Monticello Falls to Tipton in Semi Final Clash
Monticello lost 25 to 19 to Tipton in the state sectional semi final at Olin. The team underperformed after the Mount Vernon game with Schoon Eden and Hubert off their usual scoring and drive. MacDonald and Shank led Tipton while Monticello fought defensively but could not overcome the deficit.
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Monticello
Tipton
Olin
Mount Vernon
Schoon
Hubert
Eden
Hobert
Chapman
Bone
MacDonald
Tommy
Shank
Reynolds
Stoltenberg
Tipton Igftp
Field
Bud Bone
Lambert
Banks
Miller
Owego Coach Phil Hubbard Leads Upset Victory
Phil Hubbard, son of Mr and Mrs Elmer Hubbard, coaches at Owego Free Academy NY. His team defeated undefeated Horsehead High 35 to 27 marking a notable upset. Hubbard recently changed his defensive method and won seven of eight games. Rockefeller, another notable graduate, also hailed from Owego Free Academy.
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Phil Hubbard
Elmer Hubbard
Owego Free Academy
Horsehead High School
Owego
Hubbard
John D. Rockefeller
Sub District Music Here This Week At Two Day Contest
The two day event features soloists from Anamosa Edgewood Preston and Wyoming with glee clubs and mixed choruses from Bellevue Delhi Mount Vernon Springville Wyoming and others. Final program starts 7 p.m. with small vocal groups from Anna mosa Bellevue Delhi Marion and more. Admission is 10 cents for children and 25 cents for adults.
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Bellevue
Delhi
Mount Vernon
Springville
Wyoming
Monticello
Marion
Anamosa
Annamosa
Edgewood
Express Cooking School Will Open Thursday
Express Cooking School will open Thursday with Miss Shaw answering questions. Free prizes will be awarded this year as in former years. A number of grand prizes will be drawn on the last day when names from all three days are combined. On each day.
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Monticello
The
Express
Miss Shaw
Monticello Express
The Appian Way and Its Ancient Construction
The Appian Way long endured as Rome's famed road, over three feet thick in stone and concrete. It was sixteen feet wide with two foot curbs and five foot side roads, built in multiple masonry layers using lime mortar and concrete to bear heavy loads and straight, graded paths.
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Rome
Ancient Greek Training Made Physical Education a Duty
The New York World Telegram reports ancient Greeks made physical training a required school subject and youth widely skilled in javelin. The piece traces PE from Greece to medieval times to the gay nineties, noting evolving exercises and forms of dance and performance.
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New York World-Telegram
Diana
Woltap
Q Youneen
Ecvert
Washington Elm legends and restoration attempts in colonial times
The Washington Elm near Washington DC carried myth and history as it stood in July 1775 with soldiers sheltering in its shade. It reportedly split in October 1775 during military operations and was replaced later that year by a sapling from a vine plant. subsequent attempts to preserve or replace it failed, leaving debates on its measurements and legacy.
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Washington
Allerican
Gierinssary
Gagelis
Germans in Texas and 19th Century Immigration
The article notes that European revolutions drove thousands of Germans to the United States and many settled in Texas. It cites 15,000 Germans landing at Galveston and a ship wreck near Galveston Island. In 1858 a Germania society formed in New York to establish a Texas colony, and a mass arrival of 130 people occurred on Christmas Day.
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Texas
ISS
Tse
Europe
Ameren
Galveston
Pesus
Dickens Quotation on Income and Happiness
A compact adage notes that annual income twenty pounds with expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen shillings sixpence yields happiness while twenty pounds and sixpence leads to misery. The line reflects Victorian-era thrift and sentiment.
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Dickens
London Divided into East and West Districts Across the City
The article maps London into east and west zones from the Thames north of the river, noting Westminster, Chelsea, Kensington, and Mayfair as wealthy areas while the east end contains poorer streets. It describes north London as middle class with Hackney and Islington, and south London as less affluent with Battersea and Greenwich transitioning to wealthier suburbs.
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London
Thames
Paddington
Battersea
Greenwich
Plants Vary in Thirsts Water Use in Crops
The article explains how different crops demand varying amounts of water. It cites irrigation engineers noting alfalfa, corn, beets, potatoes, and beans require distinct water quantities to yield several tons or pounds, comparing plant water use to human thirst.
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Sail Irrigation
Department of Midenture
Joseph Nay Educator and Doctor From Virginia
Joseph Nay born in Virginia in 1807 began teaching at sixteen after self study. He studied at Washington College Pennsylvania and Ohio Universitys now Ohio University Athens. He earned an M D from Ohio Medical College and served as surgeon in Cincinnati hospital. He taught mathematics at Woodward College from 1854 to 1851 and led the school as principal after its conversion to a public high school. He published arithmetic and algebra texts and later led the Cincinnati House of Refuge board. He died in Cincinnati in 196a.
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Joseph Nay
Virginia
Washington College
Pennsylvania
Ohio University
Athens
Ohio Medical College
Cincinnati
Lay
Woodward College
Abenp Wao
Cincinnati House of Refuge
Fragmented Note on Bunyan Inspired Music in Prison Cell
A garbled account describes John Bunyan and a musician named Witte hearing music from a prison cell. Guards seize the instrument but music stops as they search, finding nothing to show. The text then wanders through disjointed names and scenes.
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John Bunyan
Pilsrim
Fragmentary OCR Summary of Engine Water Purification System
The readable text mentions large steamers using a device described as a heater or extractor that vents water. It notes components in the apparatus titled as a cleaner or evaporator where water is vacuumed by a mechanism using steam from a special boiler connected to a device.
Sun Hope for Us VFonisty in a Collier's Weekly Note
A garbled paragraph from Collier's Weekly mentions Sun Hope for Us VFonisty and a misread letter about a refund. It references a person nicknamed Goof, a frog, and a mention of a prior BAT with a note returned stating no mistake. The文本 is unclear but preserves a few named terms.
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Peresslenp
Collier's Weekly
Founding of the Epworth League in Cleveland
The Epworth League was founded in Cleveland Ohio on May 15 1900 by five Methodist young people societies. Named after Epworth parish in England it grew rapidly with branches in many regions including China and now reports about 2000 members per chapter and 20000 chapters worldwide.
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Epworth League
Cleveland
Ohio
League
Epworth
Dtinglind
John Wesley
Methodist
Methodist Church
China
Ants New Summer Estate Scene In Odd Tunnel Tale
In a quirky passage a boy and his doglike guide explore a tunnel and an imaginative Ants summer estate. They search for a door and proceed along the edge, warning about careful steps as they approach an unseen interior.
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Frantlong
Ants Revealed: A Visit to an Insect Household
A boy and a Jaga guide explore an enormous ant colony with a queen and nurses tending grubs. They learn how worker ants feed, care for young, and farm leaf sap cows for honeydew as sand avalanches threaten their descent from the underground chambers.
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Doudone
Two Women Nominated as Presidential Candidates
In 1872 Mrs Victoria Claflin Woodhull was nominated by the Equal Rights party in Vineland New Jersey and jailed in New York for obscene literature. Belva A Lockwood was nominated in 1884 and 1888. The Equal Rights party supported suffrage. neither candidate could win. Lockwood, born 1830 in Royalton New York, became a lawyer and reformer, admitted to practice in DC in 1873 and before the Supreme Court in 1879. she died in 1917.
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Victoria Claflin Woodhull
Martin
Vineland
N. J
Equal Rights Party
Ludlow Street
New York City
Belva A. Lockwood
Cleveland Main Dealer
District of Columbia
Supreme Court
Belva Ann Dennete
Isis
Uriah H. McNall
Hackiel Lockword
World's Richest Street Chandni Chowk Delhi
The Delhi street Chandni Chowk is described as the wealthiest in the world with secret jewel and textile shops. One dealer supplied jewels for the peacock gown worn by Lady Curzon at the 1908 Durbar ball. Rich embroidery merchants cater to princes and state parties. The passage briefly notes historic gas anesthesia milestones by Luckhardt and Carter.
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Stock Exchange
Wall Street
Delhi
Montreal
Asin
Ele
Lady Curzon
World War Veteran Called By Death at Langworthy
World War veteran Harms died after a year of declining health. He lived on the old Schodde farm near Langworthy with his wife and leaves a father Bernhard Harms of Monticello, three brothers John of Milwaukee and Bernard and Oltman of Anamosa, two sisters Rienalt Darrow of Viola and Catherina Zimmermann of Monticello, plus a deceased brother. He was baptized Lutheran and confirmed at 14 at St. Peter and Pauls in Castle Grove township. A firing squad of ex service veterans and Odd Fellows pallbearers conducted the interment with taps.
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Germany
Harms
Veterans Hospital
Des Moines
St. Peter and Paul's Lutheran Church
Castle Grove Township
Odd Fellows Lodge
American Legion
Tobe Hanken
Clarence Heyen
Will Skelley
John Shover
Z. A. Graves
Fred Zimmerman
Niagara Falls Not Highest or Widest Cataract
A Chicago Tribune summary notes Niagara Falls is not the world’s highest or widest cataract. It cites Yosemite double falls at 1,430 feet plus 420 feet, Victoria at 5,700 feet wide, Iguassú up to 10,000 feet wide, yet Niagara leads only in flow. It highlights beauty and accessibility as Niagara’s main claims. It also briefly describes the Egyptian spitting cobra’s method of spitting venom.
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Niagara Falls
Niagara
Chicago Tribune
Yosemite Falls
Yosemite National Park
Goat Island
Victoria
Zambesi River
Central
Africa
England
Brazil
Turning the Tables in Timpered Rowe Fancy Table Craze
A historic craze among the wealthy centered on collecting rare Mauritania wood tables inlaid with ivory. Pliny noted the trend as a sign of luxury, provoking wives to defend finery with the retort about husbands and their own tables, which gave rise to the phrase turning the tables.
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Rowe
Pliny
Mauritania
Qameng
U S Coast Guard Formation and Role
The Coast Guard is under the Treasury department after the 1915 act merging the revenue cutter and life saving services. It serves as an emergency naval force with commissioned officers ranked alongside army and navy officers, callable for any national emergency.
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U. S. Coast Guard
Coast Guard Service of
United States
Treasury Department
Revenue Cutter
Coast Guard
Army
Navy
Landon appeals to nation on thrift and initiative
Gov. Landon gains broad appeal by presenting himself as the opposite of the current administration. He champions thrift and economy over spending and waste and urges individual initiative and enterprise rather than reliance on government largess.
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Atlantic News-Telegraph
Landon
Two Parties Reassess Middle Stream Horse Change
The Webster City Freeman Journal notes that since 1932 Republicans now back changing horses in midstream as good policy while Democrats remain opposed. It frames politics as a perennial game of shifts and strategy.
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Webster City
Freeman - Journal
Gov Merriam accused of soft headedness and soft heartedness
A brief column notes Gov. Merriam’s perceived soft headedness and soft heartedness amid several recent events. Classified ads suggest a fair market for buying and selling.
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Mason City
For Rent Two Furnished Rooms In Monticello
Frank Helmer offers two light housekeeping rooms for rent with immediate possession at West First Street Monticello. Also a 39 year old female seeks housework with good experience and immediate start at 310 South Cedar Street Monticello.
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Frank Helmer
West First Street
Monticello
South Cedar Street
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