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Newspaper
Emmet County Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1901
Page
3
Estherville Iowa city notice appears in official paper dated October 24 1902. Details are fragmentary but indicate local government or civic publication status in the county seat.
A collection of short portraits notes Gov. Orman of Colorado as an elite hunter with trophies from Rocky trips, G Barber of Diamond Match funding Barberton parks, William C. Whitney’s selective Adirondack forestry, and Wall Street’s James R. Keene maintaining steady work. Plus, Archbishop Frederick Temple, aged 80, marks a silver wedding with a robust family life and temperance.
The article describes how various birds including the pinnated grouse, blue winged warbler, Tennessee warbler, winter wren, and Maryland yellowthroat use ventriloquism. It notes ground and tree-top voice throwing to mislead observers and protect nests, with the Maryland yellowthroat nesting in swampy brush and using the skill when approached.
The piece lists averages and stats across Britain including estate size 390 acres valued at £9408, Lake Constance depth 1027 feet, land ownership rate one in 200, 21000 first class houses, average rent £685, Liverpool debt £39 per person, factory horsepower totals 366000 cotton 122000 wool 73000 linen, average fire insurance £74 per subject totaling about £3 billion, births under five per 1000 135 vs 98 in France, 9600 justices of the peace, Hall Barn hedges 30 feet high, change from God Save the Queen to God Save the King costing £400000.
New Zealand immigrants have cost the colony 219 and head while Victoria’s £17 reflects limited gains. Austria’s commerce rose 78 percent in 20 years, Canada's 54 percent in 18 years. NSW spent £743,000 to destroy 24,000,000 noxious animals. Australia spent about £11,000,000 promoting immigration. immigrants cost about £18 per head. NZ born are 63 percent of the population yet provide 25 percent of prisoners.
A brief sale notice offers hard and soft coal for sale by dant H. W. Ronpe of South Fifth Street near the Iowa hotel. The writer invites orders and signs off as a cordial seller.
Massachusetts arts and crafts group plans a competition for an artistic signboard with Pratt Institute among entrants. A new bas relief in Paris depicts a Tyrolean action by senator Alphonse Moncel, while an art journal suggests using raw potatoes to clean paintings and advises careful rinsing and drying of canvas.
Global notes report a 1899 French inheritance tax of 198,100,000 francs and a U S equivalent of 38 387 700 dollars. Spain favors the mandola guitar family with six pairs of wires. Tasmania bans private land sales within five miles of Hobart or Launceston. London jewelers loan tiaras for special occasions to select customers, others pay a deposit. Belgium poster tax scales by size with a minimum one cent and increments. 1899 total taxes on posters and signboards reach 70 531 dollars.
Tolstoi reflected on losing hunting as a luxury of youth and riding to hounds with passion. Hood allegedly wrote The Bridge of Sighs in a single afternoon, with some accounts claiming a day plus later revisions. Howells is noted for slow, laborious writing and near impossibility of dictation. HH. B. Irving, 31 on August 5, emerges as an author-actor educated at Oxford and rising in university circles. Irving's stage career began ten years ago after a pause to study for the bar.
The notes cover a large oyster supply for the coming season, a teak wood weight, Montana land auctions at ten dollars per acre, naturalists on mulberry leaves, Roman altar sacrifices perfumed with flowers, pastilles emitting plant odors, and Greece's road network from Athens to the peninsula.
An order setting the schedule of district court terms across Iowa counties in the Fourteenth Judicial District for 1904. The document lists numerous term dates by county including Humboldt Gray Buena Vista and others with dates in February March April May and October through December. It specifies that judges shall hold terms at their respective offices on stated dates.
The petition to foreclose a mortgage on property in Emmet County Iowa names defendants Wattson and Annie A Molson and John C Morison seeks sale of the premises to satisfy the debt plus costs and interest and asks for appointment of a receiver plus equitable relief. A judgment recorded in another county is cited and the notice warns default will lead to further actions. Also listed are Pan American ticket details and travel prices from Buffalo to Chicago.
Pan American and Nickel Plate Road offer round trips to Buffalo with duty free rates. 15 day and 20 day tickets priced at 16 dollars. 5 day tickets at 6 dollars with limited Tuesday Thursday Saturday validity for coaches. Through service to New York and Boston with best available fares. Tickets sold Tuesdays Thursdays Saturdays in October at Battle Pan-American Exposition for 6 dollars, with six day courtyard limit. Contact John V. Calhwan General Agent at 112 Adams St Chicago for details.
The Thames saw the first electric launch in July at nine knots. Electric cabs in Paris prove unprofitable with losses around 900000 dollars. Norway and Falls of Glomen prompt plans for a Niagara sized plant. Wind energy proves workable in England and Germany, with Hamburg’s M G Couz refining a regulator to stabilize speed, boosting village light and power prospects.
A fragmented notice advertises fares and schedules on the Nickel Plate Road with round trip and 30 day tickets, sleep ing car access, and through daily trains. It mentions John Calsho as general agent in Chicago and offers a Pan American folder with details on buildings and grounds.
A fragment from a Burlington area timetable or notice lists officials including county attorney, recorder, superintendent of schools, surveyor and station agents. It mentions Burlington, Cedarapids and Northern Railway, passenger and freight services, station times, and arrivals and departures with several unreadable portions. Names include W. Nichols on the Saint Louis line and a station agent reference with Minneapolis & Saint Louis.
The Burtington Cedar Hapide & Northern Mailway Co nears completing 10 miles of extensions in southwestern Minnesota. Six new towns Reading Vrimont Lis wore Kenneth Walters wid Conger grow into commercial centers for rich surrounding areas. Prospects include cheap land and ready markets for grains and other farm products in the Red River Valley of Minnesota and the Dakotas.
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