Union of Two Estates Sparks Romantic Turn
Wadsworth Towle, a business man, falls for a nurse who turns out to be Miss Helen De Veaux. He learns of family estates and a planned "community of interest" marriage, but a letter of sympathy leads to the reveal and a shift in affections.
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Roth
Wadsworth Towle
Emalter
Helen de Veaux
Towle
Miss le Veaux
de Veaux
Mice de Venus
Mies
Miss de Veaux
Mr. Towle
Tin
Llelen de Veaux
Miss de Veausx
Monmouth College Chautauqua Grounds Picnic Tomorrow
Monmouth College announces a gathering on the Chautauqua Grounds with Dr. T. H. McMichael scheduled to speak. Attendees are invited to attend the picnic event tomorrow at the grounds.
Board Elects Miss Savage and New Baptist Minister
Monmouth Hilness college alumni and students plan a basket dinner reunion at Chau tauqia grounds at 10 a.m. Dr. Ty fl. McMichael president elect of Monmouth and son of the late Dev. J. T. McMichael will attend and address the group. He will preach at First and Second churches Saturday morning and at a park union service Saturday evening.
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Monmouth
Hilness College
Tyfl. McMichael
McMichael
McCarthy paving crew delayed awaiting sand in Albia
The McCarthy paving gang from Albia is delayed and may arrive end of next week or the following. Dell Duncan’s brother reported workers were laid off five days there awaiting sand. After finishing the Albia contract, crew and machinery will be shipped to pave the square.
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McCarthy Paving
Albia
Duncan
Dell Duncan
Chamberlains Pain Aim Antiseptic Liniment Promises Quick Healing
Slight injuries can disable a man and cause days lost. If blood poison develops, a hand or limb may be at risk. Chamberlains Pain Aim is an antiseptic liniment. Applied to cuts bruises and burns it heals quickly with no maturation and prevents blood poison. For sale by Stewart's Pharmacy Cook & Sherman.
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Chamberlain
Stewart's Pharmacy
Cook & Sherman
Elect a New Primary Teacher for Centennial Building
The school board elects Miss Stella Savage of Brigh ton to fill the primary vacancy at the Centennial Building caused by Miss Alice Fluke's resignation. Miss Savage is well connected in Washington and brings strong endorsements. Miss Hermina Klass seeks a one year leave of absence from Palo Alto duties, but the board declines granting it this time.
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Stella Savage
Brighton
Alice Fluke
Savage
Washington
Hermina Klass
Palo Alto
Cal
Wall collapses at Sessler Hardware during noon hour
The east side wall of Sessler Hardware Store caved in at noon today while workers were at dinner. The adjoining excavated cellar for a new building is piled with bricks and debris. Likely cause is workers digging too close to the wall loosening earth and toppling the foundation.
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Sessler Hardware Store
Riverside
Washington Lodge to Convene for Past Degree Work
A called meeting of Washington Lodge No. 26 A. PF. and A. M. will be held Thursday evening for past degree work. The candidate is a prominent citizen of our city. All members should be present. M. Clapper W. M. re.
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Washington Lodge
A. M
M. Clapper
W. M
New Baptist Minister Arrives to Lead Local Church
Rev. Robert Ketlin, newly called pastor of the Baptist church, will arrive tomorrow and preach his first sermon Sunday morning. He comes from Toronto, Canada. The Misses Myrtie and Mabel Morton returned from Detroit after attending the National Rpworth League convention with Mrs. Anna Crawford Roth. Five conventions in Detroit drew 100000 attendees. The Misses Morton also spent time in Chicago. Homer Stephens Frank Bergquist and Leonard Miksch traveled by wheel to Ainsworth last night.
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Robert Ketlin
Baptist
The
Baptist Church
Toronto
Canada
Myrtie
Mabel Morton
Detroit
Michigan
Anna Crawford Roth
Misses Morton
Chicago
Homer Stephens
Frank Bergquist
Leonard Miksch
Ainsworth
Round About Ainsworth July Highlights Local Visits
Miss Elizabeth Meyers of Davenport visits Mrs W Yancey. Eva Master and Bethel Lewis visit in Oskaloosa. Mrs J A Crawford returns from Bigourney Iowa. Gatkin of California leaves for Burlington relatives. Miller returns from Shawnee Oklahoma. Mr and Mrs Sharles from Manchester stay at WOC White home. Mrs J Wilkins returns from Keota visit. Mr and Mrs Stephens return from California and Salt Lake City. Martha Walker and Mamie Rush go to Colfax for Chautauqua. Edith Bradford returns from Coppock. Rev T B Barker of Crawfordsville calls on friends. G A Carson and B E Funston return from Minneapolis trip. Ethel White teaches music then travels on the Firefly to Washington. Mrs J Harding and Maude visit Cairo. Will G M Welsh injures right foot at wagon shop. Family reunion at BW White’s with all children present. pleasant time reported.
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Elizabeth Meyers
Davenport
Mra
W. Yancey
Eva Master
Burlington
A. Miller
Shawnee
Oklo
Sharles
Manchester
White
J. Wilkins
Keota
L. A. Stephens
California
Salt Lake City
Martha Walker
Mamie Rush
Colfax
Edith Bradford
Coppock
T. B. Barker
Crawfordaville
G. A. Carson
BE. M. Funston
Minneapolis
G. M. Welsh
BW. White
Local residents travel plans and visits noted
July 30 notes show Miss Nellie Manners leaving for Biggsville to visit cousin Mrs. Nelle Cowden Sloane. Mr. and Mrs. James Cook and daughter depart for Huntsville Ohio to visit relatives. Oscar Van Sant of Wayland stays a week with Mr. and Mrs. Sloane. Mrs. Margaret Robinson of Washington visits in the city. Mrs. Elizabeth Chandler and son and Miss Ada Hawthorne of Chicago, after months in California, visit at the James Hawthorne home.
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Nellie Manners
Biggsville
Nelle Cowden Sloane
James Cook
Huntsville
Ohio
Oscar van Sant
Wayland
8. C. Sloane
Margaret Robinson
Washington
Elizabeth Chandler
Ada Hawthorne
Chicago
California
James Hawthorne
Mrs Bloomquist Attends Illinois Funeral and Visiting Relatives
July 30 report notes Mrs A Bloomquist returned from Marion Iowa after attending the funeral of sister-in-law Mrs Stoward Strohm of Chicago. Mrs John Leib and Miss Edith Miller visited Fred Mauthe yesterday. Miss Emma Buxbaum went to Mount Maria Missouri to visit her sister Mrs Ben Romig.
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A. Bloomquist
Marion
Iowa
Stoward Strohm
Chicago
John Leib
Edith Miller
Fred Mauthe
Emma Buxbaum
Mount Maria
Ben Romig
Wonderful Traveling Sand Hills of Islay Peru
Ernest C. Rost describes the Islay desert in Peru with hundreds of white sand crescents on a 4500 foot plateau fifty four miles inland. The crescents rise about twenty feet, some larger, with inner circles and northeast openings. Sand moves slowly at about three inches per day, reshaping as it crosses a railroad track.
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Islay
Bailey
Rpailroad
Ernest C. Rost
Harper's Magzine
Chalk In Water Layer Holds Chalk Deposit
In a sea water layer a mile square and 600 feet deep lies a chalk deposit totaling sixteen tons.
Salt Cod More Economical Than Fresh Cod
Preserved fish are generally cheaper and fuller in supply than fresh fish. Salt cod furnishes about 50 percent more nonmelicent.
Citric Acid Turns Sea Water Into Harmless Marine Lemonade
An old note claims citric acid added to seawater precipitates salt, creating a harmless mineral water. It states seven ounces of citric acid could supply a shipwrecked mariner with marine lemonade for a week.
Behavior of Men and Women in Public Dining Across Cultures
The piece contrasts dining room etiquette in Prades, England, Amert co, and the United States. It notes women’s deferential salutes to men in some cultures and men’s patronizing manner in others, with American women depicted as confident, dominant figures in social rank.
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England
John Dull
Amertco
Jonathan
Werner
Bell
Wonen
Tip
United States
Slavery Prices and Liquor Trade in Antebellum America
Prices for enslaved people varied by region with higher sums in demand areas like South Carolina and Louisiana and lower in border states such as Kentucky and Missouri. Slavers profited by exchanging in Mobile New Orleans or Charleston, while guarantees against runaways and small inducements were common. A Philadelphia liquor buyer praises buttermilk as a stomachic to aid digestion and even curb drinking.
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South
South Carolina
Lowisiana
Kentucky
Mis Eur
New Orleans
Missouri
Mobile
Charleston
Limaelf
Ass and the Ladder Phrase Meaning From Petronius
A student cites a Hebrew library phrase asking that a volume remain undamaged until the ass ascends the ladder. The preceptor explains it mirrors Petronius asinous in tegulis, meaning an impossibility, so the books are preserved forever.
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Petronius
Asinus
Philadelphia Record
Bidder Dispute Over Vase Auction Ends With Rug Sale
An auction scene sees a German bidder raise ten dollars for a vase after a single bid leads to its withdrawal. The auctioneer declares sale on a rug but the purchaser objects, claiming “gon pid” was not sold. The exchange ends with a quip about optional sales.
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Den
New York Post
Fire wall project fronts harness shop on West Washington
Chas. Obagemach builds a fire wall from the rear northwest corner of his harness shop toward the lot’s back part next to the John son bakery. Tobe Minick’s crew began excavating on West Washington Street near J. A. Harwood’s residence for a new Crail home to rise after the cellar, promising one of the city’s finest residences. The Burlington will issue a new time card soon, likely August 1, due to linking with the Des Moines line.
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Chas. Obagemach
Johnson Bakery
Tobe Minick
Washington Street
J. A. Harwood
J. T. Crail
Walter Ayres
Davenport
Fred Smith
Fairmont
Bankers
Burlington
Des Moines
The Etahyans of Toss in the Arctic End of the World
The Etahyans or aretic highland ers in Toss dwell in wet ice caves under a vast northern Greenland glacier cap. They endure six months of Arctic darkness and cold air filled with frozen particles. They refuse to move south and take pride in their loneliness as the last of all peoples. Dearson's.
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Toss
Fee
Greenland
Thetis
Dumas’s prolific pace and rapid writing wager
The elder Dumas claimed he would finish the first volume of a new book in seventy two hours including meals and sleep. He completed 3,875 lines across seventy five pages in six hours less than the time, and he produced sixty volumes in one year, a feat said to be unmatched.
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Dumas
Natural design makes sea fowls eggs roll in circles
A curious feature of sea fowls eggs is their near conical shape which causes them to roll only in circles. Many eggs are laid on bare rock edges so this design prevents them from rolling off into the sea.
Colenso Hotel Shoe Shining Parlors Featured
Dave Keltner proprietor praised for good work at Colenso Hotel shoe shining parlors. tf. ae.
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Colenso Hotel
Dave Keltner
Deceased Subscriber Tricks Editor Over Paper Discontinuation
A North Missouri editor received a note claiming a subscriber was dead to stop the paper. The subscriber later reveals he wrote the note himself to avoid hurting the editor, saying he wouldn’t send a paper to a corpse.
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North Missouri
Tres
Kansas City Star
Bequest for Hazelnuts in 1705 Will
In a 1705 will from Linstol, a mariner directs the executors to pay his wife one shilling from the first funds to buy hazelnuts, saying she prefers cracking them to mending stockings. The leave is a token of his love and reflects a quirky domestic detail.
Chinese boast sparks mirror of national pride
The Detroit Free Press quotes a Chinese conduct remark in a satirical exchange about vanity. The brief comment contrasts perceptions of pride between cultures, suggesting a humorous clash of national stereotypes.
Wary Household Encounters A Boston Servant
A new Boston servant announces a strange visitor at the door. The master grows impatient as the servant clarifies the visitor seeks a bath and, more urgently, something to eat, revealing a local dialect clash in Syracus.
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Boston
Syracus
Consolatorsy remark on rent woes in Atlanta talk
A playful exchange from the Atlanta Constitution contrasts a consoling thought about heavenly interpretation with the hard reality of rent due for the poor man. Brother Williams remarks that comfort cannot pay rent.
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Derich
Brother Williams
Common House Spider Earns Merited Respect
The article argues the common house spider is harmless and beneficial, killing insects. It notes public aversion and fear but contends the spider has earned its reputation unfairly, as it punishes trespassers rather than luring prey.
Humorous Exchange Over Marriage and Bonnets
A young husband quips about ministers never marrying to shift a topic after refusing his wife a bonnet. The wife retorts that the minister did not make a good husband when he married them, highlighting light domestic banter.
Unclear Dialogue Teases Past and Future Disagreements
A fragmentary dialogue hints that digging into past grievances will be avoided while warnings about future conflicts remain. The exchange centers on Mr Nag-Well and Matilda with Mrs Nag intervening.
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Mr. Nag
Matilda
Oh, he is a born debater said a friend
The quote notes Mant as a born debater who enjoys arguing and disagrees with anything that agrees with him. It praises the art of saying kind words and claims it never goes out of fashion, attributed to London Tit Bits and author Faber.
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London
Faber
Pair of wry exchanges from London humor column
A comic snippet shows Mrs Sububs planning a maid’s vacation while Mr Sububs protests. Another quip notes that both the blockhead and genius share a birth trait. A magistrate scene mocks preferring cash over charges as a grocer presents payment. London Tit-Bits.
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Mrs. Sububs
Mr. Sububs
London
City Bus Line Call Up Service
Call or phone number one at the hotel in Colenso to leave orders. Frank Rogers will promptly attend to them.
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Colenso
Frank Rogers
SPECIAL SUMMER EXCURSION RATES TO THE WEST FROM IOWA CENTRAL
The Iowa Central Railway announces summer excursion rates from Brighton for June 1 to September 30, 1903 to Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo 22.75, Glenwood Springs 34.75, Salt Lake City and Ogden 35.75, and lower to Deadwood Lead City Hot Springs and Custer. Diverse routes and stopovers offered. For folders rates call A B Cutts G P and T A Minneapolis.
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Iowa Central Railway
Brighton
Denver
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Colo
Glenwood Springs
Salt Lake City
Ogden
Utah
Deadwood
Lead City
Hot Springs
Custer
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