Jones County Board Approves Highway and Financial Actions
The August 4 1913 meeting notes a new 40 foot wide highway plan along a stream to avoid a bridge, plus vacating an existing route. Appraisers named. contracts with Iowa Telephone Co for office phones and cross campus wires authorized. Various tax refunds and bonds approved. bids to build bridges set for August 20 1913. bounty funds set aside.
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Board of Supervisors
Township 85
Section 25
St. P. M
Moorfield
Ir. G. Peet
H. P. Barber
Matt Noyes
Hale
Iowa Telephone Company
Murfield
Court House
Jones County
Iowa
Finn
Earl Boyer
BE. M. Lewis
Center Junction
Margaret Boyer
A. L. Hoffman
A. F. Whalen
L. BE. Tucker
Anamosa
Bohren
G. H. Monroe
H. J. Hines
Marion Teeter
Monticello Express
David Miller
Metropolitan Supply Co
Wm Strickell
Oxford Mirror
Bulpren
Matt Parrott & Sons
Aubery
WM Skinner
Mae Stroud
E Carlson
G Co
John McGiniley
Iowa Institute Feeble Minded Pblotise Mtec Ty
County
J H Sanderson
Oakdale
Bertha Jorgensen
Willis Renaud
Jacob ‘S Bossian Hatley
Maud Slocum
John Carsons
Joseph Weiss
Fairbanks
Morse Co
Cildner Bros
Agag
Walt
J A Hartman
Bel Himebaugh
Central Lumber Co
Moncrief Bros
P Hanssen
James Bridages
Steiner
Hanssen
Suter & Son
Sheer Scott Hardware Co
Hdwre
Bigley
Scetje
L Hanssen
George Louis Thoeming
Nobiassen
Tyler & Downing
B Oswald
DS Ward
Vfinu
J M Young
Roy Ballock
Auditore Hss Ta
KJ Hines
Anna Hanson
Barber
Yarolim
Wm Flaherty
SS Wm Flaherty
O J Murfield
W & Foley
Stover
Fisher
Ho Snerman
Geo C Gorman
H McGreevy
Charles Dimmer Vt
GA Fisher
G A Fisher
Copeland
King Dragging
Flaherty
King Drag
Anamosa Lumber Co
Frank Baum
Platner
Hiclu& P Co
Jackson Township
WA Hogan
Thomsen
A Hogan
Burda
Thos Leinen
Warl Boyer
F Boyer
Ware
Preston Bridge
Chris
Lisbon Herald Raises Annual Subscription to $1.50
Will Stahl publisher argues price rise justified as printing costs have doubled in fifteen years. Labor costs up 50 percent and materials priced at top levels, leaving no profit in a weekly paper sold for 81 a year. He asserts no other business would sustain a loss year after year.
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Manchester
Will Stahl
Lisbon Herald
Preach Only What You Live Quotation by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A devotional maxim urges personal health and success before guiding others. It suggests living out one's philosophy first, with inner peace reflected in outward conduct before offering advice.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Dying Flame and Political Talk Across Papers
The New York Herald notes twelve thousand progressives enrolled this time with 196000 voting last autumn, while Kansas City Times jokes about Mexico inviting Japanese visitors amid its troubles. Roosevelt is playfully blamed for retreating to the goat to think it over.
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New York Herald
Roosevelt
Kansas City
Mexico
Man of Mystery May Tell Past in Rochester Hospital
A patient known as J. C. R. has lived at the Minnesota Rochester asylum for six years unable to speak or recall his past. Doctors performed brain surgery to remove a cyst and assess memory recovery while noting severe brain degeneration but possible partial recollection may return. He is believed to be around forty five, possibly Navy related, with limited speech via gestures and maps.
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Minneapolis
Minn
JS. O. 1
Minnesota
State Hospital For
Rochester
Waaseem Minn
Ife
W. A. Chamberlain
Chaimberlain
Rochester Asylum
Baltimore
Naval Department
United States Navy
Mae
J. C. IR
Chance
Woman struck by foul ball in baseball double header
In Zanesville Ohio Miss Cora Bauer thirty was hit in the face by a foul ball. The blow split her nose and she fainted. A physician set three stitches and she chose to remain at the game despite losing three teeth and potential disfigurement.
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Zanesville
Cora Bauer
Not Celebrating and a Pirate's Execution Recounted
The column recalls a city editor fade farewell at Park Row with a cartoonish funeral joke gone wrong. It then notes Captain William Kidd the pirate being hanged at Execution Dock London on May 28 1706 along with several crew members. It describes Kidd as the epitome of piracy and links his execution to a shift toward safer seas and increased merchant activity.
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Park Row
Worida
Mestuf
William Widd
Execution Dock
London
Widd
Kidd
Ngland
England
Ikkidd
The Tongues of Belgium Language Use in Belgium
Official statistics show Belgium's bilingual and multilingual landscape with counts of Flemish French and Walloon speakers. The data includes 746 140 bilingual Flemish and French speakers and 49 300 trilingual Belgians with 4 2022 languages spoken by residents.
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Belgium
Walloon
Symbolism of the Strawberry in Sacred Art
Elizabeth Italy argues in Moral Symbolism of the Great Masters that the strawberry’s thornless fruit, white blossoms, and trefoil leaves symbolize perfect righteousness, often paired with violet to show the fruitful soul’s humility.
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Elizabeth Italy
Dining in a Real Shame Sears Compliment Exchange
A hostess teases with mock praise about dining while a dense old bachelor replies that life in restaurants is a relief from guarding hats and coats. The dialogue captures a wry social exchange cited by the Louisville Courier Journal.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Political Reckoning Promised After Speech Tomorrow
The Trosten Post quotes an opposition candidate who denounces a rival as wildly untruthful and pledges to reveal the full truth after a forthcoming speech. Tensions rise as rhetoric sharpens ahead of the address.
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Trousten Post
Cautious Love Question Sparks Conversation
A playful exchange between Marling and Charles unfolds with questions of affection and a nod to a $50,000 sum, mirrored in a Louisville Courier-Journal style. The dialogue hints at romance and wealth without dramatic action.
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Marling
Charles
Louisville Courier-Journal
Classified Inquiry on Fortune Teller Fee Ruling
A reader asks how money paid to a fortune teller was listed in a Baltimore American item. The reply notes the sum was recorded under the heading prophet and Jost in the ledger.
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Prophet
Jost
Baltimore
Culture and superiority in social perception
A brief aphoristic line discusses culture indicating superiority and the way that perceived superiority impresses others, reflecting a parable of social cognition and status signaling.
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Marden
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