Towans Tout Billion Dollars In New Iowa Prosperity
The town reports that in the past year Iowa workers on farms factories and mines produced over one billion dollars in new wealth. The note highlights per capita wealth around six hundred dollars and expresses pride in steady, methodical progress, with local events including a February 12 special election to expand Humeston's corporate limits and social notices from Sioux City about Ralph Riggs in a stage comedy.
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Chicago
New York
Doze
Humeston
Tts
Home State Bank Annual Meeting Recap
Stockholders gathered in the bank parlors for the Home State Bank annual meeting. Officers were re-elected with Geo. McCulloch as president and J Herbert Park as vice president. Directors include W W Hobden J Porter Juban Ivich A C Jarvis James Alexander Gen McCulloch and J Herbert Park.
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Home State Bank
Geo. McCulloch
J. Herbert Park
Bert McCuloch
Lee W. Cox
W. W. Hobden
J Porter
Juban Ivich
A. C. Jarvis
James Alexander
Gen. McCulloch
A Clever Comedy at The College Bar
An English comedy with music in three acts featuring Ralph Riggs as the star, supported by a troupe of dancers singers and comedians. D Everett Smith shows a stereopticon lecture. A Modern Crusade to Jerusalem was well received at the Methodist Church with an attentive crowd. Yeomen meeting installed officers with brief remarks and a light refreshments reception afterward.
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Ralph Riggs
D. Everett Smith
Jerusalem
Methodist Church
Mr. Smith
Yeomen
Charles Shleep
Ozcar Smith
Geo. A. Gibbs Car
James Lynch
Eva Parker
Summers
Alfred Rink
Sentinel
Frank Par Guarat
Henry Bone
L. Row
Jennie Rinkler
L. Reb
Tilie Bone
Stallcop
Fire destroys eight Melrose buildings in town
Fire started in the Melrose Record office between 3 and 4 am Friday. The blaze consumed eight buildings in the town center, causing about 20000 dollars in loss. Origin unknown. Mrs. Heaton awoke after a dog’s bark, likely saving her life.
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Melrose Record
C. A. Heaton
The
Record
The College Boy at Opera House Promises Lively Comedy
The College Boy will be seen at the Opera House tomorrow evening. Star Ralph Riggs, formerly famed in Floradora and The Telephone Girl, leads a cast of well known comedians and dancers in this music filled comedy. Local pride and civic spirit are urged as the town faces chatter about its worth.
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Opera House
Ralph Riggs
New York
Vou
Noone
Ammse &Ments
Harsh Words for "The Grip" in a 19th Century Chronicle
A fragment from a Washington DC Herald piece describes the grip as a consuming, intolerable health crisis. It details intense body-wide pain, feverish heat and cold, neuralgia, and oppressive despair, with sufferers asking for help or release as the illness worsens.
Giant 440-Pound Hog Arrives In Keokuk by Express
A dressed hog weighing 440 pounds arrived in Keokuk this morning from Grand River Iowa. The animal rested quietly on a truck wrapped in burlap and was sent to a city party by a farmer named Grand River a Constitution Democrat.
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Keokuk
Express
Grand River
Towa
Pat Grand River
Constitution
Agents of Prosperity Meeting in Des Moines
The Iowa State Traveling Men's association will meet in Des Moines on the 18th for officer elections and season business. Members depart the road mid December to restock sample cases and resume in late January, leaving hotels and railroad conductors to miss these agents of prosperity during the lull.
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Davenport
Iowa State Traveling Men’s Association
Des Moines
Working Noblemen
Baltimore Sun reports an American heiress plans to marry a German count who claims to work and hustle. The piece questions whether a count who works is worthy and if a title guarantees virtue, imagining the scandal of marrying a man with a paid labor life.
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Baltimore Sun
Timois
Lving
Muscatine editor left out in lonesome town remark
A Muscatine Journal editor notes the town feels empty as the Bilie Sunday event impresses everyone except him, underscoring a lone newspaper voice amid local happenings.
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Cedar Rapids
Muscatine
Journal
The Value of lowa Land and a Wealthy Owner's Legacy
A fragment from a Iowa farming perspective discusses land values near Ditnkeyes county and the stubborn belief that land holds wealth. It notes an acre price of 125 dollars in a county and reflects on the fortunes and fates of large landowners, hinting at a deceased man who possessed much land and $2 SUK gers es. The piece shifts to Philadelphia weather and a long elderly resident in his eighties who endures cold by spending winter months in blankets near a stove, staying active and productive despite age.
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Cullar Rapids
Western
Philadelphia
Peter Commer
Val Ao O'Connor
Heo
Advertisers urged to seize winter reading window
An poised call to public for best advertising as readers have more time in winter. The piece argues ads in newspapers reach many, urging timely placement and noting readers will pay for papers that offer value. It stresses ongoing offers and timely pricing as a profitable move for merchants.
Ames Delegation Wins 250 Prize at State Corn Contest
Gardena Crowe Express reports a delegation taking the short course at Ames earned 250 dollars in prizes in the state corn contest. Among the winners, Mr Fred Werelew led the corn show at the poultry event held in Devoubery.
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Gardena Crowe Express
Ames
Fred Werelew
Devoubery
Memory Store Echoes of Building Castles for Tomorrow
A fragment reflecting on twenty years past, praising life and memory as a store of love and dreams. Poetic lines evoke building castles for days to come and the enduring value of hopeful memory.
Humeston Notes Tell of Visits Markets and Local Events
Local items report Middlebrook visiting Corvdun and D Hasbrouck returning from New York. Mrs Hines moved into the Ah cunder property toy. Gantz of Indianapolis visited with friends. Jorge Thompson began buying stock for D D Humeston. Miss Kellogg of Cambria visited in Humeston. a Uncle Tom's Cabin company played at the Opera House Thursday. Merchants reported good trade despite cold weather. several horse buyers were in town. Mr S A Martin of Nebraska and Miss Ella M Davis of Humeston were married at Avery House with Rev Hard officiating. they left for Nebraska after. Horse market noted Humeston rising in importance with four or five buyers at a time.
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J. H. Hines
EB. J. Gantz
Indianapolis
Jorge Thompson
D. D. Humeston
Martin
Nebraska
Ella M. Davis
Humeston
Avery House
Toma
Success of the Road Drag in Wellsville Missouri
Charles E. Smith, rural route carrier on route 26 near Creve Coeur, embraces the post office view that carriers spur road improvement. He built a split log drag to level ridges and fill gullies, proving roads become passable in bad weather. Decatur County boasts its heaviest official, Supervisor Covington, elected in 1868.
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Wellsville
Optic News
Charles E. Smith
Decatur County
Covington
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