Pleasant Plain Incorporation Votes 49 to 15
County correspondence notes Pleasant Plain approved incorporation by a 49 to 15 vote. The town will cover one mile square, comprising parts of sections 2 and 11. The item cites ongoing discussions about incorporation since 1840 and records several local social and travel notices from March.
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Pleasant Plain
William Angstead
Nebraska
Coop
Clarke County
Iona Edwards
Chicago
F. L. Eck
Gertie Loehr
Fairfield
Rollie Millhouse
Jessie Kyle
Elsie Millhouse
Meadowlarks Arrive. Local News and Births and Visits
March reports parade of birds with meadowlarks on the 9th bluebirds and robins on the 10th. Congratulations to Levi Murphy and Mrs Bloomquist on their marriage. Ida Johnson starts at State Normal Cedar Falls this week. Annie Feidler visits Mt Pleasant Miss Flora Smith and Annie Sullivan visit with Elsie Nelson and Jennie Wilkin at Miss Mary Heaton's. Elmer Smith under Dr Fordyce care after mule riding injury. Mrs Wm Smith also under care with neuralgia. Mark Toothaker and family visit mother over Sunday. J S Laughery Packwood visits sister Mrs F S Toothaker last week. George W White and family visit C H Johnson last week. George Rizer elected Glendale school sub director.
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Fordyce
Wm. R. Smith
Mark Toothaker
Middletown
J. S. Laughery
Packwood
F. S. Toothaker
George W. White
C. H. Johnson
George Rizer
Glendale
Booming River Delays Roads and Local Moves Hit Merrimac
The river overflow runs over the road south of town delaying travel. King moved to a farm southeast of Mt. Pleasant last week during good sleighing. Merrimac skaters enjoyed a thawing Tuesday as several locals note new work and family updates. Revival meetings continued at Mt. Ayr led by Rev. Ballard.
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Mr. King
Mt. Pleasant
Merrimac
Harlen Roach
Wess
Ross
Oscar Williams
Raper Duttweiler
Fred Williams
Andrew Duttweiler
Henry Speilman
Mt. Ayr
Rev. Ballard
Clyde McGuire
Jake Scheffel
Fairfield
George Alers
Local Notices and Obituaries From Fairfield Area
March notices report moves of Jasper Lynn and Chas Neice to Richwood and a vacant Lynn home. Lloyd McCarty transferred to Nate Rochester’s farm near No 9 school house in Black Hawk township. Joe Roth shipped stock and household goods to Beatrice Nebraska. his family to follow. Mahala Peters Moffit of Estherville died February 19 1900 aged 86. Funeral February 21 at A Case home Estherville. Elizabeth Stever, longtime Fairfield Lutheran figure, died aged 96. funeral at Lutheran church with Rev. Funkey and Dr Magill prayers and Psalm 35:14. She leaves twelve children, numerous descendants, and a life of service to motherless children.
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Jasper Lynn
Richwood Neighorhood
Chas
Neice
Joe Roth
Beatrice
Neb
N. B. Shultz
Imogene, Ja
Peirce and Vicinity
Mahala Peters Moffit
A. Case
Estherville
Iowa
Southwell
M. E.church
Oak Hill
Christian Church
Jordan
Mahala Peters
Washington County
Kentucky
Sangamon County
Illinois
George Moffit
Mt. Pleasant
Jefferson County
Glasgow
Colorado
Smith County
Kansas
Case
Emmett County
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen A. Douglas
Peter Cartwright
Huntingdon Co
Adam Stever
Cassville
Stever
Father Stever
Lutheran Church of Fairfield
Israel
Bro. Stever
Cath
Long
Solomon F
George
Anna M
John W
Almira Axline
Washington
Elizabeth
Jape Stever
Mother Stever
Lutheran Church
Funkey
Magill
Kyle Ends School Term and Takes on Assessor Role
The passage notes John J. Kyle closed his term of school at the Lynn school house last Friday and now he is “playing” the assessor for all there is in it, reflecting a shift to local duties after leadership.
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John J. Kyle
Lynn
Libertyville Notes and Local Death Toll in March
On March 14 J W Gonterman and family visited Fairfield while Hiram Bishop aged eighty, a Libertyville elder, died Saturday. Local residents visited Cedar Creek for high water. Rev C Springer preached in Paris. Several locals traveled to Sexton Iowa for summer work. Jennie Wilson and Misses Truet and Jamson of Birmingham visited. L E Warner, prospering merchant, plans Fairfield property purchase and move. Aaron Fell returned to Keokuk Medical College.
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J. W. Gonterman
Ruth
Fairfield
Hiram Bishop
Libertyville
W. H. Rodibaugh
C. Springer
Paris
John
Davie Jones
Sexton
Iowa
Truet and
Jamson
Birmingham
Jennie Wilson
Adam
John Garber
Boogs
Business Corner
Ella Pratt
Frank Lawson
Mr. Hammond
Fairfiel
J. R. Laughlin
Harley Yost
Ottumwa
S.C. McCartney
L. E. Warner
Aaron Fell
Keokuk Medical College
Thousands Have Kidney Trouble and Don’t Know It
An old advertisement urges readers to test kidney health with a home sediment test and promotes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a cure for kidneys and urinary issues. It claims relief from back pain, incontinence, and reaction to alcohol, and offers free samples and a book by mail from Kilmer & Co. of Binghamton New York.
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Ali
Jefferson County Democratic Central Committee Meeting
The Jefferson County Democratic Central Committee invites all members to meet with Chairman J. F. Ready in Fairfield at 1 30 P M on Thursday March 22 to conduct important business. Full attendance expected. Frank P Mowery Chairman Franks H Jones Secretary.
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Jefferson County Democratic Central Committee
Fairfield
J. F. Ready
Frank P. Mowery
Frank H. Jones
Popping the Question Advice From A Lady’s Realm
A Lady’s Realm writer offers party and dining etiquette for proposals. Do not propose after theater or meals as romantic figures and digestion dull imagination. The piece recounts Thackeray dining with Charlotte Bronte and Bronte’s faltering admiration when he eats a potato.
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Charlotte Bronte
Thackeray
Mr. Thackeray
A Happy Expedient for Two Quarrelsome Marines
A colonial commander faced two Marines who could not stop fighting. After trying threats, drill, and confinement, he ordered them to clean windows facing each other, inside and outside, until each finished the next window. They glared briefly, then burst into laughter, ending the feud.
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London
The Pamirs Snow Hurricane
The buran or snow hurricane of the Pamirs is a meteorological phenomenon of great interest. In midsummer temperatures during a snow buran can drop to 14 degrees F, and in winter of 1892-3 it fell to 45 degrees below zero by late January. The huran arrives with sudden darkness as whirling snow envelops the sky.
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Pamirs
Words Between Them and the Dictionary Throw
A court scene notes the accused and wife exchanged words, with a witness saying the only words seen were in a dictionary hurled by the husband. An advertisement promises Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a cure for rectal fistula and piles, and Dr King’s New Life Pills for liver trouble with skin benefits, sold at D Clarke's Drug Store.
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Boston Transcript
Renick Hamilton
West Jefferson
Bucklen
Geo. D. Clarke
Dr. King
D. Clarke
A Tale of Woe From Mafeking Siege
A sentry report from Mafeking dated February 19 describes typhoid malaria and dysentery among women and children due to food shortages and hospital need. Civilians face hunger, natives suffer, and Boer fire halts movement as 292 killed or wounded. The garrison endures with resolve, avoiding surrender to persevere.
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Mafeking
Miss Mary Barnes to Address Jefferson County Sunday Workers
Miss Mary Barnes of Des Moines Iowa field worker plans a county Sunday school meeting at the Fairfield Methodist church on Wednesday March 21 1900 at 2 30 pm with primary teachers to speak at 7 30 pm She urges a large attendance to advance Sunday school work in the county Mull s Lightning Cough Cure advertised for 25c and 50c with safety claims for children.
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Mary Barnes
Des Moines
Iowa
Jefferson Co
Fairfield
Miss Barnes
American Lice Destroyer promises pest-free poultry
War to the death against lice and mites. The American Lice Destroyer protects 250 fowls for a year, boosts profits, and offers money back if it fails. Buy a $1.00 box from druggists or mail order from American Mg., Terre Haute, Ind.
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Terre Haute
Ind
This Damned Porto Rico Business Sparks GOP Debates
The piece cites Mark Hanna and others criticizing a tariff or trust policy linked to Porto Rico. It notes Vanderbilt’s profanity and Aldrich Fairbanks as targets, with Hanna claiming Mississippians fear the bill's implications and urging outsiders to visit Washington. The tone ridicules partisan defense.
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Porto Rico
Vanderbilt
Mark Hanna
McKinley
Hanna
Aldrich
Fairbanks
Mr. Hanna
John P Robinson and the Whig split over Cushing
The Boston Herald recounts John P Robinson a Lowell lawyer and wit famed for Homeric memory and stump speaking around 1840. He received the 1842 Whig nomination for Congress but withdrew amid antislavery splits, later shifting to support General Cushing, inspiring Lowell’s poem and refrains about Briggs and Cushing.
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John P. Robinson
James Russell Lowell
Hosea Biglow
Lowell
Robinson
Congress
Liberty Party
Whig Party
Mr. Robinson
Caleb Cushing
Massachusetts
General Cushing
Briggs
Kaffir greeting “I see you” marks native respect
The phrase Saku Bona is described as the first Kaffir word learned by a Stranger. The commonNative salutation translates literally as I see you, with a delayed greeting shown as reverence to visitors according to the Philadelphia Record.
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Philadelphia
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