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Newspaper
Ireton Weekly Ledger
Location
Ireton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1904
Page
4
The fragment notes a Friday publication from Ireton Iowa with advertising rates and subscription costs. It mentions a county printing contest and a casual remark about reading matter coming in the week and roasting by the fire. The text is garbled but preserves names and local context.
A three million dollar blaze in Sioux City started when a lighted match was dropped into a cotton pile used for a show. The fire rendered over a hundred people homeless and caused loss of life and heavy property costs. Also listed are Ireton public school pupil attendance rosters for December 1905 and various local notices.
A letter from Musen Baos praises Krescline Dip used on hogs from Gladstone Medicine Co Hawarden. It claims scab cure and substantial weight gains, stating forty pigs saved and present hogs heavier by about fifty pounds. The note mentions Minxen Bros and Meren Bros with dated terminology from Oct 30 763.
The readable text presents fragmented phrases about a device, external shovets, and a siege-like list of entities including Scab Mates Lice and Hag Cholera. It appears to reference a Parker Drag Co and repair work, but lacks coherent event or context.
Mrs James G Blaine inherits a $500000 estate while society circles feature Miss Caroline L Greisheim who inspects post offices nationwide. Hetty Green hints at a romance with Joe Choate. Miss Marion Brazier curates thousands of ancestral photos for a St Louis fair to be archived in Washington. Miss Margaret Chandos Puig, famed Newport celebrity, blends sailing knowledge with fashion defiance and charm in elite circles.
The piece offers washing and ironing tips for silk garments. It notes cold water for white silk, gentle handling, and a mild soap solution with borax. It warns against hot water for colored silks and recommends a final rinse with sum to set firmness, then careful ironing with a cloth.
The discussion questions synthetic alcohol from acetylene being cheaper than grain, noting a historic loss of about a billion dollars in stock value across ten major corporations. It highlights new Banzine locomotives, drilling in Ohio raising gas to the surface, and warns of mining dangers. Electrolytic caustic alkali production boosts bleaching powder manufacture worldwide.
Excerpt discusses Adil art as outer monotony with inner variety and ascetic imagination. It critiques theories of Good and Evil and life without duty, warning such drift leads to selfishness. Also notes caution against imitations of sacred themes and practice.
A fragment notes John Waterman of Ithaca Michigan and five generations of the Waterman family serving in five wars from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War era, with great grandfather in the Revolution and grandfather in 1812, father in Mexico, and Lewis completing a lengthy enlistment.
Beautiful steel engraving titled Who's Afraid by the Chicago & North-Western B'y targets families, available for four cents plus postage. It advertises holiday excursion rates via the North Western Line and connections to Union Pacific, Colorado & Southern and Denver & Rio Grande, valid December 24 25 26 30 and January 1 2 with return by January 4 1905. Agents of the Chicago & North-Western Railway handle applications.
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