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Newspaper
Emmet County Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1901
Page
8
Notices advertise lands in northwestern Iowa and nearby states with cheap round trip fares from Cedar Rapids Route. Campaigns list multiple expositions, conventions, and meetings across the United States with dates and locations, urging readers to contact Cedar Rapids Route agents for rates and tickets.
Fishing season opens May 15 at Spirit and Okoboji Lakes with ample hotel and boarding house accommodations in Northwestern Town. A transfer bus meets trains of the Union Pacific and Oregon Railways at Spirit Lake town, taking passengers to The Inn and Are Noide Park, then back for all trains. For rates and train details contact a railroad agent or Jno. G. Marmer. In contrast, launchings of the bombship Onto occur May 18 in San Francisco with excursion tickets via the Scenic Line through Denver, Colorado Springs, and Salt Lake City, returning via Los Angeles or Portland. rates and stay-overs available from B C Novaveite or address Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Estherville Iowa opens a dray office at the former city hall building on South Street. Robins and Julson invite orders for dray work and supplies from Vote plan publishers and County Depositors. The county Board of Education seeks bids for school text books and supplies, reserves right to reject, and will establish county depositories. G. U. Aller, County Auditor, announces April 20, 1901.
Public notices announce Abdie Ayers as administratrix of William Clark Ayer’s estate and Addis J. Peon as executor of his estate in Emmet County Iowa. Claimants must file with the district court clerk within legal time. payments urged to avoid costs. Also noted is a proof of will for Hiker, deceased, with a court date set in September 1901.
Consul General Richard Guenther reports 1895 German paper noting a new ray type called Bequerel rays from uranium with properties like Roentgen rays. Experiments by Bertin high school reveal a new element causes these rays and render many substances luminous in darkness. Potential wireless telegraphy use and diamond testing noted. results to be laid before the emperor.
Northwestern steamer, the first Chicago built for salt water service, launches on the Calumet river with three sister ships. At 260 feet and 3,000 tons, they aim to sail Lake Michigan to European ports via Welland and the St. Lawrence canals in about 18 days, with winter use on the ocean if ice permits, promising a landmark 1901 for Chicago commerce.
The Paris Messenger defends Paris against claims of becoming common, noting it remains pictorial, romantic, extravagant, and paradoxical. It cites a madman in a pillar near the exhibition gate and a “Diogenes” found testing frost, while contrasting with huts outside the city and vagabonds seeking shelter in unfinished buildings. Also mentions heaviness of the gircon stone and 30,000 women who work on England’s canals.
A remarkable New York development plans a towering 15 story addition with four subterranean levels. The project signals a bold urban expansion amid rising city costs and riverfront deck work in a nationwide wave of improvements.
An overview notes Cassel’s thousandth anniversary in 1912 and a 1903 Dresden city exhibition representing large German towns. It cites Berlin tax brackets, a doctors’ relief fund, Derminy’s timber demand growth, and Germany’s expert commercial attaches in New York Buenos Aires Constantinople and St Petersburg aiding mercantile interests.
The record notes 16 births and 12 deaths per minute in Europe, 0 exclusive mushroom wholesalers in ris, and European river and canal routes treated as highways. It cites a 4 200 acre Royal Park deer enclosure in Copenhagen and claims rail, auto, and bicycle transport surpass horse-drawn travel in safety. The Austro-Hungarian census shows 47 million people, up nine percent since 1890, with Burkart Pesth rising 45 percent. A Swedish note mentions the world’s longest mile and a warning about travel by horse versus walking, quantified as 11 700 yards remaining walking distance.
A compilation of terse quips and witticisms from various publications. It presents satirical lines about mind and speech, bores, talkative women, cleverness, cost of remorse, and the notion of taste in ethics. The pieces read like brief, dated humor notes without a single narrative.
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