Local notes recount car sales and college commencement
The Hoit Motor Co sold a Ford touring car to L Grandia of Leighton and a Studebaker roadster to Asi E Werner and Mr. and Mrs. John Hamilton who plan to relocate near Chariton. Central College hosted its sixtieth commencement with many alumni and visiting clergy. Other items note Miss Maud Lee’s upcoming June 18 wedding to Rey Wood, various visits, and a discussion of biblical phrases and translations mixed with local chatter.
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Hoit Motor Co
Ford Wourding
L. Grandia
Leighton
Studebaker
Asi E. Werner
J. F. Catlin
Ames
J. B. Smith
Waterloo
E. Il. Muls
Octavia Nebr
Central
Mr. Smith
Dng
Maude Lee
Pella
Rey Wood
Ellsworth
Nebr
Wood
Nebracks
Miss le
Passing of Napoleon retold with modern adversary shift
The review cites Loraine Petre's Napoleon's Last Campaign in Germany 1813 noting Napoleon's overthrow was aided by changed enemy conditions as peoples rose against tyranny. Lord Acton is invoked about Napoleon's decline and Waterloo, with Grouchy remarking on his forgetting the art of war.
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Napoleon
Loraine Petre
Germany
Spain
Russia
Mr. Petre
Lord Acton
Laon
Arcis
Grouchy
Waterloo
Little Jack Horner’s Pie Dark Past Behind Legend
A New York Sun tale claims the nursery rhyme hides a real tragedy. An English abbey abbot hid deeds in a pie crust for Henry VIII. Jack Horner, transporting the crust, took the parchments, discarded them in a brook, and the abbot was later hanged for suspected contumacy.
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Jack Horner
England
Henry VIII
Whitehall
London
Hal
New York Sun
Idle complain they cannot find time to do that they fancy
A fragment notes that idle people lament they lack time to pursue their desires, reflecting a brief quotation from Lubbock.
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Lubbock
Great Inventions Are Rare and the Patent Game
Arthur Wallace Dunn notes in Lesile's that thousands seek riches in invention but few patents yield big returns. Only about 1 in 100 inventors recoups costs, while 600 patents issue weekly in the United States. Very few innovations, over years, transform society as telegraph, telephone, phonograph, and moving pictures did.
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United States Patent Office
Arthur Wallace Dunn
Lesile
Grateful Scots and the Bagpipes Tale
Harper's Weekly recalls a legend of Cluny MacWhapperty who supposedly invented the pipes to defend Scotland from English invaders. The tale credits the bagpipes with fierce eldritch music that drove clansmen to battle, claiming the pipes preserve Scottish independence.
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Harper's Weekly
Cluny MacWhauppert
Glengarramoyle
Sass Benach
Cluny
Eldritch
Bentham Skeleton and Colley Body Preservation
The London Sphere notes Archdeacon Colley left his body to Birmingham University for anatomization not 60 original, while Jeremy Bentham left his body to University College London and arranged burial avoidance. Bentham advocated embalmment to preserve illustrious figures as more truthful than statues, with the skeleton reportedly displayed wearing clothes and the face dried.
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Jeremy Bentham
Archdeacon Colley
Birmingham University
London Sphere
University College
London
Bentham
Color Symbols in Early 18th Century Brides
The text notes that poor brides wore white to signal their lack of dowry and spousal debt. Early 1700s brides gradually added color to costumes with blue signifying constancy and green for youth, while yellow was avoided as it represented jealousy.
Longfellow Joins in a Witty Exchange on Worth
The poet Longfellow met Longworth and remarks on their names sharing initial syllables. He quips that Pope’s line about worth still matters, noting that worth makes the man and the lack of it makes the fellow.
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Longfellow
Longworth
Pope
Mr Henpeck Admits Embarrassing Moment
A humorous quote from the Chicago Record Herald has Mr Henpeck confessing he fears he made a fool of himself today. His wife reassures him that no one likely noticed anything odd about his speech or actions.
No Genius, Blobbs Pair Comic Exchange
The Philadelphia Record notes a humorous exchange where Blobbs questions if a person is a genius. Blobbs denies, arguing the man is always seeking loans. Blobbs explains he never gets the money, prompting more comic back and forth.
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Blobbs
Philadelphia
Her Size
Gertie asserts she does not stand on trifles and Helen agrees, recognizing the resolve. The exchange unfolds in a London Telegraph style dialogue reflecting character dynamic and wit.
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Gertie
Helen
London Telegraph
Proverbs on heavy stones sand and a fool’s wrath
A compact adage notes that weight alone does not compare to the burden of a fool’s anger. It contrasts material heaviness with the even greater force of human folly and temper.
Opportunities in Montana valley lands draw settlers
A frontier real estate pitch extols central Montana valleys as superior investments, claiming record crops and rising land values. It cites multiple farmers praising climate, soil, and alfalfa potential, notes a railroad route through the land, and advertises an upcoming excursion and sales office visits.
Central Montana Garden Spot Land Sale Era
The valley long known as central Montana’s garden spot attracted land buyers who eyed smooth prairie lands once owned by the Northern Pacific Railroad. A government patent looming prompted a sale of 75,000 acres to a Wisconsin syndicate, priced at 20 to 26 dollars per acre with cash and long-term terms offered in central Iowa.
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Montana
N. P. Railroad
See’s Lane
Wisconsin
Iowa
Farmers Tell You What They Have Done in the Lake Basin
The Lake Basin district centered on Broadview spans about 500000 acres across Yellowstone Musselshell Stillwater and Sweetgrass counties in Montana. It sits on the divide between Musselshell and Yellowstone rivers at elevations from 8500 to 4000 feet. In three years it has become a banner grain region in the Northwest offering opportunities for homeseekers investors and farmers with a favorable climate abundant fuel coal veins nearby lumber and strong transportation and market links and good schools.
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Atatea
Faille Ures
Lake Basin
Broadview
Yellowstone
Musselshell
Stillwater
Sweetgrass
Montana
Northwest
Rotation farming noted by Montana resident
Thomas Huston of Park City Montana describes using crop rotation on 8 acres for oats corn and beans with consistent yields. He plans flax corn potatoes oats and winter wheat with August 15 to 25 as the winter wheat planting window and notes alfalfa growth and potato yields from a small plot.
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Bagely
Grant County
Wisconsin
Thomass Huston
Farmer recounts early 1900s Montana yields and profits
W. W. Smith describes planting 50 acres in 1909 at Lake Basin, drought year 1910, harvesting 1032 bushels of No 1 turkey red wheat at 63 lb/ bushel, selling at 1.15 per bushel. He reports 88 acres plowed, 350 acres sowed in 1912, oats yield 200-250 bushels per acre, potatoes 200-250, and a cash surplus after expenses and improvements in three farming years.
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Montana
Ananiae Club
Pella
Oaka- Joosa
Iowa
Canada
Marion County
Union
Lake Basin
Billings
W. W. Smith
Mont
Wheat and corn yields cited by John Newton in Broadview district
John Newton declares excellent success in the Broadview district and compares it favorably to the middle states for grain. He reports 1912 harvests of 35 acres of wheat at 40 bushels per acre, 18 acres at 55, 8 acres at 70 from apeltz, and 14 acres of corn at 25 bushels per acre.
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Broadview
Middle States
John Newton
P. O
Mont
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