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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1897
Page
2
Director Sage reports Iowa farm output value for 1807 near 200 million dollars total with grains hay pasturage and related products totaling 151,084,008 dollars. The summary underscores strong crop year performance and market implications across the state.
A Chicago Vimes Herald interview reexamines Senator Allison restoring a different view on currency. The piece suggests the initial publication may have mixed or distorted certain statements.
Dr Schlatter, a renowned foreign surgeon, successfully excised the entire stomach of a woman at a Zurich hospital without endangering her life. Medical men in the city hail the operation as a remarkable triumph and the case has drawn intense interest.
Burlington official reports loading 3,800 freight cars daily as traffic swells. President Cable of Chicago Rock Island says less than 40 percent of this year crops moved, and rail has in sight all business it can handle for a year.
Tut National Federated Trades declined to recognize or back the silver issue at Nashville, ending a long ritual of yearly endorsement. The 16 to 1 theory dwindles even among its earliest supporters as the convention marks a shift away from free silver.
Scientific American's study of Mexico under the silver standard reports an average daily wage of 60 cents in silver, about 30 cents in U S money, with 12.5 million population and two thirds never sleeping in a bed. It describes huts with dirt floors, simple garments, limited housing, and stark land inequality where 6,000 landowners own most property.
Forty years ago W. Hunt of Leon exchanged a rifle for a promissory note for 15 dollars at 10 percent. The note, dated forty years earlier, was later handed to Swiggert, a Montana House member, and now his wife Florence L Swiggert sues in district court for 320.50 dollars plus interest and costs.
The piece critiques a Washington claim that money in the United States has more than doubled Mexico's total money since Mr. Bryan's nomination. It recalls Bryan's Chicago convention speeches asserting currency could not expand without free coinage of silver, noting the 17 month period since his nomination saw money supply rise far beyond Mexico's total money.
The Great Bend Register discusses calamity as a profitable industry, noting Mrs. Lease as highly fashionable, Jerry Simpson boasting wealth from land and cattle, and Bryan profiting from car lead. The piece claims the farmer audience has been driven to exhaustion by the crowd.
The piece notes the shift in U S policy toward external commerce and global markets. It cites President McKinley's ringing endorsement of peace as a means to expand trade, underscoring a century pivot from internal development to international commerce.
Local churches prepare for the week of prayer while Newton enjoys a Christmas sleigh day with cutters in use. Newton college students are home for the holidays under parental roofs as educators plan a Des Moines teachers meeting. Post office staff struggle with a holiday parcel rush amid brisk Christmas trade reported by RECORD advertisers.
The long promised RECORD Law Book is ready for delivery to subscribers with receipts or paying through January 1, 000. It is a free abridged edition of the Laws of Town, simpler than the full code, and replaces the $5 edition at a great state cost. Also notes palm reader on Farmer Street and an art book offer from F J Watney of Great Northern Railway in St Paul Minn.
A business man to the Record praises the print shop for good work fair prices and timely delivery. Hargraves offers the best sorted line of holiday goods in the city and Parmenter fits glasses.
A Midwest ad asserts Cham berlain Cough Remedy prevents pneumonia when used for colds. It claims extensive, satisfactory results and cites Olagah Indiana Territory as endorsement. The notice urges people with weak lungs to keep a bottle, sold in 25 and 50 cent sizes by Wagley and Smead druggists.
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