Local notes from Pella and nearby towns
Sylvester Dykstra visits friends in Pella and Garret Stegeman returns with land seekers from Miller, S Dakota. A land excursion to Miller, Hand County is planned, with L Stegeman as contact. Community updates include health news, business moves, and local property changes.
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Sylvester Dykstra
Pella
Miller, Hand Co
S. Dak
L. Stegeman
Garret Stegeman
Miller
Ant. van Houweling
Otley
Until After Election Offer From Daily Des Moines Register
The Daily Des Moines Register and Leader offers new readers a special term until after the election on November 6 1908. The deal is one dollar for the period and a combined daily and Sunday subscription for 150 cents with exclusive Iowa news.
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Des Moines Register and Leader
Iowa News
Eccentric Genius Baudelaire and His Odd Charms
The article profiles the French poet Charles Baudelaire as an eccentric genius famed for avant garde verse and a life of excess. It notes his green hair, opium use, and taste for odors of decay, yet asserts his poetry remains among France’s most musical. It also details his superstition about left foot exits and counting city numbers to seek omens, including an incident when a cab eject left him convinced in numerology.
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Baudelaire
France
A Sharp Swindler at a Private Lunatic Asylum
A fashionable young woman lured a physician with a ruse to admit her husband for supposed mania over lost jewels. She then procured jewels in Paris worth thousands of francs and fled with an accomplice, leaving the husband confined days later. Both disappeared, never heard from again.
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Wartsnd
Paris
Wagner Portrait Sheds Light On Troubled Sitting Session
In England, Merkomer sought a portrait of Wagner during the first productions. Wagner resisted, prompting persistent vigilance by the artist who watched him conduct, read, and compose. After two days of relentless work, Wagner finally sat, and exclaimed it captured his ideal look.
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Wagner
England
Merkomer
Ierkamer
Ali
Why Kelly Didnt Sleep
A late visit to Father Dempsey's hotel finds crowded beds and about 200 men sleeping on the floor of the recreation room. One sleeper, Thomas Kelly, explains that only a change of bed to escape the dust will help him sleep, as the priest notes the Irishbound name and offers advice.
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Mr. Kelly
Westliche Post
Stevenson Shoe Dilemma Delays Samoa Reception
In Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson and wife planned a reception for consul Heywood’s guests. A note arrived stating they would attend on the 23d only if Mrs Stevenson found her other shoe, revealing a humorous domestic snag amid colonial social plans.
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Samoa
Robert Louis Stevenson
Louis
Bfe
Stevenson
Apa
Heywood
Meywood
Meywood Was Surprised To Receive A Note From Mr. Stevenson
Consul Heywood
Fashion of 1787 Jargon Described as Scandalous
An 18th century fashion journal is quoted describing Mile D at the opera in terms like stifled Sighs and superfluous regrets. The dress details include sustained sentiments in hair and a beggar on horseback collar, with headdress named sustained conquest and Agaways. The piece argues modern readers would find these terms meaningless.
The First Hello Girl in a Cafe Debate
In a famed cafe a group debates inventions with a stern man claiming the telephone predates Eden, quipping that the garden born call originated there. The scene ends as he leaves with a hapless sandwich in hand, cited by the New York Globe.
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Garden of Eden
New York Globe
The Insufferable Anticipation in Nova Scotia Court
A young Scotch emigrant faced a Nova Scotia magistrate for deserting his work without notice. His defense cited eating brakeshaw meat from animals that had died. He claimed a string of animal deaths followed by meals, including the old cow, goose, sow, and the woman, ending with a bellman.
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Nova Scotia
Hindoo Confectionery Delicacies Described in Detail
A fragment describes Hindoo sweets such as sada similar to plum sugar candy made from sugar and milk mud with rose attar. Buddhika bal or Linty of Buddha is noted as a popular long stringy sweet made from sugar and buffalo milk cream, highlighting rich flavors.
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Ike
Buddha
Kentucky Bishop’s Remark About Mountaineer Grammar
State Bishop A Dudley of Kentucky praised a mountaineer for telling the most ungrammatical sentence he ever heard. The line read Diem Chree Miss Blake are three of us pretty a gal as I ever see.
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A. Dudley
Kentucky
Miss Blake
Beau Brummel Reprimanded For Witty Retort
A social vial recalls Beau Brummel facing reprimand after a pointed joke at an invitation. He quipped he never took anything but physics, prompting a hostess to retort that he takes utberties in a sharp exchange captured in a brief society note.
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Beau Brummel
Beau Brunmel
Uberties
Playful Otters Romp and Slide in Muddy Fun
Otters display lively play behavior as they wrestle, tug sticks, and slide downhill in a muddy line they create. Their energetic antics showcase social bonding and curiosity in a natural setting.
Why Indeed. Lowe’s Thought on Natural Advantage
Robert Lowe muses on the merit of natural gifts over human effort and wealth in a brief reflective line. He notes a friend listening through an ear trumpet to a tedious bore and questions why one should oppose nature’s advantages. The fragment hints at a valuation of virtue over material wealth.
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Robert Lowe
Lowe
An Unaought Pardon Tale from Sam Houston Era
A Texas governor once read a petition praising a penitentiary agent who claimed eight years of faithful service. The governor replied with a pardon as a priceless favor, saying, Sit, I pardon you out, in a humorous exchange reflecting political irony of the period.
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Texas
Sam Houston
Houston
Absolute rudeness fails to deter Abernethy in exam tale
Put Out of Commission describes Abernethy who uses brusque policing of questions during a visit by a very talkative mother and her ill daughter. He orders the mother to remain quiet, repeats his question, then commands her to put her tongue out before examining the girl.
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Abernethy
A Queer Complication in Sydney Sunday Eats
In Sydney a town of 500000, food on Sundays is scarce. Italian guests seek meals in covert venues as police crackdowns loom. An Italian patron, cornered by officers, is shielded by a waitress who claims he is her fiancé, revealing a love entanglement amid danger.
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Sydney
Negigee
Ile
Waitress sues for breach of promise. station pays
A man escaped one trouble only to face a breach of promise claim from a waitress demanding 2600. The station paid. Then his wife sued for divorce and soon after took up with another man.
Fragmented prose puzzle with oblique imagery
An OCR like venturing piece presents Cleopatra and others in a surreal dialogue about anatomy and society. The text threads through medical terms and odd phrases, culminating in a breakfast scene and an appendicitis expert at obsequies, all in stylized, puzzling prose.
Anarchy Methods and Experiments by Peter Latouche
A review recounts a plotted but failed scheme to kidnap Queen Victoria and topple England into a republic. The plan arose in 1888 amid London's great dock strike but collapsed due to strong sympathy from the moneyed classes and strike support.
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England
Republic
Peter Latouche
London
Fragmentary Dialogue on Capital Punishment Theme
Fragmentary lines show a dialogue with references to capital punishment and life imprisonment. Mentions Sydney Town and Country Journal style. unclear speakers discuss the fate of a bride and groom, highlighting punitive outcomes and romantic tension. Names and complete context are missing.
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