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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1906
Page
3
Prices for eggs butter cattle hogs oats corn wheat barley flour sugar and onions are listed, with many local names and businesses mentioned. Social notes report visits, dances, sales, lectures, and community events centered on Sheldon and nearby towns.
A. V. B. & Cor offers 20 percent off overcoats and all suits for cash. Miss Mary Tompson slowly recovers from inflammatory rheumatism. Spring suits priced 12.00 to 16.50 and other items listed. The dance Wednesday night drew a crowd though music faltered. a violinist and organist helped finish the evening. In a boat rescue tale, three men saved two stranded sailors after fearing a trick by Indians. Captain Benham lived to old age. his granddaughter married writer George Prentice.
The reminiscence of Stanhope Ewall describes a perilous incident aboard a ship’s side wheel. He fell overboard while fetching newspapers and battled to breathe as the wheel rose and fell. A man later opened a trap door, shouted to him, and pulled him to safety before he fainted.
A fragment describes a convent near Yunakawa seven miles from Binkodate. An aged matron presides over a community of young women aged sixteen to twenty seven. The text hints at implicit obedience to the matron’s instructions.
The article notes a 250 acre farm where a building sits. The women, described as very beautiful, do not engage in farming. They spend most time indoors and observe a strict rule of silence.
A bemused exchange in Lead Pipe Gulch ends when Miss Chilheen of Lead Pipe Gulch admits no taste for music but wants to hear it play. The scene shifts to a culinary recipe from a St Louis post, detailing steps to prepare a plum pudding with brandy flame.
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