For Sale Cheap Record Offers Machinery and Stationery
Owing to installing an electric motor in its press room the Record offers a 10 horsepower upright boiler and a 1/2 horsepower horizontal engine from Murray Iron Works Burlington for $100 cash or note. Also available at the Recorp Newton are fancy stationery items including wedding invitations birth announcements and engraved programs printed in Newton.
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Murray Iron Works
Burlington, Jr
Newton
Recorp
Dr Williams Indian Pile Ointment Promises Piles Cure
Dr Williams Indian Pile Ointment claims to cure blind bleeding ulcerated and itchy piles by absorbing tumors and soothing itch. It is marketed only for piles and private-area itching with instant relief and a poultice effect. Each box is guaranteed and sold by druggists or mailed at 50 cents or one dollar. Williams Mfg Co of Cleveland advertises. Foster and Callison retail the product.
Be nin relics sold at auction in London
A London auction house sold Benin spoils captured when British troops toppled the Benin capital. Ivory tusks, carved metal figures, a bell, and rooms of relics returned to private hands as a British philosopher warned of missionaries and traders corroding African wealth.
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London
Benin
Great Britain
Rome
Noble Nurses Serve With Skill And Courage
A physician praises nursing as a noble, useful, and successful profession for intelligent women. He says trained nurses require skill, courage, tranquility, patience, faithfulness to duties, and self effacement for safety, urging strict application of qualifications by physicians assigning patients.
Dresden Papers: City Trustees Public Parks Fund
Dresden, capital of Saxony, owns a morning paper the Dresdener Anzeiger. On the death of its last proprietor, it was bequeathed to the city with profits to be spent on public parks. The trust has been faithfully administered, never used to promote any specific social, political, or religious faction.
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Dresden
Saxony
Poland's Patron Saint Celebrated in Guesen Cathedral
The Polish patron Saint Adel bert, martyred in 997 by Prussians as he sought to convert them, is honored in Poland. His body rests in a solid silver shrine within Guesen cathedral, marking nine centuries of veneration.
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Poland
Cincinnati Enquirer
Guesen
Adelbert
Camden Maine Manufactures Most Anchors in America
Camden Maine is identified as the leading U.S. producer of ships anchors, surpassing all other American manufacturers in output. The report highlights a robust shipbuilding industry centered in Camden with significant local employment and economic impact.
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Camden
Amerie
Faith and the Universe and the Spectator Poem
Joseph Truman in Spectator reflects on faith and science with a vivid cosmic imagery. The verse contemplates Venus and Jupiter, a lone moon, and a quest to define the forces behind life and truth. It weighs belief amid doubt and aims to place God within reason and hopeful inquiry.
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Anguat
Joseph Truman
Courage and Two Spiders Unearthed in Garden Tale
A veteran narrator recalls keeping two garden spiders, their dramatic combat ending in the death of both through mutual torments. The piece pivots to a farm readings pitch, praising The Iowa Homestead as essential farmer reading for 1898. It extols practical farmer perspectives, urging subscriptions and noting free samples.
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Chanticleer
Tiger
Manchester City News
Iowa Homestead
Farmers’ Institute
Homestead
Address Homestead Co
Des Moines
Iowa
Grant's boyhood ride and a guard for the horse tale
The reminiscence recounts Ulysses S. Grant as a 16 year old in 1830s Ohio aiding a country store boy in Flat Rock Kentucky. He once ferried a frightened horse blindfolded from Flat Rock to Georgetown, showing early resolve. Also noted are Iowa military duties, Guard strength, and local happenings including a Metz shooting tourney and a Marie Belle Opera Company visit.
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Jesse E. Peyton
Grant
Flat Rock
Bourbon County
Ulysses
Georgetown
Adjutant General
Iowa
National Guard
Wright
Metz
Clover Root Tea Sale Promises Health Cure
Advertisement for Karl's Clover Root Tea described as a great Blood Purifier claiming to cure headache nervousness and facial eruptions while clearing the head. Sold by Wagley and Smead in a period tone.
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Karl
Wagley & Smead
Pumps and Windmills Repair Solicited for Tough Jobs
Cleaning and maintenance firms invite bids for repairing pumps windmills tanks towers pipe and hose systems. The notice seeks capable contractors to handle the most challenging work and deliver reliable service.
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Colorado
California
P. Ry
Phillips
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
John Sebastian
G. PB. A
Chicago
Art Press
UNION
van Buren St
Rock Island
Pacific Station
Great Rock Island
Birds Eye View
Nursing
Faith and the Universe
Trom
Venus
Jupiter
Marie Belle Opera Company
Opera House
Walter Jackson
Killduff
J. M. Dunn
Kellogg
Andy Dunn
W. J. Yarham
A. H. Weber
Walnut St
A. M. Behner’s
Jasper & Sons
Central Market
Fred Claussen
The
Record
J. F. Baker
Loch Parl
N. E. Cor Square
Vaughans
Des Moines Weekly Register
Inter Ocear
DR. Mott
Foster & Callison
Cleveland
Ohio
Gosper County
Colfax House
Loving Co
E. SC. Kinsell
Mgr
Colfax
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