, Ohio and Indiana on population density and land value per acre. It notes North Carolina with about thirty-nine people per square mile and land value around seven dollars per acre, while Ohio shows about 102 people per square mile and land valued at twenty four dollars per acre. Indiana is described with about seventy people per square mile and higher land value, though the text is garbled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Ohio
Indiana
Ghosts on the Mississippi Promise a Return to Love
An old river pilot, Barnet, recalls a spring 1869 voyage on a Mississippi steamer. A romance clashes with a rival clerk over a girl at a river town. A shouted marriage plan and a dramatic raft moment end with Barnet guiding the narrator toward the girl’s home and a Jersey cow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenmont
Mississippi
Leslie Barnet
Barnet
Minty
la Cross
China
Leslie
Therrick
Sid
Tia
Governor Russell's Train Card Gaffe Triggers Laughs
A Boston Herald anecdote recalls Governor Russell alighting in a Massachusetts town and sharing a lively chat with a gentleman who later proved to be deaf and dumb. The governor read the card aloud, prompting the audience's amused laughter at the misread name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell
Massachusetts
Boston Herald
Two English Women In Greece Provokes Laughing Owl Tale
A travel essay notes how Greece rewards patient study over haste and warns against misguided tours. An anecdote at the Parthenon moonlight festival ends with Athene's owl uttering a comic line about a scent resembling a bucket of huckleberries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greece
Parthenon
Athene
Misadventure At Home Paper Disturbs Kansas City Journal
A humorous Kansas City Journal item describes a man too frugal to subscribe sending his son to fetch the neighbor’s paper. A chain of misfortunes follows including a fence crash, a cow in the corn, a cream spill, broken teeth, a damaged carpet, a runaway daughter, and livestock chewing shirts, all in a single morning. The tale plays on domestic chaos and comic mishap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Learing
Fater
Kansas City Journal
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Elizabeth Phillips
Arnold
Bright
Fickel
Citizens Bank
E M Duke
Elmer Evans
Richard Thomas
Portland
Windy City
Paul
Craig
Riggs
Santee Indian Agency
Hattie Casper
N G Cook
Thos Phillips
Christy
Ada Durbin Johnson
Sheridan, Wye
Tabor Topics
Leigh
Miesiah
Hastings
Lemon Cox
Broken Bow
Rog Shaw
Glenwood
Mutual Telephone Company
William Eaton
Bonner's Ferry
Idaho
Sarah Puccell
Flora
Holstein
Everett
Ttown
Clifford
Iits
Carure
Caturrh Cape
Uedia Voueripationul
Pat Clerk
Devil
D.G. Jamison
McCall
The
Annapolis
West Point
von Sra
United States
H. W. Phillips
Louisville, Ky
Theo. W. Ivory Ivory
OTIS
Attorneys At Law
Carl H. Otis
Iowa
W. M. Plimpton
Homeopathic
W. S. Elliott
Lanarea
Jaws
F. M. Shriver Surgical and Mechanical Dentist
Dyar Block
Northweat Corner Square
E. M. Myers
Tahir
Stors
A. H. Winkler & CO
Offics
Dean Brook
P. C. Glenwood
J. E. Ebaugh Real Estate & Insurance
Missouri
Kansas
A. W. Cor
Square Glenwood
Amos Dean
Carpenter & Contractor
Glenwood, Iowa
Europe
Savery Davoshr
Pier Yeau
D. L. Weinheim Isk
F.2d
If. G. Day
Justice OF the Prace
Carter Bik
BG. Millard
Walter Breen
Glenwood Abstract Co
Nebe
Month Sida Square
Hutchings & Triplett
Hastings, Iowa
Wuler
Bam
Posilione
Tesh Rao
Duramy
Davy
A.C. Ome
A. DL
LL. B. Pres
A.J. Loway
Princ
Fabeak Reese
First Nat
Bank and Business Wen
Brest
Business College
N. B.C
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