Parlor Goods and Political Notes From Sioux City
An assortment of J. J. Case & Co. tools and household goods is listed. The piece reports on Senator Allison seeking a Dubuque bridge, Judge Cooley's illness, the Iowa court session in Sioux City, weather relief from floods, and political shifts including Supreme Court nominations and local sheriff choices. Medical discussions on heat exhaustion and heat stroke with treatment guidance conclude the column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. N. Cooley
Dubuque
Sioux Falls
D. C
United States Court
Sioux City
O'Connell
Marshal Perkins
Iowa
Washington
Judge McDill
Supreme Court
Day
Household hints and culinary notes across newspapers
A collage of farm and household tips from various papers includes steer feeding insights, sheep prepping with linseed oil, burns treatment with soda, clothing cloth advice, fruit serving with sugar and water, sweet corn handling, onion pickles, apple pudding, and a descriptive school vignette of a parlor scene with Japanese umbrellas and a Turkish rug.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit Post
Hall
Journal of Health
M. Y. Post
Boston Transcript
Judge Miller
Missouri
N. Y
Real Estate Transfers in Story County Several Deeds Filed
Sheriff transfers lots in sw and nw quarters across townships to Charles Black and others. Transfers include Patton to Williams for parcels in sections 7 and 85 21 with 16.30 dollars, Dow to Sherwood in sections 5 85 20 for 1 dollar, and multiple other deeds with prices ranging from 1 to 6400 dollars. Heirs and corporations along with individuals record transfers of blocks and lots in Ames Cambridge Blair and Collins with dates and prices noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Story County
Chas. Blackman
Thomas W. Patton
F. N. Williams
Lizzie J. Thayer
Phillip Pockentine
C. Dow
James K. G. Sherwood
Bendix Isaacson
Lidder J. Sevde
John L. Holm
Ole Slanson
John Zenor Dee
J. A. MacFarlan
J. A. Banks
Samuel Banks
Nathan A. Pearson
Elias M. Pearson
Milwaukee Land Co
Thomas Hoke
Collins
Thomas Hooker
Nathan B. Allen
Knute Apland
Henry Osmundson
Cambridge
Charles Barrell
Henry Hodgson
Plair
Ames
M. D. Lavingston
John Johnson
Blair Town Lot and Land Co
Thomas Rowland
Blair
Cole
Townsend Morgan
T. v. Maxwell
Abraham Hiatt
Erasmus Lewis
S. I. Shearer
Eben Allen
Merrill's Ingenious Method for Playing Music Easily
An advertisement from the Chicago Piano Co offers Merrill's Ingenious Method teaching piano or organ by linking familiar airs with music theory. It claims beginners can play without prior study and learn notes quickly, with mail delivery of four pieces for $1.00. Embroidered trims and Parisian dress details follow, touching on mantles, parasols, fans, and fashionable buttons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merrill
Chicago Piano Co
van Buren Street
Chicago
Ilinois
Ayrshire
Chicago & North-Western
Angalpelad
Moradhhors Bokral
Iowa
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Dakota
Manitoba
Iral
Nebraska
Colorado
Wyoming
Utah
Iaa
Montana
Nevada
California
Sandwich Islands
Australia
Zealand
Council Bluffs
J. D. Layng
Marvin Hughitt
Gen
Stennett
Passe
Iowa Homestead Proclaimed as Independent Farm Paper
An appeal touts THE IOWA HOMESTEAD as an independent weekly covering farm methods, stock care, fruit growing, poultry and beekeeping. It promises advocacy against monopolies and tax fairness, urging readers to subscribe for $1.50 for a year to Toe Homestrap in Des Moines Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Homestead
Toe Homestrap
Des Moines
Iowa
Liberating Girls From the Piano to Foster Music Lovers
Victorian note argues girls should not be forced to study piano. It praises violin family and piano as orchestral core, urging balanced musical education. It cites London access to great pianists and quotes Mr. Hullah on skill levels, aiming to boost domestic violinists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Hullah
Joachim
Holmes
Piatti
St. James
Englishman’s wooden leg sold under hunger lien
An Englishman was ordered to a month of hard labor after selling his wooden leg given by the Board of Guardians. The guardians claimed a lien on the leg and forced the punishment, arguing it remained their property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Guardians
Sunflower profits spur midwest farmers to seek Wilde flair
Farmers boast sunflowers bring high returns this season and hope England sends a Wilde‑minded figure to steer fashion for buttonhole bouquets amid mulleins and burdocks.
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England
Cincinnati Gazette
Desolate Street Charities Highlight Civic Indifference
The piece recounts beggars on Fourteenth Street and Union Square, including a veteran with a severed leg, paralytics, and women feigning deformities to solicit alms. It notes hardened clerks, impostors, and a pattern of sympathy exploited by and for the needy, with scenes of street panhandling and deceptive appeals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Fourteenth Street
Union Square
Twenty-third Street
Broadway
Chicago
Peter Cooper
Cigarette Factory Sights and Swift Counting Skills
The Richmond tobacco industry, ranked second in the nation for manufacturing, offers a factory visit where observers glimpse a vast operation. Foreman notes output at about half a million to a million cigarettes daily and highlights the precise counting skills of workers who can pick exactly twenty cigarettes at a time.
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Grab
Richmond
Government Printing Office
Washington
The Fowler and the Bird Fable on Political Economy
A fable from Harper's Magazine recounts a fowler who frees a captive bird promising to return when it is larger and more useful. The bird departs, teaching that utility measures power over nature and exposing the limits of naive economic reasoning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fowler
Harper's Magazine
Father Carey
A Crushed Poet Remembered by Rossetti Memoir
Mr T Hall Caine recalls Byron and Keats in relation to Robert Buchanan’s 1871 article on the Fleshy School of Poetry. The episode, described as a great calamity second only to his wife’s death, battered Rossetti’s nerves and impaired his poetic powers for years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Byron
Keats
the Quarterly
T. Hall Caine
Rossetti
Robert Buchanan
Mr. Caine
Whittier praises Holmes on seventy fifth birthday
John Greenleaf Whittier declares no man should write much after seventy, except perhaps Dr. Holmes. He admires Holmes as charming in all he writes and notes the vast variety of his work, hoping he continues writing well past seventy.
The Way the Western States Grow
President Lincoln notes how western states grow influence in Congress by transplanting the best corn from ear to ear and season to season. He explains how seed selection and westward settlement shaped corn ears from finger to foot length as settlements moved. The anecdote contrasts ear size with political reach.
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Kelley
Lincoln
Houses of Congress
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Child rebukes mother over colored cat remark in Augusta
A three year old girl in Augusta Georgia sharply corrected her mother for using the word colored to describe a black cat. The child insisted the term colored was incorrect and spoke candidly in a household moment captured by readers.
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Augusta
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Official Directory
Henry Winaon, Jr
W.C. Shockley
G. McCarthy
J. L. Serre
J. A. Musa
H. H. Bowes
A. K. Banks
Aila Es
Board OF Supervisors
Baer
Union Township
Howard Township
Collins Township
C. C. Carpenter
Congress
Dodge
T. C. McCain
Avery
Baptist Church
Wiiant
M. E. Church
Ervices Ev
M. Egeenl
Ervices
H. D. Weaver
Congregational Church
Sociable
Bexnett
Masonic
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F. & A. Masons
E. D. French
Ww. M
United Workmen
MES Lodge
Masonic Hall
C. E. Taylo
M. Sooper
M. W
Rlisworth Post
Mason‘c
Henry Wilson Jr
Bosworth
C. E. Haverly
Stevens & Hays, AT
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Bradley & T. Drug Store
McCarthy & Connolly
Bradley & Templeton
Geo. A. Underwood
U.S
District of Iowa
Union Bank
T. C. McCall
P. D. Thompson
McCall & Thompson, Lees Land and Collection Agents
Ovada
Dyer & Fitchpatrick
H. St. Templeton
The
City Drugstore
Fairchild & Kegley, Ysicians and Surgeons
Ames, Ia
Greeley’s Block
G. A. Meredith
Frazee
H. T
E. B. Crambill
New York House
Beverly
Laws
Lewis Schooler
W.F. Laidley
Nsurance Agency
M. C. Pearson
K. W. Brown
Chas. E. Hunt
Entist
Andruss
West House
J.A. Fitchpatrick i
A. E. Lucas
T.C. McCall
J. A. Prochpatrick
BE. Taylor, Insurance and Loan
Stevens, McCarthy & Connolly
Gpposite Opera Hall
J. L. Bartlett
Boyd Building
Ames, Iowa
J. J. Case & Co
J. I. Case
Central Draft Steel
Thomas
Bingham & CO
Intelligencer Folto
Allison
Slamlin
Col. Root
Mt. Pleasant
Francis Varga
Decatur County
United States Marshalship
Thompson
McPherson
Cedar Rapids
Republican Party
Medical News
Philadelphia
Eneral
Bae
Chicago Journal
Henry Lewis
C. F. Wheeler
MNKT
Chicago, Milwautheef and ST. Paul Railway
Illinois
Milwautheer
LaCrosse
Winona
ST. Paul
Minneapolis
Madison
Prairie du Chien
Mason City
Wankton
Albert Lea
Aberdeen
Rock Island
Council Blubes
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Milwaukee and Saint Paul
A. W.H. Carpenter
Pass
Tkt. Agt
J.T. Clark
G.H. Herfford
Sup't
Pthe New Market
Hemstreet
Eld
Stary County
M. W. Quick
NEW Meat Market
Lalways
Ben
New York Sun
Everbody
C. Brown
Ters
Boston
Brown Chemical Co
Fugyn
Maverick St
Brown
Baltimore, Md
Baltimore
Ayer
J. C. Ayer & Co
Lowell, Mass
National Park Bank
Wilsonia Magnetic Clothing Co
14Th St
Chase
America
College of Music
Cincinnati
Notre Dame
United States
Tha Piano Co
van Buren St
Chicago, Ill
Mnneapolis
Rei
Ington
Chippewa Falls
Mertillan
Cresse
Ansao Vp
Rock Island & Pacific R’y
Joliet
Peoria
Ottawa
la Salle
Ceneseo
Moline
Missouri River
Albert Sea
Seneca
Kankakee
Newport News
Indianapolis
la Fayette
Canada
R. R. Cable
E. ST. John
T & Cen
Cen’t T’k’t & Pase’r Ag't
Miller Bros. Cutlery CO Jters den
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Acme
Mons
True & Co
Business College
Kedeue
John H. Queal
Sheldahl
Story City
Elsworth
Roland
John H. Queal & Co
WS Bradley
Woooodensware
Ad Railway
City Bakery
City Grocery
A. H. Thayer
POR
Choice Family
Alwadr
Ad Spinson & Co
Portland
Maine
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