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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1900
Page
3
On and after Sept 1 1900 the yearly subscription rises to 1.30. The paper cannot be furnished at 1.00 per year due to higher costs of printing and paper. Until Sept 1 the usual price remains in effect.
Major Odle and wife visit Hartley while Dr. Edmonds and wife tour LeMars. Hull Board of Trade resumes activity as grain markets at higher rates. Various residents make visits, business ventures expand, and community events include socials and church meetings. Roosevelt visit to South Dakota announced for next month amid local politics and grape harvest tours along Rock River.
In a 1900 letter from Watertown to Pettigrew of Sioux Falls, L. E. Pettigrew is urged to seek reelection to the U S Senate. The correspondent openly opposes Pettigrew and Bryan party influence, condemns imperialism, and criticizes Wall Street money power and Republican moves in South Dakota.
Cyrus Townsend Brady recounts a voyage with a divinity student in the caboose of a freight train. A tramp challenges the student on education, exposing the student’s flawed logic and sparking a tense street debate aboard. The tramp’s quick retort ends the argument.
A garbled account discusses Artenga and criminal judgments, referencing Italian police, The Panehiaed of Notre Thanet, and remarks on writers Eugene Sue and Denison's Weekly. It weaves in attitudes toward crime, morality, and public perception with stray quotes about a singer and piano recital.
The readable text presents a disjointed account involving a young man who becomes a general and elopes with a woman named Jessie, with garbled phrases about social conditions and unspecified figures. The fragment lacks coherent dates, places, or verifiable entities.
The Rock Valley district fair runs August 20 to 22 featuring dog and horse racing, grandStand events, and prize awards on Sunday. Big purses draw crowds for sprint and harness contests while Friday marks Women’s Day with demonstrations and sales. Rival towns Vie for supremacy in races and ball games start each afternoon at the fairgrounds.
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