Great Fair Postponed At Columbus Junction Due To Flooding
Local notices report the Columbus Junction fair postponed indefinitely as the Cedar and Iowa rivers rise after recent heavy rains. Secretary RS Johnson confirms the delay as grounds remain underwater and preparations halted. Other items mention a musicale by Mr Norton Jr, a drowning funeral in Clinton, circus band news, and two musicians securing shows with International.
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Columbus Junction
RS Johnson
Travel forecited and local social notes from the period
Tonight the court session promises important business. The Iowa Central Railway announces a new sleeping car service from St Paul and Minneapolis to Kansas City St Louis and Peoria with the Peoria limited departing Brighton at 641 am daily reaching Peoria by 1120 am. Separately club activity notes report a Tuesday night dance at Phanix with about twenty couples and visits by Miss Kraubaker of Vinton and Carl Thornburg of Des Moines. Additional items mention residents visiting relatives and a bakery offering cakes. A license to wed was issued to H H Haas and Rebecca Miller.
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Iowa Central Railway
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Kansas City
St. Louis
Peoria
Peoria Limited
Brighton
Phanix
Miss Kraubaker
Vinton
Carl Thornture
Twin Cities
Northwest
Tileepl
Man Mistakenly Bursts Into Lady Dressing Room
A man entangled in a wardrobe mix up experiences a perilous moment in a ladies dressing room. His wife seizes a closet door to block discovery, while the baffled man pleads to be released, insisting he is in the ballroom. Local Ravenna, Ohio, Republican report.
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Ravenna (O
Joint Rule and Scepter Passages in Marriage
Enid the bachelor argues there can be no joint rule in a family as one must be head, with the scepter passing from husband to wife then to the baby. Bishop Pallows rejects a New York evangelist claim on church attendance in Chicago. John Wanamaker borrows $1.5 million for a Philadelphia store. Erskine Andrews drowns fishing in Lake Nipigon, Ont.
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Enid
Pallows
New York
Chicago
John Wanamaker
Philadelphia
Erskine Andrews
Lake Nipigon
Ont
Washington Academy Interest Draws Village Visitor
Professor Daugherty was in our village yesterday to promote Washington Academy. Oscar Myers hosted a party for young friends from 2 to 6 PM. Ben Rogie shows slow recovery from a paralytic stroke a week ago. Pearl Dunbar returned from Washington after two days with Nion Isephart. Rebmel and wife visit their son south of Washington. Myers, Mees, and Lewis visit Washington today. Lulu Kagel returned from Muscatine to visit her brother. Cellie Engle came home yesterday. Mrs. S Armstrong and Rosalie of Oklahoma City stay with Chas Stinson.
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Daugherty
The
Washington Academy
Pearl Dunbar
Washington
Nion Isephart
Lulu Kagel
Muscatine
Cellie Engle
Yee
Take Initiative Says Walk In Silence In Street Talks
A note from Detroit Free Press urges restraint in street conversations. It argues prolonged talks in public, even between same sex individuals, are poor form and should be avoided in favor of quiet, slow walking while conversing.
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Apeak
Detroit Free Press
The Giant's Causeway in County Antrim Ireland
The Giant's Causeway lies at the northern edge of County Antrim near Port Rush Ireland. It features thousands of basalt pillars varying from four to eight sides, about eighty feet long, closely packed with natural symmetry suggesting mason work. The main grouping forms three tongues called little middle and grand, with about 40 000 pillars standing like an army against the tide.
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County Antrim
Port Rush
Ireland
Erin
Joss questioned as a Chinese word says retired shipwright
A former ship's carpenter challenges the idea that joss is a Chinese term. He cites travels in the orient and a Chinese priest who claims no such word exists in Chinese. He says Dios from Spanish missionaries became joss and is known only along the Chinese coast, with inland Celestials reportedly unaware.
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Churamy
Hankow
Hie
Etiquette Norms Between American and European Gentlemen
A reader notes differing street etiquette: in America the man waits for a bow of recognition before lifting his hat or speaking, while in Europe the man bows first and the woman may ignore to signal disinterest. Ladies are discouraged from stopping gentlemen in public for casual chats.
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America
Europe
Why Coughing is Weakening
The text argues coughing consumes substantial energy with a statistic from a German patient statistician claiming a cough every fifteen minutes for ten hours uses 250 heat units, roughly the nourishment in three cegs or two glasses of milk. It notes normal breathing expels air at four feet per second, while violent coughing can reach about 1000 feet per second.
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Germany
Heredity and Genius Compared in Prodigies
In the Baltimore Sun excerpt, the writer questions how genius such as Napoleon Shakespeare and Newton arises from ordinary lineage. The piece contrasts hereditary law limits with rare individuals who surpass ancestors, asking why a farmer's son becomes a supreme philosopher and noting the puzzle of exceptional talent.
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Napoleon
Hamlet
Isaac Newton
Baltimore Sun
The Bowlegged Recruit and the Two Mark Coin
A Berlin humor anecdote shared by the London Express tells of a practical German sergeant who tests a bowlegged recruit. He places a coin between the recruit’s knees and warns him not to drop it in five minutes. The recruit sits tight, then moves the coin to his pocket, prompting the sergeant to replace it with a larger two mark piece, praising the recruit's pressure.
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Berlin
London Express
Partridge Education Under Mother Bird’s Rule Endures
A passage from W. J. Long in Outing describes partridges forming flocks under a mother’s authority through summer. If the mother is killed the covey remains tight until autumn when the birds seek broader feeding grounds and rebuke maternal control by spreading out.
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W. J. Long
From Frying Pan to Fire in Londonville Dance
A Londonville man dancing a quadriller heard his pants seam rip and rushed into a dressing room where his wife was. The incident turns comic as onlookers react to the wardrobe malfunction and the couple contemplates the stage mishap.
Quiet title suit targets Kingston County real estate
In Washington County Iowa a district court petition seeks to quiet and confirm fee simple title to the north half of the southeast quarter of section seventeen and the southwest quarter of section sixteen in township seventy six west, and to bar all unknown claimants including possible heirs, spouses, and mortgagees. The plaintiff Jesse Lewis Sen. David A. Smith et al claim full ownership after more than twenty years of open adverse possession and request reform of deeds and related instruments. The notice warns defendants and unknown claimants to appear before noon on the next term or face default and judgment. The petition was ordered published in the Evening Journal for six weeks.
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Jesse Lewis
David A. Smith
John Ulsh Catharine Uleh
Miriam Corbin
Kington County
Iowa
District Court of Washington
Senar
Recon Washin County
Love
Ntifis
Eileen
Court House
Washington
Washington County
Evening Journal
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Mra Norton
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Mrs Norton
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Cleveland
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Kaye & Lytle
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the Evening Journal
Bring
Odfense Hatel Shoe Shining
Dave Heiter
Webster’s
W. T. Harris
United States Commissioner of Education
Com Roe
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Boston
Brotherhood of Saint Andrew
Wabash Road
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James Cunningham,Jr
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H H Haas
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Oscar Myers
Ben Rogie
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Mee
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I. M. Lewis
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Oklahoma City
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Joss
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Pruit Phosphate
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Opera House
Helen Blair
Oquawka Keithburgh
New Boston
Musecatine
Davenport
Washington Street
W. G. Young, Jr
W. J. Young, Jr
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W. A. Blair
W. W. Kinnear
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