Hawkeye Beacon readers react to local issues and prices
A Hawkeye Beacon summary of local notes covers a range from wage and bond mentions to grain prices and a car crash injuring Miss Rose Kocher. It notes taxes on cigarettes, a legal update on a husband supporting himself, and community updates including a trip home for Misa Minerva Weibel. The piece also references spring dates, moon phases, and Easter timing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berg & Kobler
Hawkeye
Beacon
Wan
Hughes
City ‘Drug
Ahods
Fe Beresin
Berg
Jast Ems
Towa
Jweibel
Mill ‘Company
BK. Spring
Armour Grain Co
Gasette
Dodge
Sony Ney
Apare
Rose Kocher
Geriqualy
Qel
Jar Chapman
Jon
C of
J. E Thomas
Misa
Minerva Weibel
Lkader
Daugherty
Bastar
Frank
Frautschy
Potio
Juntus
South Dakota
Hie
Despair of Dull Boy Says Intelligence Grows Slow
A former headmaster argues that dull seeming students may harbor strong minds and later succeed. He cites Dr. Chalmers Mitchell on prolonged youth correlating with greater adult intelligence, noting some bright youths mature slowly while unconventional types may excel later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chalmers Mitchell
London Dally Mall
Early New York's Battery to Castle Garden Forts
The Battery area in Manhattan, from Whitehall to Greenwich Street, housed forts and guns. Castle Clinton and Castle Williams formed part of the defense, later ceded to and from the Federal government. Lafayette landed here over 40 years after the Revolution, the fort became Castle Garden, a pleasure garden where Jenny Lind debuted. The grounds filled toward what became the park and immigrant station by 1855, enabling electric arc illumination and improved photography of tiny objects. Microscopy now outpaces astronomy in magnification, with fifthousand-diameter images possible, while lunar imaging would astonish at such power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manhattan
Whitehall
Water Streets
Greenwich Street
Castle Clistor
Port Lafayette
Castle Williams
New York
Lafayette
Jenny ‘Lind
Paganini's bequest to Genoa preserves violin in glass
The famed violinist left his magic instrument to Genoa with the stipulation it stay enclosed in glass and never be played. As time passes the wood decays and insects attack, threatening the treasured viola and its grand glass case with ruin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paganini
Genoa
Boone
Banana Prices In a Make-Believe Store
A playful dialogue features a Loader and Willie debating prices for imaginary bananas. Willie asks about a dozen, then negotiates with a storekeeper who offers bananas at three cents each, while Willie pretends to pay with pretend cash.
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Wille
Storey
Willie
The White Plague Statietics on Tuberculosis Deaths
The British Magazine notes tuberculosis causes ten percent of US deaths and eighty percent between ages fifteen and fifty. It cites about 150000 annual US deaths, mostly in prime age, and asserts ninety percent could be saved with early diagnosis and proper treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Hritt Magazine
Unclear OCR fragment on trade and business figures
Fragmentary text reviews wartime business activity in the United States and Germany, noting shifts in profits, bankruptcies, and currency values. Mentions Elgin Canning Company rep in Lexington, names several directors and officers, and discusses consumer purchases, cash versus property, and anticipated market changes.
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Ge Ames
United States
T. W. Dean
Jett
Lexington
Kentucky
Elgin Canning Company
Shane
Bork
Gus Guiierson
D."shaffer
Fred’ Reichart
August Benson
A. 8
Haus
Germany
Fragmented Retail Aisle List Sparks Curiosity
A damaged OCR page shows scattered product names and prices including toothbrushes glassware lamps pans and tins. readable items hint at a small general store display but no coherent business record emerges.
Dishes and Footwear Sparkling Bargains
A vintage ad lists fancy salad bowls at 49 cents and 89 cents, white meat platters at 89 cents, and glassware sale offers. It promotes ladies' oxfords, men's dress and work shoes, overshoes for women and children, with several price points and bulk buy terms.
Enamel Ware Sale on Pails Pans Kettle and Boilers
A local ad offers enamel ware including 12 gallon water pail 17 quart dish pans 6 quart kettle 2 quart double boilers all heavy white triple coated priced at 1.49 each, with customer choice noted.
Aluminum Ware Sale Prices Disclosed
Local listing advertises aluminum ware including 12 qt water pails for 94 cents, 6 qt kettles with lids at 149 and 199, qt tea kettles at 199, and 2% qt double boilers priced 169 and 199. Items include lids and various sizes for home use.
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EARLY
Tee
Opera House
Christ, Wer
Alberto
Night Horsemant
Douglas Fairbanks
His Majesty the American
Jitea If
Rockford
Aluminum
Evans
Citizens’ State Bank
Elgin, Iowa
Stoehr & Co
The
City Drug Store
Elgin
Iowa
Zie
Bbc
J. H. Bauman & Sons
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