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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1911
Page
5
Estherville tidbits report a bustling town with new cars and local events. Highlights include Nels Anderson’s fine auto, planned Yankee Robinson circus stop, Mrs. Herman Oransky hosting guests, cloak sales by R. C. Brown, and numerous town movements from hospitals to trains.
Spirit Lake area notes list numerous visits and trips. Names include Heffelfinger Kit Oxley Shadle Montgomery Schafer Graaf Thorne Christensen Kuebl Brown Sondrol Gruwell Peterson Stillman Sinclair Sullivan Stedman Lawrence Barnes Neville Nash Ferguson and others. Movements feature visits to Estherville Emmetsburg Rock Rapids and Mallard with trips to Rochester Davenport and Minneapolis. People travel for family visits business, funerals, and seasonal opening preparations for fishing.
The Presbyterian Sunday school plans a Boys' Brigade modeled after the Boy Scouts. Boys will learn military drill under instructor A. Peterson. They expect khaki uniforms and a rough rider style hat. First drill meeting set for next Friday at seven in the Sunday school room.
The Rolfe Arrow notes the route appears to run through Waukee Dallas Center Minburn Perry Berkley Beaver Harcourt Bort Dodge Humboldt Gilmore City Rolfe Plover Mallard Emmetsburg Ruthven Dickens Spencer Fostoria Milford Arnolds Park Spirit Lake indicating a broad north western corridor with many towns named.
The Ladies Guild meets May 11 and refreshments follow. First Church of Christ Scientist holds services May 11 at 10:35 am with subject Mortals and Immortals. Sunday School at 9 am. Reading room open Wednesdays and Saturdays 3 to 8 pm. Federated Baptist Ladies Aid entertained May 17. Mothers Day observed at Church of Christ and Federated Baptist with carnations, music, and messages. Page also notes preachers at Ryan Lake and a chorch meeting Thursday at 8 o'clock.
Dr Leonard P Ayres cites figures from Germany England Sweden and seven American cities showing 3 to 5 percent of city schoolchildren need open air treatment for tuberculosis. Albany would need dozens. New York City could require up to 20 000. He notes roughly 1000 school age deaths yearly in New York from TB with about six years of schooling lost per child and argues that spending on open air schools could offset much of this cost.
The state's attorney and the police board counsel rule hotel keepers in Baltimore may keep doors open and sell liquor nearly any time under the recently enacted liquor law. The decision implies the elimination of required door closings and grants flexible barroom access.
About 300 specimens of the stem bok are under protection on the southern slope of Monte Stosa, but the animal is nearly extinct in the Alp a. It breeds slowly and government efforts have helped little. In two places private herds have recently been established to prevent its extinction. A Chinese delicacy. Soup made of fried wasp is a Chinese delicacy.
A fragment reads a playful exchange between a young Miss and her companion about tastes in drink and language, hinting at social etiquette and flirtation in a lively, coy manner. The excerpt lacks full context but conveys stagey dialogue and social teasing.
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