Pioneer settlers of Stephenson County remembered
Des Moines reports honor to Sy and Mrs Daniel Bobb among Stephenson County’s early settlers marking their 64th wedding anniversary. The Bobbs, natives of Pennsylvania, married in Union County and moved to Buckeye township in 1844 before settling in Des Moines with their son in law and daughter, Mr and Mrs John Miller. Nine children born, three sons served in the Civil War, and the couple remains in good health. Also notes on Gus Boehland and Rose Remington, wedding plans, social events, and local notices including concerts and meetings. plus market notes on grain, livestock, and receipts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Daniel Bobb
Stephenon County
Bobb
Pennsylvania
Union County
Buckrye Township
Ohn Miller
Orangeville
M. J. Bolender
John Miller
Iowa
Isaac M
R. P
A. J. Bobb
Gus Boehland
Reeport
Rockford
Mr. Bockland
I. & W. Clothy
Albertson
North Courttreet
Markets Report From Cuicaco and Union Stock Yards
Closing Board of Trade quotes show May wheat at 72, May corn 38, May oats 25, May pork 10.35, May lard 5.90, May ribs 5.274. Union stock yards report: hogs 40,000, fairly active to weak. light 3.50 to 3.83. mixed 3.55 to 3.56. steer and heifer 4.00 to 6.00. cows 3.20 to 4.50. sheep 23,000, generally ten lower. Freeport Board of Trade notes wheat market strong with beneficial buying and higher cables.
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Chicago
Northwestern
Minneapolis
Cuicaco
Board of Trade
Seattle
Freeport Board OF Trade
Schwartz, Ipee & Co
M. H. McHenry
Beral
Cure for La Grippe in Foley's Honey and Tar
Foley's Honey and Tar is advertised as healing the lungs and curing the racking cough of la grippe and preventing pneumonia. The remedy is guaranteed and sold for 25 cents and 50 cents by H. J. Moogh, Swarts & Fleck.
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Foley
H. J. Moogh
Swarts & Fleck
Tribune offers robust Republican national issue paper in NY
The New York Tribune presents a representative Republican weekly and semi weekly package. It touts strong market reports, weather reviews, and a vivid illustrated Friday supplement with humor letters, art reviews, fiction and science notes. It promotes club samples and low annual rates for the Daily Weekly and Semi weekly editions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Tribune
Daily Tribune
Women Learn Scientific Farming at Minneapolis College
Fifty young women study the three year course in science based farming at the Minneapolis College of Agriculture. The article notes women's long history of farm success in Europe and America, highlighting a New York woman-led Wayne County, New York, farm and a New England example where a mother restored a mortgage and built wealth through perseverance. It details housing, dormitories, and a curriculum replacing certain male trades with domestic and managerial skills.
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College of Agriculture
Minneapolis
New York
Europe
Germany
France
New England
Wayne County
N. Y
Minneapolis College of Agriculture
Saul Meredith
Hairpin, the simple tool that saves the day
A Cleveland Plain Dealer note extols the humble hairpin as a versatile tool. It cites a subway motorman who replaced a blown fuse with a bent hairpin to restart a stalled car, illustrating the device’s practical ingenuity and wide utility.
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Arabia
Fense
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Dying Soldier and Brother Bond in Leslie's Weekly
A war correspondent recounts a dying soldier near a Caney fort who cradles a severed head until the end. His expression turns to contemplation as he sighs, reflecting on home and mother, in a stark Civil War scene from Leslie's Weekly.
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Caney
Pinapple
Leslie
Secret Societies Across History and Regions
The article notes that Rome feared secret societies though some burial clubs operated with state permission. It traces secret groups through China, America, Europe, and Southern Italy, highlighting Catholic burial societies, the Carbonari, Mafia associations, temperance clubs, and German student clubs drawn to initiation rites.
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Rome
China
America
Europe
Carbonari
Mazzini
Garibaldi
Italy
Sicily
Mafia
England
Germany
Alfred Nobel and the man behind dynamite
Alfred Nobel, son of a Swedish inventor, was a daring yet sensitive figure. He invented dynamite and cordite, ran petroleum interests in Baku, and funded scientific education after a long life of wealth and eccentricities including a Paris art habit and denied Royal Society fellowship. He died in 1896 at 63 leaving a vast fortune to promote science.
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Alfred Noble
Royal Society
Baku
Paris
Low Level Route for Nicaraguan Canal Favored by Survey
A thorough survey favors the low level route over the high level line for the Nicaragua canal. It covers 181 miles from Greytown to Brito with locks on the San Juan, dam and lake works, and estimates costs ranging from 124 to 150 million dollars. The plan emphasizes easier construction, safety, and shorter shore distances, with experts split on final price.
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Atlantic
Pacific
Lull
Maritime Canal Company
Earler
Maritime Company
Greytown
Entrance
San Juan River
San Carlos River
Ochoa
Caribbean
San Juan
San Carlos
Rio Medio
Brito
Pacific Coast
Hannus
United States Navy
Media Lake
Brito Ec
Ludlow
Admiral Walker
Haines
United States Engineers
Norway Moves to Ban Tobacco Sales to Youths
The Norwegian Storthing plans a law prohibiting sale of tobacco to anyone under sixteen. Youths in towns cannot buy tobacco, while villages may allow only with adult orders. Tourists offering cigarettes to youths face prosecution and police may confiscate tobacco from youths seen smoking in public.
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Norway
Storthing
Prices Talk and Own Building Sparks Store Sale
The store reveals it now owns its building with the shop on the first floor and basement, promising lower costs than rivals. Several daily goods are priced unusually low including Banker's Mocha and Java coffee two pound can at 40c, fresh bread 3c loaf, corn 4 1/2c can, prunes 4c lb, cigars 48c box of 50, rice 5c lb, butterine 12c lb, soap three bars 5c, cocoanut 10c lb, baking powder 16c, peas 6c can, butter and crackers 5c or 6c, blueing 4c, mop sticks 6c, salt 79c per barrel, and Chancellor flour 89c per sack.
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California
Also Mentioned on This Page
I Niel Bobb
Stephenson County
Fred Thomas
M. E
Margaret Cox
Elocution
St. Mary’s Hall
Charles A. Rowe
Misa Lula V. Pohu
Freeport
M. E. Parsonage
Mon
Geo. W. Case
Afsaded
Merbers
Ridott
Edarville
Eleroy
Abraham Lincoln
Knights of the Globe
Garison
Astern Star
la Grippe
Tribune
Spain
London
Tribune Sunshine Society
Market
The
Standard
Wen Bala
Otc
Bossip
Colorado
P.S. Eustis
Agt
C. B
QR. R
New Historic
Barttlefield
Muo
Nigearagua Canal
Miles
Harter
Prescece
James McNamara
Koenig
Furniture Store
Shot
Uncle Sam
Freeport Light & Fuel Co
Stephenson St
the Grocery
H. D. Post
J. F. Keily
Schoeffel & Brockhausen
Galena Street
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