Decorations Day Preparations and Local Notices
Preparations for a June 1 event attend the dig and the news item notes local visits from Des Moines and relatives through Decoration Day. Mrs Sheakley departed Thursday, 62 We Parks father to A. Parks arrived Tuesday. local community news includes the Sunday Hunters press rounds, a Murray meeting at Mason City bankers, Wieelty opened to visitors, Burligame renting a second floor room for a billiard party, a letter from I N Crouse enlisting in the 60th Iowa volunteers, and brick work on the J H Smith blocks with front windows arriving from Pittsburgh weighing nearly one ton.
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Sheakley
New Hampton
Parks
A. ‘Parks
Des Moines
Antil
Murray
Bankers
Association
Mason ‘City
Bureday
Will
Wieelty
J. BH. Lairh
N. Crouse
60Th Lowa
Tampa
Mr. Crouse
W. W. Doud
New German glass substitutes for greenhouse use
A review of substitutes for glass in horticulture notes that thin tough paper called fensterpappe provides a cheap, translucent roof for frames and skylights. It saturates with boiled linseed oil to form a water resistant surface, offering light transmission and durability at a fraction of the cost of glass, widely used by florists in Frankfort. Also introduced is hornglas, a lighter, transparent material with wire gauze coating, colored variants, and claimed heat resistance, marketed in two wire mesh qualities and said to rival tektorium in function.
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Invere
Aioh. Ag
Florista
Frankfort
Hornglas Ia
Maps of Spanish possessions offered by railroad agents
Fragmentary listing notes 16 pages of colored map plates sized x21 inches showing the location of principal cities and towns in Spanish possessions. Sold by agents of the BL O. R. & N. Ry for 15¢ a copy sent postage paid for 18c, address J. Morton Cedar Rapids ta.
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J. Morton
GL & PB
Cedar Rapids
War Atlas 16c Contains 16 Pages of New Maps
This historic advert announces a 16 page atlas titled War Atlas 16c with complete maps of Cuba the Philippine Islands Spain and Portugal City and Harbor Havana a double page world map by B G B N Ry. It offers sales through agents or postage paid option priced 6c or 18c postage and address J Mortor Cedar Rapid Ta.
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Guba
Phillipine Islands
Spain
Portugal
Havana
J. Mortor
Philadelphia Street Car Oddity in Eighty Minute Wait
A Philadelphia street car tale from the old ante trolley days recounts a couple boarding a horse car near Callowhill. The conductor is asked to fetch a stamp from a drug store and chats with the clerk before resuming. At Sixteenth Street they wait for a bound car that never comes promptly, with the conductor noting the Sixteenth Street cars are blocked and another car finally arrives after ten minutes.
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Philadelphia
Callowhill
Bill
Sixteenth Street
Jim
The Force of Habit in Brooklyn Fragment Discussion
Fragmentary text from a Brooklyn themed discussion notes habit and perception. It mentions railroads in the older part of the city, Brooklyn before Williamsburg annexation, and a reference to Lawson at city hall and a three year period. The passage is incomplete and contains many stray phrases.
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Brooklyn
Williamsburg
City
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