Township financial records reveal long federal tax dispute
Emmet County Iowa township reports show a contested tax levy on benefits and property, with trustees approving the levy and interest up to six percent. The document includes itemized road fund receipts, disbursements, and balances from Center and other townships for 1908 1909, detailing payments to clrk fees, lumber, road work, and quarantining costs.
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Ee Ny Drainage District
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Board of Supervisora
Emmet County
Iowa
Eatherville Township
State OF
State OF Iowa
Honorable
Board of Supervisors
Center Township
Balance cash on hand January first, 1909 record
Partial OCR entry notes cash on hand as of January 1 1909 and receipts from County Treasurer dated May 20. Details incomplete with several unreadable words but reflects a financial balance and county disbursement.
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Rlig Thoes
J. A. Griffith
D. Barrett
Eden Gates
Chicken Homiletic in a Minister’s Dinner Tale
A Boston Record snippet recounts a country minister dining out after five dinners of corned beef. He notices a roast chicken and quips that the chicken “enters the ministry.” A family boy replies that it may do better than the man’s preaching, adding a wry exchange about work.
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Boston Record
Boy Cured After Six Years of Fits by Nerve Pills
Mrs. J. D. Palmer of Amsterdam New York reports her six year old son suffered seizures with convulsions frothing and facial twitching. After doctors could not cure him seven boxes of Dr A W Chase's Nerve Pills were taken over five months and no further fits occurred. Her testimony claims improved color steadiness and mood, endorsing the medicine sold at fifty cents a box or by Dr. A W Chase Medicine Co Buffalo NY.
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J. D. Palmer
Park St
Amsterdam
N. Y
Dr. A.W. Chane Medicine Co
Buffalo, N.Y
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Thought Astor Was Crazy About His Burr Estate Buy
A Houston Post excerpt recalls John Jacob Astor paying $1000 an acre to buy Aaron Burr’s estate of about 120 acres near present day Twenty-first Street in Manhattan. Astor later tested the market by selling lots around $5000 an acre, though little was sold at that price. The note reflects on public sentiment and consequences of fame with a wry quote about intimate friends.
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Jewley
Henry
Enry
Hey
Newark News
Marie Stuart
Queen Elizabeth
Marie
Elizabeth
London
London Family Journal
Astor
John Jacob Astor
Aaron Burr
Temper and Faults Highlighted in Dumbleton-Britter Row
The Atchison Globe notes that Dumbleton-Britter's chief fault is his temper, which sometimes dominates. The remark suggests that patience with the faults of those we dislike can wear thin as a virtue.
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Watel
Conde
Louis XIV
Vatel
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Dumbleton
Britter
Wlasher
Atchison Globe
Landes Shepherds and French Peasants on Stilts
In Landes district France peasants walk on stilts to see over brush and for mobility. Stilts six to seven feet high with leather straps and knee bands enable expert balance. They race, jump brooks, clear fences, and resume upright poses instantly, sometimes using taller stilts for speeds up to ten miles per hour.
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France
Les Landes
Technical World Magazine
A Man Forever Expecting Trouble and Its Roots
A profile of a man who always looks for trouble, displays chronic anxiety, and never finds happiness despite success and a good home. The piece argues his unhappiness stems from a difficult boyhood and limited early training, suggesting early reform could have changed his life. It cites Success Magazine as the source of its opening and closing reflections.
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Success Magazine
Self Control and Courtesy in Japanese Demeanor
A writer in St Pauls Magn atie praises Japanese self control and courtesy under stress. A witness recalls comforting a dying husband with restraint, while a response from the bereaved emphasizes reverence for the sacred dead. The Philadelphia Bulletin anecdote notes eighteenth century bakers as pipe cleaners and surgeons, with pipes dipped in liquid wax then baked to white cleanliness.
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St. Paul's
Philadelphia Bulletin
Degrees of Hunger in a Humorous Exchange
A humorous dialogue excerpt from the New York Press features a short story writer and a poet discussing hunger and dinner. The writer jokes about stretching hunger while the poet remarks the writer is hungry only in prose.
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New York Press
Not very well Teddy on soda water taste
A quip recounts Teddy being asked how he liked plain soda water after a drink. He replies that it tastes as though his foot had gone asleep, noting the discomfort and humor in the moment.
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Teddy
Success Magazine
Victor Hugo’s Exile Home Hauteville House Details
The Guernsey home Hauteville House remains as Hugo left it with walls bearing his sayings and rooms filled with priceless art, furniture, and a Delft tiled dining room. The study offers views of Sark Herm and the harbor, while rooms hold Latin mottoes and tributes to notable figures.
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Mater
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Burglary Advice From a Society Woman's Dilemma
A Baltimore American piece recounts a society woman's question about how to respond if a burglar enters during sleep. A former police captain says do nothing but sit up and scream for help from the top of her lungs. He asserts professionals avoid shooting, while amateurs lose their heads.
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Disinterested Affection and Humorous Exchanges
A compact note features lines from Der Mob and Baltimore American. Blanche accuses Edward of marrying for 100000 crowns while he denies the motive. The snippet ends with a quip about finding a hole indicating misadventure and misfortune.
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Blanche
Fragmentary Playful Exchange From Buston Herald
A fragment from the Buston Herald shows Miss Moonlite asking to hold the reins and Mir Bashplul asking for guidance. Moonlite suggests the holder of the relue as the alternative. The text captures a light, dialogic moment with unclear context.
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Buston Herald
Impostor Love Match Sparks Family Hearing
A titled suitor faces scrutiny from prospective in laws at a family hearing. They probe for a skeleton in the closet and debts, with the mother fainting as the millionaire asserts the union is a practical love match, not romance.
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Millonaire
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Enterprising immigration tale from War era remarks
An immigration official described a man as ignorant of government. He cites two Polish policemen who were posted to the War saw force, did wood work, and arrested many before resigning. The elder officer explains they will start their own police station with Boris making arrests and the other doing the firing.
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Warsaw
Boris
Washington Star
Nervous Prostration Relief Promised by Nervine
A Cleveland resident Mrs D I Jones reports recovery from nervous prostration after using Dr Miles Nervine. The ad claims most illness stems from nerves, describes how nerves power organs, and offers a money back guarantee if no benefit. It urges readers to obtain a bottle from a druggist and follow directions.
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Nervine
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Broadway
Cleveland
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