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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1907
Page
7
The American Magazine changes leadership to John S. Phillips and vows high quality. Readers urged to subscribe for 1 year at 1 dollar for November and December 1906 issues, with 68 novels 76 stories 80 articles and 900 pictures promised.
An illustrated ad promotes Hyomei inhaler therapy for colds and coughs. It touts instant relief from the nose and throat with breathing technique and claims a money back guarantee from Shadle & Co. The piece also markets The Weekly Inter Ocean and The Vindicator and Republican for bundled subscriptions at reduced rates.
Notice to the public that Sumner H. Williams registered pharmacist applying for a permit to buy keep and sell intoxicating liquors at the Aron building Lot Forty Seven Black Fifty One Estherville Iowa from the firm Wilt Williams Andersons at Hatheryville. Case to be filed with the clerk of the district court and a hearing to deny the permit to be held in Matherville February 4 1901. Also includes an advertisement for January American Boy magazine from Sprague Publishing Company Detroit Mich featuring serials and departments for boys.
An experienced balloonist recounts a record breaking voyage starting on a Sunday evening. The craft rises into sunlit clouds, descends through cold air, and crashes through trees, escaping with minor bruises. He travels toward New Jersey, notes his wife, passes church bells, then enters a massive thunderstorm before a treetop landing.
In a Chicago Chronicle retelling, M Hue notes a cat used as a time indicator in a Chinese settlement. A Christian boy demonstrates that cat pupils narrow toward noon, then widen after. witnesses include Hue and companions who verify the eye dilation pattern across several cats.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat report describes green turtle harvesting and transport to the North. Turtles are netted among rocks and quickly moved, often deck passengers then housed below in cold weather. Calipash and calipee details reveal high market values and rarity of meat.
An essay on child development notes the virtues of a peaceful, unpressured mind in infants and the value of allowing children to grow through natural processes. It praises their tolerance, trust, and cheerfulness, and laments scarcity of wise elders to guide minds, urging respectful, sympathetic atmospheres.
The late Abdur Rahman, famed for a grim humor, paused a durbar when a frantic man declared Russian advance. He calmly ordered his guards to escort the man to a watch tower and warned to watch for the Russians, saying they would not arrive until seen.
A man with years in a restaurant kitchen says most cooks season to a high palate. He notes that longer cooking demands more salt pepper and spices. If dishes were sent as he likes them many patrons could not eat them.
A courtroom scene features a husband on trial for striking his wife with a chair. He insists the act was accidental and not intended to harm, while the officer questions the lack of intent. The exchange highlights legal questions of intent versus unlawful force.
A garbled antique text piece begins with a joke about a lazy horse and a quip about feet. It tangentially notes an Irishman, then shifts to a dialogue about alterations and pricing. The historical fragment then covers barber origins in Greece, Rome, and England, noting barbers also served physicians and Tudor-era laws permitting simple surgery.
The first known lighthouse dates to 306 B C in Alexandria built by Ptolemy Philadelphus, a blazing wood tower on Pharos. Dover claims a similar beacon for a Roman period fort. Beavertail in Narragansett Bay marks America’s oldest early lighthouse, evolving from a beacon fire around 1750.
A playful collection of homely maxims on work, appetite, and thrift. Observations compare labor, land use, and guest conveniences, noting time-saving soap and chain devices and the impracticality of multitasking. Commentary surveys tea prospects, water transport gains, and rising freight efficiency, with references to crop markets and coastal shipping prices.
The Ituita tenor Marconi visited Rubinstein where the great pianist’s young son demanded a present calling it his festa. Rubinstein promised a gift and played his Nero while improvising a charming waltz with the left hand and an overture with the right for the boy and Marconi.
An article recalls the historic pillory, a painful public punishment once used in England. It describes the frame, platform, and padlocked head and limbs, with crowds watching as offenders endured. The last known pillory in Britain was for perjury, Peter James Bossy, around June 22, 1880, in London.
The passage contrasts reactions to excitement with the man who grows frightened after events end. It notes that while audiences focus on the curious behaviors of people during high excitement, the man who stays composed afterward is less discussed and sometimes credited for calm resilience.
A note from Chicago News recalls a pretty Miss Dreamer who vowed never to marry until a handsome knight arrived. Instead she ended up wed to a man who drove two milk wagon horses, after leaving the spinster class, and she did remarkably well in that union.
A child reports a mother has left briefly and will return "as soon as you had gone" in a quiet, demure exchange. The scene captures a fleeting, domestic moment as a caller seeks timing of the mother's return.
A damaged OCR fragment presents a dialogue about marriage and money, with a quoted line about asking for money after marriage. The piece references Life and Rousseau, suggesting a meditation on human existence and the notion of a new pate in life and death.
A New Orleans Times Democrat note recounts stage superstition during rehearsals of a tragedy. Actors nervously avoid delivering the final line, fearing bad luck, while onlookers joke that the dying heroine muttered Three beers, please. The marker explains the last line is kept secret until opening night.
A Paris Cor London Truth excerpt describes the marcassin or baby wild boar as clever playful and social with children and dogs yet wary of pigs its coat shifts from dark brown to bristling as it grows its temper and care for its young leads the family to the forest where the boar defends and forages with its line of defense and guardianship.
The Dundee Advertiser recalls a discussion in the royal presence about the most useful English word. Most agreed on yes, one Indy voted no arguing that no often means yes. A sharp tale follows of a girl who learned Irish words and miscommunicated with a peasant named Pat who jokes about asking for skin a miss.
A 600 year old Genoa cathedral vase, carved from emerald, measures twelve and a half inches in diameter and five and three fourths inches in height. Kept under multiple locks with keys held by different people, it is rarely shown to the public and then only by order of the sounte. When displayed it hangs from a priest’s neck by a cord, and touching it is prohibited. Claimed to be a gift from the queen of Sheba to Saloon.
The renowned Spanish dramatist Lope de Vega lived from 1562 to 1635. He began writing around age thirteen and produced a vast output over about sixty years, including over 1,800 plays and 806 published pieces, collected in twenty eight volumes.
The Franks were a warlike Germanic tribe in northwest Prussia later known as Gaul. They appeared around 240 A D and helped invade the Roman Empire in the 5th century. After conquering Gaul they formed Frankenreich, Frank's kingdom, with the name becoming France.
Dialogue excerpt shows a melodramatic suitor declaring persistence and a self sacrificing claim to love. The heartless girl counters with a willingness to lie for a perceived positive outcome, illustrating a tense romantic exchange from a Palladium Ledger page.
Dialogue fragment presents a man asking if it would be foolish to marry a woman deemed his intellectual inferior. The woman questions the difficulty of such a marriage, revealing tensions over intellect and compatibility.
Fragmentary text shows a language playful exchange with M De France and an English tutor. The lines imply a question about ending an engagement and a quick retort, highlighting language learning humor and curiosity.
The article weighs whether Alexandria housed a 700000 volume library and if it was destroyed by Caesar or Theophilus. It notes scholars dispute the library’s existence and cites 1895 06 explorations finding no Serapeum traces while suggesting water damage and mildew could ruin books from antiquity to today.
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe second volume appeared August 20, 1719, noted as the first English story with illustrations a world map showing the hero's voyages. The initial three volumes followed an April 1719 first issue and rapid reprint sequence, culminating in a new title page promising further adventures and a travel account.
A fragment from a curiosity piece notes two numeric series and outlines a belief that pure white animals lack a sense of smell. It claims white animals, including white pigs and sheep, eat poisonous plants when at large and die. The text also mentions white rhinos and their tendency to poison themselves by euphorbia consumption.
General Benjamin Butler presented to Congress the first genuine American flag of American materials and labor on February 21, 186, noting prior flags were English made. The flag featured twenty six stars and marked a shift to exclusively American construction for official ensigns.
A joking inquiry about a boy named Johnny Brown exposes how a given nickname can become a last name. A bridegroom’s absence at a church wedding is explained by a messenger’s grim news, prompting a widowhood scare. The fragment ends with a quip on memory and a Rochefoucauld quote about recalling past events.
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