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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1895
Page
9
The text notes Chinese signboards as they appear in their places of business with mottos like You must have a coup to catch a fowl and Ten thousand happinesses. It mentions a foods association gaining seventy five members and an engine disaster averted by a stomach bitters remedy.
A garbled ad page mentions Salzer oats touted as best of 100 varieties, plus prices and farming tips. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure, Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, Syrup of Figs, and other patent medicines with testimonials and free samples, all pressed into a single midwestern advertisement page.
A Grand Rapids Muskegon benefactor, Charles H. Hackley, though wealthy from decades in lumber since 1896, remains generous with near half a million in Muskegon alone. A local report quotes Hackley discussing nerve pain relief with Williams Pink Pills, praising their restorative power after months of gradual improvement, and noting availability through Dr Williams Medicine Co. and local grocers.
A discussion of Robert Burns origins and hardships, noting 1857 observations by Nathaniel Hawthorne on Burns Mossgiel farm and Dumfries residence. The piece contends Burns endured poverty and poor surroundings yet produced unmatched poetry, with temperance and relationships, including with Jean Armour, viewed in a nuanced light.
This fragment recalls varied old notes on unusual topics. It mentions dog meat as a consumed delicacy in Munich tied to Italian laborers, cites a French paper, and references explorers like Lewis and Clark. A comic scene with Aunt Dinah and Uncle Pete appears, suggesting a newspaper juggling of curiosities and humor.
The article details a massive logistical feat to move twelve siege mortars totaling 1,341,000 pounds across the country. It explains car modifications, including a cut slot in gondolas, reinforced floors, and precise hoisting of two 14 foot diameter cast iron circles, with six cars carrying the mortars and gear on ten other flatcars.
A New York Evening Sun piece notes a French woman running a small boarding house offering two meals daily to modest lodgers. She sources from kitchens of upscale homes, selecting leftovers to serve, cutting costs while expanding her menu. Farmers in the Northeast also work for neighbors, renting reapers and threshers for a fixed fee or share of produce.
The quip defines a jiffy differently for men and women, noting a woman’s “jiffy” can stretch from fifteen minutes to two hours while a man’s lasts one to five minutes. A baby was killed by a panther near Jones Mill, Oregon, and the body was found in a nearby forest with minor facial scratches.
Residents living beyond means and delaying payments are publicly named by a Vienna publisher. The list, described as a book with a large seal, exposes debtors.
Fragmented letters and satirical bits mix with notes on canal debates and health remedies. References to an emancipated woman declining a high office, a Panama canal cost, and mentions of Piso's Cure and St Jacobs Oil mix with social quips, jokes, and rural humor typical of an old newspaper page.
In a battered dialogue, Fogg asks how birds fly while Dundahead offers only vague replies. Kutching explains the bird’s flight depends on the bird’s power to sustain and propel itself through the air. Feely notes the trickiness, as one wise man hints at a simple truth behind flight. A second fragment follows a tramp seeking food, using polite pretenses to request sustenance and a landlady dismissing him after a chilly exchange.
A fragment shows a daughter telling her parent she should learn a useful trade to avoid being a burden. The parent retorts about creditors. The dialogue mentions a request for a stamp to mail photographs for class purposes and hints at household matters.
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