County Board Official Proceedings January 1911
The Sixth Day January 9 1911 minutes read and approved. Hearing set February 6 1911 for J S Bellamy petition to establish a highway in sections 2 and 11 township 74 range 18. Poor fund claims listed and ins(anity) fund transfers ordered. Board adjourned to morrow 9 oclock. D G Van Zante, Chairman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. S. Bellamy
the Poor Fund
West & Son
Bybee & Mills
P C Zeigler
Acres Blackmar & Co
N van Lint
Davenport
F Collins
J Wilson
H Lyon
Finarly
County Insane Fund
County Poor Fund
D. G van Zante
Pella
Thirty-First General Assembly
Board of Supervisors
D. G. van Zante
Parsuant
R Ames
H Langerak
Women Aboard Nelson Era Warships In War Bride Customs
In Nelson time English line of battleships often housed wives of sailors aboard ship with special admiralty permission. Wives shared the perilous life at sea amid naval duties and press gang contingencies. The piece notes how such arrangements served as a sanctioning gesture and mentions a breach of promise case highlighting court satire.
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Nelson
England
Trafalgar
Admiralty
Shopping by Mail in a Prohibition Town Post Office Gag
A short humorous snippet from a prohibition era town where a young man asks for a postoffice order, the postmaster counters with a joke price of two gallons, and a mother and child exchange a puzzled reply reflecting small town wit from the Yonkers Statesman.
Eye Strain Causes Headache and Nervous Fatigue
Thousands suffer eye strain unknowingly as the root cause of headaches dizziness and exhaustion. If glasses fail to stop the discomfort the fit may be wrong. Visit to have eyes properly fitted by the specialist.
Gambling by Spider Racing Ruined Lord Devon Wealth
The twelfth earl greatly impoverished the Devon estate by squandering almost all his fortune on a peculiar gambling game called spider racing. Lord Hastings and the Duke of Bedford joined, heating spiders on a table to race to the edge, yet capricious insects often backtracked and lost huge sums, contributing to their ruin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Devon
Marquis of Hastings
Duke of Bedford
Lord Hastings
New York Tribune
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Insanity Fund
M Turk
S B Johnson
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RL L McCoy
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M Welch Co
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W Ward
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CC Kendall
T L Conrey
Thos Hart Jr
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Jim Hendrix
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Don Shoener
J C Keeton
Eugene Miller
John Isham
B States
Johanna Whitle
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Aley Water
Geo Metz
John States
W M Bowman
E Feagins
Chas Perry
J B Elliott
M Sumter
Knoxville Express
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Boston Transcript
Butterwick
Y. T. van Niewaal & Co
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Germany
Europe
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Ohio
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Washington
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Yankee
Titewad
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Yonkers
A. H. Weber
Des Moines
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