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Newspaper
Iowa Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1893
Page
6
A selection of items reflecting daily happenings and notes. The column reflects social commentary and light observations on contemporary life with a playful quip about an engaged girl managing thoughts of marriage. The tone mirrors early 20th century newspaper miscellany.
Statesmen who once drove bulky cars for a living are becoming numerous enough to merit organization into a Railroad Platform party, signaling a political shift toward a single vehicle themed platform and broader appeal.
The piece notes Washington residents opposing the Wash abbreviation and favoring Wa. It mentions M Gounop claiming his best inspirations came from quiet card games while others borrow money after being scooped in similar games, linking inspiration to pastime and financial strain.
An assorted clipping muses on travel costs between Puget Sound and Chicago, Jay Gould’s fortune and a New York inheritance tax, a crackdown sentencing twenty three for cholera riots, and a sardonic note on disease fear. The piece blends economic notes with satirical stabs at authorities and public peril.
An American boy from San Leandro California fell from a hayloft and was pierced by a cow horn in a rare and original accident that showcases the many ways youths sustain injuries.
Mrs Pearsall of New York who recently secured a South Dakota divorce gave an elegant entertainment at Sioux Falls honoring the severance of her matrimonial ties. Is the divorce blowout to become a prominent feature of future social functions in our country.
A famed convict story unfolds with a would be death by action and a strange gift of a diamond to a catcher, while reports from the Ohio Penitentiary say the health of Jaarper the bank wrecker is failing. The piece hints at a pending pardon and a rapid recovery, noting that Harper has yet to wreck a bank in Ohio.
The piece notes that Cesare Lombroso’s supporters claim genius is a form of insanity and cites William Watson, who received £200 for a Tennyson tribute ode, as example of mad poets. It adds newspaper offices view poets as cranks.
The Philadelphia Ledger editor, beloved by printers and others for his generosity, earned the firemen’s gratitude by saving part of his building in a recent blaze. He sent them a $5,000 check and hosted a large banquet, marking an expensive but symbolic gesture of thanks amid disaster.
The convict Nagle, admitted by the British Government, stays in the country despite quarantine. He flouts authorities with a contemptuous motion of thumbs at his nose. The piece notes Jay Gould sent 35,000 to yellow fever sufferers in the South according to reports.
The text contrasts Jay Gould’s 1880 benefactions to starving Kansans with his vast $75,000,000 bequest to heirs. It portrays these gifts as niggardly and questions his overall humanity while hoping he performed other undisclosed good acts for the world to learn of.
Mr T. Sufferin Tailer, famed four-in-hand driver, is barred by the New York coaching club. Jealous younger members allegedly opposed his praise for his drag driving. Tailer vowed to seek revenge by joining a big circus as driver of a golden chariot.
The discussion argues for nationwide pneumatic mail delivery, comparing it to existing canal, tunnel, and hydro projects. It suggests linking New York to the West so mail could be launched from the hub and reach Detroit or Chicago with windlike speed, paralleled to the telephone’s rise.
An Ohio father questions the legality of kinship guardians appointed by a Probate Court to wed minor couples across the state line without parental consent. The Covington case raises fears that longstanding Kentucky marriages based on such guardianships may be invalid, unsettled by the court ruling.
A Tennessee Penitentiary inmate named Sizemore begins seven years in prison. He issued a duel challenge after an insult but the other party had him arrested. The incident is part of a larger Chattanooga dispatch describing him among nineteen other prisoners, reflecting the clash of romantic codes with law.
The Massachusetts town of Concord, famed as Emerson’s home and the site of the shot heard round the world, sends out wagons to gather children for school like mail for the Boston Post Office. The twice daily meals plan proves popular and spreads to other Massachusetts towns. The piece laments what future generations may forget of their roots and purpose.
Music critics often clash with a grand ecclesiastical soprano who taunts a mild critic. The critic replies with a quip about staging a concert. The playful exchange echoes a sage remark about aging and ambition, ending with a proverb about youth and growth.
Readers urged to submit brief opinions on taxation and tariff reform. Submissions will be published or discussed in turn by the editor or a Taxation Society member. Address to the Taxation Society PO Box 88 Buffalo NY.
The piece argues for tax reform and fewer new laws to ease life and spur business. It denounces personal and realty taxes, calls for land transfer reform and job creation, and criticizes Albany politics and the Christian Union line on taxation.
The Christian Union disputes the Tax Reform association claimed ties to Henry George and his land value tax plan. It argues George would abolish land ownership and that reform would only shift or reduce tax burdens, asserting farmers hold far less real estate than claimed and warning against overstatement of wealth distribution. The piece critiques the trunk and sap metaphor as misleading.
A fable-like meditation compares a tethered bull to the working classes. The bull’s rope coils the stake, trapping him despite abundance, symbolizing exploited labor. The speaker calls for use of reason to unbind them, noting no special providence will free workers without collective insight and action.
An editorial from the Vermont Watchman argues Henry George's land tenure ideas would benefit farmers by making land ownership more equitable, safer, and more enduring than the current system, though initial unfamiliarity may hinder adoption.
A Kentucky case outlines penalties for tax evasion schemes. It states that anyone investing tax exempt securities or converting intangible property to non taxable form to dodge taxes, or using outside state transactions, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Conviction carries up to a $500 fine and three times the tax evaded.
A reader laments complex taxes and calls for independent thinking to reform tax methods. Quotes Burns and Cicero on justice and decency while asking who benefits from tax money and urging lawmakers to serve the people.
A nuisance inspector discovers a cellar mushroom bed beneath living rooms in a London suburb. He notes cellars used for farming, with mushrooms and rhubarb grown underground, and warns that such practices compromise sanitation. The piece cites donkeys, birds, rabbits and pigs kept in back rooms as common abuses, underscoring the need for sanitary education.
The piece surveys historic literary forgeries by writers including Henry Mackenzie and Mme de Genlis. It recounts how a Bath clergyman posed as the author of The Man of Feeling, and how Mme de Genlis faced legal trouble for copying works and a Paris feuilleton that echoed an earlier romance.
It Mave recounts six days on watch in South America with fatigue and a near trap by a Toba spy. A disguised enemy lurked as a moving tree and four Tobas were wounded when the narrator fired, revealing the ruse during a tense alert.
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The article notes that lettuce contains a form of opium similar to that from poppy, with sleepiness occurring about an hour after eating. It states mature lettuce has stronger milk juice and opium properties, but asserts there has probably never been a death from lettuce opium, while acknowledging poppy leaves can also be eaten defensively.
A Berlin medicine lauded as one of the most wonderful cures for consumption in America. Dr C M Hillebrand of LeMars, Iowa, has treated fifty or sixty cases with great success and offers to furnish information about the remedy.
A compact note tracing various historical royal women named Jane or Jeanne. It links Hlomon, Lady Jane Grey, Jane Seymour, Jane Beaufort, Jeanne de Valois, Joanne d Albert, Jane of Castile, Archduke Philip Handsome era figures, and Jane I and II of Naples, noting fates from execution to murder, neglect, and scandal.
Advertising copy promises a descriptive book on Florida and the southern country mailed free on ten cents in stamps. It cites Charles L Stone of Chicago and Eastern Minnesota Railway as agent and lists address in Chicago. An unrelated asteroid claim about 17.5 million comets and fast star motions appears as stray text.
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