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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1898
Page
3
The Assembly at Colfax runs June 22 to July 4 featuring a diverse program and top talent. It advertises charming camping grounds and pleasing environments, inviting attendees to experience an instructive assembly. For information contact Rev. Chas J. English Colfax Iowa.
Professor John Milne reports delicate instruments mounted globally in Canada the United States South Africa New Zealand Java India Argentina England and Europe to study earth tremors and the living earth concept.
East Main Street undergoes renovations with boulevarding grading and new sidewalks. Will Bergman grades his lot and lays a sidewalk while Chas Jasper and others including J. P. Newell A. G. Bergman C. F. Morgan and R. L. Parmenter upgrade lots and add sidewalks.
Congressmen gathered in Altoona when Teller resolution appeared on the docket. Speaker Reed teased Hicks about an absent Monday session, joking that he needed a written excuse from his mother. The car filled with lawmakers laughed at Reed’s booming humor. Hicks kept laughing.
Advert mentions Chicago Great Western Railway Homeseekers' Excursions on Tuesdays April 5 and 19 offering round trips two dollars above single fare. W H Long, CGW Agent at Des Moines, offers rates routes and train service inquiries. The notice urges advertising in the RECORD for spring trade.
The Chicago Great Western Railway outlines homeseeker excursions on select Tuesdays in May and June with a fare of one plus 2 dollars round trip. Tickets are valid fifteen days outbound and twenty one days return with generous stops. Sales cover vast regions including South Atlantic, Gulf, Mississippi Valley, Southwest, Colorado, Northwest, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Northern Michigan and Northwest Iowa to Missouri. H Hunter, Des Moines agent, offers rates and details and invites inquiries.
A woman dialect writer admits she invents much of her dialect as education spreads. She notes her New York gamin character speaks understandable English, less a purist, yet too readable for a dialect tale.
The Iowa Central Railway will on May 3 and 17 and June 7 and 21 sell home seekers tickets to North Dakota South Dakota Minnesota Nebraska Kansas Colorado Wyoming Iowa Missouri Arkansas Texas Oklahoma Indian Territory and points in the southeast at very low rates. Tickets are valid twenty one days from the date of sale. For further information contact any Agent Iowa Central Railway.
The former Baltimore mayor says he has stayed well by eating little and drinking little at 600 banquets over twenty years. He notes his frugal habits helped him avoid diseases supposedly common to gourmets.
Frank R. Stockton narrates Bartholemy Portuguez and a small crew aboard a tiny vessel attacking a large Spanish merchantman in the Caribbean. After a brutal five hour duel with cannon and boarding, the pirates overwhelm the Spanish ship with muskets and cutlasses, suffering heavy losses but securing the vessel and leaving about 40 Spaniards alive and wounded.
A passenger asks to alight at Minute street but the conductor says no such street exists. The passenger then suggests Sixty-second treet as an alternative in a light hearted Philadelphia Record item.
British mail allows closed letters to any part of the British Isles for a penny weight not exceeding a quarter pound, provided the letter remains closed and unsealed for sending.
The article notes the Siamese king’s remark on England burying favorite dogs with their masters and discusses dogs on monuments as symbols of fidelity. It then shifts to Russia’s planned liquor monopoly, predicting the closure of 353 restaurants and numerous wine shops, and widespread hardship for licensees and merchants.
Mrs Keeley, renowned English actress, recalls a young actress playing a boy who is questioned by a judge. The girl answers with bright wit, saying she does not wear any suspenders, implying they “keep up Withow” as a playful retort.
A science explanation describes how a blow or head impact awakens eye nerves. The optic nerve transfers light impressions only, producing flashes and sparks rather than pain. General nerves register pain while the optic nerve reports the shock as stars.
A doctor reviews a marriage case and rules out insanity in the wife after examination. The husband, Softun, reveals they have been married three years and the physician notes the wife is no longer suffering former delusions.
A garbled collection of aphorisms and monologue snippets explores mind food for Kish and social jokes. The quirky text mentions brain food, cinema, stereotypes, green grocers, and birds flocking, ending with a joke about ladies hats and theater.
A compact collection of aphorisms on training, quietness, good works, patience, influence, truth, capability, discipline, forgiveness, standing for God, gospel love, and temptation as a measure of character. Each line presents a guiding idea about personal conduct and spiritual strength.
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