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Newspaper
Bedford Free Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1906
Page
6
Timetable listings show G B&Q at Bedford with north and southbound trains including mixed and freight service. Notes indicate daily and Sunday operations, agent F P Bunt, and connections with Keokuk & Western at Gravity. Eastbound and westbound departures include approximate times such as 12:19 pm and 5:30 pm, with Sunday exceptions noted.
A fragmented OCR reveals a roster of county officials and names including Dean W Turner as Senator and William Cobb as Auditor. The list mentions roles such as Treasurer Clerk Superintendent Sheriff and County Attorney with several unreadable initials and misspellings.
City officials include Mayor Geo. S. McKinley Clerk Jas W Beauchamp Treasurer Frank Coppel Assessor Isaac Kersey Marshal and Street Commissioner R Vickery Night Watch Thus Meredith City Attorney Chas Thomas Councilmen first ward W E Dean Evans second ward George Daniels M H Allen third ward John Hindman Will Dallison.
A compiled list details Bedford area fraternal groups meeting at Masonic and Odd Fellows halls. It lists Taylor Lodge 156 AF&AM. Triangle Chapter 68 AM. Bedford Lodge 101 KP. Lone Star activities. Sedgwick groups. and other chapters with meeting nights on Mondays Thursdays Fridays and Saturdays, plus secretaries and officers.
An older advertisement urges readers to check for heart weakness and offers Dr Miles Heart Cure and Nervine as a remedy. It includes a patient testimonial from Mrs Lillie Thomas of Upper Sandusky Ohio and notes the product is sold by a pharmacist with a guarantee of benefit or refund.
Listing of church activities includes Sunday school at 9 30 preaching at 10 45 and 7 30 Young Peoples Union at 6 30 prayer meetings Wednesday at 7 30 covenant meeting Saturday before the third Sunday at 2 30 communion service on the third Sunday at 10 45 choir practice Friday at 7 30 BY PU business meeting first Tuesday at 7 30 BY PU roll call on the 24th Sunday of each quarter at 7330
The Methodist church lists Sunday services at 9:45 Sunday school 11:00 and 7:30 preaching. Additional events include class meeting at 12 m Junior league 2:30 Epworth league 6:20 prayer meeting Wednesday 7:30 WFMU 1st Tuesday 2:30 L MU 4th Friday 2:30 official board Monday 7:30 Standard hearers 1st Saturday 2:30. Pastor W. B. Tuomrson.
Vices, 11:00 and 7:30 services. Young Peoples meeting at 6:20. Wednesday prayer at 7:30. Pastor's study class Thursday 7:45. Morning Star Sunday school at 2:00. Preach every two weeks at 3:00. R. L. Barackman, Pastor.
Evert Price serves as pastor for Christian services with a meeting at 6 30 and a prayer meet ing on the first Tuesday monthly at 2 30. Wednesday evenings at 7 30 are listed for prayer and study.
Boise March 12. The supreme court ruled that Moyer Maywood Pettibone and others must stand trial on charges of murdering former Governor Stuenenberg.
Washington March 12 Republicans in the house will be called to a caucus Wednesday evening to discuss the statehood bill. The meeting aims to coordinate strategy ahead of further debates and floor action on the measure.
Albany governor Higgins issued another reprieve for Albert T. Patrick until May 18 to allow time for proceedings on the motion for a new trial that is currently pending.
The excerpt describes Creek medicine practices, cleansing rituals after illness and death, and a moonly remedy tradition. It also recounts a parable about a young woman demonstrating science and religion to a wary audience, ending with a thunderstorm fear anecdote.
A collection of brief, varied notes on Turkish rural life and farming patterns, ancient month names and a Lyons procurator, Arctic expedition clippings on press control, the motto In God We Trust, a mistaken inference about Mrs Briggs china, and a child’s spelling joke. Names include Tacitus, Augustus, Pollock, Sevastopol, and Kansas City Star context.
A short, wry exchange notes a Miss Forty Ode named after Aunt Georgiana, and a remark that she resembles her aunt more than the name suggests. A closing aphorism urges men to seek agreement over differences, in Addison’s spirit.
An astronomer in Newton’s era advised a Greenwich washwoman on finding her stolen linen through celestial readings. She later returns with the linen and a half crown, prompting the astronomer to reject such divination, declaring he would not meddle with events beyond human power again.
In Glasgow Blackie recalls living with Dr. Donald Macleod and a plaid shawl gift from his wife. He explains he wears the plaid to remember her kindness during hard times and proclaims he is free from vanity despite his brusque manner.
In southern France spiders mimic the color of convolvulus flowers they inhabit as they search for prey. White, green, pink, and yellow varieties switch colors within days when moved to flowers of a different hue, as four tested spiders all became white after three days in a mixed box.
A Baltimore public library allows members to deposit for a sought book not currently in stock and receive a notification when it arrives. An amusing incident involved a member who ordered The Girl He Left Behind Him and was surprised to learn the library would keep the book for him until Friday morning.
In a Birmingham Post tale Cassidy, injured in a blast, is consoled by O’Hara who notes luck could be worse. Cassidy quips that it could have cost him seven days wages, highlighting stoic humor amid misfortune.
The Mohammedans of southern India held pulverized diamond to be the least painful and most active poison. Wilke's History notes diamonds kept by the wealthy as a last resource. The belief in diamond poison also appeared in sixteenth century Italy.
The passage contrasts yellow fever as a hot climate disease needing heat to awaken it with a remark on poets. It cites a Cleveland Leader exchange: Poets are born, editor quips, and asks why they are born.
A fragmentary dialogue about guiding children through truth telling and discipline. A mother asks why prayers were offered to curb a sister from telling stories while a boy acknowledges cake theft. The piece hints at moral schooling and human chatter.
Industrial department information offers jobs across five towns on a progressive railway line from Chicago to St. Paul. Includes maps leaflets town reports and requests to E B Magill manager Townsite Omaha Nebraska for full details. A note on Dr King’s New Discovery mentions a Port Williams Ohio resident praising its cough relief and claims for consumption cure with a trial bottle offer.
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