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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1895
Page
8
Poem urging selflessness and aiding others written by Bilis Wheeler Wilcox. Encourages acts of beauty, supporting the weary, and guiding strangers toward hope. Describes divine joy gained through serving others and living a creed of charity in the world.
Mr Bowser and his wife argue over a bottle sent by a “noted chemist” claiming health benefits. He insists on trying the invigorator while she suspects a trap, misidentifies it with dandruff remover and poisons follow. The scare ends with a request for alimony talks next morning.
Sioux City groups push a Floyd grave monument amid debates over the grave’s exact location. Dr SP Yeomans details Floyd’s Lewis and Clark era death near Sioux City and the overturned burial site, while Iowa legislators discuss Floyd county’s naming origins and historical misstatements. Local societies report strong growth in Sunday schools and museum posts, with officers named and a performance of civic work highlighted.
A fragmented riddle of aphorisms on women men love money and friendship with a Detroit Free Press quip on sarcasm and human folly. A note on the hemlock plant notes its poisonous properties and odor across countries.
A compact discussion of the nebular hypothesis outlines how a thin interstellar nebula could condense into the sun and planets, with Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Earth forming as rotating masses shed from a central body. It cites a St Louis Republic piece and notes the Sun’s central luminosity arising from atomic clashing during contraction.
Mrs. Fred Tomlint 68 widow of Johnson county hanged herself in her Tiffin home cellar. She tied a noose to a post and mounted a cheese box while a soap kettle served as a chair. Her foot barely touched the door as she strangled herself. Once wealthy but burdened by suspicion of relatives, she believed a plot aimed to take her property. Simona Charge.
A 10 cent per ton general coal price cut in southern Iowa reduces mining rates from 70 to 60 cents a ton. No strike. minor operators collapsed under pressure. Reports cover farmer trials, drownings, deaths, jury lists, lightning strikes, and several local incidents across Des Moines, Davenport, Burlington, and other towns.
A collage of notes cites Charles V edicts restraining parental disobedience, Bathurst selling Clarendon estate near Salisbury, Catherine the Great’s rumored complexion and intemperance, Miss Knowles’ marriage after a political bid, French tobacco appointments and African explorers’ Widows, Liz a Wesley’s death in London with Victorian literary circles, Jim Wisk and Fisk’s widow in Boston poverty, Henry Irving Knighted yet play stalls, and a Louisville grain dealer confessing perpetual wheat losses across 30 years of trading amid volatile markets.
A compilation of brief humorous excerpts and captions from various papers. It includes wry exchanges about lawyers, a dressed chicken joke, a child’s bicycle quip, a mispriced meat remark, heaven marriage notes, wheelmen motto, brave general versus barkeeper, a suicide vow joked about as installment plans, sun light timing puzzled, school exam humor, a would be millionaire gag about an automatic piano player, and a late 19th century caption-style line-up.
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