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Newspaper

Newton Record

Location

Newton, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 17, 1898

Page

3

Maple Leaf Santa Fe Through Car Serves Summer City Tourists

Through sleeping cars run weekly from Minneapolis and Los Angeles. Leaves Minneapolis Tuesday morning via Chicago Great Western, stops include Dodge Center Hayfield McIntire New Hampton Sumner Oelwein Waterloo Cedar Falls Reinbeck Marshalltown Des Moines to Kansas City arriving Los Angeles Saturday 8 30 AM. Through car also returns eastward from Los Angeles to Minneapolis. Travel agents listed for inquiries.

Land of Flowers Los Angeles California Chicago Santa Fe Minneapolis Dodge Center Hayfield McIntire New Hampton Sumner Oelwein Waterloo Cedar Falls Reinbeck Marshalltown Des Moines Kansas City F. H. Hunter C. J. Brooks St. Paul F. H. Lord

Rail timetable excerpt shows mixed east and west rail times

The page lists multiple train departures and arrivals for East and West routes across stations including Monroe Newton Des Moines Valley Division and Grinnell. It shows No. 2 4 6 and various daily schedules with times and notes on daily or Sunday service plus branch details for Newton and Grinnell lines.

Monroe Branci Iv Newton Monroe DES Moines Valley Division P.m. P.m. Prairie C’y Fairmount Prairie C’y Newton Branch Murphy Killduff Lynn Lle Lynnville Lynn’le Aainter NewSharon Oskaloosa

Record Law Book Ready for Subscribers and Holders of Receipts

The Record Law Book is ready for all subscribers paying to January 1, 1890, or those holding old receipts entitling them to the same.

Probate notice from Jasper County Iowa estate of H L Bean

Notice appoints Charles J New administrator of the estate of H L Bean deceased in Jasper County Iowa. Claims must be filed within twelve months or barred. Dated Newton January 180s. Also references rental listings and local contractors in the same notice snippet.

Jasper County Iowa H. L. Bean Newton Chas. J. New

Purchase of B.S. Stock Announced

An individual announces the acquisition of the stock of B.S. The statement confirms ownership change and outlines the investor’s intention to manage the holdings going forward. No further details of price or terms are disclosed.

Weeks Bros Carpenters and Contractors

Weeks Bros carpenters and contractors advertise building services in Newton Iowa. They offer plans and specifications tailored to customer needs, claiming long term savings from well arranged plans and fewer changes, with reasonable terms and location near Southeast Corner Square.

Southeast Corner Square Newton Iowa

Strange Clippings From A Distant Paper Archive

A collage of 19th century notes and quips surveys declines and gains in population crime and energy costs. It mentions Austria leniency to murderers London parks and a Hudson center view. It also notes wheat donations to India famine and a Seattle style banquet of odd stats.

Varieties and Miscellany Across Nations and States

A mosaic of brief notes: Java dominates indigo and pepper production, Germany invested about 100 million dollars in Rhine Elbe and Vistula dredging, a Maine woman endures loafers by painting her fence, prisoners receive Bible and dictionary with optional Greek and Latin texts, Mrs Mulcahy and Mrs Burke lament dairy troubles, a Boston Transcript exchange. A Charleston commission has planted over a thousand shade trees in four years, Gideon Greatness famed, Rhode Island’s governor linked to a New York dance figure, Bank of France guards with private signals and covert photographers, Connecticut requires Secretary of State approved inks with a $100 penalty, Giles County Virginia residents flee earthquakes and a salt works sinks as lakes drain.

I. Came H. E. Went Austria Queen Victoria Great Britain Sumner County Kansas India Philadelphia New York State Petapsco Neck Baltimore Dr. Slasher London Berne Switzerland England Barrows Chicago The Hudson Lake Michigan Thames Edward Everett Hale Boston Common Maine New Hampshire Giles County Virginia

Bits of Wisdom Reflections on Faith and Society

The excerpt offers concise maxims on church life, family ties, moral judgment, temptation, illness, and spiritual favor. It contrasts unfriendly kin with strangers, notes the saloon as a symbol of vice, and links dying with a need for more than study to cure. It ends with a paradox about seeking divine favor despite risking human favor.

Late Inventions Promise Easier Daily Tasks Across Home

A roundup of new devices including a wash boiler that reduces scrubbing, a water-jet clothes line, side-opening clothes pins for easy clipping, a bitter-tasting medicine glass with a central partition, a folding portable saw, a fire mask for horses, hollow bricks for kindling, magazine lead pencils with a self-feeding jaw, a pneumatic painting nozzle, and a wristwatch-sized electricity generator for medicine.

Notable Women of Society and Letters

The Duchess of Teck spends five thousand pounds yearly on philanthropic work, one fifth of her parliamentary grant. Isabella Bird Bishop is invited to read before London's Geographical Society. Quida’s new novel The Altruist explores social equality in practice. Mariam Mason Greely studied at the Sorbonne and Barnard, sharing refined views. Mrs Thomas A Edison is described as beautiful, Italian in appearance, and fond of detective fiction with her husband.

Sorbonne Paris Barnarde College Thomas A. Edison

Empress Eugenie Alters Travel Plans Amid War

The Empress Eugenie cancels a Black Sea journey due to the war and shifts plans to visit Corsica and the Italian coast. Canada’s new viceroy, the Duke of Leeds, rises as Holland & Co.’s senior partner, earning the nickname Gin Duke in England. Baroness de Hirsch’s $2,000,000 relief gift funds a Clara de Hirsch home for working girls. Mathilde von Humboldt, last granddaughter of Alexander von Humboldt, dies in Rome after a life spanning Ottmachau and Coblenz with strong German artistic ties.

Eugenie Black Sea Corsica Canada Duke of Leeds Earl of Aberdeen England Holland & Co Baroness de Hirsch America Clara de Hirsch Alexander von Humboldt Mathilde von Humboldt Rome Ottmachau Silesia Coblentz

Canalgize Acreage Promises Grow in Ariwma District

In the past year 1920 acres were planted to canalgze in Ariwma and the acreage is expected to increase next year. A Brooklyn Life quip recalls a doctor asking why operate for one hundred dollars when there is no hope of saving him. A tip notes that newspaper can polish windows better than cloth when used to dry.

Brooklyn Life Canalgze Ariwma

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