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Newspaper
Emmet County Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1901
Page
8
A Chicago clothing merchant recalls seven years since visiting his store and the era of pantaloons with lining. He notes customers demanded lining for better fit, his tailor disliked the work, and one 1850 case involved sewing in lining after the pantaloons fell apart. The tale ends with a former customer now riding with grandchildren in a car.
The article notes that 127 years after Priestley and Scheele first isolated oxygen, various early names misrepresented the element. It explains hydrogen forms acids and oxygen makes water, drives life, and fuels combustion. Oxygen constitutes one fifth of the air, most of the water, and about half the Earth's known materials.
A. Little of the state fish commission reports experiments over four years to learn what share of hatchery salmon return to spawning grounds. Marked tails from 1897 Columbia River fish show four year return pattern. Washington hatcheries on tributaries may drive large runs this year. Telegraph poles near Beaumont Texas reach 150 feet to allow ship masts and cable across the Neches River.
A London paper lists a peculiar rent ad for a rock built crenelated castle facing the Atlantic surge near a feared coastal point. It boasts seven bedrooms three reception rooms and every modern convenience at 10 guineas a week, advertised with an address following.
A collage of humor from late 19th to early 20th century papers includes quips about letters and love, a ragtime remark, a woman selling her child for a quarter, fashion gags, and various social witticisms. It gathers jokes from Puck, Leslie’s Weekly, Chicago Daily News, Detroit Free Press, and others, with notes on marriage, debt, and quirks of society.
Farmers attention I am prepared to do wagon and blacksmith work with experienced help and guaranteed results. Potow and disc sharpening specialty fine carriage repairing short order. Harry Bain successor to Peter Hannon Dr Secley Homeopath Over Klopp's drug store residence Free Baptist parsonage Sewing Machines best makes and latest improved Vitf GERBERICH Music Co orders taken for chocolate cakes Louisr D. Knowlton telephone 25 Coal for sale on track hard and soft coal H. N. Rowpe South Fifth street near Iowa hotel Tor Couses Night Alarm and Dr King’s New Discovery praised for croup coughs colds throat and lung troubles 50c and $1. Trial bottles free at Williams & Anderson.
Public notice from Emmet County District Court appoints Henry and OH Rosburg as executors of William Rosburg deceased. Creditors urged to file claims with the clerk within legal time and relatives asked to make prompt payment to avoid costs. Dated Estherville September 9, 1901.
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