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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1898
Page
6
Local ad touts inexpensive groceries highlighting sorghum sardines flour coffee tea potatoes and maple syrup with several items discounted per can per sack per gallon and emphasis on inside prices for a limited supply period. Note the period style and old pricing language typical of historical classifieds.
Local grocery shop invites customers to browse a clean stock of produce and goods with produce-based trade-ins at top market price. A recent delivery includes a carload of Gold Coin Flour.
Rail timetable excerpt shows going east and west services for multiple divisions, including Monroes branch Willowton and Des Moines Valley. Details include departure and arrival times for Newton Monroe Prairie City Fairmount Monroe Southy Lynn June Lynnville and OsKaloosa with notes on daily and Sunday frequencies and freight services.
A fragmented Des Moines section lists prices and ads for newspapers and magazines, lumber suppliers Jasper & Sons promote stock and prices, plus notices from Wagley & Smead. It mentions Chamberlain's Cough Remedy endorsements by Geo W Humphrey of Swanton Ohio and testimonials from A T Moreaux of Laverne Minnesota.
A Chicago Times-Herald excerpt recalls husbands struggling to remember daily tasks on an accommodation train. A man forgets his wife’s request to order items, finds a used memory aid in his pocket, and discovers a rubber overshoe note that helps him recall the needed length, illustrating a wary confidence in memory systems.
A young boy, perhaps seven to nine, visits the recorder’s office in New Orleans to swear out a warrant against his father. He recounts a kitchen brawl where his mother defended herself with a rolling pin, preventing the father from striking her, and the mother could not come to swear out the warrant. The clerk questions the odd request as the tale unfolds.
Glasgow Kentucky reports that a St Louis footpad attempted a robbery on Colonel Kit Chinn of Kentucky but fled without action. Chinn is described as fearless and battle ready, having once fought a wildcat bare handed and reportedly offered to duel a rattlesnake. The Cincinnati Enquirer quotes an older couple reflecting on a wife's look at home.
A Cincinnati Enquirer quotation notes a letter describing darkness since absence and a remark that love is blind. The speaker contemplates whether the other may be telling the truth about feelings and truth in relationships.
The Whittier homestead in Haverhill Mass is open to visitors Wednesday through Friday afternoons for 10 cents and Saturday afternoon for 5 cents. All visitors must register. Townsend and Seaton move their offices to rooms above Ammons and Allen's cloth store.
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