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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1916
Page
1
Pair of gold bowed spectacles with chain lost last December near Apu area. May have been found since snow melted. Return to Vindicator and Republican office for reward.
Farmer Union of Lakefield Minnesota seeks tenants for two farms with sturdy buildings and 820 acres available. Also advertising a well kept Ancre poultry farm for sale. The notice quotes a playful exchange about neighbors and a suggestion to visit Tommy Wilson, reflecting casual local chatter from the Boston Transcript.
Western Governors cite suffragists accomplishments as indirect influence too slow for reform. Governors Carlson Kendrick Spry Hunt praise women’s role in reforms, juvenile courts, and guardianship laws. Indirect influence fails. Massachusetts achieves equal guardianship after 55 years. Publications from several papers endorse equal suffrage as coming nationwide.
A humorous guide contrasts town and country maidens in choosing husbands. Town girls value clothes and style, while country girls rely on folk signs and rituals such as agitating water or throwing broken eggs. An annual superstition on Christmas Eve allows a girl to reveal the first man she meets as her future spouse.
Mr Mackenzie MacBride argues Cockney has no modern corruption but an ancient heritage spanning nearly a thousand years. He notes that words like thet benk and bylff persist in London Kent and Surrey, and that old pronunciations survive despite criticism. Cockney remains strong in the Bahama islands settled by Londoners.
A New Republic critic calls Natsume Soseki’s I Am a Cat a humorous masterwork in a literature known for rarely smiling. The nameless feline narrator observes a professor and his penny-pinching world, offering a thoughtful cynical smile as the cat’s adventures unfold in Tokyo.
A country woman attempted the wrong way up the moving staircase at Embankment station, defying officials. After two bold tries she reached the top and, catching her breath, quipped that moving staircases are no better than the old lift.
A mother plans her child’s development by visiting kindergartens and toy shops to inspect materials and tools. She then selects items suited to her experiences and crafts her own plans to fit her child’s individual growth and needs.
A witty exchange about advertising ends with a man claiming his wife was obtained without ads. The text then notes New Zealand's Tadman glacier in a compact fact: width about 6,270 feet, widest point over two miles, and Taaman length at eighteen miles.
A brief dialogue exchange questions realism in the novel True to Life. The heroine dominates conversation, noting she talks about six times as much as the hero, prompting discussion of characterization and balance.
A western publisher notes readers study the advertisement section most, saying sport and ad pages attract attention. Ads today are more attractive and truthful as the public has grown wiser, rejecting old sensational claims like ten dollar gold pieces or $9.
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