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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1911
Page
4
The Boyden Reporter lists publication details and subscription rates. Rates: 100 dollars per year in advance, 1.50 at year end. Notices that papers aren’t discontinued without notice and arrears must be paid in full. Advertising rates available on application. Card of thanks and charitable ads have half price when admission or financial gain is involved.
The bulletin invites attendance at a barber shop meeting Thursday at 7 15 to organize a ball team and urges boosters to support Ty Cobb and Hans Wagner. It notes upcoming sow sales, a hospital operation for Hattie Stryland, and plans for a Boyden picnic with mass meeting to set date and committees.
A mixed page of small ads and reports notes sash curtains at 1 sc and carpets on sale, plus farm stock for sale and a milch cow heading to be fresh. Local incidents include a dump ground fire, a hog accident, and injuries when a buggy upset after a near miss with a car. Ethel McCabe remains hospitalized in Hull under care.
An explorer recounts a comic and serious episode with Kermanshah customs guards. He refuses a bribe for baggage and, after a verbal clash, swaps mounts with an Arab guide to ride on past the checkpoint amid local laughter.
A garbled excerpt discusses common misquotations and proper forms. It notes that “a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still” and cites corrections to famous lines such as “Let him first cast a stone” and “A miss of an inch is as good as a mile.” It also mentions misattributions to Pope and Franklin.
A pointed exchange asks why someone is described as vulgar and answers that he has at least ten times as much money as the speaker. The remark reflects attitudes toward wealth and propriety in the era's discourse.
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