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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1912
Page
8
The Estherville community page reports a July 2 celebration in Estherville with oblique references to local events injuries and couple marriages. Mentions Mrs Vrechareky and daughters visiting, Miss Katie Nolllina returning from Minnesota, and a wedding to Dak ta shortly after the event.
A lengthy community chronicle lists social events, visits, family news, and notices from Betherville Ke therville Spirit Lake and Estherville. It mentions a forthcoming Fourth of July gathering, a box social, a church wedding of Miss Flactie Gibbons to Fred Krowtes, and several friendly visits and illnesses among residents including Mr Bombarger and Karl Hess.
An elderly man with property becomes credibly dependent on his wife who feigns sleep to delay meals. Over ten days he remains in bed, missing sustenance as the wife quietly hoards groceries totaling 14.36 dollars, while a Cleveland Plata Dealer supplies a confirmatory, if skeptical, account.
A witty antiquarian excerpt recalls old time barbers greeting clients with choices of hair styles in the early modern era. The barber asks if the customer will adopt the Italian short round cut distant from the moustache or the longer French lovelock, while contrasting English refinements.
Two small city boys visiting the country fear a nearby horse. They hesitate to move toward driving it away, showing a desire for its absence. A third boy arrives and asks another to throw a stone at the horse, saying they are Band of Merby and cannot.
In Graham county Arizona authorities pick a quartz rock hillside to imprison criminals. The natural cave was enlarged into four compartments with iron gates and high windows. Entrance is via a vent and a walled vestibule guarded by steel bars, making escape nearly impossible. The cliff town Cliffon hosts this rugged facility described by Wide World Magazine.
The piece notes two young wealthy socialites choosing hospital work to scrub floors for pauper invalids, arguing beauty no longer justifies a woman. It contrasts past eras when famed beauties drew crowds with today when many beauties exist and women admire each other more.
Sid Wheeler reports from Southwest Times that the first durbar west of the Alleghanies concluded with enthusiastic cheers as a new subject to their realm is announced. Mother and daughter are doing well and the writer may pull through with the help of Dr Waalling and a group of elderly ladies.
The passage questions whether the pasa system has been generally abolished. It notes that it has not been fully ended and mentions the corporation we invested in still paying dividends.
In rural New England three Boston Indies sought butter from a distant farmhouse. A frightened chase by a guard bull sent them sprinting to higher ground as a milk train crawled out, their guide shouting the line there she goes the milk train, to the amusement of onlookers.
A London Telegraph reflection on how early works treated children as shadows, while nineteenth century writers like Dickens reveal richer inner lives. The piece argues poets later capture a child’s mind and heart, resisting over sentimentalism yet embracing genuine child reality.
Ancient Greeks trained not only troops but the nation by offering many prizes for skill in running leaping sprint and wrestling. At sixty yards their spearmen could hit a target with unerring certainty.
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