Henderson News Roundup of Local Visits and Occurrences
Ed Young went to Kansas last week and Miss Neilie Noe of Atlantic visited her brothers. Winnie Cook of Parsons is visiting at the TD Phillips home. Mrs Farrington is in Silver City due to her mother's illness. Professor and Mrs M Essex hosted the senior class and teachers. Henderson school divisions held a picnic on Strader's lawn. John Warren is recovering from mumps. Mrs Oliver moved into Joe Graham's house. John Cunningham visits from Genoa Nebraska with his parents. Local hog shipments reported from South Omaha market. WR Cooper visited Parsons with his daughter Mrs N G Cook. Marion Maynes, two, injured knee after a fall. Henderson high school graduates well. Abner Ewing recovering from appendectomy performed by Dr Craig with Dr Merritt. EM Dinwiddie mourns mother’s death at Chariton after family reunion. JS Carse hosts cousins from Ulster, Ireland, visiting for summer, possibly locating here.
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Ed Young
Kansas
Neilie Noe
Atlantic
Winnie Cook
Parsons
Kan
TD Phillips
Farrington
Silver City
M Essex
Ienderon
Strader
John Warren
Oliver
Joe Graham
Curtis Curran
John Cunningham
Ales Cunningham
Genoa
Neb
Robert Owens
D T Evans
J R Clark
J W Martin
South Omaha
WR Cooper
Kaw
N G Cook
Marion Maynes
John Maynes
Abner Ewing
Henderson
Craig
Merritt
Emerson
EM Dinwiddie
Chariton
JS Carse
Wm Davidson
Elfast
Ireland
America
Emerson and area notes from Emerson Nebraska
Miss Nina Cross returns from Hershey while Carr visits during commencement. Joseph Edie travels to White Cloud to fetch a sick sister. Wilbur Adams home quarantined for smallpox with Montgomery county ties. Local telegraph office new operators Kate and Mae O Donnell begin duties. Family plans include summer at Bay Okoboji with Evans family and others.
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Nina Cross
Hershey
Nebilazei Carr
Matel Gibbs
Glenwood
Joseph Edie
White Cloud
Kan
MS Evans
John Salmons
Chicago
Chas F Enos
L F McFadon
Indianola
Wilbur Adams
Emerson
Montgomery County
Red Oak
Kate
Mae O’ Donnell
Mills County Telephone Company
Elizabeth Kidd
Farragut
WW van Sant
M L Evans
Edith
Kenneth
Bay Okoboji
Frank
Ooboji
Tabor Topics Recap of Local Residents’ Movements
Elder George Weavers returns from mission in Nebraska. Fern Williams home from Rock Valley teaching public school for years. Leona Downing back from Omaha after appendicitis operation. Will Adams moving to Shenandoah. Graham family to occupy her north Tabor house. Ella Russell vacationing home after teaching near Grand Island. Former Taborites attend Hawkeye club banquet in Spokane Catherine Clark and Mr and Mrs T W Tolman. Bertha Barnes home from Farragut principalship. Bert Tippie back from Prescott as public schools superintendent. Mrs Tipple to arrive next week and O H Snyder to reside in Malvern with mother, sending son Harlan to Tabor academy. Dr McKittrick back from Chicago trip.
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George Weavers
Nebraska
Fern Williams
Rock Valley
Leona Downing
Omaha
Will Adams
Shenandoah
Graham
North Tabor
Ella Russell
Tabor
Grand Island
Neb
Spokane
Catherine Clark
T W Tolman
Bertha Barnes
Farragut
Bert Tippie
Prescott
Tipple
O H Snyder
W D Evans
Malvern
Harlan
Tabor Academy
McKittrick
Chicago
Tabor High School Names New Principal Miss Winnifred Byrne
A special Tabor school board meeting elected Miss Winnifred Byrne former Corn ing academy teacher as principal for the coming year. President and Mrs N Ellis were greeted by the college faculty with a carving set at a dinner hosted by Fraf W. B. Johnson on Tuesday evening.
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Kenton
Tabor
Winnifred Byrne
Corning Academy
N Ellis
Fraf. W
Hastings People Attend Events and Visit in Glenwood
Hastings supervisor Jas Greig and RS McDonough attended local services and decora tion, with Omaha visitor Charles Hutchings stopping by. Nearby families from Manning Manning and Henderson visited, while Mrs John Allbee's funeral drew relatives from Glenwood. Roy Young aided his brother in Macedonia as John Young's health remained fragile.
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Jas Greig
Glenwood
RS McDonough
Charles Hutchings
Omaha
Kantze
Manning
Ruth Mason
Henderson
John McDaniel
Lelia Godwin
Sidney
Clark
John Allbee
Redman
Kuntze
Harry Duval
Roy Young
Macedonia
John
John Young
Baby
the Youngs
Silver City Social Roundup Includes Visits and Events
SILVER CITY R O Smith visits with his father who arrived Friday. Decoration day exercises drew unusually large attendance. Judge WA Spurier of Des Moines attended to business in Silver City Thursday. Mr and Mrs William Ferrell of Randolph visited Saturday. Rey Owens of Union preached at the Baptist church Sunday. The third popular entertainment filled the opera house Saturday night with a packed audience. A varied program of patriotic numbers was well received.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R O Smith
Silver City
WA Spurier
Des Moines
William Ferrell
Randolph
Rey Owens
Union
Baptist Church
Opera House
Mills County Board Proceedings May 1908 Ditch Hearing
Mills County Iowa Board of Supervisors met in the Auditor's office with J B Brandt James Greig and S W Creech. Denied claims for Purcell exemption and McLaughlin personal property. adjourned to May 18. Heard New Pony Creek Ditch damages and public benefit findings. appointed J L Smith to aid appraisers. hearing continued to June 5, 1948.
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Board of Supervisors
Mills County
Iowa
Auditor’s Office
J. B. Brandt
James Greig
S. W. Creech
S. A. Purcell
Floyd H. McLaughlin
E. B. Woodruff
Pony Creek
Edgar L. Means
Sarah B. Mulyahjil
J. L. Smith
Deserts Signal End of Earth, Warns of Looming Parched Future
Percival Lowell warns from Century Magazine that deserts threaten the planet as forests retreat to grass and waters shrink. He notes Arizona’s petrified forests and rising aridity mark a global decline, with deserts spreading along the tropics and moisture dwindling at higher elevations.
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Arizona
Sahara
Arabia
Central Asia
Little
Colorado
Pie
San Francisco
Anti- Lebanon
Syria
Damascus
Arizona Desert
Ifrom Percival Lowell
Wire Breaking Method Described For Smaller Gauges
A brief note explains a method to break wire without pliers. Bend the wire into a tight loop and pull ends so the wire straightens and snaps. The trick works up to gauge No 12. The writer quips that tear and sword are slow compared to the babbler.
Foretold Future Message From Spirit to Schurz
In McClure's a medim summoned the spirit of Lincoln to reveal Johnson's aims with Schurz. The message predicted a journey and then, improbably, that he would become a United States senator from Missouri. Two years later an unexpected stake led to election by Missouri's legislature in January 1869.
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Garl Schurz
Spirit Land
Carl Schurs
McClure
Schiller
General Schura
Spirit of
Lincoln
Johnson
Schurz
Washington
United States
Missouri
Wisconsin
St. Louis
Tiedemann
Philadelphia
Clever Fishermen on Sault Ste. Marie Rapids
Indians on the Sault Ste. Marie use a dipnet mounted on a long pole to fish in turbulent rapids. One paddles the bow while the other steadies the canoe and watches ten foot depths. The bowman plunges the net to the bottom and hauls up three to five pound whitefish, sometimes netting up to 300 in a day. Pearson's Weekly notes the mystery of their water sight.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Indiana
Pearson’s Weekly
As Good as a Porter in Everyday Life
A Pearsons Weekly note extols folding newspapers under the armpit to ease carrying heavy bags or portmanteaus. It claims this simple hack reduces strain and fatigue, inviting readers to try it when catching a train. The piece reflects practical, light guidance on daily convenience.
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Pearson's Weekly
The Hat He Had and the Had Had Phrase
A Kansas City Times note quotes a playful dialogue about grammar and tenses with a boy and adults debating if a hat that had had a hole before being mended would properly be described as having had a hole. The exchange ends with light humor on language.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnny
Pathfinders Reflect on Class Attitudes in Dialogue Fragments
An amiable exchange questions gendered expectations as a daughter assesses her husband’s behavior. The text samples reference social strata with numbers noting age ranges and class divisions among middle and laboring classes, illustrating class-aware dialogue.
Nose Seat of Pneumonia Doctor's New Theory
Dr A Manning Fish told Chicago Medical Society pneumonia starts in small nose-bridge cells not legs. He said germ pent up here explodes and travels to lungs. Remedy is to drain pus from nose cells. one case improved in 24 hours though lungs took days to recover.
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Chicago
Chicago Medical Society
A. Manning Fish
Vision of Souls Report Claims Two Blue Vapor Souls
Dr Rose M Reading of Chicago described seeing two souls leave the bodies of a one month old infant and a sixty five year old man. She says the vapor resembles cigar smoke, bluish in color, rising from the bodies and passing through a wall in the same recumbent position.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose M. Reading
Chicago
Bennett Medical College
American Medical College
Reading
Dr. Reading
Miss Maxine Elliott Plans Wider Seats for Ideal Theater
Maxine Elliott announces a new Ideal Theater on Thirty-ninth Street east of Broadway featuring wider seats three inches larger than standard, wider aisles and corridors, ventillation throughout, and dressing room windows and green rooms. She will manage the project with Shubert in charge when she tours.
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Maxine Elliott
United States
Broadway
New House
Thirty-ninth Street
New York
Hiliott Theater
Miss Elliott
Shuberts
Paris Scientist Foresees Distant Vision Across Sea
M Armengand of Paris, engineer and scientist, has long worked on the telespectroscope or telephote to extend human vision over vast distances. He now claims to have perfected the apparatus and foresees a future where a person in Paris or London can observe distant events.
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M. Armengand
Paris
Parle
London
New York Scientist Reports Telephotographic Progress
A New York scientist describes remarkable progress in recent months. He claims the apparatus resembles devices used for telegraphic transmission of photographs and uses selenium. The method was inspired by advances in moving picture technology.
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New York
Cotton as a Food and Absorbent Cotton Promise
The Red Cross Notes claim absorbent cotton, rich in cellulose, can be converted into grape sugar by sulfuric acid and, like starch, could become a food source. If cellulose to starch is cheap, absorbent cotton could end hunger by making bread and cakes from it, eliminating shortages and rising prices.
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Red Cross
The Tribune R. R. Time Table The Burling East Bound
East bound schedule details from The Tribune rail time table list routes, departures, and stops for Burling bound service. It notes timings and station references as published in the era.
Tabor and Northern Train Arrives at Malvern
Train arrival report notes TABOR and NORTHERN locomotive service arriving at Malvern. Dispatch shows 9:00 PM departure window with 4.9 price tag and 11:20 QM TAO one ABS.
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Aim
Im Am Omala
Sions Wa
Ase
Council Brnfis
Aree
Pacife Inoetion
Gleuwood
ABO Balfour
Aes A Sane
TOT
Hastings
Lone AF
Emerson
Red Oak
Ghisage
Setes A.tip
Pace
Esat
Omaha
Pacific Junction
Malvern
BS Balfoor
Eee
Lenwood
Tab
Council Blaffe
West Bound
Chicago
Red
Denver
Omaha West Bound
Pacific
Plattemonth
Tare
Plattemonth. We
North
Conneil Blaffe
Pac
Junction
Bartlett
Coven
Kaneas City
Tabor & Northern
TAO
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Tabor Topics
County Board Proceedings
Auditor's Office
Mother Earth
Kansas City Times
Amiable
Pathfinder
DE Price
Vision OF
Ideal Theater
the Tribune
R. R
the Burling
Mansas City
North—Hooth
Po Am Bidney
Carson
Conneil Blaffa
Mineola
Faa Hilyer City
Bas Alan Malvern
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