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Newspaper
Emmet County Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1901
Page
4
A Republican notice from HTSHERVILLE on November 7, 1501 discusses a Athenaeum writer defending bagpipes against denouncers. It cites a Chicago jury ruling deeming bagpipes not musical, notes the instrument’s resilience, and mentions 22 pipe bands in the British army and adoption by Punjab regiments.
A Harper's Weekly reviewer denounces M Dellenbaugh for using amerind in The North Americans of Yesterday arguing the term is a scholarly invention from Washington. The piece urges using injun instead, claiming it reflects plain speech and avoids mislabeling indigenous peoples.
A Detroit Free Press report recounts Mexican boys in Lower California catching tarantulas and pitting them against each other in a large tin pan. Prisoners are tossed in, then fight as youths cheer, with bets placed in centavos, presenting a grim, curious local custom observed by a returning traveler.
A German porter boasted of being a man of iron after a sportsman fired at his back with at least 90 grains of shot. His brother removed about half the load with a knife, the man refused surgeons, and authorities later confirmed the story as true. The incident occurred amid a poaching dispute involving a gamekeeper.
The article notes monarchs sit on multiple thrones beyond palaces. Britain uses four seats in Westminster Abbey, Lords state chair, Buckingham drawing room chair, and Windsor reception chair. Russia has a dozen state chairs, notably Ivan the Terrible’s turquoise throne and the Winter Palace chair with imperial eagle and ivory tusks. Teheran’s shah sits on a Delphi loot ivory throne valued over one million pounds.
The Philadelphia Record notes that monkeys are dangerous despite seeming friendly. Keepers fear entering cages as they can be attacked by the primates. A hissing warning and a borrows of a bull snake are used to deter the animals during inspections.
A historic newspaper excerpt discusses Alaska’s vast size with over 600,000 square miles, its isolation, and slow news travel from Nome to the continental United States. It mentions Sitka as governor’s seat, Attu Island near Greenwich, and compares Alaska to eastern U S territories and Oregon country. It also touches on royal marriage plans for 1002 and various European monarchs, plus a quirky note about a kangaroo ranch.
In Pittsburg a man named Charles Campbell withdrew a damages suit against Henry Meller after discovering the cow in his garden lacked a tail, a tail later found with rawhide bits. Campbell had bought the cow from John McGuire and claimed it had shed its tail. He paid costs and explained the situation to Alderman William A. Means.
From Yokohama via the Japan Daily Mail comes word of wreckage on Biker Island in the Marshall group believed to be from the British ship Manchester. Footprints of a woman and children, bird remains, kerosene scattered on the beach, and a single man’s body found in scrub point to a thirst-driven fate after the vessel sailed from New York with Captain F Clemens for Yokohama over a year ago.
An odd feature lights Iceland as fire and ice mingle with eruptions creating natural icehouses. Nearby, a Detroit Belle Isle ostrich dies after ingesting a broken beer bottle, the yard scene witnessed by onlookers as the bird faltered and collapsed.
A collage of humorous exchanges and quips from Chicago and Boston papers, plus brief notices. The items include wordplay between cooks and reporters, a beef at a mismatch in manners, a crime blur, and a land tax redemption notice in Emmet County Iowa. Shared voices critique social foibles and small town life with dated charm.
The Nickel Posts Road offers tickets each Tuesday Thursday and Saturday in October to the Buffalo Pac-American Exposition and return at 96.08 good in coaches. Return limit six days from sale date. Tickets with longer limits available at higher rates. Three through daily trains depart from Chicago Passenger Station Van Buren St and Pacific Ave. City Ticket office 111 Adame St Chicago.
$6.00 to Buffelo Pan-American and Re ma $8.00 via the Nickel Pints Road Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays with a limit of 6 days from date of sale good in vouchers only 15 day tickets at $13.00 for the round trip and 30 day tickets at $16.00 for round grip good in cheap ing caves Three through daily trains For particulars Pan-American folder of buildings and grounds address John Y Calahan General Agent Al Adame St Chicago
From Coopersville Michigan word arrives of a pleasant tasting liquid that when used before retiring eases a bad cough and leads to a good night’s rest. Mrs Himelburger claims it will soon cure the cough as three generations have trusted Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption for coughs and colds. Guaranteed bottles 50c and 1.00 at Williams and Anderson. Trial bottles free.
Editor N Veeter of Syrs couse Kansas details two years of failed treatments for Ec vena in his palms. He credits Bucklen's Arnica Salve with a complete cure and touts it as best for eruptions, spray and skin diseases. Sold by Williams and Andersons for 25 cents.
Throbbing headaches vanish with Dr King’s Ife Pills as thousands of surfers report relief from sick and nervous headaches. The pills claim to improve health and complexion, selling for 250 with a money back guarantee. Sold by Williams & As, ?derdon druggiate.
An old notice advertises Pan American and Hetura tickets to Buffalo and through service to New York and Boston. It lists 16 and 20 day round trips with complex pricing, day-limited sales from Iowa on Burlington lines, and asks readers to contact John V. Calahao for a Pan American folder. Also mentions Railway Mail positions info and a coal for sale offer with a local seller signature.
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