Community Notes From C W Gulick Mercantile Area
Delightful weather since the rain as Will Cowle secures the Norway school. Skeets and Marion Kelly visit. Bert and Bert Ainsworth guests with friends, while Bert Walter visits. Parties and calls circulate. Effie Loofbourrow stays with her aunt. Mike ONeal reports six feet of water in his new well on Hedrick farm. The Scandia team defeats Belleville 17 to 4 in baseball. Young thinks Oregon offers best climate but Kansas girls win. Capt Walker gains renown as orator at Fort Scott convention.
A Battlefleet’s Teeth and Other Notices
A London Daily Mail report details battleship guns with wire bound 12 inch main batteries and 6 inch secondary arms, weight, range, and construction. Local items list Mrs. Pilcher ill, families visiting, farm work, school board actions, and upcoming Republican senatorial convention in Belleville with possible Ward nomination.
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London Daily Mail
Tebn Temple Graves Speech Delightful Myth Explodes
A Birmingham visitor praises Tebn Temple Graves as a powerful speaker despite his small stature. An amusing anecdote from a southern city shows gatesman mistaking him for a giant and Graves correcting the misunderstanding with wit.
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Tebn Temple Graves
United States
Birmingham
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Mr. Graves
Baseball Protest Urges Clean Language In Local Play
A citizen letter condemns brutal language during a baseball game at Helleville and criticizes a vendor. It urges integrity and a respectful atmosphere for the sport, calling for the diamond to be free from degrading influences. The note quotes Garfield and Shakespeare as guides for conduct. Nearby, Alf Nordman shot and killed a large gray wolf south of town Tuesday evening.
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Helleville
Scandia
Garfield
Newson Cuiy
Alf. Nordman
Sun’s Magnetic Influence Explains Earth Wobble Theory
Dr. J. Haim and Garman astronomer propose that changes in the sun’s magnetic influence, tied to sunspot cycles, may drive the earth’s axis wobble. Their observations suggest a coincidence between sunspot maxima and greater magnetic stress, with distortion easing after the cycle wanes.
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J. Haim
Garman
North Pole
Earth
Halm
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SRAND
Republic
Alaska
Lion Coffee
Victor
Kirk
Imperial Coffee Mills
Valenciennes
Simpson
Mennen
Camelia
C. W. Gulick Mercantile Company
Will Cowle
Norway School
Skeets
Marion Kelly
Bert Walter
Bert Ainsworth
Will Lewis
Will
Anna Bennett
Misses Bell Smith
Bessie Skeels
Ethan Bryant
A. L. “Loofbourow
Effie Loofbourrow
Mike O’neal
Hedrick
Mr. Bryant
Lon
J. Adams
Fred Hall
Rev. Kerr
D. M. Loofbourow
Berry
Young
Oregon
Kansas
Scandialogs
Belleville
Clyde
H. J. Newton
Olathe Kansas
Ed Mitchell
Churchill & Stofer’s
Mrs. Mitchell
Lincoln
Nebraska
J. G .Stofer
Mankato
Capt. Walker
Fort Scott
Courtland
Nathan“ Pilcher
Mrs.Workman
Illinois
George Swihart
Narka
Andrew Hrickson
Chicago
Mrs.Chas, Salmon
Will Lashly
Atchison
Mr. Lashly
District 49
H. K. Hoyt
Zula Riter
Hoyt
Amy
Fred Verain
Westin
Franson
R. Whitley
C Brown
Riter
H. A. Stowell
Philadelphia
Koko
Kansas City Journal
Bellevillé
Ward
Withorf
N. D. Daly
Ifolton
R. A. Wiliams
Presbyterian Church
Led Eye
H. ‘B. Swanson
Orator
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