Lantern club formed to avoid lamp post collisions
Local Monroe notes record a lantern club organized in Prairie City to prevent lamp post accidents at night. It lists various social visits among residents, including Pella, Ames, Kellogg, Otley, Boulder, Sheldon, and Orange City, and mentions a charity aid to Italian earthquake victims.
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Smouse Barr
Des Moines
Prairie City
L. Colyn
Pella
Emma Husted
A. Kling
Anne Breen
Otley
Tommy Livingston
Ames
Agricultural College
Thos. Webb
Ida County
Morgan Carter
Jane Roush
C. A. Caulkins
Kellogg
Lucile Bernard
Boulder
Colorado
J. A.,macdonald
Louise Gaass
Harriet Rietveld
Marie MacDonald
Mrs. Johnson
Wn. Johnson
Sheldon
Wm. Johnson
Orange City
Ed Rinemuth
Monroe Mirror
Stomach Distress Answered by Diapepsin Claim
A newspaper ad urges all families to keep Diapepsin for sudden indigestion. It promises quick relief from sour stomach, heartburn, and fullness with a 50 cent ask from a pharmacist. The copy emphasizes universal risk and easy treatment.
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Pape
Ninety and Nine Hymn Story at Sankey Funeral
Rev Dr Locke recounts how Ira Sankey improvised Ninety and Nine after seeing The Lost Sheep in a Scotch paper. Moody asked where he found it, tears flowed as Sankey described singing the words as God gave them. The hymn remained unchanged since its first performance.
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Ira D. Sankey
C. EB. Locke
Mr. Sankey
Dr. Locke
Brooklyn Eagle
Edinburgh
Mr. Moody
The Cycle of Fashions and Social Psychology
The quote contrasts progress in utility with cyclical fashion trends. It notes how utility adapts steadily, replacing older methods like fish oil with kerosene and trolley cars with horse cars, while fashion revisits past styles in cycles.
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Be, A, Ross
Man's Inhumanity to Woman in Public Life Critique
A historical critique argues that cities morally degrade women by permitting attire and performances in music halls and theaters. The author links this to denying women a responsible public voice and suggests legal bans on women serving in public houses due to a perceived moral atmosphere created by men.
Heat and hot water bottles in every home
The piece extols heat as curative for many ailments and promotes hot water bottles as indispensable for warmth and comfort. It claims the stock is complete and offers best possible items at current prices, noting their value as foot warmers. It also cautions about harbor thefts by rowboat pirates in summer and mentions installing a fresh water engine to deter pirates.
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Iowa
Arie Yan Howeling
Woman's Work in the World a Family and Home Focus
Appleton's Magazine argues that while many women now wage earners and professionals enter fields once male dominated most still aim to be wives mothers and home makers. It notes supposed substitutes in careers cannot replace the fire of the home and calls slavery of dependence a root issue even as service-minded women show maternal spirit in nursing and medicine.
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Appleton
How He Fooled the Pirates in Long Island Harbor
A guest questions a boat owner about a fresh water engine as the amused reply reveals a practical joke or clever ruse aboard a motor boat in a Long Island harbor. The exchange showcases nautical wit and local harbor happenings.
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Wan Safe
Long Island
Your P s and Q s origins in dancing lore
A professor explains that mind your P s and Q s comes from pied and queues feet and pig tails used by French dancing masters from Louis XIV to the revolution. The saying warned dancers to keep feet and wigs orderly while bowing, to avoid misalignment of the queue and wig.
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Martel
Washington Apples Famous In Europe
Ernest Panu of Helsingfors Finland arrived in Seattle and investigated Washington fruit growing regions in Yakima and Wenatchee valleys. He reports Washington’s fame spreads through Europe and fruit growing prospects urge emigration from old countries to the United States.
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Washington
Europe
Ernest Panu
Helsingfors
Finland
Seattle
Yakima
Wenatche
Seattle Times
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