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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1898
Page
2
Newton residents are invited to order fancy stationery from the Arcorp office featuring invitation and announcement cards for weddings balls and parties secret society folders engraved church programs birth notices and other stationery items ready to be printed.
Dr Williams Indian Pile Ointment claims to cure Blind Bleeding Ulcerated and Itching Piles by absorbing tumors and relieving itching. Sold for 50 cents and 1.00 per box by Williams Mfg Co Cleveland and by Posten and Callison.
Passengers arriving in Chicago can, by the new Union Elevated Loop reach any part of the city. Train every minute. These facilities can only be offered by the Great Rock Island Route. Send a 2-cent stamp for a new birds eye view of Chicago showing Loop and Elevated System. John D. Bastian, G P A, Chicago.
A portrait of Beau Fielding Saudi noble life in William II era society. A fashionable youth of Leicestershire descent with costly tastes and no clear income, he dazzled courts and hosts yet kept his secrets. His life ends in a duel with John Law, the future founder of the Mississippi scheme, leaving little proof of his existence.
A man on Chestnut Street sells a Newfoundland puppy using a pasted handbill reading For Sale Inquire Within. He crosses out within and ties it to the pup, producing a farcical effect as a boy asks who to ask for when inside. The man then removes the lower half of the placard, leaving simply For Sale.
A guardsman in Queen's Square pawned a £2 bank note for 10s 6d to fund a night out, then destroyed the duplicate to avoid raising money if his resolution failed while drinking with companions. The tale, from Cornhill Magazine, notes his intent to limit spending to a half guinea.
A terse exchange from the Chicago Tribune recalls a plumber who has waited about thirty minutes in a hall. Willie asks about the man outside and learns he is there to do work discussed recently.
A young woman notes Mrs Cumrox is praised in papers while her husband rarely appears in print. Miss Cayenne counters that his name appears in more ledgers than any other man in the city, contrasting fame and record.
Dozens of honest men arrive daily with gold bricks from Newark refineries, carried in small leather cases with steel chains. Each brick weighs 200 to 500 ounces, worth about $20 an ounce, making the procession a potential target yet no losses are recorded. The gold is shipped from lead bullion and arrives with stealthy care, escorted by company employees rather than detectives.
Sam Pierce, who had vowed never to speak to his neighbor Alonzo Colby after a cattle dispute five years earlier, was saved from drowning when Colby heard his cries, jumped into the stream at Cohecton and pulled him to land before taking him home.
The U S Circuit Court at Chicago holds municipalities liable for three fourths of damages from mob violence destroying property, even without local negligence. Suits by railroad companies against Chicago set a nationwide trend, aligning with Pennsylvania rulings from the 1877 Pittsburg riots.
Up to the last week of June total gold exports reached about twenty two million dollars with fifteen million drawn from the treasury reserve. Withdrawals were offset by new gold deposits in exchange for notes, leaving a net decrease under eight million. Exports are below the recent average, and six month mining output suggests exports were less than new gold mined.
Middletown Connecticut crowds flocked to Forepaugh and Sell Bros. circus. A small child wandered into the street toward the elephant herd. The lead elephant calmly lifted the baby with its trunk and swung the child to safety, preventing disaster.
A brief note records a domestic dispute over borrowing a lawn mower. Maria and Mrs cheerfully propose using their own mower, while Mr Nayberry’s machine is discussed as an option. The exchange hints at frugal habits and neighborly dealings.
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