Local News of the Week Itemized Notes and Nominations
A sprawling page of local notes records illness updates including D J Reitveld with pneumonia and Henry Bernsink with typhoid fever, social visits across towns, upcoming piano vote contests, and notices of finds and repairs. It mentions Mrs Grant Janney visiting, various visitors to Pella, and ongoing bank and railroad developments.
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Chronicle
M. J. Kennedy
South Pella
Evans
W. J. Platt
Pella
Ardent admirer hails Cole's Hot Blast Range value
Norton Sutton of Washington H Ohio praises the Cole hot blast range after four years of use calling it a great fuel saver. She notes cost never exceeded 1 50 per month for coal and that every part remains as good as when new. She highlights superior combustion that saves wasting gases and coal, among many other advantages.
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Norton Sutton
Washington H
Ohio
Cole
Asa
Mosquitoes Cower Clergyman on British Columbia Trip
The Rev John Sheepshanks later bishop of Norwich describes his 1860 British Columbia journey on the Douglas trail where swarms of ferocious mosquitoes dominated camps. Indians painted for protection faced the pest and miners endured a sizzling meal amid noisome swarms, uttered only by a weary man asking for a synonym for chaos.
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John Sheepshanks
Norwich
British Columbia
Douglas Trail
Wayride
Close to Squire Gregson in a somber kitchen tale
A fragment from Youth's Companion recounts how neighbors recall Squire Gregson's marked closeness and sharp humor at a December Sunday dinner. Barton Sedgwick, related by marriage, shares how Gregson forced Sally to stay home with a cold and ordered a soft boiled potato for Miss Sedgwick, then laughed at his own sly mischief.
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Squire Gregson
Abel Nutting
Barton
Sally
Polly
Squire
Jane Wills
Sedgwick
Seeing Under Water Limiting Angle of Vision
A discussion on how light refracts under water defines the limiting angle of vision. It explains how fishes divers and submarine crews experience restricted sight when looking through water into air and vice versa. The piece notes the important role of refraction in underwater perception.
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Quy
Critical angle effect in water mirrors vision experiments
The Chicago Record Herald describes a vision defect where nothing outside is visible unless looked at within forty eight degrees of vertical. Beyond forty eight degrees the surface acts as a perfect mirror reflecting bottom objects, making outside scenes appear huddled high in the air.
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Chicago Record- Herald
Amusing Mohammedan servant joke recalled by London News
Why He Wi Sir Arthur Fanshaw relates a Mohammedan servant who says he is a heathen. When asked what heathen means he explains a worshiper of stocks and stones. The master laments but the servant adds that in his highness’ service there is no time to worship anything.
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Arthur Fanshaw
Sar
London News
Animals He Had Met
A city child visiting the countryside grows fond of his cousin’s dog. When asked if he has pets at home he mentions they have roaches and firew, reflecting a humorous mishearing or incomplete phrasing.
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Hatty
Chicago
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the Bell Clothing
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Mark Clothes
Faassen & den Adel
H. D. Wormhoudt
D’j. Reitveld
Ancel Reuvers
RENNT
Carrie Cox
Knoxville
Belle Marsh
Oskaloosa
Artie Vander Linden
Frank Stubenrauch
Walla Fowler
Des Moines
Ws Auto
Harriet Snow
Grinnell
Iown
Nellie de Haan
Eva, Dixon
Washington
Kansas
Our City
Brooks
Bertha Tysseling
Madison N. J
Beas’ Vanderzyl
Pagosa Springs
Colorado
Duryee
Rawlins
Wyoming
Henry Bernsink
Stucker
Baptist Church
van Niewaal
Visser Bros
Citizens National Bank
Pella National Bank
Plender
Swift
John Goodhart
John
Philadelphia
Garfeld
Mr. Merchant
Covent
Gopyright
W. Ne
Iowa
Eddyville
Mahaska County
J. T. Barnett
Givin
Klyn & DE Winter
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