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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1909
Page
4
An old Home Circle column urges giving wives a vacation from daily cares, noting modern life multiplies duties and that a wife seldom rests at home. It contrasts idealized mother in law virtues with a call for patient, kindly behavior toward daughters and sons, and stresses home harmony and paternal consideration.
John Pruitt, a man who never celebrated a birthday, is told by William Bern er, the county marriage license clerk, that he was born on July fourth and turns forty. Bern er records the date on Pruitt’s license and urges him to celebrate annually.
An odd local vignette recounts Santa Claus arriving at a large shop while neighbor Steve Lougia stays quiet. A woods-returning man carries a gun and jokes about shooting a dog, hinting at neighborly humor. Also advertised: a six-room house for rent at tharvi per month and a Bee Bank of Hs harville notice.
A Tennessean named Galloway, elected to Shelby County to the state senate, faced protests over a past duel. During swearin g in, he defended his actions as duels and secondings in Mississippi Arkansas and Mississippi again, warned any opposing senator he would call him out, and the body voted for him.
In stock banter from the Transcript a dialogue shows Joker and a clerk discussing simokeless tol and tobacco. A side note mentions a wife and a scene with hens scratching eggplant seed, ending with hub and jealousy.
A potato vine in C. C. Nall's garden at Luther sville Georgia produced potatoes along its branches and eyes sized tubers under the vine ground. The land is noted as sandy with red slag. Nall reports the plant also yielded many tubers in the soil, proving regular yield alongside the extraordinary growth.
A skater fell through thin ice into a pond while skating. He was dragged out by companions just before going under a third time. Wet and dazed, he stood on the bank looking around and said he must go back for his glasses.
A garbled OCR excerpt shows a map meeting a doctor, posing an odd query about a free prescription for a sore throat. The text is incomplete and unclear, with corrupted phrases and missing context, making precise facts difficult to discern.
The article traces the discovery of wireless telegraphy from 1853 when Lord Kelvin proposed oscillation to 1896 with Marconi achieving notable success. It notes Maxwell and Hertz theories, Lodge's syntony and coherer terms, and the 1894 space signaling demonstration, framing a lineage of key figures across Britain, Russia, and Italy.
In The Gentlewoman Caruso notes superstitions among performers. A distinguished woman crosses herself before cues and a prima donna kissed her mother goodbye for blessed assurance. A famous singer wears a Gounod bracelet believed to aid success, while men also keep small rituals for luck in performance.
Oscar Asche and wife Mise Rind Brayton, en route to Australia after 18 years away, commented on the theater downturn before sailing. He quipped about a deadhead turning a destroyer and recalled arranging a program with a respected manager while noting changes in the town's playhouses and a planned production.
United States Senator Flint endured seven dangerous hours trapped in a narrow canyon 36 miles offshore from Catalina while exploring with Gifford Pinchot Steward Howard White and Charles F. Holder. He slipped and tumbled 60 feet, crawled along dry waterfalls, and finally reached the beach where a fishing boat spotted his distress and rescued him.
Ten thousand spectators gathered at John H. Lumbard’s farm near Wolf’s Crossing Will County to watch William Fairweather win the plowmanship contest after Alvin Stark’s horse balked at a critical moment. Automobiles and carriages filled the road for two miles as post graduate contestants began furrow turning, following a tradition of the annual event among local farmers.
A garbled 1910s style report notes ten year old John Nicholas Brown, tagged the wealthiest boy, unhappy and in tension with German Kaiser era figures. He traveled with his mother Mrs. N. B. and faced social pressure, unable to meet expectations, while his education and status drew public interest.
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