Local social notes from Formosa and vicinity
The itemized notes record Sunday visits and gatherings among families including Bettis Everts McGregor Lutty and Anderson. Individuals Amy Poage Buchner and Elsie Bettis are noted alongside Johnsons and the Thornburgs. Theo Otto reports his incubator producing about 75 chickens this week.
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Theo
Otto
For Sale Bay Mare with Harness and Buggy Items
For sale a six year old bay mare about 1400 pounds. Must be sold at once. Also includes buggy and harness. The text ends with a dated religious note and a weather remark about an equinoctial storm.
Lesson on hat removal at theater shocks New York crowd
A New York Press recounts an instructive scene in a theater where women were urged to remove hats. A gentleman and his wife in the second tier faced attention as the playhouse audience pressed for hat removal, triggering a comic if crude exchange.
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Gr. ci
New York Press
Osilar Playhouse
Immecia
Isi
Madame
Monsieur
New York
Troe
Daly
Eno Jainsborough
Aris
Unclear excerpt from Leisure Hour quotes Lady St. Heller
Fragmentary OCR reads about a busy man and a woman, mention of unfavorable requirements, and a van passing a house. The text is highly garbled with stray punctuation and misheard phrasing, making precise interpretation difficult. It cites Lady St. Heller in Leisure Hour as the source.
Choice in Color of Skin Foeled by Quarantine Measures
A fragment reports on racial attitudes and quarantine actions. Authorities studied color as a factor and applied isolation protocols for patients to be conveyed to a hospital. The text reflects early 20th century public health responses to perceived race related concerns.
Local Residents Attend Visits and Tasks Across Week
Roy Clark was in Union Saturday and Lt Morris traveled to Norton. Joe Sissell shelled and delivered Tuesday. May Swafford visited D A Brown's. Taylor Hammond went to Mead Co Tuesday. J T Johnson was sent to his farm Tuesday. D A Haney bought a new piano last week. Slaine James shelled and delivered corn Monday. Grace Hostetler visited D P Johnson's Sunday. Nellie Joy boards at H O Marshall's this week. Howard Williams visited D P Johnson's Sunday. He Banks and wife went to Belleville Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Bowersox visited W O Bowersox's Sunday. Mrs Claude Williamson returned to Kansas City.
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He Banks
Belleville
Mrs. Bowersox
W. O. Bowersox
Lots for sale in Scandia by Clara Curran and Wilder
Property listing shows multiple residential lots for sale in Scandia. Mrs Clara Anderson Curran and Mrs A B Wilder advertise inquiries for parcels including lots 401 402 408 419 420 282 233 934 303 804 305 466 507 509 510 with a date 2 12 25. Potential buyers are directed to inquire.
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Scandia
Clara Anderson Curran
A. B. Wilder
Memory and Meaning in Life and Art
A reflection on memory as a fragile, personal archive. The speaker suggests memory selects from life what is meaningful, not costly, and that the deepest value lies in intimate significance felt by the heart.
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Henry van Dyke
Little Rivers
M Delcasse Said to Be Husky in Daring Public Image
Former French foreign minister M Delcasse is described in vivid terms as 53 and muscular with a cropped head bristly mustache and a determined mouth. The portrait suggests a man capable of hard toil and resilience.
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M Delcasse
M. Delcasse
Stoessel's Nephew A Truck Farmer At Pass Christian
G I Stoessel, nephew of the Russian Port Arthur commander, is described as a truck farmer living near Pass Christian Mississippi. He was born in New Orleans after his parents emigrated from Switzerland over fifty years ago.
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Stoessel
G. I. Stoessel
Port Arthur
Pass Christian
Miss
New Orleans
Switzerland
John Sherman as a Financier on a Lancaster Farm Visit
The article recounts young John Sherman and his brothers being given money to pay their board during a shooting trip at a farmer's house near Lancaster Ohio. The farmer refused payment saying Judge Sherman’s sons would always be welcome. John then extended his stay by another week.
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John Sherman
Lancaster
Ohio
John
Sherman
Found At Last Pill Ad in Lizemore West Virginia
An old advertisement claims Dr. King's New Life Pills cure torpid liver and chronic constipation. It promotes the pill as perfect and guarantees satisfaction, urging readers to obtain them at all druggists.
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A. Flarmos
Lizemore
West Va
King
New Spring Stock Display Showcases Milwaukee and John Deere Lines
New stock for spring trade on display features Milwaukee and John Deere lines with handmade options. Stock includes collars pads whips lap dusters and fly nets plus bulk field and garden seeds such as alfalfa miller cane Kentucky blue grass and brome grass.
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Milwaukee
Hae
John Deere and
Honey S
Kentucky
Light Diamond Poultry Offers Netting In All Sizes
Light Diamond Poultry advertises netting products in multiple sizes. The listing highlights availability of various mesh dimensions for poultry enclosures and farm applications.
Sam Jones Denounces Saloon Petitions In Sigourney Talk
In a Sigourney talk the evangelist criticizes town saloon petitions and mocks the 40 cent bribe offered by liquor dealers. He compares license costs, population figures, and hog prices to argue saloons ruin communities and warn petition signers of dire personal consequences.
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Jones
Remembering Andrew Pinkham a North Monmouth Farmer
The narrative recalls Andrew Pinkham a respected North Monmouth Maine farmer and former state senator. He recounts a harsh rocky plowing day with his brother Amsa and their father overseeing. Pinkham, winded and strained, cried to halt the yanking horses, but the father urged them to press on with the line Drive on Amba drive.
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Andrew ‘Pinkham
North
Monmouth
Amsa
French Barber Perron of Bayonne Plays Many Roles
In Bayonne France Perron is a barber musician poet journalist and leader of the Bayonne orchestra at masked balls. He edits the Bayonne Razor and leads the Perron academy of hairdressing. He is knight of the order Tsai bella and father of six. A United Brethren Church audience heard a fine lecture by Rev. [text unclear].
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Bayonne
France
Perron
Héev
The
Or¢er
Tsai Bella
Perron Academy
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