Old Order Passes British Aristocracy Faces Ground Shift
Collier's recounts how a belted earl and the Plantagenet lineage lose feudal privilege as servants assert rights and the estate crumbles. War service shifts power to the state, with land transfers to small farmers and calls for government ownership of mines and estates. Windsor and succession concerns for the young prince loom as the old order fades.
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Eneland
Earl
William Aion White
Collier’s
Eton Sand Harrow
Enck
Cone
Furest
Windsor
Witkes
Dish Runs Away With Spoon Nostalgic Spoon Theft Tale
In a witty historical note diners recall the old timer tale of the dish running away with the spoon. A hostess boasts a vast theft themed display including hundreds of spoons and knives while truth about borrowed wares and souvenir eatery artifacts surfaces amid European hotel restaurant chatter.
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Chee Tradityeen
Wall Street
Ariede
Uds
Europe
Mubbard
War’s appalling cost shown in Ford’s Pearborn note
Henry Ford’s Pearborn Independent cites 19 wars in 117 years until 1910 and compares costs. It states the late war cost 50 percent more in lives and 700 percent more in money than all prior wars combined, with figures on deaths from England France Russia and others and a stark view of human losses across epochs.
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Henry Ford
England
Pranep
France
Sardinia
Turkey
Austria
Russian
Japan
Germany
Gettysburg
Dickett
Sherman
Andersonville
Russia
Great Britain
Mainy
Weney
Alaskan Fur Seals Census Amidst Trade Push
A tentative census of Alaska fur seals shows herd strength across ages, with pups matching breeding cows and a 10 percent rise from last year. Telegraph reports note fur seal skins taken on St Paul and St George Islands through the season ending Aug 10, while efforts aim to curb excess harvest and trade activity.
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Alaska
de Ga. Daas Huta
Wtzantz
St. Pawdsland
St George Island
Sympathetic Neighborhood Stills Hidden in Plain Sight
A garbled dialogue fragment depicts a stringer and an old newspaper man, asking about locating a stil in the area. The text hints at a vanished craft and a local curiosity, with references to education, AI, and a stubborn thirst for truth. The passage reads like a faded oral history fragment.
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Meuibanesss
Fractured Note Reflects Prohibition Era Anecdote
Fragmentary, jittery message describes a person asking for help to gather evidence related to the wartime or prohibition era, with hints of alcohol and sensory embellishments. The text includes names and broken phrases suggesting a confrontation or demand for explanation.
Six to One and the Outvoted Family Joke
A speaker praises a wife and five daughters while noting the family faces the difficulty of being outvoted six to one. The remark mixes humor with a hint of frustration about politics at home.
Few Circuit Riders Left Among Rural Methodists
The piece notes the dwindling number of circuit riders, their historic role in frontier religious life, and how the rural Methodist system now centers on ministers serving multiple churches. It cites conference data, showing many circuits with two or fewer churches and regional declines, amid a centenary drive affecting rural church work.
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Elrowtt
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Tennessee
Missouri
Illnois
West Virginia
Methodist Episcopal Church
Hot Blast Theory From Volcanic Explosions
George N. Cole argues in the Monthly Weather Review that the intense heat sweeping St Pierre and other eruptions arose from rapid air compression around the blast, not from hot crater gases. He cites observations from the Martinique disaster in support.
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Monthly Weather Review
George N. Cole
St. Pierre
Mont Pelee
Vesuvius
Pumpeii
Herculaneum
Taal
Sakurashon
Cole
Martinique
Scientific Americaun
One Real Joy Ride at Arcadia Balloon Event
A rancher, addressing Lt. Col. Mygatt before Arcadia’s balloon event, asks whether he can buy a World War II Gillik tank after the war. The officer questions the request as the rancher admits he is tired of road hogs in machines and jokes about riding in a tank to see what it’s like.
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Arcadia
Mygatt
Los Angeles
Reversed Ruthlessness and a Manager’s Remark
A terse exchange unfolds with a manager criticizing an orchestra. He notes the group lacks quality and that their German repertoire would "break the heart" of any German listener, revealing tension over musical direction and cultural taste.
Terris Tribune Items Of Interest From Terris Tribune
A collection of short notes: A. W. Bascom traveled to Liber ville and Sibley for a joint boards of supervisors meeting. The era of doomsday jokes continues as the world did not end. M. & St. L. ran on time. City water plant pump broke, leaving town and consumers without water. repair unknown. Caution urged on fire safety. A. A. Howe visited Estherville to oversee nursery chair contracts. Vincent feared chickens as a man hesitated by a path where chickens pecked at cinders, then left after claiming a “wooster” on the sidewalk frightened him.
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A. W. Bascom
Liberville
Sibley
Boards of Supervisors
Vincent
Iowa Fall Wheat Acreage Drops Sharply in 52 Percent Decline
The Iowa Co operative Crop Reporting Service notes winter wheat sowing fell 52 percent to 458 000 acres from 954 000 last fall due to farmers returning to normal seeding amid war and dry soil conditions. Rye sowing also declined from 70 000 to 64 000 acres with December 1 conditions at 94 percent. About 60 percent of farm lands were plowed this fall. wages of male farm labor were reported.
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Iowa Co-operative Crop Reporting Service
Iowa
Town labor and harvest wages in 1919 report
The 1919 figures show monthly hire rates with board at 55.65 dollars and without board at 71.43 dollars, daily wages of 55.65 with board or 71.43 without for year-long hires. Harvest day labor with board averages 4.46 dollars and 5.20 without, non harvest day labor 3.46 with board or 4.24 without. Farms burn about 9 cords of wood annually at 3.91 dollars per cord. Starting 1920 reports move to Des Moines, Iowa.
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Har
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