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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1909
Page
8
A feature on warm home living urges readers to share kind words and sincere friendship. It contrasts generous praise with hypocrisy and imagines mothers guiding daughters through daily burdens while cherishing family memories. The piece ends with a poem about returning home to loved ones.
A compilation of neighborhood items from Dolliver and surroundings. People attend church, visit relatives, move residences, and kids recover from injuries. Social events include a ladies sale at Woodman hall and a Bragg school program with proceeds. Local marriages, births, jobs, and farm transfers are reported among residents and guests.
Local notes report visitors from Estherville, Palo Alto County, and Huntington with social calls and family visits. A grass fire caused a scare yet caused no damage amid strong winds. A Spirit Lake area fishing effort is praised for saving thousands of small silver bass and crappies from freezing.
German education statistics show nine million seven hundred sixty thousand school children. The figure highlights sustained enrollment levels across Germany's education system.
An open letter adopted by the Susan B. Anthony club in Cincinnati urges President Taft to support a federal law to protect mothers and children and punish family desertion. It cites Humane Society figures of deserting fathers in Cincinnati and Chicago and argues for mothers’ voting rights in lawmaking to ensure honorable survival for families.
The London steamship scene is crowded with returning Americans as westbound ships fill every berth. Late arrivals struggle for space while dinners and streets bustle with holiday cheer. A veteran London observer notes Americans now roam widely, their wealth opening doors once closed and drawing widespread attention. The Virginian heads to Montreal with a large party of Americans unable to secure passages to New York or Boston, while one New York family travels to Savannah aboard a cargo liner.
A Japanese woman, Mrs. Kuni Gola Mikagawa, learned that a ceremony without a license or officiant had no binding effect. The marriage license clerk said she was not married and could not obtain a divorce. She then secured a license and a justice filed another knot, restoring a lawful union.
Special trains carried armed men to Cresbard after an operator wired Help for God's sake. The operator claimed the station was attacked and the agent killed, and townspeople were driven from homes. Investigators found the operator intoxicated and said he made the call because his whisky was gone. He now faces job hunting.
New York in brief sculptor Gutzon Borglum, 42, sustained three broken ribs after falling from a stone wall while gathering berries near his South Norwalk, Connecticut studio. He will be out for several weeks and cannot resume work on the government statue he is carving.
A long running joke at the Battery Park Aquarium sees a large seal surface from its tank and splash on crowds near the rail. Victims are soaked as the animal dives away, with onlookers mopping water from their faces and awaiting the next spectacle.
The essay in Harper's Bazaar argues sympathy is a luxury to discard. Phelps notes human sympathy is limited and rare, even among women, urging readers to reserve feeling for close friends and not expect universal compassion.
A chemist aims to extract the bleaching principle from Jimson weed for home use. The practice of adding leaves to laundry is known to bleach linen but produces an unpleasant odor. Odor can be eliminated by cold-water boiling or repeated rinsing, yet the process is tedious for many.
Americans generous support funds the 30000 Kronen needed for the Vienna memorial to Johann Strauss. A series of performances will be staged at the enter ander Wien where his operas premiered. Local operatic companies and Vienna musical groups volunteer, with best seats for The Gypsy Baron already subscribed. A Vienna paper notes visiting Americans have been most liberal subscribers.
Experiments in Francs on artificial refrigeration in wine making show grapes can be stored at 29 degrees Fahrenheit for a year but should not exceed a few months due to seed softening. Clarification and export preparation of liquors also benefit from cooling to 29 degrees for 72 hours resulting in good outcomes.
A reflection on cheerfulness as a value greater than genius or talent. The author argues deliberate, persistent cheerfulness can be created, fostered, and cherished until it becomes natural, making the world unaware it was learned.
A major Kansas wheat grower struck a deal with a police judge to pay the fines for all able bodied men convicted in his court on the condition they be turned over to work in the wheat fields for $21 a day. He secured 12 laborers and offered additional steady employment opportunities.
In a witty exchange the English statesman Canning replies to a lady requesting more space at the iron gates of Spring Gardens. He quips that the gate is narrow because very fat people used to pass through, a remark noted for his delightful absurdity.
German navy ships are equipped with a new life saving device described as a large basket formed by rope ladders. The apparatus rises above the side so several sailors can climb it simultaneously, enhancing rescue capability at sea.
Dr James Critchton Browne voices a controversial claim that the meat ration of Japanese soldiers in Manchuria was the largest ever served in any army. The remark reflects wartime nutrition debates and expert authority on feeding.
Fragmentary prose ponders human skin color as a spectrum between light and dark with phrases invoking gray chocolate and latte like comparisons. The text reads as a reflection on race and color, referencing a New York Presa context in a stylistic, rhetorical manner.
The article describes mimic pistol dueling popular in England and Europe using Devillera wax bullets and French dueling pistols. Competitors wear eye protection, long coats, and steel hand shields, with markers and a director to judge hits. Poses at 25 paces, firing on the command within a second and a half.
Mr Watterson composes on London drawing on nearly fifty years of intimate knowledge of avary and recalling numerous figures labeled Mrs Bouncers in a reflective piece that blends memory with curious social names.
The ad asserts most sickness stems from nervous origin and nerves control organs like the heart lungs stomach liver and kidneys. It promotes Dr Miles Nervine as a specific to soothe nerves and aid generation, promising money back if no benefit when taken as directed.
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