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Newspaper
Postville Review
Location
Postville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1908
Page
2
For sale or rent a house with five acres of land on the east side of the city owned by J H Gray. Apply to F W Roberts. Tomorrow at the ball park the Old Famous First vs the New Famous First to entertain M B A convention delegates. Batteries Koevenig Schultz Gregg Beicher. Admission 25 cents.
Low fares every day from September 1 to October 31 to California and the Pacific Northwest. One way second class Chicago to San Francisco Los Angeles Portland Seattle Tacoma Spokane Victoria Vancouver and more. 888 for a one way ticket. Choice of routes with liberal stopovers. 87 for double berth in tourist sleeper Chicago to Pacific Coast. Information free from F A Miller General Passenger Agent Chicago.
An article recounts a rumor about a rattlesnake tooth found in a packet and described like a tiny horn with a sharp point and a hollow canal. The sea keeper warns handling it, noting snake bites from shed teeth can cause bad sores, as keepers often find loose teeth in snake cages during natural shedding.
The old Gaelic language united Celtic branches, resembling other Celtic dialects so closely that all Celts could speak it. It was spoken by Manxmen, Welsh, Scottish highlanders, Cornish, Bretons and many Irish, and remains in parts of Ireland, Wales, the highlands, and the Tale of Man.
A brief exchange shows Mrs Nurich and Widow Downes discussing a supposed job for a boy. Nurich denies giving any position, noting no note from Her and deriding the term mere pittance as the Wess ol must fad employment. The Philadelphia Press records the witty clash with a skeptical tone.
A humorous exchange where a sitter accepts a drink then jokes about a small invitation. The narrator explains the invitation is a calculated ruse to produce a natural and interested facial expression. The excerpt captures a light, witty tone from Tit-Bits.
A fragmented courtroom exchange centers on a joke about shopping for meat and lumber. The judge points out the setting mix up between a butcher shop and a lumber yard, leaving the gag unresolved in this clipped dialogue.
The Woman's Congregational Society will hold its regular meeting Friday September 11 at 3 pm in the church parlors. Members should bring contributions for the north Indian school and the southern colored children’s school. Second hand clothing sheets towels are welcome. Each attendee is asked to bring a new towel sheet or pillow case to be made at the meeting. Mrs F W Pease, President. Mrs J E Perry, Secretary.
The Dubuque Times Journal introduces a sweeping popularity voting contest with five pianos five diamond rings five gold watches five scholarships and other prizes. Beginning July 18 the event attracts nearly 200 candidates and expands outreach across five districts to boost subscriptions and readership in rural and urban towns alike.
The article describes mirages near Tenerife and the Dardanelles, where the false peak appears opposite the true summit. It explains how sailors misread the illusion, risking wrecks, and notes mirages of ships in the sky and grotesque reflections near the Dardanelles, with distant true objects often unseen until after reflections fade.
The article explains how lions typically strike at the head or throat to kill swiftly, often seizing the muzzle of large beasts to break their jaw or cause failure. It notes that solo lions attack quickly, while a group bites and tears over a longer kill, with detailed observations from Selous and Belous.
Curious laws from Nepal and India reveal peculiar practices. Willing cows faced capital punishment for murder. Girls at birth were betrothed to a betel fruit cast into a sacred stream, preventing widowhood. Divorce required placing a betel nut under a husband’s pillow and leaving. Days began at first light when roof tiles could be counted.
A Washington Star excerpt quotes a police commissioner declaring his force is effective because they are well trained. He notes training applies to all tasks and smiles at a pun about a nurse discussed by two physicians, implying she was likely trained before her engagement to a wealthy patient.
Two Irishmen discuss sleep praising its value as a luxury. They joke about the difficulty of staying asleep long enough to enjoy a deep nap, lamenting morning. The quip captures playful accents and broad humor of the era.
In a brief, witty exchange quoted by the Philadelphia Press a woman chides a man for taking offense at sharp words, then he replies magnanimously that her mouth is so small he hardly noticed it, illustrating playful banter.
The Brooklyn Eagle recounts how Leonardo da Vinci sought a noble face for Jesus in The Last Supper and later found the model for Judas in Pietro Bandinelli, a choirboy whose refined features later reflected a fallen life. The tale intertwines art, fate, and moral warning from a famed Renaissance scene.
An anecdote recounts Congressman Quarles describing a dinner with a leading New York banker and other financiers. A faux pas with smoked beef tongue leads to a quip about lapsus linguae as the host tries to ease embarrassment. The tale contrasts wit and a boastful guest’s vocabulary with a later spill and playful correction.
The account describes Indian anglers fishing day and night along the Chileat River. A fisherman uses a pole with a steel hook to snag salmon by striking and pulling the fish into the bank, a method labeled snagging salmon.
A Quaint Gunnison Gazette piece counsels young men to be patient and wait rather than risk losing a chance at love. It imagines a sunlit front door scene where a girl delays chores, warning that another suitor could arrive and claim the prize before you act.
A cryptic note ponders a one wheel vehicle as a bicycle and a tricycle as three wheels. It cites a girl’s sentiment after a man loses his job and offers Franklin-esque maxims on frugality, industry, and good estate from Atlangs Journal.
The Chicago Tribune notes how various groups substitute mild profanity with regional phrases. Southerners, Pennsylvanians, Hoosiers, and Germans, French, and sailors each have distinct non profane exclamations like gosh all fshhooks, sacred camels, or shiver my timbers.
The article describes identical steps to assay gold and silver. It details heating and melting the sample, quenching in water to granulate, boiling in sulphuric acid to dissolve silver while gold precipitates, then depositing metals on copper in a ferment, forming blue vitriol, pressing into cakes, melting again in separate vats, and finally forming ingots ready for the market.
Johnson started a dictionary project with high hopes yet took nine years and paid assistants from a small $7,500 recompense. Webster labored twenty four years before his work appeared, noted for strict definitions. The writer notes the difficulty of tracing short Saxon words and their twisted histories.
London scents of soot and fried fish greet the returning traveler while Calais hints at garlic. Paris carries chocolate and wood smoke, Florence violets and sewage, and Moscow bears a cranberry scent from Crimea in late summer. St Petersburg welcomes with a striking aroma of its own.
The Cholula pyramid in Mexico has a base length of 1 488 feet and a height of 178 feet. The Great Pyramid of Egypt, also known as the pyramid of Cheops, originally had sides of 764 feet each but now measure 746 feet due to coating removal. Wilkinson notes an original height of 480 feet 9 inches, now 460 feet.
Dialogue fragment shows Hattle asserting George loves her and wants marriage while Ella questions if he has spoken, noting George’s strong dislike of mamma. This piece reads as a serialized social column fragment from Chicago Tribune, reflecting personal reputations and romantic gossip of the era.
A brief note from London remarks that sympathy can become a toy, and worry, when pressed, yields little help. The author suggests worrying serves no real purpose and encourages focus beyond anxious feeling.
An excerpt describes Madeira as peaceful yet busy, where all transport uses stone sledges and rumbling runners. Visitors ride down cobbled hills in secured carriages pulled by oxen at the bottom, where pedestrians must walk or ride slow bullock carts. The scene contrasts quiet beauty with a bustling, loud descent through flowered villas and tight lanes.
Professor Koenig in Wissen fur Alle traces the modern horse to neolithic roots, likely domesticated from a tarpan ancestry and later mixed with long maned Egyptian and Arab lineages. He suggests the Arab horse descended from earlier long maned stock, possibly from an extinct Indian species.
A Metropolitan Magazine piece by Eustace Miles advises simple daily habits to improve health. It urges rubbing the skin during routine intervals, deep breathing at crossings and before tasks, and regular postural and breathing exercises. The guidance emphasizes no extra time and gradual gains in breathing, endurance, vigor, complexion, and temper through automatic habits.
An antiquated note describes Adam dying and charging his sons to embalm and bury him in the cave of Al-Kanuz near paradise with myrrh and incense. The body would later be moved to the earth’s center for salvation of posterity, a task said to be carried out by Noah and Melchisedek at Calvary.
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