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Newspaper
Enterprise
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1893
Page
4
A chaotic rural note describes births, visits, and local happenings. Mentions Win Jalon’s newborn, hotel rental, town events, and various residents like Mrs. Lionidas Smith and Joba Drugkete. Reports on store breakins, threshing gear upgrades, a local band teacher, storm damage, cyclone relief, church activity, and harvesting progress.
William Waldron sues for legal separation from wife Sarah Waldron, charging desertion and adultery. M Williams, president of the board of education, has rehired Prof. Clas E Smith to oversee a school principal. Thursday evening Aug 17 features no oratorical contest.
A draft municipal plan outlines district leadership changes with many white entrants from abroad. In Hardin township no current superintendents or officers are in place, prompting questions about local ability to fill offices. G Hundley, former county superintendent, has just completed courses at Ann Arbor and plans practice elsewhere. A large flag has been donated along Washington Avenue by business leaders for public holidays. Farmers east of town seek road redirection from the bridge toward Rocksylvania to avoid steep grades and bluff-edge dangers. a petition for northward realignment is circulating.
Ackley notes a bad bicycle collision injuring a girl, plans for a Sioux City trip, and a parish progress update as Father Meagher takes over. Local baseball critique follows as Hampton delays a game amid umpire tensions. Various social visits, travel to World’s Fair, and community notices fill the rest with names, places, and events from Eldora and surrounding towns.
Local column reports a high over several shooting attempts with a 180 score of 225 and a claim for stearpshooter honor. It also covers burglaries at several Westgate locations, a damaged eye operation on a girl near Allison, Sheriff injuries, and county treasurer rumors.
A tiger terrorized a remote Indian hamlet driving residents to flee. A woman and infant were found dead from savage wounds as a lone groom and bystanders reported a tigress raiding at night, while plantation tools and copper sheets lay abandoned. A local hunter later tracked and killed the animal after days of pursuit, revealing the scale of the carnage and prompting an official tiger-shooting expedition from the nearest station.
A church on wheels arrived at the Northwestern depot yesterday and departed shortly after for the Northwestern in the special past train from Hosta. The car is used to disseminate the gospel among railroad men with limited time for chapel attendance. The device, the “Mvangol,” was designed by John D. Rockefeller.
A visitor to London from Comadia Fran aise traces Waterloo remnants near the Belle Alliance site. Two elderly women recount the 1815 battle, recalling cattle drives, a storm, and the aftermath with bodies laid in dry branches and burned, as described by the London News.
A fragment discusses the US president’s annual $350,000 salary and $36,064 for clerks, plus $9,000 for incidentals and other costs. It notes private secretaries, stenographers, messengers, and staff salaries, totaling over 1296,000 for the president and his house. The piece also recounts Queen Victoria gardening memories and a brief tale about musician Mario at Osborne. It mentions garbage destructors turning waste into city lighting and a passport handwriting detention practice in China.
A Town paper titled The Epitaph edited by an Englishman named Coffin and published by Loxton is noted for its lively stance and its unusual refusal to advertise undertakers, a curious stance said to stem from the paper’s deathly theme and local sentiment.
Four unique peaks in Lower California, two with alum, one with a sulfur mix, and one pure sulfur. Estimated total 10,000,000 tons of alum and 1,000,000 tons of sulfur in the four peaks.
The writer recounts a midnight visit to a Carthusian convent near the Alps, detailing the silent monks, lanterns, and Latin chant. He notes the strict enclosure, the prohibition on women, and Queen Victoria's rare permission. The journey through mountain country impressed him, calling the place a strange path to heaven and reflecting on solitude and virtue.
At Palmer's theater stage door two chorus girls emerge. One is lavishly dressed with salting and lace and a pink ear adornment, while the other appears hungry in a cheap outfit with a bundle of sewing. Manager E E Rice notes the contrast in earnings and saving habits observed by a bystander.
A nervous diseases specialist notes a new Italian therapy using tinted rooms and colored light. Red, blue and violet rooms are said to influence mood, with violet calming raging patients and red aiding melancholia, suggesting future home use. The New York Times cites these observations.
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