Farmers Exchange Classifieds in Boyden Iowa
Local ads list items for sale including cattle pasture rent 65c per month, a one horse tied power, a young polled Durham bull, a residence in Boyden, pure honey and ice cream offers, cabbage and tomato plants, and a yellow house sale near Spirit Lake. Lost pocket book with two $5.00 bills to be returned. Listings show several residents and addresses in Boyden and Spirit Lake Iowa.
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D. J. de Hoogh
Rev. Allen
Roscoe Creswell
Wm Grooters
Boyden
Iowa
Frank Connell
John Grooters
Ed Lanning
Plese
W.E. Perkins
Sheldon
For Sale Two Live Stock by A Kuyper
One Thoroughbred Short horn and one Pulled Durham bull offered for sale cash on delivery or will trade for horses or cattle. Enquire of A Kuyper.
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A. Kuyper
Gasoline Store For Sale In Allendorf Iowa
Three burner self generator almost new best make for sale. Writer for particulars H Grooters Allendorf Iowa.
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H. Grooters
Allendorf
Iowa
Pasturage Rates Named by Conrad Moeller
The undersigned will pasture cattle at 70 cents per month per head and horses at 1 dollar per month per head. Conrad Moeller.
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Conrad Moeller
Time Table of Rail Passenger and Freight Schedules
The notice lists various passenger and freight trains with intermediate times including Westward No 4 5:50 AM and No 8 Passenger 3:06 PM, noting Nos 31 and 38 operate Sunday only and all others daily except Sunday. Agent F B Corey signs as the agent.
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Pasenger
Sotek
F. B. Corey
Brick and Stone Laying and Cistern Construction
All kinds of brick and stone laying, cistern and cellar building with cement side works and building blocks properly made.
Gambling joke yields fortune then exposes counterfeit note
An English visitor in Monte Carlo wins big after a joke five pound note sent by a broke friend proves counterfeit. He bets, wins, and celebrates at Ciro's restaurant, only to be exposed when the note is revealed as a fake tied to a Drury Lane pantomime advertisement. A second player loses 1,000 francs, exchanged for 2,000 francs when the croupier misreads a chip cue.
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Monte Carlo
Ingland
Ciro
Galerie
Charles VII
Augustus Harris
Monaco
Croupler
Black
Ward Muir
Chambers’ Journal
Pointed Paragraphs on Ignorance and Wish
The passage ponders personal troubles and the futility of wishes. It compares happiness to a bankrupt check and implies individuals bear distinct challenges. The voice invites reflection on one’s own trouble and value of wishes.
Queer Drummers and Honest Grievances
A collage of brief anecdotes on daily frictions and just deserts. The Atchison Globe notes frustrations over perceived schemes and the sting of being told to prove one’s right in trivial disputes. The Cincinnati Enquirer recalls odd drum anecdotes about eye color and glass eyes.
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Ilim
Cincinnati Enquirer
What Father Does
What Father Does says a father's actions shape a boy's character and future. Mothers may speak and strive, but the son measures virtue by the father's conduct in daily life and work. The piece argues fathering defines both beginnings and ends of a boy's achievements.
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Harper’s Bazar
Precocious Fox Charles James sits early in Commons
The article notes Charles James Fox as a youth of nineteen when he represented Midhurst and delivered three strong maiden speeches in a few months. It remarks on his later habit of staying up all night drinking and gambling, highlighting his precocious but wild early career.
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Fox
Charles James
Commons
Midhurst
Examination Wanted on Matches Made in Heaven
A witty line from a Chicago News quip about matchmaking in heaven and brimstone, spoken by a thoughtful boarder who asks how matches are made when hell keeps all the brimstone in the other place.
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Chicago News
Love as Insanity Explored in The Smart Set
Fragmented dialogue hints at romantic obsession as a literary conceit. Names appear as characters Bob and Ethel in a playful exchange about love and reason, reflecting early 20th century magazine wit.
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Bob
Ethel
Liquid Corn Prospecting in North Georgia Hills
An easterner prospecting in the North Georgia mountains asks a mountaineer how he harvests corn on a steep hillside. The mountaineer dryly answers that he uses jugs to bring the corn down.
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North Georgia Mountains
Atlanta
Seals Learn to Swim and Fear Waves
Seals gradually adapt to water learning to swim, either entering on their own or being carried by mothers. They fear foam crested waves and retreat to high places above the sea when danger nears. A sage notes success lies in predicting the unexpected, a line from American Spectator.
A Too Familiar Snake in a Indian Veranda
An English nurse recalls a boy living near her in India who fed a cobra with milk on the veranda. The child taps the snake with his spoon and scolds it saying Naughty, naughty. Snakes roam verandas and shed their skin unpredictably in that mysterious country.
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India
Hera
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Fannney
H. D. Ossenfort
Yellow House
John Connell
W.S. Kemp
John Morris
Clafax Street
Julia A Greattrax
Spirit Lake
Bobby Cab
W. M. Edes
C. L. Beach
Hall, Iowa
Lubbers Hardware
R.R
Cc. MI
FAO
Fenustry
Possenyver Llizg
Breighit
ART
M. Brink, M. D
Rush Medical College
Atchison Globe
American Spectator
Sehoenemai Bros
W. van der Well
Bosden
City Meat Market
Perl
Boyden Sample Room
Henry Lorenzen
C&j Michel Beer
Boyden, Iowa
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