Commissioners Proceedings in Osceola Polk County 1920
The Osceola county board met Feb 6 1920 in adjourned session with all members present. They approved a Notice to Contractors for a court house project and listed claims paid and disallowed across several road districts and dragging funds. Adjourned to Feb 17 1920.
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Osceola
Nebraska
Board of County Commissioners
Johansen
Improvement Bulletin
Minneapolis
Chas. Newcomer
Same
O. M. Thomas
P. Anderson
George Miller
Joe Bernt
Harry Blevins
C. Albin Anderson
Gust A. Peterson
Matt Sterup
Lester Rystrom
C. D. Jacobsen
George McMeekin
Meldon G. Hess
Geo. J. Berck
Ray M. Dickson
W. B. Dake
Oscar Jones
Frank Rystrom
Eli W. Johnson
Chas. Sechtem
Walter Bush
Chas. E. Hoffer
John Sjoblom
Ancient Sinai Tablets Unearthed At Magharah Mines
Inscriptions carved in sandstone at the Magharah mines in Sinai suggest turquoise rather than copper as the ancient product. Tablets about 102 by 63 inches feature relief sculpture with enduring markings, dating back to 4950 B C, well before Moses. Surviving pieces are held by the Cairo museum.
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Sinai
Moses
Magharah
Sinai Peninsula
Cairo Museum
Saracen's Head Inn Seeks Buyer After 500 Years
The Saracen's Head inn near Southwell Archiepiscopal Palace in Notts England is for sale. It has housed an inn for over five hundred years and hosted notable moments including Charles I's surrender in 1646 and visits by Lord Byron between 1804 and 1807 in attached assembly rooms.
Romans valued amber for beauty and cures
The Romans prized amber beyond its appearance for medicinal uses. They believed amber protected against ague and chills when worn as a neck amulet. Ground with honey and rose-oil it served as a remedy for deafness and defective sight.
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Syria
Filipino corn gains in the Philippine Islands
The article notes Filipino schoolboys grow corn in the Philippines where two crops yearly are possible. It highlights government farming schools and Filipino legislature expanding agricultural funding, along with other crops and idle land. It compares Philippines and Japan populations and notes rising Filipino civic readiness.
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United States
Philippine Islands
Islands
Philippines
Philippine
Japan
Orient
Philippine Republic
Giant eels haunt shores and rivers with deadly strength
Reports recount monstrous eels that resist capture. An eight foot eight inch conger weighing 148 pounds rivered near England shores and has bitten hands in two. Honolulu swimmer Kakanamiku lost a finger after a two minute underwater hold. New Zealand rivers see eels attacking bathers and causing drownings.
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England
Kakanamiku
Honolulu
New Zealand
Foolish Visionaries and Their Unmet Dreams
The passage critiques idealists who have grand visions but fail to act. It contrasts those who dream with those who implement, citing Shakespeare's Hamlet as an example of a visionary yet unfulfilled character who lacks execution and resolve.
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Shakespeare
Hamlet
Denmark
Empire’s Gradual Dissolution and the Holy Roman Empire
The text traces the Holy Roman Empire as a medieval German empire myth, begun with Charlemagne crowned emperor in 800, continued by Otto I in 960, and proclaimed as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. It notes the empire’s growth into a fading, mythical dominion until Napoleon’s era ended its shadow.
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Charlemagne
Leo III
Otho the Great
John XII
Voltaire
Leaves and Plants Sugary Names from Paraguay and Nigeria
The U S department of agriculture reports receiving dried leaves and seeds of a plant called kanlee or stevia rebaudiana from Asuncion Paraguay, noted as about 180 times sweeter than sugar. It also cites ag bayun dulciferum from southern Nigeria whose fruits are only mildly sweet but render sour substances taste intensely sweet after about 12 hours.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Consos
Asuncion
Uruguay
Nigeria
Colonial Shoemakers Brought Boots From Farm to Family
Frank G. Carpenter notes in How the World Is Clothed that colonial cobblers took a day and a half to craft one pair of coarse boots at four dollars. Thomas Beard, first shoemaker to Massachusetts, arrived on the Mayflower in 1629 with hides, and early cobblers traveled between farms making footwear from home-tanned skins for households.
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Frank G. Carpenter
Thomas Beard
Massachusetts
Puzzle of the Seven Seas in Hindu myth and Kipling
The article outlines a mythic cosmology from Hindu Puranas with a circular earth, a central Mount Soome roo, three peaks of gold pearls and gems, three surrounding mountains, and a tree on each side. It describes seas of salt and six celestial seas of sugarcane juice spirits clarified butter curds milk and nectar, each bounded by its own continent exchange.
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Kipling
Soomeroo
Early Visiting Cards in European Etiquette
The text traces the origin of personal name cards from ancient Chinese practice to revival by Italian students and later French adoption. It notes the move from crude slips to refined decorated squares during a century marked by extreme etiquette and ostentation.
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Italy
Europe
France
Old-Fashioned Truth And Imagination In Children
An essay argues that truth is old fashioned and belongs to past eras. It suggests encouraging children to use imagination, viewing it as a sign they may become writers, statesmen, or even president, despite modern skepticism.
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United States of America
Vampish Woman Enters Hotel Dining Room
A lively young woman sits with a middle aged man in a hotel dining room and chats while he finishes his dinner. He pays the bill and leaves without responding. Idle waiters struggle to keep straight faces as a staffer remarks the man is blind as a bat and deaf as a door nail.
Longevity and Right Living
The piece notes that long life theories clash with real facts and cites St Anthony's century and Titian’s longevity as examples. It argues right living influences offspring lifespan though individual effects are subtle.
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St. Anthony
Titian
Government urged to clear cutover land for farming expansion
A medical or agricultural study estimates about one fifth of a billion acres of United States cutover land could be cleared of stumps to enable productive farming. If 160 acre farms were formed, 3,250,000 farms would emerge, a 20 percent rise, though government action may be needed to clear up to 50 million acres for roughly 309,000 farms.
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United States
Iito
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Seth Piper
Peter Stromberg
Sam Wyman
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J. A. Rosenberry
F. Carlson
Wm. Kosch
M. Triba
Sam Cook
H. A. Jones
Geo. Keebaugh
Albert J. Johnson
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