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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1898
Page
6
A local advertisement touts discounted goods with per unit prices for sorghum, sardines, flour, coffee, tea, potatoes, and maple syrup. It promotes free Methodist church events on July 24 including Sunday school, class meeting, preaching, and weekly prayer meeting.
A humorous Chicago Record item recalls a man named Hull who notes how people mock his name and persona. It catalogs four social groups who joke about Hall or Hull, from clever lines to puns about relatives and ships, ending with a wish that tormentors reform. The Yonkers Statesman snippet adds a pun about paying electric bills.
Elegant equipment with Pullman service and free chair cars offered on through trains to California points and Portland Oregon in tourist sleeping cars.
A historical ad offers a Klondike region emigration folder and an option to obtain a farm in Kan- Oklahoma or Texas. It directs readers to send requests to SOHN SEBASTIAN, G. P. A. Chicago, promising information for settlers seeking new lands and relocation opportunities.
A fragmented list shows subscriptions and periodicals from Chicago to Des Moines and Detroit. It includes titles such as Des Moines Daily News Prairie Farmer McClure's Magazine and Harper's Monthly, noting various publications and subscriber counts or prices.
An Omaha Exposition stop invites buyers to visit the Limited Farm and Fruit Lands. Ditches are built and water rights and railroad fare are provided free. 80 acres can sustain 500 cattle or 1000 sheep. agents promote excursion on Tuesday August 2 in Killduff Iowa.
Cay Younghusband notes Manchuria’s vast timber, cereal crops, indigo and tobacco potential, predicting it will play a significant part in future history. The region’s rich resources and hardy inhabitants contrast with other distant lands, signaling growing European interest as powers circle China. The essay contrasts Manchuria with Khiva and Turkestan, stressing its strategic and economic value.
A fragmented column references Stephen Phillips receiving a prize for his first poetry book, while a joking thread ponders the United States funding a deficit for lectures. It weaves in stray notes about constitutional figures, film quips, and humorous dialogue from multiple papers.
The Magdeburg Zeitung highlights 1898 as a remarkable year with unique numerological traits and rare occurrences since 1651, urging superstition-tinged observers and thirteen clubs to watch this year closely. It cites divisibility facts and four-sided numbers. mentions 1595 as the previous such year and 2119 as a future one. Also notes longevity trend with Rev T Hooper family in Wiltshire and Bank of England employee Daniel Race spanning generations.
In Broken Hill the vast silver producing district of New South Wales yielded silver bullion worth about 8 million dollars and ore valued over 5 million in 1897. A great fire in the leading mine reduced the total output.
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