Local notes on town life and events in Iowa
Stephen Biffle expands his house. Miss Minnie Webb visits Miss Gertie Cowman. Ed Ramsey leaves Hogan's barber shop. D Bartel takes over Durley & Wooley's east side lunchroom. Capt Zachary returns from Nebraska with 204 head stock. Mrs Winchell returns from Missouri and Arkansas. A H Brous moves into L W Brown property. Mason City anti saloon petition falls short by 56 signatures.
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Stephen Biffle
Weston
North Side Square
Minnie Webb
Gertie Cowman
Ed. Ramsey
Hogan
D. Bartel
Durley & Wooley
East Side
Capt
Zachary
Nebraska
Young Stock
Er. R. Winchell
Missouri
Arkansas
A. H. Brous
L. W. Brown
F. Kellogg
Mason City
Carrie Graham
Edith Gassett
Pleasant Hill
D.C. Gifford
Ladies Reading Circle
Easter Congregation Filled Congregational Church Notes
Easter services drew a larger congregation with notable music and refined floral decorations by the X. Y.Z. Society with Mr. W. S. Parker guiding praise. Easter cards were handed out in Sabbath School as topics for upcoming meetings were announced including The revelation of God through Christ in the 1883 creed and a ministry discussion on true liberty. Text John vill 30-40.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Church
X. Y.Z. Society
W.S. Parker
God
Christ
John Vill
Matrimonial Seas Marry Maggie Price and David J Thomas
Miss Maggie Price and Mr. David J. Thomas were united in marriage Wednesday April 21 four miles south of town at the home of the brides parents Mr and Mrs James Price Rev Riheldauer of Prairie City solemnizing the vows A ceremony witnessed by relatives and friends with devotional homily on sacred truth and sanctity of marriage.
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A. B. Cottrell
Des Moines
Drake University
Cora Walker
George Magg
H. V. Adams
John Walker
Maggy
Woodard
Prairie City
Indian Relief Commission For
Iowa
Hoyt Sherman
Leon A. Harvey
M. Hemstreet
St. Joseph
Union and
Central Pacific Railways
San Francisco
Congress
Calcutta
Bombay
Ames Intelligencer
Maggie
Henry Thomas
Colfax
Thomas
Frank McEvers
George Richards
John Richards
Diana Jones
Philip Jones
David Hayes
John Waddle
Wim. Vaughn
James Price
Maggie Price
David J. Thomas
Riheldauer
Mississippi Floods Break Levees Endanger Davis Plantations
A Mississippi correspondent reports three new levee breaks unleashing vast floodwaters. Water pours over plantations linked to Jefferson Davis and Joseph Davis, about sixty miles below Vicksburg, threatening a General Zachary Taylor estate and even the church where Jefferson Davis wed General Taylor’s daughter.
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Mississippi
Jefferson Davis
Joseph Davis
Vicksburg
Zachary Taylor
General Taylor
Des Moines Valley Division Cl a I and P Time Table
Railroad time table listing schedules for the Des Moines Valley Division of the Illinois Central and Pacific line. Contains station names and arrival departure times framed as a standard small-town railway update.
Cure that Cough with Shilohs Cure
An advertisement touts Shilohs Cure as the best cough remedy promising quick relief for croup. It notes one million bottles sold last year and offers 40 doses for 25 cents, with Wagley & Smead as retailers.
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Shiloh
Croup
Wagley & Smead
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Carrie White
Square
Scott & Bisbee's
Emma J
FILL
Demorest
Oskaloosa
Ralph Gonage
Jessie Gill
Pearl
Bell Eye
Millie Daft
Prairie Bell
Rev. Adams
Adams
Fairmount
Washington County
J. J. Mitchell
Association of Congregational Churches
Runnells
Christian Church
Anna Atwater
Oskaloosa College
Jas. Wright
H. M. Hagard
King
New Mexico
Mexico
United States
Feathers
Bartel
Mitchell
Chautauqua
Crocker Woods
Anna Haines
Bryan & Son
Frank Woodard
Badly
M. E
DeWolf
H. V. White
Rose Bell
Newton
Mesdames
Geo Wood
Dr. Kramer
A. Vandermast
C. A. White
Luther Benson
Grace Chapel
Altoona
Missionary Convention
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of
Hilmick
J. Fr. Newman
A. C. Stuntz
India
London
J. E. Newman
Todd
Strain
Hann
Johnstone
Lizzie Hann
Highland Park
Jesus
Stuntz
Weiheldaffer
Emma Offill
India Fields
Hill
Mitchellville
English
Mesdames Ribeldaffer
Brous
Kramer
Leib
Vandermast
Wood and White
Emma Oftill
Baptists
Methodists
Des Moines Valley
IL & P
Clothing House
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