Conversations with Pipkins on money and marriage
A fragmentary dialogue shows a man praising Pipkins for financial success while admitting personal failures. He recalls Pipkins as influential yet morally complex, noting Pipkins’s jokes and his handling of relationships. The exchange touches on marriages, separations, and distant communication as part of Pipkins’s life.
Selkirk Portrait and Wolverines in Michigan History
The article recounts Daniel Defoe's alleged borrowing of Robinson Crusoe from the Selkirk mutiny tale and notes a memorial tablet for Alexander Selkirk in Largo Fife. It then discusses the origin of the term Wolverine in Michigan lore and contrasts the wolverine with the skunk, including regional perceptions and historical usage.
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Daniel ‘Defoe
Robinson” Crusoe
Alexander Selkirk
Largo
Fifeshire
Juan ‘Fernandez
Pacific Ocean
Fife
Tland
Plete Solitude
Cinque Ports
Weymouth
Sevn
Selkirk
Powell
H. M. S. Topaz
A. D
Degeen
Antiquarian Museum
Edinburgh
Strange Friends of Beetles Living With Ants
Naturalists describe Jomechusa and atemeles beetles living in ant nests. The beetles secrete fluids that ants enjoy like cows milk while the beetles protect themselves and deter intruders with a foul odor. The beetles appear allied to their hosts rather than domesticated.
Swedish Singer Jening Lind In 19th Century Notes
Swedish singer Jening Lind known as Madame Gold had a noted career in Stockholm and abroad. She first appeared at the Royal Theatre in Stockholm with Der Freischutz in the early 1840s and later studied in Holm before performing in Germany and England during the mid 19th century.
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Jening Lind
Ny Lind
Dinger
Stockholm
Wynd’s
Point
Abe
Royal Theater
der Freischutz
Holm
Germany
England
Egg Speculators Lose Money and Other Oddities
Egg speculators reportedly lose about $200,000 in eggs. A British author claims old men make the best husbands if rich. Cork coffees by ancient eyotians are blamed for boiling. Mustapha Kemal Pasha rumors of death are doubted as good die young. Opportunity is a friend who only knocks once.
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Mustapha Kemal Pasha
Gaelics of Duffy and Lake Muche in Gaelic forms
The question asks for Gaelic equivalents of Duffy becoming Dinbhthaigh and the place name Lake Muche. In Gaelic, Duffy as a surname can render Dinbhthaigh, while Lake Muche would be rendered as Loch an Mhucach or Loch Muichetach depending on exact local form.
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Duffy
Lake Muche
Megantic
Community notes from Rydal on a summer week
Rydal reports a sequence of visits among Farlee, Munger, Barrett, Wilmot and Hay families with trips to Almena Concordia and hospital in Mable Johnsons. A three and a half inch rain fell Sunday night as locals celebrated the Fourth of July at the river.
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Eimer Farlee
Joe Barretts
Geoge ,Munger
Georgia
McHenrys
Winfield Farlee
Roy
Almena
Irlee
Will Wilmot
Thomas Hay
Concordia
Union Social And Agricultural Notes From Concordia
Union residents attend Fourth of July celebrations with quiet local events. A Belleville agent canvassed for poultry house spray last week while farming activity includes threshing prep and corn plowing. Visitors from Belleville and Great Bend stay with local families as rain and hail interrupt daily work.
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Claude Goodwin
Arthur Goodwin
Concordia
Union
Harvest Work Ongoing As Wind Topples Silo
Pauline Milner and Nona Clare Milner, daughters of Mr and Mrs Paul Milner of Scandia Township, stay with their aunt Mrs Earnest Mikesell while parents help in Western Kansas harvest. Bob Lloyds silo toppled in Thursday wind. Taylor Hammond of Belleville seeks more treatments at Wanonda Springs after a visit home. Union Valley Threshing Co and Frank Mikesell plan to start threshing Monday morning.
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W. L. Bowersox
Great Bend
Kansas
I. Bowersox
Larsen
Mr. Bowersox
Ray Swiercinsky
Ed Swiercinsky
Harold Anderson
Ming
Moreen Larson
Helen Hall
Union
Riverside
Dan Householder
Obelin
Householder
Mile ‘Nelson
Sam “Stafford
Wm. Stafford
Lou - Stafford
Republic
Lee ‘Bower‘sox
Pauline
Nona Clare
Milner
Paul Milner
Scandia Township
Earnest Mikesell
Bob Lloyd
Taylor Hammond
Belleville
Waconda Springs
Harl Hammond
Union Valley Threshing Co
Frank Mikesell
Rydal
Concordia Hospital
Cook
White Rock
R. I
Sanford Seriinent
Hart Cook
Claude Barrett
Joe Barrett
Rydall
Rock Island
Lincoln
Robert E. Schrivner
Yellowstone National Park
Ralph M. Glenn
Scandia
Sherdahl
Frank Goodwin
Union Valley
A. B
Guy
Cuba
John Jehlik
Republic County
Millie Heman
Chicago
Alice
Republic County notes and local visits in Belleville
County residents and visitors from Republic and Scandia towns crowded Belleville this week. Meetings, campaigns, family visits, and a church outing mark a busy period with candidates Chas Nordman and James Ramsbottom active in the district.
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James Ramsbottom
Chas
P. Nordman
Scandia
Lyle P. Price
Seneca
H. N
American Legion Meets Twice Monthly
Ex servicemen invited to join the American Legion meetings held on the first and third Wednesdays each month at the club rooms over the Pool Hall. Vernon L. Holmes serves as Commander.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Claims Cure for All Stages
The advertisement asserts Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh at all stages through internal action on the blood and mucous surfaces. It offers one hundred dollars to any case it cannot cure and invites readers to request testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo, Ohio. It states the product is sold by all druggists at a stated price.
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Hall
F. J. Chendy & CO
Toledo
Ohio
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