White Cement Mine Legend Ends In Mystery Tale
Adrien Raridon travels from Baxter en route to Kellogg. Mrs. Martha Lawrence returns to Des Moines after visiting in Colfax. Local notes record family illnesses, fires, and farm sales. A long lost mine legend recounts White’s cement find and his subsequent vanishings through Colorado and Utah mining camps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parmenter
Adrien Raridon
Baxter
Kellogg
W. G. White
Martha Lawrence
J. A. Metcalfe
Des Moines
Fred Maytag
Chicago
Florida considers $75 million canal project across state
Florida, lagging in development, contemplates a 200 foot wide waterway from Atlantic to Gulf to allow ocean ships. Articles of incorporation filed. capital set at 75,000,000. Estimated five years to complete, with legislature assent already secured.
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Florida
New York Sun
Santa Fe
Waldo
Melrose
Atlantic Ocean
Gulf
Great Cuez
New York City
Tallahassee
The Clever Sultan: a quip about harem growth
The Cleveland Plain Dealer quotes a sultan asking for more command power and enlarging the harem with about fifty new girls. The exchange notes a total around one hundred seventy women and a bomb threat joke about the crowd not hitting him.
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Sultan
Cleveland Plain-Dealer
A Pretty Pair in a Quick Exchange
In a terse dialogue Carrye jokes about a perfect weight while Cholly questions a bloomers remark and Acky asks about a left. The exchange reads as a playful, risqué snippet from a vintage conversation.
Judicious advertising and local goods promotion
Advertisers flourish with THE RECORD reach Centerville Block coal promotion prompts delivery via Wagley & Smead. A quick cure ad for Weeks laxative quinine tablets promises no cure no pay. Parmenter frames offer eye fitment. Testimony from Wim H T Penn Des Moines praises Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with relief after indigestion. Prices 25 and 50 cents. Wagley & Smead Druggists sell all items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wagley & Smead
Wim
Penn
Des Moines
Iowa
Chamberlain
Wagley & Smead Druggists
Westfield News Woman's Edition highlights cold cure claim
The April 3 1896 Westfield News Woman's Edition quotes a correspondent praising Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as the best cure for croup cold and bronchitis and notes 25 and 50 cent bottles sold by Wagley and Smead. Kinor Bros. meat market lists fresh home-rendered lard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. J. Robey
Olney
Chamberlain
Wagley & Smead
Mary Shepherd
W. H. Butler
Westfield
Ind
Westfield News
Wagley & Smead Druggists
Kinor Bros
Record urges readers to tell merchants about ads and buy low-cost notebooks
An appeal urges customers to mention seeing ads in the Rec ord and notes a cheap supply of receipt and note books at the office for 10 cents each. It argues good printing costs a bit more than poor printing, and praises the Record for first class work. It also advertises machine oils at Wagley and Smead's for up to 35 cents per gallon.
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Rocky Mountains
New York Commercial Advertiser
California
Leland Stanford
George Hearst
Mark Hopkins
Jean
White
Horse Head Gulch
New Mexico
Helgat
James G. Fair
Rockies
Salt Lake City
Wagley & Smead
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Newton
Moline
Schuttler
New Stoughton
Bergman Brothers
Bergman & McKinley
Fire Insurance
Jasper CO
United States
Clark’s Bank
ER. J. Miles
Southeast Corner Square
Dept
NEW York Weekly Tribune
Geo. W. Best
Tribune Office
J. M. Reynolds
Fred Jones
Mitchellville
Maurice Rodgers
George Townsend
Fugard & Brown
W. C. McGath
Center City, Neb
Ed Miller
Jack Peters
State House
Wm. Mendenhall
Col. Bolshoefer
Axtell & Cox
Colfax
T. W. Henry
Fred
Mrs. Taylor
Taylor
Jas. McCarty
Adair
McCarty
Sidnyday
H. L. Orcutt
Monroe
Lynnville
James Enfield
Nellie D. Brown
Linngrove
Joseph Arnold
Joel Weston
Ed. Weston
John Hale
Will Case
Newton and Monroe
W. S. Westbrook
Etta L. Ryder
Mrs. C. O. Ryder
Sherman Township
Peter Zigler
Elk Creek Township
Earnest Shultz
Robert Balig
Nebraska
Wth
al Frary
Henry
Old Man White
Florida Peninsula
Barsains
China
A. Long & Son
A. Long & Son, Grocers
Centerville
C. H. Jasper & Co
Wright & Lufkin
ST. Paul
Minneapolis
Northwest
ST. Louis
Kansas City
Peoria
L. VV. Martin
Thos. P. Barry
DEN
Sean
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