Orange City football team falls short to LeMars 10 5
Local notes celebrate Orange City football's close 10 to 5 defeat by LeMars with a near tying drive at the whistle. The piece also mentions winter weather jokes, court visits from Seawarden visitors, and plans for another LeMars game.
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The
Herald
Orange City
LeMars
LeMara
Charles Lewis
Frank T. Piper
Sheldon
California
W. A. Morgan
Lreton
Ming
Will Shultz
A. Ta Paskever
Sioux Center
Christmas shopping urged to start early this year
A newspaper column argues for earlier Christmas purchases to ease the strain on clerks postal workers and delivery crews. It notes many shoppers delay to the last minute and suggests choosing daytime shopping in the first days of December to reduce labor pressure and hardship.
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State Street
Low rates to the south promoted by railroad
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railway offers excursion tickets to southern resorts including Jacksonville Mobile New Orleans Savannah El Paso with return passage before June 1 1901. Rates routes times details obtainable from any coupon ticket agent or C W Jacobe Rock Valley.
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Jacksonville
Fla
Mobile
Ala
New Orleans
Savannah
el Paso
Tex
Chicago, Milwaukee, ‘& St. Paul Railway
C. W. Jacobe
Rock ‘Valley
Memorial window honors Emily Greene Wetherbee at high school
Lawrence Massachusetts is placing a stained glass memorial window on the second floor over the main entrance of the new high school. The window, 54 by 9 feet, depicts a maiden with a closed book in her right hand and a pointing left hand, inscribed Veritas, and includes quotes about mercy and blessing. It is dedicated In Loving Memory of Emily Greene Wetherbee and erected by the Lawrence Women's Club. The window cost about $250 and was made in Boston.
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Lawrence (Mass
Lawrence Street
Emily Greene Wetherbea
Lawrence Women’s Club
Miss Wetherbee
Boston
I. A. Wetherbee
Baby joy and price shock in a Washington department store
In a large department store a young mother and another woman eye tiny baby garments. The saleswoman quotes high prices for delicate items, then offers discounted pieces to clear stock, revealing the weariness and pride of the shopper as she decides what to buy. The scene ends with the implication of social contrast.
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Washington Post
How the Sirdar Learned All He Wanted to Know
Aided by a disguise the sirdar infiltrates a camp to extract enemy plans. Lord Kitchener’s method of learning vernacular speech helps him read a broader field of information. The piece contrasts torture with shrewd persuasion and notes vast wartime supply operations and broader political observations.
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Sirdar
Kitchener
The
Academy
Khartum
Lord Kitchener
Light of the World Art Book Promises Great Profits
An advertisement touts The Light of the World or Our Savior in Art a costly art book with engravings and religious narratives. It claims rapid earnings for agents in Massachusetts New York and states managers needed for national rollout, with commissions salaries and territory control offered.
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Light
Europe
CO. Corcoan
U. S. “Treasury
Washington, D
Sheet Music Cheap Source Advertises Low Prices
An item brief notes a discount sheet music seller offering bargains on music books and instruments including mandolins and tutors. The clipped ad emphasizes low prices and value for buyers seeking affordable sheet music and related goods.
Ships and Lightning Use of wire rope and iron hulls prevent strikes
The article explains that ships are rarely struck by lightning because rigging uses wire rope and the hulls are iron or steel, making the vessel an excellent conductor that channels electricity into the ocean before any damage occurs.
Audience Stand Earns Small Fee in Japanese Theater
In a Japanese theater a spectator may stand up for a small extra fee while the performance proceeds. The person behind objects to the standing and the overall obstruction is noted as a point of etiquette and crowd behavior.
Changed Accompaniment in Stray Stories
Dialogue snippets reveal domestic woes over a played melody and a burned steak. Husband questions the music while the wife defends it as the same piece he praised, highlighting discord and irony in a brief stray story segment.
Ouse Was Enough Agente You I Think Could Sell
Fragmentary OCR text appears to be garbled and does not present clear names, dates, places, or events. The readable portion suggests a casual or distorted statement about an agent and selling. No verifiable facts to summarize into a news item.
Shakespeare’s Unlikely Rise From Plain Origins to Fame
The extract sketches Shakespeare’s modest, rustic upbringing and modest provincial beginnings. It notes his probable illiterate parents, lack of worldly advantage, and limited early opportunities. His London success appeared despite fortune’s obstacles, with no local model, rival, or travel to sharpen his intellect.
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Shakespeare
London
Fortune
Sleepless Creatures Many Species Never Sleep Says Naturalists
The article notes various fish reptiles and insects that allegedly never sleep. It claims pike salmon and goldfish never sleep while other fish sleep only minutes monthly. It mentions several serpents and many species never slumber, per naturalists.
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Naturalista
Extraordinary Bible a Costly Royal Library Treasure
Report from Stockholm notes the most expensive Royal Library Bible. It reportedly used 160 asses skins for parchment and has 809 writing pages. Each page is nearly a yard long and an inch short. Covers are solid four inch thick planks. Subscription pitch follows.
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Royal Mbrary
Stockholm
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Emily Greene Wetherber
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Washington
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Spain
United States
Germany
Jinsling
Guinea
Tropics
United States Senate
Nean
Lena
Florida
Be 'Gald
Magazin
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