Rock Valley News Highlights Local Life and Transfers
Sioux County Herald reports on a new Sioux Valley city court site dispute, local travel for land exams, illnesses and family visits, business sales to reduce stock, a social dance at the club, and entertainment at the opera house. It notes a deceased local, a wedding, and ongoing land parcel transfers with numerous property deeds listed.
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Court House
Will Thomas
Minnesota
Millie Thayer
Chicago
Verna
Shannon Bros
Sioux Center
Opera House
Adrian M. Newens
Mr. Newens
C. W. Kent
Illinois
Samoan Costumes And The Mulberry Cloth Tradition
In Samoa and Tonga women plant and manage paper mulberry trees for cloth making. They harvest a straight eight foot trunk to produce a simple fabric from bark while men wear robes improvised from local materials after chopping trees. The New York Tribune notes the lack of looms and the matriarchal care of plantations.
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South Seas
Pacific
Samoa
Tonga
New York Tribune
Father’s costly sacrifice ends in neglect and pride
A father spends all his money to educate his daughter abroad in music. She returns a famed singer and refuses to acknowledge him. He moves east to live on a pension and sends $20 weekly for her clothes, but she neither sees nor writes. Week by week he grows prouder yet sadder, a City Missionary notes in Ladies' Home Journal.
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Ife
East Side
Ladies’ Home Journal
December Names Through the Ages
December has carried many names as it shifted from March born year to modern calendar. Saxons called it Winter Monat then Ueligh Monat after Christianization, later Christ Monat in Germany. Fires warmed homes, chimneys were scarce, and the month earned the labels Fa mosus smoky and Canus hoary from snows and frost.
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Christ
Germany
The Force of Cyclones and Their Immense Power
Careful estimates place a West Indian cyclone’s energy at well over 400 million horsepower, a figure far exceeding the combined power of steam, water, windmills, and all human and animal effort. The comparison shows the cyclone’s immense force, about fifteen times humanity’s collective output in the same period.
A Treat of Friendship and a Peculiar Test
A gentleman tested friendship by writing to twenty intimate friends asking for a loan of one pound. Thirteen gave no reply, five declined, two promised repayment the next day but failed, one sent ten shillings, and only three sent the full amount. The supplicant and his correspondents are all well off.
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St. Petersburg
Novoe Veremya
One Sign of Old Age
A joke noting aging by contrasting desire to sit by the fire with going sleigh riding. Henry asks how to tell age, John replies a man is old when he prefers the fire to sleigh rides. Source reflects a lighthearted humor tone from Detroit Free Press.
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Henry
John
Detroit Free Press
Sudden Moment Sparks Nerve Debate in Dialogue
Dialogues reveal a tense exchange where Constance admits lacking nerve while Perdita questions the suddenness, noting the other party stutters. The quotation appears in the Chicago Record Herald.
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Perdita
Constance
Chicago Record-Herald
A Story of a Father's Love from a Father's Struggle
A penniless puddler in a fennous trade works hard earning $150 a day. His wife died twenty years ago leaving a daughter who grew to be his devoted companion. Twelve years ago he sold his property to give her a better life and her future remains the central focus of his labor and devotion.
Illustrations that Shape Thought in Classic Sayings
The piece explores how memorable illustrations in quotes from Lowell Mazzini French writer Garfield Lavater Carlyle and others sharpen meaning. It argues that pairing ideas with vivid images makes phrases enduring and helps them stay in the memory.
Notable metals and their varied uses and values
The article lists iridium, lithium, tungsten, molybdenum, selenium, uranium, palladium, and vanadium with用途 and prices per pound. It notes iridium tips pens, lithium medical salts, molybdenum improving steel, selenium in telelectroscope, uranium in glass porcelain, palladium in instruments and the French standard meter, and vanadium in glass coloring and inks.
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France
Italy's Marriage Brokers in Genoa Profit from Dowries
In Genoa several marriage brokers maintain notebooks with the names of eligible girls, noting figures, charm, fortune, and other details. They pursue alliances like business deals and earn a commission of 2 to 8 percent of the dowry plus bonuses chosen by the families.
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Italy
Genoa
How the Chinese Get Rain and Other Observations
A historical excerpt describes Chinese rainmaking beliefs and practices including temple ceremonies, tablets, and journeys for rainfall. The passage shifts to a cattle scene with a young narrator finding a bear and coyotes, detailing quirky, rural frontier events and characters, ending with a friendly bear named Bill Cross.
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Rock Valley
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Brown
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A. J. Warren
Frank Schemmer
Schemmer
Cram
Sheldon
St Marry’s Church
Clara Fiikman
Thomas Scanlon
Galt T
J M Nurphy
Peterson J
H B Spencer
Nee
Anderson W C
Tiedeman
Vredeveld J
W J de Roos Bik
Hull
Klassen C
Grenville
Kalassen J Pto
Mulder P
Christensen
Jensen Cetalto A
Nielsen
Nse
Nielsen A
Engen
Patten
Tod Zoeteman
Pekelder J
W Jansen
Reimann EH
Mr Wyke
Ownese
H Putnam
Gronning JJ
Johnson
Aarde
Weeghel
Pt Waw
Orange City
Fobes R. T
Beckman
Meer Dodto
Goodert J
P Konz
Sanem P
Riedmitter Lts
Ad Hospers
Levering J
Rde Young
Hyink
Vd Schaaf
A W Lohr
Hunt J
KE Wegter
Jacobsma
Aarden
Istaa Hospers
Helkens A
Boskun
Turner J F
Petersen K
Zoeteman B
C Sitter
Peran
Afi
PC Sullivan
James Russell Lowell
Mazzini
Garfield
Lavater
Carlyle
Arennvent
Seph Parker, D. D
Floniletic Review
Celestial Kingdom
Bill Cross
Cross
Perrys
Sheldon la
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Main Street
Iowa
Boyden
Ss. BE
Gannon
Prosen
Dr. Fahrney
Medicimnen
Maagversterker. Com
Roeer
F. J. Gallagher
Ossin Jowett Block
John Finch
Dray & Express
Prics
Harry Tuttle
Capital City Commercial College
Capital City
Shorthand
Young Men's Christian Abe'n Building
Res'moines
Mehan & McCauley
Des Moines
R.R
Freig
Huth
Ukage Wealtby
Weaergeetssary
Thers Co
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