Wool Trade Boosts Influx At Greenfield Market
In mid June, sheep owners near Greenfield Adair County sold 59,000 pounds of wool to H. J. Barbour & Son. Of 25,000 pounds sold that day, the high price reached 40 cents per pound, with the best grade at 50 cents. Rejections averaged 35 to 43 cents. The wool, graded and sorted at Harbour Produce House, was shipped to woolen mills in Boston. Two full carloads moved through erecting plant lines, with a substantial local workforce required.
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Greenfield-Adair County
H. J. Barbour & Son
Boston
Prodduce House
Massachusetts
Iowa Far West News Notes and Local Devotions
A collage of local items discusses abandoned groves after a killing frost and a boom in the region. The Iowa Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines renews a five year contract to care for disabled World War I veterans, adding a 60 foot flag pole and a dedication led by Hallard Hollingsworth, who hoisted the flag from an invalid chair. Farmers organize for rewards for thefts, detailing wool losses, hogs, chickens, and cross state pilfering, plus a jittery tale of local poultry egg sales funding gas purchases. A state law now requires business firms to file ownership statements with the county recorder or face fines.
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Iowa Lutheran Hospital
Des Moines
Hallard Hollingsworth
Argonne Post
American Legion
Hollingsworth
Chapel Old Structure in Shakespearean Stratford
The article notes Chapel Street’s medieval chapel of the Guild of the Holy Cross, built around 1206 and rebuilt about 1495 by Sir Hugh Clopton, as Stratford’s visual anchor near New Place. In Shakespeare’s childhood it served as the grammar school, adjacent to his house, with the chapel’s stone and silhouette shaping the town view.
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Stratford-on-Avon
Guild of the Holy Grass
Chapel Street
High Street
London Times
Stratford
Hugh Clopton
Shakespeare
New Place
Spectacles From The Middle Ages To Modern Eyeglasses
The article traces eyewear history from the Afiddie ages when spectacles were first named Spectaculum meaning to see to the later shift to eyeglasses or pince nez. It notes Latin origins, the evolution from clumsy frames to lighter forms, and distinguishes spectacles as a special frame type.
Siegfried the Dragon Slayer and Nemesis of the Niebelungen
The old mythic hero Siegfried, famed for slaying a dragon and gaining a hornless hide, is celebrated for defeating the Niebelungen and seizing their vast treasure. He is slain later by Hagen after Chriemhild reveals the fatal vulnerable spot.
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Siegfried
Niebelungen
Hagen
Chriemhild
Kansas City Times
Sensory and motor continua in Dr Mote’s Lancet note
The passage outlines how sensation and mental imagery trigger reflex activation via proprioceptive pathways including muscle spindles tendons bones and joints. It describes kinesthetic and postural responses formed by an integrated sensory continuum linking exteroceptive input with motor output.
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Frederick Mote
London Lancet
Hippo Carries Dentist The Hunters Report
The Rehaboth Sanday Herald notes that African hippos supposedly carry their dentists in the form of birds. After a meal, the hippo yawns, signaling the bird to enter the mouth and clean the molars, a partnership that benefits both creature and avian caregiver.
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Hippo
Africa
Rehaboth Sanday Herald
Key to Treasure House of Rich Language Passages
Fragmentary prose hints at a discussion of language wealth and exclusive access. The piece mentions Medden and reinoral wealth of words, suggesting a metaphorical critique of gated knowledge or learned vocabularies and their neglect in common usage.
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Treasure House
Grinnell Court Tale Of A Scholar’s Mule Math
In Grinnell a mathematical puzzle sparked a town debate when a man proposed using a mule to divide assets among three sons, Bill Haney and Fen. The incident, recounted with humorous detail, illustrates a frontier style riddle about fairness and division.
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Grinnell
Bill
Haney
Fen
Simple stomach mix promises fast relief
Fragmentary notes describe a home remedy labeled simple mixture for stomach issues with ingredients like huckthorn bark and magnesium glycerine. Claims include gas relief and gentle evacuation with quick, pleasing results. No verified dosage or usage details are provided.
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Niles
Betty English
Lake Shore
Agsful Ventures
Estherville
Cedar ‘Falls
Isses Rachel
Are
Golmpbia University
Wyrick
Ollege
Hopkinton
Emi
Florida
Miami
Mr. Wyrick
Davis County
Iown
Missour
Tom Purcell
Hampton
Frankins
Commssion and Poultry House
Jasper County
Kellogg
Newton
F. Schemmer
Rock Valley
Iowa
Laughlin’s . -Eprograms Coffee Service
Roelofs & Vander Bok
Rock Valley, Iowa
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