Local notes from Butler Ethan Badger Blendon and more
Edna Weston attends school at Letcher and local residents visit, work on a well, hauling ice for the Letcher creamery, a Jacobus schoolhouse literary society forms, and dances and visits across Ethan Badger Blendon townships with multiple residents traveling to Mitchell and surrounding areas. A skating creamery meeting in Badger plans stock and local events in Blenden and Blendon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Hannemann
George
George Krug
Ethan
Lillian Kingsbury
Letcher Township
Nina VanTasse
Jacobus School
Shanton
Mitchell
W. H. Dean Frida
Bohner
Victor
Joy Stevens
Letcher Creamery
Local notices and obituaries from Emsley and surrounding towns
Bert Hatch visits Bridgewater. Mrs. Home returns to Sioux Center after two months. Various residents invest in property and farms. Browne buys cows to stock a southeast farm and patronizes the Mt. Vernon creamery. Miss Mamie Daniels dies at 28 in Emsley. funeral held. cards of thanks from Daniels family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Badger
Arthur Logan
Mr. Vernon
Bert Hatch
Bridgewater
Mrs. Home
Sioux Center
Iowa
F. M. Hatch
Harry Holmes
C. H. Arland
T. V. Rogers
Chancellor
Thia State
M. C. Betts
R. E. Mytinger
Wm. Westphall
Browne
Maud Stubbs
Waterloo
Equality Club
Mesdames J. Haynes
E. O. McEwen
Mt. Vernon
A. E. Hadley
Clay County
Rev. Jolley
Bailey
Mitchell
Emsley
Mamie Eliza Daniels
Whinston
Davis County
Missouri
Emaley
Daniels
Earth
Wed evening wedding unites Miss Linnie Wells and Earl Cox
Miss Linnie Wells and Earl Cox were married Wednesday evening at 8:30 at the Wells home. Rev. B W Burleigh performed the ceremony for close relatives. The couple will start housekeeping on a farm northwest of town amid good wishes from friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren Wells
Miss Linnie
Earl Cox
B. W. Burleigh
Congregational Church
Mrs. Cox
Railroad man Vosberg Disappears From Minneapolis
John Vosberg, 45, a former Omaha conductor now with Minneapolis & St. Louis, vanished after arriving at St. Louis depot and boarding an Interurban streetcar. He is married and does not drink. relatives and police have no leads despite searches in the Twin Cities and a Tribune report dated the 18th.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mitchell
Sioux Falls
Omaha
Minneapolis
Vosberg
Minneapolis & St. Louis
Minneapolis Tribune
John Vosberg
Twin Cities
Voshberg
Debunking Mrs. Steel on Indian University Grads
In a critique of Mrs. Steel and Kipling, the author argues that Indian university graduates are not prigs, citing personal experience with Calcutta University undergrads. He contends jealousy and cultural judgments misread East West relations and rejects stereotypes about arranged marriages and religious rites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Invresa
Childre
Iadia
Rudyard Kipling
Calcutta University
Academy
Floating Up a River in 1890 Pilcomayo Effort
A historical note on Captain Page pushing the Pilcomayo river as a Bolivia to ocean trade. He died after months beset by hostile Indians while he kept advancing by building earth embankments and damming the river to raise water for his 18 inch draft steamer. The Bolivia progressed about 35 miles above its natural low water limit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paraguay
Bolivia
Page
Harper’s Round Table
Masarwa Bushman Digging Bulbs For Food
A Masarwa bushman is seen digging round sweet nuts resembling bushman's bread to store in a tortoise shell. He returns to the bush with his family after gathering bulbs and may set snares for small antelope or pursue guinea fowls or a paauw with bow and poisoned arrow.
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South Africa
London Spectator
Don’t Talk Of Your Ills The Pleasant Side Of Life
Edward W. Bok argues in The Ladies Home Journal that discussing bodily ailments tires others and harms the self. He urges readers to avoid personal complaints and focus on what is pleasant, noting women’s tendency to dwell on minor illnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Bok
Ladies’ Home Journal
How Sam Weller Was Created and Browne’s Chance Meeting
The article recounts Hablot K. A. Browne winning the Sam Weller illustration assignment for The Pickwick Papers after the suicide of Seymour. Thackeray congratulates Browne, then Browne and Robert Young work through the night to etch and plate the first Sam Weller illustration for Pearson's Weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Weller
Dickens
Mr. Pickwick
Hablot
K. A. Browne
Thackeray
Browne
Pickwick Papers
Seymour
Robert Young
Young
Pearson’s Weekly
Predictions on religious decline and natural life motifs
The piece cites predictions of church decay from Piers Plowman, Raleigh, and Tacitus, then shifts to a science essay discussing structure and function in life. It notes how reproduction and dispersal drive plants and animals, linking to a broader view of growth and purpose, with examples like sweet cicely and bur marigold as symbolic travel through habitats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Piers Plowman
Edward III
England
Henry VII
Sir Walter Raleigh
Tacitus
Europe
Busi
Bede
Trotter
Popular Science Monthly
A Frenchwoman’s Funeral in Grand Style In France
Paris correspondent notes a wealthy Frenchwoman wished to be buried in pomp with a six horse hearse and large procession. She left about 15000 to a green grocer tenant and legacies to firemen bands gymnastic clubs and charities. Over 6000 people attended the funeral.
Up Stairs Blacksmith Shop at Baldwin Locomotive Works
An account of Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia describes a second floor light work blacksmith shop with 87 forges, two fans, steam hammers, and an exhaust system. The elevated, well-ventilated space uses liberal windows and skylights, yielding a notably clean and bright work environment for lighter forging tasks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Philadelphia
Baldwin Works
Dickens and Cruikshank reminiscence and a comic exchange
A reminiscence recalls meeting Dickens in 1868 at Thackeray’s funeral with Cruikshank, then in his seventieth year, near Kensal Green. It notes Cruikshank’s temperance persona, stage hobby, and Guild of Literature and Art ties, plus a Strand Magazine quip about a dog and scrambled eggs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dickens
Cruikshank
William Makepeace Thackeray
George Cruikshank
Thackeray
Kensal Green Cemetery
George
Macbeth
Saddler’s Wells
Guild of Literature and Art
Champbers’ Journal
Looney
Strand Magazine
Wanted a Life Term
A treasury department clerk answering a civil service promotion question said he would stay “until death do us part.” The anecdote appears in a Washington column in the Philadelphia Press. In another note a shoemaker’s child asserts she has a Heavenly Father who will care for her, saying she has a shoemaker as her father.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury Department
Washington Cor
Philadelphia Press
Village Sewing Society
Waterbury American
Enlarged Lymph Glands and Their Treated Meaning
A medical overview explains how enlarged lymph glands signal inflammation elsewhere in the body from finger injuries to scalp eczema and tooth decay. It warns that persistent swelling beyond weeks risks abscess formation, tissue damage, or tuberculosis, and urges throat care and antiseptic treatment during infectious illnesses.
The Course of True Love On a Moonlit Evening
A man and woman discuss marriage on a sofa as subtle lines of intent surface. He argues a man like him would marry, while she teases, testing if he would ask. Their exchange reveals unspoken desires before a playful sigh ends their drifting dialogue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Post
Browning's Political Reading Through Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Letters, Browning reads politics through Robert's eyes. He discards subjects he dislikes, calling Thiers a rascal Prudhon a madman and the president an ass, shaping their views the way he interprets the news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Browning
Robert
France
Thiers
M. Prudhon
Prudhon
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Predicament of Love Split by Two Men
A humorous exchange shows Marie confessing she loves two men and cannot pick one. Mertie reduces the dilemma to choice, but Marie notes neither suitor can decide, creating a comic stalemate in a New York World item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie
Mertie
New York World
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Neighborhood News
Sanbor
Elman
Levi Brown
Donovan
Jas. McVey
Elk Point
Chas, Lowrie
Asa Dodd
John Hendrickson
John
Albert Voeltz
Milwaukee
de Smet
Clarence Bordwell
Lees
John Craig
Bernard Bisaeus
Mitchel
University
Ethan Hotel
C. E. Gordimier
Letcher
Mt, Vernon
Northwest
Beulah
PLANO
George Stratton
Kalamazoo
Mich
Dakota
S. P. Jewett
Emery
Earl Rowley
W.S. Logan
Walt
E. O. Hover
S. M. Daniels
Ludia M. Daniels
Alice L
S. D
Linnie Wells
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