Estherville Local Notes and Campaign Talk Report
In Estherville on October 18 1900 the Republican paper notes a Friday dance in the old school building, local betting on McKinley, Mark Hanna speaking at Sioux Falls, a Spirit Lake marriage, freight car shortages, grain trade activity, and business moves by Nan Bros and Ouis Bagger. It also covers a Salinger Republican speech, cattle purchases by F A Schaefer, a fire at Spirit Lake elevator, regional rail updates, and a large farm auction planned for Oct 23.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chelea
McKinley
Mark Hanna
Sioux Falls
M. M Knapp
Estherville
Nan Bros
Nys
Ouis Bagger & Co
Washington D. C
Vernon D. Kern
Maple Hill
Gridley
Theurlington Hay
Maple
Emmetto
F. A. Schaefer
Illinois
Tllinois
Schaefer
Raleigh
Lincoln Township
Emmet County
C. H. Stone & Co
Spirit Lake
Algona Courier
Central Road
Taylor
Hila Langge
Opera House
New Books Received by the City Library
The list includes The Things That Count China Open Door The Reign of Law Hilde Wade The Judges Gave The Heart a Highway Deacon Bradbury Wahilamville Stories Monsieur Beaucaire The Redemption of David Jompking Wildman Tom Way Takes Laxative Vermifuge. Britt Tribune notes Tom Way as Iowa’s self appointed Coach while Al Adams Gardner Cowles at Ft Dodge administer worm remedies relieving itching and bearing down sensations. Ed Hunter of Des Moines hopes worms are killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Law Hilde Wade
Deacon Bradbury
Wahilamville
Monsieur Beaucaire
David Jompking
Wildman
Tom Way
Britt Tribune
Iowa
al Adams
Gardner Cowles
Ft. Dodge
Bachman
Harriman
Barringer
Dave Horn
Ed Hunter
Des Moines
Flahing and Market Misgivings at Trout Fishing
A humorous exchange features Wan, a friend seeking her husband, and a claim of proof via fish. The dialog plays on trust and value, noting miserable fragments not fit for market and a boastful view of hardships shaping character for old settlers' reunions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Post
Diverse Humorous Snippets From 19th Century Papers
A collage of brief comic bits and notices from various papers. It includes quips about domestic life, a widow’s piano solace, a barber’s misheard telephone exchange, a barbier line from Der Dort, and stray jokes about sharks, summers, and seaside economies.
Skillful Doctor Referral Sparks Billing Dispute
In the Somerville Journal excerpt a patient recalls a doctor advising them to seek another physician, with a disputed $187 fee cited as owed. The terse exchange highlights tensions in medical billing practices and patient frustration with referrals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winke
Fragmented early morning baby chatter and quips
A jumble of lighthearted newspaper blurbs mentions a restless baby described as growing fast, a mother seeking cake for Margaret, and a wife complaining about a new doctor’s methods while a husband notes the comfort of a new decree. The snippets resemble a column of quick gags and anecdotes from several papers.
Wasted on Him and Other Humorous Lines
A stitched-together gag reel from papers like the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Post presents quips on marriage, buying a bicycle, duties of fathers, and romantic misfires. Dialogues feature sarcastic buyers, worldly judges, and lovers who boast of repeated affections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Tribune
Stamps and Postage Rates Update From Early 1900s
A scan of philatelic news notes changes in postal rates including Canada considering halving the per pound rate for newspapers, British post office savings banks lowering deposits to 2 percent after 1908, and new stamp issues such as Liberia in postal union colors and various colonial issues. The piece also mentions a curious 30-cent 1869 imperforate specimen being circulated among stamp dealers and various other newly issued values from Bavaria Iceland Dahomey Martinique and related locales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atampa
Brazil
Post Office
Michael Hicks-Beach
Curio
Liberia
Postal Union
Bolivia
Bavaria
Iceland
Seta
Morocco
Dahomey
Senegal
Martinique
Beauty and health advice for women with headaches
Health and beauty guidance urges women to vary activity and do manual labor, eat wisely to support brain function, and improve respiration. It argues brain fatigue causes headaches lasting days, notes singing and open-air exercise help bilious headaches, and claims fifteen minutes of singing scales boosts vitality and facial appearance.
Prize Won by Hart Wood for Denver Gate Design
Purely personal note on Turkish coronation, then details on a 1% year old Hart Wood winning the Denver city park gateway design prize among many architects. Mentions survival of Harvard cake prophecy figures and lists aging musicians with birth years and current ages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey
Denver
Hart Wood
Young Wood
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Harvard
Charles Storer Storrow
Boston
American Academy
Edward Linzee Cunningham
Newport
R.I
Pechmen
Emil Liebling
Joseffy
Sherwood
Hylleated
Friedhelm
Paderewold
Saver and
Rosenthal
Ailot
D' Albert
Busoni
Godowski
Hambourg
Education at Glance and Historic Purdue Pump Engine
One fifth of Indigenous boys attend school and one fiftieth of the girls. Yale honors include Miss Seiichi Yamaguchi of Tokio. Mount Holyoke conferred a doctor of literature on Misa Ada Lilian Howard, and she later taught at Mount Holyoke and led to the first president of Wellesley. Lafayette presents Purdue with a 2,000,000 gallon waterworks pumping engine from 1875 for laboratory use and hydraulic experiments, notable for its duplet walking beam design and historical value.
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Indie
Yale
Seiichi Yamaguchi
Tokio
Mount Holyoke College
Misa Ada Lilian Howard
Mount Holyoke
Wellesley College
Lafayette
Ind
Purdue University
Devotion and superstition mark Chinese New Year customs
The piece describes Chinese New Year practices and superstitions including offerings to the kitchen god. It notes burning the god to send his tale home and dipping fingers in molasses to smear the idol. It also cites a Luoh city incident where a woman attacked an idol after a prayer for her husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Luhoh
Pigeon Post Serves Auckland Great Barrier Route
The Great Barrier pigeon post uses trained pigeons to carry mail between Auckland and Great Barrier Island. Birds traverse about 60 miles of water, carrying up to four sheets of tissue paper per trip. Messages folded and sealed, stamped, and fixed to the leg, trigger arrival bells when a tiny door drops. The service charges sixpence per message not longer than one sheet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Barrier
Auckland
N. Z
Great Barrier Islands
Great Barrier Island
When Be Returns and the Dray to Haul Money Home
A Chicago Times-Herald quip contrasts a great musician and his mother with a father’s logic about a tour. The exchange centers on a dock meeting and a dray to carry money, framed by a second cartoonish line about tramps and arrests in New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Chicago Times-Herald
New Jersey
Unclear fragment from Chicago Daily News features
Fragmentary OCR cites a Fall Summer description full of rural imagery and a reference to running candidates. It mentions Mis Prim and a dramatic image of a woman with a price on her head, with garbled lines about a bricklayer and a world, ending with stray mis-typed phrases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Daily News
No Chance for Newcomers in Hex River Country
The Hex River region in Cape Colony yields rich wheat, fruit, and vineyards with prosperous farming. Yet it offers no space for immigrants as land is fully held at high prices by dominant Dutch interests who refuse to sell, seeking more land despite limited tillage and the Boer’s land-loving, status-focused pride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Colony
Hex River
Mora Seres
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R Jenkins & Nichols
Stherville, Towa
A. M. Fasset
Bubsns
Spencer
J. W. Megan
Benjamin Newby
Lizzie Long
H. Oransky & Co
Eastman
Minneapolis
B. I. Salinger
Philippines
Democratic Party
United States
Mr. Salinger
Emmetsburg Tribune
Sanders, Moeller
Iowa Lake Township
Mr. Mueller
LeRoy Grout
D. Starr & Son
Mueller
Herr Brendel
Nunskull
Catholic Standard and Times
N. Y
Bronco Pete
Bill
Grizzly Pete
Puck
Bronxborough
Richmond
Singleton
Wederly
Margaret
Cincinnati Enquirer
Dees
Philadelphia
Health and Beauty
Chlebratechvl S Breitibay
Boota
New Zealand
Misa Prim
BIG Shoe Sale
Mens “Szsse” Shoes
Kraft Clothing Co
Estherville, IA
Howard Graves
KL. Sondrol
James Apriet
Cashtor
L. L. Drulby
Rest. Cox
Estherville State Bank
Transactan General Banking
Businces Pi
M. Barker
K.e al
N.8
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