Ickes and Dalton area notes on wheat and visits
The Dalton Ickes area report details John Eckert hauling wheat to town, multiple visits by Ed Welch and family to Rose McNulty, and various farm tasks. Residents Johnson, Mayer, Keenan, Kreader, Hendrickson, and Foster are cited with chores, calls, and trades as elevators report 1500 to 2000 bushels daily amid spring seeding.
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John Eckert
Jake Mayer
Dalton
Ed Welch
Denny
Kreader
Frank White
Scribner
Hie Eckert
Charles Hendrickson
Rose McNally
Mr. Lipska
Sidney
Frank Norve Eekert
Herb Foster
Curtiss Dugger
Jim McNulty
Chas. Hendrickson
John Davison
Rose McNulty
Shutts
Wyoming
Collie Kreader
Pat Keenan
Willie Benish
Neaman
Elmer Mayer
Fred Overman
Thayer County
Imner Mayer
Goding
Jim Davison
Davison
Ickes
J . Kreader
F.l Welch
Sextorp
Cheyenne County
Frank Weigand
Hendrickson
George Shinker
Lesly Sanders
Clyde Carter
Telegraph
James Davison
Norve Sekert
Norve Eckert
Frriend
Pat
McLeod
Belfast
Ireland
A. Ts. Hoffman
Wheatland
Potter Notes Show Local Visits And Social Events
Mrs Bernard Morfeld returns to Persia Iowa while Miss Irma visits the dentist in Kimball and Miss Skilling spends the weekend there. The Burk sister settles an estate and returns home. Roy McAdam and Miss Mabel visit from Canada. Grace McFadden and Verba attend events at Kimball Thornburg Hall hosts a well attended valentine box social with Verba winning best box. Epworth League program and social held. Ray Babcock ill. Neighbors attend a ball in Kimball. Mrs Sherman notes Wyoming cold spell. C W Johnson hires Miss Wilson from Kimball as clerk. Branscom family enjoys Colorado mountains.
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Bernard Morfeld
Persia
Iowa
Miss Skilling
Kimball
Mr Burk
Roy McAdam
Miss Mabel
Canada
Miss Adams
Grace McFadden
Valentine
Biggs
Mr Struble
Irma
Sherman
Wyoming
Stark
W. Johnson
Miss Wilson
Sidney Draw Sparks Spring Market Preparations
Ben Wagner motors a car of horses for the spring market. A Saturday telephone meeting drew a good crowd with no line plans. Lewis Kurth's dance drew praise as the best yet. Waltz and Lodgepole visitors plus a large Dewey farm sale crowd reported good prices. The Valentine ball by the firemen entertained many and raised a neat sum with Fine's four piece orchestra. Attendance was affected by competing dances in nearby communities.
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Ben Wagner
Lewis Kurth
Britain’s Conscience Fund: anonymous gifts to government
The article notes ongoing anonymous contributions to Britain’s conscience fund, starting with 1785 Pitt donation of 1500 pounds. It recalls yearly payments to the chancellor, including a 70,000 dollar confession of illicit profits from smuggling, and a total of 50,000 dollars in a single year from British taxpayers.
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Britain
Conscience
Pitt
Suffrage Debate Echoes Depew Era Harshly
An anti-suffrage Baltimore speaker Millicent M Atwood cites Senator Depew’s claim that marriages thrived on about $1000 yearly in Peekskill. She argues modern times make it hard for Bryn Mawr or Vassar women to live happily on the same income. A Vassar woman once rejected a sixteen dollar weekly bank clerk. the clerk laments, she rebutts that she would rather wring his heart than her clothes.
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Depew
Peeks
Millicent M. Atwood
Baltimore
Bryn Mawr
Vassar
Vass
New York Tribune
Progress and praise for a wife learning housekeeping
A humorous remark notes a wife’s rapid progress in housekeeping. The speaker says she knew nothing at first but is learning fast and that she is a bright woman. The quip adds that only two cooks were needed to teach her to avoid the kitchen, implying a battle won in domestic life.
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Puck
Live Stock Prices at South Omaha Fairly Active and Steady
Fairly good cattle run at Union Stock Yards South Omaha on Feb 18. Cattle prices mixed with beef steady and calves firm. hogs up modestly with 5 to 10 cent gains. sheep and lambs active with lambs and aged sheep steady to higher in places. Quotations list ranges for beeves, cows, heifers, calves, hogs, and various sheep grades.
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Union Stock Yards
South Omaha
Markets Report Chicago Prices and Cattle Hogs and Lambs
The Chicago market closes February 19 with futures in wheat corn oats pork lard ribs and cash bids. Wheat May 94.5 cents July 89.5 cents. corn May 66 cents July 65 cents. oats May 39.7 cents July 38.8 cents. pork May 21.70 dollars July 21.75. lard May 1092 dollars July 11.10. ribs May 11574 dollars July 1172. Cash prices list No 2 hard wheat 8 cents No 3 corn 60 6le No 3 white oats 29.9496 29. Receipts and prices for cattle hogs and sheep show mixed demand with western and yearling bids and higher hogs trading strongly today. Cattle receipts 18,000. hogs 28,990. sheep 30,000. West ern steers 6.49-6.78. stockers 5.50-7.85. cows 3.50-5.50. calves 7.50-10.40. Hogs bulk 8.60-9.0. heavy 8.35-8.80. pigs 7.80-8.75. yearlings 4.70-6.75. lambs 7.5-7.75.
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Chicago
He Capitulated and Supper Sets a Tug at Home
In a Chicago Record-Herald style vignette a weary husband returns from work to a welcoming wife. She greets him calmly, offers comfort with a warm chicken stew and slippers, and hints at brighter days ahead. The scene contrasts fatigue with domestic sweetness and a hopeful note.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Pretty Warm. Court Narrator Describes Weeping Woman
A court report describes a visitor recounting a case with dramatic phrasing. The narrator notes she broke down and wept scalding tears, prompting a listener to exclaim about boiling over with rege.
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Rege
London Telegraph
Stranded Mexican Workmen in Kansas City
Two thousand Mexican laborers whose contracts expired are stranded in Kansas City. They refuse transport home to avoid involvement in the revolution. Many rely on summer savings while scores live in destitution.
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Kansas City
Woman Is Slain in Cemetery at Aurora HL
Miss Tracey Hollander twenty year old, murdered in Aurora HL. Her body dragged into a cemetery and dumped on a grave. She was beaten to death with a heavy timber. Police arrest Anthony Redroes, a discarded sweetheart of the girl.
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Tracey Hollander
Aurora
Anthony Redroes
Speeding street car topples after open switch in Pittsburgh
Ninety persons crowded a speeding street car when it hit an open switch on Liberty avenue and toppled on its side. Thirty were injured and three women were probably fatally hurt. A score or more were rushed to hospitals.
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Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh
Man Who Murdered Employer Hanged In Calgary Jail
William Jasper Collins, who confessed to killing John T Benson a farmer he worked for, repudiated the confession later and fought extradition from Kingston Missouri where he was arrested, was hanged in the Calgary Alberta jail.
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William Jasper Collins
John T Benson
Kingston
Calgary
Alberta
Indiana Citizen Advocates Citizenship Rights for Native Americans
Speakers at the Society of American Indians council in Philadelphia argued for pulling rights of citizenship for American Indians. The discussion highlighted legal and political avenues to extend full civic status and protections.
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Council of the Society of American Indians
Philadelphia
Reading the Bible Through By Daily Chapter Pace
A note states that reading the Bible at one chapter per day would require three years and three months to complete.
Suffrage Leader Anna Shaw Injured In Jersey City Fall
Rey Dr Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National Woman's Suffrage Association, a leading votes for women advocate, was severely injured when she fell while alighting from a train in Jersey City. She slipped under a car after the train stopped and broke her right leg.
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Rey
Anna Howard Shaw
National Woman's Suffrage Association
Workers For Votes For Women
Jersey City
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