Obituary and local notices from Collins Clipper and Watchman
Mrs. N W Knepper died after over nine weeks illness with funeral at the M E church led by Elder Statton. Rev James Plumb to do missionary work locally. Modern Woodman of America charter members organized April 15 at Mason ic hall. Rev Isaiah Reid acquitted in Des Moines trial. Mrs Orr Dunklebarger died aged 33, born in Nevada, survived by husband and children. C E Campbell reports horses killed by lightning. cautions about dubious map canvassers seeking credit.
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Collins Clipper
N. W. Knepper
Elder Statton
M. E. Church
Modern
Woodman of America
Masonic Hall
the Watchman
Isaiah Reid
Northwestern Holiness Publishing Co
Methodist Church
Pleasant Street
Des Moines
Reid attends Des Moines meeting as Nevada rep
Nevada Representative Supt Reed is in Des Moines for a meeting of county superintendents. A new sidewalk has been laid on the south side of the court house square. Memorial Day address in Nevada May 30 will be given by Hon L Young. Mrs Scott entertained a party of friends to celebrate the Colonel's seventieth birthday. Eight or nine old soldiers appear before the pension board for possible re examination. Fred Curtiss traded his grocery stock for Nebraska land with C E Hoag. Mrs J K Macomber of Des Moines to lecture for library and reading room. Jurors drawn for May term of federal court at Des Moines include L H Bingham Ames and F Baldwin Maxwell. Marshall Hoggatt helped the Ames burglar. Dr H C Hawley of Ames visited Slater relatives. A G Samuelson traveled to Kel ley and Ames. Miss Bessie Whipple visited Ames. Dr Merriman of Ames en route to Maxwell for a operation. Conductor Taylor leaves the C N W Ry branch for a new run between Ames and Clinton. Many friends from Ames to Des Moines will miss his cheery call all aboard.
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J. A.king
A. K. Banks
Nevada
L. H. Bingham
Ames
F. Baldwin
Maxwell
Federal
Des Moines
Taylor
Clinton
Chicago Inter Ocean Launches Little Paper for Little People
The Chicago Inter Ocean introduces a $50,000 color press project printing a four page color children's paper starting Sunday April 29. Sam Clover writes the first installment of a children story to be named by Chicago schoolchildren after reading. It includes a Musical Supplement art feature.
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Chicago Inter Ocean
Chicago
Sam Clover
Inter Ocean
Sousa Band to Appear in Des Moines May Fifth
Early in May a renowned organization will be heard in Des Moines. The band pleases and delights listeners, praised by W. S. B. Matthews of Music, who recalls Sousa’s high finish and sympathetic intelligence. Grand Opera House hosts the performance on Saturday afternoon and evening May 5.
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Des Moines
W. S B. Matthews
Chicago Musical Magazine
Sousa
Trocadero
Garde Republicaine
Grand Opera House
Story City plans 25 new residences this year
Story City Herald notes several local aims including twenty five new homes to be built this year. The column mentions a Sunday mail train and a petition by the Fuller boys to start a saloon under the Martin maid law in Scary City. A hot steer incident in the stockyard drew attention as Ben Livingstone’s steers suffered and one died.
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Story City Herald
Story City
Fuller
Scary City
Ben Livingstone
Mr. Livingstone
Cambridge Press Notes Local Church Work and Visits
Work on the A. B. church foundation began Tuesday. J B Green visited with his mother and sister near Ames. Eugene Livingston and wife came from Ames to visit relatives and returned Sunday. Capt K W Brown of Ames will address locals on political issues from a prohibitionist view on Monday evening April 23. Jarvis is putting on a new roof and improving his homestead.
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Cambridge Press
A. B. Church
J.B. Green
Ames
Eugene Livingston
K. W. Brown
Jarvis
Doctors Visit in Phil Chaffin Case and Local Deaths
Dr Merryman of Ames and Dr Slatcher consulted in Phil Chaffin's case on Tuesday. Mrs Knepper died at her Collins home after a long illness. funeral held Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Maxwell learned of sister-in law Mrs John Pifer's death in Momence Illinois last Sunday. they left for Momence Sunday night. Maxwell enjoyed a busy trade day with shoppers and clerks in a bustling town scene.
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Dr. Merryman of
Ames
Dr. Slatcher
Phil Chaffin
Dr. Knepper
Collins
J. W. Maxwell
John Pifer
Momence, Ill
Emery wheel shatters in blacksmith shop near Moon and Roseborough
In a Zearing Enterprise report last Saturday an emery wheel exploded while workers prepared to polish plow lays. Fragments flew through floor and roof near Mr. Frank Moon. a near miss spared serious injury to Moon and Roseborough as a large timber diverted the fatal piece.
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Zearing Enterprise
Frank Moon
Real estate transfers listed for week ending April 21 1894
A list of property conveyances shows multiple deeds with buyers and sellers in Ames Nevada Maxwell Story City and surrounding areas. Amounts range from 135 to 1450 dollars with lots and blocks described by section and township. Listings include heirs spouses and executors as grantors and recipients with parcel details and associated ads.
April Weather and Farm Progress Update
The past week brought variable April weather with frosts and readings up to 18 degrees above normal. Sunshine was below average and rainfall varied with some local heavy showers and hail causing minor damage. Farm work is two weeks ahead of last two seasons, corn plowing area large due to winter-killed clover, planting may start this week if conditions stay favorable. No material damage from the April 20 freezing temperature.
Blanchard and Moonlight Named for Senate and Diplomacy
Louisiana Senator N C Blanchard aged just over 45 carries 18 years in the House and hails from Shreveport while Scotland born Thomas Moonlight is named minister to Bolivia after a career that includes Light Battery service in 1861 and governorships in Kansas and Wyoming until 1889.
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Senator Blanchard
Louisiana
Shreveport
Thomas Moonlight
United States
Bolivia
Scotland
America
Moonlight
Kansas
Cleveland
Wyoming
Archibald Rosebery Becomes England's New Premier
Archibald Lord Rosebery known as Philip Primrose is now premier of England. He is the fifth Earl of Rosebery and holds the UK barony of Rosebery dating from 1828. He brings nearly 25 years in public affairs to the leadership.
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Lord Rosebery
England
Archibald
Philip Primrose
Earl
Rosebery
United Kingdom
Ocean Grove Plans Huge Auditorium On Jersey Coast
The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association has begun a large auditorium at Ocean Grove New Jersey. The structure will be 224 feet deep and 161 feet wide with seating for 9 500. The roof reaches 85 feet at the center and slopes to 50 feet at the sides. Expected cost is over 50 000 dollars.
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Ocean Grove
Brazil's New President Prudente de Moraes
Prudente de Moraes, the president elect of Brazil and former president of the constitutional convention, has served as senator and presided over the first congress. A lawyer by profession, his term starts in November though President Peixoto may resign earlier.
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Brazil
Prudente de Moraes
Peixoto
How to Make Cold Cream From Tallow at Home
A domestic recipe describes rendering beef or mutton tallow by heating in a water bath until fully clarified. It then instructs stirring in camphor, perfume, and cooling in a jar on ice to create a moisturizing cold cream claimed to treat rough or winter sore skin.
Metzger Lightning Colic Cure Promoted by Iowa Ad
An Iowa druggist is urged to stock Metzger's Lightning Colic Cure from New Metzger Medicine Co. Decorah Iowa. A traveling man sells the medicine by claiming it cures colic in twenty minutes and warns owners to buy it from their own dealer to avoid fraud.
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Iowa
Metzger
Belie We 3 and A Chronic Grumbler
A fragmentary note presents a jocular line about a chronic grumbler and a character named Aasha. It mentions forty eight persons and a loafs reference in a quirky, incomplete way. The readable text is not a full news item.
How to Keep Bread Airy After Baking
Advice urges exposing bread to air immediately after baking and keeping it in a ventilated container rather than sealing it airtight. Proper bread improves with days of air exposure, remaining moist for at least a week if stored in a well ventilated box after cooling.
How to Care For the Teeth
Advice on daily brushing twice daily after meals with a medium stiff brush and cool water. Use tooth powder two to three times weekly and avoid wooden picks that can splinter. Endure pain to save a natural tooth rather than extract and replace with a false substitute.
How farkey Red Is Made From Oil Bath Impregnation
An oil bath uses 100 gallons water with 50 pounds oil to treat 100 pounds cotton until impregnation. Cotton is pressed and dried below 40 C. Mordanting uses aluminate of soda bath with 80 pounds alumina sulfate and 180 soda in water, cooled to 6 degrees B. Cotton enters this bath, is turned 8–10 times, sleeps overnight, then wrung and dried at 43 C. After drying, the mordanted cotton is worked 15 minutes in chalk bath, rinsed and dried.
The Possibilities of Transatlantic Tele phones Being Established
The article discusses American long distance telephone expansion with 150,000 subscribers across nine states in the United States and extensive copper wired lines linking major cities. It contrasts European lines and notes ocean telephony research while highlighting the Boston to New York and Chicago lines as feats of engineering.
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Europe
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New York
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San Francisco
London
Paris
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Brussels
Berlin
Boston Advertiser
Marked copies and political vanity in northern candidates
A letter from the Hays City Sentinel ridicules a northern tier congressional hopeful asking for marked copies of favorable mentions. The piece muses on candidates paying editors and the predictable chorus of attacks, claiming some will marshal their supporters as the stone of silence remains in place.
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Congress
North Tier
Hays City
Cinderella dances open to workers in fashionable society
The Chicago Post notes a trend of gracious society figures hosting early dances for young men who work, allowing them access to social events they otherwise miss due to 9 o'clock office hours. It highlights new names in fashionables lists and the divide between leisure and labor.
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Chicago Post
Maryland Senate Seats Split by Bay Despite Population Gap
The Hartford Times notes a Maryland statute requiring one senator from the eastern shore and one from the western counties. With 186000 eastern shore residents and 905000 in the west, the inequality prompts a movement to repeal the law.
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Maryland
United States
Chesapeake Bay
Hartford Times
Mourning Dog Nero Follows Princes Grave to Station
One of the sincerest mourners at the grave of Prince Esterhazy was his dog Nero. The faithful animal followed the hearse from the palace to the church and to Eisenstadt, where the remains were interred. Nero visits the tomb daily.
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Prince Esterhazy
Nero
Eisenstadt
Pansy McGregor
Properly Ironed Rollers Ready for Drying
After washing and drying the shades, roll them in thin cold starch. Let them lie awhile, then iron from the raw edge. Iron about a foot at a time, tack on the roller when dry, and repeat until all is completed. Ensure complete dryness before rolling.
The Writer Denies Founding a College of Immortals
General Lew Wallace rejects plans to found a College of Immortals. Poetess George Klingle is identified as Philadelphia writer Mrs. Georgiana Klingle Holmes. Richard Malcolm Johnson, a southern story writer, says he earns about $2,000 yearly from writing. Mrs. W. K. Clifford, a novelist, hosts many distinguished scientists including Herbert Spencer and Huxley at her London home.
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Lew Wallace
George” Klingle
Georgiana Klingle Holmes
Richard Malcolm Johnson
Joel Chandler Harris
Thomas Nelson Page
W. K. Clifford
London
Herbert Spencer
Huxley
Terrible Mountain Rescue Tests Young Hunter
Harry Hardinot of Yorkville Mendocino county wandered three days in storms with no food or shelter. Neighbors organized 31 mountaineers to search. he found a fence and a shepherd’s home then was taken to Yorkville for treatment. Doctors fear lasting damage to his health and mind.
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Harry Hardinot
Yorkville
Mendocino County
Rodney Lowery
Rockpile Ranch
San Francisco Chronicle
Flying street car to debut at Antwerp Exposition
A novel aerial whaleback trolley is set to run at the Antwerp exposition. The cigar shaped float carries a street car with a large front propeller and a three section rudder apparatus. Power comes from overhead electric wires and a cable carries the car along the wire for the half hour trips across a mile route.
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Antwerp
Exposition Grounds
Philadelphia Press
Wales Farmers Refuse Tithes Amid Disestablishment Push
Correspondents report nonconformist Welsh farmers again refuse tithes to press for disestablishment. They mimic Irish Land League methods, resist sheriffs, barricade homes, and moonlight. Military may be needed as Tories plan a new Wales campaign with speeches and literature for the state church.
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Wales
Irish Land League
Delhi town bond paid after pinhole damage found
A $500 Delhi town bond turned in to the town treasurer was severely punctured and nearly unreadable. After verification of authenticity the money was paid. An investigation followed and the late owner admitted carrying the bond for years pinned to his undershirt, changing shirts often.
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Delhi
Ita
N. Y
Nature and roads clash in horse shoe debate
An exchange claims nature forbids horseshoes while noting macadamized roads and paved streets raise demand. Courier reports the stallion Courier, numbered 2:1544, earned more money last season than any other in Ken or His winnings totaling 10 dollars.
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Kenor
Palace Drawing Room Cars Run Daily From Chicago to San Francisco
Sleeping cars and tourist sleepers depart Chicago each day and travel to San Francisco without change, offering direct service for travelers.
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Palace
Chicago
San Francisco
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