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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1901
Page
3
A catalog of items including tailor made skirts from 3.50, fascinators and circular shawls 0.25 to 2.25, underwear in all sizes from 0.25 to 1.75, belts and belting, kerchiefs collars and ties, mittens baby hoods jackets, table linens and drawn work.
Ed Dailard visits from Shel don. Prairie Ring flour advertised. Henry Cassidy and Miss Kate travel to Huron South Carolina to visit friends. Rev Hosier, prohibition organizer, visited Hull Friday evening. Mr Slagle’s talk at the Armory draws townspeople. A hardware ad promotes stoves. Rocky Mountain Tea health tonic advertised. A near accident befalls Willi Clarbout during well digging. INDEx endorses Sioux Center as county seat. Alton committee hosts discussion. new courthouse favored. Marriages noted. Manhusp wedding of Miss Martha Schlogsein and Henry Fechey officiated by Rev Wisemberg. Canfield Bros to show moving pictures and phonograph for Company H on Friday evening in Hull. proceeds to benefit Company E.
The column notes Mrs. A Schweiger's sale ad, church social at Locust street, moving pictures and phonograph entertainment, local political chatter, and the upcoming Presbytery meeting in Hull to install Rev. L V Nash. It discusses county seat location, court house costs, and a favored position for keeping Orange City as center, urging reader involvement and subscriptions for the News.
A collection of bank anecdotes contrasts thrift and appearance with human folly. A gambler declines drink to double money but learns banks suspend payments causing loss. Townsfolk discuss trust in bank doors and artful façades while customers switch to rivals over perceived safety.
A fragmentary note from 1848 recounts a sheet of old fishlove wire paper linked to Charles Dickens, Mr. Claddee, and Lori Green's flute offer. The piece hints Dickens could not play the flute, referencing a remembered serenade by Mrs. Toigera and a 1844 board scene, via New York Tribune commentary.
A fragmentary speech by a successful contestant pledges victory by skill and pace. The speaker claims the cup is won by leg speed and relies on endurance though the text is garbled and hard to read.
A gardener claims forty years of experience show willow trees resist lightning, while spruce and other large trees suffer damage. The account notes no recorded willow fatalities or injuries from lightning in contrast to other species.
A bookkeeper asks to attend his mother-in-law's funeral this afternoon as the proprietor resumes work at his desk. The brief exchange highlights a moment of personal urgency within a bustling shop.
Narean forms a tentative romantic tale amid family disapproval while scattered zoological notes describe sponge reproduction and development. The text presents partial phrases about infatuation and aquatic life, with broken references to Ler and a Boston Transcript source.
An ad offers a 140 acre farm nine miles north of Hull for rent with contact details. The rest is a jumble of unrelated anecdotes about a pillow obsession and a humorous Swedish magazine reader’s tale, including a colored Swede remark and misread names, all in a ragged, fragmentary format.
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