Acrobats Better Shoes for Children at Wilsons
Local note highlights Arch Best Oxfords and Wilson’s pad Acrobats for kids. Dale Holland of Chicago visits friends and relatives. Bevin’s advertises cut prices on Kelly Springfield tires. Jerome Waughes visits relatives, A Canning to sell Jersey cows at Columbus Junction Lat Sept 8 2 o clock. Lillian Dahlstrom of What Cheer attends teachers institute.
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Dale Holland
Chicago
Lillian Dahlstrom
What Cheer
Teachers Institute
Local notes and commerce update from Lyons town
Ada Kirkpatrick of Keaty visits Lyons. Doris Benn returns from Pierre. Mrs. Ella DeLong and Mrs. Huber of Crawfordsville visit Washington. New tire cut prices listed by Bevins. Miss Adelaide White of Peoria visits Mrs. A. Anderson. White Loaf Flour at $1.65 per sack from McCall Bros. Catherine Wheelan returns to Waterloo. Sylvia Leyle en route to Weaver. Mrs. J. E. Meredith leaves Creston for home. Anna Wolf visits A. Waldschmidt. heads to Davenport. Nurse Luella Kyle visiting family. intends to practice in Creston. Feather mattresses advertised. Sanitary Folding Feather Mattress Works. Todd to enter California fruit business. peaches noted.
Local notices and travels fill Washington daily
Listings show Mrs Bain starting as Lyon cafe cook and various locals traveling or visiting. Births, marriages, education moves appear with families in Washington and nearby towns. Majestic ranges promoted with copper cooking ware offers and sales events at Geo W Stewart & How.
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Nettie Bain
Lyon
Majestic
Geo. W. Stewart How
Geo. W. Stewart
commuter swaps streetcar for driving to same work hour
A local resident who formerly relied on the streetcar to reach work now chooses to drive, passing by streetcars en route to arrive at the same time as before, illustrating a shift in commuting habits and transportation preferences.
Patron Sign Recalled After Thousand-Dollar Bill Claim
A hotel clerk recalls removing the sign reading The Patron In Always Might after a guest insisted he paid the cashier a thousand-dollar bill. The anecdote highlights a quirky moment tied to a single extraordinary claim at the hotel.
Hoe Caxe Devourer and Uncle Eben Exchange
A rustic remark labels a character as lazy while noting Loe cake references. The exchange centers on respect and a humorous confusion around a hoe. The dialogue aligns with rural speech and local color in a compact scene.
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Eben
Each Man to His Trade
Miss Lucille Lowndes enters Porsor & Co for routine work but faces repeated job shifts and slow progress. Routledge tries to guide her toward stenography and punctuality, yet she reveals fears and domestic duties. After a string of clashes, he reassesses and invites her to dinner to reconnect.
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Routledge
Lowndes
Lucille
Lucile
Mr. Routledge
Miss Lowndes
Nine Year Old Saver Starts a Family Banking Habit
A city father began a savings plan for his nine year old son by depositing a dollar for each year of age on birthdays. The boy earns extra money through odd jobs and is taught to never spend it, building a college fund as a practical financial lesson. The piece promotes opening savings accounts for children.
Pleasant but Futile Ruegger Feature
A Boston Transcript piece highlights Miss Ruegger’s compelling art and magnetic personality, noting her manner is free from any trace of effectual restraint or conventional purpose.
Coneville Readies Annual Watermelon Day Celebration
Coneville Iowa gears up for the annual Watermelon Day on September 13. Free melons attract about 6000 attendees from nearby towns and across the country, with racing, dancing, ball games, music, and speakers scheduled morning and afternoon.
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Coneville
Iowa
Ancient Athenaeum of Athens and Its Noted Recitations
An account describes the Ancient Athenaeum in Athens sacred to Vailas Athena where poets and philosophers recited works. It mentions a large place built by the Euperor tiadian in the year Poo, noting scholarly gatherings and compositions.
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Athens
Vailas Athena
Euperor Tiadian
The Curious Crab Biography
A short description of a crab with a round helmet and a long spike that vanishes through molts. It notes the crab tucking its tail under and adopting a sideways gait as it matures.
Ancient Gas Attacks Through History
Historical note records gas as a warfare method dating to 180 B C when jars held feathers burned and smoke blown by bellows into enemy faces.
Dipping Keys in Oregon Locks for Smooth Operation
A reader notes that dipping keys in oil helps keep locks in order and reduces door creaks. The suggestion includes touching binges with a four oiled feather to preserve smooth operation.
Automobile jokes deemed a blessing not profanity
A columnist quote from Washington Star features Miss Cayenne arguing that machinery able to provoke laughter without profanity should be considered a blessing rather than in bad taste. The exchange highlights humor in tech as a positive trait.
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Miss Cayenne
Washington Star
Black Lead Pencils Origin and Namesake
Black lead pencils derive their name from leaden plummets once used to rule lines on paper before graphite mines were found. The term persists though the pencils contain no true lead.
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Burt
Mount Vernon Name Change From Epsewasson to Hunting Creek
Mount Vernon originally called Epsewasson, an Indian term, was soon anglicized to Hunting Creek in its early naming history. The note traces the estate’s first designation and its linguistic adaptation.
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Mount Vernon
Epsewasson
Hunting Creek
First Fight Terrifies Pilot as Balloon Like Cara Warnings Rise
Reginald, involved in his debut fight, clutched the pilot's sleeve and warned of danger as a balloon slated to burst loomed. The tense moment captures a perilous in-flight scene with both fear and urgent pleas to escape.
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Reginald
World Wool Production Shared Equally
If the world's total annual wool production were divided equally among all earth inhabitants each person would receive one and four-fifths pounds.
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Earth
First Requisites On Honesty And Good Day
A Montaigne quotation stresses honesty as the essential daily virtue. It implies that without integrity all other knowledge harms the thinker. The line frames moral conduct as foundational to sound judgment.
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Montaigne
When Its Light Goes Out
A short Kernes-like reflection on the odd utility of a discarded electric light bulb and its quiet persistence in daily life.
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Kallas News
Power Allow a Trivial Misunderstanding
A Dickensian reflection warns that a small misinterpretation can ruin spring’s blossoms, blooming once and blighted thereafter, emphasizing the permanence of early missteps.
Stray Bits of Wisdom
A brief, proverb-like note cites a line about choosing better a dinner of herbs with love over a stalled ox with hatred, reflecting pairings of simple sustenance and affection versus conflict.
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Harold Lloyd
FOX Tonight
Alice Brady
Snow Bride
Paramount Picture of the
Great Northwest
Charlie Murry
Arch Best
Oxfords
Wilson's. Pad
Wilson's
Kelly Springfield
Bevins
Jerome Waughes
Ralph Pratt
J. A. Work Insurance Agency
F. & M. Bank
Mae Strait
Florence Scott
Ruth Fabria
West Chester
Mt. Pleasant Stuart Hotel
Iowa City
Curtis & Ross
Lyons. Core
Ada Kirkpatrick of
Keaty
Town
Doris Benn
Pierre
Ella DeLong
Daisey Huber
Crawfordsville
Washington
Lake Anderson
Black
Adelaide White
Peoria, Illinois
Mrs. A. Anderson
McCall Bros
Catherine Wheelan
Joe Lohberger
Waterloo
Sylvia Leyle
Frank Kirkpatrick
Weaver
J. E. Meredith
Creston
J. M. Thompson
D. F. Macon
Eod
Anna Wolf
A. Waldschmidt
Davenport
Philips Drug Store
Luella Kyle
J. H. Kyle
Lulu
Kyle
East 9Th Street
R. Stuart
Todd
California
Bev
Ins
Charles Brown
North
Iowa Ave
Mah-Jong
Atchisons Sott
Phillips Drug Store
Glenn Gott
C. H. Johnson
Swedesburg
G. F
W. D. Augustine
Wellston
Mabel Reisner
New Boston
Aledo, Ill
Esther Gilbert
Mt. Pleasant
Henrietta Whittaker
Ottumwa
St. Joseph’s Academy
Los Angeles, Calif
August Co. Bower
Keota
Bessie I. Carter
Wellman
Grace Shilling
St. Joseph's Academy
Dade B. Shearer
Greencastle
Indians
Deaw University
S. P. Beatty
Gertrude and
Cloyce
Oskaloosa
Floyd
S. W. Woolworth
Smith Brookhart, Jr
Harry Rice
Cleveland
Camp Perry
Ohio
William Sutherland
Oral Long
Titus
Jean
John Maxwell
George Sturges
Mr. Maxwell
Myra Curtis Lane
Ewe
Western Newspaper Union
Washington National
Washington County
the Ancient Athenaeum
Earl & Wilson
C. M. & F. Clothing Co
Wilie Long
Gust Bramer
East Side Square
Penn
Sylvania, Kentucky
Indiana, Illinois
Iowa Coals
John Shields
Sons
Hoosier
Florence
McNamara
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