Hawkeye town plans rebuild after fire and local legal notes
Hawkeye officials map reconstruction of burned district as courts in West Union address drunkenness and assault cases. West Union updates include a judge overseeing a tax and betting case, a tobacco experiment, and a plan to modernize a confectionery and cigar shop. Old country bound travelers from West Union prepare for a four month European tour via North German Lloyd. Water woes hit Osterdock and nearby towns with flooding in several streets. canning mill ramps up operations and a new box plant with advanced wood-working machinery is described as the best of its kind in Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Almaing
D W. Bopp
Iaud
Wear’ Union
Luv Beather G. W
Bioyd
Lima
New York
Europe
Mayence
Napoleon
Moscow
Beng
Bonaparte
Phint
Iowa
Hortrcaster Iowa News Items Mixed Local Notes
A collage of clipped reports from Hortrcaster Iowa covers candidacies for a school directory, electric light works staff drafts, new paper ventures in McGregor, deaths in Sumner and Mederville, a major town partnership, arrests for embezzlement, train engine accidents near Calmar, and a fatal furmers powder explosion. Also notes a dog attack near Postville and a serious home accident with children burned.
Eyeglasses and Why They Are Worn More Now
A historical note explains the rise in eyeglasses among twenty first century people. It attributes the increase to longer work hours and more demanding tasks on the eyes. It argues that improved eyewear use reflects greater knowledge of vision care rather than degeneration.
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W. IT
Wenger
Auys
J. A. Marsan
Oebyein
M City
Ind
Anvid
Arodad Ernok
Ffo
Independence
Lippincott
Life saved by ammonia in tiger attack tale
A Philadelphia Record vignette recounts a Punjab light horse trooper describing a tiger encounter in India. He carried ammonia for snake bites. when the tiger clamped his coat, the bottle broke and a whiff sent the tiger fleeing. He escaped with minor bruises, but his nerve required months to recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Record
Andreased
India
Punjab Light Horse
Chawald
Chaka
How Paul Kruger Found Religion
Pau Kruger embraced intense religious awakening about thirty years ago while a young man. He handed his wife an open Bible and disappeared for days, heard singing from the mountains, and was found exhausted after a self imposed fast and solitary prayer in the hills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pau Kruger
Kruger
Jimsiosey
Strange Comrades for Man Promotes Sloth Domestication Theory
Argentine savant Dr. R Hauthal presents a startling theory on Megatherium and Myliodon remains found in Patagonia. He claims these extinct giants were kept in a domesticated state by prehistoric Patagonian inhabitants, citing Ultima Haperanga cave as a former enclosure for the beasts.
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R. Hauthal
Patagonia
Ultima Haperanga
Hauthal
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Buck
Call
Jook
Country Produce
Capper & Shaffer
AWG, Holzer, Proprietor
Gquty
T. D. Reeder
West Dnion
Chicago
Hawkeye
Doc
Sanford
Owlwein
Dudge Thobsor
West Union
B. Carter
West Onion
Wisconsin
Owlweth Yailody
Fatety
I. F. Brown
West
Kkindan
Mr. Brown
Christian Miller
Toyse
Teveliersa
Wenden
Ab West Union
H. 8
Tough
Oelwein
Whyab
FOO
Toph
Noticedt
Hough
Osterdock
Guttenberg Press
Wenniken
Bush
Mieville
Iowa News
Meadailes Ballis
Amy Ward
Devorah
Tuckburn
Deoorah
B. H. Poster
Paul O. Wonds
McGregor
McGregor Repubean
Casa
Sumner
Pueuonit
Symnel
Howan Warth
Vores
Wit. Wailis
Postvius Graphic
Allumokea Democrat
Waukob
North Town Times
ab Mo@regor
AL Hudisch
Bt. Atkinson
Prasad
A. Breckenridge
Perpetual Building
Lean
Witerloo
Pia
Aera Ce
Cheit
Germania
Pwin
Thoms Brown
Bartingto Chinks Bet Teying
Ning
Atbayot Fen
Caloray
Ft. Atkinson
Atkinson
Calmar
Buyinear
Wid
Pred Rocke
Wankon
Chocke
Qikader
Democrat
Turkey River
Wis
Schmidt Brow. & Co
Henry Mader
Mederville
Fred
Lliigon Orv
Aldamakee
Postville
Tim
Horn
Wairbank
W. He] Binko
Jawa
Paul Bruger
Hadsgl
H. Lemke
Rommorardic
Dilies Ohednoy Wast
Spya & Schlrh
CO Fothergill
M. Riezko
Ata
8 State Bank
Ainsworth & Cal
Gal West Union
Omure Moser Oan Bore Moser & Hofer
Elgin
Pumpa
Moser & Hoffer Elgin
Towa
Citizens
Bank
Bigi Topa
Gogtieptrenen
Conor “Tneparation
Lawaol Thu Bsyute
LB. Mattoon
Prebiney
John Holyerson
Viow Pyrermey
Becker
Ea Reeey Ee Cabrel
H. B Mattyoe
Ifilgorann
Avi Benson
P. A. Olean
David Jacobin
Louna
Banke
Busi
L. Presburghal
Center Street
Jown Christ Prop
B. Schori & CO
Higin, Lowe
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