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Newspaper
Hedrick Journal
Location
Hedrick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1892
Page
3
Chepa Matthews vanishes as bells toll over Old Pueblo
In Pueblo Viejo, Chepa Matthews, a sixteen year old girl nicknamed Chepa, flees home amid family strain and a future of land sale dreams. Her disappearance coincides with Pablo McNamara leaving town and a haunting bell toll that echoes from Mercedes' house. The town blames priests and a land deal, while a hidden chamber reveals Chepa in the ruin, dead and bound by a transfer of fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simon Matthews
Phere
Josefa
Chepa
Matthews
Porfirio
Pueblo Viejo
Sind
Pueblo’ Viejo
Mercedes
Placita
Chepu
Luise Portirio
Pablo McNamara
Pueblo
False
Luise Porfirio
Viejo
Jace
Pertty
Hind
Hever
Tie
Chepa Matthews
Capt. Matthews
Tanner's Legs and a Jestful Meeting at City Hall
Brooklyn's Brooklyn Eagle recounts Corporal James Tanner, legless yet merry, arriving from Washington near City Hall. He and Gen. James Mobérer share a quick reunion, with Tanner joking about his artificial limbs as they stroll past leafless trees while birds remain silent. Tanner returns to Hotel St George and oils his prosthetic fittings to resume walking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Tanner
Washington
Brooklyn ‘Eagle
City Hall
Jamesi Mobéer
Peninsula
McLeer Tanner
Tanner
McLeer
Hotel
St. George
Cunning Japs Minature Gardens and Small Trees Tale
The passage comments on Japanese mini landscape art by starving plants to slow sap flow and notes Ferguson’s remark of a Canton box containing sixteen tiny trees, four in full bloom, so small a man could fit them in his mouth, alongside a sharp digression on tight lacing versus drinking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chepa
Ferguson
China
Japan
Canton
Iowa News Roundup From Des Moines to Dubuque 1887
On July 30 1887 John Kennedy of Des Moines won a $4500 verdict against the city after a hose cart incident. Dubuque reports typhus fearing steamer passengers spreading disease to Iowa. A revival accident in Manning caused fatal burns from a gasoline stove. Pilots threaten boycotts against McDonald Co. and Gov Burns pardons Little after seventeen years. Other items note killings, explosions, rail and court actions, plus health remedies and malaria cautions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Kennedy
Des Moines
Avi Dubuque
Theresa Schrier
State Board of Health
Gellert
New York
Iowa
Bours
Manning
Boles
Dubuque
McDonald, & Co
LaCrosse
McDonald
Upper
Mississippi
Burns
John
Little
Fort Madison
Newton
Ife
Thea
Marxus
Garden Grove
John Maway
Muscatine Journal
J. A. Harvey
State Temperance Alliance
Harris
Duncombe
Williams
Levi Diggins
Schadeker Brothers
Adam
Martin
Col. West
Asnassinate
Thomas Hollis
Radcliffe
Early Poems by a Young Tennyson Revealed in Anecdotes
The piece notes that as a child Alfred Tennyson wrote a slate poem on Flowers at age eight, then an epic of 4000 lines between ages 11 and 12 in Scott's octosyllables, and a fourteen year old iambic drama. It cites his reputation and his habit of suppressing early works, per Bookman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arennyson
Tennyson
Scott
Bayhood
Lord Tennyson
Deafness Cure Claim Through Constitutional Remedies
An advertisement asserts deafness cannot be cured by local applications, claiming only constitutional remedies work. It explains that inflammation of the Eustachian tube from catarrh causes rumbling or deafness, and promises $100 for any case of deafness (caused by catarrh) not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Bend for free circulars from Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, with druggists selling at 75 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ita
Hall
D. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Heidelberg Castle and Its Great Tun in Ruins
The Castle of Heidelberg is the largest in Germany and stands 330 feet above the Neckar river. It held a vast cellar near a ruin corner containing the famous tun, a monster cask that could hold 49 000 gallons for the wine used by the nobility dwelling in the castle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heidelberg
Germany
Neckar
Reduced Rates From Chicago To Several Cities On Monon Line
On and after March 22 regular Monon Line rates apply from Chicago to Louisville New Albany Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton with Indianapolis at four sixty five. Tickets read via the Monon and the rate is daily not excursion only. Agents in Minneapolis Chicago and Chicago Ill provide details. The Countess of Dufferin championed better medical care for women in India while her husband governed as Viceroy reflecting ongoing reforms. Public notices warn readers of contact points for travel pricing and medical advocacy arguments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Louisville
New Albany
Cincinneti
Hamilton
Dayton
Indianapolis
L.E. Sessions
Midneapolis
Minn
BF. J. Reed
James Barker
Ill
Countess of Dufferin
India
Scott & Bowne Chemists Ad in New York
An old advertisement notes Scott and Bowne chemists at 132 South sth Avenue New York promoting Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil. It urges readers to see their druggist for the product and claims it is kept by all druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
Guatemala
Tropics
Livine
Scott
Scott & Bowne
South Sth Avenue
New York
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