Memorial Day Post Cards and Local Happenings
Fred Hirsch of Tripp in hmstown this morning. Miss Boster returned to Yanks ton Wednesday. Mrs. Chas Lewis is buying her house reshingled. J L Hutshigon visiting at 1 bin old home in Canara. Mrs. Pat Grace of Canton was in Scotland earlier this week. Memorial Day Post Cards on sale at Treiber's Jewelry Store. Mrs. John Wittmayer and daughter Johanna to return from California. John Schmierer & Son offer specials and New York Store card. David Cassel arrived from Westfield Ia to move there. Scotchland ball players with Mat McCormick and Fred Wells. politics discussed. Miss Laura Saul of Mitchell visiting the Jelly girls. Reservoir dam near Mitchell burst after heavy rains. train rerouted via Scotland. Train north of Mitchell damaged by high water. delays Aberdeen. Memorial Day Postals at Preibher's. A J Wilcox of Springfield in town seeking county judge seat. Will Wilson and sisters learn of sister Mrs Julia Corner near Gregory shot and died. funeral to Audubon, Iowa. Mrs Corner leaves husband and two children.
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Fred Hirsch
Tripp
Hmstown
Treiber’s
John Wittmayer
Johanna
California
Mitchell
Scotland
Aberdeen
Will Wilson
Gladys
E. Freeman
Julia Corner
Gregory
Wilson
Niobrara
Audubon
Mrs. Freeman
A Story of Henry Clay and a Stagecoach Confession
An anecdote from a friend recounts Henry Clay traveling to Washington on the Nations Road after his presidential nomination. In a stormy night on a stagecoach, two Kentuckians discussed his political prospects while Clay slept. One remark noted his land and stock interests, claiming he would be worth fifty thousand if he stayed with stock farming. The other quipped that all they said was true, prompting Clay to move to another coach to avoid embarrassment.
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Henry Clay
Washington
Nations Road
Harry Clay
Ancient India and Western Influence Traced in Buddhist Art
The Contemporary Review notes a shift in Indian sculpture from rudimentary rock temples to later Buddhist works showing forms influenced by Greek and later European styles. It compares enduring Hindu temples and Latin and Teutonic parallels, highlighting a major cross-cultural exchange and the gradual emergence of a distinct Indian artistic identity.
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Young
India
Greene
Italy
Europe
Contemporary Review
Misnamed Madagascar and a Heath Filled Boundary Tale
Readers are presented with a historical note on Madagascar’s name origin and a turf land vignette. It contrasts Marco Polo’s misread reports, a chartmaker’s errors, a 1506 discovery by Hernando Suarez naming St Lorenz, and the eventual unification of Madagascar’s name by 1581. The piece shifts to Somerbo’s boundary heath near Itecaimot, a vast heather plain where only heather thrives, likened to a stubborn forest that repels outsiders.
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Madagascar
St. Loreng Island
Marco Polo
Africa
Martin Belhgim
Nuremberg
Hernando Suarez
St Lorenz
Somerbo
Halland
Itecaimot
Nils
Selma Lagerlof
Velma Swanston Howard
Wandering painter swindles farmer with oil ruse
A farmer confronts a wandering portrait painter who sold him a bottle of allegedly genuine olive oil to pour on lettuce. The oil proved to be sewing machine oil, and the artist vanished in a cloud of dust after the exchange.
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Chicago News
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Goodridge
Call Ler, CO
C. F. Wittmayer
IC Kh
C.S. Sanford
New York
Cherokee
Meriden
Iowa
Page-Davia Correspondence School of Advertising
Chicago
W. D. Griffithe
John Schmierer & Son
David Cassel
Westfield
Doug Sates
Mat McCormick
Register of Deeds
Fred Wells
Sootland
Tyndall
Mat
Pinkertons
Laura Saul
Preibher’s
A. J. Wilcox
Springfield
Wilcox
BON Homme County Bank, of Scotland
Wheeler
Wheeler's
Kyanize
Creooceptine
J. A. Jelly & CO. Reich Building
F.becker
Nicholas Sear JR
Alex. Tleiber
Orier Ecamierer
Philip Engel
German Bank OF Scotland
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