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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1909
Page
3
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A roundup of notable women figures and feats: Mrs. Russell Sage buys a house in Sig Harbor for a memorial library, Cora A. Houghton farms 85 acres in Aroostook County Maine harvesting 9500 barrels, Lena Slatcavich aged eight in Lawrence captures her father’s bank book at school, Mme. Michaels builds what will be Marseilles’ largest building. Elizabeth McClelland, London’s second woman borough councilor, and Miss M. Be. Barkwell, Hampstead’s councilor, are noted. Nora Stanton Blatch De Forest aids wireless experiments with husband for the family.
Pastor Rev L Cramp of a Raymond Illinois church travels with his fifteen year old cat that acts like a dog. A missionary tally reports last year’s foreign missions contributions totaling 22 450 680 dollars. A Nova Scotia sermon cites a blunt aphorism about divine awareness. Dr Newell Dwight Hillis of Plymouth Church Brooklyn asks for an assistant to help fund Beecher Memorial plans needing about 110 000 dollars to finish the project.
The excerpt notes 1624 dialects in this hemisphere, marks the Welland canal at 75 years, and cites a Bible edition costing 5000 dollars. It observes widows rising from 10 to six per 100 brides, predicts wheat shortages by 1931, and describes a fireproof village planned at Mountain Station New Jersey with burnt clay hollow blocks and asbestos or slate roofs.
Hudson river tunnels earn nearly twice per car mile as Manhattan subways. Europe builds superheated steam locomotives despite a trend against superheaters. Hedjaz railway plans a mosque carriage for pilgrim devotions en route to sacred Turkish cities. Erie’s engine weighs 573000 pounds with sixteen driving wheels, pulling a freight train about two miles long of 250 cars.
Hilda Spong will star in A Man and His Mate while Billie Burke stays in New York after the holidays Emma Janvier leaves a star turning engagement to back Anna Held in Miss Innocence The Marriage of the Star produced by Charles Frohman from Alexandre Bisson author of The Masked Ball My Wife and On and Off Post and Russell acrobatic dancer teamed with The Gay White Way boxers in San Francisco once appeared publicly in the roped arena
The first Sherlock Holmes novel A Study In Scarlet sold for 125 dollars, while Holmes stories now command higher per paragraph. Mrs. Gertrude Atherton plans to devote herself to historical works, with a new novel as her last fiction for a while. Miss Selma Lagetlof, translated by Velma Swanston Howard and published by Henry Holt & Co., is Sweden’s most popular contemporary writer, a beacon of literary charm to readers there.
A collage of jokes and quips from newspapers across the country. Bits include a barber’s punchline about a new skin, a puzzled poet, a hunter’s miss, a polite harp and lorgnette moment, and humorous exchanges on holidays and daily life. It notes humorous exchanges in Puck, New York Telegram, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Kansas City Times, and others, ending with an ad pitch for the Globe Democrat.
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