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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1899
Page
2
An odd fragment notes a candidate for representative in Hull Iowa under the Republican convention process. It mentions D Montaumeur as a candidate subject to convention design and includes a post office filing phrase.
The Iowa Republican electors are invited to a delegate convention in Des Moines on Wednesday August 11 at 11 a.m. to nominate candidates for governor lieutenant governor supreme court superintendent of public instruction railroad commissioner and conduct other business. Delegates: one per county plus one per 200 votes or fraction from the 1896 secretary of state race. Also urged to recreate county committees for delegate elections. The call lists counties and officials and includes commentary on local campaigns and newspaper coverage of Cummins and anti Cummins sentiment, with notes on candidates in Sioux City and Britt Tribune. A Walkor Day event at Sioux Falls is noted with Milwaukee Road oxygen tickets described.
In the rugged Mexico interior eight miles east of Catorce Station lies Caterce a town famed for its steep streets and band of fourteen robbers once ruling the roads. Mines yield silver fortunes while mule and foot travel sustain daily life with a cathedral a refined plaza and a landscape of bright green slopes and brown valleys. Population ranges from three thousand to forty thousand depending on ore profits and tourism.
Fragmented report notes on invention limits and needs in roads insulators and fasteners and discusses Vienna barber and wigmaker exams and apprenticeships. It mentions Britain telephony funding seek and American X ray disinfection claims and French presidential salary figures.
The article details promised Paris Exposition marvels such as a selenium driven telelectroscope and a rival telautograph by Anton Fotlak. It notes Budapest's engineering group seeking space to exhibit and cites current testing claims and percentages of success.
A three year old girl in white wanders the two front rooms while a man writes at a desk. She climbs the piano and mimics a professional pianist before an abrupt interruption by the observing writer. The scene notes a possible nurse and a curious domestic life.
Fragmentary text describes arrangements for TOE and exile. References to individuals and places like America, Glangaw, Sir George Hayter Clinhiy appear amid garbled phrases about journeys, perils of the deep, and an honorary commutation.
Advertisement touts Globe Voir Restorative promising permanent cures for dandruff and baldness. Endorsed by Taf Andersen with a money back guarantee if the work fails.
The article notes the Ancon area in Peru housing the highest inhabited spot at 16,000 feet above sea level around a custom-house. It also mentions early postal history with a first post office opening in Paris in 171 and references to Highland and American locations in error.
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