Poisons in Common Salt and Pugilism Founder
The article notes salt contains the poisons sodium and chlorine yet is harmless when chemically combined. It recounts Jack Broughton’s 1725 boxing start, his early fight with James Figg, and his role in shaping modern pugilism rules and champion status.
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Africa
Pugillem
Jack Broughton
Pugilism
James Figg
Fair Broughton
Figg
Wigg
Young Broughton
Broughton
Mark Twain’s failed report on Gold Hill churches
Twain’s rejected Virginia City Enterprise piece mocked a Baptist pastor seen pushing an ox cart on the Overman mine dump. He claimed a $3.50 daily earnings, a nominal $50 monthly salary, and pain from unpaid wages. The piece noted dwindling crowds, 40 cent collection, one unbaptized convert, and cash-only water for baptism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Twain
Virginia City Enterprise
Gold Hill
Baptist Church
Overman
The Man Who Overcame
A biographical tribute to Theodore Roosevelt highlights his lifelong weaknesses and extraordinary resilience. The piece recalls his eye and ear challenges, bouts of illness and exhaustion, and the final defiant reply to a physician about confinement, illustrating a leader who conquered adversity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Roosevelt
Herman Wagedorn
Solo misstep ends in awkward quartet moment
Sunday morning in a large church choir a soprano remained standing after a quartet finished. She began singing Amen while others sat, lacking organ support, as the congregation watched with smiles and she wished the floor would swallow her.
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Ahmen
Chicago Tribuns
Overcome obstacles and tempering through early failures
Robert Dollar reflects on resilience noting hardships sharpen the right young man like steel. He recalls a 1873 Black Friday panic that bankrupted him at twenty eight and an older man’s consolation that failing young brings happiness and luck.
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Robert Dollar
Anger Proved Poison in Blood by Lab Tests
Biologists report anger acts as a poison in the bloodstream. In tests a blood drop from a enraged person sprayed on a guinea pig tongue can sick the animal, warning against bragging of losing temper as if courting illness.
Stones of Remarkable Power and Donkey Stone Lore
Lady Blunt recounts a tale of two stones seized by the Turkish government during the Conquest. She says the stones were applied to her ailing husband in Constantinople and his recovery followed, despite four doctors urging immediate operation. The stones, she claims, occur in donkey neck veins at very rare intervals.
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Lady Blunt
Constantinople
Quieting Title Battle Over Land in Jones County Iowa
In 1919 a civil action in Jones County District Court Iowa seeks to quiet title to the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 6 township 86 north range 8 west. Adolf Steuri claims fee simple ownership based on continuous open possession for over forty years and a color of title tracing to 1852. The petition seeks to bar all claims including unknown claimants and warning of default if defendants fail to appear by September 15 1919 in Amosa.
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District Court of
State of Iowa
Jones County
John Henry Rickels
Tomma Louise Rickels
Louise A. Rickels
Catherine F. Connolley
James Connolley
Gerhard Rickels
Mary M. Tschantz
John Tschantz
Ludwig Rickels
George A. C. Rickels
William Rickels
Lawrence Rickels
District Court
Iowa
Louise Rickels
Turck
Monticello
Anamosa
Towa
Emma Louise Rickiils
Doxsee & Donsee
A. D
Adolf Steuri
John Stephenson
Dubuque Land Office
Farmers Mutual Creamery Company incorporated at Langworthy Iowa
Notice states Farmers Mutual Creamery Company is incorporated with principal office at Langworthy Iowa The business includes butter cheese and milk products grinding feed and handling farm supplies The capital stock is 6000 represented by corporate property not issued as shares Directors are named with Gerd Harms as president and W Siebels Sr as secretary The corporation operates on a purely mutual plan with patron profits sharing and capital stock not divided into shares Dated May 17 1915 Gerd Harms President W Siebels Sr Secretary
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Farmers’ Mutual Creamery Company
Langworthy
Iowa
J. H. Dirks
D. J. Dirks
J. D. Poppe
Frank Burlingham
Ben Wolken
Gerd Harms
Co. W. Siebels, Sr
Sac'y
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Seem Bae Cup
Arend Balster
Scotch Grove
Webster's New International
Merriam CO
Springfield
Mass
U.S. A
Big Stock Company
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Whiting
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Wood River
Sugar Creek
S. Michigan Ave
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Kentucky
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