Humboldt's bend hosts a Friday concert and social
County notes from Humboldt report a concert and social at Mrs. Dickey's while Rev. D. W. Morgan attends an ordination council. H. A. French seeks Chicago work, and a U. S. Marshal investigates the blind pig trade taking a citizen to Fort Dodge. Local variety includes obituaries, school terms, and community updates on births, marriages, deaths, and town events.
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Humboldt’s Bend
H._A. French
Chicago
United States
Fort Dodge
Before the prison door the ex-convicts endure doubt
Excerpts reveal inmates discussing post release life and reform. They argue many pathways into crime exist but few out, stressing stigma, employment barriers, and need for humane reform within society. The piece notes white ribbon women's reform effort and calls for government aligned programs.
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Missouri State Penitentiary
Teondema
Reess
Exhausting Labor and Budget Strain Hit State Official
The official earns little despite duties and clerks as deputies. legislative cuts may force retirement with a $200 monthly stipend. The piece laments pneumonia season and touts One Minute Cough Cure as a remedy, urging insistence on it from H. B. Cole.
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H. B. Cole
Jelse
Understanding Crossed Money Orders Across Nations
A historical note explains crossed money orders used for small remittances to English societies. Americans may rent or send orders that are crossed with two lines, restricting payment to a bank, or payable to a specified institution. The practice varies by country, with transfers routed directly to payday offices in some cases.
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England
United Kingdom
Bender
Ponteffica
Germany
Belgium
Austria
Italy
New York
Tritone
H. L.cleveland
Agai
Siding X
Arion
Architects Will Discuss Hotel Sketches March Third and Twenty Fourth
The Upper Des Moines notes architects will attend on March 3 and 24 to submit hotel plans to Mr. Durdal. Contributors to the bonus may inspect the sketches. The piece also mentions Algona’s light plant progress and a memorial column of local anecdotes, including a probate case and a dramatic rail-sketch excerpt.
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J. £. Wison
Eagle Grove
Second Electrict Light Company
Durdal
Upper
Des Moines
Algona
Burlington
No Stoves in Korea Heated by Fines on Floors
A New York Press excerpt notes Koreans avoid stoves, using a floor heating system built from a fireplace in an outer area. Flues curve to a rear trench and a cemented, oil paper covered floor retains heat daily for meals and overnight warmth.
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New York
Preas
Maori marriage customs and tiger sacrifice observed by Gond tribe
The excerpt discusses Maori women gaining rights to divorce and remarriage, with brief courtships and remarriage freedom. It contrasts widow suicides with honor, and notes betrothal from infancy. It also describes the Gonds offering to a tiger god with a funeral rite including a decapitated hen and snail coins, praising the tiger as a mighty creature.
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Australasia
China
Electric streetcar conductor prescribes cure for croup
A Sedalia Missouri streetcar conductor writes that his ACE was very low with croup and after doctors failed, used Une Minuly Cough Cure. The note names Tilt Ganvert and H BCole among those involved.
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Sheer
Sedalia
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Bert Saxton
Mary O’connel
Pontiac
Hardy
Iowa
Methodist Church
Mary
Hattie McComb
Stoilherd
Hattie
Anne Enatsons
Nes Matson
Lanj
Elmer Engstrom
Hiss
Miss Pringie
Charley Jenkins
Ledyard
Charley Packard
Thor Berg
Montana
Gus Plumler
Nate Loobey
Ed Schoolcraft
John Palmer
Elmer
Imeet
Minnesota
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Renwick
Will Houghton
Imai
G. Malone
O'Keefe
Frank Orion
Frank
Wright County
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Keeler
Belmond
Harry Summers
Jennie King
Clarion
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J.B. Beisell
Clarion Roller Mills
Cara
Cole
C.T. U
Ital
E. E. Robinson
P.B. Scott
Gasfield
Mr. Scott
Lowa
Waverly
Guldfeld
Fountain City
Quila
Santiago
Lanarés
Shafter
Americana
Schley
Cerveri
S. M.wesver
Webster City
William Barber
Olmstead
Barber
Korea
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