Iowa Agricultural College Board Chooses Beardshear President
Des Moines meeting marks selection of Beardshear as college president. Board evaluates industrial and agricultural education direction, maintaining scholastic standing while pursuing new agricultural courses. Support grows among Farmers Alliance and related groups amid criticism of management.
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Des Moines
Iowa Agricultural College
Tyre
Department of Agri B
Experiment Station
Ent of Agriculture
Han
S Wilson
Egan
D. A. Kent
Beardshear
Farmers’ Alliance
Y College
Beadshear
Ieee
Washington Letter 1891 shows Senate brinkmanship over election bill
Regular Correspondent notes Republican threats to hold a long Senate session to force a quorum and push the election bill. Aldrich delays cloture, Democrats threaten filibuster, and a 72 hour record may be challenged. Reports on Behring Sea, debt reduction, Justice Brown, and various Iowa notices close the bulletin.
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Washinaton
D. C
Aldrich
Senate
Blaine
Foreign Office
Behring Sea
Congress
Brown
United States Supreme Court
House
Friends of the Shipping Bill
Cannon
Exposition Declares Sunday Closing Policy Debate
A statement from a Seventh Iowa district member supported by Mr Hays asserts the exposition should close on Sunday. The answer emphasizes honoring the American Sabbath and urges ending all business of a similar nature on Sundays.
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Iowa
Hays
E. H
The Scientific American Journal Widely Useful For All
The Scientific American, famed patent agency firm of Co. in New York, stands as a leading publication for popular science and mechanics. It aims to be accessible to a broad audience with a modest annual subscription of $38.
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Scientific American
of & Co
New York
Ist
Grinnell to Decide Disputed County Association Funds
Two faith sons claim $200 state funds tied to the County Association. The society has previously retired money and Judge Holmes holds entitlement. Grinnell is expected to hear or rule on the case.
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Ek County
Grinnell
Statistics Pamphlet From Office of Superintendent Sabin
A pamphlet of statistics from the office of Superintendent Sabin presents figures on education finances examinations school visitation meetings normal institutes and related educational activities. The document shows how data reflects the status and reach of the education system.
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Supt
Sabin
Alliance Pushes Bills in Kansas Legislature
Alliance bill list aims at political reform including suppression of the Pinker style organizations and the Crawford system. It endorses the Australian ballot, mortgage and redemption changes, and a 6 percent income tax on actual investments alongside railway rate reductions.
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Kansas
Pinkerstiye
Crawford
Almanac Entry Notes from Mansii 1891
The fragment cites Mansii's Almanac for 1891 with a planetary chart for March and various geological and weather observations. It hints at data useful to students and suggests a compilation of weather problems and astronomical notes.
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Mansii
Indh
Marth
Awake prospectus touts best magazines from D Lothrop
The notice promotes a weekly prospectus for side Awake and claims it is the brightest of many. D Lothrop Company offers four of the best magazines for subscribers. The INTELLIGENCER office handles orders.
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D. Lothrop Company
Specg
Aes
Patents Granted to Iowa Inventors This Week
Reported for this paper by C. A. Snow & Co. patent lawyers, the Cedar Falls throat and chest protector by L Burg Farmington road cart by O F A Faulkner Mount Pleasant fence post by P Kanley Randalia gate by A D Leech Farmington wire carrier and stretcher by C A Lowry Des Moines grain binder by C G Alderman Cedar Falls Gage for corn planters by C J Langenbach Dorchester
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Iowa
C. A. Snow & Co
A. S. Patent Office
Washington, D. C
G. Alderman
Cedar Falls
L. Burg
Farmington
O. F. A. Faulkner
Mount Pleasant
P. Kanley
Randalia
Gage
C. J. Langenbach
Dorchester
Gate
A. D. Leech
C. A. Lowry
Des Moines
Twenty fifth Iowa Horticultural Society Session
The twenty fifth annual session of the Iowa Horticultural Society will be held in Des Moines January 21 and 22. An excellent and instructive program is offered with I A C representation by Capt Speer and Prof Budd, Pammell and Gillette. An attractive premium list is offered.
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Iowa Horticultural Society
Des Moines
Speer
Budd
Pammell
Gillette
Knowledge is a modern weekly magazine for Cyclopedias
Knowledge is a weekly publication offering up to date information for owners of Cyclopedias. It promises current answers to contemporary questions, aiming to be timely and relevant beyond older encyclopedias. Subscriptions cost 59 cents a year with a specimen copy free.
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Knowledge
Joan B. Alden
Pearl St
New York
Advertisement error yields $1.50 discount on $5 shoes
The Journal misprinted 3 dollars missing from 3.50 making sale price 50 cents for five dollar shoes. Shoppers flocked with coupons from The Journal while manager Flurry tried to explain the mistake. The store offered shoes at 3.50, drawing a crowd from the west side and South Saginaw.
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Heavenrich & Sections
Heavenrich & Co
Journal
West Side
South Saginaw
Flurry
Saginaw (Mich
Value of Newspaper Advertising and Honest Returns
A Port Jervis resident reported a jewelry loss on Friday and published it in The Union and Gazette. The next day the item was found and returned, showing newspaper ads as effective, single-insertion tools for recovering lost property and proving honesty remains common.
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Port Jervis
Union and Gazette
The Leader as sales hook in a merchant’s shop
A historical note advises merchants to always have a “leader” product as unusual value to attract customers. By drawing buyers with this prominent item the seller can widen interest and upsell, provided honest goods and ample variety are offered. Avoid overloading with pre-sale advertising and let in-store presentation do the work.
Devoted to One Book Fitzpatrick Quiet on Maine Fishing
Col Fitzpatrick, a second W. H. Murray, loves nature and spends spare time in fields and woods. He recently visited Maine for a fishing trip and says little about the results. He claims to have studied a Boston book on flies all trip, bought in a Boston gun store.
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Col. Fitzpatrick
W. H. H. Murray
Maine
Fitz
Boston
Boston Globe
Steamer Chair Rental Scheme Emerges on Broadway
A Broadway firm offers detachable table steamer chairs to Atlantic passengers for rent at $1 for the trip. The table holds a bottle glass cup and plate and is designed to aid seasickness and convenience from departure to return. The idea is expected to be highly profitable for the firm.
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Broadway
Transatlantic
New York Mail and Express
Remarkable Prophecy Tied to Meteor Strike in Iowa
William Spears of Sioux City predicted a moon would fly across the sky and end rain. A bright meteor flashed across Iowa Friday night, so impressed he went insane and is to be sent to an asylum. The Kingsley Mercury reports the uncanny coincidence and Spears’s breakdown.
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United States
Shiras
Caleb H. B. Carter
Iowa City Gas and Electric Light Company
Carter
Carson
Bloom
Clark and
Caldren
J. K. Graves
Dubuque
Clinton
Man Wassels
Leeds Grove
Spencer Dewey
Frank Davis
Davis
Dewey
Iowa
William Spears
Sioux City
Kingsley
Mercury
College selects preceptress and German French professor
President-Elect Beardshear and Acting President Stanton of the Agricultural College chose Miss Stephanie Marx as preceptress and professor of French and German after a Savery House meeting. Marx, a Cornell graduate and Toledo high school alumna, currently teaches German at the Ogontz school for girls in Philadelphia.
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Beardshear
Stanton
The
Agricultural College
Savery House
Stephanie Marx
Toledo High School
Cornell University
Ithica
N. Y
Ogontz School For Girls
Phiadelphia
Marx
Cornell
Beardshear and Tama Jim Wilson Lead A I A C Bright Future
Cedar Rapids Republican lauds Dr Beardshear at the head of the college and Tama Jim Wilson leading the agricultural department and experiment station. They praise Beardshear as a vigorous 40s leader with long usefulness and Wilson’s practical farming knowledge and sharp, candid讲.
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Beardshear
Tama Jim” Wilson
Cedar Stupids Republican
Prairie Farmer’s 1891 start in new dress at Chicago
The Prairie Farmer enters its 51st year with a handsome new format. Esteemed contributors provide practical agricultural articles with illustrations. The paper serves farmer, villager, and city resident alike and includes departments for households and youth. Sample copies offered. subscription price is one dollar per year.
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Prairie Farmer
Chicago
The
Adams St
Wide Awake Holiday Number Promises Rich Reading
The issue introduces new features and larger type with literary and pictorial attractions. It highlights works by Mrs. Burton Harrison and John D Long, profiles Kirk Munroe and Os Car Fay Adams, illustrations by Jes Monte, and pieces by Maud Howe and Ellenboen Cummings. Prizes, facsimiles, and short stories accompany a promising program for high school readers. Wide Awake costs $2.40 yearly from D. Lothrop Company, Boston.
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Burton Harrison Shoe
Wide
John D Long
Nnd
Kirk Munroe
Ays Sapte
Lea Garrett
Sidney
Jasper
Polly
David
Phronsie
Jes Monte Marietta
Marietta
Matilda Archambeau
Ellenboen Cummings
H. Hawley
Smithsonian Institutions
Ahr
Felecia Hemans
Hallet
Prescott E. Bradley
Laura KB
Richards Beaug
Garrett, Sandham and Taylor
Afl
D. Lothrop Company, Publishers
Boston
Memoirs of Talleyrand to be serialized in Century
The first installment will appear in January Century and include a sketch of Talleyrand’s childhood his entry into Paris society an estimate of La Fayette early Revolutionary beginnings an entertaining note on the Duke of Orleans and relations with England and America a conversation with Hamilton on Free Trade and Protection.
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Talleyrand
la Fayette
Duke of Orleans
England
America
Hamilton
Castoria Through Generations Reflected in Family Phrase
An old ad chant notes Castoria as a remedy from infancy to motherhood. The verse traces repeated use as a child grows into an adult and mother, linking Castoria to family care across life stages.
Remarkable Horse Blemish Cure Sold by Ames Druggist
Local claim of Liniment that removes hardenings and blemishes from horses with a $50 saving on one bottle. L M Bosworth, a Ames Iowa druggist, promotes King’s New Discovery and King’s New Life Pills with a strong guarantee and refund if not satisfactory. He cites years of selling trusted remedies and customer satisfaction.
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Woolford
L. M. Bosworth
Ames
Iowa
Spain
Lowa
Dr. King
Odds and Ends Highlights From a Scattered Page Notes
Miscellaneous items include society, fashion, geography, and local curiosities. Mentions Marquise de Lanza as a well dressed literary figure, a large English youth animal protection society, a Pensacola Confederate memorial, musk and sandalwood prices, and a Prince of Wales canine collection. also reports a fatal neck injury in Northwood Iowa and a villa at Santa Monica with 80 000 acre ranch.
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Marquise de Lanza
England
A. B. Hendry
Antioch
Monateo County
Fla
Pensacola
Northwood
Prince of Wales
British Columbia
Behring Sea
Senator Jones
Santa Monica
Cal
Indemnity Paid Over Watch Guarentee Gone Astray
A Cincinnati jeweler pays $50 refund and keeps the watch after a one year guarantee ends. A delegate recalls Squire Johnson recounting a joke about the watch being a minute too fast and the jeweler’s reply that the watch would be given back only as part of a contract. The story ends noting the funny man has not repeated the stunt.
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Squire Johnson
Fourth Street
Europe
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Times-Star
Prieu Seeks 560000 Damages Against French Republic
Merchant M. Prieu sues the French government for 560000 pounds claiming loss due to a French consul in Brazil over detained papers and overcharged duties. He seeks documents rather than government liability, but the court ruled the minister for foreign affairs not responsible for a subordinate’s actions. He plans to appeal.
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Prieu
Brazil
M. Prieu
Itaque
Stratford's Thrifty Vicar Sells Crosses and Photos
A Stratford on Avon church is selling crosses carved from old gallery wood and offering photographs of Shakespeare birth entries in the parish register. A visitor notes the vicar promotes memory of the bard to profit, while insisting the church remains God’s house rather than Shakespeare’s.
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Stratford
Stratford-on-Avon
Shakespeare
God
London
No Place for the Faith Cure Proclamation Cited
The Lewiston Journal notes a humorous year proclamation from the governor of equatorial Africa to Maine and other missionaries. It states Sierra Leone’s climate is not suitable for faith cure believers and that missionaries must employ a doctor thereafter.
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Equatorial Africa
Maine
Sierra Leone
Lewiston Journal
Secret oil producers meeting in Pittsburgh aims at alliance
A secret conference of oil producers from Western and Northern Pennsylvania met in Pittsburg on the 11th intent on forming an alliance to challenge the Standard Oil Company.
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Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Standard Oil Company
The Greatest Strike in Heart Disease Cure
The article touts Dr Miles New Heart Cure as a revolutionary treatment for heart disease with rapid relief from breathlessness chest pains and swelling. It notes high demand and claims cures, plus offers a free Dr Miles book and a Restorative Service for headaches nerves and other ailments through L M Bosworth.
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Mites
Miles
L. M. Bosworth
One Man's Way Advertising and its Enduring Power
A Chicago confectioner builds a lasting brand by plain, persistent advertising. The piece argues that straightforward copy, clear personality, and continuous use create citywide recognition and that repeated, connected ads boost mercantile success. It notes readers as ideal for paid notices and urges advertisers to study method.
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Chicago
Small Matters in Advertisements and Typographic Care
A newspaper note discusses how minor typographic choices affect ad results. It cites a magazine headline change from Is Marriage a Failure to Is Marriage a Failure ? and quotes a publisher about the impact of small matters on advertising success.
Merchants urged to use tasteful artistic advertising
The text argues that demand for pictorial advertising is longstanding and should be met with refined art rather than coarse images. It urges merchants to elevate visual promotion to reflect contemporary taste and standards.
Unworthy View on Newspaper and Local Enterprise Bonds
A Lancaster Democrat letter argues that local businesses rely on the newspaper and the newspaper relies on local commerce. when a business withholds advertising the paper must respond similarly, highlighting mutual dependence.
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Lancaster
N. H
Democrat
A Question of Returns
The Monson Mirror cautions that successful business requires advertising as a hatch from china eggs illustrates the point with a vivid simile.
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China
Monson
Mass
Plain Newspaper Notice Emphasizes Clarity Over Clever Ads
A straightforward announcement favors transparent information over clever advertising. The focus is on clear details and plain language to inform readers without ornamental styling or hype.
Polytechnic in the Office
A brief urging advertisers to explain how their dry goods differ from rivals and how customers can recognize quality. It stresses showing economy in buying and highlighting best grades, with guidance on fabrics like cloth and lace.
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Polytechnic
Rates must balance profit for publisher and advertiser
The Ansonia Sentinel argues that a newspaper must set fair rates that both publisher and advertiser can profit from. If rates are too high neither side can gain, while a normal rate enables mutual profit and sustainability.
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Ansonia
Conn
Advertising proverb on luck and ink
An Exchange columnist quotes an advertising philosopher who says avoid relying on luck and you will avoid being a lackey. The remark links printers ink and luck as a critique of advertising optimism.
Pronounced Hopeless Yet Saved From Consumption
Ada E. Hurd of Gorton writes of a near fatal lung illness that yielded to faith and eight trial bottles of a remedy. She credits the treatment at L. M. Bosworth's Drugstore with her recovery and invites readers to try trial bottles free, with regular sizes priced at 50 cents and one dollar.
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Ada E. Hurd
Gorton
L. M. Boswoth
Redemption Notice and Affidavit for Schaaneen Taxes
State of Iowa Story County issues notice to Shields and Cook of a land sale by Story County Treasurer. J M Stark holds the certificate of purchase and warns redemption must occur within ninety days from service or right to redeem expires.
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Shields & Cook
Story County
Iowa
J. M. Stark
Doc
Scommtenes
Harper's Weekly Promise of Civilizational Progress
The passage promotes Harper's Weekly as a family journal noted for literary and artistic excellence. It emphasizes usefulness, higher aims, and continuous improvement across supplements, describing the publication as a safe, welcome visitor to homes and commending past issues.
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Harper's Weekly
Eee
Harper's
Harper & Brothers subscription and binding notice
Harper & Brothers announces subscription details for Harper's Weekly Harper's Magazine Harper's Bazar and Harper's Young People US Canada and Mexico pricing and binding options Bound volumes available for Haiti volumes three years back by mail at 2.00 per year and 3.00 for binding with forwarding details to New York group listing payment by money order or drafts and urging prompt remittance Remarks caution about copies without express order of the publishers
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United States
of & Brothers
Harper & Brothers
New York
Rothers
Harper & Moe Orl
Sreyen
Express i Brothers
Harper& Nacre al
Harper's Bazaar Reader Summary Fragment
An OCR fragment from Harper's Bazaar outlines content on fashion items and literary pieces. It mentions home dress themes, cost concerns, and serialized works by Walter Besant and Thomas. The garbled text references Harper's Bazaar and periodical structures without coherent details.
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Harper's Bazarea Journal
the & G
Ion-Pla
Olin
Esanys
B. Ormebee
House of
Corson
Walter Besant
Thomas Gee
Harper's periodicals and bound volumes notice
Announcement lists Harpers Magazine price per year four dollars and related publications. It advertises bound volumes with cloth binding and mailing options, pricing for leather cases and postage paid, and requests remittances by money order to Harper & Brothers.
Harper's Young People 1891 Weekly Extravaganza
Harper's Young People promises a rich mix of serials and illustrations for 1891. It features "Men of Iron" and "The Prince" plus stories by Hjorth Boyesen and Spofford, with science, games, sports and historical pieces.
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Prince
R. K. Kittrick
Annie Bronson King
Additi
Thomas Neon Y. Hjorth Boyesen
Edwin Lasaeiter
Prescott Spofferd
Mery B. Wer Udisner
Caveuianes
Harper's Weekly subscription terms and mailing notices
Postage prepaid two dollars per year. Volumes VII and XI begin. Bound volumes available, single issues issued on receipt. Remittances should be money order or draft. Address Harper & Brothers.
Winter resorts lure Northerners to warm Gulf Coast area
Advertises Gulf Coast winter retreats near New Orleans offering mild winter climate, hunting and fishing, oysters, and pine scented air. Promotes Mexican Gulf Coast Winter Resorts pamphlet from J. F. Merry, Assistant General Agent, Chester, Iowa, for travelers seeking affordable, nearby warmth with full accommodations.
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Ilinois Central
New Orleans
Accient
Rome
J. F. Merry
Chester
Iowa
Electric Bitters Promise Relief for Indigestion
Thousands spend on elixirs to improve life but Electric Bitters claims to bring good digestion and relief from dyspepsia if used as directed. Sold by drujgist at 50 cents to 1 dollar per bottle.
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M. Siworth
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Montezuma Republican
Algona
Pigeon
C. W. Budd
Marshalltown
D. D. McGrew
Barlow & Lawrence
Thornton
Rosenbaum Bros
Mason City
Fort Dodge
Harry C. Wallace
Homestead
Creston Advertiser
Wallace
Orient
Adair County
Capital City Opera House
Board of Supervisors
Grundy County
Grundy Centre
T. E. Hall
Wesley
Kossuth County
Marysville
I. A.C
Wisconsin Agricultural Department
State University
Perry Press
Thomas Sargent
Sargent
H. Wiley
Agricultural Department
Wesley Redhead
Redhead, Norton, Lathrop & Co
McFarland
Burkit
W. H. Patrick
Articles
J.H. Bennett
Emmet County
J. N. Lee
E. H. Robert
J. M. Davis
Land Office
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Frances
Humyphrey
Soonhe
Ates Hopi
Maud Howe
Marie Coll
Wynchestre
Oscar Fay Adams
Cardana Treas
Castoria
Mins
Odds and
State of Iowa
Story Co
Harper’s Weekly
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Harper’s Magazine
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Harper’s Bazar
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Canada
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