Genuine Bargain Basement Bonanza At Acme Sales
Acme Sales Company announces the purchase of Lieb sohn Mercantile Co. stock in Hartley Iowa, shipping crates to Estherville for a massive sale. Thousands of items including shoes, fabrics, hardware, dishes and more are priced far below wholesale, drawing crowds seeking steep savings and proof of new price standards in town.
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Acme Sales Company
Liebsohn Mercantile Co
Hartley
Towa
Estherville
Acme
Tweedy Couple Celebrates Golden Anniversary
Mr and Mrs Wm Tweedy marked fifty years of marriage last Friday receiving many gifts from friends. He is a retired engineer on the Rock Island and they have lived in Sbherville for nearly twenty six years.
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Wm. Tweedy
Mr. Tweedy
Rock Island
Sbherville
Destruction of Forests Wire Joss in America
A fragment notes forests in America suffer yearly destruction covering a large area and mentions devastation attributed to war’s end in France. The text is sparse with unclear context and smeared wording.
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America
France
Twelve Buildings In 1868 North of Des Moines Street
The narrative details early structures and locations in town circa 1868. Buildings include the George Wescott building behind Myhre & Jeglum, a court upstairs, later Swan Lake county seat moves, Bemis and Graves general stores, Graves as postmaster, Ford garage site, Ruel Fisher blacksmithing, Amos Ketchum smithy, and surrounding dwellings. Early employment spots include Eldridge Whitcomb’s 80 acre east from Sixth street farm, C Bates and E B Northrop publishers of the Northern Vindicator, and mail routes to Algona and Emmetsburg. A December episode recalls losing the way on the return to Anderson sheds when horses were changed south of Wallingford.
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Collins
George Wescott
Myhre & Jeglum
Swan Lake
Bemis Brothers
Graves
McKay
C. Bates
E. B. Northrop
Northern Vindicator
Doc Ballard
Haskins Hotel
Algona
Emmetsburg
Here
Anderson Homestead
Wallingford
Anderson Sheds
Outing at Spirit Lake and regional visits noted
A Long list of visitors from Des Moines Valley Junction Sioux Falls and Forest City gather for an outing at Spirit Lake. Families including Singmasters and Meisners share time at the tower cottage. Several members travel to Des Moines to discuss Brotherhood matters with Rock Island officials. Hospital and travel notes cover illnesses operations and trips to Duluth Minneapolis and Chisholm.
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Jas. Hardy
Des Moines
Chas. Goss
Andrew Anderson
Alice
Lloyd
Lowa Falls
HW. T. Nichols
Titanica
Bert Handeland
Duluth
Minn
Missy Lottie Cole
Ed. Cole
Chisholm
Edmund Callendar
Callendar
Birney Hospital
Gea Kibbe
Forest City
B. H. Smith
Hubert
Otto Brown
Minneapolis
Harry
German Scientist Shows Fishes Learn Timed Feeding
Additional evidence that fishes can learn has been produced by a German scientist. He fed fish named Aighes to a musical accompaniment. After six days the ashes always surfaced when the whistle blew. Once learned, the trick was never forgotten and the fishes appeared on time during a thirty day test.
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Popular Science
A Thing Well Done Inspires Honest Work and Victory
A fragment exhorts that any honest labor whether planting corn or writing epics earns a reward to the senses and thought. It emphasizes personal approbation and perseverance, stating one is born to victory through diligent effort as echoed by Emerson.
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Vietory
Emerson
Cathedral Spires Rise High at Milan Landmark
The Milan cathedral ranks as the world’s third largest and features 135 spires adorned with 2,200 marble statues, marking a marvel of Gothic architecture and artistic detail.
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Milan
Why She Loves Him A Woman Admires His Character
A woman admires a man for his achievement and respects his character. She loves him because his eyes are the brown pools on which the sun shines and because it is evident he will never be built.
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Axchnange
Standard Oil Trust Formation and Early Growth
The first industrial trust formed in 187 by Standard Oil Interests under guiding genius of C T Todd who would become vp and general counsel. Its success led to a dozen other trusts in the decade that followed as rival operations consolidated.
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Standard Oil
Standard OM
Todd
Standard of Trust
Iconoclasts and Images Through Time Meaning
An iconoclast once meant a breaker of images and beliefs, while today it can denote one who challenges norms. The term’s first sense referred to destroying icons, whereas an iconoclast is now seen as a maker of images in some contexts.
Hirlas Horn Described in Twelfth Century Welsh Verse
The Hirlas Horn, praised in a Twelfth century Welsh poem by Gwain of Powys, is a long blue and silver rimmed drinking horn. Owain reportedly drank to his chiefs from it with a song in the tale.
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Owain
Hirlas
Gwain
Prince of
Powys
Sable Philosopher Sermon Refers to Ananias Folas and Fire Lake
An Atlanta Constitution excerpt notes a preacher going fishing and implies the sermon avoids mention of Ananias, folas, and the lake described as burning with fire and brimstone in a stylistic, regional tone.
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Ananias Folas
Atlanta Constitution
Good Definition: A Friend Is a Sincere Confidant
A concise reflection on friendship from Emerson stating a friend is someone you can trust with sincerity and speak freely before. The quote emphasizes honesty and openness as core to true friendship.
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Emerson
Advance in Chemistry Discoveries From a Chart
A concise note explains that only about six elements remain undiscovered. Chemists formerly hunted for new elements in nature, but today they identify them by interpreting a periodic chart.
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Mother Eyrth
Irwins and friends plan Des Moines trip and events
The Irwins depart Saturday for a motor trip to Des Moines to visit friends and possibly attend the State Fair. Rain halted threshing as summer activities continue with visits among locals, births announced, and notes on upcoming events including a Ladies League meeting and summer school closing.
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J. C. Irwin
Mr. Irwin Sr
Des Moines
A. J. Wilder
Grover Vicinity
Raymond Igon
Estherville
Lake Wood
A. Lerdahl
Ames
Rachel
Mary Broad
Betty Krieger
Margaret
Kenneth Goldsberry
Raymond Scott
Mike Woods
Henry Whitacre
Fred Elwood
Cassius Elwood
Lorene Crooks
Spirit Lake
Jessie Krieger
Geraldine Graves
Orin Johnson
Kanawha
Harry Shook
Thesl. J. Broad
John Rogers
Leslie
Gruver
Rogers
C. G. School
Ladies League
Rob Woods
Paul Graves
Myron
Chas.Higinbotham
Emmetsburg
W. L. Wertzbaugher
C. K. Wertabaugher
Joliet, AL
Gruwer
J. ©. Irwin
Grover Area Community Notices and Visits
In Grover and nearby, families plan visits to Sioux Falls and Graver during absence of the Irwin family. Mrs Higinbotham hosted Mr and Mrs Wertabaugher and others. Franks Kreiger and children attended a summer faculty program at the H. S. building. Frances Paterson joins Grover school faculty.
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Irwin
Wertabaugher
Sioux
Falls
Graver
Higinbotham
C. K. Wertabaugher
W.'t
Frank Kreiger
Alan
Betty
Rose Dick
Estherville
Florence Williamson
Anna Smith
Superior
Woodmen
Helen Shultz
Mason City
Arnold’s Park
Iva Brannon
L. Drake
Anna Anderson
J. H. Merriott
Bare
For Sale 16 Inch Westinghouse Electric Fan
For sale an antique 16 inch Westinghouse electric fan listed by J H McKay of Estherville. Also advertised a stocked cooks recipe outfits package including a solid oak tickler 100 ruled cards and 21 printed guides offered by the Vindicator and Republican panel.
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Westinghouse
J. H. McKay
Estherville
Qtek
Vindicator
Republican
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Acme Sales
Gardston Hotel
7Th Street
Gardston Hat Shop
Iowa
A, ET
A. Larsson
Springfield
H. T. Dempsey
Dempsey
C. Hawk
Atherville
Des Moines Sunday Register
Wesleyan Wasp
V. R
Grover
the Firsts National Bank
Hubert Watkins
Beck
Musson
Armstrong
North Dakota
Gutell
Storm Lake
Jesse
Extherville
Mrs. Beck
Browitt Creek Hill
H. R. Brown
Graettinger
Eugene McCarty
John Nelson
Wallingford Bank
John Wiegand
Exquire Cockburn Repair Shop
H. N. Rohde
First Trust & Savings Bank
H. Rhodas
Vindicator and
Vindicator and Republican Office
Allen
Furniture & Undertaking
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