Annual Sunday School Convention and Jasper County Fair Attractions
Malaka township hosts the Sunday School Convention at Wittenberg church with lessons, songs, readings, and talks by local ministers and teachers. The Newton Business Men's Association funds cash prizes for township horse and turnout contests at the Jasper County Fair and plans daily automobile races and a trained animal show. Public wedding rumors prompt merchants to offer gifts and a postfair square celebration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malaka Township
Wittenberg Church
John Crawford
Earnest Barley
Bertha Griebeling
Benton
Leitze
Hadiey
Shankland
McCorkel
Aur Huarry
MO. H. Morven
Jasper County
Newton Business Men's Association
Jasper County Bank
A. C. Kennath
Fair Committee
Business Men’s Association
Remedy for piles advertised with free samples in Iowa notice
The notice promotes Rector in a Remedy with claims of 98 percent permanent cures for piles and offers a free trial if it fails. It also includes real estate ads for 80 acre and 300 acre farms near Kellogg and Newton in Jasper County Iowa with cash and long-term financing details. Wedding stationery and real estate advertising opportunities are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wag’ey & Smead
Kellogg
Jasper County
Newton
Iowa
Notable figures share varied lives from politics to art
Ex Senator Gorman admits error in Washington misperceptions while Senator Stewart recalls hard labor on a farm. Pettus travels with papers to the Capitol. David Rankin plans 10 000 acres of corn with 250 workers and 600 horses. Knight volunteers as Evanston chief of police. Diaz maintains Spartan diet. Tom J Johnson cherishes southern ties. Micajah White retires after 48 years of church singing and 70 at 70. Sir Walter Hillier serves as acting secretary in Beijing and Sarasate the violinist tours the world and heeds the old caution to wed violin, not a woman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gorman
Washington
Stewart
Ohio
Senator Pettus
Capitol
David Rankin
Missouri
Newell C. Knight
Evanston
Ills
Gatling
Diaz
Mexico
Don A. Henderson
Ife
San Pédro
Cal
Tom J. Johnson
Cleveland
Louisville
Boston Transcript
Micajah
Whate
Ashfield
Charlemont
Hawley
Warehouse Point
Walter Hillier
Peking
Far East
Bangkok
Walter
Hongkong
Sarasate
Paris
Painters and Writers in Arts Circles and Honors
Sir Edwin Arnold is reported totally blind yet continues literary work. James MacNeill Whistler elected to Dresden Academy of Arts. A Poe book recently sold for 1300 dollars. Poe's mother-in-law lamented lack of funds for tea. Mrs Gertrude Massey of London makes a fortune painting pet animal miniatures. King Edward's bulldog and Queen Alexandra's spaniels among her noted subjects. Martha Hale of Boston presents her painting The Puritan Girl to Phillips Exeter Academy. she is related to Hon. Samuel Hale and Captain Nathan Hale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin Arnold
James MacNeill Whistler
Dresden Academy of Arts
Gertrude Massey
London
King Edward
Queen Alexandra
Adventists to found parochial schools in Detroit
The Adventists in Detroit plan to establish parochial schools. Rev Edward Cronenwett of Butler Pa was elected president of Capitol University in Columbus. D David D Thompson of Cincinnati, editor of The Northwestern Christian Advocate in Chicago, is named a lay editor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Edward Cronenwett
Butler
Capitol University
Columbus
D. David D. Thompson
Cincinnati
Northwestern Christian Advocate
Chicago
Methodist
Ellicott
Gloucester
Richard Lewis
Llandaff
Temple
Canterbury
New York society girl weds man claimed as count now horse doctor
A New York society woman married a man who claimed to be a French count, only to discover he was a horse doctor. Similar tales appear in Memphis and Chicago papers noting the mismatch of titles and trades and the rarity of happy foreign alliances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago Record-Herald
Memphis
Blue Blooded Bunch Debate Ingress of Decrees
The article cites editorials from the Atlanta Journal and Chicago Inter Ocean imagining a convention among aristocrats the Duchess of Marlborough Countess Castellane and the Duchess of Manchester. They joke on passing resolutions about ingratitude of indigent husbands and speculate on a simultaneous breakout of Marlboroughs Manchesters and Castellanes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duchess of Marlborough
Castellane
Duchess of Manchester
Atlanta Journal
Marlboroughs
Manchesters
Castellanes
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Real estate pitch urges investing in cheap farming lands
A persuasive real estate notice urges investors and settlers to buy farm land now before prices rise. It cites population growth from natural increase and immigration, arguing land will become scarce and yield superior long term returns. It invites inquiries at the office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Tme
Prime Iowa farm listings with multiple large tracts
Land offer catalogs describe Jasper and Guthrie county farms near Newton and Herndon with 160 to 320 acres each. Properties feature level to rolling soil, tiling, windmills, wells, barns, hog houses, granaries, and orchards. Prices range from 55 to 65 dollars per acre with easy terms and down payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jasper County
Reasner
Newton
Jasper, Co
Guthrie County
Iowa
Herndon
Boone
Iowa Agricultural College
Illinois
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Wetmore
Morett End Ud
Ibeetle Beaad
Wetmore Tobacco CO
Louis, He
America
Meredith & Son
the Grand Cafe
East Side Square
Drs.Fellows & Fellows
W. Walnut
Des Moines
Love
Free Sade
West
Walnut Street
Hanson
Newton’ Art Studio
ForBale
the Dominie
United States
Gunningham & Cooper
Vaningham & Cooper
Sipe
Owa
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