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Newspaper
Centerville Times
Location
Centerville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1882
Page
3
Auction sale announced for the first Saturday and various items offered including horses, stock, marble shop goods, and livestock. Advertises low prices and multiple wares from a local music store and shop, with calls for calls and inquiries about items and locations.
Fragmented items include theatre chatter, board meetings, a street railway plan, Prohibition lectures, weather lore, agricultural notes, and a slate of local events. Mentions: J. K. Boyles agent, Des Moines rail links, Masonic Grand Lodge in town, graduations, amendment debates, fairs, and church gatherings. Many names, places, and dates appear in garbled form.
Programme outlines a Canterilla celebration on July 4 with processions by civic societies and military units, a dinner, music by a 200-voice chorus, readings and oration, a wedding and marriage ceremonies, premiums and contests, and an open air concert by the Light Guard Band. Prizes include a boat band trophy, a largest temperance society banner, and various races with cash rewards.
From Livinareton Iowa June 13 1882 reports on temperance talk failures and sensible discourse by Mr Brown and others from Unigaville Missouri visits of Miss Ruth Cereoo and Mims JSoaio Smithers from Kirksville schools, Livingston School term ends, Centerville Baptist Association meeting planned, Reverend Gilman Parker of Washington and others expected to speak. Mentions events near Appasome Bese of Jows and utility of August 4 and 9 dates. local figures Taxmnani and Paw noted.
Mouton Items from Monton Iowa report rain delays to corn planting and replanted crops after a dry period. Couples announce marriages Ida Haughey to Baum of Davis County and other local nuptials. Prof Kirk returns from Bethany Missouri for the summer. Local business moves include Stockwell selling to Murdy and Stockwell and Stockwell taking a Masom City store. Cattle shipped by Jim Jennings to Muscatine buyers.
An editorial from the Council Bluffs newspaper warns that New York estimates of up to 800000 annual immigrants threaten national stability. It argues self protection by political groups, critiques labor unions for opposing newcomers, and worries about assimilation, foreign colonies, and the safety of institutions if immigration surges continue.
A report from the Comstock describes miners enduring 115 to 120 degrees in hot shafts and cooling stations at 100 degrees. Miners gulp ice water, chew ice, and yet feel relief only briefly as body heat returns to 110 to 120 degrees. The piece also touches on Mormon polygamy prosecutions, immigrant missionary work, a Detroit iron meat tenderizer, and a Virginia springs anecdote, ending with a census note on household sizes and land use in Iowa.
Secretary Toller discussed Indian policy outlining a program to rely on church agency recommendations for agents end tribal labor schools, halt gifts and cloth, promote permanent living patterns and direct tribes to organized self governing system, with a new policy line by Broop Briiis. Price one dollar, Western men. Tales-Star Daffield & Harlan.
A Michigan weekly publisher faced debt and dwindling orders as a printer's wages rose to 12 dollars a week. Over four Saturdays he accepted cash and trade credits, only to see balances balloon and insolvency loom. A bank note and taunting offers pushed him toward ruin, culminating in a grim joke about marriage and a hollow cash surrender.
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