Shipping flax seed and fires and deaths in Iowa era notes
September reports show Algona shipping flax seed by car loads while a fatal burn killed Peter Doud’s daughter Kuscatine. The Fort Dodge Coal Co runs 350 tons daily but lags on orders. fires destroy hotels and stores. a 105 year old Davenport priest died with Napoleonic ties. wide Anneals of incidents fill the latest Iowa and midwest news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algona
Peter Doud
Kuscatine
Fort Dodge Coal Company
C. Z. Gilngadoughnut
St. Ansgarre
Noma Ellen Brown
Z. T. Brown
Galesburg
Leon
Decatur County
Schoenhoff
Centralia
Dubuque County
Kinie
Peter
Bridget Doud
Township
Delaware County
Houghton
On the Eve of They Edding I Seek Your Truth
A speaker pleads before a wedding to reveal any lingering doubts. He asks his beloved to tell if she ever loved another, offering freedom to pursue a happier life if needed. He resolves to accept her answer and bless her choice, even as tears blur his vision.
Insect Sounds and Solar Experiments Featured in Science Notes
A wide survey of natural sounds explains how insects produce noises with wing and leg movements. The piece highlights Prof. Watson’s Watson Solar Observatory project at Washburn Observatory and his well-based plan to observe the sun and Vulcan from a deep cellar mirror system. It also covers related advances in photography, tobacco steaming apparatus, flour milling innovations, and discussions on Puritan influence in early American history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schoenoven
George Brophy
Davenport
Mercy Hospital
Kilkenny
Ireland
Daniel O’connell
Duponton
Napoleon I
Bailey
Baltimore
Father Prophy
Tyler
Polk
Fissmore
Buchanan
Pierce
Lincoln
Danton
Robespierre
Marat
Ince
Watson
Washburn Observatory
Wisconsin State University
Watson Solar Observatory
Prof
Vulcan
Janssen
Meudon
Farmer Bets Big on Hog Corner in Erie Train Standoff
A farmer-like man on a Erie road train claims a fellow passenger has the biggest hog corner in the country. He taunts him to invest, promising a fortune if he profits, while the other remains seated and silent as the exchange ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Erie & Western Railway
Lafayette
St. Louis
Kansas City
Jacksonville
Springfield
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Wall Street
Erie Road
Kidney-Wort Proclaimed Best Remedy for Digestive Ailments
An old farm advertisement proclaims Kidney-Wort as the most effectual cure for dyspepsia and dillious attacks, headache, and habitual costiveness afflicting millions of Americans, urging removal of the cause as the remedy.
Turbulent telegrams from Europe and Asia Minor flare in October dispatches
Vienna to Epirus reports large ammunition shipment for heavy artillery landed at Epirus. Paris says Admirals ordered to withdraw once Dulcigne surrenders. Albania suffers deaths of four chiefs from suspected poisoning. Turkish Commissioner instructed amid Montenegro’s likely refusal. Naval demonstration blocked by season and Turkish opposition. Persian frontier unrest as Kurds renew raids. Selemast district attacked. Russia notes Melikoff rumors and ministerial reshuffle. Russia newspaper suspension follows. Crop outlook bleak in Russia with insect devastation and winter fears. Galway sees police and military deployment after land meeting evictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Athens
Epirus
Paris
Dulcigne
Albania
Americans love money more than other people
In Harper's Magazine a critic argues Americans chase the dollar more than other nations and neglect arts, literature, and scholarship. The piece surveys national wealth, per capita income, and wealth accumulation, noting the United States leads in wealth growth yet lags in cultural pursuits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T.M. Conn
Harper's Magazine
Estern
United Kingdom
Great Britain and Ireland
France
United States
Germany
Russia
British
Scandinavia
Europe
Italy
Spain
Republic
Alcohol Will Clean Silver The Easy Way
A quirky ad style line suggests alcohol will clean silver efficiently. It notes alcohol sticking to silver and promises a simple pocket friendly method for cleaning tarnish.
Courageous Adele and the Drumhead Trial
A courageous woman of the Commune named Adele aided a surgeon in a city hospital during the rising. After the insurrection, the doctor was arrested and faced a drumhead court martial. Adele encountered him exiting the tribunal, denied recognition, and later was killed while he was freed, ending his hope for aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island Road
Council Blugs
A. A. Massie
Logan
Kol
Ol Schoenoven
de Dubuque
Chamer
Adele
Not so, dear wife, for man and wife are one
A husband answers his wife’s complaint that home is dull by saying that when he is alone he grows weary, and that unity in marriage makes him feel restless apart from her. The exchange reveals a quiet domestic tension and desire for closeness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
North Carolina
Highather
Captain X
John Marvin
Alice Ewer
Lydia Maria Child
Wayland
Mass
Maria Edgworth
Catharine Sedgwick
Frederick Benner
Mary Howitt
Carmen
San Francisco
St. Lawrence Island
The
Cormien
Jeanette
Siberian
North Cape Cormen
Philadelphia
Mary Ann Connor
Michael Connor
Jnipror Magentne
Gay
Bryant
Benjamin Scott
City of London
M Fathers
Pilgrim Fathers
Leyden
Plymouth
America
George Fox
Williams
Winslow
Seekonk
Plymouth Colony
Massachusetts
Boston Colony
Anthrop
England
Ney
Church of England
Salem
New Enland
Edward Winslow
Church of Plymouth
Robinson
Chamberlain Scott
Boston
John Winthrop
John Milton
Milton
Winthrop
Miles Standish
Bay
New England
Roger Williams
Hooper
Cartwright
Brown
Brewster
Endicott
Pym
Eiict
Hampden
Oliver Cromwell
Green
Plymorth Rock
Cromwell
Droghea
Saybrook
Mary Dyer
Robert Brown
Roger William
USA
Plymouth Rock
Scene at Harvard Chinese Class Frustration
A student fails a Chinese sentence and mockingly calls the instructor a tea chest. The professor retorts and the scene closes with dramatic fire and curtain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvard
Deacon Receives Medicine Amid Wet Season Troubles
In a cautious town scene a Wise Peacon and Deacon discuss remedies during a wet season. Costs rise as neighbors face bills while one figure notes a plan to keep people healthy and working.
Travel in Iceland by Pony Through Snow and Tangles
An Arctic journey describes crossing icy passes in Iceland with a horse and rider. The party navigates snow blocked divides, torrential streams, and fords as they trek toward stark highland scenery. The hardy guide rides steadily, tracking eider ducks and ptarmigan above a barren landscape marked by glacier-etched rocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iceland
Consta
Aebelander
Local Standoff Leads to Public Tangle in Town
Fragmentary notes describe Julius Inegar accused of insulting women and lacking respect for his mother. The piece hints at a public setting and a sharp rebuke, with a gritty sense of local disorder and social backlash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julius Inegar
Gar
Public Gathering Discussion Framed as Proper Courtesy
A fragmented item notes a public gathering being described as the proper course to avoid disturbing those afflicted. The text hints at communal comfort and consideration but lacks specifics on event, location, or participants.
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First National Bank
Marshalltown
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & ‘Norther Railway
Iowa Falls
Gir
Art Loa
Webster City
Charles Aldrich
Indianapolis
Canada
French & Ward
West Stoughton
Augusta
Wis
Leas
Powell
South Branch
Chicago
Wm. P. Adair
Mt. Vernon
Ind
W.H. Beard
Manchester
T. H. Potter
Chicago, Burlington ,& Quikey R Iirsad
Assistane
He Smith
Dubuque
Cedar Rapids, Iow Falls
Northwestern Land and Town Less Company
Cedar Rapids
Pital
Geo. Whitnes
Martin Krogan
Krogan
City
Jessup
Eugene
East Davenport
A. P. Taylorite
Ling
Miset
Wisconsin
Pitkins
Berry
Hoyt
Cline
Meacham
Gunnison City
Jackson
Buenos Ayres
Troy N. Y
Wade
Savannah
Georgia
Wash Parham
Parham
Sleepy Eye
Minn
Mian
Dr. Thomas
Rock River
Jewell
Wassesman
B. R. Riddell
Michigan Southern Railroad
Road
Quincy
Aboy
Wash Corbin
Alliance
William Siefert
James Shultz
Mathew Jaques
Muskegon
Lake Michigan
Frank Brown
Penvyn
Board of Trade and Transportation of
New York
Board of Trade
Victoria
Los Castillo
Ammunitio
Interior Department
Colorado
War Department
Secretary of the Interior
Pitkin
Agent Berry
Gunnison
Sherif
Gen. Pope
Grand Haven
Michigan
Alpena
Goodrich Company
Goodrich
Crime
Montpelier
Vermont
Royal S. Carr
J. H. Woodward
Atlanta
Revenue District
Illict
Washington
Doyle
Brooklyn
N. Y
Secret Service
E. W. Spencer
Bill Brockway
Charles Smith
James P. Owens
Smith
Pittsburg National Bank of Commerce
Owens
Jay Cook & Co
Egypt
Cairo
Soudon
Gordon
Berlin
Drigalski Pasha
Ress
THEY
Edding
Hleaven
World OF Science
Foote
Proctor
Earth
M. Janssen
French Academy Des Sciences
Mendon
Montenegro
Turkey
Persia
Selemast
St. Petersburg
Melikoti
Caucassus
Committee of Ministers
Melikoff
London
County Galway
Matthew Harris
Galway
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