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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1910
Page
7
An Albany legislator recalls Senator Platt’s cynical wit about changing views and health. John D. Rockefeller tries a golf shot near Augusta, misjudging and asking the caddy what he hit as the dust rose. The piece ends with a quip about procrastination.
Iowa Rural Letter Carriers Association plans sessions in Ames on August 31 and September 1 at the new Ag hall. Bert B. Childs announced the convention program with remarks by state and national leaders, committee appointments, and talks on butter roads mail wagons and insurance.
Iowa news items report Cora Singleson, 17, who married Henry McClelland, later jailed for bigamy, died of a broken heart after learning of the marriage. McClelland alleged to have two prior wives. Also notes oats yields near Prescott, Elk’s lodge member Rev. William Pence James in Marshalltown, a surprise $11 payment to J B Bolton in Conscience, and a Dubuque woman dying of blood poisoning from facial boils.
The annual reunion of the Latter Day Saints of western Iowa will be held at Little Sioux from Friday September 9 to Monday September 18. Distinguished attendees include W. J. Wight and Herman C. Smith of Lamont William Stuart of Mondamin and S. J. Lynn of Little Sioux serves on the entertainment committee.
Centerville reports a distressing divorce suit by Mrs. Sherman Speers who says she wed at 13 in Novinger Missouri and bore four children by 14. She alleges cruelty and neglect, health decline, while her husband deserted her, highlighting a long, controversial plea in county court.
Ora McClure aged 16, missing since last November, was located working in a Burlington button factory. His mother, Mrs. E. McClure of St. Paul, had sent a letter to the local police and has been notified of his found status.
Citizens of Magnolia and farmers between Magnolia and Missouri Valley raised 8000 in electric light bonds with the Bullock Public Service Company of Omaha for twenty four hour service in town and along the line.
D S Eldredge of Atlantic, administrator for the estate of Hensley M Morton of Louisville, sued the Mo Re drug store in Atlantic for $10,000 damages after Morton was poisoned and died there on June 7. Falls Dead In Daughter-in-Law's Arms: Mary Nichols of Boone collapsed after buying a watermelon. her daughter-in-law Maggie Fitch of Des Moines aided her fall.
Fort Dodge adopted the commission plan of city government by a vote of 420 to 340 after a spirited campaign. Oppositionists remained active and reorganized but failed to block the measure.
Gussie, awkward in build and eyes twisted with a harsh squint, plans a hit at a town hall fancy dress ball. He arrives with bravado, startling the hall porter who blurts Great Christopher Columbus. Gussie corrects him and proclaims his costume as Charles the First.
Playful exchange hints at sleigh bells and wedding bells, tying music lovers to a festive celebration. A light conversational note suggests joy and romance during the season.
The catacombs at Rome served as burial places for early Christians and reportedly stretch about 680 miles, housing around 6,000,000 bodies. Used as hiding places during Nero’s persecutions, they grew crowded under Diocletian. The carvings and chapels are Bible scenes, making the catacombs a pictorial Bible in rock.
The nation releases about 100000 prisoners annually with 10 to 15 percent carrying tuberculosis. The Prison association of New York and the State Charities Aid association plan a joint campaign to prevent tuberculosis in state penal institutions, seeking prison physicians and anti tuberculosis groups cooperation. He Had No Eye for Color. An Irish visitor admires newborn triplets in Tennessee, choosing one infant in the middle as the one to save.
Vintage advertisement touts Dr Martel's Female Pills as a seventeen year standard for women's ailments. It claims a scientifically prepared remedy with quick permanent results and sale in all drug stores, ending with a cryptic line about business and the crop that never fails.
A continental agent recalls meeting Bjornson at the Tuileries hotel in Paris. He notes the Norseman's wit and wisdom, including a final caution about not trusting an easy-going man who makes life rough for others.
A lad confronts Jimmy about his absence from the messenger force. Jimmy reveals he now works for a dog fancier and, in a humorous exchange, explains he teaches ladies how to whistle when they buy a pet dog.
A short quotation asserts that the essence of humanity is a personal garden to cultivate, attributed to W. I. Gladstone, reflecting on self-improvement and moral growth.
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