Iowa Land For Sale In Louisa County Auctions Nearby
Multiple farms offered near Muscatine and Brimfield with 160 acres each at 90 dollars per acre 50 and 65 per acre options 108 acres at 40 per acre plus 20 acre tract. Properties feature good improvements rural mail delivery telephone main roads near towns in Louisa County Iowa some with tile drains and strong corn yields.
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Muscatine
Lows
Bu. Com
Louisa County
Iowa
Brimfield
Coal Prices Rise to Boost Miner Wages
In a letter from an operator, coal prices advance or mines close. Hard coal yields fifty six cents a ton with five to nine tons daily and no water or faults. Soft coal pays eighty seven and a half cents per ton and a dollar seventy five cents per yard for entry, with costly faults and water. The wage rise is framed as necessary for national benefit.
Public Sale at Jubilee Store by Frank E Coulson
Frank E Coulson offers public sale of entire stock and premises at the Jubilee store including building ice house barns and residence on Thursday October 2 1902 at 10 oclock on the premises. Stock covers groceries hardware boots and shoes dry goods and more. six months credit with note and approved security and cash discount for prompt payment. Auctioneers G J Blanndrn.
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Frank E. Coulson
Jubilee
F. E. Coulson
G. J. Blanndrn
Auct
Brimfield Post Office Hours Limited Through Winter
Beginning October 1 the Brimfield post office will close at 7 30 p m daily except Saturday when it closes at 8 p m This schedule remains in effect until March 1 1901 signed D B Stearn P M
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Brimfield
Beauties Turn From Skin Flaws to Clear Complexions
The ad promotes Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a miracle cure for skin eruptions blotches sores pimples and salt rheum. It claims relief for sore lips chapped hands and chilblains and says it is infallible for piles. Available for 25 cents at Wm Robinson Co's drug store.
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Wm. Robinson & Co
Martinique Ground Rents in Seismic Fissures
An intelligent compositor and a sub discuss land value in St. Pierre Martinique. The joke notes fissures in the earth caused by seismic disturbance are a form of ground rent, illustrating how geologic flaws affect profits.
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Martinique
St. Pierre
Bradford
Out Of Deaths Jaws And A Painting Delayed
A reader from Dorham North Carolina credits Dr Kings New Life Pills with saving his life from a long standing stomach and liver ailment and praises the pills as the best at 25c. Verestchagin suspends work on The Assault on San Juan Hill due to eldest son's illness in St Petersburg delaying completion for about a year.
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P. Muse
Dorham
N. C
Dr. King
Wm Robinson & Co
St. Petersburg
Verestchagin
San Juan Hill
Russia
Watch The Kidneys Drain Education The Way Heals?
Dr Abernethy warns life is in danger when kidneys fail. Foley's Kidney Cure advertised by Wm Robinzon & Co claims to restore sound kidneys.
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Abernethy
Foley
Wm Robinzon & Co
Birds and Electric Wires Explain Birds Avoid Wires During Current
A Naples report notes birds crowded near electric works avoid landing on wires when current runs. Engineers say birds, even files, sense when a wire is energized, causing them to fly away just before and after midday.
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Naples
London News
Baboon Chase Near Camp Ends With Narrow Escape
A hunter in Borneo shot a large baboon near his camp, triggering a loud alarm from an accompanying troop. As the herd pursued, friends from the camp arrived to drive off the attackers, allowing the hunter to escape. The tale outlines the danger of large baboon groups and the hunter’s hasty retreat.
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Borneo
Cause of death by own action cited in Brooklyn case
The article notes a Brooklyn woman’s husband shouting from a window about ending it all after bringing a “fine mess of fish.” It argues deaths by self-harm occur for petty reasons, with heat and hysteria cited as possible causes, and suggests self-destruction is a recurring newspaper feature.
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Brooklyn
Parochial Attendance Law Enforced with Fines
A 300 year old statute fined all residents over nine years who missed Sunday church services. Church wardens must report non attenders to magistrates yearly, with wardens liable for any neglect to enforce the law.
Ghosts Fear Not to an Old Georgetown Woman
An elderly Black woman, newly moved into a haunted Georgetown house, dismisses ghosts as the souls of condemned people denied heaven. She says she is not afraid, calling ghosts mere trash and no threat to anyone who understands their nature. Source: Washington Post.
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Georgetown
Chile
Satan
Washington
Time Makes Changes in District Commissioners Board
Time notes a shift in opinion toward appointing Alexander Shepard to the district commissioners board. Once governor under Grant, Shepard amassed wealth in Mexico after alleged public-works graft. He has returned to Washington as calls grow to place him on the commission, a proposal once unthinkable.
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Grant
Alexander Shephard
Columbia
Shephard
Washington
Mexico
National Capitol
Auto Beat Train During Queen Christina's Frontier Crossing
Queen Christina witnessed a demonstration of automobile speed while en route to cross the Spanish frontier. She arrived in time to welcome the mother and son aboard a crossing train, highlighting rapid transport by road.
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Christina
Onne
Mummy Escaped the Excise at Belgian Customs
A Egyptian mummy from a famed royal family was presented at Belgium customs as a mummy. Officials could not classify it for duty and, after search, were told to declare it as salt fish, allowing its entry. The piece notes estimates of Black professionals and students in the United States, including 5,000 Black businessmen and 432 merchants, among others.
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Belgium
Egypt
United States
Statistical Department of
Atlanta University
Philadelphia man recalls distant South wit in odd remembrances
A Philadelphian who spent years in the sunny South, born and raised there, recounts a tale of darky wit worth repeating. He recalls living within 100 miles of a turkey roost while a fence rent dispute arose one morning, as he seized the moment to tell the story.
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Philadelphia
South
Turkey
Robespierre Clock Reappears With Historic Works
A copper faced clock once in Robespierre's room at Duplay’s house now belongs to Mile Genizt, an artist of the Francaise. Its single hand and curious mechanism drew crowd interest at the Chicago exhibition and it will join the Carnavelet Museum beside the Tuileries’ famed clock.
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Robespierre
Duplay
Mile
Genizt
The
Francaise
Chicago
Carnavelet Museum
Tuileries
Lawsuit settlement grants $1,000 for death of child
Abraham G Graham of Jersey City settles a suit against North Jersey Street Railroad after a car killed his son six years ago. A prior $5,000 verdict was reduced to $1 by Judge Gummere. Graham continues to pursue the case and now receives $1,000 while the railroad covers about $3,600 in legal expenses.
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Abraham IL. Graham
Jersey City
North Jersey Street Railroad Company
Gummere
Graham
Politician A B Jackson’s unlikely rise from plowboy to bustles maker
A B Jackson, Republican candidate for Congress in Ohio's Thirteenth District, started as a plowboy and street auctioneer, ran circuses and shops, then became a bustle and women's underwear manufacturer. He is wealthy and ambitiously political, liberal with his money and very popular.
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A. B. Jackson
Congress
Ohio
Monument to Castelar Fund Raises in Madrid
A committee of prominent Spaniards has been chosen to fund a monument to the late Emilio Castelar in Madrid. The subscription has already reached 100,000 pesetas. Electric Rat Trap In Amsterdam operates with a wire connection to a power supply. The bait resting area conducts, delivering a fatal shock the moment a rat touches it.
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Castelar
Madrid
Emilio Castelar
Amsterdam
Transformation of the Vesuvius into a meek dispatch boat
The Washington Star notes the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius is transformed into a minor dispatch vessel. The piece suggests a growing sense that the era of highly destructive naval machines may have reached its practical limit, signaling broader implications for naval strategy.
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Vesuvius
Washington Star
Gems of Current Thought reappears in Springfield paper
The Illinois newspaper prints the Bible as a serial expected to run about fifty years. A Texas editor who encountered the Ten Commandments clipped the passage and ran it under the label Gems of Current Thought in the Springfield Republican dated spring.
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Ilinois
Texas
Gems of Current Thought
Springfield
Mass
Republican
Typewriter for Home Demonstrated in Store
A small portable typewriter is shown in a department store demonstration. It does all the work of a large model, is easy to operate and maintain, occupies little space, and can be carried from room to room. It is offered for twenty dollars.
Decree Allows Widow Re-marriage in India
An educated native ruler in India issues a decree permitting widow remarriage. With over 20 million widows and many child widows under ten, the move is a significant step toward ending child widowhood and the harsh condition of widowhood in Indian society.
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India
England
Lord Salisbury Etching Recalled After Cabinet Fall
A London Globe note recalls Lord Salisbury’s political stance amid an accidental incident where a heavy chest of drawers toppled behind a cabinet and could not be recovered. The etching comparison sparked speculation about legacy, with a remark that it would stay behind the cabinet for a long time.
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Lord Salisbury
London Globe
Naval Apprentices in Newport Service Story Sparked Mockery
A Toledo report claiming naval apprentices at Newport are treated as slaves, cuffed and beaten and fed like hogs is treated by readers as a foolish joke set afloat in bottles rather than credible evidence.
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Toledo
Newport
Learn from the Big Fish Lie in a Local Tale
A humorous fable notes a man catches a huge fish from a brook and dies of surprise and heart disease. The moral warns that Big Fishes are often exaggerated and not truly caught, reflecting a satirical local remark from the era.
Tall Tale of Ramsay of Banff and the Seeing Eye
A legend tells of Ramsay of Banff who boiled a white snake and swallowed a drop of poisonous soup. The mishap granted him the power to see through people, elevating his status and reputation as a physician.
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Ramsasay
Banff
Scotland
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