Journey to St Garretts leads Hugh to Pendragon kin
Hugh Pendragon, orphaned after his father’s death, travels from Munster’s to Cornwall. Mrs Munster arranges his move to Aunt Martha Pendragon in St Garrett’s after a long voyage and a night in a Cornish kitchen with Aunt Martha and Uncle. A shy cousin Annie greets him as the family gathers around the new arrival.
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Madeline Graham
Ugh Trelawey
Mway
Littl
Munster’s
Madeline
Hugh
Hin
America
Sona
Mrs. Munster
Martha Pendragon
St Garrett's
Cornwall
Taving
Annie
Rudd
Only a Housekeeper in Youths Companions Tale
A Sunshine Club discussion weighs public gifts of women as a perfect housekeeper is judged by many trades. Aunt Eleanor recalls a housekeeper’s demanding duties from caterer to nurse and teacher, noting her unseen generalship and lack of public praise.
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Sunshine Club
Eleanor
Nurelog
Vast Increase In Real Estate Assessments In Iowa
An enormous rise in real estate valuations is expected as abstracts from counties reporting to the Auditor of State Carroll in Des Moines suggest statewide taxable property values will climb by about 50 to 55 million dollars. Personal property valuations will also surge, with Osceola Boone Kenton Gedar Ciny Toward Palo Alto Powoestick and Ringgold counties reporting average real estate gains around 3 million dollars each. A store at State Center owned by Navan and Whitehill was robbed and burned when thieves looted goods and set the building alight. the blaze was fought by the fire department and investigators later found stolen items. Attorney R. P. Daley, linked to forged checks in Cedar Rapids and Burlington, was captured at Bloomington. the forgeries, largely for 28 dollars, targeted shoe dealers and building contractors.
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Revenue Department
Office of Auditor
Beate Carroll
Des Moines
Len
Oscoota
Boone, Kenton
Gedar
Ciny
Toward
Palo Alto
Powoestick
Ringgold S
Hieves
Navan & Whitehill
State Center
Stoppea
R. P. Daley
Rh. & Daley
Cedar Rapids
L. Wallace & Son
Burlington
Bloomington
The Preacher Vindicated In Alberon Church Trial
The Tama based church trial of ev. Thompson of Alberon concluded with a verdict of complete vindication. His ex wife secured a divorce decree without contest, and her court statements were deemed unfit for public mention. Esthe Snyder of Mount Ayr survived nutmeg poisoning after eating a nut and a half, her heart action fainting yet doctors kept her alive. Nels Hanken, a prominent Dane farmer near Kimballton, was found dead from apoplexy. age and recent travel to a Danish Lutheran conference are noted.
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Ev. Thompson
Alberon
Tama
M. BE
Esther Snyder
Mount Ayr
Miss Snyder
Nels Hanken
Kimballton
Hensen
Bilchorn
Iowa News In Brief From Across the State 1902
Waterloo freight handlers form a canton. New plants planned at Des Moines Menlo and Gatyn. Davenport to close harbor shops Sundays. Woodbury Deaths Births 1902. Genoa post office order rescinded. Agnes Tengon missing since May 5. William Winders dies at Webster City at age 80. Improvements planned for Floyd County poor farm and Pottawattamie County poor farm. Grouchy Center plant to employ fifteen. Diamond Man: college degree ceremony. London man Henry Conrad injured in runaway. Des Moines river high for 1851 level. Dallas County bridges destroyed by flood. Waterloo taxable value rises to 18.085 million. Davenport resorts open. moral issue noted. Rembrandt postmaster appointed. Cornell Bluffs team quits. Davenport enforces fast auto driving limit. Poweshiek Republicans back Riggs. Low Moor Savings Bank charter issued. Supervisor McNamara house fire. Northwestern Felt Shoe plant destroyed by wire. Osceola forms National Guard company. Eddyville youth run over by car. Grinnell home robbed of jewelry. Duffus dies at Clarinda hospital. Fifty-sixth Iowa expect St Louis fair camp 1904. Des Moines man's missing Weetz. Waterloo boys arrested for bicycle theft. Lisbon and Davenport deaths in a rail wreck. Richarda settles Graves heirs claim. Enya Tambkin accused of jewel theft. McMonee and Graves drown Cedar River. Muscatine unions push labeling to avoid fake goods. Utiga County Board passes no resolution. Coal ton prize offered by Riveting. Bella Plain woman commits suicide. Harry Richards offered Wisconsin Dean post. Fort Madison baby dies from suspected poison. Farmhand Cullen Gregory owes 380. Dem political figure Ton Snell dies in Dubuque.
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Waterloo
Fea
Des Moines
Menlo
Gatyn
Davenport
Woodbury County
Genoa
Agnes Tengon
Stockton
William Winders
Webster City
Floyd County
Henry Conrad
London
Weelink
Dallas County
J. C. Green
Port Dodge
G. A. Spiegelberg
Rembrandt
George Girangold
Cornell Bluffs
Poweshick Republians
Poweshick Republians Indorsed J. I. Riggs
Sigourney
Carrol Hag
Low Moor Savings Bank
McNamara
Dubuque County
Loos
Northwestern Felt Shoe Company
Tosa
Insurance
National Guard
Osceola
Fifty-fifth
Chambers
Frank Bogart
Grinnell
James I. Duffus
Fort Madison
Clarinda Hospital
Fifty-Sixth
Iowa
St. Louis Fair Grounds
Fred Oxberger
Weetz
Eldon
Earl Herring
Lisbon
Fred Risier
Rock Island
Almira
United States
W. A. Richarda
Graves
Enya Tambkin
Clinton
Seldon Tithe McMonee
Bessie Graves
Cedar River
Waterlon
Muscatine
Hundred Years Ago Plans for Iron Bridges to Span Rivers
A century ago Tom Paine proposed iron bridges of five hundred feet to end ferry crossings over American rivers. Vaccination was hailed as a plague cure and a Russian scientist was sent to Turkey to study its use. Capt Preblo was named to command a US naval squadron bound for Europe. Capt von Bilang received $2000 from the Ming of Sweden for a swimming machine idea expected to have practical value.
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Tom" Paine
Turkey
Preblo
Manul
United States Naval Squadron
von Bilang
Ming
Sweden
Exiled Spaniards ordered out of Mexico to Pacific coast
Seventy five years ago the Mexican government expelled Spaniards, directing their departure toward the Pacific instead of the Gulf coast. The Washington City Council approved thistle control to clear streets including Pennsylvania Avenue. William Clark was named U S Treasurer after the prior chief justice of New York declined. France closed schools by royal decree placing academies under the University of Paris.
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Pacific
Gulf Coast
Washington
D. C
Pennsylvania
William Clark
United States
New York
France
University of Paris
Mount Vernon Estate Gifted to Congress for Cash
Fifty years ago Mount Vernon estate of George Washington was offered to Congress for 200000 dollars in cash by his heirs. A medal was awarded to John P Hale by US seamen for efforts to end flogging in the navy. A New York movement began to equip troops for service with Gen Santa Ana in Mexico as Gen Almonte reached New Orleans with assurances the Mexican dictator would settle the boundary dispute without war.
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George Washington
Mount Vernon
Congress
John P. Hale
United States
New York
Santa Ana
Mexico
Almonte
New Orleans
Forty Years Ago in Civil War Era Headlines
A rebel army captain was arrested in Springfield Illinois while recruiting for the Confederate army. Over 400 passengers sailed from San Francisco to New York with fares of 240 first cabin, 165 second cabin, and 50 steerage. News notes include New York Jongghoremon strike and deserters pressed into service under guard. General Lee invaded Pennsylvania, captured Chambersburg, and Lincoln issued a 100 000 militia proclamation. Mayaville Kentucky saw a 250 mounted rebel raid plunder inhabitants. Beef 20 cents, butter 3 dollars, sherry cobblers 1 60, whisky 1 a dia, astray berries 3 a saucor ul.
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Springfeld
San Francisco
New York
United States Quartermaster General
Lee
Pennsylvania
Chambersburg
Lincoln
Mayaville
Ixy
Richmond
Hundred-Year-Old Secrets and Global Feats Mentioned
Thirty years ago Cant Plataln urged Cuban planters to loan slaves for suppressing revolts. War Department archives were reported stolen. The steamship Great Eastern began laying an Atlantic telegraph cable. American women’s street dress is described by editors. Prof Watson announces a new planet in Ophiuchus. Susan B Anthony convicted of voting in Canandaigua New York.
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Plataln
War Department
Washington
Great Eastern
Valentia Bay
Ireland
Cape Breton Island
Prof. Watson
Michigan University
Susan B. Anthony
Canandaigua
United States
Twenty Years Ago in the Star Route Case and Other Disputes
A retrospective notes acquittals in the Star route case amid public belief of guilt. It cites Li Hung Chang’s notification over Tonquin, a deadly panic in Sunderland after a school stabbing, a Chicago firm’s $2 million liability from a failed corner, and a publicized post office scandal. It also mentions a wave of legislative actions and labor disputes from a decade earlier.
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Washington
Li Hung Chang
Tonquin
Sunderland
Eng
McGeoch, Everingham & Co
Chicago Commission
Triple State Senate
Hamilton
United States Post Office Department
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Ainister
Jim
Palmforth
High Conad
Horge
Humian
Tle
Monts
Ells
Dan
Missus Pendragon
John Trudd
St. Garrett
Uelugs
Chile
Ainster
Mr. Rudd
John Rudd
John Build
Ethan
St. Garrett’s
John Reutd
Imesia
John Studd
Mia
Annie Pendragon
Uehollors
Johm Rudd
J. Rudd
Cought
Trenacher
Waukon Condensed Milk Co
State University
Fivermh Lemper
Illinois Central
John George
LeMars
Des Moines Shoe Deaters
Vie
Sac County
Beaumont
McLane
Idaho State University
State College
Ames
Shiras
Dubuque
Thayer
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
St. Paul
Harrison TB. Spengler
Adair
University of Iowa
Board of Athletic Control
Johm Croussier
Woolstock
Cinckinatt
Ohio
Joseph Gafford
Iowa Grain and Produce Company
Rock Island Railroad
Des Moies
Beott
Tiemry Barhope
Woodbury
Board of Supervisors
Utiga County
Henry Rabe
Bella Plaine
Rabe
Harry 8. Richards
University of Lown College of Law
Valve Daily
Wisconsin College of Law
Board of Regents
University of Wisconsin
Mednards
Valentine Weiring
Cullen Gregory
Ton
IF. M. Sxnell
Ini
State
Legislacure
Thigh Valley Railroad
International Gpographical Union
Afshoning Valley
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