Missouri to Iowa settlers describe land and life in 1805
In SYLVANTA Missouri May 27 1805 Ep telegram the writer compares Cass county Iowa and suggests a level country with rolling streams coal and timber. He notes prairie belts, climate and soil quality, crop prospects, fruit trees, farm prices, and employment. He predicts growth surpassing Iowa with pluck and capital. He signs W F Starr. Memorial Day editorial reflects on government and national unity and urges continued observance.
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Sylvanta
Cass County
Iowa
Greenfield
Kansas
Nation
Kansas City
Ozark
W. F. Starr
May Day Remembrance Poem by FinaNk Sweeney
A lyrical tribute to decorating graves with flowers for fallen heroes. The piece evokes mothers and sisters placing lilac and mignonette, lilies and violets, while flags and garlands honor the dead. It concludes with promises of marble columns and praise.
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Hull
Post
Park
Grove
Mrs Sarah E Love Died After Long Illness
Mrs Sarah E Love dies at home in Hickory Township after over a year of consumption. Daughter of James Hann she was 46. Funeral held yesterday with burial in Morefield cemetery in Sharon. Local notice from Sharon Herald.
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Sarah E. Love
Hickory Township
James Hann
Morefield Metery
Sharon, Pa
Herald
Atlantic Des Moines scandal tied to Gessler elopement
Mrs Clara Gessler wife of J T Gessler elopes with gambler Curley Messenger. They were reported in Davenport and later seen in Atlantic with her father James Tumbleson. Gessler, once in Atlantic poultry business, faced debt while financing his wife’s alleged medical cures. Messenger fled and Gessler is in debt around four hundred dollars. Atlantic and Davenport leads mixed with a piano recital note about Mrs Clappe and pupils at Chestnut Street.
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Clara Gessler
J.T. Gessler
Curley” Messenger
Davenport
Messenger
Geasler
James Tumbleson
Atlantic
Gessler
Mia
Des Moines
Sixth
Cedar Streets
Tumbleson
Art Supplies and Custom Canvases Offered by Fred Alexander
The shop keeps artists colors pastels and pastel boards and offers canvases to order. It sells brushes palettes palette knives and canvas by roll or yard. Also stocked academy boards canvas boards watercolors paper mache porcelain brass placques and panels plus French and crepe paper.
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Academy
Fred Alexander
How to Cure All Skin Diseases with Swayne's Ointment
An advertisement claims Swayne's Ointment cures tetter eczema itch and eruptions on the face hands and nose without internal medicine. It promises clear white healthy skin and positions the remedy as uniquely powerful. Consumers are urged to ask their druggist for Swayne's Ointment.
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Swayne
Stop Tobacco Cure Promises and Miscellany Notes
Health ad claims Bac-O-Curo cures tobacco habits with a written guarantee and sample offer. The page also lists veterinary balm, then a Washington note on Rev. J H Shadd’s death, indictments of a Mormon leader, May coinage totals, acquittal in Ohio murder case, a lord marrying an actress, and brief news briefs from across the country.
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Eureka Chemical & Manufacturing Company
Manufacturing Chemists
la Crosse
Wisconsin
Dan's Weekly Review on Trade and Wages Rise
Dan & Co reports stronger demand for manufactured goods with 227 major concerns starting up, 53,000 workers employed, and wages up for 178,000. wheat and cotton prices supported by public buying while iron and steel prices rise and Pittsburg wage settlements loom. Memorial Day pause dampens volume as May data show continued expansion across industry and trade.
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New York
Junos
R. G. Dan & Co
Review of Trade
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
United States
Canada
Bradstreet
Trade Review
Rocky Mountains
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Missouri
Republic of the United States
Fred Alexander’s. Wtf
Recital Musicale
Tancredi Is
Wamiler
Mae Harris
Myrtle Vient
Chippe
Ms. Delano
Iss Wert
Messrs
Delano
Dreen
O Happy Day Goetze Thal
Seco Millard Bolo
Walting
Therine Parham
Gobs Vdelhoven
Blumenthal
DeLine
Lover
Mary Kinney
Hobyn
Dela
Mae Harri
Bravoura
Ces Eee
Myrtle We Mulder
Giuilemo
Pinsutl
Mangolin
Martin
Marie
Ene
Es. White
Anna Garretson
Joli
Barker Glen Powell
Anna Carr
Torrey Ralo
Clappe
Fred Green
Ole Anal
Hamlet
Thompson
Mrs. DeLang
Mr. Green
DeLana
Rossini
Wtf
W. M. Nichols
Shedd
Washington
Alexander McDonald
Persia
Department
American Mission Service
J. H. Shadd
D. D
Oroomis
American College
Sart Laks
John Beck
United States Grand Jury
Beck
Beck-Bullion Mining Company
Sarah Snell
Canton, O
Sarah Shell
William Mackey
Lord Sholto
San Jose
Cal
Lord Sholto Douglas
Loretta Addis
Bakerafield
San Francisco
Bennington
Honolulu
Crisp
National House of Representatives
C. GC. Cockrell
Lincoln
Neb
Eugene Adams
Judge Adams
Annis Plaister
Dubuque
Boozewitter
St. Louis
John Brennan
Patrick O'Neill
John Murphy
Hamilton County
James Hunt
Greene County
American Waterworks Association
Atlanta
Cincinnati
John J. Davis
Cricr
New Orleans
Shaker Woods
Cleveland
Edward McLaughlin
Wabash
Ind
Underwood Manufacturing Company
Ross
Buendia
Peru
Caceres
Dan's Weekly Review
Jefferson City
John Harnett
Osage River
Dirnberger
Johnson
Jane
John
Waltham
Johnston
Cambria Iron Company
Ree
Cardus
Olinton, Towa
Chattanooga Medicine Co
Lester L. Tilden
Opera
Marin
de Kalb Fence Co
High St
de Kalb
J. H. Needles & Son
FLY Brothers
Warren Street
Atarra
Warr
W. L. Douglas
W. . Douglas
Sts Se Workingmen’s
Shose
Aris
L. Douglas, Brockson
Maree
Christensen Bros
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