Ottumwa Social Notes and Visiting Friends
A long list of Ottumwa area residents and relatives visiting, traveling, or staying with kin. Names include Edith and Grace Sigel, Lula Cox, Dyer, Kearns, Hunt, Lammed, and many others visiting from Muscatine, Fairfield, Des Moines, Ottumwa, and nearby towns.
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Edith
Grace Sigel
Ry Cohen
Strude Rogers
Muscatine
Lula Cox
Aker
Des Moines
H. Baker
Chanan
Keokuk
Forde
The passing of Marcia Russell at Fairfield
Marcia Russell daughter of Mr and Mrs W C Russell died after a prolonged illness aged when she was born near Rome Iowa May 3 1887 She lived in this area and worked in the Tribune bindery before health declined Funeral services were held at the Christian church in Fairfield led by Rev Lee of Salem Iowa Bunds of flowers surrounded the silent form She had lived a life of faith and bravery during her final days. A separate public auction notice lists farm and livestock items to be sold northwest of Fairfield on Friday February 1st at 10 o clock sales include horses cattle hogs grain hay implements and household goods with terms and conditions provided
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Ottumwa
Tribune
Hunt
V. A
Alton
Ouden
J. S. Hanna
Den
Dyer
Risk
Excelsior Springs
N. Biddle
Rela
Centerville
Fairfield
Rney
Otourier
Nnavey
Lumbernvention
Fritz
Lumbermen
Courtney
LaGrand
Ore
M. Junkin
Washington
A. G. Jordan
Burlington
Iowa
Delano Hotel
Pearl McElhany
New York
McElhany
Chicago
Orlando Flower
Fort Collins
Cole
John Evans
Davenport
Maude Hoagland
Ed Gorrell
Albia
C. R. Unkrich
Monmouth
Ill
Walter Roth
Cedar Rapids
M. W. Roth
Wm. L. Carr
Sioux Falls
S. D
Lucy David
O'Lee Loeher
W. E. Parsons
Presbyterian Church
J. S. Petty
Des Moines
D. M. Oliver
Violette Flower
Ottawa
S. Spray
C. W. McIntyre
Oklahoma
Marcia Russell
W. C. Russell
Jesus
Rome
Marcia
the Tribune
James
Eugene
Christian Church
Lee
Salem
Ohio
S. A. Johnson
William C, Brawner
Wiliam C, Brawer
Fairfield Markets Grain and Hay Prices At Zeigler Elevator
Local market prices list grain and hay rates at Zeigler Elevator and Emry’s Produce. Prices cover corn timothy and clover hay per ton, live stock quotes, poultry, flour and meal costs, with quantities and unit prices in cents and dollars.
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Fairfield
Zeigler
Emry
S. Unos
Iowa
Zeigler’s
Omebors
Bcoey
Ebay Bees
Cretan
Wu Stati
Chicago Live Stock Market Faces Decline Amid Heavy Receipts
Cattle were slow to fall 10 15 cents as receipts reached 31 000 head. Beves cows and heifers and stockers and feeders showed declines while western stock ran 375 to 450. Hogs dropped 10 15 cents on the day, led by a large local run and light demand.
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Chicago
Meat market falls as shipments shrink and prices drop
The report shows limited shipping orders and bearish packers. Receipts reach 78,000 hogs with prices 16 15c lower, lights averaging 4.05 to 4.35, heavies 4.10 to 4.40, bulk 4.25 to 4.35. Sheep enter weaker trading with 18,000 head and a 10c decline. ewes 3.20 to 6.40, lambs 5 to 6.90, yearlings 5.25 to 6.25.
Rise Up and Away and a Curious Mule Tale
A rustic Atlanta Constitution excerpt features a campaign mule famed for appetite and mischief across seventeen campaigns. The farmer laments the critter’s appetite for stumps fences and barn doors, refusing to sell to circuses despite many offers.
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Billville
Atlanta Constitution
A Sensitive Conscience
A brief line from the New York Times quotes Belle and Carrie-Goodness discussing Wilkins with Belle claiming she is out and refusing to tell a story while noting the other has not yet returned.
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Carrie
Wilkins
Belle
New York Times
Dangers of Kissing
A Yonkers Statesman quip notes microbes from kissing and asks what comes from them, replying matrimony in a witty exchange between Patience and Patrick. The brief joke highlights social humor on relationships and health.
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Patrick
Fragment from a courtroom gag line about a rubber doll
A judge jokes about a rubber doll troubling a child, noting the child’s fits upon seeing it and the father’s quip about the doll being inedible and unbreakable.
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Mrs. Newed
John
Mr. Newed
No Restrictions on His Liberty
A dialogue flashes between Anna Gee Wynne and a man facing parental objections as a father objects to visits. The exchange includes a humorous aside about a lit cigar and a wife’s calm reassurance in a Chicago newspaper style.
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Ketchum
A. Cummin
Anna Gee Wynne
Chicago Tribune
Pious Horror In Family Exchange Reflects Language Clash
A Town and Country quip depicts a mother and son in a tense moment over a harmless word misheard as a swear. The dialogue contrasts youthful speech with parental propriety and hints at learned language norms within a religiously framed home.
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Charles
His Business
A woman accuses a man of deception calling him a mere clerk. She recalls a moment during a proposal when his remark about wearing a smaller size revealed his intention, as she watched him kneel before a girl.
At Our Summer Boarding House Outcry Over Bathing Suits
A dialogue at a summer boarding house features a debate on bathing suit length. One character mocks the outcry as nonsense while another insists a higher viewpoint is needed, claiming to observe the happenings from the bluff each morning.
Sleeping in Open Air Cures Asthma Says Experiment
A Chicago Tribune remark quotes a man praising open air sleep as a cure for asthma. He claims the method froze his nose and part of an ear, which apparently made him forget his asthma.
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Chicago Tribune
Dear Little Miss and Younger Sister in Auto Craze
A Yonkers Herald excerpt notes two young women sparring over automobiling as a craze. The Younger Sister asserts chauffeurs are crazy while theOlder Sister defends the trend.
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Yonkers
In That Class Scribe Proposes Cheaper Mail for Manuscripts
Jack Scribe argues fiction manuscripts should travel by cheaper mail rates. Ida Clare jokes about scent stamps on love letters in a Chicago News snippet.
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Jack Scribe
Ida Clare
Chicago News
A Scientific Diagnosis
A college senior and junior discuss Tom’s health and a proposed event. Their dialogue notes pulse readings and temperatures, suggesting a crisis may occur tonight as a lighthearted date in the campus gossip column.
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Tom
Puck
New Voiles Linens and Dress Fabrics In Latest Colors
124 cts AR and 10 28 ee New Voiles in all good colors and black New Cordura Cloths in colors and novelty weaves for suits and skirts New checks in tans brown or grey and novelties in woolen suitings or skirts Linens for wash dresses Panamas Wool Taffetas Serges black novelties patterns in Valencine Laces and white or eerie patterns Black Silks 36 inch Garment fabrics offered at low prices to undersell competitors and grow the business in ten years.
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M. Gage
A. Spilman
D. S
Wilma He Court
Hill
Q. Railway Company
W. I. Neibert
Wilson
Fort Madison
Cornell
Sadie A. Cornell
E. Lewis
W. Unkred
Lace
Rtain Sale
Lealance Sale
Rge W. Unkrich
Voorhies
Frank L. Stanton
Satan
Providence
Edmund Clarence Stedman
Stedman
Normandie
Teil du Nord
L. L
Frank H. Wells & Co
A. L. Stanford
R. W. Lamson
Chas. H. Gage
Stanford
Texas
R. W. Lamson and
Chas. H
Gage
Fairfield, Ia
Lyford, Texas
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