Local News Roundup From Estherville Area
Village social notes report visits and family gatherings in Estherville Wallingford and surrounding townships. Mentions include Mrs Chas Schultz visiting Spirit Lake relatives, youths attending parties, travel to Kansas and Illinois, a lightning loss of a horse, measles illness, remodeling, and various dances. Baseball results note Wallingford 12 Estherville 1. Chautauqua plans and haying season also referenced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara Wicks
Center Township
Ole Myhre
A.S. Anderson
Henry Olson
Estherville
Elsie Schultz
Joliett
Illinois
Chas. Schultz
Schultz
W. W. VanEman
Kansas
Lewis Moeller
Misa Cora Rewey
Robert Weir
Weir
E. H. Koenecke
Aug Reich
Chicago
Wallingford
Terris
Miss Bell Egertson
Randall
Nettie Schubbe
Sunday Socials and Local Notices in Gruver Area
Gruver residents host visiting relatives and neighbors in family gatherings and church activities. Epworth League led church painting, social events announced with July 26 gathering, and various trips to Estherville and Sioux Falls noted alongside routine store work and community updates.
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Mabel
Angus Cotton
Lone Rock
Linus
Bernies Stillman
James Pickell
Rockwell
Will Michiner
Wheaton
Grover
Michiner
Doan's Kidney Pills Promote Kidney Health
Warning signs of kidney trouble include clouded urine with sediment, back pain, headaches, fatigue, and possible swelling. Delaying treatment can lead to serious conditions like dropsy or Bright's disease. Doan's Kidney Pills are recommended, with testimonials from Mrs. G. W. Hawk of Matherville Iowa and a note that Hester Milburn Co. sells them nationally for 60 cents.
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Bright
Dean
Katherville
G. W. Hawk
Ninth Street
Y Matherville
Iowa
Doan
Hester-Milburn Co
Buffalo New York
United States
Clyde Fitch Joke Reveals Fatalist Wit
The New York Times recalls Clyde Fitch as an indefatigable worker who pushed plays to the brink, often sleeping little and fearing a breakdown until his doctor intervened. In a moment of enforced idleness he joked with Harry B. Smith that he was drafting a musical comedy libretto.
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Clyde Fitch
Fitch
Players Club
Harry B. Smith
Smith
Tam
New York Times
Hair Monstrosities of 18th Century French Coiffures
The Chicago News reports on extravagant high coiffures worn by fashionable women in 18th century France. Marie Antoinette popularized towering styles that could reach four feet, taking hours to assemble with hairdressers on ladders. Some outfits spanned wide, wings extending eight inches, and the frigate coiffure featured a ship atop a massive hair pile. Disruptions in theaters led to ordinances restricting women with such hairstyles from theater floors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie Antoinette
Chicago News
Man snatches package as train departs elevated station
A man on a fifty-eighth street elevated train asks a passenger to hand him a package he left on a seat. The passenger tosses it out the window to another man who claims it. A later confrontation ensues amid the chaotic scene at the platform.
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Fifty-Eighth Street
Chicago Tribune
All Things Come in Time of Reckoning
A rural man confronts Hank, once a neighbor who left town for a bank job, recalling a past friendship and a $73.62 grocery debt. The magnate dismisses him, but the caller stakes his claim, insisting Hank settle the old bill. The scene, drawn from the Cleveland Leader, hints at consequences of past debts.
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Hank
Hunk
Cleveland Leader
Perfumes In Ancient Days
Ancient Greeks and Romans treasured roses as royal perfume and adornment. Roses featured at banquets and in Falernian wine, and Spartan soldiers after Cirrha demanded perfumed wine. At Balae regatta, Lucrine lake was strewn with flowers.
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Cirrha
Balae
Making a Lawn in Nineteenth Century Gardener Advice
An American on an English tour admires a lawn’s velvety smoothness and asks how to create it. The head gardener replies with wry humor that it takes removing stones, plowing, planting grain, and rolling for 300 years to achieve such perfection.
Quote on friendship and memory from Cicero
The passage reflects a meditation on choosing friends for who they are and the blessing of enduring companionship beyond life. It likens memory to an amber preserve, suggesting that true bonds survive absence and death.
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Cicero
Couldn't Talk De Style in a Parlor Pair
A humorous quip from the New York Press notes a loving pair of deaf people were unable to converse because they were holding hands, illustrating a playful social line about communication and affection.
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Gunbusta
New York Press
Early rising, prudent man praised for honesty and work
A pithy quotation highlights the virtue of diligence and steadfast thrift. The speaker extols a man who rises early, labors hard, and is scrupulously honest, noting that such character rarely laments bad fortune.
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Addison
Judge Warns Reporter On Favor Request For News Privilege
A Philadelphia Ledger account describes a young reporter pleading for advance court information before press deadlines. The judge sternly rebukes the request, promising no jail this time but warning not to repeat it. The scene underscores tensions between media access and judicial propriety.
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United States District Court
Lnw
Philadelpha- Ledger
The Exclusiveness of Casta in a Wounded Army Tale
An Ingush officer recalls a battle in India where a low caste Chamur woman risked contaminating her water and bread to aid wounded soldiers. A Rajput Soobahdar refused aid to preserve ritual purity, choosing death over sharing sustenance. The story contrasts caste rigidity with acts of mercy amid suffering.
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Casta
Leo
India
The Origin of Oxygen and plant life
Lord Kelvin proposed that atmospheric oxygen comes from sunlight acting on plants. Early Earth lacked vegetation and free oxygen, but as life cooled and plants evolved, they produced oxygen. The ongoing oxygen cycle depends on plants restoring what is consumed by burning vegetation, preventing asphyxiation.
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Lord Kelvin M
Ridiculous tombs at Westminster Abbey criticized by Cornhill
In Westminster Abbey Fox's tomb is called the most ridiculous while other monuments provoke laughter. The piece notes General Wolfe with a staff figure crowned by Victory, Sheridan amusing William Wilberforce, Sir Cloudesley Shovel in a wig Roman toga, and East India Company memorials with tropical motifs, suggesting a dictator would dismiss them as tasteless.
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Westminster Abbey
Fox
Abbey
Wolfe
Wiliam Wilberforce
Sheridan
Cloudesley
East India Company
Dyre Coote
Cornhill Magazine
How Pausanias Died
Pausanias the Greek general died by self administered poison after seeking sanctuary from pursuers. When temple access was blocked and the roof began to be removed he was seen chewing a quill filled with poison and died as workers neared entry.
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Pausanias
Secret for Secret in Louis XIV Era War Epigrams
In the days of Louis XIV, warriors traded epigrams. The Marechal de Grammont captured a fortress by siege. After surrender, the governor claimed his powder ran out, and Grammont replied that his acceptance on easy terms came from having no more balls.
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Louis XIV
Marechal de Grammont
Not So Absurd. A staged misunderstanding in dialogue
A clipped exchange features characters debating an apparent absurdity. One notes a man wearing the same overcoat, while another chides the notion, hinting the wearer is cast as a married man in a play.
Spiteful and Patience Exchange in Yonkers Statesman
Quote from Yonkers Statesman shows Patrice asking if the last song was enjoyed and Patience replying she might have if she had known it was the last. The remark contrasts with a saying about laziness letting poverty overtake effort, attributed to Franklin.
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Spiteful
Patrice
Yonkers Statesman
Estimating the light of the stars in the sky
Harper's Weekly surveys estimates from Argelander and Agnes Clerk to Abbe y and Newcomb on the total starlight in both hemispheres. It notes 324000 stars to ninth magnitude and a combined light near 1180 lunar brightness, with fainter bodies and atmospheric glow complicating totals.
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Argelander
Agnes M. Clerk
William Abbey
Professor Newcomb
Capella
Harper’s Weekly
A Dutch Fishing Fleet at Scheveningen Night Arrival
A travel sketch describes Scheveningen near The Hague with its imposing Dutch fishing fleet drawn ashore at night. Boats display large side numbers readable from afar while village women in wooden shoes greet the fishermen with knitted shawls. The piece notes Holland’s industrious women and their ample knitting activity.
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Holland
Scheveningen
The
Hague
Hach
Iolland
E. J. Farrington
The Old Time English School
A historical note on harsh conditions for public school boys in England. Until the 1830s critics claimed inmates of workhouses or jails fared better than Eton scholars. Boys rose at 5, studied four hours after breakfast, with minimal washing and a diet of potatoes and beer amid strict discipline.
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England
Eton
A Losing Game
A restaurant proprietor describes using a cashier’s list of unpaid checks to trap a patron. A 65 cent check led to detaining the man after his 25 cent payment. The owner showed the missing-check ledger totaling around $80 and pressed the man to pay all owed checks to drop the matter, prompting police involvement.
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New York Sun
Couldn't Forget It. A Wood Theft Tale From Church
Silas laments a night theft of a full cord of wood and recalls trying to forget. His friend prods him, and a Sunday church service interrupts his thoughts when the choir sings The Lost Chord, prompting him to slip away.
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Silas
Judge
Reckless Gambling Joke Among Bride and Brother
A Detroit Free Press item recalls a bride’s alarm over her husband’s gambling instinct. She sobs that he has not played poker but offered to match pennies with Brother’Vrank to decide who pays the car fare, highlighting a comic, risky habit.
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Vrank
Détroit Free Press
Getting Down to Business in a Playful Exchange
A mistress scolds a new servant Mary about two duties truthfulness and obedience. Mary jokes that when asked to pretend not to be in she must choose between honesty and compliance. The dialogue apes social power dynamics with sharp humor.
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Mary
Precocious Child-Papa Dialogue Sparks Parental Gaffe
A comic exchange unfolds as a child teases the parent about a missing shirt button. The papa sighs deeply and notes the scene as the mother pretends great affection while neglecting practical details. The moment reads as witty domestic theater.
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Harry Barber
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Walt
Marvin Miller
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Rose Bergum
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Drie Sando
Spencer
L. Taylor
Jas. Merriott
Chas. Vadane
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Walter Reed
M. Wertz
Dolliver
F. R. Dowden
Chas. Rosenberg
Buelah
J. He. Taylor
Geo Grems Jr
Gilbert Sweet
Lame
Elizabeth Colt
C. Higinbotham
Mr. Higinbotham
Frank Richards
Clyde Wilder
PF. R. Dowden
Paul Graves
Gailsburg
Myrtle Pickell
Harvey Minor
Epworth League
Mr. and
Mreg
Abe Pickell
Mra. Wertz
Ivetta Lee
Rotherville
Varnie Wertz
Sioux
Mima Werle
Kereal Dowden
Gruver
J. H. Merrioté
A. H. Pickell
Henry White
Mason City
Laurence Speed
Canada
Chamberlain
S. W H. Williams
Dhousevelt
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Big Hodge
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Tilda Gay
Wallingford Gren
Marnier Wane
Kdl Wall
Y.cce
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LWW
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Foley
Jay Johnston
D& Cu
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Dairy Products Co
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