Insurance Audits 1897 Statement From Merchant's Insurance Co
Des Moines Iowa February 23 1868 Auditor McCarthy certifies Merchant's Insurance Co Providence Rhode Island compliance with Iowa insurance laws. Summary includes capital 2000000 dollars assets 286185.56 liabilities 200,000.00 007,260.27 41,748.04 and year 1897 expenditures 251,687.46.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Merchant's Insurance Co
Providence
Rhode Island
I. C
A Co
C. G. McCarthy
Through Sleeping Car Route to Florida Announced
Starting December 26 the Louisville Air Line offers a through sleeping car service from St. Louis to Florida with daily departures at 9 15 p m and arrivals in Jacksonville the next evening. The route passes Louisville Lexington Chattanooga Atlanta before reaching Florida with stopovers allowed.
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Louisville Air Line
Florida
St. Louis
Louisville
Lexington
Chattanooga
Atlanta
Jacksonville
Asheville
N. C
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Cure for Catarrh and Scrofula
A Des Moines resident reports ten years of catarrh and scrofula improving after using Hood's Sarsaparilla. The ad notes other products, including Elkhart Carriage Harness Co. catalogs and One Minute Cough Cure for croup, plus DeWitt's Little Early Risers for headaches and biliousness.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Nellie Osman
Lyon St
Hood
Captain Charles D. Sigsbee, Maine Hero, Navy Leader
Captain Charles D. Sigsbee, commander of the ill fated Maine, is a popular naval officer. Graduated from Annapolis in 1863, he served in Mobile Bay and with the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron in 1865, contributing to attacks on Fort Fisher and final action against the fort.
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Charles D. Sigsbee
Maine
Havana Harbor
Navy
Annapolis
Mobile Bay
North Atlantic
Fort Fisher
The New Spanish Minister Polo Bernabe Arrives
The new Spanish minister to replace De Lome is Polo Bernabe from a diplomatic clan. His father served as vice admiral in 1872 and Bernabe began as an attaché in Washington in 1873. He rose to third secretary by 1875 and later led missions to Brazil and other nations.
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Senor Polo Bernabe
de Lome
Folo
Senor Polo
Washington
Legation
Madrid
Foreign Office
Brazil
America
High Bred Monkeys and the True Wild Man of Borneo
An excerpt from Demorest’s Magazine explains the difference between the orangutan and the chimpanzee. It notes that orangutan means wild person and identifies the orangutan as the genuine wild man of Borneo while describing physical distinctions and perceived intelligence.
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Crowley
Joe
Borneo
Sumatra
Malaysia
Animal Kingdom
Demorest’s Magazine
The Ceylon Elephant at Work
The elephant serves as a labor saving machine in Sri Lanka forests. Elephants help move heavy timber to storage, kneel to wrap trunks around logs, and follow coolies to deposit burdens. They recognize noon dinner signals and stop work until fed, showing intelligence beyond captive forms.
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Ceylon
Wigglesworth fortune tied to wildcat mining and a name change
A Cleveland Plain Dealer note hints Wigglesworth profited from a wildcat mining venture. It states his daughter has changed her name from Jane to Jeanne, indicating personal family change alongside his business dealings.
Humorous Mollasses Jug Riddle At Country Store
A sharp nosed elderly woman debates a molasses charge at a country grocery. She argues the jug she bought holds only two gallons, though the clerk says two and a half were used. She complains about overfilling the jug and pays for the molasses.
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Amon
What a Wig Did The White Man Who Scalps Himself
Belzy Dodd a hunter and trapper known as the wigged scalp thief performs a daring stunt at Bent s Fort He shouts a war whoop and tosses his wig to the Indians causing fear and driving them away for months in the region according to The Old Santa Fe Trail.
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Belzy Dodd
Santa Fe Trail
Bent’s Fort
Betty
Dodsi
Those Medals Quip Reflects on Ministry Counsel
A witty Fliegende Blatter quip notes a ministry lawyer's string of medals. He earned the third because he had the other two, the second for the first, and the first because he had none.
Not What He Ordered
A witty quote from the New York Journal features a narrator lamenting a mix up with a delivery, blaming a rival for an unwanted item and longing for a hug from Mar cella as a goat appears in the mistaken shipment.
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Marcella
New York Journal
A Queer Bill Moves Through Kentucky Legislature
A bill proposed in the Kentucky legislature would make it unlawful for any person to discharge, or aim at, random deadly force with any weapon whether loaded or unloaded. The measure mirrors a policy discussed in the New York Tribune.
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Kentucky
New York Tribune
Poker the game rooster names a chicken in Detroit tale
In a Detroit Free Press vignette Pat Name and Gummey share a moment over a chicken named Poker. The dialogue contrasts the oddball name with the idea of a game rooster as they admire the bird.
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Gummey
Poker
Glanders
Detroit Free Press
Gentleman’s dog mischief sparks pun on name
A buyer jokes about his dog’s risqué habits after naming the pet bin pointer then calling him a disappointer, reflecting a comic quip from a Youth’s Companion piece.
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bin Pointer
Forger’s Klondike plan praised by New York Journal
The New York Journal notes a man who forged several times then fled to the Klondike. The paper suggests he could confess on return, with a detective bringing him back.
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Klondikers
Klondike
New York Journal
Criminal Carelessness in Burglary Case
A New York Journal item mocks a visiting minister and a convict burglar as they discuss carelessness in a burglary. The burglar admits forgetting to chloroform the dog, illustrating the absurd reasoning in the exchange.
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New York Journal
Bills Does This Photograph Do Me Justice
Mills replies the photograph does more than justice it is merciful to you a widow speaks in a restrained exchange about a portrait and its impact on her.
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Bills
Mills
Momentous Day Sparks Anxiety for Tomorrow
Washington Star notes anxious anticipation for tomorrow as a major event looms. The piece promises a speech by Uncle Jim aimed at reformers and officials, suggesting a pivotal moment that could shake society’s foundations before ending with a call to rally cheerfully for the outcome.
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Jim
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