Farm For Sale With 300 Acre South ern Towa Property
A 300 acre farm in southern town of Towa with excellent soil and nearly all cultivated this year. Features 1265 rods woven wire fencing, three fourths mile from school church and store, and improvements valued around $10,000. Includes a large 2 story ten room house, new horse barn for 12 horses, cattle and hog facilities, implement and smoke houses, wind mills, and productive well, with tenant buildings nearby.
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Towa
Pella City News Hopes for Wise Councilman Choice
Work resumes on the sewer system in Pella. Voters are urged to consider who should fill city offices in the coming two years. The Thirty fourth Iowa General Assembly opened with a salute, and residents are asked to follow state leaders closely.
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Pella
Thirty-fourth General Assembly
Iowa
Advertising Doctor Not Consulted in Decayed Till Imagery
A vivid satirical riff depicts a shop’s failing profits and neglected tills. Poetic lines liken a feverish market to a drenched cash box and decaying chandeliers, implying the advertising doctor failed to revive business. The passage uses metaphorical critique rather than reporting a particular event.
Courtroom ethics and public shaming compared in print
Lawyers denounce defendants as liars in court to crowds while a newspaper suggestion of a blemished character sparks a harsher rebuke including threats and subscriber loss. The passage contrasts legal protection of reputation with the harsher penalties of public media judgment.
Wise warning on boys staying out late in town
The article laments youths roaming after nine or ten at night, urging parents to guide their boys and monitor companions. It argues for early upbringing to curb future troubles, claiming the issue is widespread beyond their town and stressing parental responsibility.
Anatomy of a Youth: Sugar Not in That Darling
A playful but precise breakdown claims a 154 pound young person is 96 pounds water, 3 pounds egg white, under 1 pound glue, 34 percent fat, 8 pounds phosphate of lime, 3 ounces sugar and starch, 7 ounces calcium chloride, 6 ounces magnesium phosphate and salt.
Stand Fast in Your Own Clothes Despite Winds
A moral urging to avoid pleasing everyone by changing opinions daily. Do not chase every shift in public view. Wear your own color through wind and weather. Independence costs less than twisting to fit others.
Advertising as an Untapped Practical Art
A brief note on advertising as a practical craft still awaiting broader discovery. The piece frames advertising as an evolving skill, highlighting its potential to shape consumer behavior through deliberate, artful methods.
Local Pride and Promotion Drive for the Town
An editorial argues that a town thrives through practical advertising and civic pride. It contrasts bucket brigades with modern fire and marketing methods, urges residents to believe in local potential, and notes that confidence and self-reliance drive success. It emphasizes schools churches amusements and community events as shared strengths.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Imitates Blood Purifier Claim
A testimonial style medical ad asserts catarrh is a constitutional disease cured by internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is described as a prescription medicine that acts on the blood and mucous surfaces, with testimonials available and priced 75 cents. Sold by Druggists in Toledo, Ohio, with a referral to Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Her Tribute to Emerson in Concord Lecture
A poor Concord washerwoman hurries home to leave work early and tell her employer she is off to hear Mr. Emerson lecture. The employer asks if Emerson is deep. Bridget replies she does not understand him but enjoys watching him speak with democratic air and confidence.
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Emerson
Concord
Bridget
Mr. Emerson
Family Preserves Recipe From a Household Column
A reader shares a humorous jam making recipe suggesting placing one or two fingers on a bureau drawer edge and slamming it shut for luck Its quirky instruction is framed as a veteran tip passed through the columnist household page.
Northern Eskimos Dwell Without Civilized Conveniences
The northern Eskimos lack civilization conveniences. They hunt with bone or native copper tipped weapons and use bows, arrows, sealing spears, and hide canoes. They subsist entirely on flesh and fish with no vegetables in their diet.
Old London Legend The Church On The Field Forty Footsteps
The church in Woburn Square London sits where the Herd of Worty Footsteps is said to lie in a tragic Monmouth era tale. Two brothers wooed a woman who watched as they fought, one died, the victor slew the woman, and then killed himself. Footprints sank into the wet clay, deterring dwelling until the 19th century when a church was built and the curse began to fade.
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Woburn Square
Lonsdon
Monmouth
Mr. J
Ogilvy
Rees
London Town
The Barber’s Shears End a Once Notable Citizen
A humorous reminiscence from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch describes a well known townsman once famed for his hair and style. The piece traces his varied past from bank job to riverboat mate and dry goods clerk, ending with a barber’s ruthless cut that flattened his legendary pomade image.
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St. Louis
Tie
New York
Day Express
California
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A Compliment For Him
An eighteen year old girl arrives in the city shy and unacquainted with Broad street station. She seeks a hansom but finds no cab and asks a youth on Fifteenth street if he is a hansom man. He answers with a flippant, self confident line.
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Broad Street
Fifteenth Street
Philadelphia Times
Hunger From the Liver Theory Sparks Debate
A New York Press excerpt argues hunger stems from the body's flesh and liver rather than the stomach. It notes that even after total stomach removal, cravings persist, with a curious aside about finger pains and a hand amputee recalling regular meals.
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New York Press
A Stone's Throw Across Time and Landlord Tales
A humorous exchange contrasts ancient Rome with a modern house claim. The speaker notes a landlord’s boast that the home is a stone's throw from the depot, implying an origin tracing back to Caesar era. Cleveland Lender notes the quip as a timeworn measurement joke.
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Cleveland Lender
Cleverness and Cunning Quote by Byron
A Byron quotation contrasts cleverness with cunning noting cunning suits the weak. It claims children and fools are inherently cunning while clever people remain steady and unjoined with deceit. The line reflects a disdain for deceit in intellect.
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Byron
Balm and a Duke in a thwarted marriage tale
A clipped romance fragment shows a millionaire refusing a duke over marriage to his daughter. The lines reveal tension as the duke laments a thwarted union while the father offers a conditional gesture. Hero’s early years and provisions appear as cryptic clues in the dialogue.
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Duke
Making a Picture Lover at the Dinner Table
George Moore lampoons the English art patron as a brewer or distiller who buys art to impress peers. After a revel, Brown boasts of paying £1500 for Leader while Smith, intoxicated, envisions the same village and resolves to own Leader. The piece exposes cynicism, class, and money driving bad taste in art.
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England
Brown
Smith
Miss Jones
George Moore
Proper Breathing Practice and Diaphragm Mention
The text explains diaphragmatic breathing with slow deep breaths, placing hands on the ribs and back to feel expansion. It defines the diaphragm as the floor of the chest, fastened to the backbone ribs and sternum, guiding inhalation and exhalation.
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Boston
First Cup of Tea Linked to Shapleigh Estate
Boston Globe notes the first cup of tea in this country was reportedly brewed on the Shapleigh estate in Hilot N ID in the seventeenth century. Nicholas Shapleigh of England funded a 1028 expedition, placing his son-in-law in command to explore the new world. His son-in-law landed at Kittery Point and two years later Nicholas settled in Eliot. The estate remains in descendant ownership.
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Shapleigh
Hilot
N. ID
Nicholas Shapleigh
England
New World
Kittery Point
Nicholas
Eliot
Boston Globe
Old Acquaintances Sparks Quirky Castle Tale
Cleveland Plain Dealer recalls a playful remark where Mrs. Van Queer claims a past life as a stray cat in a medieval alley. The banter includes a jab about a gentleman in a purple velvet doublet who once opened a castle casement and hurled a boot jack at her.
Joyful Card Party Harbors Lighthearted Quip
Detroit Free Press reports a cheerful exchange at a social card party where a woman asks how guests fared and a husband jokes he lost five games that he cannot blame on his wife, adding a playful touch to the gathering.
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Detroit
Motives Behind Ancient Egyptian Embalming
From the British Medical Journal: ancient Egyptians buried the dead in hot dry sand where desiccation could preserve bodies, spurring beliefs in immortality and leading to artificial mummification to counter grave decomposition and theft.
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Egypt
Varieties in Cheeses and Their Hardness
A condensed overview of cheese types noting hard cheeses like Parmesan, Roquefort, Edam, and pineapple analogy, and soft cheeses such as Neufchatel and cottage. Differences arise from milk source and fat content, ripening methods, and bacteria, with hard cheeses valuing long keeping quality.
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Neufchatel
Roquefort
France
Frolland
Witchfield County
Conn
Breakfast Habits in Marriage Debate
In a readable fragment from the Boaton Transcript Mrs X says she withholds breakfast when her husband stays out all night and notes he never asks for it. The brief item presents a curdled domestic dispute with no further context or outcome.
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Mrs. X
Boaton
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