Local people leave for other towns and shopping stops
Chase Winter leaves for Rubio and Miss Stapp heads to Columbus Junction while Chas Keiser tours Davenport. W Cherryholmes travels to Winfield to buy horses and Harry Gray returns home to Richland after visiting his mother. Johnson's marshmallow drops and crescents for supper cited as interest in local stops.
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Johnson's
Mrs. Chase Bannister
Ottumwa
W. Cherryholmes
Winfield
Harry Gray
Richland
City
Local Notes Mix Illness Births and Distant Traditions
A busy local column records Hartman’s illness improving after a quick doctors visit and a birth congratulation for Willie Tellin’s daughter born July 9 1905. It notes visits from A J Wesely and Mayme Wesely of Chicago, plus Chittum and Bear family updates. It also shares travel and ballgame plans with the Rust’s Yales of Davenport and a trip to Denver. The feature then surveys long standing customs from British aristocracy including Belvoir and Oakham castle horseshoes and Duke of Atholl retainers, with notes on hereditary estates and royal visits.
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Hartman
Chas
Bear
Eda Kos
Wes Reiner
Clara Morhafer
Kalona
Ed Shalla
Oldaker
Josephine Escher
Willie Kiefer
Joe Friend
Cecil Boyd
Quincy
Lee and
Carnwath
Duke of Atholl
Blaircastle
Perthshire
Allesbury
At & Cernake Forest
Haskins Briefs Note Social Visits and Illness
Harmon and Nicola of Washington visited J. C. Mather's home on Sabbath afternoon. John Adams and family from south of Ainsworth called nearby. Rev. L. Dr. Young spoke to a large audience at Haskins church. Pat Boyd suffers from tonsillitis with Dr. Alcorn attending. Lester Overfelt visits E. K. Annis home.
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Nicola
Washington
J. C. Mather
John Adams
South
Ainsworth
L. Dr. Young
Haskins Church
Pat Boyd
Dr. Alcorn
Lester Overfelt
E. K. Annis
Social Roundup Moves Ice Cream Social to Friday
July 11 reports visitors from Milwaukee include Mr and Mrs Noel visiting Mrs W S Van Sant. Clark Eckerman fell ill with lumbago but is improving. Rev Lloyd Tennant spent yesterday in Mt Pleasant. Fred Bragg of Washington aids Franklin Maxwell’s residence. J B Eckerman of Havre visits town. Miss Flo Purvis of Washington visits J St Rickey home.
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Noel
Milwaukee
W. S. van Sant
Clark Eckerman
Lloyd Tennant
Mt. Pleasant
Fred Bragg
Washington
Franklin Maxwell
J. B. Eckerman
Havre
Sinking of Parfadet crew in Paris July report
Paris dispatch reports the crew of the submarine Parfadet died slowly by drowning after the vessel sank. The incident occurred July 11 with all hands lost.
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Paris
July 10 death notices and social events in Richland
Mrs John Kent died at her home last Friday and was buried yesterday. She leaves a husband three sons and one daughter. Dr Wickham of Washington visited the injured section foreman Mr Kime. Socials and visits from Sedalia Tecumseh Gilmore City and Des Moines are noted along with a funeral and a church service.
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Wickham
Washington
Kime
Milwaukee
Grade Starr
Sedalia
Alta Walker
John
Robert Walker
Sheldon Ewell
John Wray
Hedrick
Clarence Nevill
Henry Pringle
Jane Wade
Pleasant Plain
Hezekiah Jones
Richland
Gilbert Jones
von Steinburg
Gilmore City
M. L. Thome
America Lee
Des Moines
Christian Church
Baseball Scores From Various Leagues and Cities
Chicago reports multiple games with Pittsburgh and Brooklyn results in American and Western leagues. Highlights include Philadelphia beating Boston 3 to 2 in the National Association and Detroit taking a 3 to 3 draw in a Detroit New York tilt. Mrs. Robert S. McCormick plans a U S summer visit and sailing near July 18.
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Kain
Boston
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Western
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Sioux City
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Omaha
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Des Moines
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Paris
The Square Deal Over Cornfield Damages
In midsummer a horse belonging to Mr. Sebree damaged Farmer Hatch s corn field. Hatch demanded restitution and Sebree offered to swap the mare for the patch. Hatch refused the mare, preferring cash totaling 1.50 and kept the mare.
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Hatch
Farmer Hatch
Sebree
Seventh child brings sparring and suspicion at country home
A Washington Post correspondent recalls a literary friend's summer tale about a seventh child. While the father kept the two year old from a creek dip, a neighbor intervened shouting for law, and the author quipped the neighbor doubted the drowning claim. The father endured skepticism about the six other children.
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Washington Post
Waal
A Fish to Avoid in American Waters
A colorful Field and Stream excerpt describes the bowfin or dogfish as one of the most peculiar fishes in American waters. It notes traits such as barking, sharklike appetite, parental defense, and ferocious behavior, but concludes the meat is tasteless and unsuitable for eating, quoting a Michigan guide's sharp dismissal.
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American
Michigan
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