Prairie City Prairie Press items and social notes
Prairie City Press notes death in Missouri of an aged father, a surprise party for Mrs. Wills, and visits by Mrs. Smith and Miss Nina Marshall. It lists social events, dinners, tea parties, and birthday observances, plus church and club activities. Also mentions local businesses, a fire scare, weather, and cyclone letters from Fort Smith.
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Mesdames
J. F. Quick
Jas. Wills
Missouri
W. B. Smith
Rockwell City
S. O. Scott
Nina Marshall
Knoxville
Natal
Adams
Montgomery
Fairmount
Ira Smith
Des Moines
George Hurstihile
A. J. Laurence Piace
Valeria
Mary Fletcher
Colfax Tribune
George
Prairie City
Henry Schlossers
Ulyssus Bryan
Ft. Smith
Arkansas
Mr. Bryan
Outlaws and moonshiners arrested at Sunnelton camp meeting
A mixed group of criminals including an outlaw and three moonshiners were taken into custody at the Sunnelton camp meeting in Kingwood Virginia. The report notes additional unsettled items from various towns and a range of unrelated curiosities.
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Sunnelton
Kingwood
Restaurant Ad at Northeast Square Corner
A restaurant offering meals and lunches at the northeast corner square with a fine line of canned goods confectionery and cigars. Fresh and creamed oysters advertised. D. W. French successor to Mrs. Anna Main.
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Northeast Corner Square
D. W. French
Anna Main
Iowa Steam Laundry Ad Offers Guaranteed Service
An Iowa Steam Laundry agent guarantees work and instructs customers to leave bundles at Hogan's barber shop at 21m3 C minor.
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Iowa Steam Laundry
Hogan’s Barber Shop
Captain Spanker and the Smuggler's Fortune
An elderly grandmother recalls Captain Spanker a reputed smuggler who funded his estate after paying hefty duties on opium cargoes. Her granddaughter Margaret, in love with Dick Spanker, learns of family history and the captain’s later triumph as Dick returns rich, allowing a wedding to reunite generations.
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A. E. Nelson
Keosauqua
Nelson
W. W. Sexton
J. C. Leibs
Douden Foundry
John Dinsmore
Captain Spanker
Margaret Pemley
Margaret
Spanker
China
Richard
Emile
Nick
Richard Spanker
Margie
Grandma
Plague Victims Estimated in Foochow Reach Forty Thousand
A Chinese paper reports that the current year’s plague toll in Foochow may not fall short of 40,000. The notice promotes Shiloh’s Consumption Cure as a leading cough remedy, claiming it cures where others fail. Pleasant to take and said to act quickly. Sold by Wagley & Smead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poque Bluffs
Valley View
Austen Leigh
House of Commons
Stafford
William Mahoney
Jenning Bradshaw
C. P. Carver
St. Augustine
Lexington
Mass
Stationers’ Hall
London
Austria
Macnaghten
Archaeological Museum
Larissa
Constantinople
New York
Brooklyn
Noman
Foochow
Shiloh
Wagley & Smead
Lantern Street Lighting Ordered by Louis XIV in 1697
In 1697 King Louis XIV issued an edict mandating lanterns with lit candles to be hung across street ends and midpoints on long Parisian thoroughfares. The plan built on earlier police measures by Revere and marked two centuries of nocturnal urban illumination in France.
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France
Revere
Paris
Louis XIV
A Cautious Man
A New York Weekly excerpt presents a brief dialogue between two thieves. The first implies a cautious burglar avoids crowds, while the second denies a larger gang. The exchange underscores a lone criminal mindset and hesitance to risk capture.
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New York Weekly
Also Mentioned on This Page
Prairie City Press
Fies
Carrie White
Des Moines Valley
Ccceee
Eierehes
Wills
Becca Woolford
C. D. Wiggins
Chicago
Champaign
Warren Counties
Asa Vandermast
Orange City
Mr. Vandermast
F. A. Heaton
Newton
Mona Robinson
Jasper Youell
H. V. Adams
Highland Park
Pleasant Hill
Douden
John Jeffrey
Near Runnels
H. Zachary
Ida Brown
Anna Graham
Japan
M. A. Gifford
W. C
Geo. Wood
Congregational Church
Mesdamnes Win
Lotts
Emma Chandler
Laura Kramer
Myron Sparks
L. H. Springer
Birthday Club
Ora Hanger
Ida Blanche
Florence Ramsey
Ahi — Rt
Saratoga
Alice Wilks
Dc. S. Jenks
Thomas Kane
H. V. Adama
Frank McCauley
Mitchellville
George Millison
Night Watch
Steve Cottrell
Cottrell
McKinny
Katie Healy
Metz
Jasper County
Miss Healey
Mary Conner
Monroe
Havelock
Iowa
C. A. Gray
Oliver Remsburg
Illinois
John French
Mercer Co
Minnie Bollhoeffer
Pliny
Europe
Lessing
M. Bollhoeffer
D. C. Gifford
Will Widell
Our City
Spencer & Co
C. R. Graham
Carrie Graham
J. T. Graham
D. Kramer
Lewis Main
Thomas Keating
Colorado
Janes Keating
Bon Ton
Kate Chapman
Colfax
Feathers
Sophia Renneburg
Glidden, Carroll Co
Chas. Cottrel
Scott & Son
Square
M. Feathers
Little & Gill
HUGEN
Renit
Mrs. Belle Slaughter
S. M. Jones
Jerry Cobb
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