Local Social Notes From Fairbury Chautauqua Week
Local residents and visitors attended the Fairbury chautauqua with various movements between trains and family visits. The piece notes Miss Maud Tonnemaker from Endicott visiting Diller friends, Mrs A E Fairchild traveling from Endicott for yesterday’s picnic, and Lulu Walker of Steele City visiting Alex’s family. It also mentions Chas Tjaden returning from Denver to join his wife and child at E J Love’s home, and Will Finstman Willis Clark and Ray Green spending time between trains at Odell. The Fairbury census shows population around 585, nearly doubling in ten years.
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Will Finstman
Willis Clark
Ray Green
Odell
Lulu Walker
Steele City
Rev. Walker
Alex. Bell
Chas. Tjaden
Peoria
Denver
Bie
I Ip
Homs
E. J. Love
For Sale and Local Notices from Fairbury News
Mixed local items including a for sale notice for a team of buckskin mules and a 30x36 inch primary election ballot discussion. Readers learn of Mrs. Thos Nelson visiting Chicago relatives and the Wright Nicholson family returning to Los Angeles after attending a funeral in Olinoia.
Editor Recovers From Invoicing Error In Shenandoah Office
A Shenandoah editor recounts a near meltdown after a subscriber cleared a back payment with four receipts proving the prior claim was incorrect. The gentleman paid another year in advance in calm fashion, easing the staff’s fear of a lawsuit or public dispute.
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Shenandoah
World
Echolar
Bucklen s Arnica Salve Promises Quick Healing
Advert reads Bucklen s Arnica Salve for bed burns cuts and wounds claiming rapid relief for ulcers boils and rashes. Also reports a runaway accident near Elia neighborhood injuring Mrs Ross Hill. Iowa public road sweep praised as a single day effort across the state spurring new highway plans and Glidden touring fame.
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Bucklen
Chipperfield Drug Co
Ode to a Dish Pan in a Suffragette Era
A humorous verse from a 19th or early 20th century voice laments the dish pan as a symbol of hearth and home. The speaker, claiming to be the husband of a suffragette, wryly acknowledges the changing role of women and his own constrained sphere while dedicating praise to the dish pan as a domestic emblem.
Picnic Attendance and Local Visits Highlight Beatrice Event
Mrs Dora Arpke of Beatrice visited the Price home and attended yesterday’s picnic and plans to return Sunday. J J Senior reopened his store room for a dance during the picnic day, drawing a full crowd with admissions at 75 cents and 1 dollar per number. J F Lutz of Blue Rapids Kansas arrived Wednesday to attend to business and the big picnic. He owns the Jake Henrichs farm a mile southwest of town. Miss Selma Hansen, visiting Miss Margaret Hughes, returned Friday noon to Beaver Crossing Nebraska, with Margaret planning an eight month visit in Seward county.
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Dora Arpke
Beatrice
Joe Price
J. Senior
J. F. Lutz
Blue Rapids
Kan
Jake Henrichs
Mias Selma Hansen
Margaret Hughes
Beaver Crossing
Nebr
Miss. Margaret
Seward County
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Rock Island
T Great Western
Dempster
Wood
J. A. Pickard & Company
Maud Tonnemaker
Endicott
Diller
Mrs
A. E. Fairchild
Chamberlain
Fairbury
Chautauqua
Piller
Sam Diller
Wilber
F. Hartzell
Martha Diller
Sam
Philadelphia
Fairbury News
A. E. Wright
Fannie Nicholson
F. E. Hale
Mr. Hale
Olinoia
Alfred Wright
Los Angles
Calif
Mignon Hale
Staggers
Skeptics
Ross Hill
Elia
Iowa
Des Moines
Burlington
Clinton
Mississippi
Council Bluffs
Missouri
St. Joseph
Abe
Ape Lamieft
Kanter & CO
DR. MN. Bauguess
Diller, Nebr
J. G. Neely
Packer's Restaurant
Diller, Nebraska
Pameral Directors
Embalmers
Diller Brothers
Waltham
Elgin
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