Our Village Post Master Opens Local New Year Feature
Local and personal notes report Mrs. O J Simons visiting Delta relatives, Buckley returning to Chicago after Christmas at parents, Mrs John Jay and Belle visiting S D Carris in West Chester, Daisy Cameron performs Nancy at Graham, and multiple travels among Wellman Keota Eldon and Eldon residents. Weatherrell reports thirty five hundredths of an inch precipitation, with rain and snow reducing dryness slightly.
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Frank Buckley
Chicago
John Buckley
John Jay
Belle
West Chester
S. D. Carris
French aviator dies in 50 foot fall at Issy les Monlineau
M. Laffort and passenger M. Pola perished when the airplane plunged fifty feet at Issy les Monlineau France. Laffort had been preparing to fly to Brussels to compete for theAuto Club prize of 830000 francs for a Brussels and back contest.
Lord Loveland's Discovery of Amer ica to be featured in Journal
Local notes reveal visitors Mrs S S Wright and daughter Florence of Keota and others returning home from town. George W Stewart advertises a 24% hp gasoline engine priced at 45 dollars. Keller Phillips store promotes a seven piece Saxony China set giveaway to customers. Daisy Cameron shines in Nancy at the Graham with praise from a Montreal critic comparing her to Sembrich and Patti.
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Keller & Phillips
Nancy
Graham Tonight
Daisy Cameron
Montreal
Marcela Sembrich
Adeline Patti
The Fair Promises January Bargains For Locals
An overlong holiday trade note thanks locals for strong sales and signals January bargains at The Fair. An old remedy advertisement claims to cure a cold in one day with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets, promising a refund if it fails, with Druggist signature on each box.
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ER. W. Grove
Death of Mrs D C Miller in Kalona
Mrs D C Miller wife of Kalona News editor died at home from pneumonia after a brief illness. Aged 49 she had lived in Kalona several years, born in Green County Ohio. Survived by husband and two children. Funeral Thursday at 1 pm in the M I church with Rev Moore officiating, interment Sharon Hill Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kalona
Evening Journal
D. C. Miller
Miller
The
Kalona News
M. I
Mr. Moore
Sharon Hill
Burlington roadbed fixes near city and Winfield
The Burlington road between this city and Winfield is being improved as officials decide the roadbed needs ballast. Work trains have been sent, tracks are being worked, and cinders and ballast are being unloaded along the line.
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Burlington Road
Winfield
Havre
Here
Crawfordsville
Carriage Overturns En Route to Birney Home
A carriage carrying six youths from this city to the W. A. Birney home northeast of town overturned last evening after crossing the Milwaukee track. No one was seriously hurt though several occupants jumped free and others stayed in the wreck. The group walked about a mile to the Birney residence while the damaged carriage was moved to a repair shop.
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W. A. Birney
Lurney
Boyd Dill
Mabel Dill
Mary French
Lottie Guthrie
Edna Stewart
Etha Dawson
Milwaukee Track
Birney
Foley Kidney Pills Restore Kidney and Bladder Function
Foley Kidney Pills act as a tonic improving kidney and bladder action. They correct irregularities and deliver quick results as advertised by Lemmon's Pharmacy and McEhinney Drug Co.
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Foley
Lemmon's Pharmacy
McEihinney Drug Co
Hans the Shepherd Boy and the King
Hans tended sheep for a farmer near a forest and refused to betray his trust for gold. A hunter in royal garb later revealed the king, who praised Hans’s honesty and gave him a position in the king’s household.
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Hans
Aire
Washington County Alumni Banquet Set For December 29
The Washington County Alumni Association and Student Club of the State University of Iowa will hold a banquet at the Congress hotel at 8 o clock tomorrow evening. Sixty young people from the Christian Endeavor society of the Second United Presbyterian church attended an oyster supper and toasts at the church after a four month competition.
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Associate Presbyterian Church
Washington County Alumni Association
State University of Iowa
Congress Hotel
Christian Eendeavor Society
Second United Presbyterian Church
Jeannette Robertson
Margaret Carson
Miss Carson
Miss Robertson
Ralph Bunce
John Simpson
W. R. Sawhill
Ruth Latta
Degree of Honor Called Meeting for Thursday Evening
Mrs. Mary Gibson hosts notice from West Jefferson Street home. The Degree of Honor announces a called meeting Thursday at 7 30 PM and asks all members to attend.
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Mary Gibson
West Jefferson Street
Knights Templar Called Meeting Notice
Bethlehem commandery will hold a called meeting on Thursday evening December 29 at 7 30 sharp for the purpose of installing the ree for the ensuing year. W Miller, E C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knights Templar
Bethlehem Commandery
W. Miller
E. C
Death of Miss Belle Martin in Keota
Miss Belle Martin died in Hershey hospital Muscatine Tuesday morning and was brought to Keota the same day. Funeral services are in the Methodist church conducted by Rev. J. F. Robertson, with interment in Keota cemetery. She had health declines after her parents deaths and lived largely alone. tuberculosis led to the hospital stay after December move with her pastor.
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Keota
Belle Martin
Hershey
Muscatine
R. L. Richardson
Methodist Church
J. F. Robertson
Marsales Martin
Miss Martin
Hershey Hospital
Notice Alo U0 W A Good Attendance Requested
A local notice asks for a good attendance this evening as work will proceed in both degrees and other business of importance.
Commonness of the name John in historic calendars
The text notes that 49 days in the Roman calendar honor saints named John and explain how some sons were named after the saint on or near their birth day. It adds Domesday Book data listing William as the most common name, followed by Robert and Walter, and mentions Magdalen as once fairly popular.
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John
Beatus
William
Robert
Walter
Magdalen
Bees Revealed After Cask Theft at Southfield Cider Mill
Jacob Frit of Southfield Conn found a supposedly empty cask at a cider mill filled after bees swarmed him. The bees were smoked out and seventy pounds of honey were recovered from the cask.
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Jacob Frit
Southfield
Conn
Charm in Sincerity Quote from Myrtle Reed
Notable lines emphasize that sincerity holds charm even amid conflict as depicted in Master of the Vineyard. The quotation highlights admiration for earnestness and singleness of purpose within two men fighting.
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Myrtle Reed
Niagara Falls Awe and American Sobriety Compared
An English police official told a Buffalo reporter he is impressed by Niagara Falls and American sobriety, while Scotland Yard notes British slums on Saturdays. He cites beer as a factor and recalls a joke about British drinkers sick with pink snakes and frogs crawling over them.
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Buffalo
America
Niagara Falls
Scotland Yard
George
She Made Home Happy Unknown Dead Memory Note
The speaker finds two gravestones in a churchyard. One bears no name or date but reads She Made Home Happy. A second, marble column honors a well known world figure. yet the speaker is moved by the mother who toiled until her death, her quiet record seeming grander than the soldier’s tribute.
He Was Eligible
A captain recalls a seasick passenger who chose to return to Canada instead of continuing a grand tour. The man, after a rough voyage, tells the captain he will go back to avoid higher costs, noting the line’s rate card offers “returned empties” at half fare.
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Hans
Crow Talk and Tongue Slitting Tale from Chicago Tribune
A man argues you can teach a crow to talk and even improve speech by slit tongue, citing a professor whose crow supposedly talked after the procedure. The crowd questions grammar and truth, noting the bird’s owner later gave it away to a bartender.
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Pallas
Chicago Tribune
The Caddie Says Take the 6 15 Train Home
A noted golf champion mocks a poor player by recounting his endless bunkers and bad luck. The caddie humorously suggests the 6 15 train home after the player struggles with each shot in a sandy bunker.
Dinner wit and a White House jest from Washington
Wayne MacVeagh renowned as a witty Washington host entertains with a sharp exchange at the White House. He challenges a senator's wife to name the inauguration year of the first president he dined there, prompting her playful insistence that Franklin Pierce was the man.
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Wayne MacVeagh
MacVeagh
White House
Franklin Pierce
Chicago Record, Herald
Last Moments Told by an English Hospital Orderly
A hospital orderly recounts soothing a dying soldier named Hopkins in an English military hospital. The exchange includes a chaplain and the orderly offering grim quips about heaven and hell as Hopkins nears death, concluding with the soldier’s demise while being urged to feel grateful for his afterlife.
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Hopkins
Lincoln Handicap Ob Dean Swift Roseate Dawn Misread
A London press wire for the Lincoln handicap results read Lincoln Ob Dean Swift Roseate Dawn. The Australian subeditor misinterpreted Ob as Oblit and printed a death notice for Dean Swift, author of the hymn.
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Dean Swift
Roseate Dawn
London
Lincoln Ob
The Pudding Cure in Yorkshire Humor
A visitor to an old friend in Yorkshire fell ill with a chill and stayed in bed. His hostess baked a Yorkshire pudding as a remedy and asked if he had finished it. He replied that he had not eaten it but was wearing it on his chest.
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Yorkshire
Yale Men In Town Missed Harvard Custodian Joke
In Cambridge before the Yale Harvard game two Yale students ask a passer for Harvard University. The serious youth replies that Harvard is locked up because there are eighty Yale men in town, a quiet joke about the crowd.
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Harvard
Cambridge
New Haven
Harvard Yard
Dow
Yale
Harvard University
Dainty Cow Ad Quirk From Scotsman Pages
A lively quip notes Scots newspapers overflow with jokes even in ads. The excerpt cites an ad from Scotsman Glasgow offering a woman to wash dress and milk a cow and assist housework, prompting London Answers to mock teeth polishing cows and mangled cows after washing.
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Tweed
Nera Eee
Scotsman
Glasgow
London
Hard Lueck story echoes Twain temperance tale
A fragment recalls Mark Twain style and a winter dinner speech about a drinker who reluctantly applies for temperance society membership. He sails a three year voyage, keeps his pledge, and returns to resign finding his name had been pen bisckballed originally.
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Mark ‘Twain
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O. J. Simons
Delta
Geo. W. Stewart
EB. W. Spessard
City
Ainsworth
Lord Loveland
Orie Turner
Harold
Mrs. Turner
Clarence Stephenson
Eldon
Issy Les Monlineau
France
the Evening Journal
M. Laffort
Pola
Laffort
Brussels
Auto Club
Jean Huysmans
New Post Office
W. A. Duncan
D. P. Dede
Oskaloosa
George W. Stewart
J. M. Walker
Mankato
Kan
Cloyce Beard
Monmouth
Eliza Beard
Metropolitan
Jan
D.c.miller
and Winfield
Ack
Ieolyn
Daddy
Lam
Viola McKimmey
Poinsettia Club
North
Washington
D. H. Miller
South
Iowa Avenue
Woman's Temperance Union
Henry Coyle
Canada
Father Point
T Hard Lueck
J. A. Harwood
Cook & Sherman
S. W. Cor
Square
Pilo
Pont
Johnson
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