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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1909
Page
3
In Pavia Iowa a 1908 notice discusses westward settlement, drought and dust challenges, and crop prospects for May. It covers life insurance by Senator Healy’s family, liquor order laws, a school bill, Dickinson county farming, and national politics on civil service reforms and census appointments. Also notes Good Friday holiday efforts and a local school event at the Opera House February 23.
Philadelphia Record explains bullseye sizing for rifle ranges at 200 to 1000 yards using targets A B and O. It details bullseye diameters 8 inches for A, 20 inches for B, 36 inches for center O, and point values 5 to 2 depending on hit location within the target.
The English common law holds landowners own airspace above their property up to the sky. Interference with airship flight may be trespass, potentially leading to injunctions or lawsuits by landowners against airship operators. New York Syn.
A quotation from the Nottingham Guardian notes that well dressed crowds can be the worst behaved. A joke exchanges about a couple discussing coffee habits and a wife claiming she persuaded her husband to improve. The fragment ends with a saying on debt and social behavior.
A British garden incident recounts a bear roaming free after a gate was left unfastened. A keeper lures the animal back with carrot and bread, slips into the cage through a side door, and the bear is recaptured without harm. The episode ends with credit to the keeper and the director.
In a London Notes and Queries tale a woman, warned in a dream, recalls seeing a pale dread figure in a funeral procession led by a dark man in a sombrero. She warned her husband not to enter the lift, but he refused and died in a fatal hotel accident in Paris years earlier.
Quote reflects Walt Mason lamenting a change from rough childhood to polished adulthood. The writer notes boys no longer climb trees and girls bake mud pies, as all youths are now addressed as sirs and misses, with kids absorbed into a formal, tomorrow world.
Notes from the era describe a Royal Veterinary College matriculation requiring exams in English grammar composition Latin mathematics and options Greek modern language or logic. It outlines a heavy veterinary curriculum and a London Chronicle aside on dress standards contrasting London and New York style plus a short comic exchange from Chicago Tribune about travel and anesthesia.
A collage of recorded land transfers and estate notes lists numerous deeds, dates, and names such as Stewart, Stover, Rhodes, Armstrong, and Bartlett among others. The fragment details filings in various dates, bk and p references, and scattered financial figures for parcels and considerations.
The article discusses a wedding invitation practice from London World where guests are asked to add P B L after R V P to request gifts. Donor respondents would send a small selection of articles ranging from a shilling to £1,000 in value, and the bride would choose.
A room wanted ad seeks heated furnished or unfurnished lodging at the Vindicator office. A public sale in Grover, Iowa lists horses, buggy, farming implements, tools, and household items to be sold February 22 with cash under $6 and credit terms on larger amounts.
John Washington of Bosqueville Texas says three doctors could not help him for five weeks with blood poison from a spider bite that caused large ulcers on his leg. Bucklen's Arnica Salve fully cured him. It also treats eczema boils burns and piles. 256 at Williams &
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