Limburger, antics, and a barber’s misadventure
An odd neighborhood note mocks Limburger cheese and recalls Fay Halstead of Stanton who narrowly escaped a snow plow and nearly cut his throat on a wire clothes line. The column also reports Inga Hanson of Salvation Army found guilty of perjury in a Chicago City Railway suit after five years of sensational litigation.
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Chicago City Railway Company
Alma College social and campus notices from a 1900s issue
Alma College community notes list Phi Alpha and Phi Alpha Beta events, visits by Miss Butler and Miss Bolton, a Classreud Club meeting, Lincoln's Birthday banquet at a colony, and a joint meeting with M. A. O. on February 24. Also details on Y M C A convention attendees, an indoor track meet, Zeta Sigma stag function at Alma Springs Sanitarium with alumni guests, and a second semester Y M and Y W A reception in Wright Hall with music by Gertrude Messinger and Samuel Gusinoff. Burdock Blood Bitters ad closes the column alongside Mitchell indictment coverage for Portland.
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Phi Phi Alpha
Ray Bangs
Mary Lake
Coffeyville
Kansas
Battle Creek
Will Cooper Pant Allared
Francis Cobb
Stanley Johnson
Our Schools Notes From The Local Grade Classes
The first grade Taye studied the Exkime while the third grade learns the Lincoln era. VM Wilson visited last week. Mabel Strule and Lillian Wilcox Nave moved to sixth grade after a long absence. Several third graders retired to shoot. Miss Clark and Miss McDaniels are away this week. Mr. Butler from Alma College substitutes for Miss Clark and Miss Lauderbach for Miss McDaniels. The first week of the last semester started with very cold weather. Sixth to eighth grades suffer cold rooms. many pupils are in the lunchroom and reception area. The half holiday month brings strange hours. The algebra and geometry classes have twenty and thirty five pupils respectively. Exams closed last Friday. students begin second semester work Monday. High school students received some encouragement. Mink Sandie performed a song, Miss Sharp gave an essay on Rudyard Kipling, and the debating club continues its strong year.
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Wilson
Mabel Strule
Lillian Wilcox Nave
Arong
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Miss McDaniels
Mr. Butler
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Algobra
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Deaths and appointments mark late news in brief
Catherine Alden dies in New York at an advanced age. Wm. Cowper Prime, ex-editor of the New York Journal of Commerce and long-time Princeton art historian, is dead in New York. The Isthmian Canal Commission reports Panama Zone workers deaths. Captain Christian Gold of Copenhagen becomes governor general of the Danish West Indies amid civil disagreements. Milton KE Alles reports marching inaugural ball tickets selling rapidly, with record sales anticipated.
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John
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Janeaville
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Wm. Cowper Prime
New York Journal of Commerce
Princeton University
New York
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Ov. Davis
Panama Canal Zone
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Danish West Indies
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Washington
Allen's Long Balsam for sore throat and cold relief
The notice urges readers to treat throat tickle and rawness early with Allen's Long Balsam. It claims the remedy is free from opium and prevents prolonged cold. It emphasizes not waiting for the cold to run its course.
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Shifting Sands and Property Transfers Listed in Messy Record
A fragmented OCR list shows names and transfers including Bertha A Broadbeck to Albert Payne and Isaac Hewitt to Geo Chamore. Mentions of various property lots, streets and associations mingle with scattered notes and stray phrases about people and places, creating a blurred register of transfers and property actions.
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Wentey Tate
Aaron K Kaysch
Wry Mutstall
Ze Wheeler Gee
Aldrich
Jas WoPw
Sey
Ee Deshany
Bertha A
Trowtherk
Albert Payne
Nwig
Owig
Rey
Bertha A Broadbeck
Annister
Chas NI Robbenott
Walter Robbenot Prhel
AThrilling Fa taunt on a baby reaching the sun misread
A playful line posits a one year old with arms to touch the sun. It imagines the child would be two hundred and thirty three years old in a comic exaggeration.
Farm Life Reflections on Bees, Birds and Modern Labor
A lengthy farmer's notebook discusses farming choices from sheep versus mortgages to the bur oak’s endurance, bee flight ranges, and the habitat role of insects. It laments man’s disruption of nature and urges providing wives with modern labor saving devices to ease domestic work.
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Avery
Tall
Absolutely Pure Has No Substitute and Quackery Warned
A historical critique exposes traveling quack doctors preying on country folk with fake cures and deceptive notes. The piece warns families to avoid interview tactics, promises of restoration, and monthly payments for worthless treatments, stressing the harm of impostors and urging caution. It also discusses natural reproduction and warns against human hybrids and mixed bloods as dangerous, framing moral and natural law debates.
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Planot humor and deacon resist progress
A fragment from the Pittaborg Post and Philadelphia Ledger dialogue features a deacon opposing a contraption in his home while a playful exchange explores who are the most humorous writers. The scene juxtaposes earnest voices with light banter about seriousness in writing.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Embezzler Owen Kelly Captured in Los Angeles
Owen Kelly, once a wealthy Philadelphia grocer, is under arrest in Los Angeles for alleged embezzlement exceeding 90 000 dollars. Traced after fleeing Boston last October, he travelled Europe, returned to the United States, and was seized on a main street by Chief Harmml and Chief Ish. He admitted owing about 9 000 dollars to Philadelphia relatives from speculative losses and said he would return without requisition.
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Brad Ish
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California
Will Feed the Birds Illinois Adopts Novel Plan
Springfield February fourth report says Illinois will spend over five thousand dollars to feed game birds during extreme cold. State Game Warden Wheeler says prairie chickens have died from hunger as cold disrupts food bins. Deputies are authorized to spend up to five hundred dollars per county to scatter grain across counties. Negro Replaces Foreigner in South Chicago steel plants as belief grows blacks adapt better to foremen. Kin of South Decline plant notes gradual replacement of foreign labor with negro workers, citing improved results.
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Altois
Hayes
Warren Wheeler
Warten Whoeler
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Wreck Near Argos Injures Sixteen Workmen in Snowbound Collision
A head on collision between a work train and a freight near Argos, Indiana injures sixteen men Monday night. Dispatchers misordered guidance, wrecking crews were delayed by snow drift and two stalled trains. physicians were summoned, but none of the injured are reported to have died.
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Fuel Scarcity Hits Iowa Rail Traffic
Des Moines February 15. Surging fuel demand and heavy snow cripple freight service across Iowa railroads. Coal shipments prioritized, factories halt, and towns report fuel shortages. Indianola and Marshalltown face serious shortages as Simpson College and several industrial schools close or reduce operations.
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Simpson College
Azerlco
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Eldora
Mitchelville
Rexall 93 Hair Tonic Promises Healthier Hair
An advertisement urges readers to test hair health by observing bulb color, claiming white bulbs indicate disease and pink indicates health. Rexall 93 Hair Tonic is promoted to destroy germs, nourish bulbs, tone sebaceous glands, prevent dandruff, and leave hair glossy. A refund offer promises satisfaction if not satisfied after trial.
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Protect Yourself Against Germs and Digestive Woes
An old patent medicine ad touts Miotia as a stomach and digestive system cure. It claims a single tablet before meals strengthens the stomach, improves digestion, and cures various symptoms like belching, bad taste, dizziness, and general debility, with a buy guarantee.
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Rhorles
Reach the Spot Kidney Pills Promote Quick Recovery
Lora Robinson of Grant reports kidney trouble and backache eased by Dean's Kidney Pills after trying them on a friend's suggestion. She credits the treatment for her improvement and urges others with fiery kidney issues to use the product. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY sole US agents. Remember the name Doan's.
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