Real Estate Transfers and Recordings This Week
Eunice Davis transfers to Lydia M. Cissna a 27 6 6 20 gift. Samuel C. Bradley transfers to Wm Kramer two parcels for 200. David Schaaf transfers to Wm Schaaf two parcels for 4110. David Schaaf to Charles Schaaf two parcels for 900. Eva G. Thomas to Florentine Fishback lot 7 in Rockport for 127.05. Nine mortgages 60 releases one contract and one certificate recorded this past week.
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Eunice Davis
Lydia M. Cissna
Samuel C. Bradley
Wm. Kramer
David Schaaf
Charles £. Schaaf
Eva G. Thomas
Florentine Fishback
Rockport
Misplaced Charitableness and a Tale of Italian Regard for Animals
A column contrasts Democratic critique of the Republican party during a financial crisis with accusations of misused power. It then recounts a London Times anecdote about a Lombard peasant shielding his donkey from a storm on a lake steamer, praising his mercy.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Congress
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Desenzano
Riva
Salo
London Times
City Man Teaches Forkless Lunch Lesson
A Cork man eats a meal with only a knife after a mistaken absence of a fork. His city friend insists no fork is needed, prompting the farmer to protest with a comic question about stirring coffee as a joke from the London Opinion.
Invention of Spinning: From Distaff to Spinning Wheel
Ancient legends credit Minerva the goddess of wisdom with spinning. Egyptian monuments show spindle use earlier than 1500 B C in Greece. The spindle evolved into a wheel and frame, with mechanical action via hand or foot, leading to the spinning wheel and later the eight-spindle spinning jenny of 1767.
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Minerva
Greece
Arcadia
Mermaids Promised by Aberden Almanac 1688 Forecast
The Aberden Almanac of New Prognostications for 1688 predicts sightings of mermaids and mermen at the Dee river estuary on specific dates including May 1 13 29 and October 7 14. It urges observers to hear their harmonious voices praise God and the king.
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Aberden
Dee
Heaving the Log and Speed by the Knot
The log line is a quadrant shaped wood loaded with lead. A 120 fathom line is divided into knots every forty seven feet. Each knot corresponds to twenty eight seconds 43 of an hour, so knots released in twenty eight seconds equal the ship’s speed in knots per hour.
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St. James
The Ground Hog Sleeping Deeply in Winter
The author muses on the woodchuck’s winter retreat as a journey beneath the ground to a sheltered, milder realm. He compares the woodchuck’s sleep to a mystic passage beyond time and space, with a hoped return in spring alongside the bobolink.
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Woodchuck
Bobolink
Orinoco
Bobelink
Dallas Sharp
Atlantic
Limit of Human Strength in Height and Weight
Experiments show average strength varies by height and weight. A man 5 feet tall and 126 pounds lifts 156 pounds to 8 inches and 21 percent to 1.2 inches. Taller men lift higher amounts, with 6 feet 1 inch at 185 pounds moving 156 pounds to 13 inches. A 6 feet 3 inch, 188 pound man raises 156 pounds to 1.5 inches and 217 pounds to 0.5 inches. Overall, the average strength equals lifting 30 pounds a distance of 2 1/4 feet each second.
You may take the crow and I’ll take the turkey saying origin
An Indian and a white hunter killed a crow and a turkey. The white man offered split, but the Indian replied you don’t fly turkey to me once. This anecdote explains the familiar saying.
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St. Louis Republic
The Origin of the Word Filibuster
The origin of filibuster traces to marlish adventurers and French buccaneers. The French term flibustier influenced the English form, with the word once thought to derive from freebooter.
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Flibustier
The Ideal Preserves Complexions Notably
A humorous exchange between two college girls on late hours and preserved complexions. One says she must reach her room to protect her complexion while the other quips the bought kind is already preserved. The remark echoes campus manners in the Philadelphia Press brief.
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Philadelphia Press
Independence Talk Amid Marriage Debate
A fragment quotes Meggen Dorter Blatter debating marriage and independence, with the speaker insisting she is married yet maintains personal autonomy and sewing for herself. The brief exchange highlights themes of partnership and self-reliance.
Very Stupid Village Schoolmaster Explains Ped and Undgaped
A brief London Opinion item quotes a schoolmaster asking Jones the difference between himself and a pig. Jones cannot answer. The exchange appears as a humorous, clipped note reflecting everyday banter in a portrait of language and manners.
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Jones
London
Quote: A man who can laugh at himself can laugh at the world
A Balzac aphorism asserts that self mockery enables broader resilience and amused detachment toward life’s broader, often harsher, challenges.
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Balzac
Time Card for Southern By Trains from Rockport
Train schedule shows daily departures No 41 at morning, No 43 at 10 am except Sunday, No 45 at 6 pm with 6 30 on Sundays. arrivals No 40 at 9 30 am, No 42 at 1 10 pm, No 44 at 9 35 pm. All trains connect at Lincoln City for Evansville Louisville. Nos 41 and 45 connect to St Louis and the West. No 45 offers direct Louisville and eastward connections arriving 10 53 pm. Schedule published for information, not guaranteed. Local agents Helmbeck and Beam listed for details.
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Southern BY
Rockport
Ya. m
Lincoln City
Evansville
Louisville
St. Louis
West
Farm Progress To Raise Yearly Subscription Rate
Farm Progress announces a price increase to 25 cents per year starting January 1 1908. Existing subscribers may extend three years for 25 cents if paid before the change, with an option to receive a 22 by 29 inch fruit picture for 5 more cents. Also notices a local rep needed for Rockport area to renew subscriptions for a major magazine.
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Farm Progress
Big Farm and Agricultural Monthly
St. Louis
Louis
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