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Newspaper
Iowa Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1893
Page
2
A seven year old orphan named Houston who lives with his grandmother runs away daily. To stop him the grandmother dresses him in a girl’s clothes and bonnet, hoping a new image will curb his mischief, ending with his playful declaration of being a witch.
A boy named Houston sat in a lawn chair amid a dozen children as he read fortunes from their hands. He spotted his grandmother and cried for a nickel to tell her fortune, while a remark about Thorpe being a girl echoes in the yard.
Ethan Allen endured brutal imprisonment during the Revolution before being moved to England. In Portsmouth he was treated well but feared execution. He wrote a dispassionate letter to the Continental Congress urging restraint, hoping it would provoke retaliation if executed and milder measures if released.
Ormonde the famed racehorse arrives in New York with a luxury wardrobe of blue and white linen dusters and horse blankets of Lambs wool in light to heavy weights. English feed is shipped with him, hay costs noted, and a groom and watcher accompany the horse amid fashion commentary on period styles.
Shartle Weist John Orwich and Aaron Numah of Shamokin Pennsylvania went hunting groundhogs and fell into a den of snakes. Weist fired repeatedly blowing six apart and was saved by Numah and Orwich as snakes closed in. They hauled the snakes out and returned home with the dead.
A review of the English House of Lords personnel finds no clear indicators of dominance in strength or intellect across the chamber. The assessment notes varied backgrounds and no single group dominating the upper house.
Won Dep Ken, a cigarmaker from Los Angeles, became the first Chinese national deported under the Geary Act after failing to register. The Federated Trades of Southern California used him as a test case. A United States Commissioner sentenced brief imprisonment, then deportation, an appeal failed as Judge Ross ruled deportation proper.
A dinner party in Chile amid anti American fever ends in a confrontation when a young Chilean captain accuses Americans of meddling in the civil war. A jovial Californian denies the charge and asks for clarification as tension rises at the table.
The Chicago Herald condemns a city committee delaying track elevation and Spectatorium demolition. It laments idle pumps on the river and filth causing odor as experts debate. It calls for a decisive, self reliant leadership to fix civic issues.
The piece recounts Gambetta admonishing a dozing judge with a loud rebuke and Maitre Rousse waking the court with a bow and resuming speech. It then tells of Meinrad the Swiss saint murdered in 861 by greed seekers, ravens guiding pursuit to Zurich, and the later rebuilding on the site of Klaesiedeln. It ends with a note on wages in China and local hibernating habits.
At the American chapel in Lucerne a Low Church Protestant minister delivered lessons with naturalness and emphasis that impressed a visitor. A sister of a High Church rector countered that strong interpretation is blasphemy and scriptures should be read in monotone.
A man devised a wire fence telecommunication method using the top fence wire to carry signals across a street. The system transmitted telephonic messages over the fence line, demonstrating a novel use of existing fencing infrastructure.
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