Moon Legends and Family Tales for Little Explorers
A child friendly collection of moon lore and playful myths. The tale blends make believe travel to the moon with moon science, Hindoo legend, and animal stories. It notes oceans once covered Earth and offers explanations for lunar features while urging safety in space exploration.
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Lsue
Harry
Earth
Pacific
Evening Journal
Ladies’ Home Journal
Stratemeyer
Tomlinson
Trowbridge
Munroe
Shute
the Evening Journal
Tales of Moon Folklore for Children in Philadelphia Ledger
A Philadelphia Ledger fragment presents a child friendly mix of moon tales. Harry and Elsie discuss a dreamlike Bay of Dreams place and the man in the moon. Uncle recounts a grandmotherly moon lady knitting scarves for the end of the world, while the cat unravels each day. Iroquois myths add a toad in the moon and a wolf’s pursuit under full moon light. The piece blends myths, nature, and gentle moral observations about sun and wind.
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Elsie
Bay of Dreams
Harry
Archie Roosevelt’s maritime bent echoed in family naval ties
Archie Roosevelt shows a serious interest in the sea that hints at a possible naval career. The pattern appears in his family as the president, his father, has a keen navy interest, his great-grandfather built the first steamboat on the Ohio and Mississippi, and two great-uncles served in the Confederate navy.
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Archie Roosevelt
Ohio
Mississippi
Archie
Graduation Exercises Set By High School Senior Class
The senior class of the high school will hold commencement at the opera house on Thursday evening May 28. On Sunday evening prior, Rev. W. Fisher will deliver the baccalaureate sermon. The class has about twenty members with Louis Masson as president and participants including Howard Cunningham Walter Lodders Blanche Merchant and Alice Whiting. Music will feature the program performed by class members.
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Opera House
Rev. W. ©. Fisher
Louis Masson
Howard Cunningham
Walter Lodders
Blanche Merchant
Alice Whiting
Steel ceiling installed at G W Hill bakery upgrade
G W Hill bakery on the north side of the square receives a new steel ceiling as Mr Hill installs fixtures in his newly purchased shop. Hill and family arrived Saturday from Monmouth Illinois and have moved into the Adams property on East Main Street.
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G. W. Hill
Dr King’s New Life Pills Sold With Gold Worth Guarantee
Cedar View merchant B G Stewart says each box of Dr King’s New Life Pills is worth its weight in gold for constipation malaria or biliousness. Sold under guarantee at Lemmon’s Pharmacy for 25 cents.
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B. G. Stewart
Cedar View
Miss
Dr. King
Health and Beauty Uses for Salt and Simple Remedies
A survey of home cures includes salt before meals aiding digestion a coffee rinse for onion breath salt dissolves aiding nervous relief and skin tone from salt water. Corn remedies lard and quinine plaster sprains egg and alum plaster hot compresses for bruises and cautions about entering sick rooms. Stewed rhubarb supports complexion and rheumatic relief eggs aid dysentery and salt passes for colic and fainting. Mustard emetic in warm water offers prompt poisoning treatment.
Powdered resin touted to stop bleeding from cuts
A brief exchange notes that powdered resin is the best remedy to stop bleeding from cuts, mentioning cramps from overheating as a side concern.
Foley's Kidney Remedy Promises Quick Kidney Health
An advertisement from Lemmon's Pharmacy touts Foley's Kidney Remedy as a cure to strain out blood impurities. It claims the kidneys become healthy and will strain out all waste matter if taken, urging immediate use.
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Foley
Lemmon’s Pharmacy
Card of Thanks from the Quinn Family
The Quinn family thanks friends and relatives for kindness during their bereavement and for the beautiful flowers sent to them.
Mrs. G. K. McDonough Passes Through En Route to Chicago
Mrs. G. K. McDonough was seen last evening traveling from Oskaloosa toward Chicago, making a brief regional movement report.
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G. K. McDonough
Oskaloosa
Chicago
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Toad and the Wolfs
Philadelphia Ledger
Toad
Mamma
Corn Products Mfg. CO
J. L. Quinn and Family
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