Valley Correspondence Highlights Local Happenings
Local notes report trainer Groat's Tuesday departure for Sheldon fair horses, Rock Valley Indians players dispersed, students to industrial school at Flandreda, and Edith Mulvey winning a Mason City Memorial University scholarship. City council discusses retiring waterworks bonds, fall events planned, school year to open Sept 3, and various community entries from hospitality to sports.
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Sheldon Fair
Rock
Edith Mulvey
Rock Valley
Memorial University
Hake
Calitia
Hock
Roe Valley
Jepgal
Phillips
Handy Hotel
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Local business changes and farm yields in brief notes
George Ebsen of Gray buys the Ed Lanning restaurant ending a long local tenure. Ed Lanning is retiring but remains connected locally. C Siter reports 40 bushels per acre barley yield sold at 50 cantas per bushel. M Da Jong of Jacper county visits the A A Kuper home. Mr and Mrs J Heopine of the Val- (text truncated)
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Gray
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Boyden
C. Siter
M. da Jong
Jacper
A. A. Kuper
Mra. J. Heopine
Val
Theatre chatter and casting notes from London and New York
The text discusses humor in stage naming and a proposed renaming to Vainted Mower. It notes Ernest Shipman managing Herbert Kelcey and Effie Shannon in Shaw's Widowers House and mentions Edna May's marriage prompting Ella Snyder to be considered in London. Margaret Illington is slated for New York next season with Edith Ostlers and Herbert Percy in Dr Wake's Patient.
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Wiees
London
Kesgens
Ernest Shipman
Herbert Kelcey
Effie Shannon
George Bernard Shaw
New York
Edna May
Ella Snyder
Miss Snyder
Miss May
Margaret Illington
Dr Wake
Edith Ostlers
Herbert Percy
Death in a Newark News Briefs Section Dog Memoir
Short items note a dog’s death tied to a family name in Newark. Other tidbits cover Alaska winters, a theft involving a red hot stove from Mrs. Johanna Benson, divorce rates in the U S and Canada, Philadelphia city hall clock details, Theodore Roosevelt’s Oyster Bay ties, and George Washington’s early stay there with preserved furnishings.
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Canada
Philadelphia
Theodore Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
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English Etchings and Military Publication Policy
The Pied Bull inn at Sedington claims to be England’s first tobacco smoking house. Britain's insane population ratio has risen from one in 536 to one in 285, with recent years showing the sharpest increase. The War Office will require sanction before any books by officers on full pay are published, with the Chief of the General Staff overseeing approvals.
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England
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War Office
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Burdett Coutts Estate To Be Sold In London Suburb
In England the telephone apprentice trains three years in shop and other periods before switching rooms and test work. Hally Lodge near London, once home of Baroness Burdett Coutts for eighty years, will be sold to the highest bidder by her husband who abandoned his own name. The estate may be divided into building lots.
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England
Hally Lodge
London
Model of the Moment Trends in Silk Embroidery and Trimmings
Fashion notes describe colored silk embroidery with white lace and Balt fringe for boleros and sleeves. Velvet velveteen apliqués and taffeta silk jumpers appear in many colors, alongside silk petticoats in plaids and stripes with broderie anglaise.
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Broderie Anglaise Flourieé
Old Fashioned Answers and Poultry Notes From The Era
A collage of snippets including a quizzical set of questions about old fashioned oxen and a tag line about a christened girl, followed by poultry advice on summer care and feeding. It touches on poultry shade, ventilation, and a pepper stimulant, then shifts to a humorous domestic exchange about an overdrawn allowance and a widow’s lament.
Modest Woman Prices and Promises Across Times
A quoted debate contrasts modern modesty with a cost mindset noting a woman who costs her husband less than 2500 dollars annually. The exchange includes a line about offering one’s life during illness and a remark from a Baltimore World editorial fragment.
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New York World
Hall of Fame items and notable patches from city life
A mix of short notices covers John Wanamaker's department store capitalization in Philadelphia, a New York arrest, a long late 19th century family reunion in Springfield, Maine farmer Grant's army of twenty children, a vintage organ in Bath Maine, Harvard law Eugenio Wambaugh hired by the government, President Roosevelt posing woes, Riverside buyer G A Kessler spending 150000 on renovating New York Lodge, and Senator Krox nickname in Pittsburgh plus Philander Chase origin.
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Philadelphia
James Henry Young
New York
Patrick Coffey
Sacramento
Alice Gibbons
Springfield
Ireland
George W. Grant
Oakfield
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William E. Dow
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G. A. Kessler
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Pittsberg
Otis
Philander Chase
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German Gleanings Incomplete Social and Economic Notes
The item surveys German commerce with 700 firms in wholesale picture cards, ends juvenile court experiments, lists historic Nuremberg houses, cites Dr Neufield’s harsh view of Berlin, and notes a government racing stable with an American jockey for state horses.
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Nuremberg
New York
London
Paris
Neufield
Berlin
Tortoise Traits and a Quip on Crazy Marriage
A St. Louis Republic excerpt discusses tortoise varieties and habits noting lifespans up to 200 years and rapid burrowing when threatened. A separate quote mocks a newspaper claim about Ele’s marriage and alleged insanity, with a counter remark about reversed wording.
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