Personal holiday travels fill Ottumwa list
A flood of city visitors and residents spending Christmas and the holidays in Ottumwa or traveling for the season is noted. Names include W. D. Shirk heading to the Black Hills, Fred Shaffer of Chicago visiting, Will Irwin arriving for a visit, and many others from Kansas City to Des Moines and Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Shaffer
Chicago
Fred Morris
City
John Shirk
van Orin, NJ
Fairfield
Vicinity
J. W. Burnett
Clayton, Nl
Madison Letts
Marshalltown
A. Canterberry
Des Moines
Warner Hoopes
Rock Rapids
O. T. Hoopes
Ed. Davies
Jos. Daine
Illinois Central Railroad
Omaha
Sioux City
Fort Dodge
Gentleman recalls Absalom and the horse line
A Mississippi man recounts a tale from a Mississippi store. The proprietor waking on the counter quotes the line my kingdom for a horse from Shakespeare as Absalom’s horse reportedly ran under a tree. The account, recounted to a Memphis Scimitar reader, blends folklore with literary reference.
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Mississippi
Absalom
Memphis
In Moorish Captivity Reference From Grey
The passage describes camel riding as a severe degradation for captives, comparing it to walking barefoot in chains and likening the sensation to a stool on a springless cart driven over a plowed field. It notes Moors view this as the worst degradation for prisoners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grey
Ill Humored Exchange Amid Amputations
A Chicago Tribune report recalls a patient joking with doctors during a leg amputation and notes the man spoke in a disjointed way, reflecting on nerve and demeanor during surgery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Tribune
State Board exposes dire Iowa asylum conditions
Des Moines reports detail the condition of county asylums across the state. The board argues for abolishing county facilities and moving all insane residents to state institutions, citing indiscriminate confinement and lack of expert care.
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Des Moines
State Board of Control
Iowa
Mandamus fight over swamp lands in Woodbury County
Des Moines reports a mandamus case where Wilson L. Ogden seeks Governor Shaw's request to patent swamp lands to Iowa. If classified as swamp, lands would go to the county. Ogden plans to buy them. Governor Shaw contends the lands are not swamp and should stay with the state. Cases may reach high courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Wilson L. Ogden
Woodbury County
Shaw
Ogden
Gear Men
Bowen
Cummins
Eaton
Iowa Anti-Saloon League to Meet in Des Moines
Des Moines announces a Jan 11 and 12 meeting of the Iowa Anti-Saloon League, a semi political group with county branches statewide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa Anti-Saloon League
Political Power Shifts in Kentucky Election Boardrow
The resignation of two Kentucky election commissioners triggers a partisan dispute as Governor Taylor plans to appoint two Republicans, creating a split with the Democratic board. Contests arising from Republican officers may be settled by Taylor’s board, while Democrats push through their own, with court rulings on who is the lawful official. Powderly says the alien contract labor law is violated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Shore Railway Company
John Newell
Dr. W. Caldwell
Nickel Plate
Lake Shore
Caldwell
Newell
Messrs. Newell
Chicago Times-Herald
Frankfort
Pryor and
Ellis
State Election Commission
Taylor
Pittsburg
Terrence YV. Powderly
Commissioner of Immigration
Grain-O Health Drink Promoted as Coffee Substitute
An old advertisement touts Grain-O as a nutritious coffee substitute for children. The copy claims Grain-O is made from pure grains, tastes like coffee, and costs about seven times less, with prices at 15e and 25e as grocers sell it.
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J. E. Roth & CO
Roth’s
E. Roth & CO
North Side
Hunt
Fairfield, IA
W. D. Shirk
Black Hills
Will Irwin
Roy Black
Montana
Miss Beulah West
Kansas City, Kans
Lizzie Teeter
Packwood
Mrs. B. Simons
Trenton, Missouri
Mr. W. Jones
Garfield, Neb
This City
John Speers
W. A. Randall
E. D. Hoopes
Albia
Mrs
Ed. Giltnr
E. B. Ward
Ottumwa
Donaldson
Margaret McCracken
Toledo
Ohio
J. B. Kerrick
Harry Green
Oklahoma
Mayme Long
Sterling, NL
Max Babb
Mt. Pleasant
Rev
I. O. Kemble
R. F. Ratcliff
Geo. W. Rogers
Kewanee, Nl
Dr. Rogers
Miss Cawthorpe
English
Parsons
Ontario
Canada
Hugh Sullivan
J. W. Turner
Hammond, Ind
H. D. Bridges
W. A. Warwick
May Curfman
Cedar Falls
Wm. M. Wood
Orient
Chas. McElroy
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Louisiana
Albert Roth
Stewart
Oregon
D. P Stubbs
John T. Booth
Rachel Booth
Cora West
Flora West
Ser
Southwest Corner Square
McGoll Photo Studio
W. Cor
Pleas
D. B. Coop
Perlee
Postoffice
Hufstedler
Mandamus
Bloomfield
Bonaparte Dam
Meek Brothers
Iown
Meeks
Noah Brookwood Bacon
Bacon
Mason City
Clarence Dumbolton
Vancouver
Dumbolton
Delawyn
Muscatine
State of
Lowa
George Wright
Nellie S. Crippen
Our Underwear
Ladies’ Union
I. D. Jones
Lawyef
Kate M. Jones
Henry H. Brighton
West Side Park
Fairfield, Lowa
Anti-Saloon League
Comecracker
Maull
Cook, Range
Gaines Bros
Ove
Jordan Block
Phone
West Side
Fairhela
Tee
Ulster
John
Wilson Bros
Long & Kasip
South Side Square
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