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Newspaper
Sioux County Herald
Location
Orange City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1907
Page
8
Appointed executors announce sale of decedent’s estate to raise funds and pay taxes. The sale action, appraisal and notice are to be published in the Clatwe City Herald with details on dates and required proceedings as per court order.
Notice to all persons interested that on the Subday of March TAR Lienlersionend was appointed by the District Court of Sioux County Iowa as administrator of the estate of Van Sterkuel late of said county who is insolvent. Creditors must present their claims on or before the 2th day of March 1907 to the administrator at the court.
A highway project proposal by the commissioner to lay out a route at the quarter corner of Regions Three and Four in township Ninety-Five lies between North Sioux Center and North Shona Center. It extends along Waven street and Wavenbury street to connect See lon Podh Weat branch township with a dividing line of the north and south halves, with a notice calling for objections or damages claims by May 24 or 25.
A. A. Chis hole recounts friends thinking he was near death from indigestion and debility. He credits Melrie Bitters with his recovery, enabling him to resume business and improve daily. Local tonic sold by De Riu & Lounera Aliyevish.
A long OCR fragment discusses the old U S fractional currency notes of various denominations, collectors holding notes for face value, and practical redemption issues. It describes the 1860s and 1870s coinage era, the disappearance of small notes, and the public’s fascination with these faded artifacts. The piece mentions Treasury agents, Salmon P Chase, and the desire to redeem or preserve the notes as historical curiosities.
An elderly woman near the river, profoundly deaf, attended a medical society meeting in Thuidelphia. After a ship fired a salute, she waited in her small house, then adjusted her dress and hat and uttered a quaint remark about Harper's Viemis.
A collage of literary habits and idiosyncrasies of famed authors. The piece notes writers' rituals from Dickens and Hawthorne to Burns and Wordsworth, detailing cups, pens, and odd inspirations that fueled their craft and restless nights. It cites Kant and Buffon for quirky stimulants, ending with a broad flourish on progress in culture and imagination.
The passage recalls scarce comforts during a camp, noting a single can of peaches and oatmeal as luxury. A nurse provides moral support while the group endures basic rations and rough travel temptation, reflecting on discipline and resilience amid deprivation.
The article explains colour blindness as inability to distinguish key colors and describes how red, green, violet, and blue blind individuals perceive flags and colors. It notes violet blind people see stars as brownish gray while green blind individuals may see gray or green hues and red blind individuals mix colors differently.
A fragmentary survey discusses Guernsey and her sister islands with reflections on politics and local potato sales fraud. It notes a court path for redress and contrasts past comforts with wartime changes, ending with a musing on happiness and opportunity.
Travel Magazine describes Waikiki near Honolulu as a premier bathing beach for winter and summer. It explains catching and riding Pacific rollers on a surfboard, comparing it to tobogganing on a moving wheel and noting the thrill as breakers reach shallow water.
A reflection on visionaries who foresaw future metropolises like Chicago and Columbus. The piece cites dreamers such as Marshall Piggott, Joseph Leiter, and Potter Palmer, arguing their hopeful prophecies shaped art, institutions, and civic life, and asks whether dreamers are failures or precursors of reality.
Washington Herald notes that flags flown at half mast mark the passing of aging officials in Congress as lawmakers daily arrive to begin new sessions. The piece laments the mortality of seasoned members while observing few younger leaders succumbing to illness or age.
A London newspaper fragment recounts Nasreddin Hadji guiding a distressed man to confess faults. The tale contrasts tempted and temperate characters, ending with a warning to avoid hypocrisy as the crowd seeks relief and a wiser path.
An elephant named Jewel resists foot care as keepers argue with her. Jewel screeches and lunges when knives andrasps approach, finally yielding only after a wire nail is removed from her trunk, amid tense handling by the keeper and a safe retreat to a corner.
The text discusses ancient practice and literary references to smoking and pipes before and after tobacco’s introduction. It cites Lyte Gerard Sylvester and other sources noting early pipe-like devices, use of herbs, and shifting perceptions of tobacco as a new invention in later periods.
The piece cites Baudryin and others noting that chivalry was a convention. It recounts a story where a wife strikes back after persistent provocation and the husband knocks her down and injures her nose. The tale condemns the wife’s temper while ignoring the husband’s brutality.
The piece recounts impostors who claimed divine status and led followers to costly wars. Coziba in the second century sparked costly resistance by Romans and Jews, with losses estimated at hundreds of thousands. Mordecai, a German claimant in 1682, fled when authorities threatened punishment.
A humorous tale from the New Grims Times Democrat about a farmer near St. Louis who patented a hole in a key. He supposedly blew dirt from the key with a breath, built a factory, and produced 27,500 holes a year, making money from everyday watch keys.
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