Community News From Prairie City And Colfax
Local notices cover church events at Free Methodist parsonage with a large visiting group, plus routine society updates. Mentions of families, travels to Des Moines and Kellogg, a diphtheria outbreak at a southwest city, and editor’s kin visiting Mason City. Also notes on a newspaper's format change and an ad for a local tobacco product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. H. Gorrell
Free Methodist Church
Wilson School
Sith Lister
John F. Lister
Kellogg
Newton
Joe Lister
Smith
Des Moines
Prairie City News-Kodak
N. K
Messrs. Jones & Price
Prairie City
J. B. ‘Linker
Mason City
Tinker
Northwestern Life and Savings Co
Parmenter
Blakely
Colfax
Charlie McLain
John Burnett
S. W. Harper
Frankie
Center School
Colfax Tribune
la Flor de Newton
Elephant catch tale shows native officer aids herd capture
In Burma a native public works officer spooked a herd near a bridge. The elephants fled into an open kheddah, the gate was lowered, and ten elephants were finally secured. The incident, noted as remarkable in elephant catching, underscores the animal’s heavy labor role and training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burmah
Mysore
Hig
Ekheddah
Accidental Gold Finds Across West Framed by Buried Bodies
The tale recounts multiple luck driven gold discoveries linked to graves and buried bodies in the American West. A California grave unearthed signs of gold three feet down. A Leadville adventurer’s deer kill exposed gold, leading to a profitable claim. A miner, digging a grave amid snow, found the Dead Man's Claim buried treasure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Klonfiike
California
Leadville
Ages of trees according to German scientists
German scientists have furnished information on tree ages. They assign maximum ages as follows: pine 500 to 700 years, silver fir 425, larch 275, red beech 245, aspen 210, birch 200, ash 170, elder 145, and elm 130.
Coloration of Coal Tar Dyes and Shades
Coal tar used for dyes yields sixteen shades of blue, the same number of yellow tints, twelve of orange, nine of violet, and numerous other colors and shades.
Advertisements and remedies from Wagley Smead and Westfield News
A chaotic collage of ads for coal deliveries, eye frames, and laxative tablets touts Weeks Quinine and Chamberlain remedies. Testimonies from a Des Moines railway clerk promote C C diarrhoea relief, with promotions for 25 50 cent remedies and Wagley Smead druggists. Also notes on Westfield Woman's Edition and fresh lard from Efnor Bros meat market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hardin County
Wm. N. Penn
Des Moines
Iowa
Chamberlain
Wagley & Smead Druggists
Westfield
Ind
Westfield News
Wayley & Smead Druggists
Wagley & Smead
Reading the RECORD ad offers merchants a boost
A civic appeal encourages patrons to mention the REcorp Receipt and Notebooks ad to merchants. The office sells receipt and notebook stock for ten cents each and urges readers to supply quality printing over cheap options, asserting the Record consistently delivers first class work.
Machine Oils at Wagley and Smead's de to 35e per gallon
Wagley and Smead's advertise machine oils offered at 35 cents per gallon. The note outlines pricing in a brisk merchant tone typical of local ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wagley & Smead
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Moline
Schuttler
New Stoughton
Bergman Brothers
Bergman & McKinley
Fire Insurance
Jasper CO
United States
Over Clark's Bank
ER. J. Miles
Southeast Corner Square
NEW York Weekly Tribune
Geo. W. Best
Tribune Office
New York City
ORK Weekly
Tribune
Senator Gorrell
Dave Higbee
Twenty-second
Iowa Regiment
Higbee
Fugard & Brown
Daniel Rorabaugh
Valley Junction
Emma Lufkin
Garner Tripp
Record
Inter Ocean
Des Moines Register
New York Tribune
Lowa
Geo. Swearingen
Tracy
Lutor Corrall
China
A. Long & Son
A. Long & Son, cArocers
Centerville
C. H. Jasper & Co
Wincatt & Lufkin
Efnor Bros
Pulisman Buffet
ST. Paul
Minneapolis
ST. Louis
Kansas
Peoria
L.V. Martin
Janauer
Thos
P. Barry
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