Fonda area notes mix debt appeal and local deeds
A former Fonda man asks creditors to itemize debts and promises payment or a donation to an orphan’s home if not received by February 1. The column also notes eye specialist visits for Geo Sanborn, high school hoops success, farm sales, deaths of Dr. F. M. Patterson and Grandmother Alexander, plus local business changes, arrivals, and political notices in Pocahontas and Humboldt counties.
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Fonda
Geo. Sanborn
Chicago
Minneapolis
Omaha
Mr. Sanborn
Fonda High School
Eddie Forey
Pocahontas
Clear Lake
Burington
Pocahontas County
F. M. Patterson
Frank A. Fairburn
Imre
Wood
Carl C. Edmonds
Laurens
Albert City
A. Kimball
Theo McCartan
A. F. Marshall
A. J. Phillips
Hilder Erickson
Lincoln Township
Waterloo
Frank Fitzgerald
Varina
Clampitt & Reis
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisement Fragment
Disjointed ad copy offers a one hundred dollar reward for a cure of catarrh by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Mentions F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio and National Bank of Commerce. Text is garbled with stray phrases about internal consumption and body systems.
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Hall
FE. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Bai
I Nationat
Bank OF Commerce
Almanac Monopoly Ends as Calendar Privilege Dims
The London Chronicle notes historic almanac rights once held by Queen Elizabeth and expanded by James I to Oxford and Cambridge. The privilege, a royal monopoly on printed calendars, has been abolished as the king’s grant power is deemed non existent. Now anyone can publish almanacs or prognostications.
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Stationers’ Company
James I
Oxford
Cambridge
Isue
London Chronicle
Settlement Suggestion In Classic Office Tale
A new office boy named Albert is accused after ten dollars vanish from the cash drawer. Mr. Golden confronts him, noting only they hold keys to the drawer. Albert proposes an equal split and no further discussion, a terse settlement of the matter.
Business and Pleasure Quote Echoes in Record Herald
A Chicago Record-Herald aphorism notes a man who blends business with pleasure tends to live longer and travel farther than one who makes pleasure his only business.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Dope User Robs Doctor Sentenced Thief in Danville
Danville man Frank Miller jailed 30 days for stealing a hypodermic syringe from Dr. F W Freyberg. Miller found with over 1000 grains of morphine. Dr Freyberg treats him in jail hoping to cure the drug habit before sentence ends.
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Aberdeen, & D
Frank Miller
Danville
F. W. Freyberg
Freyberg
Miller
Kansas City Star Offered With The Arrow for 10 Cents More
Readers desiring the Kansas City Star may obtain it with The Arrow for an extra 10 cents. The Kansas City Star is described as a clean and able weekly published in the United States.
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Kansas City
K. C
United States
Pain and the wounded on the warfront and sea disaster
An army surgeon argues pity for severely wounded is tempered by nature and pain. A Lusitania fireman with an arm blown off survives and recalls little pain at injury. nature as mother can be cruel yet kind. The piece blends battlefield injury views with reflections on dogs and friendship.
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Lusitania
Min
Chicago Evening Post
Most Real Friend of Man Dog Comrade Loyalty Unwavering
A short note extols dogs as loyal companions ready to accompany humans in good times and bad. It emphasizes unwavering devotion and cites the enduring bond between a dog and its owner as a defining human animal friendship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Desda
Maeterlinck Early Failures Lead to Sudden Fame
The London Chronicle notes Maeterlinck's first setbacks in letters include a failed literary review venture a failed poetry volume and a minuscule limited print run of La Princesse Maleine. A chance rediscovery by Octave Mirbeau brought him acclaim and turned him famous overnight.
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M. Octava Mirbeau
Maeterlinck
Southern Ocean Named by Admiralty and Adopted by Nations
The Geographic Journal notes the name Southern Ocean recommended by the British Admiralty and adopted by Australia and South Africa to describe the oceanic zone south of the continents. The term, though not new, is absent from Lippincott's Gazetteer and many geographers used it tentatively. The Admiralty regards the Antarctic continent as the southern boundary, leaving no space for an Antarctic Ocean on maps.
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Southern Ocean
Geographical Journal
Admiralten
Commonwealth of Australia
Union of South Africa
Globe
Australia
Africa
South America
Lippincott
Admiralty
Antarctic
Antarctic Ocean
You Don’t Know What the War May Bring
A reflective piece argues we rarely know outcomes of world events and national policy. It notes uncertainty about Europe’s end, postwar peace, and America’s future status. An anecdote with Matthew Arnold and a sneer at overconfidence closes this column.
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Europe
North
Central
South America
Congress
Matthew Arnold
Arnold
Lenny
A. C. Bengoa
Tantle
Chamberlains Tablets Promote Digestive Health
An advertisement touts Chamberlains Tablets as a highly effective aid for indigestion and digestion. Priced at a quarter and sold by Wie wer Drug Co, the copy urges readers to try the remedy for relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiewer Drug Co
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H.R. Wilkinson
Madelra
Geo. O. Hauck & Co
Rolfe
Iowa
W. J. Imries
Here
Wm. Reineking
Fish
Lizard
Clear
A.3. Phillips
Grant Township
Clyde Goyle
Humboldt
J. N. Prouty
Ibis
Watson Struthers
McKnight's Point
Adolph Bjorklund
L. W. Spitzparth
Havelock
Humboldt County
Dog
Zourdex
Sor
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