Indian mounds near Baraboo noted for neglect and Devil's Lake visit
An American party in Baraboo Wisconsin explores local Indian mounds described as run down and inadequately preserved. The group tours the area by car in drenching rain and ends with a dusk visit to the nearby Devil's Lake resort famed for its beauty and dramatic rock formations as geologists study the region.
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Taraboo
Wis
Baraboo
Deril's Lake
Baby Mountains
Devil's Lake
A Wisconsin Lake Resort and Road Trip Narrative
The writer describes Devil's Lake at Baraboo Wisconsin as a busy resort with campgrounds tents and cottages. They recount meeting Dr and Mrs Jack Marshall and a boat trip through the upper Dells before continuing north toward Eau Claire and beyond noting Wisconsin and Minnesota landscapes and a call for Americanization and intelligent citizenship.
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Devil's Lake
Jack Marshall
Washington
Baraboo
The
Dells
Upper Dells
Wisconsin River
Wisconsin
Eau Claire
St. Paul
Minnesota
Visit of Chicago Woman and Tarkingtons Noted in Local Stop
Miss Nelle Ryan of Chicago arrived Monday evening from Ottumwa for a brief stay with her brother J. P. Ryan. Mrs. L Tarkington and Miss Margaret Tarkington passed through this morning en route to Wyman from Missouri and visited Wr and Mrs. E V Simons and Mrs. T F Harker during their stop.
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Nelle Ryan
Chicago
Ottumwa
J. P. Ryan
L. Tarkington
Margaret Tarkington
Wyman
Missouri
E. V. Simons
T. F. Harker
Rippling Rhymes by Walt M
Two travelers Mr Ups and Mr Downs discuss a life of roaming versus staying home. Ups laments his wanderings and aging joints while Downs counts travel memories and riches lost. Both acknowledge aging and the value of experiences over detours to a settled life.
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Mr. Ups
Mr. Downs
Gaffer
Odd Cast of Thoughts and Courtroom Quips Spark Reader Riff
A weary motor tourist sighs at rain while Dr. Morehouse touts stars and distant suns. A married man’s bills versus sympathy. court hears a liquor test where rats thrive on ethanol, questioning admissibility but showing potency for beverages.
Mayflower passengers count spurs wild estimate
An estimate claims nearly 946 million people could be descended from Mayflower passengers if all claims of ancestry were true. The figure cites a vast theoretical lineage from the voyage to America.
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America
Musa-shiya Shirtmaker Ad Prompting Placid Local Scene
An OCR collage shows ad language for Musa-shiya Shirtmaker on King Street Ewa near Fish Market, promising yardage fabrics and custom shirts. It blends with other dated items like a Honolulu ad from D C Russell and a river fishing poem.
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King Street
Ewa
Honolulu
Thoughtful of Her Dialogue About PT's Death
A fragment shows a character urging a spouse to remarry if PT dies so they will feel sorrow, revealing a sharp, dark motive. The exchange questions loyalties and emotions in a terse, tension filled line.
Quoted Row Of Oddities From A Local Page
A humorous fragment recalls a grateful woman praising medicine for help with a baby and a claim of thrashing a husband. The dialogue shifts to cosmetics and a misadventure as Henry, thirteen, drops wax in a sewing machine and vanishes, causing fright.
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Henry
Humorous and Jotted Observations From A Country School
A rural classroom scene yields a tongue in cheek dog joke about balancing a dog s tail and a series of quick witty lines about business trips lawyers mothers daughters and family bills The fragmentary text hints at everyday humor and social quirks in a past era.
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Tommy
Amusements New Wonder Film at Fox Theater
Strongheart the wonder dog headlines a Fox Theater program with Lillian Rich Harold Austin Lady Julie and a unnamed young dog star in The Love Master The dog trio shares the screen with skilled actors and writer director Laurence Trimble Jane Murfin.
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Wonder Dog
Fox
Lillian Rich
Harold Austin
Lady Julie
Strongheart
Jane Murfin
Laurence Trimble
Miss Rich
Mr. Austin
Mr. Trimble
Campaign Openings Draw Much Political Action in Prescott
Prescott Iowa hosts launches for multiple campaigns. Senator Brookhart opens re election bid in town of 500. Challenger Daniel Steck Ot tumwa to begin state campaign here tomorrow. Friday Lloyd Thurston and Leroy Munyon plan to start campaigns for Eighth district congress.
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Prescott
Smith W. Brookhart
Senate
Brookhart
Daniel F. Steck
Ottumwa
Lloyd Thurston
Leroy Munyon
Congress
Train Schedule Fragments Show Local Passenger and Freight Runs
Railway notices list multiple train numbers with arrival and departure times at Westbol and other points. Daily freights Nos 836 468 and 429 Local Pass are noted with service on all days except Sundays. Agent H W Russell signs the timetable details.
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H. W. Russel
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Evening Journal
Iowa
Mutual
Associated Press
Duluth
Minn
Pape
Mamma
Mrs. Marshall
United States
St. Louis County
Walt M
Are Martin
Lib Pash
Tilford
Sarah
Puritan Statistical Bureau
Musa-Shiya
D. C. Russell
Journal Office
Finney Beauties
Fellows
Papa
Omaha
Neb
Co. R. L
Golden State Limited
Westbol
Jin
ANC
Assenger
Sesenger
Passeng “Daly
John Park
A. Pbashington
A. M
Raggaler
B. Kapton
W. M
Arthur Goodin
Zeredinha Council
BP. J. Catbaugh
I. M
Bethlehem
K. T
H. T. Carris
B.C
Arthur Goddin
O. Washington
O. B . Asgular
Pearle Dickerson
W. M. Alice Rownd
Damascus Shrine
Commercial Club Rooms
Ida McDaniel
W. H. P. Dwinnle Thompson
Worthy Seribe
de Amos Chapter
de Molay
Wade Crone
M. c
Robert Thompson
Washington Lodge No
Loyal Order of Moose
Moose Hall
L. R. Littrel
T. Rickey
Covenant Lopan No
F. Hall
Iller
Noble Grand
Russellim
I .O
North
Iowa Avenue
John Belville
M D. Bee
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