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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1899
Page
2
The statement praises Judge Yar for twelve years on the Sixth Judicial District bench and urges advancement of Judge Ryan to the supreme bench, describing both as able and honorable. The piece stresses support for both judges and confidence in their qualifications.
The piece envisions wireless telegraphy and telephoning solving city wire troubles, horseless carriages replacing street cars, and heat light produced without devices. It predicts the phonograph bringing world music to homes, and notes aging technologies fading as 20th century progress begins. It also references empire, politics, and Dewey era naval events with sweeping assertions.
A collage of trivia and quips including railway ads promising daily strawberries, two English businessmen named I Came and H Went, Austria's cities and crime leniency, famine in Sumner County Kansas, a German earthquake death estimate, a minister and boy gag, New York savings bank withdrawals during a campaign, and farmers plowing peas near Baltimore. It also notes London parks occupying a quarter of the city, Bern’s suicide rumor, England’s gas bill and profits, Dr Barrows predicting a Hudson center, and Hale’s continental trip remarks.
A mosaic of short items notes indigo and pepper production in Java, German river dredging costs, a Maine village fence complaint, prison provisions of Bible and dictionaries, a Boston dialogue, a D C shade tree project, political jabs, bank surveillance, ink standards in Connecticut, Virginia earthquake migration, and vanishing salt works after a lake drained.
A reflective fragment notes that churches trap more sleepers than pillars and unfriendly kin are the severest strangers. It likens the saloon to a door showing the devil’s shame and argues that curing a dying man’s malady requires more than schooling, trusting in divine favor even if it entails loss.
Brand new six room cottage advertised by Jasper and Soxs, selling cheap as a wrap for sale at the office.
Local merchants promote a limited 30 percent discount on the Encyclopedia Britannica set with 5 volumes of the New American Supplement. The display is at their News Depot and readers are urged to inspect the late edition now as quantities are limited.
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