Local Classifieds and Notices for Boyden Iowa
Various advertisements list sales offerings lost items and services in Boyden Iowa. Items include a one horse tied power, pure honey and ice cream, cabbage and tomato plants, a young Polled Durham bull, and a residence for sale along with property on Clafax street. Lost black pocket book containing two five dollar bills seeks return. Notice to sell yellow house on West end of Lot 14 Block 14 for 75 dollars and other small trades and services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. J. de Hoogh
Rev. Allen
Roscoe Creswell
Wm Grooters
Boyden
Iowa
Frank Connell
John Grooters
Ed Lanning
Plese
W.E. Perkins
Sheldon
John Connell
W.S. Kemp
John Morris
Clafax Street
Julia A Greattrax
Spirit Lake
For Sale Local Livestock and Gasoline Stove Ad
For Sale One Thoroughbred Short horn and one Pulled Durham bull cash on time or will trade for horses or cattle. Enquire of A Kuyper Gasoline Stove For Sale Three burner self generator almost new best make cheap Writer for particulars H Grooters Allendorf Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Kuyper
H. Grooters
Allendorf
Iowa
Pasturage Rates for Cattle and Horses
The undersigned offers pasture for cattle at 70 cents per month per head and for horses at 1 dollar per month per head. Signature: Conrad Moeller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conrad Moeller
Train schedule fragment hints at multiple routes and times
Schedule fragment lists lines Dime Ta de No TZ Jaguary F190 Westwarn Nos and Nos 31 61 95 71 with passenger and freight times around 11:22 4:50 7:30 8:06 and 6:13 PM. Notes say Sunday service for Nos 31 and 38 and other services daily except Sunday, agent FP B. Cong. Arna de.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eee “ Beaudheard
Sotek
Orly
FP. B. Cong
Lace Bark Trees The Beautiful and Serviceable Dress Material
Lace bark trees produce a natural lace fabric from their bark, with only a few species valuable. The material yields cream white, easily unfoldable sheets that bleach to white, is very light, and used for mantillas collars veils shawls and curtains in the West Indies and beyond. A single sheet can measure about a square yard and two sheets are joined for larger pieces. Even a thin string of lace bark resists nearly all human strength when rolled tight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tiawail
Samoa
West Indies
New York World
Uncongenial Flowers and Florist Advice on Arrangements
A florist rebukes a new clerk over floral pairings in a table decoration order. He warns against mixing mignonette with roses and notes how different flowers and mismatched foliage affect longevity, citing pansies violets jonquils daffodils carnations and green foliage as examples.
A Lure For Cock Robin and Its Bird Laws
The piece discusses using two clinking coins to mimic a robin’s metallic note to attract cock robins. It notes past English practice of snaring male robins with a dummy bird and copper pennies, and warns this trick violated U S bird laws. The passage ends that such clinking coins now serve a more sociable purpose.
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Iingland
Cock Robin
United States
A Fortune In a Song
The article notes song writing can be highly lucrative for skilled writers and that the piece The Lost Chord earned royalties of 12 cents per copy for both Sir Arthur Sullivan and Madam Antoinette Sterling. The song’s enduring popularity benefitted publishers as well.
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Arthur Sullivan
Antoinette Sterling
Onion Soup and Fame in French Academy History
A restoration era club named Diner de la Soupe a Onion gathered twenty members and met quarterly beginning with onion soup. It aimed to elect associates to the academy, achieving this in 1845 at the last banquet. Also, Pat Murphy’s tale ends with a humorous prison death prophecy tied to a hanging fate.
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French Academy
France
Academy
Society Reporter Bets Wife Will Talk in Twenty-Second Edition
A society reporter taunts a husband about his wife speaking on record, predicting she will reveal more in the upcoming twenty second edition. The exchange hints at sensational coverage and anticipated gossip.
4 Vacancy Filled and a Cold in the Head
In New York Press a brief notes a vacancy filled while a humorous exchange contrasts illness with worth. The dialogue features Gerald and Geraldine reflecting modest resignation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerald
Geraldine
New York Press
Many Doctors and the Sixteenth Century Wager
A tale from Joubert’s 1579 Popu lar Errors Concerning Medicine recounts Gonelle the jester proving that doctors are abundant by collecting hundreds of medical opinions on a toothache from passersby. It notes a belief in Australian lore that left eyes of chiefs became stars after death, with Shungle’s tale of eating an eye creating a double star near the Southern Cross.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joubert
Bordeaux
France
Gonelle
Duke of Ferrara
Genelle
Monseigneur
Gouelle
Australia
Shungle
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Farmers Exchange
P. de Boer
Fahrney
H. D. Ossenfort
Bobby Cab
W. M. Edes
C. L. Beach
Hall, Iowa
Lubbers Hardware
R.R
Talbe Cc
ST. Paul
Westwarn
Passeneer
IASTW
Pasenger
Mivedl
Arna de
ART
Harry Tuttle
M. Brink, M. D
Rush Medical College
Pat
Rishamn
Patrick Murphy
Arrah
Honey
Sclorema
W. van der Well
Bosden
Perl
Blacksmin
Boyden Sample Room
Henry Lorenzen
C&j Michel Beer
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