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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1908
Page
1
Local notices show Norris' ads for picnic baskets and hammocks, Norris' and Edgar's stores stocking goods, and community updates on doctors, coal, watches, and kodaks. The piece covers letters in Eldora post office, a marriage in Eldora, a Taft or Bryan promo, and a railway survey near Radcliffe, with notes on local lectures and a police case.
From any viewpoint William Wade Hinshaw is a big man with a big career and a big musical footprint. The article recounts a lengthy, genial visit to his Chicago studio where Hinshaw chats, sings a range of songs from grand opera to lullabies and duets with soprano Ila Burnap, leaving the author feeling “big” too.
A semi weekly roundup reports social and business movements of locals. It lists visits, travels, and departures including Mrs. Work from Chicago, Frank W. Crockett from Des Moines, Mr. McNeil at Ackley, and Earl Brooks in Minneapolis. It notes Shrine conclave attendance, vacations, and pending legal matters, with remarks on Rev. Spry’s travels and Eldora church leadership.
Sunday announcements note Presbyterian worship next Sunday July 19 with a sermon at 11 00 a m Bible School every Sunday at 12 15 pm Christian line ends abruptly indicating continued notices
Col H H Rood of Mt Vernon announces the fourteenth biennial reunion of Crocker’s Iowa Brigade at Oskaloosa Iowa on September 9 and 10 1908. Members who served in the Iowa Brigade are invited with regimental meeting at 1 30 p m Wednesday.
Des Moines speaker J. Mad Williams outlines a humorous and eclectic talk described as a classic vaudeville style lecture. The event, admission free with voluntary offering, is at a Christian church Saturday evening July 18 at 8:00.
Col A P Mason, recently named president of the Inter National Auctioneers Association, will teach Pedigreed Stock and Farm Sales at the Carpenter Auction Institute in Trenton Missouri this fall. He will return to his auctioneering business during sales lull, with Mrs Mason handling arrangements by wire if needed.
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