Wallingford News Tells of Local Moves and Visits
Wallingford Iowa October 28 1907 reports residents traveling to Estherville Spirit Lake and Sibley. many short notes include church visits farmers elevator work new sidewalks builders plans season tickets and a notable 66th wedding anniversary with a fanfare from the Dolliver Coronet band.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mises Bachmatt
Mr. Stockdale
Eatherville
Wallingford
Latters
Ralph Davis
Estherville
Tilda Jacobson
McFarrin
Spirit Lake
Myhre & Gunderson
J. Oo
Kasa
Paulina Jacobson
Sibley
Iowa
Miller
S. Hansen
Emma
Anna
Dows
N. J. Johnson
Mise Kallestad
Co. F. Warden
Rev. Bennett
Graettinger
Presbyterian Church
J. Larson
The
Times
Weather Talk Sparks Elm Farm Party at Midway
Community notes record a Wednesday party at Hornby Farm in Ellsworth Township during mild weather. J H Duncan rents Harry Woll farm for next year. Rev Greene and family Abe Pickell and wife from Dolliver attend Gruver church sale. Beasie Reisetter from Beloit visits Gruver grandparents Chris and Christopher. Correction issued: Broads gathering was a small gathering of special friends, not a surprise party. Next Sunday Rev Slesser of Armstrong preaches at regular hour.
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Mary Dowden
Cedar Rapids
J. L
Abe Pickell
Shifflet
Barefoot
Miss Sharp
C. Mast
Maple Hill
George Merriott
Superior
Harry May
Spirit Lake
H. Pickell
Hornbys
J. H. Duncan
Harry Woll
Ellsworth Township
Rev. Greene
Dolliver
Win
Sheeve
Armstrong
Gruver
Misa Beasie Reisetter
Beloit
Wisconsin
Christopher
Broads
Gruver Preaching and Meetings Highlight Township Notes
Reports of Rev Greane preaching in Gruver and another service in Armstrong, a successful Aid Society supper yielding over 76 dollars, and local auctions. Notices of marriages in Katherville, missionaries aboard Korea, household visits, hog marketings, and social gatherings amid community life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gruver
Greane
Armstrong
Aid Society
Barlanrat Gruver
E. J. Nichols
George West Jr
J. B. Mitchell
Corwin Taylor
Honolulu
San Francisco
Korea
Orient
Estherville Markets Corrected Every Wednesday
Wheat oats barley flax corn potatoes and butter dairy prices listed. Creamery butter per pound eighteen cents per dozen eggs chickens ducks hay per ton ten dollars hogs per cwt twenty six cents cattle prices noted. Market items from Estherville with varying figures for grains livestock and dairy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Estherville
Local notices and events in Estherville area
A collage of community items from Estherville including ads for cows and household goods, a basketball game at the high school, visits by residents to St Paul, a dance at Firemen's Hall, and notes on Red Cross degrees, a North Dakota death, dancing club evolution, and telegraph strikes. Also farming road maintenance advice, a small break in at Geo Still billiard hall, a birthday surprise for Mrs. McRae, and a New York Evening Post column discussing Jonah in sermons.
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Eatherville
W. Converse
Joe Keenan
St. Paul
California
Joan M. Wilson
North Sixth. Street
Estherville Dancing Club
Firemen's Hall
Moore
Telegraph
Western Union
Geo
Reform School
Alex
McRae
North 3Rd Street
Messer
Mesdames Schenefelt
Persons
Daytons
Mra
Huchingon
Mra Izer
Mre Woolcutt
Mre Sandve
Anna W Woolcutt
Severs
Oakaloos
Darland
Emmetsburg
Ethel Hudson
Clara Becker
Tariff Commission Proposal for Readjustment
A proposed approach urges creation of a bipartisan tariff commission to review schedules article by article. The group would gather industry views, study impacts, visit major centers, and present a report to Congress before the 1908 election, guiding measured tariff changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
James W. van Cleave
No clear report found in provided fragment
The fragment contains garbled phrases about sun and moon, interlocked wheels, and a cleric praising Mr Rockefeller, but no coherent news event, names, places, or dates to summarize into a newspaper card.
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Rockefeller
Lincoln’s Mourning Over Kansas Nebraska Bill
Ida Tarbell recalls a Springfield druggist named Lincoln reacting to the Kansas Nebraska bill in 1864. Lincoln listened as Billy Herndon announced its passage, then sat despondent, wept, and walked away without finishing the story, his grief evident in his downcast gaze.
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Ida M. Tarbell
Lincoln
Springfield
Ill
Missa Tarbell
Kansas
Nebraska
Billy Heendon
Missouri
Dog
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Douglas
Mr. Lincoln
Ice Cream Leads to Turbulent Night at Family Table
A NY Times style scene describes a family in a hot dining area where a younger brother sulks as an older sibling enjoys surplus ice cream. A warned bath and a policeman outside round out the moment, highlighting parental discipline in a crowded eatery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parlora
Coffee and Tea: A Doctor and Irishman Debate
In a Cincinnati restaurant a doctor blames coffee and tea for human ills. An Irish patron jokes that waking headaches and heaviness come from coffee, while the doctor calls it the pause. The Irishman quips he always blamed whisky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Ancient Fish Tale From Oxford Legend Of Hairy Sea Monster
In a Suffolk legended note near Oxford a Norman tower is cited as the site of a 1180 account. Fisherfolk netted eight fish resembling a wild man with hair, beard, and rough breast hair. Bartholemew de Glangile kept the creature in Oxford Castle for six months. It spoke nothing, craved raw fish, and vanished at sea without signs of reverence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford
England
Ralph de Coggeshall
Suffolk
Bartholomew de Glangile
Goverenor
The Laziest Man
A contractor in Pansine tests laziness among 60 native laborers by asking for the laziest man to step forward. Fifty nine move forward. the remaining worker, deeming himself too lazy, explains his inaction with the same claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pansine
Frorward
Judge's Library
A Happy Family on an Alabama Tale
A boy and a girl named Ashmead in Alabama gather a quirky family scene with a cat, rat, dog, mouse, and canary. The dog supports the cat, the rat climbs, and the mouse and canary complete a playful pyramid as the children watch. They have been taught many other links, and the young people are playful.
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Alabama
Ashmead
Gulta
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Lara Larson
Aick
P. P. Walden
Guata Jacobson
Thareday
Graéttinger
Chas
Herman Quammen
North Dakota
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Moora Harp Orchestra
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J. W. Payne
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P.G. Milner
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James Russell
Peter G, Miller
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T. C. Rando
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Mass
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Ole Anderson
Katherville
Isaac Anderson
Esther Nelson
William Anderson
Olga Lugvigson
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America
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Huntington
Daniel Webster
Florence Schultz
Sam Wicks
Margaret Manice
Ketchum
H. H. Weir
J. A. Anderson
Issac Anderson
GC. A. Logue
E. Meniece
Campbell
Geo. Luikart
Druley-Lee Grain Co
Tf H. Kirchner
Carl Lee
I. J. Robinson
O. H. Koehler
J. A. Barber
Adelaide Nichols
J. A. Barber Home
Anna Koehler
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L. L. Bingham
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Brek
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J. H. Burgh
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New York Evening Post
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