Winter News And Local Notes From Estherville
A compact bulletin of Estherville items covers cold weather at twelve degrees below zero Monday morning, local appointments, club notices, postal rate shifts, and obituaries. Included are promotions at Rock Island roundhouse, the North Ward Rebekah Lodge gathering, and the burial of Joseph E. Johnson after a Laurel collapse. The piece notes town advertising value, corn stalk paper research, and a poultry show slated for the week.
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Indlea
Towa
Himmel
Joe Littleton
Rock Inland Round House
Hostler
Round House
Town Falla
North Star Lodge No
A.F
A. M
W. P. Galloway
N. M
John Ross
Chas. Fuller
J. W
Jan. Espeset
G.a. Gardner
W. T. Davidson
Hamburg
Fremont County
A. V. Penn
Joseph E. Johnson
Laurel
Mont
Eatherville
Mud Lake
Johnson
Mrs McRaney’s Experience With Foley Kidney Remedy
Mrs M McRaney of Prentiss Mississippi endured three months bedridden with kidney and bladder trouble. After two doctors failed to help, she started Foley's Kidney Remedy and, after two bottles, felt like a new person and urges other women to try it. Williams and Andersons.
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M. McRaney
Prentiss
Mias
Foley
Williams & Andersons
Mermaid Tavern and the Origin of Bogus Word Tales
Brief notes recount Medill’s deafness anecdote at the Chicago Tribune office and a survey of London’s Mermaid tavern, famed for literary famed gatherings including Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. The piece also traces the etymology of bogus to Boghese counterfeiters or the term bogasse from French origins.
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St. Toseph
Medill
The
Chicago Tribune
Itma
Mr. McAil
Mr. Medill
Goodby
London
Hilzabeth
Shakespeare
Ben Johnson
Beatmont
Fletcher
Selden
Carew
Donne
Mermaid Club
Walter Raleigh
Bread Street
Friday Street
Cheap Street
Ogilvie
Lowell
Biglow
The Queerest Salad and a Donkey Joke
A Parisian linguist notes argot terms and slang while a gourmet praises a Greenland Inuits salad of moss from reindeer stomachs as the most delicious digestif. A humorous anecdote follows about Amihson’s failed joke with a houseguest’s sister, ending in a witty line about a donkey.
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Greenland
In the Same Boat Encounter at the O'Toole Door
A stranger approaches the O'Toole residence seeking Mr. O'Toole while Mrs. O'Toole blocks the entry with a rough stick. The brief exchange unfolds with polite greeting as the standoff begins.
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Mrs. O'Toole
Mr. O'Toole
Mrs. O’toole
Matrimony Joke From The Transcript
A quip notes matrimonial process likened to courting, with adoration and declaration leading to being "taken in." The Boston Transcript features Cynicus and Youngly in a brief humorous exchange about marriage rituals.
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Boston ‘Transcript
The Extremes in a Lunch and Breakfast Contrast
A witty Life quotation notes how lobster and champagne for supper symbolize excess, while sawdust and near coffee for breakfast imply meager hygiene. It reflects on the divide between luxury and simple living, with a nod to genuine daily existence between these two eminences.
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Germany
Woodman of America
Department of Agriculture
Vindicator
Republican
Estherville
Tim
Pastat Star Lodge
Krawer
Kanens City Tournat
Amihson
OF All
Dr. King
J. R. Pitt
Rocky Mount, N.C
Anderson
Stockdale
Jay Johnston & Co
E. T
EK. P
Odd Fellows
Joy Pay
Hawkes Jis
Hawkes Glass
Stouffer
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