Local notes and events from Collins Maxwell and Story regions
The column covers court adjournment in February, Bricker Con jewelry shop changes, a fatal medical case, a school fire scare, toasts at Maxwell, weddings in Slater, fire losses, and civic updates. It notes Dr Bromer’s shift, illness and deaths nearby, and town meetings with plans for a new opera house and gas/ water work progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rom Collins
Minnie Mead
Nevada
Amott
Collins
Des Moines
Iowa
How to Mend Tortoise Shell
Instructions describe repairing two broken tortoise shell pieces by rasping edges to a chisel shape, overlapping them, and clamping while softening in boiling water. Heat must be careful to prevent warping. Verify the material is real tortoise shell as imitation may explode. imitation shells can be cemented with acetone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zearing
Iost
Richardson & Mead
St .Anthony
Cole
Jonathan Chance
Clift & Son
Jas
Carver
Town Central Railway
Weil
W.K. Boardman
A. 8. Schrader
Presbyterian Society
Ear Ile
White
Levanor
Magnolia
Lona
Ody
Kate Field
Wyoming
Colorado
Pacific Coast
California
Jay
Chicago fair plans show grand temporary exhibits
The article describes opening day on January 1 1804 for five art shows and major exhibits in Chicago style buildings. Builders plan fireproof and brick Fine Arts structure amid temporary frames resembling White City. Managers aim to secure Chicago exhibit cream. classes include Manufactures and Agricultural halls with sizable footprints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arts BexSpixo
Chicago
M. H. de Young
San Francis
Libby Prison War Museum in Chicago Draws Strong Visions
A Chicago Libby Prison exhibit is praised as a powerful, tangible remnant of Civil War hardships. The piece details the museum’s layout, key relics including Jefferson Davis papers and a Yankee tunnel, and notes concentrated audience impact on veterans and visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Libby Prison
Chicago
Libby
Seniment
Mecca
West
Richmond
City of
Columbiard
Charleston Harbor
Hudson
West Point
the Hospital
Mulroy
Potomac
Chicamauga
Streight's
Sandysburg
Jeff Davis
Stonewall Jackson
Monitor
John Brown
Grant
John Hancock
Lincoln
Hooker
Farragut
Gifield
Hayes
Horace
Southern Confederacy
Sth
N.Y
W. D. Lucas
Col. A. D. Streight
Libby War Museum
Col. Rose
McDonald
Flamulton
Obesity Cure Fads Recommend Burned Bread and Lemon
A historical column promotes burned coarse bread with lemon juice and acidulated tea as a quick flesh reduction method. It ties dieting, water baths, and exercise to a supposed obesity cure, while criticizing corsets and touting weed extracts like focus vesiculost as ineffective.
Roatan Music and Drama Promotes 1894 Event
An 1894 notice outlines a music and drama program with annual subscription at 54.00, offering portraits of Whittier and Longfellow. It mentions payments by remittance or registered letter to Houghton Mifflin & Company at 4 Park Street, Boston, and references various names and terms tied to subscriptions and publications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eldei Vridge
John M. Wells
Marseilies
F.C. Waterbury
Ames
Ames. Drug Company
MH. Deyoung
Alex. Badlam
Co Chronicle
L. M. Bosworth
St Ames
Tee
William Lilly
Pennsylvania
Mauch Chunk
Chamberlain
Utica
N.Y
Eta
J. P. Blaize
Des Moines
Iowa
Saturday Review
Blaze
Joy
Chas. Lee
Beamieh
Whittier
Rekon
Finetoa
Longfellow
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the Intelligencer
Story County
By &S.K. Wilson
Official Directory
Binrhet Cor
Sci
Een Rennet Ma
W. Fawn
Fionso3
Sia Erry
SunScox
Maxwette Hcuasemi
Methodist Episcopal
Christian Endeavor
Tigeman
United Brethren
Bion Craix
Sonia
Westenday
K. Hestra
S. S. Union
Noreentwa
Masonic
Beadia Lodge
Hewulat Conry Station
C. R Hose
W. M
C. F
McLars
A. Ponren
Sec'y
Chas. E. Hunt
West House
Iow
G. A. Underwood
Iatireney and
Counsellow-At-Law
C. & Courts
Union National Ham
M. V. Bushman
Camper, Towa
Wolleiten
Albert Richmonds
H. Kelso, D. D. S
Goble’s Harness Store
M. Hemstreet
Northwestern
Fence Compa Ny
Leavening
U.S. Gov't Report
Nevis
J. A. Fitchpatrick
District Court
Birdsall
Rock County
Minnesota
J. &. Brown
Frazee
Bricker & Con
Entattiaea
McNeil & Curtiss
M. McNichols
Milford Township
Maxwell Tribune
Gardner
Maxwell and
Vicin
The
Tribune
Slater News
John J. Carlson
Grace Frise
Warner
Jake Meackley
Slater
Story City
Herat
K. P
Bromer
R. i. Lee
Brighton
Col
John Fredrick Reischauer
Bright
Buckeburg
Germany
America
Hirty
Augusta Randall
Aehie Little
John Haverly
Maxwell
Henry Smith
Martha Viland
Huxley
Harper's Magazine
George du Maurier
Srilby
Edwin Lord Week
Persia
London
Richard Harding Davis
New York
Brander Matthews
Owen Wister
Balam
Pedro
Harpers
United States
Stanton
Oscar F. Stanton
Rio
Mello
Navy Department
Washington
Picking
Commodore Stanton
Altgeld
Farmers' Congress
Oscar P. Stanton
Wen
Brazil
Sag Harbor
Navy
Panola
Newark
Lewis Green Stevenson
Helen L. Davis
Bloomington
William C. Davis
Daily Pantograph
Miss Davis
Stevenson
Lewis
Illinois
Jesse W
Republican Party
Sweden
Japan
Denver
Ross
DeWitt
Dewit
Ames Drug Company
Carlisle
Treasury
Hood
Pitcher’s Castoria
Knois Central Railroad
Memphis
J. F. Merry
Pass
Manchester
A. HL. Hanson
John Git
Cowper
Austen
Mr. Beyer
John Gilpin
Commodore Trunnion
Peregrine Pickle
Mr.Beyer
BISON
Great War Museum
Joy Scorscrenn
Westerman & Arnold
Drage
Castoria
Samuel Pitcher
Dr. G
Onacon
Lowell, Mass
Tla
Aucumn
Orator St
Brootge
Crators
Unive
Boston, Maga
Yoway
Ata C. Sara
the Centaur Company
Murray Street
New York City
Major Hamilton
John L. Ransom
K. W. Brown
Puget Sound
Comforta
Palace
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Portland
Chicago & North Western
W. A. Thrall, Gen’l Pass & Ticke! Ag’t
M. E. McMichael
Dray and Express
Magnet Bull Care
ST. Paul
Minneapolis
Kansas City
ST. Louis
Wire
S. Northwest
Missouri
Kansas
Arizona
Chagras
Atlantic
Will Concarn
Philip
His Wife
Margaret Deland
Reneher
Ters
Cera Homer
Houghton, Mifflin & Company
Park St
Boston
Mags
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