Bizarre Inquiries and Local Notes From Boone and Beyond
Exchanges Russel Sage consults a doctor amid odd reports of dollar marks on a poor man’s spleen. Nebraska farm freaks show a six foot hog. corn stalks reach eighteen feet in Boone. A lost one-and-a-half-year-old child prompts a large search in Roland. Fremont Turner weighs water tower height for Des Moines council. Newton & Northwestern eyes a Boone route change. possible bluff on 20th street. The Story county pension board evaluates Civil War veterans for increases. A Des Moines clerk foresees divorce rules sparking debate over mothers’ roles and early marriage.
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Fremont Turner
Des Moines
Fall waist fashion debut by Hugo DuBrock at Vandermast
Asa Vandermast showcases the first Fall order featuring Hugo DuBrock waists. The new pret pre reso lp styles include mercerized checked vesting in red and white with color matched piping, tabs trimmed with 36 line pearl buttons and box pleats.
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Hugo DuBrock
Tailor Made Skirts Showcased by Leading Line
Our line of Sheuerman tailor made skirts offers the newest styles and weaves in ready made or custom fit. The season’s success drives us to present the new cloths and designs to customers.
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Sheuerman
New Shoes Fall Styles With 20 Percent Off
We already have the new Fall shoes in Patent Colt Dongola Vamp McKays and turned soles for dress walking or house use. All ladies Oxfords and all children's light shoes are discounted twenty percent for the rest of the month. Guaranteed latest style and best workmanship.
Iowa political talk and travel worn items headline rural notes
In brief items: Mr. Young as a potential presiding officer for the senate tied to Roosevelt, with local politics in Iowa and Des Moines. a battered hat and carpet bag with 72 express tags travel toward St. Louis 1904 for the Louisiana Purchase exposition. State fair races list grows to 145 entries with strong speed. Iowa oil and gas prospecting yields little, with several fields found empty and the geological department urging caution.
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Young
Senate
Iowa
Des Moines
Roosevelt
Colonel Young
Freeman-Tribune
Cummins
Shaw
Hawkeye
Webster City
Freeman- Tribune
United States
Waterloo
St. Louis
J. O. Simpson
State Fair Management
Simpson
Fair Grounds
State Geological Department
Louisa County
Letts
Company
Fredericksburg
Bremer County
Sac County Company
Angus
Iowa Crop Outlook Warm, Yet Cautious Hope From Officials
Richard P. Clarkson, pension agent, asserts forty two years in Iowa show no crop failures and faith in corn yields. J. R. Sage of the Weather Service notes cold spells delay ripening, potentially raising risk unless warmer weather returns.
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Richard P. Clarkson
United States Pension
Iowa
J. R. Sage
Iowa Weather and Crop Service Bureau
Smooth grafting swindler dupes Boone businessmen
A smooth elderly woman selling a fake Catholic instruction book fleeced many Boone business and professional men for 3 to 4 dollars each. One victim, Mr. Fenton, suspected the ruse and consulted Father Stravens for reassurance, exposing the scam.
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Boone
Fenton
Father Stravens
Fort Dodge Letter Praises Dol liver and Cardiff Giant
The Waterloo Reporter comments on a Fort Dodge letter praising Senator Dol liver and recounting the Cardiff giant tale. It notes the town’s bluffs and a claimed hotel funding of 150000 dollars, while critiquing the correspondent’s omissions and biases.
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Mr. Curtis
Fort Dodge
Fort Dodgers
Senator Dolliver
Cardiff
Curtis
Waterloo
Chicago Centennial Celebration Planned to Surpass All Jubilees
Chicago marks one hundred years of growth from a hamlet to a major metropolis with a grand fall celebration led by prominent city leaders. The mayor-appointed committee aims to outdo all previous jubilees in wealth, power, and industry display.
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Chicago
Not Over Wise Allegory About Health and Wealth
An old allegory shows a girl scared by a grasshopper about to tread on a snake. A man builds a cyclone cellar yet neglects Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for bowel complaints. Official box office counts show Corbett Jeffreys contest with gross receipts of $62,340 and purses of $88,728 and $10,910 respectively.
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Jeffreys
Corbett
Farmers embrace mechanized storage and milking remains
Farmers across the state install small elevators and dumps as shovel use fades, predicting button pressed operations within years and milk handling to persist. The Register and Leader notes the public paying large sums for boxing match spectacles, arguing such money could fund worthwhile causes.
Postmaster Payne outlines rural free delivery progress
Payne reports July results for rural free delivery showing nearly 3000 new rates in the first month of the fiscal year. The annual appropriation is 12 million dollars, about 3 million more than required to sustain existing service, enough to justify about 6000 new routes with petitions on file for roughly 11000 more routes.
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Payne
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