Frome Poi Neat Community News Highlights
A baby girl born to Mr and Mrs Sander Aasing. Peter Klugkist and daughter leave for Lennox MD. Dr Heddens survives buggy accident. Win Vose reports a runaway. Trades: Chris Schafer sells Main St store to Samuel Long for a restaurant and gains land at 30 per acre. J Walker from Eldora injures ankle after horse fall. J T Gray visits schools. Shiloh No 2 to get a new schoolhouse. Shiloh Township hosts Andrew Ostercamp this summer. Mrs Wait mulls local business entry. Miss Mary Bisbee opens a term in the local school. QC Krommogs visits from Aplington. Local families gather with relatives in Aplington. Mrs Van Auken visits friends. Genev a Hamp Gokey enters novelty business with Landle White Plymouth Rocks. Mrs Boughtin visits. Gregory family moving to Missouri. Rev Magee attends church, popular with locals. Primary children prepare Tom Thumb wedding entertainment. Gamble concert draws local attendance in Hampton. George Webber builds a new barn with help from neighbors. Samuel Wilson dies at the poor farm, brought from Sheffield. Geo Wolf to tend Royal S stallion for John Knipfel. Mrs A French returns from Dubuque visit. Henry Grice and family move into Siler house. Meyers becomes line boss on the Geneva line. Susie French visits Hampton friends. Seeding nearly complete. season lags.
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Sander Aasing
Peter Klugkist
Lennox
M.D
Dakota
Nebraska
Dr. Heddens
King Bolt
Win
Vose
Grundy Center
Mia
Chris Schafer
Main Street
Samuel Long
Ellsworth
Minnesota
Schafer
Brookings
Brookings County
South Dakota
J. Walker
Eldora
J.T. Gray
Shiloh No. 2
Maria Mastin
Andrew Ostercamp
Sac City
Shiloh Township
Wait
Ackley
Geneva
Hamp
Gokey
Landle
Plymouth Rocks
Boughtin
Shefield
Mias Inde
W. HH. Gregory
Gulby County
Missouri
Magee
Cedar Falls
Tom Thumb
Hampton
Gamble
George Webber
Ells
Samuel Wilson
Sheffield
Geo. Wolf
John Knipfel
Royal S
Freeport
A. French
Dubuque
Henry Grice
Siler
Meyers
Here
Susie French
Evening Dress Standards in Menswear Fashion Debate
A Haberdasher argues for a single proper standard in evening dress in New York. He dismisses dinner jackets, white or black ties with evening coats, and ornate shirts, insisting the plain front shirt and tailored waistcoats define formal wear across theaters, operas, banquets, and balls. He urges retailers to stock plain standard goods to maintain correct form.
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New York
Haberdashers
Michigan and Minnesota Iron Ores Boost U S Steel
The New York Tribune notes iron ore deposits in eastern states and richer beds in upper Michigan and Minnesota near Lake Superior. It states that nine-tenths of U S iron comes from Lake Superior, with Vermilion and Mesaba ranges supplying nearly half, while England’s ore supplies wane and Spain imports rise.
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Upper Michigan
Minnesota
Lake Superior
United States
Vermilion
Mesaba Ranges
England
Spain
New York Tribune
A Novel Alarm Clock Emerges From Candle Sleep Cues
London Optician describes a new alarm clock that uses a small electric lamp obscured by a sectoral shutter acting as the balance wheel. The lamp, focused on the sleeper’s head, turns on at a set time to awaken quietly yet surely, echoing the candle flicker that rouses light sleepers.
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London Optician
Australia as a great producer and resource land
Two thirds of the Australian continent is desert yet the land shows immense productivity with over 100 million sheep and tens of millions of cattle and horses. It exports more than £400 million in gold copper coal and tin and the Ballarat Bendigo gold fields alone have yielded £100 million. Tambaroora and Lambing Flat in New South Wales contributed similarly large sums, while annual exports to England exceed £40 million in metals grains wool beef tallow hides and mutton.
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Australia
Ballarat
Bendigo
Tambaroora
Lambing Dat
New South Wales
England
Ainsiee
Meat and Heat in the Sun Raises Survival Claim
An army surgeon argues that in hot climates meat is necessary as the sun oxidizes a white man’s blood quickly. He contends substantial meat intake is needed to offset rapid waste and maintain strength under the sun.
Miscellaneous Royalty and Notables Entries
A readers’ digest of prominent figures includes Mrs Langtry spending $10,000 on Chelsea English House furnishings, Lord Rosebery rumored secret marriage to the Duchess of Albany making him an uncle to the Dutch queen, and references to Sir Edward Saunders’s death. It notes ex President Harrison’s college Greek life, Captain J M Brooke as Moriimae designer and VMI emeritus, John Aird as contractor and MP, William Harper’s resignation for London venture, Governor John Lind’s birthday and Scandinavian dinner, O M Bake gifting a 1791 Fort Hamilton site to the Daughters of the American Revolution, Lord Derby’s vast Lancashire rents and charity, Queen Charlotte’s rapid health decline and deteriorating mental state with prison-ground wanderings.
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Langtry
Chelsea
Lord Rosebery
Duchess of Albany
Netherlands
Slr
Edwit Saunders
Wimbledon
Queen Victoria
Harrison
United States
Phi Delta ‘Theta
J. M. Brooke
Virginia Military Academy
Lexington
United States Navy
John Aird
Nile
William Harper
Statistical Bureau
Commercial Museum
Philadelphia
London
John Lind
Minneapolia
St. Paul
Minneapolis
O. M. Bake
Hamilton
Fort Hamilton
Arthur St. Clair
Lord Derby
Queen Charlotte
Maximilian
Mexico
Items of Interest From Around the World and Britain
The report surveys diverse tidbits including England's 25,000 robin redbreasts exported annually, Bradshaw's 1839 Railway Guide fetching 125 pounds at London auction, 89,070 census-subjects on public ships abroad, and the China Times in seven languages. It notes German postal progress, Windsor royal cattle, and a Paris banker burglary detailing extravagant wardrobe losses.
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Ignac
Hohkoenigsburg
Alsace
William
Reichstag
Windsor
Paris
Polite boy's mother warns etiquette after dog incident
A brief exchange shows a mother urging politeness to all while a boy admits he set a dog on a tramp. The fragment reflects a domestic moment and local vernacular from a Washington Star clipping.
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Willie
Sam
Washington Star
Miscellaneous Pro Verb Preamble Quotes and a Joke
A jumble of aphorisms and maxims from various authors on life, conduct, and fortune, followed by a brief humorous snippet about an employer and a salesman. It reads like a clippings page of collected quotes with a single joke about pretending a position cannot be filled.
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John Miller
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Carrie
Mase
Lewis
Eashs
Lewis Compary
Hostom
Hall
Jara
F. J. Cheney & Co
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New Spring Line
the News
the World
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J. BR. Lowell
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Locke
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