Christmas Homecomings and Local Trades in Onslow
Oxstow December report lists multiple residents visiting relatives for Christmas including John Sokol from Rush Medical College and Miss Lottie Chase of Anamosa. Local business shifts include W.D. Soper selling stock to Waldo & Hamald of Des Moines and Orr & Graham taking over Orr’s harness firm. A dispute between two blacksmiths led to a serious facial injury. Dr Sreglon treated the wound and the case heads toward Anamosa for trial.
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Oxstow
Knittle
Maquoketa
John Sokol
Rush Medical College
James
Springville
Geo. McCready
Hopkinton
Charles Miller
Davenport
Ward Blakely
Norway
Burt Klima
Des Moines
John
Almont
Lottie Chase
Anamosa
Walrod
Barnum
Iona
Ella Wasson
Stanwood
Spear
W.D. Soper
Berdidi
Waldo & Hamald
Waldo
J.B. Cameron
Cedar Rapids
Rey. McQuowan
Tiaac Overley
Charley
W.H. McKean
Samuel Graham
John Orr
Miss Anna
O. Gates
J. K. Johnston
Jos. EK. Orr
Scotch Grove
Orr
Orr & Graham
Graham
Castle Grove Notes and Local Events
Miss Mary Pfeil returns from Clinton visit and Downerville creamery leased to A M Chamberlain of Waterloo. Ionian Literary draws crowded. debate on money vs ability ends 2 to 1 in favor of money. Wedding announced for Samuel C Pfeil and Margrette M Cramer at A W Cramer residence on Dec 27 1800. After Jan 24, 1900 they reside on the Pfeil farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Castle Grove
Mary Pfeil
Clinton
Downerville
A.M. Chamberlain
Waterloo
Chamberlain
New York Commission
Ionian Literary
S.M. Hosford
J. M. Brainard
Herman Specht
J. A. Deischer
the Express
A. W. Cramer
Samuel C. Pfeil
Margrette M. Cramer
Pfeil
Will Needles and Local Notes From Monticello Area
Will Sanford visits Chicago sister. John Blyedege has Hingis kin visiting. John Kennison attends funeral of grandson at Strawberry Point. Sale at late Peter Strong farm draws good prices. Alex Robertson to farm next year. Sanford paid $1.00 per hundred for November milk at 3.8 test. Lyceum to discuss arbitration replaces war. Sam Witham back from western trip. Dance at Clarence Robert son’s Friday. Robertson rents farm near Hopkinton. another near Ryan purchased by She tben. Raven Food marketed as poultry cure and growth aid by Gee Stabler & Sons. Monticello banks praised. assets near 1.5 million. Northwestern Banker and Chicago papers offer combo for $2.00. advance subscribers only.
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Aber
Willie Sanford
Chicago
John Blyedege
Hingis
John Kennison
Strawberry Point
Peter Strong
Alex Robertson
Sanford
Lyceum Society
Sam Witham
Clarence Robertson
Robertson
Hopkinton
Ryan
Veiled Threat Awaits Bohemian Family in Dusty Prairie
In late June a young Bohemian settler Albrecht Hollub plans a Sunday outing with his neighbor Vlasta. A quarrel over a dance drives a rift and suspicion that he will go with another girl. The scene shifts to a rising dark cloud and an urgent distant alarm as danger approaches the farm village.
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Viasta
Ian
Juliet
Romeo
Albrecht Hollub
Vlasta
Albrecht
Ceer
Vlasti
The Henhouse Refuge During the Destructive Cyclone
A family flees to a dugout henhouse as a cyclone devastates their farm. Viasta clings to Albrecht while the storm roars and dust chokes the air. The ark-like shelter saves twelve aboard as houses and crops are ruined but lives survive with hope for a new home and future wedding.
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Viasta
Albrecht
Vlasta
Buffalo News
Armenian at Massacre Station Chooses Death Over Killing
A native Armenian worker at a railroad station faced a mob during the Armenian massacres. A fork offered him a pistol to defend himself, but he refused, saying he would rather die than commit murder. He soon died from injuries inflicted by the mob.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armenia
Ite
Unfortunate Resemblance in Beach Dog Show
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quote recounts Padelford’s dog that bore a striking likeness to its owner. The dog entered a beach show once but was dismissed by judges who claimed it resembled another dog they had seen.
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Padelford
Cleveland Plain Dealer
School Board Proceedings Ma ng to Ja Dec 26 99
Board of education met in regular session with members Stirton Noyes and Hall. Minutes read and approved. Bills allowed and orders drawn including Sloan 1 month salary, winding clock six months, Suhr & Sons repairing, Prader supplies, Cline Beytha renewal, Jones Co Times statements, Monticello Electric light. Meeting adjourned.
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Mownthe
S.o
Board of Education
Stirton
Noyes
Hall
WB Sloan
Auchiend & Mentzer
JA Suhr & Sons
DC Prader
Beytha E
Jones Co
Teseeeae
Monticello Electric Co. Light
Railway Clerk Fires at Self in Mock Debate
A young auditing department official for a railroad argued a dispute with a rival road and then rose to head that rival department. He dictated an answer to his own prior letter refuting its point and insultingly calling the author an unmitigated donkey. The piece ends noting the irony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago News
Pepper gag in a dinner table trick misfires at inn
A lone man at a table with many women tries an old joke about pepper being half peas. The landlady challenges adulteration and the man glibly adds that pepper contains many p s. The exchange ends with a biting remark about chestnuts and dessert. The episode unfolds as a sharp exchange at the inn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ife
London Standard
Emperors of Japan Claim Ancient Lineage to Adam
The text asserts the Japanese emperor is the most aristocratic ruler and that the royal family descends genealogically to Adam. It notes 121 emperors, with the first ruling about 2,500 years ago, 300 years before Alexander the Great. It claims the mikado remains a lineal descendant of the first emperor.
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Japan
Alexander the Great
Mikado
Missouri Food Law Fines Firms For Unhealthy Ingredients
A 1899 Missouri law prohibits manufacture or sale of food articles containing arsenic caramel ammonia or alum. Violators face misdemeanor charges with fines of at least 100 dollars, funds directed to county road funds. aimed chiefly at alum baking powders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Lost Nation Mathematician Declares Century Start
Henry Barber a local mathematician has become insane from studying when the twentieth century begins. He roams the streets snapping at objects and marking 1900 on fences and billboards before being detained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Barber
Lost Nation
Fourth-line Mormon series opens in The New Lippincott
January presents The Third Wife as Mrs J K Hudson narrates a compelling human tale. The series aims to reveal Mormon family life with candid depth unseen by Eastern writers or Utah visitors, offering striking inner knowledge through fiction.
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Lippincott
J. K. Hudson
Utah
New Lippincott
Christmas greetings and debts due by January
I extend season's greetings to my friends and customers and ask that those who owe me accounts settle before January 1st as I must have money by that time. Co W Brown The Deaf Harness Man. Also notices: farming land near Monticello for sale condition and junk shop opened paying top prices for iron, rags, copper, brass and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Co. W. Brown
H. Fredlanskey
van Meter
First Street
March Term in Eighteenth Judicial District Held in Iowa
Judge M. RemMbley presided over the March term of the Eighteenth Judicial District of Iowa. Proceedings proceeded according to schedule with docket items and statutory requirements observed by the court.
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District Court
Jones County
Iowa
R. C. Stirton
de Bonis
Levi G. Hildreth
Plaintill
Jedediah Ferris
Mary Ferris
North Range
Matt Noyes
Recorder
Thomas Rearick
Maury Ferris
United States
Jedediah Perris
Wittein
Jedediah Terris
Jdl
W. Doxsee
T. J. M. Remiley
Eighteenth Judicial District Court of
Towa
HH. M. RemMbley
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Richard Harding Davis
Henry Norman
Russia
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Edith Wharton
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Harvard
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