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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1912
Page
3
An aged millionaire declares love to a chorus girl who acts distant. He reveals a diamond necklace in a black morocco case, which gleams on black satin. The chorus girl gasps, then admits she is not stone deaf as she confronts the gift and vow.
Misa Mary L. Read chosen as director of the New York School of Mothercraft to be opened on the West Side. The program includes prenatal and postnatal instruction, a selected library, public reading room, and an information bureau on family and child care. Read, a Teachers College graduate, will work with physicians, educators, sociologists, club women, and mothers.
Notified parties are informed that a corporation named Phy A. Lumber Company is formed in Iowa with principal business in lumber trade. Capital stock set at twenty four thousand dollars, board of directors to be three to five, first year directors listed, and road notice references an official report on road establishment near section 44, township 1 north, range 3 east.
Special terms offered to buyers who value hauling during slack times. Cumeny Propur Co invites all in need of monument work to see the agent before placing orders. Prices are favorable with different options available.
A New York florist claims to grow lettuce in minutes using soaked seeds in foam and alcohol. The process yields leaves in an hour ready to eat at the dinner table. The piece also warns of stomach troubles and promotes Chamberlain’s products for digestion and cough remedies sold by F. S. Shadle and Company.
A cambric petticoat trimmed in crocheted edging and lace has served 18 brides as the “something old” at the altar. Made 56 years ago by Nancy Emma Stroud in Atlanta, it first wore by Aston Nunnally’s bride. It was loaned when a younger sister married and has now been passed to Miss Rose Helle Hines of McKinney Texas.
The article notes that women have long received knighthood and joined orders such as the Garter and St John. It cites Mary Cholmondeley knighted by Elizabeth for rallying against Spain and contrasts with Tortosa’s women knighted for saving their city from Moors. It recalls royal knighting at coronations and how later queens overlooked women in male offices’ privileges and duties.
A New Yorker recently back from Vermont praises partridge berries as an ideal table ornament. The bright red berries contrast with green moss and foliage, lasting through winter with minimal care when grown on delicate vines in moist moss. Native to Vermont and New York.
A fragment from a moral anecdote recalling the prodigal son returning home the father commands a celebration alleging the son’s fondness for chicken potels as judged in a rustic courtroom scene
Metropolitan Magazine discusses the Mikado as earth-born son of heaven ruling from a forested palace in Toklo. It notes his hidden status, multiethnic features, and the occult meaning behind names as the House of Japan preserves a long, monogamy-avoiding lineage and frugal, memory-haunted court life.
In a colonial era vignette the article notes native Chinese dining customs where men are served first and eat hot dishes while women wait, receiving cooler portions. The description underscores gendered etiquette and its practical impact on dining experience.
The notice promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as widely trusted for cold cure with impressive sales, but cautions it may not always be reliable. It lists F. S. Shadle and Company as a seller.
Dr. B. Bashford reported at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund meeting in London that esophageal cancer is common among Chinese men but rare among women. He suggested that reducing hot rice consumption could lower male cancer rates, noting women eat cooler, non irritant rice. A public notice offers a brooch for sale.
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