20 Jul 1900
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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1900
Page
1
Auction notice announces sale of 160 acres of Jarid near Hull and 180 mares with 2 geldings. Horses offered as bargains. Sale at the stock yards tomorrow Saturday afternoon. Enquire of Adam Fie Sr auctioneered by Van Wrk.
The twenty sixth annual session of the Sioux County Normal Institute will convene in the public school building at Orange City Iowa on July 30 at eight o clock a.m. and continue for two weeks.
Campers at the lakes enjoy a rough outing while Cassidy visits from Minnesota and Hull hosts guests. A swindler defrauded H. B. Fierce of Rock Rapids of about two thousand dollars. A Milwaukee line wreck near Ruthven delayed trains with no injuries. The piece covers social visits, political caucuses, and local opinions amid election-era rhetoric.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line promotes a Sunday July 24 excursion to Arnold's Park with a big pavilion tent program, two prominent Western bands, and a baseball game between Mitchell 5 D Cink and the Marquette Baseball Club of Chicago. General admission free with a special ticket, otherwise 20 cents for stand access. Round trip fare and tickets available from the line’s ticket agent.
The State Fair management announces a grand program with expanded livestock exhibits, poultry displays, grains and vegetables, machinery displays, and ample amusements. Major attractions include acrobats, comedy acts, aerial performances, trained animals, and a night fireworks show each day. Citizens are invited to request information from the secretary for catalogs and details.
The New York World describes an Amazon army on the Guinea coast under a king, with 2,500 women of two kinds serving as soldiers and others as attendants. Enlistment is a honor yet used to discipline domineering wives, and the force uses blue and white tunics, short trousers, and muskets. A noted battalion is the razor brigade armed with razors for decapitations.
In a Century essay Fanny Morris Smith argues Jenny Lind shaped American musical self awareness. She praises Lind for inspiring national artistic appetite and notes tours sparked future interest in great artists and American cultural destiny.
The article recounts Alexandre Dumas describing Italian sign language in theaters. A gentleman uses gestures to relay a tale about a friend of Signor Arami, involving a Naples marriage, three years of travel, a daughter born and died, and a seaborne return, witnessed in Syracuse and Naples.
A Rochester woman sues for 215000 damages over a photograph used on flour bags, arguing a violation of her right to privacy. The piece debates whether beauty is public property and questions the public's right to view facial charm in everyday objects.
Farmers report a season of just enough rain at the right time yielding abundant corn and verdant fields. They note the unusually full stalks and healthy trees, expressing gratitude for nature’s vivid greenery over harsher colors like red or blue.
Posthumous fragments claim a debate on Universalism by Clark of Nisegurt and Blasd of Fadisca on August 3. An address by Maud Hampton Booth of the Salvation Army is noted with a lecture about temperance and public welfare amid a jumble of ad-like notices and medical remedies.
Rail lines announce excursion fares for events across multiple cities and dates. One fare plus two dollars for round trips to Charleston Cincinnati St Paul Detroit Kansas City and more with extensions possible until August 26. News item lists agencies and agents for travel deals.
Fragmented doodle references a draft, discouragement, stomach trouble and dyspepsia. Mentions a promise of cure with a dollar draft placed in each box and urging action by dates, with cryptic names and ending note. Strong entities are scarce. context appears garbled.
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