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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1920
Page
4
Travel notes describe motorized bath tub taxis with enclosed passenger spaces offering lower fares and rain protection. Roads improve with heavy trucks weighed by inspectors using lodometers, fines up to 100 dollars. attention to road building, road-education, and a push for federal highway funding.
Twenty years after the plant project resumed, four notes totaling $16,000 were signed by both parties on Monday. Local business men funded the project, ensuring Estherville would have electric lights this winter. A football practice incident left Herbert Nichols with a fractured arm. Various local notices follow, including a typhoid fever case, a funeral, and a business sale to E. B. Hinkley of Mason City. District court papers seek an absolute divorce for F. M. Bell vs Emma Bell. Other items note Amazons in Uganda and jury qualifications in England and Ireland.
The text discusses ancient beliefs that comets are formed from human sins rising to the sky. It notes such interpretations were mainly religiously motivating rather than scientifically valuable. By 1690, much was known about the laws governing comets.
Farmers and teamsters are invited to buy wagon tongues eveners reaches and other dimension stock in oak hickory and red elm. The Estherville Hardwood Milling Co. prints its mill on Forrest Street and its office and factory at 1021 East Lincoln Street. Prices promise savings by buying direct from the mill.
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