Chautauqua Program Adds Noted Lectures and Musical Entertainers
The Friday program features Geo E Colby cartoon sketches in the afternoon and Robert J Patterson Irish oration in the evening. The Dialect girl and one man band provide variety. The Hinton Mordelia Company delivers a premier musical and literary act led by Ethel Hinton and Morelia on concertina piano trap and drum. Positive notes praise the one man band and dialect performer for lively stage presence.
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Geo. E. Colby
Chicago Daily News
Robert J. Patterson
Hinton-Mordelia Company
Ethel Hinton
Morelia
Snap
Ginger
Chautauqua
Sinten-Mordelia
Nature's Handiwork Inspires Delicate Dew on Fruit
A London Globe excerpt extols the dew that blankets peaches and plums and covers oak leaves, noting its quiet power from vast forces to tiny filaments. The dew nourishes trees, strengthens trunks, and adorns thistle down with gemlike droplets, uniting macro and micro scales.
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London Globe
Port Arthur Surrender Ends Russian Siege
The Russo Japanese War saw Port Arthur fall after five months of defense by General Stoessel and 20 weeks of siege. He faced treason charges with death sentence later commuted to ten years in prison, and he died in exile, broken in health.
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Port Arthur
Stoessel
Unimposing Genius: Pope’s Humble Physical Portrait
A London Chronicle account depicts Alexander Pope as four feet six inches tall, humpbacked and deformed. The description notes his fragility and dependence on attendants, including a fur doublet, canvas bodice, and multiple stockings.
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Alexander Pope
Pope
Lord Oxford
London Chronicle
An Easy Choice
Bishop Sanford Olmsted cites a prison chaplain as refuting the charge churches are motivated by money. He recalls a prisoner who sneered that the chaplain preaches for pay, prompting the chaplain to respond that if money decides, God must choose between them.
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Sanford Olmsted
Denver
Parson
Unknown Soldier Returns to Wife After War
The narrative follows Lieutenant Trelawney of the th infantry as he survives brutal battlefields at Ypres, endures hospital life, and returns incognito to England. His wife, long convinced he was dead, discovers him by the unknown headstone and begins nursing him back to health.
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Ypres
Adolph Trelawney
Lome
Trelawney
London
France
England
Red Cross
Morning Mail
Mra. Trelawney
Edgar
Furniss
Royal Navy
Srelawney
Rance
Dominion of Canada origin story and God's Land
The article recounts how Canada came to be called the Dominion. It notes the nine provinces joined to form a confederation and a parliamentary suggestion inspired by a Bible verse about dominion from sea to sea. The idea of "Dominion" as God’s Land was quickly adopted.
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Canada
John Macdonald
Pall Mall Gawette
English Stocks Return Stirs Newbury Crowd
In 1872 a Manchester Guardian report recalls a Newbury scene where a rag and bone dealer was fixed in the stocks for drunkenness. The event drew several hundreds, the crowd amused while the offender endured four hours of public derision.
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England
Manchester Guardian
Newbury
Pioneer Juvenile Court Leader Estelle Visit Noted
The piece highlights Judge Estelle of Omaha famed as a pioneer in juvenile court work. It notes his visit to Chautauqua to support youths facing crime and compares him to Ben Lindsey, emphasizing long-standing juvenile justice efforts.
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Leg
Estelle
Omaha
Chautauqua
Ben B. Lindsey
Truth's Steady Course Through Time
A concise reflection on truth enduring beyond age bias. Coleridge compares truth to a spring that grows stronger as it flows, overcoming obstacles and persisting through chilling seasons until conditions allow its advance again.
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Taylor Coleridge
Curious Exchange Reveals Odd Spelling Dispute
An exchange notes that a phrase about a Chinaman and a nonstandard spelling raises questions about language. The dialogue compares familiar looks and spelling quirks, highlighting cultural and linguistic biases in a brief quip.
Monticello Commission Approves Sewer Relaying Plan
The Monticello Iowa council adopts a two section sewer relay on Warvel and Chestnut streets. It details bid notices, contractor duties, timelines, and a $1000 bond with lighting and traffic safeguards.
Painting and Music Whistler Quote on Art Value
A Whistler quote argues that polish culture and breeding do not guarantee artistic success and that even the finest scholars may prefer popular prints to Rembrandt and hall songs to Beethoven, noting subjective taste in art.
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Rembrandt
James MacNeill Whistler
Balti m winner wheeled in wheelbarrow after bet
A badly shrunk tale recounts a Baltimore election bet where the loser wheeled the winner several miles in a wheelbarrow as punishment and had five inches cut from the legs of his trousers each time he paused. He paused four times.
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Baltimore
Yonkers Named From Manor of Dutch Settler Van Der Doneck
In the years after 1642 Yonkers grew from a Hudson river estate once called De jonksbeer's landt by Dutch villagers. The name evolved as the land became Yonkers under English influence after the manor life of Patroon Van der Doneck.
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Yonkers
Patroon van der Doneck
Hudson River
de Jonksbeer
Old Scratch Name for Devil Traced Through Languages
The origin of old scratch linked to the devil is noted not plainly but via linguistic roots. Swedish skrat means devil, while Middle High German schrate scratze denotes fiend or ghost, suggesting the term travels through language as a ceremonial epithet before conclusion.
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Skrat
Schrate
Scratze
Notice of Bids for Monticello Water Main Project
City of Monticello Iowa invites bids to lay a four inch water main along Chestnut Warvel Buckeye Railroad and Clark streets and a cross connection to Sycamore street to the west of the First Second alley. City provides mains and materials. Bids due by contract signing. work to start within 16 days and finish within 40 days.
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Varvel
Chestnut Streets
City of
Monticello
Iowa
Chestnut Street
Chestnut and
Buckeye Streets
Warvel Streets
Warvel Street
C. J. Northrop
A. L. van Meter
Hefner
Schneider
Lang
Rockstad
Beery
Varvel Street
Walnut Streets
Warvel and
Railroad Streets
Chestnut
C. L. van Meter
First Street
Cedar Streets
Ayes
Nays
Attast
O. L. van Meter
City Water Main
Buckeye Street
Railroad Street
Clark Street
Sycamore Street
Tre
Sycamore
North Cedar Streets
First
Second
City of Monticello
Mayr's Wonderful Remedy Promises Fast Digestive Relief
Advert tells how Mayr's Wonderful Remedy eases stomach liver and intestinal troubles with quick relief after the first dose. Testimonies from Mrs William Litzenberg in Montezuma Iowa and Mrs S T Oliver in Davenport Iowa claim restored strength weight gain and no pain. Money back guarantee offered if not satisfactory.
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Mayr
William Litzenberg
Montezuma
Iowa
T. Oliver
East High Street
Davenport
The Pacific Limited Promises Easy California Travel
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway offers The Pacific Limited direct to San Francisco and Los Angeles with morning California termini and through sleeping cars to Los Angeles via Marion. Weekly service expands to Denver Portland and the Olympian Trail, with low fares and scenic routes. Contact local agency for times fares and reservations.
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California
Pacific Limited
theChicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Marion
the Pacific Limited
Denver
Portland
Points Intermediate
Pacific North Coast
Milwaukee
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
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