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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1898
Page
5
Prairie City Press carries a brief masthead reading Carrie White as editor with Des Moines valley and local postscript initials C K R and P, indicating local publication lines and staff credits.
A local restaurant offering meals and lunches at the northeast corner square. It features a fine line of canned goods confectionery cigars and other goods. Fresh and cove oysters available. D. W. FRENCH successor to Mrs Anna Main.
A sweep of social notices, marriages, visits, and local happenings. Des Moines and California connections appear with Mrs. Emma Woodward and Ona Underwood. Meetings of clubs, church events, and street incidents are recounted along with business changes and town visitors.
Social gatherings marked year end in the community with a watch night service at M Warner’s home, tea for the PKE Sisters, cinegraph showings, and a joint G A R and W A C officers installation at Union Hall. A masked New Year reception at the Vandermast home followed. A child at J C Leib’s house suffered a deep cut from scissors but saved himself with swift blood loss control before aid arrived.
The Record office in Newton announces a finest line of fancy stationery including wedding invites birth announcements and engraved programs. Invitations and cards for receptions balls parties secret society folders and church societies are ready to be printed.
Centerville Block is advertised as coal available from C. H. Jasper & Co. with prompt delivery and telephone contact listed as 46,9117.
Farmers are urged to buy machine oils at Wagley and Smead's with prices cut to five cents per gallon.
The New York Sun reports riders distrust suburban road house racks used by repair shops. Knife slashes on tires and multiple incidents raise fears that rack workers tamper with wheels. The piece notes a local shop run by a young man and urges caution among cyclists. It also promotes The Iowa Homestead for 1898 readers with detailed farmer editions.
Bob Cunningham and two companions chased a night coon near Pulaski. After multiple shots, he claimed to see luminous eyes and fired thrice, only to discover he had been shooting at two stars peeping from a tree.
Mrs Fiitech of Denver owns a zoological garden and manages it herself. She drives an ostrich hitched to a light wagon, the animal guided not by reins but by a long whip used against its feathers.
A description of a poison bag ants can discharge a strong sulphurous fluid to deter enemies. The piece then urges readers to tell merchants they saw their advertisement in the RECORD as an easy way to support the office.
A large supply of receipt and note books offered at ten cents each. Call and obtain them. Good printing costs a little more than poor printing, not much though. The Record guarantees first class work.
A local livery advertises a new fine surrey for hire at the barn of J.M. Reynno ups and Son. Enjoy a pleasant drive with the new vehicle and invite customers to try it at their convenience.
The ad announces highest cash price paid for all kinds of poultry at the W E Hough Poultry House located at 511 W H SCRIBNER & Co. It calls for immediate selling and highlights ready cash.
A Detroit Free Press account recalls a colonel who narrowly missed a Congressional bid in South Dakota. He details a heated race against a relentless opponent, a bold plan to expose the rival before election day, and a disastrous paper deadline that sparked a fiery newsroom accident.
Owing to installing an electric motor in the press room the Record offers for sale a 10 horsepower upright boiler and a 7 horsepower horizontal engine by Murray Iron Works Burlington Ind complete with fixtures injector smoke stack etc used a little over three years. A bargain at 100 dollars cash or note. Address or call on the Record Newton Iowa.
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