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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1899
Page
7
A clutter of ads mentions Foley's Kidney Care for kidney disease, a trade in yearling bulls and a cheap fresh cow, cough remedies, and various medicines. Local merchants Wagley Smead sell Foley products, King’s Life Pills claim improved appetite, and notes on loans, hardware, and harness services fill the page.
Dorothea Krumpke of San Francisco wins entry to the Paris Astronomical Observatory over fifty French competitors and now heads the division computing star measurements. She runs a private bureau in the Observatory garden, works from 9 to 3 daily, and often studies at night from the round tower with her telescope. Her life is devoted to astronomy, finding the heavens as intimate as her garden.
Miss Klumpke set abroad ten years ago at twenty, studied in Germany Switzerland and Paris. She earned French decorations and aims to map the heavens in Paris then return to lead American science. Her sisters Anna Augusta and Julia are noted as a Boston painter physician and a bright young girl respectively.
First Assistant Postmaster Heath says buying property for postal stations would save substantial money. Current rentals in New York and Brooklyn total 156045 annually, enough to erect and equip several stations. He argues a 200000 annual appropriation for ten years could own all government premises, avoiding taxation and rental bids. A remark recalls Wanamaker on investing postal savings funds. When a woman and a cyclone make up their minds to go anywhere noth ing on cards can stop them.
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