Beckwith Community News Highlights January Events
Local notes report Tom Barton moving to Esterville and Anna Bright visiting Ottumwa. Property sales include 120 acres to an Illinois buyer and 80 acres bought by Mr. Raines from Mr. Jenks. Christian Endeavor gains members. a poultry prank by Becket youths ends with a neighbor's claim and a spelling school prize won by Mrs. C. D. McClain.
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Beckwith
Tom Barton
Esterville
Anna Bright
Ottumwa
Hizel
Barton
Illinois
Raines
Jenks
Prof. Williamson
Foote Bros
Bethesda
Christaan Endeavor Society
Hugh Sands
Anna Kevitz
Glendale
Christian Endeavor Society
C. D. McClain
Benefit Report for White Wine and Tar Syrup Cure
A letter from Rev. E. M. Lewis of Lincoln Nebraska describes marked benefit and complete cure of catarrh after using White Wine and Tar Syrup for throat and lung difficulties. He reports it without solicitation and recommends the remedy to others with similar afflictions.
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Dr. Warner
Lincoln
E. M. Lewis
Sudden Death Topic Recalls Hamilton Fish Dinner Talk
At a 1876 dinner at the secretary of state’s house the guests discussed sudden death. Hamilton Fish mused that sudden death might be desirable, preferring to die swiftly without long illness, a view recalled when his obituary appeared in the morning paper.
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Fish
Book of Common Prayer
Garrisons-on the-Hudson
Hamilton Fish
New York Tribune
Cold blooded advice to young doctors in society
A New York Times quote warns wealthy girls should beware of young doctors released into society yearly. A veteran doctor allegedly advised a recent graduate to join a prominent church and marry a wealthy heiress to ease his career, contrasting with marrying a poor girl and facing struggle.
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New York Times
Tortoise Tale From St Helena Tracked Across Ocean
An English steamer loaded dozens of sea turtles off St Helena for delivery to a Liverpool provision dealer. One turtle sickened and thrown overboard, branded with the ship’s name. The next year the same steamer found the same creature off St Helena, over 400 miles away.
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St. Helena
Liverpool
Chicago
Inter Ocean
The Early Days of Great Journeys and Silent Plains
In the early days great first children traveled across vast plains with sheep cattle and men living in tribal bands. They studied days and nights summers and rains while blue horizons hid other peoples. Sometimes a child from unknown lands met them and united in gaze then moved on with his flock and companions. Alice Archer Sewell in Harper's Monthly.
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Great Plains
Alice Archer Sewell
Harper's Monthly
Doubt and Tragedy Amid Treport Fishing Season
In Treport a fishing fleet sails from Criel beach toward Pointe de Cayeux on a clear day while families linger on the jetty. Master Fournier suspects his wife after a threatening letter from the English captain Harry Evans. A drowned Harding sailor is found near Spithead, and Fournier confronts his wife at a cemetery. The wife’s silence and the discovered letter reveal her mercy, freeing Fournier from suspicion and renewing his vigor at sea.
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Criel Beach
Pointe de Cayeux
Fournier
Harding
Rue de la Falaise
Harry Evans
Treport
Mme. Fournier
Goodby
Euding
England
Spithead
St. Laurent
San Francisco
Explosion Gutts Flint Hardware Store. $15000 Loss Expected
A huge blast wrecked the J. B. Wilson hardware store in Flint Michigan gutting the building and blowing out store fronts along the block. Fire followed, turpentine likely caused the explosion, with Wilson's loss near 8000 and total damage about 15000 insured.
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Flint, Mich
Jan
J. B. Wilson
Wilson
One Man's Carelessness Causes the Death of Four
Four men died in a Laflin and Rand powder mill explosion at Rifton New York on January 8. An employee’s lantern was knocked over near a bin of explosive causing the blast on the upper floor. The victims were Albrecht Schwartz 22 John Robertson 31 Henry Guttknecht 85 and William Severson 20.
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Kingston
N. Y
Laflin & Rand
Rifton
Albrecht Schwartz
John Robertson
Henry Guttknecht
William Severson
Robbery at Franklin Grove Bank Yields Small Gold Loss
Franklin Grove bank officials report less than 5000 in gold and silver taken after the explosion. Currency fragments will be sent to the treasury for redemption and a full account of destroyed notes kept. Suspects split spoils in a nearby lumber yard as investigators follow the case.
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Rockromp
Ills
Franklin Grove Bank
United States
Treasury Department
Fairfield
Keitfer
Idaho
Everygreens
Walnut Township
Charles Schneider
Will Miller
District Court
Jefferson County
State of
Iowa
Anzelotte Smith
Elias Smith
Annelotte Smith
M. B. Sparks
Testimony Against Coughlin and Safe Cracking Arrests
Frank Bardeen testified against Dan Coughlin in court, insisting the moon lit the Cronin murder night to aid his timing, though his memory wavered. Sheriff Riley brought Fred Strickland alias Silver to Eau Claire after a two year fugitive case linked to a Peoria gambling row and a safe crack.
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Coughlin
CnicaGco
Frank Bardeen
Dan Coughlin
Bardeen
Cronin
Eau Claire
Wis
Jan
Sheriff Riley
Elgin
Fred Strickland
Silver
Peoria
Money on call and commodities in New York markets
Markets news from New York and Chicago report money on call easy and rates for mercantile paper. Sterling exchange dull with bankers' bills quoted and futures on Wheat, Corn, Oats, Pork and Lard at Chicago Board of Trade. Livestock at Union Stock Yards shows cattle, hogs, and lambs with mixed price ranges and volumes.
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New York
Prime Mercantile
Sterling Exchange
United States
Pacific
White State
Prime Western Steam
Chicago Grain and Produce
ChicaGo
Board of Trade
Hebrons
Illinois
Union Stock Yards
Cards moved to cousin in Jersey City
Mrs Parker asks about cards left by Mrs Van Alstyre and Miss de Mortimer. Norah replies to stub them and says she sent them to her cousin in Jersey City who makes many calls and might use them.
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Mrs. Parker
Norah
Beggs' Little Giant Pills Sold At Hufford's Drug Store
A humorous snippet notes Beggs' Little Giant Pills are claimed curable and sold with warranty at Hufford's drug store. A court scene follows where the judge questions provocation for a strike over five dollars, and a bantering exchange between Agnes, Maud, and lawyers.
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Hufford’s
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Building Society Secretaries’ Club
State Supreme Court
Telegraph
New York Financial
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ToLepo
JAS. Logke
F. W. Junkin
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the Leggett
Cigar Store
Ws. “Leggett” Cigars
Fritz Goehner
Bloex
Lewis & Black
Black Dog
Fairfield Nursery
W. Whitham
Agnes
Maud
East Side Square
Bureau of Information
Fulton Street
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