Iowa Rowing Regatta Set for Spirit Lake July 19 20
The Iowa State Rowing association schedules its third annual regatta at Spirit Lake with twelve races for medals totaling 1200 dollars. Entries to be received by W. A. Martin, secretary, Davenport.
27 Apr 1887
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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1887
Page
1
The Iowa State Rowing association schedules its third annual regatta at Spirit Lake with twelve races for medals totaling 1200 dollars. Entries to be received by W. A. Martin, secretary, Davenport.
Sioux City reports the Arensdorf trial ended without a verdict after twenty hours of deliberation. Judge Lewis discharged the jurors, noting one member’s firm resolve, amid mixed public reaction. First ballot had ten for acquittal, two for conviction.
A large fire at Fulton Illinois on April 20 destroyed the Journal office a general store dwelling livery stable saloon and sheds with losses estimated at $25 000 and $350 in insurance.
The author counsels young aspirants to treat art as a side pursuit while taking a normal paying job. He urges choosing a trade aligned with artistic interests to learn the business side and avoid starving while developing talent. The piece underscores the slim odds of quick success and promises future talks on writing.
A Boston Transcript item reports a bystander at Forest Hills arguing that if judges were killed in an accident it might teach the young a lesson, while noting Dedham is home to many judges. The woman departs with a disappointed expression after the remark.
Rev Edward Judson D D son of pioneer missionary Adoniram Judson has expanded Berean Baptist Church at Downing and Bedford to 700 members. The church runs seven homes for the aged, a sewing school for about a hundred girls, a tract repository, a fresh air fund and ice water fountain. Judson plans a memorial church for his father’s centennial in 1888 and is soliciting a world wide dime from Baptists to fund it.
A discussion from the Boston Journal of Commerce explains how the tongue tip senses touch not taste, and why smell and pungent tastes clash. The piece notes experimental methods, such as keeping the tongue dry and using breath to reset sensation between tries.
The Philadelphia Record reports a Jeffersonian Medical College case where a woman refused ether. Without anesthesia she endured a six inch arm tumor removal, bone scraping, and stitching while remaining stoic before six hundred students.
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