05 Jan 1905
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Newspaper
Glenwood Opinion
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1905
Page
1
A roundup of brief items reports a lynching in Neal Georgia over a white man’s kite, diplomatic moves with Japan, plans for Chicago subway and New Jersey telecommunication projects, naval promotions and appointments, tunnels, drownings, and assorted political and business notes across the United States and abroad through to a San Francisco ship cargo record.
A president of the Vegetarian Association challenges a candidate for membership with a pointed question about a large grease spot on the candidate's necktie. The remark is presented as a curious or suspicious incident within a club setting.
Antonio Cuez of Padrella Portugal has not slept for three months and still works as daytime driver and night watchman. Egyptian tool research reveals pyramids builders used solid tubular drills set with jewels and cut stone with accuracy. A host greets a missing guest who falls into a water pit and returns cheerful with "found it."
Excavations in Egypt uncover a bond describing an A. D. 100 indenture of a slave for two years in a semiograph to learn shorthand. The teacher was to receive 120 drachmas about $23, and the document notes that Bionysios’s son could read and write.
Diverse maxims and reflections from Ruskin Stone Sterne Ram's Horn Holland and others touch on nature education patience humor and faith The snippets contrast ambition virtue service and gratitude within a broad moral framework without a single news event or narrative.
An Indiana woman recalls lifelong coffee problems and digestive distress until switching to Postum. She credits improved health and absence of dyspepsia after adopting the cereal beverage, noting she now prefers Postum for breakfast and dislikes coffee. The advertisement cites Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan and the Attie book in each package.
Gov. Cummins denies parole for George Barker. Des Moines real estate transfers surge year over year. Denison’s 98 year old J S Penny dies. Interurban profits rise per railway reports. Shiloh monument case appeal filed. Clatinda mayor dies. longtime citizen noted. Council Bluffs calls for larger downtown building laws. Sioux City fire will cost insurers 1.5 to 2 million. Des Moines firm sends train to aid Sioux City fire recovery. National Holiness association plans university at Oskaloosa. Revolutionary grave found in Salina, seven in state. Sliter murder case experts threaten to sue Grundy county for fees. Provideburg celebrates Chicago Anamosa & Northern link. Keokuk county indicts Print Cooley for murder. Colleges seek state exams exemptions for entrants. Knoxville pastor Rev H L Preston resigns. Sioux City oil inspector loses blanks. new set issued. Onawa arrest for larceny in Monona county. Randin adds 920 acres. Van Eaton sale details. Dedham bank placed in receivership amid 15000 cash shortage. G A Ivins wins medal at St Louis for plums and apples. State board of control returns from Marshalltown and Eldora. Eldora chapel expansion largely inmate-funded. Parsons college shifts weekly holiday to Monday. Cedar Rapids widow Minnie Wilson dies by suicide. child present. Maxwell & Crouch Miles sale volume tops previous Oska larva shipments. Cornell Bluffs fire devastates Suiller & Johnson stock and premises. Proclamations declare Iowa constitutional amendments adopted with official canvass.
Iowa physicians gain enhanced disease defense via a state bacteriological laboratory connected to the State University at Iowa City. Henry Albert heads the program with over 400 culture stations already set up statewide, aiming for more in drug stores and clinics. The State Board of Health oversees regulations to collect and test samples, preventing diseases and stopping epidemics.
It is learned that Major John H. Hume of Dubuque likely stays as assistant adjutant general under Captain W. H. Thrift. Hume has served nearly twenty four years, with a stint in the Philippines, rising from chief clerk in 1881 to his present post. The Ames Board of Trustees selects Prof. S. A. Beach of New York to lead the horticultural department and state experimental work, with the State Horticultural Society covering part of his salary, succeeding Prof. Price who moved to Ohio. Plans include substantial additional work in Iowa in coming years.
A New England visitor to Washington remarks on public water pumps with ladies attached, praising them as a legal water source avoiding gin mills. He recalls hot New York days when he could not find a clean glass of water without entering a bar, and argues the pumps help prevent patronizing rum shops.
Ebenezer Howland introduces Garden City near London as an industrial town with one family per house, no multi family buildings, and only 30,000 residents. Each home surrounded by a garden, windor gardens for factory windows, self supplied meat and vegetables, cows in town pastures, and strict business governance by a board of managers. Projectors aim to replicate Garden Cities across England.
The Maine minerals gain global fame with a great aqua marine from Stoneham valued at 30,000 dollars and 183 carats. Germany’s crown jewels trade ended with a buyer taking the gem to Berlin after Chicago fair sighting. A Paris Maine crystal sold for 500 dollars this summer.
The poem recalls shoes that marked childhood and life stages. A mother saves infant shoes, a bride remembers slippers, a man recalls red-topped boots, and the speaker laments four gleaming steel shoes owned by an unnamed person, Melandburgh Wilson.
A junior Edinburgh lawyer travels to a northern country to assist in a licensing club case. He cross examines the certifying justice who gives diffuse evasive replies. The counsel asks for clarity and the witness retorts with a blunt claim of being teetotal for a year.
Military critics note Japan seizes sanitation edge via cremation of the dead, contrasting Civil War era practice where soldiers rested in graveyards and drank water tainted by seepage from graves. During that war one in sixty five killed in battle, one in fifty six died of wounds, one in thirteen died of disease.
A Southern Farm Magazine tip suggests pouring a quart of tasteless oil such as peanut oil onto cider stored in a cask to form a thin surface film. This layers prevents air contact and slows acetic and fermentation processes, preserving the cider.
A daughter objects to inviting her uncle into the reception room. The mother recalls he made breaks in furniture earlier and questions the chair’s quality, while the daughter defends the chair as well made. The brief exchange hints at tensions during a social gathering.
An industrial chemist claims discovery of the longest English word ortho-ethoxy-amphetamine benzoyl amido quinoline. The expert asserts it as the correct scientific name for a proprietary medicine, signaling a breakthrough in nomenclature and potential branding implications.
Steel fishing rods reach high perfection and outsell bamboo ones. Buyers praise portability and balanced feel, boosting adoption in local shops.
Kirkland Illinois January 2 Special. Richard R. Greenhow longtime resident reports cure of rheumatic pain from Dodd's Kidney Pills after years of disability. He says two canes and grueling walks gave way to relief and restored sleep following fourteen boxes of the remedy, claiming health better than in twenty five years.
The operation of a modern railway hosts expert chemists whose laboratories constantly study questions vital to railroad economies, applying chemistry to railway problems in routine, economically significant ways.
A pasted advertisement extols Cuticura Soap and Ointment as the purest emollients for skin care. It claims they preserve, unify and beautify the skin, cleanse scalps of crusts and dandruff, stop hair loss, soften rough hands, ease baby rashes and chafing, and serve various toilet and nursery uses.
Until recently it was believed petroleum derived from fossil vegetation or animals. Now many scientists assert it may arise from subterranean chemical action rather than organic origins.
Special notice from the Undoma Company of Omaha promotes Undoma Hair Tonic as a treatment that gives a soft fluffy appearance. Readers are invited to send their name to receive a free treatment through their barber.
A collection of notes on global languages shows vast variety with five thousand languages and many dialects including sixities vocabularies in Brazil and seven hundred Nahua dialects in Mexico. The rest offers aphorisms about virtue, cures, and social satire from early 1900s quack ads and quips.
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