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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1910
Page
3
The undersigned will sell a tract north of Pleasant street containing seven to eight acres. The land offers good ground for buildings and is currently pasture. Prices are reasonable. Contact Rouwenhorst in Boyden, Iowa.
One of the nicest cottages with barn in town offered for 2000 dollars. A fine large house and barn on two corner lots in Boyden, modern and practically new, price 3000 dollars. Dakota farm to rent 125 acres cultivated land with fair improvements. Dr Brink.
Harry Nienhuis P Ceater in Sheldon Iowa advertises pianos organs and Singer sewing machines offering sales and repair services in the local storefront trade.
In a downtown hotel lobby a bellboy exclaims I declare while shoving a telegram to an irascible patron. The old man reads B. Clair and asks for answer as others watch, the scene ending with the puzzled crowd.
Austrian shopkeepers keep their windows pristine with displays that cover most stock. Windows open outward from the street, enabling storefronts to appear larger. Large panes are dressed from the outside each morning, and neighboring walls are rented to extend the visual space. When a buyer wants an item, the clerk retrieves it from the street with a key and returns it after viewing.
Clorinda, black and heroic, imitates her slender mistress Mrs Henderson in fashion. She asks for low shoes like hers, noting desire for a slightly wider fit and a larger buckle to resemble her lady.
Louis Spohr born Brunswick April 5 1784 rival of Paganini and renowned German violinist and composer. He influenced violin playing and music broadly and conducted The Flying Dutchman in Cassel in 1848 before his death in Cassel 1859.
A Newark Call item describes a local manufacturer angered by a customer who paid a ninety day bill but deducted two cents for postage. The upset businessman plans to send a receipt in full via telegraph and have the sender pay the charge.
The St Louis Star recalls how the Supreme Court of the United States fills the room every Monday at noon with lawyers clerks and spectators. Chief Justice speaks softly while other justices render crucial decisions in muffled words creating a solemn cost of understanding.
A newly rich woman at an aristocratic dinner hides a lettuce wrapped caterpillar to save the meal. The hostess, impressed by her calm, grants social approval. The guest tells her daughter she would not miss a chance to cement the family’s place in society.
The article explains how Spanish children bear three or four given names plus combined paternal and maternal surnames. When surnames are doubled or linked with y meaning and the first is the main one, the father’s name is dominant and can stand alone. The son may share a Christian name with the father but uses the mother’s surname as a distinction.
Thackeray stood six feet two inches. H W Lucy notes Dickens and John Bright wore seven and five eighth inch hats. Gladstone and Macaulay had seven and three eighth inch hats, Beaconsfield seven. Daniel O Connell’s would have measured eight and a half by ten inches, the largest among them.
A fragmented dialogue shows a woman pressuring to marry on $3,000 a year while discussing gowns and food. The exchange hints at money worries and social expectations in a domestic setting.
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