Ex-Governor McCord Endorses Peruna Remedy
Hon M H McCord ex governor of New Mexico writes from Washington DC praising Peruna for catarrh. He credits one bottle with relief from cold sore throat and cough and recommends the remedy to all afflicted. The ad notes thousands cured last winter and offers a free catarrh book from Dr Hartman Columbus Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myron H. McCord
New Mexico
Hartman
Washington, D. C
M. H. McCord
Columbus
Ohio
Fragmented Prose Noted in Local Listing
A mangled text fragment discusses carpenters, salt in broth, labor, and soaps as metaphors. It mentions grocers and a puzzling line about a golf ball, with unclear intent or readable facts. No clear people or organizations identified.
Morley’s Liver and Kidney Cordial Promises Restored Harmony
Promotes relief of neuralgia sleeplessness debility and nervous symptoms by restoring balance among vital organs. Claims to cleanse waste, aid digestion and nerves and ensure sound sleep. Urges readers to ask a druggist for Morley’s Cordial.
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Morley
Free Trial Bottle Promises Cure for Rheumatic Pain
Advertises a free trial bottle of a remedy claimed to relieve Rheumatism Sciatica and Neuralgia within a day. Cites thousands of letters and testimonials and offers paid large bottles at 1.00 prepaid by mail or express, requesting 5 cents for mailing a trial.
Notes From The Capital Des Moines October 28 1900
The Iowa board of control returns from northern visits and plans to craft county hospital rules after inspections. A severe typhoid outbreak at Independence state hospital has produced over two hundred cases and twenty deaths. Marshalltown Soldiers' Home reports seventy inmates hospitalized though no epidemic exists. Supreme court rules against Meek in the Bonaparte dam case, upholds state rights, except on one contested point. P. H. Skinner is named as state office examiner pending council approval, with Richards conducting separate records checks. Marshall County election threats discussed. Remley opines Republicans need not fear, outlines mandamus and voter qualification implications. Polk County courthouse decision affirmed. old site may be sold, proceeds used for a new site, bonds prohibited, warrants and phased taxation permitted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Board of Control
Iowa
Robinson
John Downie
Kinne
Independence
Marshalltown
Supreme Court
Bonaparte Dam
Byron F. Meek
P. H. Skinner
Herriott
Merriam
Executive Council
Skinner
W. 8. Richards
Shaw
Estabrook
Marshall County
Republican Committee
Hargrave
Lierle
Remley
Weaver
Marshall
Polk County Court House
Couity Board
Transvaal Proclaimed Part of British Empire at Pretoria
In Pretoria on October 27 the Transvaal was proclaimed part of the British empire with ceremonies. The royal standard rose in the main square while grenadiers fired a volley and brass bands played the national anthem. Sir Alfred Milner read the proclamation as 6,200 British and colonial troops passed in review. In Durban on the same date Boers raided northern Natal, burning Washbank station and destroying a culvert.
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Vaal
Pretoria
Transvaal
Grenadiers
Alfred Milner
Great Britain
Durban
Natal
Washbank
Chicago Labor Trouble Ended with Iron Workers Pact
Chicago on October 24 reports settlement of labor troubles over the new post office building after a three year agreement with structural iron workers. Work to start immediately with a large force of labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Structural Iron Workers
Des Moines College Names Dr. Adams Its President
Des Moines college selects Dr. George B. Adams of Kalamazoo Michigan as president designating him to assume duties early next January. Adams, former pastor of Des Moines First Baptist Church, is praised for his dignity generosity and learning and will announce his acceptance at the Iowa State Baptist convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Adams
Kalamazoo
Des Moines College
Muscatine
Wm. Atkinson
Des Moines
H. A. Heath
Keokuk
F. W. Parsons
Marshalltown
A. Abernathy
Osage
J. A. Earl
Waterloo
W. M. Walker
Henry Jayne
F. W. Bateson
Venison
H. L. Stetson
L. D. Leland
Boone
W.S. Goodell
Arthur Fowler
E. P. Bartlett
George B. Adams
Kalmazoo
Mich
Klamazoo
George D. Adams
Iowa
First Baptist Church
Adams
Colgate University
New York
Iowatate Baptist Convention
Fort Dodge hospital gift offer shocks city officials
A Slimmer of Waverly has offered to donate 50000 dollars for a city hospital in Fort Dodge with the condition that the city add another 50000 to create a permanent hospital fund and provide free service to all. The offer, unsolicited, follows decades of inadequate local hospital facilities. The report also notes Epworth League officers elected for the state convention and leaves the venue for the next gathering to the new cabinet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ward Bulildng
St. Fort Dodge
A. Slimmer
Waverly
Fort Dodge
Slimmer
Fred L. Montgomery
Fayette
C. B. Roberts
Adel
George S. Huffman
Des Moines
Susie A. Mills
Marshalltown
Charles Eldred Shelton
Indianola
H. W. Troy
New Hampton
Louise Hinsey
Ottumwa
George Whitfield
Burt
Sioux City Man Tom Finnegan Dies From Klondike Trip
Sioux City en route home from the Klondike with wealth to surprise his parents, Tom Finnegan fell and injured himself at Skagway and died later in Vancouver. His pioneer parents, waiting anxiously, will receive his remains in Sioux City.
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Sioux City
Tom Finnegan
Klondike
Himelf
Skagway
Vancouver
Finnegan
Janitor Strikes It Rich In Cedar Rapids
Reginald Andrews a young English janitor at the Home for Aged Women in Cedar Rapids has learned he is heir to $50,000 from an uncle in England. In a prior bold act he saved residents of the home earning a gold medal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Reginald Andrews
England
Andrews
Iowa City Salesman Killed in Train Wreck
The west bound Union Pacific passenger train left the track near Rising Sun Nebraska when a broken rail caused a coach and a baggage car to topple. G T L Flanagan of Iowa City was crushed and killed. Mrs. Albert Sjoberg of Lincoln Nebraska was injured. Property loss was heavy.
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Iowa City
Rising Sun
Neb
Union Pacific
G. TL. Flanagan
Iowa
Albert Sjoberg
Lincoln
Freshmen Triumph in Iowa City Egg Shower Farce
The State University of Iowa freshman class staged a party with a mock scrap against sophomores. The sophomores captured the freshman president and toast master and took him away to the country before he was recaptured and brought back to the hall. Egg showers from hall windows targeted the crowd below.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
State University of Iowa
Farmer Robbed Near Charles City After Bank Visit
Oscar Squires, a local farmer six miles from Charles City, was robbed of 150 dollars on his way home from town after selling hogs. Two men in overalls rode with him, one sitting beside and one behind, then diverted toward an alley and fled. The thief cut the farmer’s coat pocket and took the money, likely noting the bank withdrawal. The young farmer faces a serious setback as he begins his farming career.
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Charles City
Oscar Squires
Squires
Miners Strike Ends After 39 Days in Anthracite Region
Hazleton Pa Oct 25 President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers announces the end of a 39 day strike. The 10 percent wage advance is set for most districts, with some companies suspending the sliding scale until April 1 1901. Workers urged to resume Monday Oct 29 and to support those continuing on strike.
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Hazleton
Mitchell
Union of Mine Workers of America
Anthracitt
National
Scranton
Schuylkill
Lehigh
State of
Pennsylvania
United Mine Workers of America
Webster City wins grand chapter officers elected
Des Moines Oct 26 the withdrawal of Mrs Mary B Rathbun opened the way for a new slate in the Grand chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star Mrs Freda Oppenheimer of Webster City was elected worthy grand matron without opposition The officers include A J Small Des Moines as worthy grand patron Jane Weber Cherokee as associate grand patron J C W Coxe Washington as associate grand patron and Mrs Maria Jackson Council Bluffs as grand secretary The twenty fourth annual convention is set for Sioux City in the fourth week of October.
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Des Moines
Mary B. Rathbun
Order of the Eastern Star
Freda Oppenheimer
Webster City
A. J. Small
Jane Weber
Cherokee
J. C. W. Coxe
Washington
Maria Jackson
Council Bluffs
Sioux City
Zeigler Charged With Violating Revenue Laws In Iowa
In Rockwell City on October 27 United States revenue officers arrested Jacob Zeigler a Williams township farmer. He is charged with failing to affix a canceled revenue stamp on a strawberry plant order given to Fred Chapman nursery stock peddler. Plants delayed from spring delivery arrived in July. Chapman sued Zeigler and Zeigler now faces revenue law charges.
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Rockwell City
Jacob Zeigler
Williams Township
United States Revenue
Fort Dodge
Internal Revenue Laws
Fred Chapman
Zeigler
Chapman
Des Moines Mallets Evils Reported in City Funds
Des Moines reports show revenue from gambling rooms and social evils at about 3200 dollars monthly. Yesterday four hundred twenty dollars was paid into the city treasury by women who volunteered to the captain's office and paid 13 dollars each. These women are about a third of their class on Sergeant Morris’s list who are said to pay monthly fines. Gamblers are expected to contribute about 260 dollars monthly for each of the nine establishments.
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Des Moines
Socia
Morris
Harper given five years for arson in Anamosa fire
Harry Harper received five years at hard labor in Anamosa for setting fire last summer to Sunday's wagon shop and destroying other property. Sunday's trial followed with Harper claiming Sunday planned the act for insurance. A prior jury disagreement stemmed from Sunday’s asylum history. trial to resume next term.
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Clarion
Harry Harper
Anamosa
Sunday
Harper
British Losses Heavy in Barton Dewet Fight Report
London dispatch cites General Barton's column fighting Dewet on October 25 with heavier British losses than first reported. An officer and twelve men killed. three officers and twenty-five men wounded. Boer losses: twenty four killed, nineteen wounded. twenty-six captured. Three Boers executed after surrender then firing on British. Separate note: fifty cavalry captured near Orange River Colony. seven escaped. Also Zeppelins trial flight near Friedrichshafen observed by the king and queen of Württemberg.
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London
Roberts
Barton
Dewet
Kitchener
Methuen
Springfontein
Philippolis
Orange River Colony
Frederickstad
Jail Terms Given In Two Iowa Rapist And Theft Case
Mason City judge Clyde yesterday sentenced Fred Lawrence to twenty years in the penitentiary for rape. Bert Lorrimer received a two and a half year term for pocketbook theft involving $160 taken during a pool game with Claude Morris as the accomplice.
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Mason City
Clyde
Fred Lawrence
Bert Lorrimer
Claude Morris
Massacre Report At Mukden Alleges 400 Native Christians
Dispatches from Mudden report proof of a massacre of 400 native Christians at Mukden before the Russian occupation. War office dispatches also note discovery of fifty modern guns mostly Krups, several thousand small calibre rifles and twenty million cartridges.
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St. Petersburg
Mudden
War Office
Mukden
Denison pays $1000 liquor law fine in Clarion
J. D. Denison Sr paid the county clerk a $1000 liquor law fine. Sheriff Duer arrested him on an indictment for the same offense found by the grand jury. He posted $1500 to appear in the next term of court.
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Clarion
J. D. Denison, Sr
Duer
Deemer For Chancellor In Iowa City Race
Iowa City reports Judge H B Deemer Attorney General Remley and Judge Wade as leading contenders to succeed Chancellor McClain of the law department. Public sentiment favors Deemer to move from the bench to the law school, with McClain moving to the supreme bench. The note adds a humorous closing remark about sending humidity to China.
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Deemer
Iowa City
McClain
Law
Remley
Wade
Judge Deemer
Notable Quips and Challenges from 19th Century Stage Figures
A hazy reminiscence recalls Joseph H Choate in court denying a rumor about Mrs Choate while someone in the audience mocks. John Brougham receives a golden insult and replies with calm humor. Horace Mann refuses a fight citing his name and nature asserting two against one while an insane challenger pushes for a four man brawl.
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Horace Mann
Mr.et
Mann
Millais Asked If He Should Try Photography
A Scottish passerby watching Millais paint Chill October on the Tay banks joked about photography. Millais replied he had never tried it. The man then quipped that photography is a handle quicker, then observed the place is like a war. The exchange ended with a thoughtful pause.
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Millais
Woman leaps from moving Roosevelt train in homemade cake stunt
A woman boarded Governor Roosevelts train at Greeley Colorado to offer a cake. As the train rushed away she leapt from the back platform landing in sand. She rose smiling and waved a handkerchief, drawing cheers from onlookers.
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Roosevelt
Greeley
Colo
Indians Attack Surveyors on Comanche Reservation
A party of U.S. surveyors and allotting agents faced a hostile act by a large war paint crowd while dividing Comanche land. They fled toward Texas, crossed the state line, and Fort Sill sent cavalry to guard them. The incident is believed to be a prank by cowboys and young men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Washington
Texas Line
Fort Sill
Engagement broken over mother’s death joke in Omaha
Miss Kate Schindler of Omaha ends her engagement with Jamer Hawes after he laughed at her mother’s death. The nation’s humorists pick sides as commentary and debates surge.
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Kate Schindler
Omaha
Jamer Hawes
A good story bears repeating is a sales note
Advert text markets a cookie? Jell O the New Dessert, four flavors lemon orange raspberry strawberry. Sold by grocers. In Chicago some women marry for money and some for alimony. 10 cts. Try it today. The music loving sailor s favorite tune is ep tune.
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Chicago
Cough Remedy Promises Quick Relief From Consumption
An old ad touts Kemp's Balsam as a cough suppressant that stops coughing immediately. It invites readers to visit their druggist for a free sample bottle and notes bottles are sold in 25 and 50 cent sizes. The copy ends with a warning to act quickly.
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Kemp
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