Boyden Reporter Subscription Notice
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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1910
Page
2
Subscription price stated as 1.00 per year in advance or 1.50 at end of term. No paper discontinued until notified and all arrears paid in full.
This notice sets local ads at five cents per line. Display ads cost seven cents per running inch on pages two to four and eight cents per inch on the first page or preferred position. Cards of thanks are fifty cents. Charitable ads or those with an admission fee or financial gain receive half price.
The undersigned will sell at his farm 214 miles northwest of Boyden on Wed February 2 1910 at 10 oclock sharp. Auction includes 2600 lb black team 3100 lb sorrel team several mares and ponies young stock tools and machinery such as McCormick binder Blackhawk planters cultivators fences hay equipment wagons harnesses and farm implements plus 50 gallons tank 25 tons hay and livestock all with pig. Terms usual. ARIE KUYPER Van Zyl Auct. W H Eddy Clerk.
A quote exchange notes a brother holds a leading part in a drama as he leads a horse across the stage in the final act. The exchange highlights theater roles and stage direction.
On February 9 1910 Mrs H W Bomgaars will sell her property one mile east and five and a half miles south of Boyden. The sale items include 12 head of horses 44 head of cattle 23 Poland China sows 6 barrows 800 bushels of corn 13 tons of slough hay one stack of millet hay all farm machinery some household furniture 23 acres of corn in field and 60 shocks of corn. 2w Mrs H W Bomgaars.
An 19th century style ad offers a $100 reward for a case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It lists J J Cheney Co Toledo and endorsers Walding Kinnan Marvin Wholesale Druggists Toledo. The remedy is claimed to act on blood and mucous surfaces and includes testimonials, pricing 75 cents per bottle.
Public sale to be held at the Van Zyl farm two miles west of Boyden and five miles east of Hull on Tuesday February 1 1910 starting at 4 PM. Catalog includes 4 horses and 1 mule, 10 cattle good milking cows and heifers, 3-year and 2-year-old bulls, 11 spring calves, farm machinery such as wagons mower rake corn planter harrows disc incubator cream separator and harnesses. Free lunch at noon. Terms usual. C Van Zyl Auctioneers Sime Smidt Will H Eddy Clerk.
During the 1908 Ziegler expedition aboard the steamship America the crew abandoned ship on ice. In the rush to salvage usable items the cook tossed a large bag overboard causing laughs. The ship’s lamps later used pickle bottles with bottoms cut out as improvised chimneys.
A Birmingham school lesson on railway booking leads to a prankish answer from a boy. When asked how a father would gain a seat on a train, Spry blurts out the witty solution that he would have to pawn his tools.
A Manchester Guardian correspondent analyzes English pronunciation in a French dictionary from Pierre Larousse 1890. Examples show French speakers rendering phrases like broken down dead heat high life self government and shocking with striking mispronunciations.
A humorous cartoon caption features Chief Emma lamenting the inability to recruit a plain clothes woman for the detective force, while a friend criticizes the force as a failure.
A Buffalo Express quotation depicts a Piute Chief explaining why he did not torture a bald man, noting the man had been married for twenty years. The exchange reflects frontier humor and cross culture ribbing among Native and non Native speakers.
The quote suggests overdoing emphasis to the point of nullifying impact. It warns that attempting excessive emphasis can erode clarity and forcefulness in communication.
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