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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1906
Page
4
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One Thoroughbred Short Horn and one pulled Durham bull offered for sale with cash on time or trade for horses or cattle. Enquire of A Kuyper.
Classified items list real estate on Main Street Boyden and nearby plots, medical and antique items for sale. Buyers are directed to Spirit Lake Indiana Box 125 Dr Greattrax, P De Boer for Fahreny Medicine, and local sellers including R Baas Bobby Cab Mrs W M Edes John Grooters Minnie Smith Hull for honey harness looms and a fly shuttle.
A historic scene in British Columbian legislature where Mr. de Cosmus spoke from 10 a.m. to noon the next day to block a bill that would have deprived settlers of their lands. Exhausted, with bloodshot eyes and cracked lips, he finished after twenty six hours, securing the outcome.
A description of the banana plant noting it is not a tree but a large fleshy plant with tall leaves. It grows ten to fourteen feet or more, produces one fruit bunch per plant, and sends up eight to nine suckers for successive fruiting. Bananas ripen year round and fields require weed control and thinning of suckers.
Time Table No 72 dated January 4 shows westward service slots including 11 92 AM 11 22 AM 4 50 AM 7 30 AM 8 35 AM and 7 35 PM with train numbers 190 31 61 95 73. The fragment lists arrival or departure times for early morning to evening services.
List of uncalled letters includes Mrs. Guy Tipton. A one cent fee is charged for each advertised letter. When calling for letters say Advertised. Office hours 8:00 to 8:00. J. C. Pryne, P.M.
The article describes a 19th century wooden watch made by Victor Doriot of Bristol Tennessee. The case used brick root wood and most inner gears came from an old boxwood rule while three wheels were metal. The face used the shoulder blade of a cow. the open faced watch had a glass crystal and was praised by local watchmakers as elegant workmanship.
The great Roman orator Hortensius possessed extraordinary memory. After composing a speech he could recite it verbatim. Once he attended an all day auction and, for a wager, copied a list of sold items with prices and buyers in order of sale.
Dr. Arthur J Hayes in The Source of the Blue Nile explains linnets drinking at the Atbara river. They come in an undulating rush, small birds whose wind beating the air makes a thunder like noise and darken the sky as they alight and bend branches toward the water.
The article notes algebra from Mohammed of Buziana circa 850 A D and traces its spread by Moors to Spain. Luca Paccoli’s 1494 treatise is cited as Europe’s first. Robert Recorde, Cambridge professor, produced English algebra about 1557 and introduced the equals sign.
In a light exchange from the San Francisco Call a reader asks if a woman has been married long and the response notes she has not, adding a quip about her husband eating cloves because he likes them.
A tale about Ferdinand I of Austria who, after craving dumplings during a thunderstorm trip, insisted on their daily serving. Courtiers and doctors balked but the emperor proclaimed I emperor I am and dumplings I will have, shaping a proverb that echoed through court superstition.
The article traces iron’s discovery across myth and history. It cites Tubal Cain and Hephaestus as early discoverers, cites Dactyles on Mount Ida, and notes biblical mentions by Jeremiah and Ezekiel. It mentions Egyptian use, iron furnaces in Moses and Job, and iron’s role in trade and smelting from Sparta to Britain before Roman times.
A small coasting steamer with passengers from England, America, France, Italy, and a German encounters language confusion at dinner. The steward announces in multiple languages to invite all aboard to eat, leaving the German man alone and muttering in relief about no Germans getting food.
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