Local and Personal Notes From Ainsworth and West Chester
Miss Anna Pebler visited Ainsworth Saturday evening and returned today. The Fair features lunch boxes and baskets and a display of croquet sets. J J Clark left for Excelsior Springs for health. Roy Mawhew visited home from Mt. Pleasant. Mrs Amy Randall of Atchison Kansas spent Saturday in the city. Miss Ruby Limerman from West Chester visited her sister Maude. No bad bread from White Rose Flour. The Fair advertises grass catchers and ice cream freezers. Frances Minick returned from Des Moines with her sister Pansy.
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Anna Pebler
Ainsworth
Amy Randall
Atchison, Kan
Statler
West Chester
Ruby Limerman
Miss Maude
Miss Frances Minick
Des Moines
Miss Pansy Minick
Miss Pansy
The Old Inventor at the opera house tonight
Advertisements note a 10 cent admission for The Old Inventor with 9 cent reserved seats. Miss Helen Fulton and Miss Tina Shields attended Monmouth May festival at Monmouth College with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra aiding the Monmouth choral society. Several local notices follow.
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Opera House
Helen Fulton
Tina Shields
Monmouth
Monmouth College
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Chicago
Monmouth Choral Society
Howard Stock Co Opera House Tonight in Florida
Floridian Stolte of Winfield formerly a druggist in town headed to Moline for Quick Meal gasoline business as Georg W. Stewart and Ben Gradwohl of Lincoln visited. Washington merchants advertise hammocks laundry items and home goods. many residents travel to Davenport and Keota for visits and shopping.
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FL. Stolte
Winfield
Moline
Washington
Unwritten Laws and Codes of Conduct Across Armies and Nations
The article traces unwritten laws guiding military and civilian conduct from naval and army ethics to the right of revolution. It cites instances such as Farragut and Lee obeying or defying traditional codes, and notes how courts interpret killings, provocation, and jus in bello. It recalls a Louisville incident where an officer killed another after a public degradation, then was acquitted by court martial.
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Farragut
Lee
Lawton
Wana
Louisville
Nelson
Davis
Opera House Show Delights Audience Tonight
Mrs. S. Patterson Mrs. W. M Keeley Mrs. A. R. Miller and Miss Josephine Babcock arrived home Saturday from Sioux City where they attended the state P. E. O. convention.
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S. Patterson
W. M Keeley
A. R. Miller
Josephine Babcock
Sioux City
Naval Academy Gets New Superintendent Captain Gibbons
Capt. John H. Gibbons assumes command of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis succeeding Capt. Bowyer. A Michigan native, he has served on the Naval General Board and most recently commanded the cruiser Charleston. He previously served as naval attache at the U S embassy in London.
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Annapolis
John H. Gibbons
United States Naval Academy
John Mo Bowyer
Michigan
Naval General Board
Charleston
United States
London
Quiet at Muscatine waves renewal and driftwood tale
A New York article notes a renewal of the Way of the Waves at Muscatine. It observes strange behavior of wives rolling from the sea bringing no water. Driftwood rides the waves and progresses away from land while waves advance by a pushed wrinkle analogy.
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New
Rot and Sympathy Between Teacher and Pupil at School
Dialogue scene shows a pupil confessing to a teacher about a past punishment and a parent’s rheumatism being blamed for a gentle response. The exchange highlights tension over discipline and empathy in a school setting.
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Willie
Lippincott’s
Certifi cate Won’t Let Prima Donna Sing Tonight
A doctor’s certificate excuses the prima donna from tonight’s performance. The manager mocks the need for such proof, noting hatred is like fire and can make even light rubbish deadly.
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Eliot
Butchers and London Streets in the Middle Ages
A London Chronicle passage notes grim scenes around Newgate street and its byways Stinking Lane St Nicholaus Shambles and Blowbladder street. It describes a Butchers bridge near Baynard’s Castle where offal flowed to the Thames, prompting a royal order in 1860 for its removal due to grievous corruption and filth.
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London
Newgate Street
St. Nicholaus
Thames
Baynard’s Castle
H. B. Wheatley
London Chronicle
Invincible Amazons and a Stamp Wide Joke
Mrs Stubb jokes that suffragette leaders would appear on postage stamps if they gain power. Mr Stubb comments on the idea with a resigned sigh, reflecting a playful exchange captured by the Chicago News.
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John
Mrs Stubb
Crickey
Mr. Stubb
Chicago News
Favorite Seat in the Air Shaft Window
A brief exchange from a New York Weekly snippet notes a character asks why sewing is done at an air shaft window and another answers hearing is clearer there. The fragment hints at a domestic scene or gossip item in a period publication.
Dickens Quote About Strewing Life with Smiles
A brief aphorism notes that if life cannot be strewn with flowers, one can still fill the path with smiles. The line reflects a humane, hopeful sentiment attributed to Charles Dickens.
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Dickens
Arrival of Emperor Willian at London for Memorial Unveil
Emperor Willian of Geroniny and Princess Vietoria arrived at Port Victoria aboard the Royal train. They were greeted by crowds in London and hosted privately at Buckingham Palace by King Gleoree and Queen Mary. The Kaiser plans to attend tomorrow’s Queen Victoria Memorial unveiling and visit the court ball on Friday.
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London
Emperor Willian of
Geroniny
Ton Press
Princess Vietoria
Boutee
Port
Victoria
Kneeland
Kaiser Whi
International Headsway fuels conference on rail coal costs
Today at the third Goma meeting delegates of the International Headsway fuel association met on coromon ground to discuss conditions for clean rail coal use. They stated that the fuel bill of American railways amounts to about eight percent of gross earnings, the second largest expense after labor.
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Coromon
Goma
International Headsway Fuel Association
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Claude McCoy
Wyman
Eli VanSickle
Effie VanSickle
Geo W. Stewart
J. J. Clark
Excelsior Springs
Roy Mawhew
Mt. Pleasant
J. P. Faris
R. H. Faris
A. W. McCall
Bowman's
Howard Stewart
Homer Smith
M Henderson
C. M. Neveln
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the Fair Ts
Iowa Gas & Electric Co
Louis Baird
Eodtt
Howard McCleery
Gingham
Bowman
J. Bo Crayne
J. G. Arnold
A. A. Firkins
Smithshire, Hil
Muscatine
We McCall Aite
Susie Clancy
Burlington
City
Howard Stock Co
Geo. W. Stewart
Ben Gradwohl
Lincoln
Nebr
Mrs. I. Rothschild
Father Walsh
Pleasant Plain
Bowman’s
Geo. W. Stewart's
Meek
Ward McCutcheon
Fairfield Iawn
Points
Missouri
George Peck
Dakotas
Minnesota
James Hauser
Wapello
John Roberts
A.W. McCall
Charles Critz
Alice
J. W. Coffman
J. H. McCall
Allerton
Iowa
Carrie Miksch
Mexico, Mo
Titus
Lillian Brookhart
Harrie Horne
Oglevie, Minn
H. B. Dutcher
the Fair
Myrtle Hinckley
Lone Tree
H. L. Parrott
John Westphal and Sons
Davenport
Mr. Westphal
Col
D. J. Palmer
Lulu Mitchell
Ed Erickson
Oneida
V. L. Belt
Waterloo
L. R. Hinsdill
Eod-Tf
Ie Bowman
S. Lo Wright
Amos Durst
Blanche Helmick
Highland Park Nursery
Ben Wallace
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Dusenbery Studio
East Side
Batiste
Bowian’s
W. Joyce
J. A. Harwood & Son
South Side
Jack
Evelyn
Tiany
Hiuseums
Pacific
Mexico
Bari
Mr. Shark
Army
Navy
Bowyer
Supreme Court OF 16
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Gompers, Worrison and
Mitchell Usngespey
Washington, P.C
Evening Journal
Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia
Hovcott
Samuel Gompers
John Mitchell
Frank Morrison
Secre
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Federation of Labor
Roneously
Ening Journal
Invincible
Amazons
the House of Kuppenheimer
Kuppenheimer
Sol Rich & Co
Kaiser Viseps
England
Ont
The
Rovat
Chathinooga
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Rail Way
Pete
Vacuum Insul« Ati Company
Tre Goyal
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