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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1912
Page
5
The Zuider Zee islands earn the nickname playground of Holland as visitors praise bright wooden houses neat farms and ostentatious dress. Locals are seen as childlike yet tourists imprint a glamorous stereotype while locals grow savvier from exposure to visitors and guidebooks.
A reflective tour notes Marken and Volendam as lively but wary coastal communities. It describes dress, customs, and aging fates of villagers, the strict separation from the mainland, and the tourist trade via Havenstoom boat services. The piece contrasts Monnikendam, Edam, and Zuider Zee towns with vivid character studies.
Fragmentary dialogue shows a wife grieving over choosing wealth and status, with terse exchanges about starting to grieve and enduring longer in the process. The text is garbled but hints at emotional conflict following a marriage decision.
A discussion on feminine dress and spending argues some women waste money on clothes while others wisely balance cost and appearance. It cites a university educator who advocates dress as a factor in influence, noting that even the learned benefit from well turned out attire.
Pella Central College mobilized for Civil War duty as 123 students and professors answered Lincoln’s call. The campus became drill ground with fearless drills and devotion. Bean Currier led his Latin class, and among the 123 who left, 43 became officers and 23 gave their lives.
Ames student Farl Elijah, an animal husbandry major from Clarence, wins the annual diamond medal for the best written agricultural article in agricultural journalism awarded by Clarence A. Shamel, editor of the Orange Judd Farmer. Canton Chinese student C C Un takes third, M M Allender of Fairfield places second.
The thirty-eighth annual Iowa Christian conference will meet at LeGrand on May 30 and 31. Key issue is whether to ratify the project to move Palmer college from LeGrand to Albany Missouri.
Perry T M Brooks, son of a prominent local farmer northeast of the city, owes Gus Dahlberg 3200 dollars after a lengthy trial. Dahlberg, a tenant on Brooks farms, claimed Brooks was the father of his child born last winter, a dispute that has stirred the community for months.
William Edmundson, son of Walnut, was found dead in his hay mow with the top of his head blown off. Authorities say Edmundson committed suicide. Motive cited: disappointment over a daughter’s marriage choice.
In Logan v Chicago and Northwestern Railway the state railroad commissioners ruled in favor of Logan regarding removal of a barb ed wire fence between the Northwestern and Illinois Central Railway passenger stations. The decision upholds the town's position in the conflict over boundary fencing.
President AB Craig of Morningside College reports twenty five Sioux City business men assure they will do all reasonably expected to aid in reconstructing the college building recently destroyed by fire.
Nelson N. Nelson, 45, shot himself at the home of Mrs. Laura Jones in Hight after she repulsed his attentions. The tragedy occurred as he sent a bullet into his body, the fatal wound causing him to fall at her residence.
Dubuque prepares elaborate plans for a three day session of the Iowa Liquor Dealers association. The event runs June 10 to 12 with about three hundred delegates expected to attend.
Bubbling pasta or sanitary drinking fountains are being installed at each corner of Mount Pleasant city square. Pedestrians will drink directly from streams without cups or dippers, marking a concrete public health and sanitation effort.
John H. Hamstreet fell dead while working as a carpenter on a building in Clear Lake. He was 71 and the first of six brothers to die.
Cedar Rapids will host the twenty fifth annual convention of the Jawa Hawk era association on June 5 and 6 with 1200 to 1500 financiers expected. Noted speakers include Albert Houthard of East Agerta Ton Adam fede of Pine Mite William J Burns Hough L Cowper Har ris and Prof F Curtiss. Oscar Harcel survived a near fatal electric shock due to swift actions by his wife and a neighbor when an electrical lamp amperage trapped him in his bathroom.
D J Partello of Washington special treasury attorney sells half section in Palo Alto county at 115 dollars per acre. Much land was granted to Partello's father after the Civil War for services rendered during that era.
Boone and Ogden residents witnessed a wild race when Floyd Kilppel of Ogden lost control of his motorcycle. The vehicle somersaulted in the air and landed right side up atop a barbed wire fence along the roadside, as Kilppel and three Ogden boys rode in the contest.
The Royal Neighbors of America held a school of instruction in Ottumwa attracting 140 members from Appanoose Monroe Van Buren Davis and Wapello counties. Supreme officers led by Mrs Myra B Enright supreme oracle of Kansas City attended. Miss Bertha Severson district deputy directed the event.
The 8- or 9-year-old son of Mr and Mrs John Tauschmann in Clarinda was nearly killed when a rooster attacked him in the yard. The bird's spur pierced the boy’s neck, severing the jugular vein and causing heavy bleeding as he tried to pick up an eye from the ground.
At a Business Men's association meeting in Rockwell City officials decided to petition the board of supervisors on Monday, June 3, to submit to county voters the question of bonding funds to build a new courthouse.
A lightning bolt struck a boy identified as Independence Harvey Peterson aged 1b killing him instantly as he closed a wire gate. Nearby CNnt Christensen and companion were uninjured, while another person a few feet away escaped injury in the same incident.
Edward Evans, 11, was killed while playing baseball near his Muscatine home. He was struck in the pit of the stomach by a hard line drive and died shortly afterward.
The Women's Relief corps of Vinton purchased a granite monument costing $500 featuring a Union soldier statue for the soldiers' lot in Evergreen cemetery.
Paullina announces a live stock fair on September 25 featuring cattle and horses. Open to amateur exhibitors from the territory with no stated entry limits.
Richard Wrightman aged about four, son of Mr and Mrs William Wrightman, drowned at noon Sunday while swimming with companions in the Nishnabotna river.
Des Moines State Treasurer W. W. Morrow toured his Afton farm this week and shipped livestock to the Chicago markets, totaling about 8000 dollars in value.
Fernon Barber, a paroled convict, fatally stabbed Charles Pary after giving him a dollar to buy whisky. Barber is in jail while Pary, the victim, remains alive but critically injured.
A two year old boy fell into a creek behind the Ridgeways home in Avery and drowned while playing near the water. Authorities and family expressed grief as investigators reviewed the accident at the scene.
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