Local County Notes Share Visits and Plans
AROUND THE COUNTY reports numerous Estherville and Dolliver visits by Maude Richards Mrs Erpelding and others. Residents plan a band concert and Pasket social for Friday Nov with Otis Sage of Chickasaw county visiting Mrs Merriott who is ill. W O Dowpen seeks election as District 1 supervisor in Emmet County promising to serve to the best of ability.
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Erpelding
Hatherville
Higginbotham
Galt
Estherville
F. R. Dowden
Mr. Dowden
Dolliver
Sam Salmonsen
J. H. Meyler
Otis Sage
Chick- Asaaww County
Lewis Merriott
Das. Merriott
Abe Pickell
Delliver
Grandpa
Grandia Merriott
BF. R. Dowden
Sing a Song of Sixpence Reimagined in Print
The verse fragment offers a playful riff on the nursery rhyme with lines about a pocket full of rye and a dry town. It then shifts to an advertisement touting Wright’s buckwheat flour for flavor and variety in Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia Telegraph
Elizabethan Slang Lobster by Webster and Shakespeare
The Chicago News notes that lobster as a slur dates to Elizabethan times. It traces usages from abused boy roles to Roundhead cuirassiers with bright shells, then to red coated soldiers and police. Phrases like boiled lobster and unboiled lobster emerge as military enlistment and uniform color terms.
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Lord Clarendon
England
Chicago News
Ring dilemma shows pawnshop fears in Philadelphia
A man with a damaged finger asks a jeweler if a ring can be mended for pawnbroker value, then declines surgery to keep the ring intact. The jeweler notes many Philadelphians fear pawnshops and risk blood poisoning rather than lose ring value, per the Philadelphia Ledger.
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Philadelphia Ledger
The Little Word Yes A Simple Word With Big Impact
A reflective note on the word yes describing how it has brought happiness and unhappiness, money loss for lenders, life choices, romances, fights, and political outcomes. It asks whether the word will continue to shape lives, concluding yes per Life.
Dublin native seeks job in Cleveland delivery tale
A Dublin born man, living in Ireland until two months ago, arrives in Cleveland and visits a furniture firm for a delivery job. The manager promises a trial if he can deliver the goods, but the man jokes he cannot return to Ireland to haul heavy furniture, preferring horse drawn wagons back home.
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Dublin
Ireland
Cleveland
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Harvard University and its early endowment and halls
Harvard University derives its name from Rev. John Trarvard who in 1638 bequeathed half his estate, £800, for the college endowment. Harvard Hall was built in 1765 Holworthy Hall in 1812 Hollis Hall in 1764 Stoughton Hall in 1804, all brick, with a 1817 writer noting its modern givle appearance.
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Harvard University
John Trarvard
Harvard Hall
Holworthy
Hollis Hall
Stoughton Hall
Hollis
Spirit of Liberty in Medieval Town Charters Rise
The article recalls how liberty spread in historic towns through charters granting rights, noting early towns that elected magistrates sheriffs and judges and controlled taxes, marking a pivotal step in modern democracy. It contrasts this with peasants and includes a humorous aside about a young artist and his uncle debating the prudence of diversification versus focus.
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Yne
Charlie
Iowa Farm Values Skyrocket in 1910 Census Survey
Iowa sees dramatic increases in land and building values from 1900 to 1910. Land value rises 122.7 percent to 2.799 billion dollars, total farm value climbs to 3.264 billion, and building value hits 454.7 million. Farmers reduce total farms by about 11,800 to 216,807, with white owned farms falling to 216,603. Expenditures for labor jump to 24.7 million, while fertilizer use drops, and farm lands report 94.7 percent of surveyed area.
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Washington, D. C
Census Bureau
Durand
Iowa
LeGrand Powers
Division of Agriculture
Indiana
Illinois
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Temure
GOS
Farma
Stoc Elas Ee
Deafness, Lashes, and London Banter in Old Tales
A reader shares a personal episode of sudden deafness in New York with a friend, then a humorous mishearing on Fifth Avenue sparks laughter about mutes. The excerpt includes a critical call against corporal punishment, urging gentler child rearing and fair treatment, followed by anecdotes about British English and a Peloponnesian war joke.
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Focal
New York
Fifth Avenue
Philadelphia Times
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Grover
Mias Maude Richards
Eatherville
Br. O R. Dowden
P. H. Graves
Poesday
Dhe Saylor
Havel
Ta 'Taylor
Roy Merriott
Waylor
S. Solomonsen Lane
Geo. Greiger
Merriott
Emmet County
W.O. Dowpen
Wright
West Blan
Eagle Clothing Store
United States Land and Irrigation Exposition
Chicago Coliseum
Rock Island
U. S
Chicago Union Stock Yards
Rock
Ask Rock
Robert G. Rogersoll
London
Miss Warner
Bobby
Simmons
B. C
Kachange
Howard Graves
Sondrol View
Estherville State Bank
Gireman Caatiter
Capital
Ino, M Barker &.I.sondrol
A.D. Root
AG. Zeunan
James Hapeset
W. 8
Jones
Estherville, Iowa
Dilad
J. Hansen
Bank of
Rhodes
Cashier
August N. Kriebs
Beating Manufactiens
Patent Office
Greeley
U. S. Patent Office
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