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Newspaper
Spencer News
Location
Spencer, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1915
Page
4
OCR fragment lacks identifiable people, places, dates, or actions to form a coherent news item or headline with sufficient detail.
Fragmentary text lists various prices and reductions for items including Mink and others. No clear event, date, or identities emerge to form a full news summary.
The advertisement lists silk hosiery stock including Tf silk and popular priced lines. It notes women’s silk hosiery at prices around 0.25 to 0.50 and ordinary cotton and wool options at 0.20 to 0.85, highlighting low to mid range values and stock availability.
The week’s column riffs on salted peanut promotions and holiday fakery, then recounts a Clay County bank embezzlement turn to mass murder as a man kills his family, crashes a car, and dies. It critiques Democratic fiscal policy and pokes fun at stamps, politics, and a Sioux City item about Wilson.
Charley Davidson rode to Spencer Saturday while Hazel Cole visited a friend Ethel Stewart on Sunday. Mr and Mrs J H Stewart with guests visited Spencer Saturday night. The Ladies Aid bazaar is set for December 10 at the schoolhouse with supper service to follow. Funeral attendees for Grandpa Reeves included J H Stewart and others at Mrs Matt Adair’s Spencer home. Various visits and small events fill the week as neighbors share gatherings and church plans.
The sick folks are slowly improving and revival meetings are planned at the M F B Church in Webb. Mr and Mrs Cundy of Laurens visited FE G Martin’s home and took Master Raymond home for a short visit. Sunday School workers were active around Garfield last week and doing fine work. Henry Ebert and A R B Campbell were wrapping up sale bills Monday with a closing out sale set for the 15th. School resumed Monday with everyone feeling well after vacation.
The quote reflects a spiritual view where effects are mere ashes of inner fires. The wise person remains focused on the enduring spirit rather than transient outcomes, never counting life by its end. Ashes fade while the original fire remains vibrant and ongoing.
A cheap Italian pamphlet edition of Dr. E.B. Hale’s famous story The Man With out a Country circulates to stir patriotism. A Christian Register writer quotes Hale, noting he strongly affirmed his own deep patriotic feeling for the tale.
When wind favors the air carries a cold odor sailors use as a warning of nearby ice. The phenomenon helps detect bergs before sighting due to the chills and seawater tones drifting with air and spray.
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