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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1915
Page
7
Country notes from the Vindicator and Republican provide keen comments on people tasks and village life. Farm progress, village events, and local happenings are sketched with brief observations and community detail for readers.
Residents share news of visitors from Harris and Take Park visiting Superior and Estherville. Dr Henry Black Burns lecture draws small crowd due to heavy snow. Local contests, sickness, improving patients, and holiday preparations fill the week with dances, dinners, shopping, and plans for Christmas.
The piece lampoons the late shopper as a chronic procrastinator who delays gifts until the last moment. It depicts his frail health, a torn Christmas list, and a habit of postponing charity, contrasting with Santa’s constant readiness and urging readers to avoid last minute pressures. It riffs on holiday commerce and social behavior with satirical humor.
In a critique of social reform, the piece argues moral law rests on economic progress, warns against overzealous censorship, and notes that sanctity of the home rests on modern economic conditions rather than strict scruples. It suggests civilization advances through economic change, not mere scolding.
Police officer George Allen a former acrobat chased Barney Fenning an ex circus trapeze artist along Lehigh avenue near Frankford using the Reading railway elevated tracks for a stunt display. Fenning was cornered atop a signal pole after running amuck with a butcher knife. a riot call was made before Allen and Fenning faced a dramatic rooftop scramble and Fenning was captured.
A Youth's Companion item recounts how Quakers in France rescue and tend the wounded earning respect from both Tommies and pioupious. It highlights a witty family member who, amid a fashion moment, smirks at the lady's chill by suggesting she wear another breastpin.
A humorous meditation on Christmas bells, contrasting the doorbell, expressman’s packages, and family reactions. It notes doorbell arrivals without bills, the thrill of gifting like mufflers for fathers, daughters racing to the door, and the Christmas telephone and dinner bells shaping Yuletide rituals.
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