Local Notes From Keota And Surrounding Areas
Sunday visits and travels fill the week with Keota a hub as residents including Al McElwain Mort Keeley and Charley Burroughs make trips to nearby towns while Mr and Mrs J H Stewart visit relatives in Viola. Notices of laundry ads, Maple City Soap promotions, and local auctions mix with reports of a baby’s whistling, school events, church social, and a Portland visit by Clarence Tripp.
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Mort Keeley
Will Latta
Fox
Walnut
Charley Burroughs
Icago University
Father Jacobsmeier
St. Louis
al Maxwell
Joe
Mikech
Heal Bee
Newia
Obi Warner
Latta
Maple City
W. F. Robinson
Rock Island
Denver
Colo
McDonald Home
E. P. Pose
Warren Stewart
Arthur Stewart
Harter
Edgar Wilson
Keota
Ainsworth
Jeese Myers
James Casey
Davenport
Palmer
Casey
Home Aquariums Inspire Students to Build Balanced Setups
Mary Rogers Miller notes Popular Science urges nature students to create a nearly natural indoor pond. Highlighting balance, plants supply oxygen and remove carbonic acid while animals depend on plants for air, water should be cool, light available, sand beds packed, roots form, and water added gently after a brief stand.
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Mary Rogers Miller
Popular Science
Albradium: A New White Durable Metal
Albradium emerges as a fresh aluminium alloy option described as a perfectly white metal suitable for plates tubes rods or ornamental castings. It offers corrosion resistance durability and favorable pricing versus brass German silver and bronze though soldering and achieving perfect screw threads remain challenging.
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Chambers’ Journal
Teacher wears dead birds on bonnet satire
A child quips that a teacher who collects dead birds in her bonnet is hypocritical when she lectures against robbing nests. The remark, cited by Popular Science, highlights playful logic about birds and nesting.
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Popular Science
Corn Oil Promises Substitute for Olive Oil Found in Corn
The New York Evening Post notes corn oil as a rival to cottonseed oil and a substitute for olive oil. Degerming removes the corn germ, yielding a usable oleaginous product once confined to paints and lubricants. A new process clarifies and deodorizes corn oil at about 10 cents a gallon, with 6,060,000 gallons produced annually, and experts say it could be digested better than current culinary oils, though it may appear on markets as olive oil.
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New York Evening Post
Chicago
Colorado Board Issues Rules to Prevent Consumption Spread
Colorado health officials warn growing tuberculosis cases as patients flock to the mountains. Rules target three dangers: expectoration, milk, and meat. Advice includes pocket spit cups, boiling infected milk at 170 degrees F for 30 minutes, and weekly room disinfection alongside fresh air and sunlight.
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Colorado
Board of Health
How Electric Shocks Affect the Human Body
A report from The Electrical World by Dr. R. H. Cunningham outlines experiments on lower animals showing that powerful electric shocks rapidly disrupt heart rhythm by causing brillation. This paralysis deprives brain centers of blood nourishment, leading to cell death, and currents can also halt respiration, with convulsions often present as an accompanying symptom.
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R. H. Cunningham
Paraguay Fiber Plants Prompt Industrial Interest
Consul John N. Ruffin at Asuncion reports to Washington on Paraguay fiber plants. Caraguata is the most abundant fibrous source for coarse textiles, ibara for delicate fibers and paper, sansaverde for strong submerged fiber, and pineapple leaves yield excellent fiber. A fiber separating machine costs about 400 dollars, with potential plant setup north of Asuncion to aid dealer activity.
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John N. Ruffin
Asuncion
State Department
Paraguay
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al McElwain
Tony
stan _Lake City
J. H. Stewart
Viola
Sil
Sadie McFarland
Bridgwater
Jaws
J. Dolan
Washington
Anna Dawson
Clipton
Catherine Wilkes
Portland
Oregon
Geo. Lewis
Kaly
Cedar Falls
Janelich
W. P. Keister
Foss
City
Bower
Gazette
Kansas City Journal
F. M. Smith
Havre
Jersey
The
Epworth League
Frappe
Nan
Thornton Enterprise
Clarence Tripp
Viswl
West
Slabstreet School
Tardy
Mable Squire
Grace Squire
Harley Myere
Teesie Bear
Fern Reeves
Charlie Squire
Willie Dann
Jake Squire
Nora Corette
Raven
Lee Scranton
Knoxville
Tenn
Lommerce
Admiral Farragut
Lowe's Ferry
Eon
Campbell
Fern
Ruth Bidwell
Louis
Fred
Gertie Arnold
Anna
Pearl
Howard Cochran
Nellie Davison
Glen Besley
Walter Jarrard
Merlin Hesseltine
Cedric Johnson
Minnie Simpson
Kruger
Salem
Mass
J. C. Ayer
Lowell, Mass
Charles W. Tippett
Tippecange, Ind
Orth Yakima
Joel Wag i
M. C. White
Manon, W. Va
Harriet Begol Yene Mich
Emily Seaman
DeWitts St
Buffalo, N.Y
H. T. Salisbury
Follett St
Pawtucket
H. N. Warner
Minden
Neb
James Shelton
Bourbon, Ind
G. H. Snyder
Lawrence, Kan
Minnie Fiedler
Mt. Pleasant
Towa
St. Vitus
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Company
Schenectady
N. Y
NEW York Weekly Tribune
At- Pacific
Weekly Tribune
United States
NEW York Tri-Weekly Tribune
Daily Tribune
the Gazette
Iowa
Great Republican Paper of America
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Slobe Printing Co
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
Baker’s
Fort Sale
Windsor Grocery
B.F. Dixon & Co
Washington County
B. F. Dixon & CO
Washington, Iowa
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