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Newspaper
Emmet County Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1901
Page
3
Passenger timetable fragment lists Burlington Cedar Rapids Northern trains with departures and arrivals. Mentions station master M. E. Winn and service notes for daily or special days. Includes line captions South and Monday through Sunday variants.
English nobility and statesmen are sketched as they pursue varied lives. Viscount Mountmorres rises from poverty through multiple trades. Gen French praised for flawless early Transvaal campaign. Rev John Spurgeon marks foundation stone of South Norwood Baptist church. John Morley keeps dogs with him in old journalism days. The king smokes heavily and exchanges cigars with leaders of Russia and Germany.
Practical guidance for infant care emphasizing breast milk, fresh air, cleanliness, and careful feeding. Warns against feeding with spam and overfeeding. Advises water for babies, separate sleep, consulting a doctor when sick, proper bottle use, and maintaining sterilization. Recommends age appropriate milk when breast milk is unavailable and avoiding patent medicines.
Krapp the German gunmaker is valued at 80 million dollars. Dr Arthur Edwards long editor at Northwestern Christian Advocate served 35 years on its staff and 20 as editor in chief. Gully of the British House of Commons entered Cambridge at 17, youngest undergraduate of his era. Monument to Arthur Sullivan abandoned due to insufficient small donations. Cornelius Bushnell funded the first monitor. Carnegie contributes 1000 dollars. Joseph Joachim, on his 70th birthday, named director of philosophy at Goettingen for his poverty era. Prince Lowenstein’s anti dueling protest signed by 441 German nobility, including 103 princes and counts, 8 lawyers, 68 physicians, 40 professors.
The excerpt lists counts of free masons and lodges in England, weights by age, and national banking branch figures for England Scotland and Ireland. It notes Norwegian shipping tonnage in British ports, beet versus hay costs, postal mail counts, and estate tax figures tied to the late Marquis of Bute, including an inheritance duty base and tax.
Sarah Bernhardt avoids fire risk with all stage wear fireproof. Odilon Rakouski is a famed actress and millionaire who acts for love of art. Austrian theater bans uniforms resembling military attire. Emma Calve bids to become an actress after grand opera success and wealth, aiming to move audiences as she does with singing.
A brief note records a fire engine makers’ merger with $9 million capital, notes a shift in Chinese and Japanese populations in the United States, cites a Public Library Bulletin claim that Petersboro New Hampshire established the first free public library in 1799, and summarizes Bridge Commissioner Shea’s report that New York owns 78 bridges costing $24,792,510 plus 439 highway bridge-like structures, with several bridges under construction and vast sums spent.
Household hints cover mold prevention with lavender oil, brass cleaning using salt and vinegar, mat protection with mild brine, quick ink stain removal from fingers, storing fine lace in blue paper with magnesia, drying fruit stones for odor and flame, using soap scraps dried and powdered for bath sachets.
An article notes pine sawdust yielding 94 percent oxalic acid when dried and oak 3 percent. It states pine timber requires six tons to produce a ton of charcoal, while oak yields one ton. It mentions England's tallest tree called the Queen's beech in Buckinghamshire, 150 feet high. It adds details on Jarrow wood from Austria resisting insects and provides forest-industry labor figures in Norway with saw mills, pulp mills, and winter stripping work.
A jumble of notes mentions 11 men and nine women among 20 blind people, the sultan of Morocco spending £2000 on a camera, Horace era honey baked pork as a treat, a 20 pound powder record for 1200 workers in Chicago, and a Columbus company forming to replace newsboys with corner machines that deliver papers for a penny.
A World Over column notes Spain has the smallest foreign population in Europe except Norway. Germany requires an eight to four vote for conviction in jury trials, while a six to six vote yields acquittal. It mentions Armenian language links to Syriac and Greek, and regional area comparisons among continents. It cites post office letter totals: English leads with eight billion, German one point two billion, French one billion, others under two billion.
A collage of light humor and social bits from multiple papers. Features shy banter with a fale girl and her guardian, a Metamora traveler misadventure, double chin quips, a cave tunnel tale, and pun filled exchanges about doctors, pistols, and marriage proposals. Notable lines include the umbrella theft, a tunnel caper, and a heiress with a money focus.
A collage of humorous vignettes and cartoon captions from various papers. Jokes about language learning mispronunciations, domestic life, marriage plans, and playful exchanges, mentioning characters like Penatye, Nero, Tommie, and references to papers such as the Retroit Journal, N. Y. Weekly, Puck, and Chicago Tribune.
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