Local and Personal Notes From West Chester Area
A busy local column lists residents visiting the city from West Chester Keota Ainsworth Crawfordsville Muscatine and other towns. It notes shopping at Roos Drug and Steck's Jewelry and promotions for lawn mowers and farm goods while reporting arrivals departures and social visits to families such as the Statlers Ashbys and Hulses plus missionary convention attendance and church services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Missionary Convention
ME. Church
West Chester
Keota
Ainsworth
Crawfordsville Muscatine
Wapello
J. Mc Duncan
W. O. Fisher
H. T. Jackson
John A. Hough
Charles Skipton
M. E. Church
William Skipton
J. H. Kendig
Muscatine
Methodist Church
City
J. A. Y. Ashby
Foxhounds Cause Early Schoolhouse Chaos
A family tale recounts Uncle Jack riding with his pack of foxhounds toward a rural school. The door is left open by a new teacher, and the excited dogs burst in, barking loudly and startling the frightened instructor. Children recognize the animals, and Uncle Jack returns to drive the dogs out with a whip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daddy
Mary
Evelyn
Jack
Blu
Bia
Nehom
Bin
Uncle Jack
Water as anaesthetic called old practice in major operations
Water as an anaesthetic is declared to be an old practice. It is noted that water has been extensively used by operators removing millions of dollars from the American people.
Rich evade duties as lawyers aid taxes dodge
A cartoonish jab notes the wealthy dodge import duties at Crabshaw and mocks using attorneys who teach tax avoidance. The piece questions why rich buyers do not employ the same lawyers to suppress taxes as they do to dodge duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawford
Crabshaw
Puck
Pride and Protest in a Town Strike
A labor leader recalls a small town garbage strike for higher pay. While workers walked out, municipal staff filled in, attracting attention as they wore fine clothes. An amused resident quips about the nowdressed workers.
Seven Wonders of the World
A Chicago Post snippet presents bid thoughts on money fashion earnest sincerity seduction and marriage proposals. The brief ponders social behavior and expectations with a literary voice.
Meaning of righteous indignation quoted by a child
A set of scholars discussed the meaning of righteous indignation. One young respondent, a small boy, offered the definition being angry without cussing.
That's What It's For
Comic dialogue from Yonkers Statesman features Patrice replying to a remark on wearing false hair with a witty exchange about its purpose and use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrice
Yonkers Statesman
Spain Relies on Imports Despite Vast Coal Fields
Spain holds coal fields spanning over 4 100 square miles yet imports fuel valued at more than 10 million dollars annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spain
Kentish Knock Davy Jones Locker Amid Ocean Peril
A Harper's Weekly account warns ships off the Kentish Knock as a fatal sand trap where no lighthouse exists. It describes treacherous shoals, shifting sands, and the deadly toll on vessels bound toward Margate Calcutta and New York, noting other danger points from the Hooghly to Sable Island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davy Jonen Locker
Thames Estuary
Thames Mouth
Lloyd's
Neptune
Point of Danger
Hooghly
Calcutta
New York
James and
Mary
English Channel
Shambles
Niagara
Portland
Europe
Sable Island
Cape Sable
Nova Scotia
mid-Atlantic
Harper's Weekly
Banner fish of the season nets by Jones noted
A Cleveland Leader excerpt recalls a fisherman bragging about bites and big fish. Jones later claimed the season's banner catch after the narrator’s trip, with a blunt note about the fish fattening on the bait. The quote ends with a Napoleon allusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones
Cleveland
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Roos’ Drug Store
FE. Coffey
Nellie Marding
Wet Chester
Harold Travis
Edward Jackson
Hattie
Clara Faulkner
J. Mc Haines
Lee
Donald J. Ross
L. E. Hulse
Bert #elscher
Miss Fish
I. B. Rabenold
Watkins
S. K. Statler
Charles Henning
Chicago
Statler
Steck’s Jewelry Store
Tribune
Record Herald
C. D. Wood
L. T. Hampsher
West Second Street
Frank Racine
H. T. Reynolds
Knoxville
B. Thomas
Harry Berry
Nahant
Sam Berry
Edmund D. Morrison
Nannette Henkle
Des Moines
Marsh W. Bailey
Burlington
AH. A. Brown
Walter Miranda
Morrow
Ohio
Will
Alfred Miranda
Inez Anderson
Rock Island
W. H. Riley
Tra L. Long
Mt. Pleasant
Iowa Wesleyan College
Fred Flynn
C. K. Needham
Oskaloosa
J. M. Duncan
First United Presbyterian Church
M. St. Meek
M. A. Dauchy
Trenton
Missouri
Ross’ Drug Store
Harry Palmgren
Kenneth Carris
Walter Hughes
Fairfield
Hughes
W. H. Hughes
Reverett Bailey
Davenport
St. Ambrose College
Will Mannussier
Basco
Ill
Burlington Depot
Joseph Maxwell
Cecil
Virginia
J. H. Smith
George Stevenson
Miss Mabel
Monmouth
Freda Wanerus
Brighton
Wanerus
Harry Turner
W. A. Whiting
Jessie Whiteman
K. Beal
Mrs. A Green
Mr. Green
J. S. Green
H. C. Wiley
Winfield
Tulare
Calif
D. A. Osborn
Santa Ana
W. KR. Hinkley
Pearl
Martha Tomlinson
G. Hi. Pratt
West Liberty
P. Maxwell
Flora S. Dudley
Indianola
Ella Pichereau
Ft. Madison
J. A. Harwood & Son
South Side
Chool
Chicago Post
Jim
Proud Mather
Bil
London
Davy Jonse
Napoleon
Kuppenheiner
Cheagy
Kuppenheimer
Sol Rich & Co
Saskatchewan
Canada
St. Paul
Great Northern Ry
Luse Land & Development Company
Minn
W. J. Southwell
District Mar
Washington
Towa
Wintisor Grocery
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