Lighthearted items from Eldora Herald humor column
The Eldora Herald compiles a string of pithy notes from Berlin to New York, poking fun at pretensions, modern trends, and odd stories. Items include a German coal mine safety cost, a St Louis poet’s death by action, a 100 year old climber in Switzerland, a New York marriage to dodge a sentence, a Boston waitress inheriting 200000, a new germ in milk, Japan's home driven progress, a Washington jury valuing a voice loss at 2100, and the dowager empress's edict against corrupt officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles White
Boone
Fort Madison
J. H. Andrew
Liberty
Hannum
Michael Cook
Cedar Falls
Hershey Hospital
Cal Phillips
Fort Dodge
Plymouth Gypsum Company
Warren Dale
Ralph Layman
Newell
Samuel Carson
Pocahontas Center
Variva
Fonda
Messie Brower
Fairport
Muscatine
Carl Truesdaye
Frank Brower
Nelson Eastman
Rutland
Humboldt
Eastman
Beulah Bandifield
Soldiers’ Home
Marshalltown
Marence Ford
Soldiers’ Home Landing
Miss Bandfield
Miss Ford
Ana
Howard Scarborough
John Burns
Newton
Burns
Scarborough
Hammer
Chatsworth
Sioux City
J. P. Mellus
Castro
Venezuela
United States
Roosevelt
Herbert Knox Smith
Bureau of Corporations
Senate Committee On
Brownsville
Senate
Magdalena Bay
Navy Department
Washington
Harry Orchard
Fremont Wood
Caldwell
Idaho
Porto Rico
House of Delegates
Charles W. Morse
Alfred H. Curtis
United States Circuit Court
New York
Sarah Chamberlin Weed
Philadelphia
Elizabeth Bally Hardee
Pennsylvania
Chicago
David Waldo
Independence
Baltimore
Knickerbocker Trust Company
Democratic State Committee of
Minnesota
John A. Johnson
Owen Priester
Salkehatchie
Brough
Common Pleas
Jerome
N York
Wisconsin
Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Aay Company
Argent Provinces
Mason
City
Michigan
C. J. Barnett
Bay Gi Mich
Daniel Stewart
Upper Alton
Ill
Canton
Henry Schoenfeldt
Riverside
Ind
Dville
First National Bank
Tipty Ind
Eugene H. Cobnrich
San Francisco
B Ness
Alexander Lucier
Leondon
Mount Sterley
Brocton
Mass
Sanga
John T. Dower
Worcester
Young M' Christian Association
Harmarville
William T. Manning
Jon B. Parker
Milwaukee
Apollo Ha
Jessie Daw
Brooklyn
Fishkill Casing
N. Y
Antonio Strollo
Antonio Torseilla
van Coylandt Park
Bia
T. A. Burke
Joseph W. Bailey
Tex
Charles Aldrich
Fouder
State Historical Department of Town
Kalamazoo
Mich
Danyage
Giuseppe Alia
Tiial
Denver
Col
Leo Heinrichs
Congress
Point Loma
Cal
Department
Admiral Evans
Connecticut
Frank Conley
D Lodge
Mont
James Robinson
Japan
Peki
Macao
Costos
Charles E. Hughes
Republicanate Committee
York
D. J. Hughes
New Rochelle
Onion Lumber Company
Paul, Minn
Manitoba
Army
Supreme Court
Nashville
Philippine Islands Count Revised to 2600 in Official Chart
Official charting shows the Philippine Islands number about 2600. Previously, counts ranged from 1200 to 2000 after government surveys. Many islands are too small to appear on standard maps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippine Islands
Magnitude of Pana ma canal project and Dutch relief schemes
The canal report notes concrete for locks could build over 22,000 eight room houses, illustrating scale. It contrasts with welfare in Holland where few able-bodied paupers are found and a 5,000 acre land tract is split into six model farms for relief seekers. A forced labor colony sends vagrants to farm work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
Holland
Limited Denatured Alcohol Mills Grow Slowly in Nation
The commissioner of internal revenue reports only ten mills established nationwide for denatured alcohol. The piece notes that despite the potential benefits, starting a new industry takes time to build a system that connects consumer with producer.
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Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Gift of cut glass says a lot about her
A writer notes that Christmas money ran short and hopes his wife’s birthday is still ahead. He quips that the only gift always acceptable to a woman is something in cut glass. The line embodies the idea that, like cut glass, she reveals new beauties the longer one studies her.
Nothing succeeds like success Henry Farman aviation prize invitees
Henry Farman, who flew to win a $10,000 prize in Paris, has received invitations to repeat the feat in various European capitals. The public still seeks evidence that air navigation is practically achieved for everyday use, noting that airships must become common and practical before the average citizen accepts the solution as real.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Farman
Parlgs
Iowa News Roundup Delivers Murders, Escapes, and Industry
A wide Iowa wire reports several incidents including a miner fatally struck by a switch engine, a prisoner escape from Iowa City jail and recapture, and government mail service expansion from Fort Dodge. Other items note arrests for train wreck attempts, divorce cases, stolen mail sacks, factory bonds, oil rumors near Centerville, suicides, courtroom rulings, and bank safe cracking.
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James McCulloch
Northwestern
Yerlek
Iowa City
Robertson
Fort Dodge
Des Moines
Boone
Boxham
Charles Benham
Muscatine
Guthrie
Oklo
Harry Jones
Walter Johnson
Lockridge
Burlington
Robert Weihe
Sioux City
Wethe
Iowa Central
Mason City
Oskaloosa Commercial Club
American Supply Company
Roy Novinger
Sidney
Joe Rolf Con
Centerville Black Coal Company
Centerville
Jorgen Petersen
Nevada
Johanna Mare Neilson Petersen
Denmark
Moller
L. D. Ashby
Red Oak
Modale
Benson
Dubuque
Frank Honicek
Honicek
A Week's News From Home and Foreign Lands
Madame Anna Gould sails from Cherbourg with her three children bound for New York. Harry K Thaw faced divorce summons from Evelyn Nesbit Thaw as legal action continues. The dry details cover fraud probes in a Louisiana primary, a jury acquittal in Ohio, and various political and social events across the United States and abroad.
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Mme
Anna Gould
Cherbourg
New York
Harry K. Thaw
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
W. C. Thaw
Democratic State Central Committee
John B. Lindsey
McArthur, O
Miller
Cleveland
Burke
Collinwood
Clarke
Arkansas
Senate
Gov. Guild
Massachusetts
Italy
Kansas
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Topeka
Kan
J.T. McFarland
Beatrice Thomas Metcalf
S. R. Hamill
Terre Haute
Ind
St. Paul
Minn
New York and
New Jersey Metal Trades Association
Anthony J. Drexel, Jr
Philadelphia
Thornton
Kemp
Amite
C. F. Hyde
White House
Washington
First International Mothers’ Congress
Houston
Tex
International & Great Northern Railroad
Joseph Genetti
Belleville
Ill
Royal Castle
Christiania
King Haakon
Warren McKay
Canada
Tenino
Wash
Jesse Overstreet
Indianapolis
C. McR. Winslow
A. L. Key
van Cleave, Miss
Merchants’ Bank
Omaha
Neb
San Francisco and County
Ambassador Takahira
Japan Society
James Rathbun
Tomahawk
N. C
Birmingham
Rheus Miller
Mount Vernon
N. Y
Winkinsburg
Edward Doan
Saginaw
Mich
John Milwhse
Sebewaing
Saginaw Bay
National Immigration League
Newark
N. J
New Jersey
Prince Ludwig Menelik
Abyssinia
Germany
Senate Investigating Committee On Naval Affairs
House Committee On Banking
Williams
California Supreme Court
Eugene J. Schmitz
San Francisco
Lima
Peru
Panama
Ramirez Arbelaez
Pedricktown
Bridgeport
Count Boni
de Castellane
Paris
Prince Helle de Sagan
Waukegan
Philip
W. Mothersill
WG. Vollva
Zion City
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