Wyoming Correspondent Notes Political Shifts and Local News
In Wyoming on November 6, S. Q. Franks and G. W. Evans join the Bull Moose list. Sheriff Hopan is touted as a potential U S marshal, while local social events include a home gathering for George Atkins, a cemetery fence project, and Thanksgiving school programs. Multiple residents travel to Chicago and nearby towns for shopping and visits as Miss Ruth Berry and others are noted in short-item form.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
S. Q. Franks
G. W. Evans
Gee
G. Franks
Teddy
Wyoming Journal
Harl Krouse
Clarence Corbit
Ronald Brown
Sheriff Hopan
United States
Hogan
Jones County
Charles Eye
George Atkins
Waterloo
Cemetery Association
O. ©. Depuy
H. M. Babcock
Wayne Pringle
LaGrange
Linois
C. B. Price
Chicago
Runaway Wagon Causes Minor Injuries In Onslow
November reports a lively runaway in Onslow. G W Daws and a Cresco visitor were thrown from the carriage after a turn near Main street. both men were bruised but not seriously hurt. A house on J B Moses farm burned with heavy loss. A fire attic blaze destroyed beds and clothing. insurance unsettled. Local notices include thanks for aid during sickness and death of a brother, visitors arriving from Rock Island, and business shifts at Walters mill and streetcar job changes. A new well is to be drilled by the railroad company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Onslow
G. W. Daws
Cresco
Summit Street
Main Street
Anamosa Avenue
Theodore Tebo
Express
Lillie Johnson
Rock Island
Illinois
Gass Ballou
Nettie Albery
M. B. Walters
P. H. Schmalfeldt
Pearl Walters
Street Railroad Co
Cedar Falls
Mrs. Heasty
Marshalltown
Local Socials and Events in Center Junction Area
Center Junction notes a family visit to Muscatine and back, with Miss Jen atte Hudson extending her stay. Mr and Mrs Thomas Dawson plan Idaho and California winter travels. The high school entertainment was well attended. Presbyterian church bazaar and apron sale announced for December 14 in the church basement. A utility shower is planned in the church basement. Flossie Lyons returns home from Gedar Falls for a visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. W. Coder
Beloit
Kansas
Geschke
Wisconsin
Presbyterian Church
Genter Junction
Prairieburg suffers tandem of accidents Sunday
Prairieburg Iowa reports a morning accident injuring Harry Came a farmer who caught his sleeve in a machine and broke both arms and a leg. Later Frank Hladek was shot in the calf by a squirrel gun misfire. both men were treated by Drs Gorman and Wilkinson. Other notes include missing pocketbook reports and local court actions in the November district term with multiple wills guardianships and executors approved or appointed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairieburg
Harry
Cedar Rapids
Mattie Caldwell
New York City
Caldwell
O. Postlewaite
Fisher Home
Smith
Cedar Rapidae
Jessie Caldwell
Fr. T. Richards
A. Haldek
Anamosa
Cherrill Parker
Central City
John Lanser
Mary Burke
James Smith
Jones County Medical Society Semi annual Meeting
The Jones County Medical Society will hold its semi annual meeting in Monticello on Tuesday December 3 at 1 p m The program includes Early Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Apoplexy Criminology from the Medical Standpoint Papers on Puerperal Temperatures by staff from Anamosa Monticello and Wyom The society is led by President Dr A G Hejinian and secretary Dr Aileen B Corbit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medical Society
Jones County Medical Society
Monticello
F. B. Sigworth
J. E. King
T. C. Gorman
Seward White
Olin
L. G. Stabler
B. H. Chamberlain
Wyoming
J. M. Redmond
A. G. Hejinian
Anamosa
Aileen B. Corbit
Immigrants and Their Worth in the Nation’s Labor Pool
The Independent reports 1,114,989 immigrants arrived last year and added wealth to the country. Infants under slavery era costs weighed at $200 to $400 each, adults from $1,000 to $5,000, totaling about $1,114,989,000 in human labor value. They also contributed $46,712,697 in cash, while some oppose immigration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independent
Doctors Sing a Song of Doctors
A poem depicts doctors far from help with a satchel of dope and twenty four patients. They analyze fogs and vivisect dogs while discussing fees as a nauseating serum is proposed for disease. The piece uses clinical imagery to critique medical greed and detachment.
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Hope
Dosem
Cuttem
Doge
Prickem
Life
Weather and sentiment mark a reflective fall in Monticello
The piece notes fall weather eclipsing California boasts, celebrates Monticello’s best year in business, and reflects on politics, suffragettes, shopping time, and community resilience. It mentions merchants benefiting from perceived normal trade, cooks praised, and memories kept alive on this day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Monticello
Local Real Estate Transfers and Marriage Notice
Deeds list transfers in Iowa townships with Methodist church parcels and railyard lots, amounts from $1 to $7,000. Marriage announced for Miss Lizzie Balster and Otto Behrends at St. John Lutheran parsonage with Rev. Schuetz officiating, and local social notes of visitors and guests.
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D. L. Stearns
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Martelle
Iowa
Hubbells
Percy Faulks
Fred Chipman
Barbara Wosoba
Mike Lasack
Oxford Junction
A. S. Knapp
Eunice J. Johnson
McAleer
Mattie McAleer
Castle Grove Township
John Wurzbacher
C. M
St. P. Ry. Co
Greenfield Township
W. Marffeld
O. M
Eigon
Nancy A. Wood
Clara M. Myers
Ellison
F. E. Austin
Almira N. Taylor
Hale Township
L. R. Leesekamp
J. C. Balster
Lizzie Balster
George Balster
Otto Behrends
Ben B. Behrends
St. John Lutheran Parsonage
Rev
Schuetz
Glass Quirks and Fragile Wonders
A historical note on glass detailing its paradoxes including high elasticity with brittle failures. Describes experiments: hollow spheres resisting heat, cooled vessels resisting blows but shattering from flint, and thickness affecting breakage. Mentions anomalies where heavy items fail to pierce yet tiny flint shards shatter glass.
Eliza Logan Seeks Original Five Act Tragedy Offer
A Boston Post letter from Eliza Logan dated May 17 1854 offers to pay for an original five act tragedy with herself as performer and the scene set abroad. The note, part of a collection on literary pay scales, contrasts past and present royalties and cites Milton Poe and modern writers as benchmarks.
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Milton
Poe
Alexander Hill
Cincinnati
Middle West
Eliza Logan
America
American Leaf Colors and Climate’s Autumn Effect
An English observer notes American trees show richer autumn colors at home than in Europe. He attributes this to mild fall conditions and the rarity of Indian summers in England, suggesting climate sustains leaf vitality and pigment development in U.S. woodlands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Europe
Eneland
United States
Chicago Record- Herald
Dear Child and Mrs Bloom at Loggerheads Over Week
The Dear Child asks Mrs Bloom when she returned and Mrs Bloom replies she was not away. The Child recalls rumors that Mrs Bloom and her husband had been at loggerheads for over a week.
The Fake Sea Lion Tale That Went Global
A magazine pranked city editors by publishing a supposed sea lion escape from a zoo. Telegrams from country correspondents flooded in claiming sightings within 200 miles daily, with reports spreading worldwide in five days. A cruel wire claimed the skin as proof, revealing the editor’s likely ruse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berghand
Southampton
North Sea
Lake Superior
Darkie boot black parlor boast and Oswego route tale
A boot black parlor partner boasting of a keen sense of touch is upstaged by a story about Marcus and a Pullman trip through Kansas. Marcus supposedly woke to see the train window as they drifted past Oswego in a midnight moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Marcus
Kansas
Oswego
Travel decision in a Wiesbaden Ems trip dispute
A narrator and wife clash over travel plans with Wiesbaden and Ems as options. The man says they ended up going through Wiesbaden to Ems, reflecting partial concession in the journey.
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Tie
Wiesbaden
Ems
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James Leech
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Magee
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Luella McDonald
Art Norris
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John Livingstone
Ruth Berry
Lucca
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Florence Livingstone
Art Glick
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District Court
IF. O. Ellison
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Dominy & Supple
Koppes
Clark
Andrina Kiburz
Susanna Triplett
J. M. Falor
Wm. Neelan
Mary C. Kennedy
Tracy Thomas
Newell Gillian
Matthew McMaster
Archibald K. McMaster
Fannie Kehoe
Frank Kehoe
N. Shaffer
W. GO. Shaffer
C. B. Shaffer
M. P. Sigworth
Will
Margaret Sigworth
Schoonover Trust Co
Trust Co
John Reimers
Christian Kohler
W. M. Berlin
Benson L. Hoyt
J. M. Lange ,Jr
Monticello Express
Lena Hein
Mary Brown
J. W. Coxsee
Messrs
Wm. and
Albert Schodde
Wm. Schodde
Kate Rogers
George Hagen
Mabel Welch
Tin Dubuque
Hai Ual
Eliza
Boston Post
Mamma
Russia
Just Wright
Stuhlers
People’s Store
Doatrick Dry Goods Co
Eclipse Lumber Co
Eclinse Lumber Co
JOE Henry
Third Ward
James A. McDeal & Co
James al. McNeal & Co
the Dew Jewelers
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