Rain showers and county notes from East Aurora area
East Aurora reports a 1.5 inch rain shower, wheat hauled to Mt Vernon, plans for visits to Wisconsin and Kansas, road crews improving local roads, new barn and outbuildings, Mt Vernon old settlers picnic, and local farm life reflections. Cattle fishing anecdote from Longman's cited.
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East Aurora
J. R. Mabbott
Mt. Vernon
George Teesdale
Hopper
Teesdale
L. A. Mabbott
Davison County
Plankinton
Loomis Community Notes Highlight Picnic and Storm Losses
July Fourth picnic planned in H. L. O mealy grove with a dance last Friday at Robert Clark's. Walter Kirkpatrick named grain buyer at Loomis elevator. Smith Crippen buys Loomis lots to build residence and business house. A daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Morris on June 24. Storm damage reports: Wade barn struck by lightning with loss of horse and crops. Shaw's house damaged. Letcher creamery to suspend Loomis skimming station. milk shipments drop. Mrs. S Stevens visits, Harris' telephone damaged. adage on delaying life.
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Loomis
H. L. O’mealey Grove
Robert Clark
Walter Kirkpatrick
Letcher
Mr. Lewis
Smith Crippen
Edward Morris
Wade
Mr. Wade
Shaw
Letcher Creamery
Lawrence
S. Stevens
Lyman County
Harris
Face as hard as stone spares barber amid razors
An uptown barber reports a regular two weekly customer who spoils razors due to a face thick with grit and stone-like pores. The barber jokes the man is a stonecutter by habit and that his skin is so hardened he feels no pain, while he loses money on the patron.
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Tam
Philadelphia ‘Telegraph
Babylonian multiplication tablets far exceed school practice
Excavations at Nippur reveal Babylonian tablets with multiplication tables reaching 60 by 60 and even up to 1500 by 1300. These extended tables, likely for astronomical calculations, were used by ancient scholars to speed large-scale computations. The note contrasts this with common 12 by 12 school math. The Angel Fish is described as small yet dangerous to ships, possessing a gnarly proboscis able to bore through sheet iron. It haunts coral lagoons and can damage anchored vessels in rough seas.
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Nippur
Herman Y. Hilprecht
South Seas
Hall of Fame items span cities and worlds
A roundup of notable obituaries and biographical notes: Paul Kruger’s Pretoria residence sold to his son in law Eloff. Edward Cox Davis still living in Des Moines. Baden-Powell named inspector general of cavalry. M B Emery owns an Lincoln ax. Rodman Wanamaker insured for 2 million and his father for 1.5 million. Surgeon Edgar Means shows rat collection to the National Museum. Sir Frederick Holder from South Australia rose to premier. John L. McLaurin to be Brunswick counsel for Mohawk Steel and Wire. Lord Randolph Churchill’s arithmetic tale. George Jacob Holyoake hailed for coining Jingoes.
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Paul Kruger
Pretoria
Eloff
Edward Cox Davis
Lincoln
Springfield
Ill
Des Moines
Baden-Powell
Mafeking
M. B. Emery
St. Louis
Abraham Lincoln
Rodman Wanamaker
John Wanamaker
Edgar Means
Army
National Museum
Frederick Holder
Lord Randolph Churchill
Treasury
George Jacob Holyoake
England
Editorial Flings and City Gossip in 1900s Papers
A collection of pithy quips from multiple papers lampoons wealth, society, and manners. Jests target Texan pride and Uncle Sam, philanthropy vs giving, youth arrest for fast driving, university gossip, Andrew Jackson’s verdigris statue, and New York’s anti googo eyes.
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Sam
Galveston
Morgan
Carnegie
Detroit Free Press
New York
Philadelphia Press
Chicago University
Louisville Courier-Journal
Andrew Jackson
Washington
Chicago Tribune
Minneapolis Times
German Gleanings: Women, Divorces, and Currency Changes
Berlin features public houses for women and 473 political offenders among 23 143 penal servitude cases last year. A wife’s divorce claim cites discovery of her husband wearing a wig. The thaler will be retired as the decimal system arrives. German colonies lack local legislatures, ruled by imperial appointees. The Frankfurter Journal ends after 287 years. Magdeburgische Zeitung now holds oldest claim with 1626 copies.
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Berlin
Germany
Frankfurter Journal
Magdeburgische Zeitung
Model of the Moment in 1920s fashion
The New York Post notes revival of smocking on skirts and waists, lavish trimmed parasols, dyed laces on them to match gowns, and monogram embroidery on outdoor garments. It highlights elbow sleeves, mitts, netted silk and hand embroidery, a pongee petticoat with green silk embroidery, and layered flounces accented by green taffeta.
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New York Post
Professor Lardner Weds Miss Burkhard in Trinidad Jolo
Professor J LeLardner of the University faculty married Miss Lida Burkhard on June 24 at the bride’s parents’ home in Trinidad Jolo. The ceremony, by Bishop Henry Warren, drew about 150 guests. The bride, Denver University graduate, taught in Rochester Ind and was assistant principal in Raton New Mexico. The couple received a handsome arm chair from the university faculty and will reside in Mitchell this summer before touring Wisconsin and Indiana then resuming teaching duties in the fall.
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J. LeLardner
Lida Burkhard
Trinidad
Jolo
Fred Burkhard
Henry Warren
Dakota Conference
Raton
New Mexico
Lardner
Mitchell
Perry
For Sale 160 Acres Near Mitchell South Dakota
For sale 160 acres of choice farming land located seven miles west of Mitchell South Dakota. Improvements include a modern six room cottage with bath, hardwood interior finish, an 80 barrel cistern, large cellar and barn. House completed May 1st. All new. Terms available by contacting W L Larkin owner Mitchell S D.
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Mitchell
W. L. Larkin
S. D
How to Boil Water and Brew Coffee
A Washington hotel steward extols boiling water for better coffee and tea. He advises using fresh water, warming the kettle first, rapid boiling, and immediate pouring off the moment of boil to avoid waste. Doctors say five minutes of boiling can kill germs in suspicious water.
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Washington
Washington Post
Public Grace or Public Nuisance in Transit Car
A New York Lithographic Stone article notes nails being manicured in elevated trains as improper while passengers glare at the bold cleaners. It adds Athens reports new large deposits of fine Greek lithographic stone near Pharsalia with archeopterix fossils, possibly superior to prior European stones.
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Greece
Solenhofen
Germany
Athens
Thessaly
Pharsalia
Pompey the Great
Julius Cesar
Europe
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